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Fedora's 32-bit Sunset Threatens Popular Handheld Gaming Distro Bazzite

2025-06-26

Fedora's 32-bit Sunset Threatens Popular Handheld Gaming Distro Bazzite

Fedora Linux's proposal to drop 32-bit support has sparked controversy, particularly threatening the popular handheld gaming distribution Bazzite. Bazzite's creator, Kyle Gospodnetich, strongly opposes the change, arguing it would kill projects like Bazzite and damage Fedora's public image. He points out that even with built Steam packages, basic use cases would break, and Flatpak wouldn't solve issues with Bazzite's reliance on 32-bit architecture for Steam Big Picture Mode. Currently, the proposal is unlikely to pass for Fedora 44, but ideally, Valve would port the Steam client to 64-bit, resolving many problems. The issue also impacts OBS Studio game capturing and FEX.

(www.gamingonlinux.com)

Development 32-bit support

Wikipedia's Fundraising: A Closer Look at the Millions

2024-12-16

Wikipedia's Fundraising: A Closer Look at the Millions

Wikipedia, known for its free information, conducts aggressive fundraising campaigns. This article reveals the Wikimedia Foundation has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars, far exceeding the site's operational needs. The vast sums aren't used to compensate volunteer editors but instead fund a large staff (550 employees) and high executive salaries, leading to discontent among volunteers. The article urges readers to reconsider donating, questioning the efficiency and transparency of funds and highlighting potential political biases.

(unherd.com)

Misc fundraising financial transparency

ACK for Cray X-MP: A Retrocomputing Triumph

2025-01-26

ACK for Cray X-MP: A Retrocomputing Triumph

This project is a fork of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) that supports the Cray X-MP supercomputer and COS operating system. It disables other platforms by commenting out references in the LUA build scripts. Successfully building and running on macOS and Linux requires installing bison, flex, gcc, gmake, and lua. Crucially, it also needs the tools from the COS-Tools GitHub repository (a cross-assembler, linker, and library manager for the Cray X-MP). After building, cross-compilers generate executables for the Cray X-MP and COS. The README details compiling a program, uploading via FTP to a NOS 2.8.7 system, then using the Cray Station interface to transfer and run it on the Cray X-MP, finally showing how to view the results. A fascinating blend of retrocomputing and modern software engineering.

(github.com)

Development COS

Kernel Build Breakage Caused by GCC 15's New Warning

2025-04-25

Linus Torvalds, just before releasing kernel 6.15-rc3, hastily patched the kernel to address warnings from GCC 15's new -Wunterminated-string-initialization option, which was included in Fedora 42. This last-minute fix broke builds on older GCC versions, sparking a debate with kernel developer Kees Cook. The incident highlights the risks of using unreleased compiler versions and the importance of better communication and coordination between developers. Torvalds ultimately reverted the patch, temporarily disabling the warning.

(lwn.net)

Development GCC Compiler

Tuta Mail Launches TutaCrypt: World's First Quantum-Resistant Email Provider

2025-02-25

Tuta Mail Launches TutaCrypt: World's First Quantum-Resistant Email Provider

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Tuta Mail launched a major security upgrade, TutaCrypt, making it the world's first email provider with post-quantum encryption. TutaCrypt combines cutting-edge quantum-safe algorithms with traditional ones (AES/ECC), protecting emails from quantum computer attacks. All new accounts now default to this quantum-safe encryption, with a gradual rollout for existing users. Tuta Mail continues its pioneering work in secure communication, future-proofing its service for years to come.

(tuta.com)

Tech quantum-safe email security

Auctus A6: The Chip Revolutionizing Low-Cost DMR Radios

2025-05-11

Auctus A6: The Chip Revolutionizing Low-Cost DMR Radios

The Auctus A6, a highly integrated chip from Shenzhen-based Auctus Technology, is quietly revolutionizing the low-cost DMR radio market. This single chip integrates a CPU, RF transceiver, DSP, and vocoder, offering impressive functionality. Supporting frequencies from 100-1000 MHz and various digital and analog modes, it boasts a rich set of I/O interfaces including GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, and USB. Its high integration significantly reduces the cost and complexity of DMR radio manufacturing, promising to drive the adoption of a new generation of affordable DMR radios.

(jhart99.com)

Hardware DMR radio integrated chip

Google Cloud's Massive Outage: A Simple Code Error's Catastrophic Impact

2025-06-17

Google Cloud's Massive Outage: A Simple Code Error's Catastrophic Impact

Last week's massive Google Cloud outage, lasting several hours and affecting numerous clients including Cloudflare, stemmed from a code change in the "Service Control" component of Google's API management control plane. The new feature lacked proper error handling and feature flag protection, leading to a null pointer exception. This triggered a cascading failure upon a specific policy change, overloading the infrastructure. Google admitted insufficient error handling and monitoring, promising improved external communication and internal processes. However, the incident highlights the vulnerability of even tech giants to large-scale outages.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech code error

Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Universe Structure Formation

2025-05-28

Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Universe Structure Formation

This article introduces a revolutionary 'Blowtorch Theory' challenging the ΛCDM standard model of cosmology. It posits that powerful jets from early supermassive black holes actively shaped the universe's structure through electromagnetic processes, not solely gravity. These jets created vast, low-pressure cavities and magnetic field lines, forming the cosmic web. The theory elegantly explains the James Webb Space Telescope's observations of surprisingly mature early galaxies without requiring dark matter.

(theeggandtherock.com)

Tech Supermassive Black Holes

SpatialStudio Adds write_string Function

2025-09-02

SpatialStudio Adds write_string Function

SpatialStudio, a spatial video editing tool, recently added a new write_string function. This addition significantly enhances SpatialStudio's capabilities. Developer Daniel Habib shared the code on GitHub, encouraging users to check out the update. The related videos have already garnered over 200 views.

(www.splats.com)

Development Spatial Video

HMD Key: Budget-Friendly Smartphone Without Compromise

2025-01-12

HMD Key: Budget-Friendly Smartphone Without Compromise

HMD Global launched the HMD Key, a budget-friendly smartphone priced at just £59. This lightweight device boasts Android 14 (Go edition), impressive virtual memory for performance boosts, and an incredible 77-hour battery life. With versatile camera modes and two years of quarterly security updates, the HMD Key delivers a complete smartphone experience without breaking the bank, proving that affordability doesn't mean sacrificing quality.

(www.hmd.com)

Hardware budget smartphone

Generative Search: AI Revolutionizes Internet Search

2025-01-11

Generative Search: AI Revolutionizes Internet Search

Generative AI is reshaping internet search. Forget keyword searches and link sorting; conversational search powered by AI is providing direct answers, integrating real-time information from across the web. Google's AI Overviews, OpenAI's web-integrated ChatGPT, and other search engines are vying for dominance, but face challenges like copyright disputes and AI hallucinations. Trillions of dollars are at stake, alongside concerns about information reliability and the future of publishers.

(www.technologyreview.com)

Tech

Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger Detected via Gravitational Waves

2025-07-15

Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger Detected via Gravitational Waves

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed, resulting in a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our Sun. The signal, GW231123, detected on November 23, 2023, challenges existing models of black hole formation, as such massive black holes are not predicted by standard stellar evolution. The extreme mass suggests a possible formation through prior mergers of smaller black holes, pushing the boundaries of gravitational-wave astronomy and our understanding of the universe.

(www.caltech.edu)

Tech

The Curious Case of 'Special Register Groups'

2025-08-27

The Curious Case of 'Special Register Groups'

A seemingly innocuous definition of a CPU – 'containing main storage, arithmetic unit, and special register groups' – has persisted for half a century. This originates from the 1959 Honeywell 800 mainframe, which allowed multiple programs to share a processor, each with its own set of 32 registers. Despite the Honeywell 800's obsolescence, 'special register groups' stubbornly survived in countless glossaries, even appearing in the Washington Post and the National Fire Code. This demonstrates how definitions in authoritative glossaries endure for decades, even when obsolete terms refuse to die.

(www.righto.com)

Tech CPU definition

Gemini Deep Think Solves IMO Problems

2025-07-22

Gemini Deep Think Solves IMO Problems

Google DeepMind's advanced Gemini Deep Think model successfully solved challenging problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The project involved a large team of engineers and mathematicians across multiple stages, from training data and model training to inference optimization. The team acknowledges the support of the IMO, numerous contributors, and internal Google teams, emphasizing that the IMO only validated the correctness of the answers, not the system's validity itself.

(deepmind.google)

AI

Nvidia's Blackwell: A Colossus of Compute, but at What Cost?

2025-06-29

Nvidia's Blackwell: A Colossus of Compute, but at What Cost?

Nvidia's latest Blackwell architecture, exemplified by the RTX PRO 6000, boasts a gargantuan GB202 die (750mm², 92.2 billion transistors) and a staggering 188 SM units, delivering unmatched compute performance. A deep dive into its microarchitecture reveals details on instruction caching, execution units, and memory subsystems, comparing it to AMD's RDNA4. While Blackwell exhibits some imperfections, like L2 cache performance and per-unit efficiency, its sheer scale dwarfs the competition, making it the largest consumer GPU available. This ambition, however, comes at a cost, including power consumption (600W) and L2 latency. The article concludes with a perspective on the future GPU landscape.

(chipsandcheese.com)

Hardware

DeepSearcher: An Open-Source Research Agent That's Faster and More Powerful Than Ever

2025-02-25

DeepSearcher: An Open-Source Research Agent That's Faster and More Powerful Than Ever

Zilliz has open-sourced DeepSearcher, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent that generates detailed reports on a given topic. Building upon a previous prototype, DeepSearcher adds query routing, conditional execution flow, and web crawling capabilities. Leveraging SambaNova's DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, it significantly improves inference speed and report quality. DeepSearcher breaks down complex queries into sub-queries, iteratively researching, analyzing, and synthesizing information to produce a coherent report. This project highlights the importance of efficient inference services in AI applications and points towards building more advanced AI systems.

(milvus.io)

AI

LiteLLM: Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

2025-08-27

LiteLLM: Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

LiteLLM, an open-source LLM gateway with 27K+ GitHub stars used by companies like NASA and Adobe, is rapidly expanding and seeking a founding full-stack engineer. The role focuses on unifying the format for calling 100+ LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure, Bedrock, etc.) using the OpenAI spec, improving platform performance and reliability. The tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, JS/TS, Redis, Postgres, and more. Candidates should have 1-2 years of backend or full-stack experience, be comfortable maintaining high-performance infrastructure, and passionate about open-source.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

The Magic of Unreasonable Time Investment

2025-01-01

The Magic of Unreasonable Time Investment

Teller's magic trick, involving a card buried in a park, reveals a secret to success: unreasonable time investment. He pre-buried boxes corresponding to all possible card choices, waiting months for the grass to grow before performing. This mirrors success in other fields; what seems like overnight success often results from an extraordinary amount of time and effort. Starting small, iterating, and accumulating seemingly impossible amounts of practice culminates in a seemingly magical outcome.

(allenpike.com)

Misc time management deliberate practice success secrets

Unparalleled Misalignments: A Collection of Unexpectedly Opposite Synonym Pairs

2025-05-05

A website called "Unparalleled Misalignments" (formerly quadruple entendres) compiles pairs of phrases that are non-synonymous despite each word in one phrase being a synonym of a word in the other. Examples include "Butt dial" and "Booty call." The list, maintained since 2018, is crowdsourced and showcases the surprising complexities and humor of language, offering a fascinating glimpse into wordplay and semantic nuances.

(rickiheicklen.com)

Misc wordplay synonyms

Population Decline and Climate Change: A Multi-Funded Research Report

2025-07-09

Population Decline and Climate Change: A Multi-Funded Research Report

Four authors affiliated with the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin have released a research paper examining the impact of population decline on climate change. The report builds upon a previous working paper and acknowledges funding and support from numerous institutions and individuals, including the Musk Foundation and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The report emphasizes that no funder influenced the research process or findings, and all authors state that the paper does not necessarily represent the views of any funder.

(www.nber.org)

Misc population decline research report

Mori-bito: A Powerful Terminal-Based LDAP Browser

2025-09-02

Mori-bito: A Powerful Terminal-Based LDAP Browser

Mori-bito (forest-person) is a terminal-based LDAP server explorer built with Go and BubbleTea, offering an interactive interface for browsing LDAP directory trees, viewing records, and executing custom queries. Features include interactive tree navigation, a record viewer with clipboard integration, a custom query interface with real-time results and pagination, flexible configuration, secure authentication, automatic update notifications, a modern TUI, and support for multiple connections. Installation is easy via Homebrew, manual download, or quick install scripts. A robust and user-friendly tool for managing LDAP servers.

(github.com)

Development

The Rise and Fall of Lisp at JPL: A Story of AI and Politics

2025-05-25

This article recounts the rise and fall of the Lisp programming language at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In the late 1980s, Lisp shone in JPL's robotics projects, successfully used in several robotic missions, including the Sojourner rover on the Mars Pathfinder mission (though Sojourner ultimately used C). However, due to political infighting and the blind pursuit of "industry best practices" (namely C++), Lisp was gradually marginalized at JPL and eventually abandoned, a tragedy in the author's view. The author argues that Lisp's elegance and expressive power made it particularly well-suited for JPL's one-of-a-kind, highly dynamic projects, and this decision resulted in a waste of valuable resources.

(flownet.com)

Tech

Microsoft's Open-Source MS-DOS Editor Remake: A Blast from the Past

2025-06-25

Microsoft's Open-Source MS-DOS Editor Remake: A Blast from the Past

Microsoft has released a modern, open-source remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, aptly named "Edit." Built with Rust, this cross-platform editor runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux—a significant departure from its 1991 origins in MS-DOS 5.0. The release has delighted longtime users, offering a nostalgic trip back to a simpler time while also providing a user-friendly alternative to complex text editors found on some platforms. The full-screen interface, mouse support, and intuitive menus stand in stark contrast to its predecessor, EDLIN, and even some modern Linux editors like Vim, making it a welcome addition for both seasoned programmers and newcomers alike.

(arstechnica.com)

Development MS-DOS Editor

Open Source LLMOps Stack: LiteLLM and Langfuse Powering AI Applications

2025-02-26

Open Source LLMOps Stack: LiteLLM and Langfuse Powering AI Applications

Choosing the right tech stack for LLM-powered applications is crucial. This article introduces an open-source, scalable LLMOps stack comprised of LiteLLM and Langfuse. LiteLLM acts as a unified LLM API gateway supporting 100+ LLMs, offering cost allocation and model access management. Langfuse provides observability, evaluation, and prompt management, enabling developers to monitor, debug, and optimize their AI applications. This easily deployable stack is battle-tested and offers flexibility, control, and scalability for AI infrastructure.

(oss-llmops-stack.com)

Development

arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Feature Development

2025-08-30

arXivLabs is an experimental framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants, individuals and organizations alike, embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a valuable community project? Learn more about arXivLabs!

(arxiv.org)

Development

TikTok Hit with €530 Million EU Fine for Data Transfers to China

2025-05-02

TikTok Hit with €530 Million EU Fine for Data Transfers to China

EU privacy watchdogs fined TikTok €530 million ($600 million) after a four-year investigation revealed that the video-sharing app's data transfers to China violated strict EU data privacy rules. The Irish Data Protection Commission, TikTok's lead regulator in the EU, cited a lack of transparency about data location and ordered compliance within six months. TikTok disagreed with the decision, planning to appeal, arguing that its Project Clover initiative significantly enhanced data security. However, the investigation found TikTok failed to address potential access to European user data by Chinese authorities, leading to the substantial fine. Further regulatory action is under consideration.

(apnews.com)

Tech EU Fine

Redis-Powered LLM Acceleration: LMCache Delivers 3-10x Speedup

2025-06-28

Redis-Powered LLM Acceleration: LMCache Delivers 3-10x Speedup

LMCache is an LLM serving engine extension designed to drastically reduce tail latency and boost throughput, particularly in long-context scenarios. By caching reusable text KV pairs across various locations (GPU, CPU DRAM, local disk), LMCache reuses these caches for any reused text (not just prefixes) in any serving instance. This saves valuable GPU cycles and minimizes user response delay. When combined with vLLM, LMCache achieves a 3-10x reduction in latency and GPU cycles across numerous LLM use cases, including multi-round QA and RAG. Try it out with pre-built vLLM Docker images!

(github.com)

AI

Kahuna: Your IndexedDB Swiss Army Knife

2025-04-07

Kahuna: Your IndexedDB Swiss Army Knife

Kahuna is a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers that simplifies IndexedDB database management. It lets you create, modify, view, query, edit, import, and export IndexedDB data. Features include data filtering, pagination, JavaScript code execution, and import/export in various formats (Dexie, JSON, CSV). While documentation is a work in progress, Kahuna is a powerful tool for developers working with IndexedDB.

(github.com)

Development

First Ever Footage of a Giant New Zealand Snail Laying an Egg

2025-05-20

First Ever Footage of a Giant New Zealand Snail Laying an Egg

New Zealand's Department of Conservation has captured the first-ever footage of a threatened giant carnivorous snail, Powelliphanta augusta, laying an egg from its neck. Endemic to New Zealand, this snail's habitat was destroyed by mining, leading to conservation efforts. After nearly two decades of care in a controlled environment, rangers witnessed this remarkable event. Hermaphroditic, each snail lays about five eggs a year, with an incubation period exceeding a year. These snails live for 25-30 years, a stark contrast to common, fast-reproducing garden snails. The Powelliphanta augusta faced extinction due to mining but conservation efforts have yielded nearly 2000 snails in captivity.

(apnews.com)

Tech New Zealand snail

Zed Integrates Claude Code: AI-Powered Coding in Your Editor

2025-09-04

Zed Integrates Claude Code: AI-Powered Coding in Your Editor

Zed editor has released a public beta integration with Claude Code, running natively through the new Agent Client Protocol (ACP). This represents a significant step forward in AI-powered code assistance. Developers can now run Claude Code directly within Zed's high-performance editor, view real-time multi-file edits, and review code changes granularly. ACP, an open standard, enables any agent to connect to Zed and other editors, making this Claude Code integration possible. The future will see more AI agents integrated into Zed via ACP, offering developers greater choice.

(zed.dev)

Development

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