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From CUDA source to silicon: tracing a vector-add kernel down to the GPU
A trivial CUDA program that adds two million-element vectors hides an enormous amount of machinery: producing one correct answer involves tens of millions of CP
HackerRank's open-source AI resume screener scored one resume from 66 to 99
HackerRank open-sourced its applicant-tracking system, a GitHub project called hiring-agent that racked up thousands of likes on LinkedIn and Reddit. When the a
Headline-only item claims Rocket Lab acquired Iridium — no article, unverified
The source provides only a headline asserting that Rocket Lab has acquired Iridium, with no article body, deal terms, financial figures, executive statements, o
LibrePods reverse-engineers AirPods to break Apple's ecosystem lock-in
LibrePods is a GPLv3 project that reimplements Apple's proprietary AirPods protocol (AACP/ATT) so that Apple-exclusive earbud features work on Android and Linux
Michigan 'Right to Disconnect' Bill Would Curb Mandatory After-Hours Work Contact
Michigan State Sen. Erika Geiss has introduced the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act (Senate Bill 948), now before the Labor Committee, which would generally pr
Open-weight GLM 5.2 edges out Claude on Semgrep's IDOR-detection benchmark
Semgrep set out to measure how much of an AI agent's vulnerability-finding ability comes from the underlying model versus the harness that feeds it code and par
Proxy-KD: Distilling GPT-4-Class Models Without Peeking Inside Them
Knowledge distillation normally relies on access to a teacher model's internal states—logits, hidden activations—to train a smaller student. That breaks down wi
Qwen 3.6 27B makes local-first coding genuinely usable
A developer who had written off local language models reports that Qwen 3.6 has changed his mind. The dense 27B variant — slower but stronger than its mixture-o
Running OpenBSD on the Lemote Yeeloong, and the story of China's Godson MIPS chip
A retrocomputing enthusiast documents getting OpenBSD running on a Lemote Yeeloong netbook — the first 64-bit MIPS laptop in their collection — while deliberate
Stanford dataset charts memory prices from 1960 to today — DRAM, NAND, and HBM
A Stanford DAM project led by David Shim has compiled an interactive history of memory and storage pricing stretching back to 1960, building on John McCallum's
Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches
In a 6-3 decision in Chatrie v US, the Supreme Court held that bulk location data pulled from smartphones via 'geofence warrants' qualifies as a search under th
The 747's Last Flight: How the Queen of the Skies Outlived the Ambition That Built It
The Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet that defined commercial aviation for half a century, is reaching the end of its operational life. The author visits Pinal