The user discusses Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), a hack that allows running Linux on Windows 9x without virtualization. It uses Windows 9x's VMM services to run Linux cooperatively with the Windows kernel.
GitHub CLI sends pseudoanonymous telemetry to help improve the product by understanding feature usage. You can review the telemetry implementation and opt-out using environment variables or configuration options.
The system has 96 gb of ddr5 ram clocked at 4,800 mt/s and a crucial t700 4 tb nvme m.2 ssd which can read at speeds up to 12,400 mb/s. it is running ubuntu 24 lts via microsoft's ubuntu for windows on windows 11 pro x64 based pc with qemu gps vmware and duck
Google introduces TPU 8t and TPU 8i, two custom chips for AI training and inference, designed to power supercomputers and drive cutting-edge model development. The 8th generation TPUs deliver scale, efficiency, and capabilities for training, serving, and agentic workloads.
Google's eighth-generation TPUs (TPU 8t and TPU 8i) are designed for scalability, reliability, and efficiency, addressing the needs of AI workloads like world models and reasoning-heavy architectures. The new TPUs offer improved performance, power efficiency, and price-performance, with TPU 8t optimized for training and TPU 8i for serving and high-concurrency reasoning.
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's CEO after 15 years, handing over to John Ternus, who has been with the company for 25 years. Cook will become executive chairman, focusing on politics and policy, while Ternus takes the helm of Apple's business.
GPS uses satellites to measure distance by timing signal delays, then uses multiple satellites to pinpoint location. The system accounts for clock errors, gravity, and speed to provide accurate positions within a few meters.
Uber's ledger system on DynamoDB was a costly failure due to high write costs and storage expenses. The company eventually migrated to its own internal ledger, LSG, built on top of DocStore, after realizing the mistake.
The Linux kernel is removing the amateur radio protocol implementation and drivers due to unmaintained code and increasing security-bug reports from large language models. This removal aims to reduce the number of things to review and increase kernel security.
Matt Godbolt wrote an article on why x86 compilers use xor eax, eax to zero a register, citing its compactness. However, sub eax, eax is a viable alternative with similar execution time and better flag behavior, but xor won due to swarming and special CPU detection.
Columnar data storage has trade-offs with row-oriented data, offering faster data access for specific columns but slower row modification and access. It can be viewed as a form of extreme database normalization or a data format abstraction that queries are logically blind to.
If you wanted Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird back when it first released in the summer of 1960, a hardcover copy would have set you back $3.95. J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring came out a few years before; Houghton Mifflin didn’t print the price on the jacket until 1961, but when they finally did, the flap asked potential buyers to part with five whole dollars. Meanwhile, the ...
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Researchers developed a smart contact lens that tracks glaucoma in real time and delivers medicine in response to eye pressure. The electronics-free lens uses microfluidics to sense pressure and release drugs, offering a more comfortable and user-friendly option for glaucoma treatment.
The current limitations of HTTP-based chatbots are being addressed by new features such as async agents, workflows, and durable state storage, but these solutions still rely on polling or HTTP requests for notifications. A more robust solution is needed, such as a durable transport and state solution, which is being developed by Ably, a company building a session-based platform for AI agents.
Using chained methods like map and filter can lead to complex pipelines that are hard to debug and understand. Breaking code into explicit steps is often clearer and more maintainable, especially for large arrays or complex logic.
Researchers developed PrfaaS to improve large-scale LLM serving by offloading long-context prefill to separate clusters and transferring KVCache over Ethernet. This design increases serving throughput by 54% and 32% compared to homogeneous and naive heterogeneous baselines.
MuJoCo is a physics engine for simulating articulated structures, used in robotics, biomechanics, and machine learning. It has a C API and Python bindings, with interactive visualization and utility functions for physics-related quantities.
The safe-gc crate is a garbage collection library for Rust that uses zero unsafe code, providing a safe API for users to consume and manage garbage collected objects. It implements simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection and avoids common garbage collection footguns, such as use-after-free bugs and memory leaks, by using Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline.
A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.
The author compared Windows Server 2025 on Intel and ARM systems, finding ARM to be faster due to consistent performance and lower latency. ARM's steady execution timing benefits virtualized environments, but Intel's peak performance is still ideal for workloads requiring high throughput.
A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.
China's CATL unveiled a new lithium-iron phosphate battery, Shenxing 3.0, with faster charging speeds and improved cold-weather performance. It can charge from 10 to 98 percent in 6 minutes and 27 seconds, outperforming BYD's Blade 2.0 in similar conditions.
Acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people, but both have risks, especially if taken incorrectly. Official sources don't clearly state this due to complexity and fear of giving medical advice, prioritizing safety labels over comparative safety information.
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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.
NASA's Curiosity rover found over 20 organic compounds on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule linked to DNA, suggesting Mars can preserve life's building blocks. The discovery supports the idea that Mars may have had conditions suitable for life 3.5 billion years ago.