Hardware

2026 89 posts

October 2026 13 posts

the slurptop slurpburgers.com · “Why not spend two months designing, building, and refining a laptop myself instead of just hitting up Best Buy for a new laptop that’s ready to go?”
Oct 26
Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure theregister.com · “Meta did this because a single failed GPU would take out an entire rack and interrupt the training run.”
Oct 20
TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import ban engadget.com · “The company said it will still have to source components from outside the US.”
Oct 20
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 kennedn.com · “Funnily enough, a software-only exploit for the Xbox 360 dropped just last week, rendering my years of effort somewhat moot.”
Oct 18
Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing blog.google · “We’ve shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.”
Oct 17
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle nirajrajgor.com · “This was a turning point that let the agent continue implementing changes on autopilot.”
Oct 13
Abstract Warfare: How TSMC Made Its Own Market kwokchain.com · “They do it by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on, not their competitors’ products.”
Oct 9
As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators restofworld.org · “In the first half of 2026, Insta360’s net profit dropped by 94% compared with a year ago.”
Oct 9
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand theregister.com · “For an industry hoping AI would help sell more PCs, that’s quite the result.”
Oct 9
The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear restofworld.org · “The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components.”
Oct 9
The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear restofworld.org · “The 173 million sub-$100 smartphones shipped globally last year are disappearing, with shipments falling almost 60% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, according to IDC.”
Oct 5
Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement huawei.com · “This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huawei’s innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomm’s foundational contributions.”
Oct 5
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices theregister.com · “We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.”
Oct 1

September 2026 11 posts

South Korea's AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America's AI boom restofworld.org · “Nvidia’s allocation decisions are still the predominant factor determining high-bandwidth memory market share.”
Sep 28
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip spectrum.ieee.org · “The models are giving superpowers to our engineers,” says Richard Ho, vice president of hardware at OpenAI.
Sep 18
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography security.apple.com · “Apple Reference Image offers a trustworthy, scalable guarantee that a reference image is what it claims to be: a real photograph, captured by a real sensor.”
Sep 15
Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest? restofworld.org · “After the September 9 launch event, prices of older models were increased by 21% in the U.S. and up to 41% in India.”
Sep 15
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent theregister.com · “Our right to conversational privacy must include freedom from other people, without our clear opt-in consent, using technology to document what we are saying,” said EFF privacy director Adam Schwartz.
Sep 10
What the CPU shortage means for software teams katelynlesse.com · “Server orders are quoting ~6 months (it used to be a week or two), and prices are up ~10-20% since March.”
Sep 10
What happens when a kid's robot best friend dies? technologyreview.com · “This is a big ethical question for robots that are specifically designed to be lovable, marketed to children who may form deep emotional bonds with them.”
Sep 9
AMD Building "Elite" Rust Developer Team for GPU Stack phoronix.com · “We’re building a small, elite team at AMD to push Rust deep into the GPU stack.”
Sep 8
Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements theregister.com · “The obligation for publicly available spare parts prices and repair manuals is a great step forward, but it needs to be enforced better.”
Sep 7
iPhone Ultra Production Hitting Just 'a Few Hundred' a Day, Says Nikkei macrumors.com · “Production is ramping up slowly, with output currently at only a few hundred units a day in late August.”
Sep 7
Taiwan's six-year hunt for China's undercover chip labs restofworld.org · “Almost everyone in the industry would know or have heard of people who were approached or worked for Chinese companies.”
Sep 2

August 2026 13 posts

Now Perplexity Is Trying to Get Into the Local AI Action theregister.com · “This local-first approach enables significant cost savings, since local inference avoids per-token API fees.”
Aug 26
C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact With Reality da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · “an attacker does not need the raw key material! As root, they can ask StrongBox to use these keys to sign whatever data they like”
Aug 25
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%, blaming memory shortage techcrunch.com · “After absorbing these increases for as long as we could, we recently adjusted pricing across our product lines.”
Aug 24
Nvidia manager among nine indicted over China chip sales taiwanplus.com · “Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted nine people for smuggling high-end AI chips to China.”
Aug 24
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble theregister.com · “Nvidia’s Gemma 4 31B performance comparison may not age well.”
Aug 24
Hackers Infect Android Car Head Units with Proxy Botnet Malware bleepingcomputer.com · “This is the first documented case of a malware infection chain specifically created for the targeted car head unit.”
Aug 24
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently theregister.com · “Each processor core can natively execute Arm and IBM Z, or Arm and LinuxONE, instructions concurrently”
Aug 24
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware securelist.com · “The malware spread through the built-in updaters of Android-based automotive head unit firmware. This is the first documented case of malware found on a car head unit with an infection chain specific to that type of device.”
Aug 23
Arizona wants Taiwan's investors to think beyond chips restofworld.org · “Arizona’s increasing focus on Taiwan comes as trade between the two jumped from $4.9 billion in 2024 to $21.2 billion in 2025.”
Aug 11
Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a photo came from an iPhone camera 9to5mac.com · “New code in iOS 27 beta 5 shows that the company is working on something called Apple Reference Image, which is designed to authenticate the source of photos using unique data tied to the iPhone camera hardware that captured them.”
Aug 11
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11-16x Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp github.com · “On an M1 Ultra, TinyLlama 1.1B running through llama.cpp processed prompts 11.08x faster and generated tokens 16.36x faster than the same workload in the same stock VM.”
Aug 11
New spinning drone hides in plain sight news.northwestern.edu · “Instead, we asked whether we could design the drone itself around the way humans perceive motion.”
Aug 2
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it theregister.com · “Vera will sell extremely well, if not for its performance characteristics, then because if you want more than eight Rubins, it’s probably coming with a Vera CPU attached.”
Aug 2

July 2026 18 posts

Microsoft's Project Silica blog.dshr.org · “on average for every MB read there are 47 MBs written, and for every read operation there are 174 writes”
Jul 31
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick krebsonsecurity.com · “Multiple devices reporting to this factory Android TV Box backdoor were ‘phones.’”
Jul 30
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix theregister.com · “Relationships are evolving beyond transactional relations into more strategic long-term partnerships.”
Jul 29
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch theregister.com · “Optane’s otherworldly write endurance and low latency would have made it a perfect choice for this workload.”
Jul 29
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle tailscale.com · “Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle is typically forced to run in userspace mode, which means it cannot use the device’s own network routing layer.”
Jul 29
Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 mac-classic.com · “Half-Life has finally landed for PowerPC based Macintosh computers 28 years after it’s original release!”
Jul 29
China begins mass production of homegrown DUV lithography machines in major chip breakthrough techstartups.com · “The country has moved beyond building prototypes and into manufacturing commercial lithography systems that domestic chipmakers can begin evaluating inside real production lines.”
Jul 27
Apple's smart glasses are running late because they don't want to stir a privacy storm digitaltrends.com · “Removing video capture would make the glasses less controversial, but also less appealing.”
Jul 26
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps krebsonsecurity.com · “A residential proxy network is not an intended use for LG smart TVs, and LG Electronics is working with developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform.”
Jul 26
iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments 9to5mac.com · “If the contract is no longer in good standing, Apple’s system services can place the iPhone in ‘Restricted Mode,’ which blocks access to most apps until the payment or contract issue is resolved.”
Jul 26
The Robots Cometh time.com · “Once the technology surpasses this inflection point, robots can gradually be rolled out for large-scale commercial use.”
Jul 26
I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed tinkering.xyz · “I have a PhD in physics. I built lasers that spit out 80 femtosecond pulses, and I did quantum mechanics simulations.”
Jul 20
A Brief History of KV Cache Compression Developments martinalderson.com · “The memory wall in AI has mostly been solved with maths, not silicon.”
Jul 13
Meta is toying with the idea of smart glasses that record everything, all the time gizmodo.com · “Meta is testing prototype smart glasses that record literally everything, all the time. The so-called ‘super-sensing’ glasses would reportedly capture photos ’every few seconds.’”
Jul 9
Apple to Increase Spend with Broadcom to Produce Billions More U.S. Chips apple.com · “Apple and Broadcom have a long history together, and this new phase of our partnership further accelerates our commitment to American manufacturing and innovation.”
Jul 8
Nvidia's Kyber Rack Delayed to 2028 Over Manufacturing Snags datacenterdynamics.com · “Kyber NVL144 rack architecture has been delayed to 2028 as the PCB midplane remains challenging from a manufacturability standpoint.”
Jul 7
Apple reportedly orders 10M foldable iPhone Ultra models, which could sell for around $2500 9to5mac.com · “Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce about 10 million foldable iPhones this year with an expected price tag of around $2,500.”
Jul 7
Rise of the Cheap Robots itcanthink.substack.com · “These are finally, finally starting to look like something that could be made very capable.”
Jul 2

June 2026 3 posts

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing en.sedaily.com · “The plaintiffs alleged that the three companies, which produce most of the world’s D-RAM, colluded on supply and pricing from 2022, driving prices up by about 700% over the past four years.”
Jun 29
IBM Debuts World's First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology gizmodo.com · “The new chip technology packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized chip.”
Jun 29
Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem github.com · “LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices by implementing the proprietary protocol used to exchange data between AirPods and Apple devices.”
Jun 28

May 2026 4 posts

World's First Native Color LiDAR Gives Machines Human-Like Vision newatlas.com · “Ouster’s Rev8 sensor family integrates color directly into LiDAR data points. The flagship OS1 Max model detects objects up to 200 meters away at standard reflectivity and 500 meters under ideal conditions.”
May 17
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license digitalfoundry.net · “The CAD files are now public under CC BY-SA, allowing modification and redistribution.”
May 6
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons drive.com.au · “Customer feedback was clear. Touchscreens for everything is a worse driving experience.”
May 4
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 ecopv-eu.com · “From 2027, all smartphones sold in the EU must have batteries that the user can replace without specialized tools.”
May 3

April 2026 5 posts

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game tempest.homemade.systems · “An oral history of Atari’s Tempest and its 2000 remake Tempest 2000.”
Apr 22
Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code lucasgerads.com · “I built a workflow that uses Claude Code to verify SPICE simulations against real oscilloscope traces.”
Apr 16
Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' eetimes.com · “AMD’s ROCm stack is improving, but CUDA’s lead remains substantial.”
Apr 12
Intel Joins Musk's Terafab AI Chip Project interestingengineering.com · “By establishing a massive, dedicated semiconductor pipeline for AI-centric hardware, Intel and Musk are insulating themselves from geopolitical and supply chain volatilities.”
Apr 7
ASML Shares Fall as MATCH Act Threatens to Tighten China Chip Equipment Restrictions cnbc.com · “Those tools potentially account for a low-teens percentage of ASML’s 2026 sales.”
Apr 5

March 2026 8 posts

iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM twitter.com · “A quantized 400 billion parameter model running natively on the iPhone 17 Pro at usable token rates.”
Mar 23
Musk Announces Terafab, a $20 Billion Chip Factory for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI electrek.co · “We’re very grateful to our existing supply chain, to Samsung, TSMC, Micron and others, but there’s a maximum rate at which they’re comfortable expanding.”
Mar 22
Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Sees $1 Trillion in Orders Through 2027 asiliconvalleyinsider.com · “Jensen Huang took the stage to a packed house and said he expects purchase orders between Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027.”
Mar 16
ByteDance Secures 36,000 Nvidia B200 Chips in Malaysia to Skirt US Export Controls theonlinecitizen.com · “ByteDance is working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia.”
Mar 14
Apple's MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years techcrunch.com · “The most repairable MacBook in about fourteen years.”
Mar 13
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage arstechnica.com · “The 512GB Mac Studio configuration disappeared from Apple’s online store with no announcement.”
Mar 8
Say hello to MacBook Neo apple.com · “There is simply no other laptop like it.”
Mar 4
Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS motorolanews.com · “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”
Mar 2

February 2026 7 posts

OpenAI Developing Smart Speaker with Camera theverge.com · “The device would sit in your home, watch what’s happening around it, and route everything through OpenAI’s servers.”
Feb 21
EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 environment.ec.europa.eu · “By 2027, portable batteries incorporated into appliances must be designed so they can be readily removed and replaced by the end-user.”
Feb 18
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums popsci.com · “The same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”
Feb 17
I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard hawksley.org · “If the status on the display is blank, the house is in a ‘healthy’ state and does not need any attention.”
Feb 17
Pebble Production: February Update repebble.com · “Unlike with software, you can’t easily fix hardware issues after you ship! Making these last minute decisions is sometimes pretty stressful.”
Feb 15
Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch scd31.com · “And I realize that this is what VGA is, but it’s so, so funny to me that the protocol is literally just the manifestation of a physical design that is largely obsolete.”
Feb 4
New York's budget bill would require 'blocking technology' on all 3D printers blog.adafruit.com · “The proposed law requires every 3D printer sold in New York to refuse to print certain regulated objects.”
Feb 3

January 2026 7 posts

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki · “It is a microscopic logic gate that is electrically switched from ‘0’ to ‘1’. Once it is switched, it effectively ‘burns the bridge’ to allow older software to run.”
Jan 25
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires thehftguy.com · “The gigacopper device to do gigabit Ethernet over phone line is a miracle!”
Jan 24
Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands comma.ai · “openpilot can drive for hours without driver action.”
Jan 23
Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees ru.nl · “All Radboud University staff will receive a Fairphone as their standard work device, replacing iPhone and Samsung options.”
Jan 19
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation sparkfun.com · “SparkFun has terminated its longstanding partnership with Adafruit citing a Code of Conduct violation by senior leadership.”
Jan 14
Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs pcgamer.com · “Dell’s CES 2026 briefing barely mentioned AI. The pitch was specs, prices, and battery life. People were relieved.”
Jan 7
Cameras and Lenses ciechanow.ski · “An interactive deep-dive into how cameras and lenses actually form images, with simulations you can manipulate in your browser.”
Jan 1

2025 97 posts

December 2025 1 posts

Kicking Robots: Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine harpers.org · “The future that scares me is not a robot uprising led by robots, but one led by billionaires.”
Dec 1

October 2025 2 posts

IKEA Announces Matter-Enabled Smart Home Devices slashdot.org · “The Kajplats smart bulb range covers eleven bulbs across various shapes and brightness levels.”
Oct 20
Sony and AMD Tease PlayStation 6 GPU: 'Current Approach Has Reached Its Limit' tomshardware.com · “There is a significant speed boost that comes from putting the traversal logic in hardware.”
Oct 10

September 2025 12 posts

MNT September 2025 Update mntre.com · “Progress on the RK3588 processor module, the new MNT Quasar module, and USB 3.0 signal integrity improvements for Reform Next.”
Sep 22
Flipper Zero Geiger Counter Module kasiin.top · “A detailed guide for building a Geiger counter module for Flipper Zero, including measurements of uranium ore and radium samples.”
Sep 20
Athlon 64: How AMD Turned the Tables on Intel dfarq.homeip.net · “AMD bet on backward-compatible 64-bit x86 extension while Intel pursued the incompatible Itanium architecture.”
Sep 18
Africa's Only Internet Cable Repair Ship Keeps the Continent Online restofworld.org · “The 43-year-old Leon Thevenin maintains over 60,000 kilometers of undersea internet infrastructure.”
Sep 14
Microsoft's Analog Optical Computer Shows Promise news.microsoft.com · “An 8-variable analog optical computer using smartphone camera sensors, optical lenses, and micro-LEDs finer than human hair.”
Sep 12
DNA Cassette Tape Can Store Every Song Ever Recorded newscientist.com · “DNA tape can store 36 petabytes by printing synthetic DNA molecules onto plastic tape with crystal armor coating for centuries of preservation.”
Sep 12
OpenWrt: Experiments with OpenWRT One Hardware openwrt.org · “OpenWrt’s experiments with ‘OpenWRT One’ and ambitions to compete with SMB firewall vendors.”
Sep 7
Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will This Be the Year? networkworld.com · “Analysis of Wi-Fi 7 adoption challenges, including Multi-Link Operation requiring separate SSIDs and compatibility issues with services like eduroam.”
Sep 7
State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview sbcwiki.com · “A comprehensive overview of the embedded computing landscape, including support tiers for headless appliances, networking, and USB.”
Sep 6
Reverse Engineered Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 github.com · “A complete reverse engineering of the Raspberry Pi CM5 for those wanting to use Pi hardware in embedded applications.”
Sep 6
Top Researchers Leave Intel to Build Startup with 'The Biggest, Baddest CPU' oregonlive.com · “Former Intel researchers founding a startup with plans for high-bandwidth memory on-package with 352 AMD Zen 4 cores.”
Sep 5
NextSilicon Reveals New Processor Chip in Challenge to Intel, AMD reuters.com · “A new challenger in the CPU space, though historically special-purpose chips have struggled against mainstream CPUs.”
Sep 5

August 2025 10 posts

Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release Software tech.slashdot.org · “I can legally talk about how I did this to a certain degree, and if someone else wants to do this, they can open source it if they want to.”
Aug 27
A Zoomable, Searchable Archive of BYTE Magazine byte.tsundoku.io · “A visual archive.”
Aug 27
Nvidia's New 'Robot Brain' Goes On Sale hardware.slashdot.org · “We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software.”
Aug 25
Building the Mouse Logitech Won't Make samwilkinson.io · “I think there’s a lot of fun to be had tweaking the objects we use every day to our liking.”
Aug 25
China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics hardware.slashdot.org · “A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.”
Aug 15
Modos Paper Monitor - Open-hardware e-paper monitor crowdsupply.com · “The result is smooth, responsive performance with high frame rates and superior contrast, ideal for dynamic content and fluid interactions.”
Aug 12
The Framework Desktop is a beast world.hey.com · “The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM and 2TB storage costs $1,876—less than half the price of an equivalent Mac Studio ($3,299) while delivering significantly faster performance for development workflows using Docker.”
Aug 10
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation github.com · “A business card that runs a fluid-implicit-particle (FLIP) simulation.”
Aug 8
Sony Says Its Xperia Smartphones Are Still 'Very Important' mobile.slashdot.org · “Communication technology is a very important technology that Sony has cultivated for a long time.”
Aug 7
UniFi OS Server released: How to Self-Host your full Network Stack in Minutes lazyadmin.nl · “The announcement enables users to deploy their complete network infrastructure independently, eliminating reliance on cloud services.”
Aug 1

July 2025 6 posts

Oxide Computer: Our $100M Series B oxide.computer · “We’re going to kick butt, have fun, not cheat—and change computing forever.”
Jul 30
The Surprise Winner in the U.S.-China Tech War? Vietnam's Chip Industry restofworld.org · “This is a huge opportunity for us to break into the supply chain.”
Jul 28
FlopperZiro: A DIY Open-Source Flipper Zero Clone github.com · “This is just a fun project, it was started to pass the time, it is not at all professional.”
Jul 18
Seagate Gets HAMR Tech into $600 30TB HDDs arstechnica.com · “Seagate’s new Exos M 30TB and IronWolf Pro 30TB are the first HAMR-based HDDs available in channel and retail markets, as previously the company only shipped such drives to select hyperscale customers.”
Jul 15
Belkin Shows Tech Firms Getting Too Comfortable with Bricking Customers' Stuff arstechnica.com · “For any Wemo devices you have that are out of warranty, will not work with HomeKit, or if you are unable to use HomeKit, we recommend disposing of these devices at an authorized e-waste recycling center.”
Jul 11
IKEA Ditches Zigbee for Thread, Going All In on Matter Smart Homes theverge.com · “The standardization process means more companies are sharing the workload of developing for this.”
Jul 9

June 2025 12 posts

The hidden JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port linaro.org · “On at least one production device (the OnePlus 6) EUD appears to be disabled via fuse, and yet it just works anyway.”
Jun 30
Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community tomshardware.com · “It has been agreed that a price “in the low seven figures” will be paid to seal the deal. That should mean the deal is worth somewhere between $1m and $5m.”
Jun 29
I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck warontherocks.com · “The proportion of missions when we successfully carried out a task that only a first-person view drone can fulfill — delivering a precision strike on a target that could not be hit by other means — was in the single-digit percent.”
Jun 26
New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets start applying single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu · “Smartphones today are powerful and indispensable tools, yet all too often they quickly become obsolescent waste. With the new EU rules, we are turning the tide.”
Jun 23
Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20% phoronix.com · “For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff.”
Jun 23
Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life tomshardware.com · “Google’s Gemini AI identifies advertisements and brands visible through the smart glasses, and promptly blocks them, replacing the advertisement with a red square, naming and shaming the blocked brand.”
Jun 22
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses theverge.com · “The Meta Ray-Bans have sold over two million pairs to date, and EssilorLuxottica recently disclosed that it plans to sell 10 million smart glasses with Meta annually by 2026.”
Jun 20
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks theverge.com · “The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700”
Jun 13
One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs tedium.co · “But still, even with all that lead-up, this decision still stings, because it feels unnecessary to put all that good hardware to pasture.”
Jun 10
Autonomous drone from TU Delft defeats human champions in historic racing first tudelft.nl · “It then went on to win the knockout tournament against human pilots, beating three former DCL world champions and reaching flight speeds up to 95.8 km/h on the very winding track.”
Jun 4
Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? shkspr.mobi · “The monopoly on screen technologies sets a retail floor of around £30, before the rest of the hardware is taken into account.”
Jun 2
Root Shell on Credit Card Terminal stefan-gloor.ch · “All an attacker needs is just 30 seconds alone with the device to attach to the serial port, log in, deploy malware, and leave.”
Jun 1

May 2025 6 posts

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions comsec.ethz.ch · “Intel’s hardware mitigations against these types of attacks have held their ground for almost 6 years. In our work, we demonstrate how these mitigations can be broken due to a race condition in Intel CPUs.”
May 13
A First Glimpse of the Starlink User Terminal darknavy.org · “During device initialization, if the system identifies itself as a user terminal, the initialization script automatically writes 41 SSH public keys into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys .”
May 9
Huawei introduces its first laptop running HarmonyOS rather than Windows liliputing.com · “While the operating system won’t support the millions of Windows applications that could run on older Huawei laptops, the company says that at launch it will support more than 2,000 applications including WPS Office (an alternative to Microsoft Office that’s developed in China), and a range of Chinese social media applications.”
May 9
Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk engadget.com · “By combining the audio business of Masimo, which is being acquired this time, with Harman’s lifestyle business division, the company plans to solidify its global No. 1 position in the consumer audio market…”
May 7
An Appeal to Apple from Anukari anukari.com · “It’s not a great look for Apple that a Windows PC with a pretty wimpy GPU can run Anukari just fine, and the most expensive Mac M4 Max stutters, because obviously Apple’s hardware is incredible and just needs to be let off the leash a bit.”
May 6
What went wrong with wireless USB oldvcr.blogspot.com · “As so often happens, the best technology didn’t win; in my eyes CF-USB had the potential for being more widely adopted because of its simplicity and compatibility, but was ruined when Freescale got greedy and it never recovered.”
May 4

April 2025 8 posts

Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25 techcrunch.com · “That means owners of the Nest thermostats released in 2011 and 2012 (as well as the version released in Europe in 2014) won’t receive updates, and their devices will no longer be supported in the Nest and Home apps.”
Apr 26
AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap" phoronix.com · “Of interest to many Phoronix readers will be that GIM / SR-IOV support could be coming to client discrete GPUs, which has been a long sought feature for the Radeon graphics cards.”
Apr 24
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler videah.net · “Replay attacks can be pretty easily thwarted by using an incrementing counter in the communications to nullify previous signals, ignoring signals with a counter value you’ve already seen.”
Apr 22
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move servethehome.com · “Let us just call this what it is. It is a grab for extra margin dollars.”
Apr 19
Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues tomshardware.com · “The hashing audit eventually revealed that four files were corrupt (hash not matching).”
Apr 19
Intel to sell 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake at $8.75B valuation siliconangle.com · “The transaction values Altera at $8.75 billion, just under half what Intel paid to acquire the company in 2015.”
Apr 14
BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of jeffgeerling.com · “Because accurate timing is critical in many areas, from media, to the power grid, to 5G and communications, having a reliable terrestrial backup to GPS—especially one that can be hardened against different types of jamming attempts—may be important to our economy, communications and power grid.”
Apr 13
Uncovering a 0-Click RCE in the SuperNote Nomad E-ink Tablet stigward.github.io · “A malicious attacker on the same network as the victim could fully compromise the target device without any user-interaction.”
Apr 7

March 2025 12 posts

I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud jeffgeerling.com · “To use the app, you have to connect your dishwasher to WiFi, set up a cloud account in something called Home Connect, and then, and only then, can you start using all the features on the dishwasher.”
Mar 24
HP settles lawsuit over ink-blocking printer update, with no payout or admission of wrongdoing techspot.com · “However, HP doesn’t have to admit that it did anything wrong, and it won’t be handing over any money to those customers who were affected by the 2020 firmware update.”
Mar 24
Faulty firmware is bricking high-end Samsung soundbars hdtvtest.co.uk · “The cause appears to be a faulty firmware update, which is transforming Samsung soundbars globally into useless rectangular bits of plastic.”
Mar 18
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test electrek.co · “The Tesla on Autopilot managed to stop for a kid mannequin in the middle of the road when statics, moving, and blinded by lights, but it couldn’t stop in fog or heavy rain”
Mar 16
Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users theregister.com · “I installed this toner cartridge about a month ago, with no issues. But today suddenly an error code 11 popped up which means the printer doesn’t accept/recognize the cartridge any more.”
Mar 11
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty theregister.com · “If you’re having deja vu, you’re not alone: Europe has been talking about and toying with using RISC-V for supercomputing for some years, even getting far as some silicon, though turned to Arm’s architecture for its first exascale system.”
Mar 9
Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices bleepingcomputer.com · “The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks.”
Mar 8
VW Brings Back Physical Buttons After Admitting Touchscreens Are A Disaster carscoops.com · “We will never, ever make this mistake any more. On the steering wheel, we will have physical buttons. No guessing any more.”
Mar 8
Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals tomshardware.com · “This means users can’t roll back when they discover the unwanted new ‘features’ post-update.”
Mar 5
The gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives downtowndougbrown.com · “The voice coil motor controlling the head isn’t strong enough to overcome this sticky rubber, so the head just sits there until the drive’s firmware gives up on trying and spins the platter down.”
Mar 2
Intel delays finish date again on in-progress Ohio semiconductor plants wosu.org · “The state has already disbursed $600 million in onshoring grants to the tech giant for its central Ohio venture.”
Mar 1
Efabless shuts down - Tiny Tapeout will continue tinytapeout.com · “Right now we have TT08 awaiting packaging and TT09 still in the SkyWater Technology fab. These chips represent a huge investment of time and energy from hundreds of people, and we currently don’t know if we’ll receive them.”
Mar 1

February 2025 12 posts

Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States ifixit.com · “Manufacturers told legislators that sharing repair information would make it impossible for them to protect their trade secrets and would be dangerous to customers—so we brought in experts, shared data, and proved that repair information is not protected and changing batteries isn’t dangerous.”
Feb 24
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed trufflesecurity.com · “Each bed contains a full Linux-based computer. If my estimations above are correct, all of Eight Sleep engineering can take full control of that computer any time they want.”
Feb 21
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing scottaaronson.blog · “Yep. Certainly that history is making some experts cautious about the new claim.”
Feb 20
Humane Bricks Its AI Pin as It Gets Acquired by HP for $116 Million gizmodo.com · “HP bought up Humane’s CosmOS operating system and IP, including the tech for the AI Pin, for $116 million. The sale means the end for Humane.”
Feb 19
WinterBreak kindlemodding.org · “Wait around 30 seconds, and your Kindle will spew text and restart the GUI.”
Feb 17
How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs nyanpasu64.gitlab.io · “I traced this behavior to an amdgpu driver power/memory management bug, which took over a year to brainstorm and implement solutions for.”
Feb 16
3DBenchy Sets Sail Into The Public Domain hackaday.com · “According to NTI, the removal of these derived models was not requested by NTI, but by a third-party report, unbeknownst to NTI or the original creator of the model.”
Feb 14
Average CPU performance falls for first time in over 20 years according to PassMark club386.com · “Since we are still at the beginning of 2025, these only represent 41 days worth of submitted benchmarks.”
Feb 12
GeForce RTX 5090 Power Connectors Are Melting Now: What You Should Know hothardware.com · “Aw, crap. Here we go again.”
Feb 11
To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell myteslaexperience.com · “Tesla acknowledges all faults in the vehicle (except for battery losses, a fact on which it has not yet formally commented).”
Feb 10
How Intel ruined an Israeli startup it bought for $2B—and lost the AI race calcalistech.com · “At Habana, we could make a decision in a five-minute hallway conversation. At Intel, that same decision required three meetings with dozens of participants, and nothing moved forward…”
Feb 9
AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability github.com · “The vulnerability is that the CPU uses an insecure hash function in the signature validation for microcode updates.”
Feb 3

January 2025 16 posts

German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours tomshardware.com · “It’s hard to imagine this is just a simple mixup, not just because so many retailers are apparently involved but also because they’ve all had their SMART stats reset, which would be very useful to someone trying to pretend a used drive is new.”
Jan 29
Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on the buggy battery update androidcentral.com · “To add insult to injury, Google wiped the older firmware as part of the update process, so there’s no official way to go back to the previous version.”
Jan 29
SLAP and FLOP predictors.fail · “If the LAP guesses wrong, it causes the CPU to perform arbitrary computations on out-of-bounds data, which should never have been accessed to begin with, under speculative execution.”
Jan 28
Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate And Private Key Extracted hackaday.com · “The Bambu Connect app is a fairly low-effort Electron-based affair, with some attempt at obfuscation and encryption, but not enough to keep prying eyes out.”
Jan 20
The PC is Dead: It's Time to Bring Back Personal Computing vintagecomputing.com · “Internet surveillance, the algorithmic polarization of social media, predatory app stores, and extractive business models have eroded the freedoms the personal computer once promised, effectively ending the PC era for most tech consumers.”
Jan 19
UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn · “This isn’t just wage disparity. It’s misallocation of human capital on a national scale.”
Jan 19
No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 romanzipp.com · “Canon will happily take your credit card for you to pay a small monthly price of $4.99 per month or even a discounted $49.99 per year!”
Jan 17
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center blog.railway.com · “And not only is it rare that we understand why things break upstream, but also despite multi-million dollar annual spend, we get about as much support from them as you would spending $100.”
Jan 17
Right to Root Access medhir.com · “Locked devices also allow companies to restrict who is and is not allowed to repair hardware.”
Jan 12
TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips — yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs tomshardware.com · “For the first time ever in our country’s history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan,” Raimondo told Reuters.
Jan 11
Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab spectrum.ieee.org · “The 4,000x energy-efficiency improvement is on Vaire’s road map but probably 10 or 15 years out.”
Jan 10
Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' techcrunch.com · “It’s a cloud computing platform that sits on your desk.”
Jan 7
World's First MIDI Shellcode psi3.ru · “I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD.”
Jan 5
Self-driving 1993 Volvo 940 (part 1: actuators) practicapp.com · “the car needs to be at least 20 years old, and with a day value of less than €1000.”
Jan 4
One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack wuffs.org · “Entering full-screen mode and then returning to the Windows GUI will leave you with a corrupted screen.”
Jan 4
The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “While the FSF has been focusing on TPMs, GPU vendors have quietly deployed all of this technology without the FSF complaining at all.”
Jan 2

2024 142 posts

December 2024 9 posts

Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug righto.com · “In 1994, Intel stated that the cause of the bug was that five entries were omitted from the table due to an error in a script. However, my analysis shows that 16 entries were omitted due to a mathematical mistake in the definition of the lookup table.”
Dec 28
EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com · “The law was first approved in 2022 following a tussle with US tech giant Apple.”
Dec 28
Dec 22: Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail fastmail.com · “We find our hardware can provide useful life for anywhere from 5-10 years depending on what it is and when in the global technology cycle it was bought, meaning we can amortise and depreciate the cost of any hardware over many years.”
Dec 22
Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups irrationalanalysis.substack.com · “I ate one cookie and drank a bottle of water.”
Dec 15
Why Dumb TVs Deserve a Comeback makeuseof.com · “A common security risk associated with smart TVs is Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), which tracks what’s on your screen and sends this data to advertisers.”
Dec 15
The Google Willow thing scottaaronson.blog · “We’re now deeply into the unverifiable regime that I warned about.”
Dec 10
GPS-alternative tech swaps satellites for Earth fingerprints newatlas.com · “In fact, the system is reportedly simple enough that it doesn’t utilize any AI.”
Dec 5
12-pound US robot balloons capture NYC-sized areas in jaw-dropping details interestingengineering.com · “Many insurance companies are still relying on aerial data collection methods from the 1950s to assess 2024’s climate risks”
Dec 3
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released sfconservancy.org · “Priced at US$89 for a complete OpenWrt One with case, it’s ready for a wide variety of use cases.”
Dec 1

November 2024 17 posts

Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US solarboi.com · “It truly is shitty that Deye didn’t run this geographical check at the initial installation of these inverters.”
Nov 30
AMD Disables Zen 4's Loop Buffer chipsandcheese.com · “They did so without any announcement or fanfare.”
Nov 30
Lights Out: Tools for controlling webcam LED on ThinkPad X230 github.com · “These were created as a practical demonstration that malware can record video through the webcam without the LED indication.”
Nov 27
Pushing AMD's Infinity Fabric to its Limits chipsandcheese.com · “Latency shoots past 400 ns when fighting with five bandwidth threads.”
Nov 24
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor righto.com · “The voltage induced by the plasma can destroy the transistor by blowing a hole through the gate oxide or it can degrade the transistor’s performance by embedding charges inside the oxide layer.”
Nov 23
Revisiting the DOS memory models blogsystem5.substack.com · “Huge: Uses huge pointers everywhere. This overcomes the limitations of the large model by emitting code to compute the absolute addresses of every memory access and allows structs and arrays that span over 64 KB of memory.”
Nov 23
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half oxide.computer · “This eliminates the 70 total AC power supplies found in an equivalent legacy server rack within 32 servers, two top-of-rack switches, and one out-of-band switch, each with two AC power supplies.”
Nov 21
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference cerebras.ai · “Cerebras Inference generated 969 output tokens/s when given a 1,000 token prompt.”
Nov 19
YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design zach.be · “LLMs primarily pump out mediocre Verilog code.”
Nov 16
M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS eclecticlight.co · “Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot.”
Nov 16
Bypassing regulatory locks, Faraday cages and upgrading your hearing lagrangepoint.substack.com · “To build our initial version of the cage, we lined and wrapped a cardboard box with Aluminium foil.”
Nov 12
For the first time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space tomshardware.com · “Indeed, AMD’s datacenter segment revenue reached $3.549 billion in the third quarter, whereas Intel’s datacenter and AI group’s earnings were $3.3 billion in Q3 2024.”
Nov 5
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back spectrum.ieee.org · “There was this kind of touchscreen mania, where all of a sudden everything became a touchscreen.”
Nov 3
Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution cloud.google.com · “To put this data rate in perspective, this network could support a video call (@1.5 Mb/s) for all 8 billion people on Earth!”
Nov 3
Hacking cars in JavaScript (Running replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF) charliegerard.dev · “My ultimate goal was to answer the question… is it possible to hack a car using JavaScript?”
Nov 2
Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing rival chipmaker Intel cnbc.com · “Nvidia is replacing rival chipmaker Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a shakeup to the blue-chip index that reflects the boom in artificial intelligence and a major shift in the semiconductor industry.”
Nov 1
Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4: Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster "bigger than anything that I've seen" tomshardware.com · “Mark Zuckerberg said on a Meta earnings call earlier this week that the company is training Llama 4 models “on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100 AI GPUs, or bigger than anything that I’ve seen reported for what others are doing.””
Nov 1

October 2024 13 posts

Tesla releases rare blog post and it's an interesting one: Standardizing Auto Connectivity electrek.co · “Tesla introduced a new 48-volt low-voltage electronic architecture in the Cybertruck, or a hybrid version of it, to be fair.”
Oct 29
Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald's Ice Cream Machines ifixit.com · “It is still a crime for iFixit to sell a tool to fix ice cream machines, and that’s a real shame.”
Oct 25
Apple analyst Kuo says company cut iPhone 16 orders 10 million units cnbc.com · “However, significant growth in iPhone shipments will likely require further hardware innovation to accompany this AI development.”
Oct 24
The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair gizmodo.com · “The investigation has been ongoing since 2021, and we know more about it now thanks to a court filing made public on Thursday.”
Oct 18
Benchmarking Qualcomm's NPU on the Microsoft Surface Tablet github.com · “The second conclusion is that the measured performance of 573 billion operations per second is only 1.3% of the 45 trillion ops/s that the marketing material promises.”
Oct 16
Meta’s open AI hardware vision engineering.fb.com · “With Catalina we’re introducing the ORv3, a high-power rack (HPR) capable of supporting up to 140kW.”
Oct 15
AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched chipsandcheese.com · “All 64 cores could hit up to 5GHz in single threaded test.”
Oct 12
$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst latent.space · “Last year, H100s were $8/hr if you could get them.”
Oct 11
Can You Get Root With Only a Cigarette Lighter? da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · “It’s just one resistor (15 ohms) and one wire, soldered to DQ26.”
Oct 7
Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard spectrum.ieee.org · “So the researchers developed an algorithm to manipulate the frequency of Wi-Fi’s data transmission signals to match the signals that the LoRa device uses to communicate with other devices.”
Oct 6
AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted! arnaud-carre.github.io · “A few years ago, I realized that this 8-bit value doesn’t have to be understood as just a set of logical operators. Instead, it’s fundamentally just a lookup table.”
Oct 6
Aegir GPS/LTE/Iridium Tracker github.com · “Further development of this device doesn’t make much sense due to the exorbitant costs of Iridium transmission through RockBlock, namely £13 for a monthly line rental and £14 for the cheapest package of 100 credits, which equals 5 kB (!?).”
Oct 5
Reverse Engineering and Dismantling Kekz Headphones nv1t.github.io · “In addition, the connection string to this Azure cosmos database is accessible within the Decompilation of the application itself and therefore is disclosed.”
Oct 4

September 2024 14 posts

AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO to take on Nvidia cnbc.com · “The company said that Group 42, a UAE-based AI firm that counts Microsoft as an investor, accounted for 83% of Cerebras’s revenue last year.”
Sep 30
A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry npr.org · “Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz.”
Sep 30
A Bendy RISC-V Processor spectrum.ieee.org · “The research team found Flex-RV could run as fast as 60 kilohertz while consuming less than 6 milliwatts of power.”
Sep 29
Britain buys semiconductor factory for defence purposes ukdefencejournal.org.uk · “This facility is the only secure site in the UK capable of manufacturing gallium arsenide semiconductors, a vital component in military platforms such as fighter jets.”
Sep 28
Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals macrumors.com · “The cost of the tools required for device repair and the cost of genuine components make self repair almost as expensive as getting a repair from an Apple retail location or an Apple Authorized Service Provider”
Sep 21
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms? blog.mistys-internet.website · “So, for the PC-98, the answer isn’t really that it died - it sort of faded away and merged into what every other system was becoming.”
Sep 21
Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra downtowndougbrown.com · “All I needed to do was replace three chips for a total of less than $1 to bring this thing back to life.”
Sep 17
Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval techcrunch.com · “Once enabled, it requires 10 nights of sleep tracking data spread out over a 30-day span to determine whether a user may have the condition.”
Sep 16
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures louwrentius.com · “The 4 TB HGST drives have roughly 6000 hours on them after ten years.”
Sep 14
FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software fda.gov · “The HAF was evaluated in a clinical study with 118 subjects with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss, at multiple U.S. sites.”
Sep 12
Review: IFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy hackaday.com · “You could get a nice soldering station from Weller or Hakko for half the price.”
Sep 12
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids simplyexplained.com · “A Disney+ subscription costs €10,99/month, but for that price I can buy 3-4 Blu-rays on second hand websites.”
Sep 8
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving righto.com · “A group of 20 Indians armed with high-power rifles took over the plant, demanding that Fairchild rehire the employees.”
Sep 1
Extreme Pi Boot Optimization kittenlabs.de · “We reduced the energy required by a factor of 5 (compared to stock Debian at 9.5 Ws until user space).”
Sep 1

August 2024 10 posts

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch blog.hopefullyuseful.com · “Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable, I have no idea…”
Aug 29
Introducing Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed cerebras.ai · “Cerebras inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, which is 20x faster than NVIDIA GPU-based hyperscale clouds.”
Aug 27
Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution asiatimes.com · “Because highly absorbent EUV light weakens by 40% with each reflection, only about 1% of the energy from the light source reaches the wafer when bounced off ten mirrors while more than 10% does when only four mirrors are used.”
Aug 24
Meta Cancels High-End Mixed Reality Headset After Apple Vision Pro Struggles macrumors.com · “Meta was aiming to sell the device for under $1,000, but that was not going to be possible with the high cost of the displays.”
Aug 23
DEFCON 32 Statement entropicengineering.com · “We billed DEFCON for our most recent work, discounting our labor by 25% in order to meet the agreed upon targets.”
Aug 10
Watch How a Hacker's Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop's Keystrokes wired.com · “The Apple logo is nearly a mirror”
Aug 10
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades engadget.com · “The researchers have also noted that the flaw dates back to at least 2006 and that it impacts nearly every AMD chip.”
Aug 9
Downcycled: The story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO androidauthority.com · “One of the big reasons for this is the unit limit Samsung put on orders, which was a paltry seven parts per repair shop per quarter.”
Aug 6
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw theverge.com · “The delay is the result of a design flaw discovered “unusually late in the production process,” according to two unnamed sources, including a Microsoft employee, cited by the outlet.”
Aug 5
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues pugetsystems.com · “We’re seeing ALL of these failures happen after 6 months, which means we do expect elevated failure rates to continue for the foreseeable future and possibly even after Intel issues the microcode patch.”
Aug 4

July 2024 17 posts

How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood blog.codingconfessions.com · “The reorder buffer is split equally between the two logical processors in an SMT enabled core.”
Jul 28
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs: any damage is permanent theverge.com · “Intel has not halted sales or clawed back any inventory.”
Jul 27
Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts bret.dk · “The whole thing gets extremely hot, extremely quickly and the only way you’re going to be able to keep it somewhat under control is if you heavily throttle its power targets, in which case, what’s the point?”
Jul 27
Learning about PCI-e: Driver & DMA blog.davidv.dev · “Bus mastering is a feature which allows devices to directly manipulate system memory without involving the CPU.”
Jul 27
"It's Easy To Get A Bit Over-Ambitious" - Roguecraft Devs On Developing For Amiga In 2024 timeextension.com · “Roguecraft was supposed to take about 6 months to develop and ended up taking 2 years.”
Jul 27
PKfail: Untrusted Platform Keys Undermine Secure Boot on UEFI Ecosystem binarly.io · “This Platform Key, which manages the Secure Boot databases and maintains the chain of trust from firmware to the operating system, is often not replaced by OEMs or device vendors, resulting in devices shipping with untrusted keys.”
Jul 26
How Olympics Officials Try to Catch "Motor Doping" spectrum.ieee.org · “The officials’ prey can be quite small: Cycling experts say just 20 or 30 watts of extra power is enough to tilt the field and clinch a race.”
Jul 23
Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips: chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues tomshardware.com · “The laptops crash in the exact same way as the desktop parts including workloads under Unreal Engine, decompression, ycruncher or similar.”
Jul 21
minuteman missile communications computer.rip · “HICS, as originally installed, operated at 1.3Kbps.”
Jul 20
Bringing cloud and AI capabilities to the tactical edge: Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is generally available cloud.google.com · “Weighing approximately 100lbs, it’s human-portable, making it easy to transport and deploy in various locations.”
Jul 20
Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering Secret Logs, and GPL Violations da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · “There was no end-user-facing way of factory-resetting the device, making the logs effectively permanent.”
Jul 17
NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules developer.nvidia.com · “For cutting-edge platforms such as NVIDIA Grace Hopper or NVIDIA Blackwell, you must use the open-source GPU kernel modules. The proprietary drivers are unsupported on these platforms.”
Jul 17
Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs alderongames.com · “The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.”
Jul 12
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor righto.com · “If management had known that we were using a tool by some grad student as a key part of the methodology, they would never have let us use it.”
Jul 7
Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads pcmag.com · “The Final Cut Camera app is a free download on the App Store, but if you want to use the live multicam feature, you need a Final Cut Pro subscription on a recent iPad ($4.99 per month).”
Jul 6
Latest Intel CPUs impacted by new Indirector side-channel attack bleepingcomputer.com · “On Linux, IBPB is activated by default during transitions to SECCOMP mode or tasks with restricted indirect branches in the kernel, but its use is limited due to causing a 50% performance hit.”
Jul 5
Google Pixel 6 series phones bricked after factory reset bleepingcomputer.com · “Users report mixed responses from Google, and with many facing this issue just as their devices went out of warranty, getting proper support is complicated.”
Jul 3

June 2024 13 posts

How to Get Root Access to Your Sleep Number Bed dillan.org · “The hub communicates with the Sleep Number servers by opening an SSH tunnel and providing a reverse tunnel back to the hub that their developers can use to connect to the hub and do maintenance when needed.”
Jun 30
Inside a 1 dollar radar motion sensor maurycyz.com · “I recently got some cheap microwave motion sensors, mostly because I was wondering how China managed to make a radar for under a dollar”
Jun 30
Apple wants to replace 50% of iPhone final assembly line workers with automation 9to5mac.com · “The machinery necessary to automate iPhone production can sometimes cost hundreds of millions of dollars each year.”
Jun 25
From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center ifixit.com · “The manuals were made available the very day the device was released, something we rarely see in any product category.”
Jun 25
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets righto.com · “Since the password is transmitted without encryption, the security is weak, but better than nothing.”
Jun 23
Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design blog.jitx.com · “If you’re not within 10% or so of the global optimal performance in EE, your suggestions have near-zero value.”
Jun 21
Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing frame.work · “The DeepComputing RISC-V Mainboard uses a JH7110 processor from StarFive which has four U74 RISC-V cores from SiFive.”
Jun 18
DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate dronedj.com · “The bill as it stands does not provide any compensation to those that could be affected by this ban, if it is retroactive.”
Jun 17
The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC louwrentius.com · “With a complete Pi 5 at around €160 including taxes and shipping, the AMD-based 1L PC is clearly the cheaper and still more capable option.”
Jun 16
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 axio.ms · “So back to this £3.80 RPi Pico microcontroller board: The RP2040’s 264KB of RAM gives a lot to play with after carving out the Mac’s 128KB”
Jun 16
'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors theguardian.com · “Some mountain bike owners with fourth-generation Bosch electric motors describe how they had four or five – yes five – replacement motors fitted during the two-year warranty period.”
Jun 15
Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed xda-developers.com · “Arm’s argument is that the Nuvia license was canceled when it was taken over by Qualcomm.”
Jun 13
Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres windytan.com · “It’s probably just a misconfiguration that was never fixed because the people working on it couldn’t experientially confirm any issue with it.”
Jun 9

May 2024 13 posts

Intel's Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape hackaday.com · “Turns out, the difference in the socket is just a few pins here and there”
May 31
Fitbit Ace LTE: Hands On With Google's First Smartwatch for Kids pcmag.com · “Without the subscription, the Ace LTE is limited to basic movement and step tracking.”
May 30
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once washington.edu · “The system, called “Target Speech Hearing,” then cancels all other sounds in the environment and plays just the enrolled speaker’s voice in real time”
May 29
Tutorial: Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD: Dramatically increasing the drive's endurance! theoverclockingpage.com · “We see that the TBW has increased drastically, from 120TB (500GB QLC) to 4,000TB (120GB pSLC), which is an increase of over 3333%, more than 3000 percent.”
May 19
How Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector spectrum.ieee.org · “But just two weeks before VESA was planning to announce what it came up with, Intel floored the VESA local bus committee by saying it won’t support the technology after all.”
May 18
Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers theverge.com · “Raspberry Pi is hoping to use that cash to pay more engineers, bring aspects of its semiconductor design process in-house, and introduce new, more expensive product variants”
May 16
$16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl newatlas.com · “Where the H1’s price tag was set at US$90,000 with up to 10 years of wait time, the G1 is pitched a whole lot cheaper at $16,000 (starting price).”
May 14
GPUs Go Brrr hazyresearch.stanford.edu · “This diagram cost us three weeks of life that we will not get back, hence the public shaming.”
May 12
Thread - the tech we can't use or teach overengineer.dev · “Thread is very much neither free nor open.”
May 11
Apple introduces M4 chip apple.com · “M4 has Apple’s fastest Neural Engine ever, capable of up to 38 trillion operations per second, which is faster than the neural processing unit of any AI PC today.”
May 7
LPCAMM2 Is Finally Here, and It's a Big Deal ifixit.com · “Finally: modular, performant, power-efficient laptop memory for the masses.”
May 7
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab construction-physics.com · “US fabs are also more expensive to build than in other parts of the world, with estimates ranging from 30% more expensive (per Intel) to up to four times as expensive (per TSMC).”
May 4
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024 backblaze.com · “At an average age of nine years, these drives continue to defy their age.”
May 2

April 2024 7 posts

Rabbit R1, a thing that should just be an app, actually is just an Android app androidauthority.com · “A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a.”
Apr 30
TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design tomshardware.com · “The production timeline for A16 indicates that volume production of A16 will commence in the second half of 2026.”
Apr 25
I Continue To No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals ascii.textfiles.com · “I contacted a VCF administrator and was told it was all disposed of, and that they kept the bins.”
Apr 13
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 theregister.com · “Manufacturers cut production by 20 percent in 2023, according to the TechNews report, to keep hard drive prices from falling in the face of lowered demand in a weakening global economy.”
Apr 12
Groq CEO: 'We No Longer Sell Hardware' eetimes.com · “The U.S. government and its allies are the only ones we’d be willing to sell hardware to.”
Apr 7
ASUS refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as promised androidauthority.com · “In the settlement, Timothy received a full refund for the phone (£700) and the court filing fee (£70) for a total of £770 (~$973).”
Apr 6
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining predr.ag · “Every time it rained, the rain collected on its leaves and branches and weighed them down.”
Apr 1

March 2024 7 posts

ZenHammer: Rowhammer Attacks on AMD Zen-based Platforms comsec.ethz.ch · “This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems”
Mar 25
Who killed the network switch? cliffle.com · “Apparently random crashes that go away when you add some debugging code are the worst kind of crash, but that was the situation we were in”
Mar 25
Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Aircraft boomsupersonic.com · “XB-1 met all of its test objectives, including safely and successfully achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet and speeds up to 238 knots (273 mph).”
Mar 22
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: 'We need bigger GPUs' cnbc.com · “The strategy is to get customers who buy Nvidia-based servers to sign up for Nvidia enterprise, which costs $4,500 per GPU per year for a license.”
Mar 18
Building Meta's GenAI Infrastructure engineering.fb.com · “By the end of 2024, we’re aiming to continue to grow our infrastructure build-out that will include 350,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs as part of a portfolio that will feature compute power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s.”
Mar 12
Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware: days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs techradar.com · “The Grayskull e75 and e150 DevKits are available for purchase now at $599 and $799, respectively.”
Mar 10
Popular video doorbells can be easily hijacked, researchers find techcrunch.com · “Despite these flaws and Consumer Reports warning online marketplaces about them, the doorbells remain available for sale on Amazon, Sears and Shein.”
Mar 1

February 2024 8 posts

Testing of the F-35C Tailhook the-engi-nerd.github.io · “Because the engineers at Northrop Grumman engineered to a computer model that can simulate how an arresting wire acts when used for arrestment, and the model was wrong.”
Feb 27
SSDs Have Become Ridiculously Fast, Except in the Cloud databasearchitects.blogspot.com · “AWS EC2 was an early NVMe pioneer, launching the i3 instance with 8 physically-attached NVMe SSDs in early 2017.”
Feb 20
ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes world's largest fab tool maker: analyst tomshardware.com · “Secondly, ASML could sell sophisticated tools to Chinese customers for most of calendar 2023 as sanctions against the Chinese semiconductor sector kicked in only in September and only for one tool.”
Feb 20
Nokia Made Too Many Phones textquery.app · “Just in the year ‘05 alone, it launched more than fifty models, more than the number of iPhone models Apple has shipped in sixteen years of its existence.”
Feb 13
Balancing cube willempennings.nl · “Even though the idea isn’t new, previous works are largely closed-source. I plan to change that.”
Feb 11
TSMC to build second Japan chip factory, raising investment to $20 billion finance.yahoo.com · “The decision to build a second fab is a vote of confidence by TSMC in Japan where construction of the first fab has run smoothly and which, Reuters has reported, it sees as a source of diligent workers with a government that is easy to deal with.”
Feb 6
Vision Pro Teardown: Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird ifixit.com · “In practice, the EyeSight display is so dim and low-resolution that reviewers say it’s hard to see much on it.”
Feb 4
Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances willbush.dev · “I even remember thinking about the KISS principle at the time, but somehow thought switching brands and spending 3x the amount would save us from the complexity.”
Feb 3

January 2024 14 posts

Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day pcmag.com · “SpaceX’s laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today.”
Jan 31
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not theverge.com · “Basically, I keep asking if I prefer using a computer in there rather than out here.”
Jan 30
Helios: Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. github.com · “Helios is a distribution of illumos powering the Oxide Rack.”
Jan 29
I hacked a train toilet devever.net · “The problem with this design is that most people don’t understand state machines, and this design confused a lot of people who were unable to lock the door correctly, or believed they’d locked the door when they hadn’t.”
Jan 28
Disney Unveils the HoloTile Floor, Inching Us Closer to a Real-Life Holodeck ign.com · “However, it’s important not to get too excited yet as Smoot notes ‘we don’t know yet where that will be used.’”
Jan 27
ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s jacobfilipp.com · “One VHS tape could store more information than an entire hard drive.”
Jan 26
Breaking Free from DRM: The Story of Hacking My Air Purifier unethical.info · “I decided to investigate the nightmare DRM RFID chip that was stuck to the bottom of my filter.”
Jan 24
What's that touchscreen in my room? laplab.me · “Turns out, interface on the Android tablet is just a webview.”
Jan 20
High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98 fangpenlin.com · “I tested the network speed, and it can hit 11Gbps.”
Jan 15
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day tomshardware.com · “Johnie’s initial screenshot showed that on a chosen day, the device uploaded 3.57GB and downloaded about 100MB, and the data traffic was almost constant.”
Jan 13
A Suprising Discovery Inside The Steam Deck's APU boilingsteam.com · “There’s a part that represents almost 15% of the surface that is completely undocumented.”
Jan 13
OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt lwn.net · “Let’s celebrate this anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported hardware design.”
Jan 9
Fixing Macs Door to Door matduggan.com · “The back alley electronics repair guy is the dark secret of the Dispatch world.”
Jan 5
This holographic camera turns any window into an invisible camera digitalcameraworld.com · “Parking cameras that can be completely hidden.”
Jan 5

2023 116 posts

December 2023 13 posts

7 watts idle on Intel 12th/13th gen: the foundation for building a low power server/NAS mattgadient.com · “Before going further, the 7 watt figure for this system was before storage has been added.”
Dec 31
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery securelist.com · “Because this feature is not used by the firmware, we have no idea how attackers would know how to use it.”
Dec 27
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets roylongbottom.org.uk · “In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply.”
Dec 25
Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars insideevs.com · “This move, according to VW, "frustrated customers who shouldn’t be frustrated."”
Dec 19
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter ounapuu.ee · “What I discovered instead was that the power adapter that comes with the fountain outputs a solid 7.5V.”
Dec 19
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors spectrum.ieee.org · “Experts estimate CFETs to roll out commercially seven to ten years from now, but there is still a lot of work before they are ready.”
Dec 16
Bricked Xmas whizzy.org · “I guess I overflowed some buffer and I’ve corrupted the firmware.”
Dec 15
Intel CEO attacks Nvidia on AI: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market' tomshardware.com · “We think of the CUDA moat as shallow and small,”
Dec 14
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them 404media.co · “NEWAG, the manufacturer of the Impuls family of trains, put code in the train’s control systems that prevented them from running if a GPS tracker detected that it spent a certain number of days in an independent repair company’s maintenance center”
Dec 13
Dieselgate, but for trains - some heavyweight hardware hacking badcyber.com · “A condition has been written in the computer code to disable the ability to run a train if it spends at least 10 days in one of these workshops.”
Dec 8
Pilotless FedEx, Reliable Robotics Plane Completes Flight ttnews.com · “Our system doesn’t do automated engine starts, so somebody has to be in the plane to start the engine.”
Dec 7
Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops social.hackerspace.pl · “One version of the controller actually contained GPS coordinates to contain the behaviour to third party workshops.”
Dec 5
Anduril unveils Roadrunner, 'a fighter jet weapon that lands like a Falcon 9' techcrunch.com · “Because the product is reusable and recoverable, operators can act without the fear that they could lose an expensive asset.”
Dec 1

November 2023 12 posts

Inside Foxconn's struggle to make iPhones in India restofworld.org · “The Sunguvarchatram plant still assembled fewer than 10% of all iPhone 15s, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Nov 29
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed? 10stripe.com · “The result is that you will never be able to connect at a speed faster than 53.3 kbit/s.”
Nov 25
Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall ethz.ch · “The autonomous machine can place 20 to 30 stones in a single consignment – about as many as one delivery could supply.”
Nov 24
Tesla open sources all design and engineering of original Roadster teslarati.com · “Tesla has opened everything from Owner’s Manuals to Circuits and Connectors for the original Roadster.”
Nov 23
New CacheWarp AMD CPU attack lets hackers gain root in Linux VMs bleepingcomputer.com · “In 3 case studies, we demonstrate an attack on RSA in the Intel IPP crypto library, recovering the entire private key, logging into an OpenSSH server without authentication, and escalating privileges to root via the sudo binary.”
Nov 15
Reptar lock.cmpxchg8b.com · “We verified this worked even inside an unprivileged guest VM, so this already has serious security implications for cloud providers.”
Nov 14
SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm tomshardware.com · “According to Häfele, the components used in these SSDs are too big for the circuit board, causing weak connections (i.e., high impendence and high temperatures) and making them prone to breaking.”
Nov 12
How a kernel developer made my styluses work again on newer kernels! davidrevoy.com · “Both styluses of my XPPen Artist 24 Pro and XPPen Artist 16 Pro Gen2 styluses are now usable again on newer Linux kernels.”
Nov 12
Apple's MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever macworld.com · “Apple’s charging you $200 for RAM it buys for $30.”
Nov 10
Removal of MyQ integration home-assistant.io · “In their partner program, the partner companies pay Chamberlain Group for the privilege of letting MyQ owners control their own garage doors.”
Nov 8
First handset with MTE on the market projectzero.google · “Currently, MTE is only available on the Pixel as a developer option, intended for app developers to test their apps using MTE”
Nov 6
Raspberry Pi Receives Strategic Investment from Arm, Further Extending Long-Term Partnership newsroom.arm.com · “Arm has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, further extending a successful long-term partnership between the two companies as they collaborate to deliver critical solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) developer community.”
Nov 2

October 2023 10 posts

Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience" nme.com · ““Using unauthorised accessories compromises your gaming experience. For this reason, the unauthorised accessory will be blocked from use on 11/12/2023,” read the pop-up on the console. It then advised the player to return the product to the store or talk to the manufacturer.”
Oct 31
FCC Wants to Bolster Amateur Radio radioworld.com · “The current baud rate limits were adopted in 1980.”
Oct 28
Fixing the Volume on my Bluetooth Earbuds blog.ornx.net · “Then, it’s just as simple as looping over the mp3 files, and if it’s contained in the image, running mp3gain on the file and then replacing it in the image with the gain-modified version. I used an adjustment of -19.5 decibels.”
Oct 28
The Cloud Computer oxide.computer · “we believe that cloud computers should come complete with all system software built-in, and with no additional licensing to manage or to pay for.”
Oct 26
Google Founder's Airship Gets FAA Clearance spectrum.ieee.org · “The huge airship will initially be attached to a mobile mast for outdoor ground testing, before conducting about 25 low-level flights, for a total of 50 hours’ flight time.”
Oct 26
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices ileakage.com · “We recover YouTube watch history from the Chrome browser for iOS, which is a shell on top of Safari’s browsing engine due to Apple’s App Store policy.”
Oct 25
@MrWhosetheboss video reveals Google's Pixel 8 Pro Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud notebookcheck.net · “Maini highlights how the new generative AI features including AI wallpaper and Magic Editor, for example, need a permanent internet connection as these require more processing power than the Tensor G3 SoC can deliver.”
Oct 21
Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor righto.com · “The 386 was originally supposed to have an on-chip cache, but there wasn’t room and the cache was dropped in the middle of the project.”
Oct 14
Zen 5's Leaked Slides chipsandcheese.com · “Therefore “zero bubble conditional branches” is not an exciting point. Existing CPUs from Intel, Arm, and AMD themselves can already handle conditional branches with zero bubbles.”
Oct 8
What we Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Chinese Mold Maker airgradient.com · “It is important that you clarify with the mold maker who exactly owns the mold because often they keep this opaque and call it a “contract mold”.”
Oct 5

September 2023 9 posts

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths theverge.com · “At the time, the company issued a press release in objection to the CPSC and called the agency’s statements “unjustified and alarmist.””
Sep 30
PSA: Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency androidauthority.com · “The phone would keep dropping the call within a second of pressing the call button, which occurred for three attempts.”
Sep 30
I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads 404media.co · “It insisted it needed all of this data in order to mirror the screen from my phone to a monitor that I owned, via a cable that is physically connected between the two.”
Sep 29
We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score ifixit.com · “Of course, it can only authenticate if Apple knows about your repair in advance, because you gave them the exact serial number of your iPhone, and they’ve pre-matched it to a display or battery.”
Sep 19
Pineapple ONE pineapple-one.github.io · “It runs at 500 kHz, has a 512 kB program memory and 512 kB RAM. It also features a simple B&W VGA card with resolution of 200x150 px, so we can connect an external monitor and display some simple graphics.”
Sep 16
Hot Chips 2023: AMD’s Phoenix SoC chipsandcheese.com · “Part of that difference is because HP insists on limiting clock speed to 4.5 GHz, even though the 7840HS should be able to boost to 5.1 GHz.”
Sep 16
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates blog.google · “For Chromebooks released before 2021 and already in use, users and IT admins will have the option to extend automatic updates to 10 years from the platform’s release (after they receive their last automatic update).”
Sep 14
Temporary withdrawal from the market of the iPhone 12 for non-compliance with EU regulation anfr.fr · “The ANFR’s measures show that the limb-SAR values exceed the limit, being at 5,74 W/kg. However, the body-SAR complies with the regulation.”
Sep 13
From zero to one hundred in 0.956 seconds ethz.ch · “To ensure strong traction right from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction.”
Sep 12

August 2023 11 posts

E-ink is so Retropunk rmkit.dev · “Unfortunately, the shim needs to be updated for every release to give it the correct binary addresses to hook.”
Aug 26
Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop errno.fr · “The use of a discrete (physical) TPM does not increase the security of the system as one would expect and creates the illusion of security.”
Aug 24
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024 nvidianews.nvidia.com · “On August 21, 2023, the Board of Directors approved an additional $25.00 billion in share repurchases, without expiration.”
Aug 23
The first conformant M1 GPU driver rosenzweig.io · “Unlike ours, the manufacturer’s M1 drivers are unfortunately not conformant for any standard graphics API, whether Vulkan or OpenGL or OpenGL ES.”
Aug 22
Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty Seagate Firecuda 530 drive with the help woodworking tools blog.jgc.org · “A metal G clamp and strips of a Silicon Valley Bank credit card under the SSD to support the PCB.”
Aug 17
Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit theregister.com · “It is well-documented that ink is not required in order to scan or to fax a document, and it is certainly possible to manufacture an All-in-One printer that scans or faxes when the device is out of ink”
Aug 13
Downfall Attacks downfall.page · “According to Intel, some workloads may experience up to 50% overhead.”
Aug 8
Why does libvirt support only 14 hot-plugged PCIe devices on x86-64? dottedmag.net · “Thus, the maximum total number of PCIe slots in any PC is 16 (= 65536/4096).”
Aug 6
New Collide+Power side-channel attack impacts almost all CPUs bleepingcomputer.com · “Preventing data collisions in hardware is a highly complex redesign of general-purpose CPUs, which we think is unlikely to happen in the near future due to the number of shared hardware components in a CPU”
Aug 4
Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000 electrek.co · “For this, we are using a known voltage fault injection attack against the AMD Secure Processor (ASP), serving as the root of trust for the system.”
Aug 3
Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand gpus.llm-utils.org · “1x DGX H100 (SXM) with 8x H100 GPUs is $460k including the required support. $100k of the $460k is required support.”
Aug 2

July 2023 7 posts

Zenbleed lock.cmpxchg8b.com · “It took a bit of work, but I found a variant that can leak about 30 kb per core, per second. This is fast enough to monitor encryption keys and passwords as users login!”
Jul 24
Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope tortel.li · “It is a little less known that if n is 0, the result of the strncmp function is also 0.”
Jul 16
Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash verticalmag.com · “When additional pressure was applied to the pilot’s left pedal, the iPad fell and jammed between the left pedal and heel slide support assembly.”
Jul 14
It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 androidauthority.com · “This new law states, specifically, that users should be able to replace a battery in their phone without any special expertise or tools.”
Jul 13
Intel Exiting the PC Business as it Stops Investment in the Intel NUC servethehome.com · “We have decided to stop direct investment in the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) Business and pivot our strategy to enable our ecosystem partners to continue NUC innovation and growth.”
Jul 11
Matrix Multiplication Using Only Addition arxiv.org · “In many cases of practical interest, only a single addition and a single on-chip copy operation are needed to replace a multiplication.”
Jul 8
Can Dell's 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor? michael.stapelberg.ch · “Even when you run a latest-gen GPU with latest drivers, the monitor does not reliably show a picture after a suspend/resume cycle.”
Jul 3

June 2023 9 posts

The Hidden Cost of Air Quality Monitoring airgradient.com · “It is quite paradox that one of the most popular outdoor air quality sensor for citizen science projects has actually in their T&Cs that you do NOT own the very data you collect.”
Jun 27
ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance tomverbeure.github.io · “The t520 consumes 6W at idle and 10W otherwise.”
Jun 25
The performance review of Hetzner's CAX-line ARM64 servers and the practical experience of WebP Cloud Services on them. blog.webp.se · “Due to the impressive performance of ARM64 in testing, we have migrated all WebP Cloud Services to Hetzner’s ARM64 servers.”
Jun 17
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology theregister.com · “It doesn’t necessarily increase the security of the product, but it does make introspecting the device and reverse engineering the device a whole lot more difficult.”
Jun 12
Intel Is All-In on Backside Power Delivery spectrum.ieee.org · “The 6 percent gain from these advantages is about half what’s typically delivered when a chipmaker scales down transistors from one technology node to the next.”
Jun 11
Nvidia unveils new kind of Ethernet for AI, Grace Hopper 'Superchip' in full production zdnet.com · “The vast majority of switch silicon is supplied by chip maker Broadcom.”
Jun 6
Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami ascii.textfiles.com · “But in this case, they were being sold for about $13 an issue, which is not zero, but somewhere in the realm of manageable: About $3,000 for the lot.”
Jun 6
Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple's first spatial computer apple.com · “Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499 (U.S.), and will be available early next year on apple.com and at Apple Store locations in the U.S., with more countries coming later next year.”
Jun 5
Major Updates for System76 Open Firmware! blog.system76.com · “This bug was a buffer overflow which caused coreboot firmware memory to be overwritten by the TPM measurement log, keeping the S3 suspend method from working properly.”
Jun 2

May 2023 14 posts

Announcing NVIDIA DGX GH200: The First 100 Terabyte GPU Memory System developer.nvidia.com · “Each Grace Hopper Superchip combines 480 GB LPDDR5 CPU memory and 96 GB HBM3, interconnected with NVLink-C2C providing 7x more bandwidth than PCIe Gen5 at one-fifth the power.”
May 31
Hacking my "smart" toothbrush kuenzi.dev · “Luckily it turns out that the required password is sent over plain text! So all I need to do is to sniff the communication between the toothbrush and the head.”
May 30
Building a Personal VoIP System sacredheartsc.com · “SIP was initially released in 1999, and was designed with the assumption that each device has its own globally routable public IP address.”
May 27
the tiny corp raised $5.1M geohot.github.io · “There’s a great chip already on the market. For $999, you get a 123 TFLOP card with 24 GB of 960 GB/s RAM. This is the best FLOPS per dollar today, and yet…nobody in ML uses it.”
May 24
Apple Announces Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom to Make Components in the USA macrumors.com · “Apple noted that it already supports over 1,100 jobs in Broadcom’s Fort Collins FBAR filter manufacturing facility”
May 23
U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce spectrum.ieee.org · “There were around 20,000 job openings in the semiconductor industry at the end of 2022, according to Peter Bermel, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Purdue University.”
May 20
Meta bets big on AI with custom chips, and a supercomputer techcrunch.com · “Meta pulled the plug on a large-scale rollout of the custom chip, which was planned for 2022, and instead placed orders for billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia GPUs that required major redesigns of several of its data centers.”
May 19
Apple execs were reportedly skeptical on headset, with one likening it to a 'science project' cnbc.com · “Apple has reportedly revised sales estimates down from 3 million a year to 900,000 a year, as the company has revised the headset’s form factor and utility.”
May 19
What happened with ASUS routers this morning? downtowndougbrown.com · “My first instinct was to search for asd (which was difficult with a non-working internet connection) but I found that it’s an ASUS security daemon.”
May 18
Apple introduces new features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier apple.com · “Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.”
May 16
Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling github.com · “As a consequence, effectively it’s not possible to use 32Gb V100s, as well as some non-Dell OEMed P100s, in a C4130.”
May 10
Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? jack-vanlightly.com · “This is why write-amplification of sequential IO loads is close to 1 but random IO is typically much higher.”
May 10
Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled fitzsim.org · “I should not have to connect a piece of hardware to the Internet, even once, to use all of its features.”
May 7
faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets arxiv.org · “Our results show that when an fTPM’s internal state is compromised, a TPM and PIN strategy for FDE is less secure than TPM-less protection with a reasonable passphrase.”
May 2

April 2023 6 posts

The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature slate.com · “Although they look fancy, Farah said that carmakers can purchase screens for less than $50, making them significantly less expensive than tactile controls.”
Apr 26
Microsoft reportedly working on its own AI chips that may rival Nvidia's theverge.com · “Nvidia’s latest H100 GPUs are selling for more than $40,000 on eBay, illustrating the demand for high-end chips that can help deploy AI software.”
Apr 19
Booting modern Intel CPUs mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “All of this is happening in a perfectly sensible 32 bit mode, and the CPU actually switches back to the awful segmented configuration afterwards so it’s still compatible with an 80386 from 1986.”
Apr 17
Tesla removes parking sensors to save money, the results are predictably terrible carexpert.com.au · “In the video the car can be seen reversing into a pedestrian at low speed, while claiming it still had room to continue further back.”
Apr 3
Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeting' Mac Sales macrumors.com · “Taiwan’s TSMC did not send 5 nano-process M2 chip wafer workpieces to the outsourced semiconductor package test (OSAT) in January and February, according to the OSAT industry on the 3rd.”
Apr 3
How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps (printer companies hate this!) theverge.com · “The genuine HP ink cartridges, for which I paid as much as I paid for the actual printer, would not work with the printer they were designed to work with because I bought it in a different part of the world.”
Apr 2

March 2023 6 posts

In Memoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 - 2023 moore.org · “In 1975, Gordon updated his prediction, by now recognized as “Moore’s Law,” anticipating that the doubling would happen every two years for the coming decade.”
Mar 25
For AI's 'iPhone moment', Nvidia unveils a large language model chip zdnet.com · “Its Transformer Engine acceleration “delivers up to 12x faster inference performance at GPT-3 compared to the prior generation A100 at data center scale,” the company said.”
Mar 22
Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous thedrive.com · ““When it comes to Level 4 autonomous driving, then we’ll have everything soft key,” said Lee.”
Mar 21
Glass Enterprise Edition Announcement FAQ support.google.com · “As of March 15, 2023, we will no longer sell Glass Enterprise Edition.”
Mar 16
potatis: MOS-6502 and NES emulator in Rust (SDL/WebAssembly/Android/Embedded/Cloud) github.com · “It also runs on a RP-Pico with only 264kB available RAM!”
Mar 12
Van Gogh, AMD's Steam Deck APU chipsandcheese.com · “A small L3 hurts Renoir, but Van Gogh sees a special level of pain because LPDDR5 latency is abysmal. Even servers these days don’t take 150 ns to get data from memory.”
Mar 5

February 2023 8 posts

Meet the $10,000 Nvidia chip powering the race for A.I. cnbc.com · “If you want to scale at the scale of Google, which serves 8 or 9 billion queries every day, you actually need to spend $80 billion on DGXs.”
Feb 27
The Camera-Shy Hoodie macpierce.com · “By pointing the LEDs back at the camera and setting them to a tuned strobe, the security camera’s capture becomes overexposed, significantly losing definition of the scene.”
Feb 27
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone theguardian.com · “The Nokia G22 will cost from £149.99 shipping on 8 March with replacement parts costing £18.99 for a charging port, £22.99 for a battery and £44.99 for a screen.”
Feb 25
Setting up an electronics workshop lcamtuf.substack.com · “For the first ten years of my electronics journey, I wrestled with traditional soldering irons.”
Feb 18
Is the Living Computer Museum Dead? pcjs.org · “The LCM website hasn’t changed much over the last 3 years, and it continues to say the museum “is closed for now,” with no indication of what, if anything, Vulcan decided to do when the first 18 months came and went.”
Feb 17
Shrinkflation, SanDisk style ounapuu.ee · “I’m a whole 607125504 bytes short!”
Feb 15
Ghost Boat with Garmin GPS Leads Father-Son Duo to Man Overboard garmin.com · “Sascha had gone to the side to relieve himself and simply fell overboard.”
Feb 5
Update on Samsung SSD Reliability pugetsystems.com · “Samsung’s 990 Pro drives are exhibiting rapid health degradation, with Samsung Magician software reporting a drop of around 1% endurance per week.”
Feb 3

January 2023 11 posts

A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive blog.archive.org · “There’s over 1,400 different systems that have gotten the Artwork Treatment, a major success.”
Jan 29
Smartphone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013, their largest ever decline cnbc.com · “We have never seen shipments in the holiday quarter come in lower than the previous quarter.”
Jan 27
Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor mattkeeter.com · “The “optimized” code with one jump per loop is about 4x slower than the original version with two jumps per loop!”
Jan 25
How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine eaton-works.com · “Unfortunately, the entire security sector is RSA-signed using a private key only Microsoft possesses.”
Jan 24
Hyundai Head Unit Hacking xakcop.com · “They must be encrypted with AES-128-CBC using key=")1Zorxo^fAhGlh$#" and IV=“aoAkfwk+#1.6G{dE”.”
Jan 17
wInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late q3k.org · “If (bmRequestType & 0x3) == 0, the user-controlled ‘index’ (populated from the lower byte of the wIndex field of the SETUP packet) is used as an index into g_State->usbHandlers without any boundary checks.”
Jan 14
PC shipments saw their largest decline ever last quarter engadget.com · “Acer took a staggering 41 percent hit, according to Gartner.”
Jan 13
Taking over a Dead IoT Company blog.kchung.co · “We could of course update the domain that the sign talks to but luckily the domain that the sign communicates to by default was available for purchase.”
Jan 10
MKBHD claims that post-processing is ruining iPhone photos, and I agree with that 9to5mac.com · “As shown by the YouTuber, the iPhone 14 Pro always tries to lighten the shadows, especially on people’s faces, making the photo look very artificial.”
Jan 7
MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes theverge.com · “Payments aren’t expected to go out until a final approval hearing scheduled for March 16th, CNET notes, and actual payouts could be less depending on the number of class members in each category.”
Jan 4
Casio-F-91W - iconic quartz watch : weekend die-shot zeptobars.com · “Surprisingly, chip is more complicated than I anticipated and digital part is less than ~50% of the die area.”
Jan 1

2022 156 posts

December 2022 8 posts

Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023 spectrum.ieee.org · “In 2023, you or someone you know will be able to send a text message through space.”
Dec 28
All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters hackaday.com · “However, the USB-C specification only accounts for a limited amount of kinds of cables, explicitly or implicitly excluding a range of cables that you might want to buy or make.”
Dec 27
The $8 Linux Computer thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com · “It looks like a microcontroller, but behaves like a UNIX machine.”
Dec 17
IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license theregister.com · “With Oracle Database SE2, customer license costs remain the same regardless of the number of cores in the socket.”
Dec 16
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux asahilinux.org · “While there’s always room for improvement, the driver is fast enough to run all of the above at 60 frames per second at 4K.”
Dec 7
How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works righto.com · “In brief, the microcode in the 8086 consists of 512 micro-instructions, each 21 bits wide.”
Dec 3
TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia techmonitor.ai · “The new chip factory, or fab, will cost $12bn and is part of TSMC’s global expansion plan.”
Dec 1
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon machinelearning.apple.com · “Finally, locally deploying this model enables developers to reduce or eliminate their server-related costs.”
Dec 1

November 2022 16 posts

Tales of the M1 GPU asahilinux.org · “Since this was going to be the first Linux Rust GPU kernel driver, I had a lot of work ahead!”
Nov 29
A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon righto.com · “In modern CPUs, bugs can often be fixed through a microcode patch that updates the CPU during boot.”
Nov 26
I/O is no longer the bottleneck benhoyt.com · “Disk I/O may have been slow 10 or 20 years ago, but in 2022, reading a file sequentially from disk is very fast.”
Nov 26
Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones actionnewsjax.com · “Macleod said Google gave her a refund, and now she uses a different brand.”
Nov 25
Factorio runs on Apple Silicon factorio.com · “As of version 1.1.71, Factorio runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs!”
Nov 25
Quake 1 port for Apple Watch github.com · “This game port supports both the shareware and registered versions of Quake.”
Nov 19
Emergency SOS via satellite apple.com · “Emergency SOS via satellite enables users to message with emergency services while outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.”
Nov 15
“When we all have pocket telephones” openculture.com · “In the event, it would take nearly eight decades for the first cellphone to arrive on the market, and three more on top of that for them to become indispensable in the West.”
Nov 14
Where has the passive radar code gone? forum.krakenrf.com · “This really sucks to say after putting so much effort into it, but for regulatory reasons that have just come to light we’ve had to remove the open source passive radar code that we previously provided.”
Nov 13
Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days alexyorke.github.io · “Sometimes, debugging enters the real world.”
Nov 12
Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device liuliu.me · “The main challenge is to run the app on the 6GiB RAM iPhone devices.”
Nov 9
Why is Rosetta 2 fast? dougallj.wordpress.com · “Rosetta 2 translates the entire text segment of the binary from x86 to ARM up-front.”
Nov 9
NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD apple.com · “Currently, NightWare is prescribed to 400 patients in the US, 98 percent of whom are active-duty military or veterans.”
Nov 8
Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max apple.com · “The facility is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.”
Nov 6
TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough edn.com · “However, as TSMC researchers acknowledge, the 1-nm process node is not likely to be used for years to come.”
Nov 5
Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch rebble.io · “It really is amazing to see so many people out there still using Pebbles.”
Nov 3

October 2022 18 posts

NY could be first state with a 'Right to Repair' law for electronic devices spectrumlocalnews.com · “The bill has not been sent to the governor for her signature or veto but Fahy said her and her office have been in contact with the governor’s staff on the issue.”
Oct 31
Wiring my home with Fiber sschueller.github.io · “My ISP plans on proving 100gbits in about 2 years so I don’t need pull new fiber if I decide to upgrade.”
Oct 30
Nobody Wants Touch-Screen Glove Box Latches And It Needs To Stop Now theautopian.com · “I didn’t speak out when the Tesla first demonstrated this, and that’s on me.”
Oct 30
Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second newatlas.com · “In experiments, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology used the setup to transmit data at 1.84 Pbit/s, encoded in 223 wavelength channels, down a 7.9-km-long (4.9-mile) optical fiber that contained 37 separate cores.”
Oct 24
My next Mac might be the last morrick.me · “The problem is I just can’t stand the software anymore.”
Oct 24
Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS, whether SpaceX likes it or not technologyreview.com · “We had to start from scratch, building basically a little radio telescope to eavesdrop on their signals.”
Oct 21
Re: [GIT PULL] Devicetree updates for v6.1 lkml.iu.edu · “I absolutely detest the crazy industry politics and bad vendors that have made ECC memory so "special".”
Oct 16
Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware blog.jgc.org · “The project keeps the original Casio LCD but replaces the entire motherboard with a modern microcontroller and open firmware.”
Oct 15
Unlaunching The 12GB 4080 nvidia.com · “The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right.”
Oct 14
The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 lcamtuf.coredump.cx · “The solution proved to be simple: we "borrowed" the USB vendor and product ID sent by an Apple-made keyboard taken from a coworker’s desk.”
Oct 10
What can we learn from leaked Insyde's BIOS for Intel Alder Lake hardenedvault.net · “Security researchers can still get leaked content via Internet Archive or forked repositories.”
Oct 8
Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator gamedeveloper.com · “The Switch maker has been incredibly proactive in recent years when it comes to seeking out and destroying ROM sites and emulators that allow people to access its software illegally.”
Oct 8
Internet Archive Seeks Donations of Materials to Build a Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications blog.archive.org · “The DLARC project is looking for partners and contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, videos, software, personal archives, and other historical records collections, no matter how big or small.”
Oct 5
EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 macrumors.com · “The directive received 602 votes in favor, 13 votes against, and eight abstentions.”
Oct 4
Matter is now official! staceyoniot.com · “Originally, Matter was supposed to handle enough elements of provisioning and functionality so users wouldn’t have to download an app.”
Oct 4
You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now jeffgeerling.com · “Sadly, the only reliable way to buy a Pi immediately is to pay scalping prices on eBay or buy bundles that include often-unneeded components to pad out the price of a normally-$35 Pi to $100 and beyond.”
Oct 3
The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken - Custom Packages Can Now Be Installed glitched.online · “He likely kept his process a secret to avoid Sony patching and fixing it almost instantly.”
Oct 3
The 'Egg' laptop ikejima.org · “To reduce the size of laptop, the keyboard have 16mm key pitch.”
Oct 1

September 2022 15 posts

Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam halestrom.net · “In other words: they don’t work properly if used in a modern sealed and air-conditioned office.”
Sep 29
Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI spectrum.ieee.org · “Real numbers can’t be perfectly represented in hardware simply because there are infinitely many of them.”
Sep 28
It's here: please welcome Arduino IDE 2.0 blog.arduino.cc · “We’re pleased to announce that as of today Arduino IDE 2.0 has moved to stable and is available for download.”
Sep 28
Nvidia In the Valley stratechery.com · “The days of no-work performance scaling are over.”
Sep 26
The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of oldvcr.blogspot.com · “No matter what IBM says, it’ll always be a ThinkPad to me.”
Sep 25
We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity erikmcclure.com · “A 4090 series card will demand a whopping 450 W, which dwarfs the Ryzen 9 5900X peak power consumption of only 140 W.”
Sep 22
Introducing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition frame.work · “Memory and storage are socketed, enabling you to load up whenever you’d like.”
Sep 21
Inside Apple's Secret iPhone 14 Redesign ifixit.com · “The back glass is simply secured with two screws and a single connector.”
Sep 19
Measuring CPU core-to-core latency github.com · “We measure the latency it takes for a CPU to send a message to another CPU via its cache coherence protocol.”
Sep 18
Here's Why Car Wheels Are So Flat These Days (And No, It's Not Just Aerodynamics And Styling) theautopian.com · “Well, in a word, "steering" is what happened.”
Sep 14
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business eyeondesign.aiga.org · “Because I forgot to get out of the business.”
Sep 13
"Secrets" about the consumer audio business you may find interesting audiosciencereview.com · “Retail price is free to deviate upward from COGS in an unlimited fashion.”
Sep 13
Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes incoherency.co.uk · “Don’t tell anyone, but I already have plans for a better version of Sockfish that will be much harder to detect!”
Sep 5
USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks stderr.nl · “USB-C is a specification of a connector, intended to use for USB by default, but also for other protocols”
Sep 4
Hot Chips 34 – Tesla's Dojo Microarchitecture chipsandcheese.com · “Tesla does not care about delivering precise exceptions.”
Sep 3

August 2022 12 posts

NVIDIA Corporation Form 8-K sec.gov · “The Company is engaged with the USG and is seeking exemptions for the Company’s internal development and support activities.”
Aug 31
DJI Mavic 3 flies over the top of Mount Everest at an altitude of 30,292 feet dronexl.co · “Please keep in mind that we don’t know whether this DJI Mavic 3 has been modified in any way.”
Aug 31
Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years notes.alinpanaitiu.com · “The problem comes from vendors who flash the same exact firmware with the same EDID to multiple monitors in the same batch.”
Aug 28
The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool on steroids adguard.com · “There is no doubt that other companies live by this creed, if they are not talking about it out loud.”
Aug 22
Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks apple.com · “Customers will have access to the tool kit for one week and it will be shipped free of charge.”
Aug 22
I love my GPD Micro PC blog.danieljanus.pl · “In contrast, the GPD just wants to be used, interacted with, tinkered with.”
Aug 18
TSMC to Begin 3nm Chip Production Next Month tomshardware.com · “This original N3 node has a narrow process window, which means a lower-than-expected yield for some designs.”
Aug 18
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds vibilagare.se · “The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks than in the best-performing car.”
Aug 17
Why I left PINE64 blog.brixit.nl · “PINE64 cares only about Manjaro, and Manjaro does not care about working with any other distributions.”
Aug 17
From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story mattkeeter.com · “The parser is overkill: it decodes the entire file based on the specification.”
Aug 11
How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core? frame.work · “A Cinebench run brings the CPU to maximum load for 10 minutes, making it a great measure of sustained performance.”
Aug 9
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement technicallychallenged.substack.com · “I can’t push anywhere on the keyboard anymore to activate it.”
Aug 5

July 2022 8 posts

RISC-V based single board computers are getting there bret.dk · “PyBench also completes 22.26% faster and the WavPack encoding test is 7.43% quicker on the MangoPi board.”
Jul 31
Fake Dog for Home Security t0.vc · “It’s a pair of computer speakers plugged into a Raspberry Pi, which is an inexpensive single-board computer.”
Jul 27
Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees interestingengineering.com · “As impressive as the video is, there is no word whether this product is ready for market or not.”
Jul 25
Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas electronicsweekly.com · “Samsung already operates a fab in Austin and is building another and has started work on its first fab in Taylor.”
Jul 24
Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems theregister.com · “Your granny’s radio had maybe 10 transistors; a smart speaker, billions.”
Jul 18
Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use atomic14.com · “It’s terrible for the environment, but it’s a great source of free lithium cells for our projects.”
Jul 17
My business card runs Linux dmitry.gr · “With this, the kernel takes around 2 minutes to boot and run sh.”
Jul 13
Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “There’s no security benefit to this.”
Jul 8

June 2022 14 posts

The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges github.com · “This deck of cards has a bar code printed on the edge of each card.”
Jun 29
The Watch For Which James Bond Gave Up His Rolex: The SEIKO TV Watch sabukaru.online · “The SEIKO TV watch consists of a 1.2-inch liquid crystal display screen set in a standard digital watch.”
Jun 25
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier dynomight.net · “But we are never given a reason why H13 is good enough, but E12 isn’t.”
Jun 20
Why webcams aren't good enough reincubate.com · “Any affordable webcam (even at the high end of affordability, $100+), uses inadequate and typically years-old hardware backed by mediocre software that literally makes you look bad.”
Jun 19
Hertzbleed Attack hertzbleed.com · “Hertzbleed is a real, and practical, threat to the security of cryptographic software.”
Jun 14
The Floppotron 3.0 silent.org.pl · “Every mechanical device with electric motor or any other moving parts makes noise as a side effect.”
Jun 13
AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster mnpn.github.io · “However, around New Years 2022 I ran some various network speed tests for unrelated reasons and noticed that I was consistently getting a speed of ~340/30, instead of the ~650/50 I was expecting.”
Jun 11
Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features? news.ycombinator.com · “Or is there at least one where Smart mode can be turned off verifiably AND it doesn’t keep enticing you to turn it on by withholding ease of use or some convenience feature until you just give up?”
Jun 11
Announcing "Code" 2nd Edition charlespetzold.com · “However, the 1st edition was originally published in 1999 and it was definitely showing its age.”
Jun 10
MIT researchers uncover 'unpatchable' flaw in Apple M1 chips techcrunch.com · “The attack shows that pointer authentication can be defeated without leaving a trace, and as it utilizes a hardware mechanism, no software patch can fix it.”
Jun 10
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices engadget.com · “The biggest odd one out is Apple’s Lightning iPhone port that’s used by around 20 percent of devices sold in Europe.”
Jun 7
Germany paying $5.5bn for Intel fab electronicsweekly.com · “Intel says it expects 30% subsidies when it builds a fab, and CEO Pat Gelsinger says it costs 30-40% more to build a fab in Europe than in Asia.”
Jun 7
Apple unveils M2 with breakthrough performance and capabilities apple.com · “Compared with the latest 10-core PC laptop chip, the CPU in M2 provides nearly twice the performance at the same power level.”
Jun 6
Installing a payphone in my house bert.org · “My payphone number had been blacklisted, but the great thing about living in a metropolitan area in the U.S. in the 90s is that there was always another payphone.”
Jun 2

May 2022 20 posts

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM for 98% Cost Saving github.com · “With the simple EEPROM chip, standard 0.1 inch contact spacing, one-byte counter, and no error checking, it sure seems Daan Tech didn’t really try very hard!”
May 30
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles coliniuliano.ca · “Linking up a bunch of tiles creates a position-aware partial mesh network.”
May 29
How a Single Raspberry Pi made my Home Network Faster brianchristner.io · “Statistically, our household is averaging 15% of queries blocked and a spike over a lousy weather weekend of 30% blocked.”
May 29
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) mtlynch.io · “The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263.”
May 29
This is how they do it! flamingo-tech.nl · “How they created the password was a secret until now!”
May 28
Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor falstad.com · “This is a simulation of the 1972 Atari game Pong at a circuit level.”
May 25
Faster CRC32 on the Apple M1 dougallj.wordpress.com · “However, I discovered a simple update to a widely used technique that makes it possible to run twice as fast as existing solutions on the Apple M1.”
May 22
Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery theverge.com · “I expected Apple would send me a small box of screwdrivers, spudgers, and pliers; I own a mini iPhone, after all.”
May 21
Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop community.frame.work · “This is perhaps the first time ever that generational upgrades are available in a high-performance thin and light laptop, letting you pick the improvements you want without needing to buy a full new machine.”
May 19
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone! smallandroidphone.com · “It’s increasingly clear that a small premium phone is not on any OEM roadmap.”
May 17
Using a "Proper" Camera as a Webcam tratt.net · “Unfortunately, most webcams are terrible cameras that take terrible pictures.”
May 17
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option blog.tmm.cx · “It appears that HP is actually shipping a Linux and then running DOS in a VM.”
May 15
Intel's new Chimera: Alder Lake agner.org · “Intel have actually sacrificed their flagship 512-bit instructions in order to run multiple threads in low-power cores.”
May 15
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug rosenzweig.io · “As soon as a partial render is required, however, failing to provide this program means the GPU dereferences a null pointer and faults.”
May 13
23,000 Devices Shipped! Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero blog.flipperzero.one · “At the time of writing this post, we have already shipped 23,109 devices.”
May 13
NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules developer.nvidia.com · “Pre-Turing customers will continue to run the closed source modules.”
May 11
The music lives on apple.com · “iPod touch will be available while supplies last.”
May 10
Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? dancharblog.wordpress.com · “Essentially this is getting a USB 2.0 port for free.”
May 10
Mechanical Watch ciechanow.ski · “Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other electronic components.”
May 4
[email protected] brendangregg.com · “This became especially clear after I recently worked with another hardware vendor, who were initially friendly and supportive but after evaluations of their technology went poorly became bullying and misleading.”
May 2

April 2022 7 posts

Apple’s Self Service Repair now available apple.com · “Apple will offer tool rental kits for $49, so that customers who do not want to purchase tools for a single repair still have access to these professional repair tools.”
Apr 27
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home michael.stapelberg.ch · “No matter if you’re using 1 Gbit/s or 25 Gbit/s, you pay the same monthly fee.”
Apr 23
Framework Laptop Mainboard github.com · “All of this is a starting point for a broader set of open source Mainboard documentation to enable creation of fully compatible third-party Mainboards in the future.”
Apr 19
Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM semianalysis.substack.com · “There are credible reports of lies and deceit within the Samsung Foundry operations.”
Apr 17
Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com · “Closing the lid feels like closing the door of a German car.”
Apr 11
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996 lunduke.substack.com · “Originally released in 1993, the Onyx from SiliconGraphics was an absolute powerhouse.”
Apr 7
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) overengineer.dev · “Searching on Aliexpress, I found several USB-C hubs with the same case, same specs, and probably the same components… for 10 euros a piece.”
Apr 4

March 2022 12 posts

The smallest and worst HDMI display mitxela.com · “That’s right, in an HDMI cable, nestled amongst the high-speed differential pairs, there’s an exceedingly slow i2c bus.”
Mar 31
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues aschmelyun.com · “After seeing a receipt printer spitting out orders while grabbing some take-out the other day, I wondered if I could use one to print out a ticket each time an issue was added to one of my repos.”
Mar 25
A one in a million bug in Switch kernel gist.githubusercontent.com · “Nintendo would not introduce this out-of-the-blue, there is some weird hardware phenomenon going on.”
Mar 23
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses blog.jonlu.ca · “The Nintendo Switch adopts a worrisome-strategy of preventing firmware downgrades by permanently modifying your device every time it updates.”
Mar 23
Kwiggle: Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage kwigglebike.com · “The Kwiggle is the only folding bike in the world that fits in hand luggage (55x40x25 cm) and can be stowed away just like any other piece of luggage.”
Mar 22
Librem 5: first impressions incoherency.co.uk · “In February 2018 I placed an order for a Librem 5.”
Mar 21
Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM q3k.org · “Unsurprisingly, very few people have heard of it, and even their Googling skills don’t come in handy.”
Mar 21
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems marc.info · “It has taken a while, but I’m pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing.”
Mar 19
The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! asahilinux.org · “Keep in mind that this is still a very early, alpha release.”
Mar 18
Not dodgy at all and long overdue - user replaceable batteries eevblog.com · “Industry is not too happy about this.”
Mar 13
Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by annoying.technology · “If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason.”
Mar 10
Apple unveils M1 Ultra, the world's most powerful chip for a personal computer apple.com · “The new SoC consists of 114 billion transistors, the most ever in a personal computer chip.”
Mar 8

February 2022 11 posts

Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company lincolnquirk.com · “[Coelux][3] makes a high-end artificial skylight which certainly looks awesome, but it costs upwards of $30k and also takes a lot of headroom in the ceiling.”
Feb 28
AMD is now worth more than rival Intel finance.yahoo.com · “AMD’s market cap currently stands at $188 billion after shares rose nearly 2% in Tuesday’s session.”
Feb 24
Why I will never buy another Samsung device lehtimaeki.medium.com · “During the technical inspection of your device, the technician was able to determine that in addition to the display, the frame is also broken and that this damage is due to a mechanical impact, such as a fall, bending or excessive pressure.”
Feb 22
Game Boy Fiver [Wordle clone]: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes alexanderpruss.blogspot.com · “It turns out that the result is 17763 bytes, plus 108 bytes of overhead, for a total of 17871 bytes, or 28% of the original list, with very, very simple decompression.”
Feb 20
Building an iPod for 2022 ellie.wtf · “This generation of iPod was the last to feature the “wolfson DAC”, which is very well known for being of fantastic quality.”
Feb 15
Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here news.ycombinator.com · “After a link to the Dell forum post was ported to HN, the post mysteriously was deleted in the same day.”
Feb 14
Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions cnx-software.com · “What that means is that it is now possible to run virtually any operating system including Windows 11, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Arch Linux Arm on the Google Tensor-powered phone, and do so at near-native speed.”
Feb 14
FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling opensource.googleblog.com · “With that in mind, Google and Antmicro started the FPGA Interchange format project, providing a unified framework to lower the entry barriers for developers to swiftly move from one tool to another.”
Feb 12
Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial kuow.org · “Mazda USA did not respond to a request for comment, but service managers at various dealerships said a replacement part could be available in a few weeks.”
Feb 9
Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online gizmodo.com · “There are no software updates that Apple can release that will make a physically modified AirTag start to make noise again, and the other included safety features are still dependent on victims not only having an up-to-date smartphone but also being technically savvy enough to download and use the necessary apps to find rogue AirTags nearby.”
Feb 3
Framework Raises $18M Series A frame.work · “Products that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired to last longer are better for consumers and less harmful to the environment, while also being the core of our business model.”
Feb 1

January 2022 15 posts

Please make a dumb car techcrunch.com · “Cars now are like budget smartphones with wheels: loaded with bloatware, unintuitive and slow to operate.”
Jan 31
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar jenson.org · “So, yes it’s just 2 taps vs 1, but that can’t be that bad right?”
Jan 30
Writing an open source GPU driver - without the hardware collabora.com · “In 2021, there were no Valhall devices running mainline Linux.”
Jan 27
AirPods don't "Just Work" philip.design · “I get that Apple is trying to be clever and anticipate your moves, which I genuinely appreciate, but when it gets in the way it’s annoying.”
Jan 26
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 bbenchoff.github.io · “I think I’ve cracked this problem, and I’ve come up with a computer that runs Linux and costs about $15 USD.”
Jan 26
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone vice.com · “Despite being just three years old, no Pixel 3 will ever receive another official security update.”
Jan 25
Zheng Bang ZB3245TSS Pick & Place Review rmcybernetics.com · “When asking the supplier if we could update it to W10, we were told that it would stop the machine from working.”
Jan 25
This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage wired.com · “With a collection of salvaged and homemade equipment, Zeloof produced a chip with 1,200 transistors.”
Jan 23
How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper spectrum.ieee.org · “We knew the filters were sapping brightness.”
Jan 22
Locked Out of 'God Mode,' Runners Are Hacking Their Treadmills wired.com · “Despite having a huge display strapped to it, NordicTrack’s hardware pushes people to subscribe to exercise software operated by iFit, its parent company, and doesn’t let you watch videos from other apps or external sources.”
Jan 18
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet blog.haschek.at · “I heard of people getting paid to put things like this in places they shouldn’t and for this reason I was very interested in finding out what it actually does.”
Jan 17
Why can't I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU (11th generation or above) platform that does not support Intel SGX feature? cyberlink.com:443 · “So much so, that it has been determined that it is no longer feasible for CyberLink to support the Ultra HD Blu-ray playback on newer CPUs and the latest Windows platforms.”
Jan 14
5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds randomascii.wordpress.com · “Light can travel roughly 30 cm in one nanosecond so you may be wondering why this signal is traveling so slow.”
Jan 13
This Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It's Banned From Typing Competitions vice.com · “Most people type around 40 words per minute (WPM) with skilled typists hitting upwards of 100 WPM.”
Jan 6
Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU - Part 1 blog.willemmelching.nl · “Unfortunately, steering commands are not accepted after 6 minutes of continuous operation or below 50 km/h.”
Jan 3

2021 142 posts

December 2021 15 posts

Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code stackoverflow.blog · “Today, for about a thousand dollars, you can purchase a nanopore sequencer as a peripheral that connects to any computer via USB.”
Dec 26
Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes righto.com · “I dissolved the epoxy package in boiling sulfuric acid to expose the silicon die inside.”
Dec 25
Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers jahed.dev · “Turns out, TP-Link thinks it’s a great idea to have hidden pre-configured always-on networks on all of their routers.”
Dec 21
This is my Mum's 80th birthday present. fourlightyears.blogspot.com · “There were over 60 messages, which I assigned to phone numbers 100 to 160.”
Dec 20
My Bose QC-35 II headphones suddenly burst into flames and left me with chemical burns recursive-public-rants.blogspot.com · “I pull them off and suddenly toxic white smoke and immense heat emerged from them.”
Dec 18
Dude this should NOT be in a Dell Switch... or HPE Supercomputer servethehome.com · “While we have been able to confirm these stickers on four different models in the Dell S5200-ON line, we have reason to believe they go beyond just Dell.”
Dec 14
Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain bunniestudios.com · “After waiting about 28 weeks, on August 12th, we got an email from our distributor informing us that they had to cancel our entire order for SiT8021s.”
Dec 14
Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn't support it downtowndougbrown.com · “I am now able to boot into Windows with 16 GB of RAM installed in my computer, as long as I use GRUB as my bootloader with the write_byte command above.”
Dec 13
Mercedes Beats Tesla to Hands-Free Driving on the Autobahn ttnews.com · “The automaker got the green light to sell its Drive Pilot package for use on stretches of the country’s Autobahn network at a speed of up to 37 miles per hour, Mercedes said Dec. 9.”
Dec 11
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware anishathalye.com · “Surfaces viewed from an angle tend to look shiny, and you can tell if a finger is touching the surface by checking if it’s touching its own reflection.”
Dec 10
Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy airgradient.com · “However, the Vindriktning shows you a green light until 35 μg/m³ which is SEVEN TIMES the WHO air quality guideline.”
Dec 6
Simple Raspberry Pi powered SMS Gateway blog.haschek.at · “But for most of the scenarios mentioned above you might not rely on external sms gateways or APIs because they should also work if your internet goes out.”
Dec 5
It's official, ADSL works over wet string revk.uk · “It turns out he needed salty water to get anywhere.”
Dec 4
USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat's Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables tidbits.com · “USB-C was supposed to be the last cable you would ever need.”
Dec 4
Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags mattblaze.org · “In my experiments, I found I could sometimes achieve approximately 90 dB attenuation by carefully wrapping the generator in foil and double folding the seams on all sides, which is quite good (comparable to commercial pouches).”
Dec 2

November 2021 15 posts

Hubris and Humility oxide.computer · “Cliff dove into a sketch of his ideas, giving the nascent system a name that felt perfectly apt: Hubris.”
Nov 30
Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today theverge.com · “Drop bread, get toast.”
Nov 25
Samsung plans $17 billion chip plant in Taylor, Texas datacenterdynamics.com · “Taylor previously offered Samsung property tax breaks of over 90 percent for its first ten years.”
Nov 24
Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390) gregdavill.github.io · “But I’m an electronics engineer, and reasonably proficient at BGA rework.”
Nov 21
VertiWalk - Vertical Walking vertiwalk.com · “By exploiting the potential of the human body and materials, only a fraction of effort is required, compared to taking stairs.”
Nov 20
Apple announces Self Service Repair apple.com · “Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and soon to be followed by Mac computers featuring M1 chips, Self Service Repair will be available early next year in the US and expand to additional countries throughout 2022.”
Nov 17
Blacksmith: Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations comsec.ethz.ch · “We implement these patterns in our Rowhammer fuzzer named Blacksmith and show that it can bypass TRR on 100% of the PC-DDR4 DRAM devices in our test pool.”
Nov 15
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents dkriesel.com · “The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect.”
Nov 15
Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos righto.com · “It defined the sound of 1980s pop music, used by bands from A-ha and Michael Jackson to Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston.”
Nov 13
Long Range E-Bike jacquesmattheij.com · “Working on a pack that size is like working on a live bomb.”
Nov 12
3D printed mirror array github.com · “The mirrors are angled so that just before sunset on our 8th anniversary, it reflects the light from the setting sun onto the ground to spell out “MARRY ME?””
Nov 11
How To Make A CPU - A Simple Picture Based Explanation blog.robertelder.org · “As the world of proprietary hardware and software crushes in around us, we risk losing the ability to make things for ourselves as individuals.”
Nov 10
Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro–and I'm not alone macworld.com · “When Gregory McFadden tweeted that Control Center was using 26GB of the 64GB of RAM on his new MacBook Pro, the screenshot looked very familiar.”
Nov 7
Apple's New Screen Repair Trap Could Change the Repair Industry Forever ifixit.com · “The new iPhone 13 completely disables its flagship Face ID functionality when you replace its screen.”
Nov 6
How to build your own CNC machine from scratch github.com · “This guide goes through all the steps to build your own CNC machine from scratch.”
Nov 3

October 2021 13 posts

Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets up to 60% GPU performance boost cnx-software.com · “Khronos has just granted Vulkan 1.1 conformance to Raspberry Pi 4 SBC, and following the implementation of various optimizations and new features such as geometry shaders, the v3dv Mesa driver delivers up to 60% higher GPU performance in Unreal Engine 4.”
Oct 30
Oculus Quest is Getting Rid of Facebook Account Requirement gamerant.com · “During the recent Facebook outage, certain Oculus devices were effectively rendered useless due to their inability to connect to the larger Facebook platform.”
Oct 29
New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 raspberrypi.com · “Priced at $15, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.”
Oct 28
New MacBook Pro has first 'DIY-friendly' battery replacement design since 2012 ifixit.com · “The wind carries a whisper of three words, a faint utterance that makes our hair stand on end: battery pull tabs.”
Oct 27
Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip blog.yiningkarlli.com · “Apple reached out to me last week immediately after the announcement of the new MacBook Pros, and as a result, for the past week I’ve had the opportunity to use a prerelease M1 Max-equipped 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro as my daily computer.”
Oct 25
Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot - Less Than 2 Seconds furkantokac.com · “In the end, we will have a RPI that boots from power-up to Linux shell in 1.75 seconds, power-up to Qt (QML) application in 2.82 seconds.”
Oct 23
Introducing M1 Pro and M1 Max: the most powerful chips Apple has ever built apple.com · “M1 Max is the largest chip Apple has ever built: 57 billion transistors and up to 64GB of fast unified memory.”
Oct 18
Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink bleepingcomputer.com · “As ink is not necessary to perform scans or faxes, the argument is that the printer features should continue to work even if there is no ink in the device.”
Oct 16
Wearable Microphone Jamming sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu · “We engineered a wearable microphone jammer that is capable of disabling microphones in its user’s surroundings, including hidden microphones.”
Oct 16
PinePhone Pro pine64.org · “Hardware privacy dip switches for the cameras, the microphone, WiFi & BT, headphone jack (enabling UART) and the LTE modem (including GPS) are accessible under the back cover, just as on the original PinePhone.”
Oct 15
The 100 MHz 6502 e-basteln.de · “Inside the FPGA, the CPU core runs at 100 MHz.”
Oct 13
MagInkCal: E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi github.com · “I’m getting around 3-4 weeks before needing to recharge the PiSugar2.”
Oct 3
Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings vksegfault.github.io · “Well, this might be a surprise for many, but so-called cores in GPUs world are more of a marketing term.”
Oct 2

September 2021 12 posts

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off naehrdine.blogspot.com · “This way, a processor that is always on actually saves energy.”
Sep 30
I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 operand.ca · “I never thought I could cause a system to reboot by copying over /lib files, but now I know you can.”
Sep 27
A different kind of keyboard ianthehenry.com · “Peggi is an eight-key keyboard that fits on the back of your phone.”
Sep 22
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used pluralistic.net · “I’ve bought a new Thinkpad almost every year since 2006.”
Sep 21
More Casio Watch Mods n-o-d-e.net · “One day I decided to see what the kapton tape I use for my 3D printer bed looks like when applied to the display, and to my surprise it turned out great, transforming the boring regular LCD into a nice amber color.”
Sep 21
There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives. Is this the best internet in Australia? ghuntley.com · “There are three mobile phone carriers in Australia.”
Sep 20
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 theguardian.com · “Many modern-day titans of the games industry got their start on one of his ZX models.”
Sep 16
Intel Is Reducing Server Chip Pricing in Attempt to Stem the AMD Tide: Report tomshardware.com · “However, it’s noteworthy that Intel hasn’t changed its official recommended pricing, so these deals are likely coming as part of volume purchases with its largest customers.”
Sep 14
Monitoring my home's air quality (CO2, PM2.5, Temp/Humidity) with AirGradient's DIY sensor jeffgeerling.com · “I had already been considering buying an AirThings Wave Plus sensor to monitor my home’s CO2 levels, but the high price and limited ‘ownership’ of the data coming from it turned me off.”
Sep 8
Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates xda-developers.com · “In addition, the Federal Government wants OEMs to publish the spare part prices and not increase them over time.”
Sep 6
Chia Coin Miners Are Reselling Used SSDs as New tomshardware.com · “According to a report from VNExpress, some miners are now dumping drives and reselling ‘renewed’ used SSDs as brand new.”
Sep 6
Incident: China Airlines A333 at Taipei on Jun 14th 2020, all primary computers, reversers and autobrakes failed on touchdown avherald.com · “The crew applied maximum manual braking and managed to stop the aircraft 10 meters/33 feet ahead of the runway end (runway length 2600 meters/8530 feet).”
Sep 5

August 2021 13 posts

The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D semianalysis.substack.com · “In the new joint venture, Arm Limited, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M.”
Aug 27
TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage asia.nikkei.com · “TAIPEI – Contract chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. told clients Wednesday that it plans to raise prices on products by as much as 20%, in what would be the company’s steepest single increase.”
Aug 26
Samsung Supports Retailers Affected By Looting With Innovative Television Block Function news.samsung.com · “TV Block is a security solution that detects if Samsung TV units have been unlawfully activated, and ensures that the television sets can only be used by the rightful owners with a valid proof of purchase.”
Aug 24
Tesla is actually going to make a ‘Tesla Bot’ humanoid robot for general purpose use electrek.co · “Tesla announced that it is actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks.”
Aug 20
Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40% bbc.com · “The world’s biggest carmaker had planned to make almost 900,000 cars next month, but has now reduced that to 540,000 vehicles.”
Aug 19
How to build your own AI art installation from scratch github.com · “This guide goes through all the steps to build your own AI art installation, using a button to change the AI artwork displayed on a screen.”
Aug 18
Introducing the PineNote pine64.org · “This month brings news that many of you have been waiting years for - we’re introducing the PineNote, a high-end e-ink device based on the powerful Quartz64 single board computer.”
Aug 15
Progress Report: August 2021 asahilinux.org · “The M1 represents a massive reverse engineering challenge, with lots of bespoke, completely undocumented hardware.”
Aug 14
Second IC :) sam.zeloof.xyz · “Now we know that it’s possible to make really good transistors with impure chemicals, no cleanroom, and homemade equipment.”
Aug 13
Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance engineering.fb.com · “The new service, built in-house and later open-sourced, was more scalable and improved the accuracy of timekeeping in the Facebook infrastructure from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds.”
Aug 11
Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? constructionphysics.substack.com · “At its best it seems to lay brick around 5 times faster than a human can, but it requires masons to follow behind it to clean the joints and occasionally level the bricks, and an on-site technician to handle technical issues.”
Aug 3
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription calpaterson.com · “The secret of printers is that you aren’t buying the printer but instead entering into a subscription for printer cartridges, which are often ruinous.”
Aug 2
Why printers add secret tracking dots bbc.com · “There is a long-running debate over whether it is ethical for printers to be attaching this information to documents without users knowing.”
Aug 1

July 2021 13 posts

Amazon's older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December theverge.com · “For older Kindles without Wi-Fi, this change could mean not connecting to the internet at all.”
Jul 29
The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews frame.work · “With the FTC unanimously voting to enforce the Right to Repair just yesterday, our timing couldn’t be better for delivering a great, high performance, easy to repair product.”
Jul 23
SpaceX's Starlink Review - Four months in jeffgeerling.com · “Here’s the bottom line: Most of the time, I couldn’t tell I was using Starlink.”
Jul 22
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair wired.com · “During an open commission meeting Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to enforce laws around the Right to Repair, thereby ensuring that US consumers will be able to repair their own electronic and automotive devices.”
Jul 21
Last Week on My Mac: The perils of M1 Ownership eclecticlight.co · “Last week, when trying to perform a macOS update on a second operating system on my M1 Mac mini, I only succeeded at the third attempt, after a total of five hours.”
Jul 18
Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors mattstoller.substack.com · “Now, most new equipment is under contract, and instead of being able to repair, we are required to contact a civilian technician and they have to come onboard to fix problems.”
Jul 15
Tesla's $16,000 Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters thedrive.com · “After taking his vehicle to a Tesla service center, he was handed an estimate for more than $16,000 to replace said pack.”
Jul 12
Automated Hydroponic System Build kylegabriel.com · “And to make matters worse, if you have a prolonged power outage, you may need to manually water or have a generator to keep the water pump going, else you may injure your crops.”
Jul 11
25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build (2021) michael.stapelberg.ch · “The PC consumes about 48W of power when idle (only management network connected) by default without further tuning.”
Jul 10
Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement bbc.com · “It allows repairs by its own authorised technicians only and does not generally provide spare parts or repair information.”
Jul 9
XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76 cnx-software.com · “Since it’s a university project, it’s unclear whether it will ever be used commercially, but considering the Chinese government is looking for alternatives to x86 and Arm, I would not be surprised if XiangShan ends up in a processor for the Chinese market.”
Jul 5
Realtek WiFi Firmware and a Fully 8051-based Keylogger Using RealWOW Technology 8051enthusiast.github.io · “The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running.”
Jul 5
British right to repair law comes into force today, but excludes smartphones and computers 9to5mac.com · “However, while you would expect “other electronic displays” to include iPhones, iPads, and most Macs, Which? states that these product categories are excluded.”
Jul 1

June 2021 8 posts

Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday travisdowns.github.io · “Only the date the benchmark was run varies.”
Jun 22
What Every Programmer Should Know About SSDs databasearchitects.blogspot.com · “A random read from an SSD, in contrast, takes about 100us – 100 times faster.”
Jun 20
The quiet rise of E Ink Tablets and Infinite Paper Note Takers - reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air hanselman.com · “This device is NOT an iPad and if your first thought is, “but I have an iPad” then this isn’t for you.”
Jun 15
How Fighter Jets Lock On (and How the Targets Know) gizmodo.com · “In track mode, the radar focuses its energy on a particular target.”
Jun 12
Victory! New York Senate Passes Landmark Right to Repair Bill ifixit.com · “At a virtual session, the Senate approved S4104 by a margin of 51 to 12.”
Jun 11
Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors farms.com · “On the other hand, this arrangement has proven wildly lucrative for manufacturers; for Deere, as an example, parts and repairs are up to six times more profitable than selling the equipment itself.”
Jun 7
AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/sec anandtech.com · “AMD claims that the total bandwidth of the L3 cache increases to beyond 2 TB/sec, which would technically be faster than the L1 cache on the die (but with higher latency).”
Jun 1
The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 jeffgeerling.com · “This is a very real benchmark that impacts my ability to get work done.”
Jun 1

May 2021 14 posts

MOTOROiD global.yamaha-motor.com · “It was a showstopping sight at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2017.”
May 29
M1RACLES: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State m1racles.com · “Basically, Apple decided to break the ARM spec by removing a mandatory feature, because they figured they’d never need to use that feature for macOS.”
May 26
Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 dolphin-emu.org · “Apple requires W^X (Write Xor Execute) conformance for native macOS M1 applications.”
May 24
One Man’s Fight for the Right to Repair Broken MacBooks columbianewsservice.com · “Apple contractually forces recycling partners to shred old devices, according to a 2017 Motherboard investigation, preventing the parts from being reused.”
May 23
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together blog.google · “Project Starline is currently available in just a few of our offices and it relies on custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment.”
May 18
The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company blog.thea.codes · “Winterbloom is a boutique, open-source synthesizer company and it has exactly one engineer - me.”
May 18
Observing my cellphone switch towers fabiensanglard.net · “eNBs have a much higher density than I thought.”
May 16
Send My: Arbitrary data transmission via Apple's Find My network positive.security · “Being inherent to the privacy and security-focused design of the Find My Offline Finding system, it seems unlikely that this misuse can be prevented completely”
May 12
I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened intego.com · “Apple touts their network of nearly a billion devices capable of spotting AirTags, and if there are that many, it should be easy to track this envelope across the country.”
May 11
The global chip shortage is starting to have major real-world consequences cnbc.com · “The severity of the global chip shortage has gone up a notch over the last few weeks and it’s now looking as though millions of people will be impacted.”
May 9
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip anandtech.com · “IBM’s press relations stated that a fingernail in this context is 150 square millimeters.”
May 6
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV rosenzweig.io · “We are passing about 75% of the OpenGL ES 2.0 tests in the drawElements Quality Program used to establish Khronos conformance.”
May 2
SSD Makers start warning that Mining Products Like Chia Coin Will Void Warranty guru3d.com · “A new trend in cryptocurrency mining is using SSDs for Chia Coins mining.”
May 1
Will Linux phones stay around this time? linmob.net · “Openmoko supposedly had 10,000 phones shipped in 2009, PINE64 have already shipped more than 3 times that amount.”
May 1

April 2021 13 posts

'It's your device, you should be able to repair it' bbc.com · “A record 53.6 million tonnes of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, with less than a fifth of it being recycled, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020.”
Apr 30
Computer scientists discover new vulnerability affecting computers globally sciencedaily.com · “Venkat’s team discovered that hackers can steal data when a processor fetches commands from the micro-op cache.”
Apr 30
What's Going On, Apple? - Part 2 intuitibits.com · “Unfortunately, packet capturing is now broken in the new M1 Mac.”
Apr 29
Farming Robot Kills 100,000 Weeds per Hour With Lasers freethink.com · “Carbon Robotics has unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers.”
Apr 26
Apple's M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model extremetech.com · “x86 OEMs almost never standardize a product family on a single CPU.”
Apr 23
Apple introduces AirTag apple.com · “AirTag is also designed with a set of proactive features that discourage unwanted tracking, an industry first.”
Apr 20
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III rosenzweig.io · “Progress has been rapid: at the end of its first week, it can compile both basic vertex and fragment shaders, sufficient to render 3D scenes.”
Apr 19
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit! madned.substack.com · “They held a little secret bonus award meeting, and we found that we each would be receiving a bonus total of $2000.”
Apr 17
Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet jeffgeerling.com · “Apparently it’s smaller than 60 miles.”
Apr 10
CPU algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU trainers techxplore.com · “Rice University computer scientists have demonstrated artificial intelligence (AI) software that runs on commodity processors and trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors.”
Apr 9
LG is getting out of the mobile phone business axios.com · “LG was once one of those, but hasn’t been for many years, and had no clear path to change that.”
Apr 5
My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission kn100.me · “A few days after installing the NAS, I discovered I could access the NAS using my public IP, even though I hadn’t port forwarded anything!”
Apr 3
This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem nns.ee · “It turns out the modem runs its own OS totally separate from the rest of the PinePhone OS.”
Apr 2

March 2021 7 posts

Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface twitter.com · “Hey @Ubiquiti, why are you pushing ads on the management interface for hardware I bought outright?”
Mar 29
I made an eInk newspaper gregraiz.com · “It’s silent, wireless and can run for months without being plugged in.”
Mar 28
The S in IOT is for Security puri.sm · “You also have to agree to the terms of service to install and use the application.”
Mar 22
Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode twitter.com · “Wow, we (+@h0t_max and @_Dmit) have found two undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs which completely control microarchitectural state (yes, they can modify microcode)”
Mar 20
Inventor of cassette tape Lou Ottens passed away netherlandsnewslive.com · “More than 100 billion cassettes have been sold since its launch in 1963.”
Mar 10
I want a Computer that I Own misc-stuff.terraaeon.com · “Instead, I have a computer that is designed largely to maximize the profits of the computer industry.”
Mar 9
Lotus 1-2-3 lock.cmpxchg8b.com · “I had to script a DOS emulator to scrape the data out a page at a time!”
Mar 2

February 2021 6 posts

Introducing the Framework Laptop frame.work · “The single best way to reduce the environmental impact of electronics is to make them last longer.”
Feb 25
Building an E-Ink Laptop alexsoto.dev · “And while e-ink has been around for 24 years, we have yet to see a laptop with an e-ink panel.”
Feb 24
How I heat my home by mining crypto currencies blog.haschek.at · “So at the time I was making about 3.8$ profit a day with the miner.”
Feb 23
Incident: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine, engine fire avherald.com · “The engine inlet fell into the neighbourhood of Broomfield,CO, located about 16nm west of Denver near 13th and Elmwood Street, the debris also struck through the roof of an adjacent house.”
Feb 20
GeForce Is Made for Gaming, CMP Is Made to Mine blogs.nvidia.com · “RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.”
Feb 18
Is an $800 purifier best to clean your home's air? Marketplace tested 5 top brands and their claims cbc.ca · “The Dysons we tested averaged a CADR of about 140 m3/hour, lower than most of the other air purifiers we tested, and well below the approximately 200 m3/hr Siegel recommends for cleaning small to medium-sized rooms.”
Feb 11

January 2021 13 posts

Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GiB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation tanelpoder.com · “Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU.”
Jan 29
I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 blog.jmdawson.co.uk · “I purchased the job lot of Pi’s for just £61 although there was a catch – they were listed as broken and I believe they are customer returns.”
Jan 23
New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects anandtech.com · “News in the last 24 hours, based on public statements, states that former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton, who lists being the lead architect of Intel’s Nehalem CPU core in his list of achievements, is coming out of retirement to re-join the company.”
Jan 21
The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org · “In the week before we upgraded our primary database server, its CPU usage (from /proc/stat) averaged over 90%: The new AMD EPYC CPUs sit at about 25%.”
Jan 21
Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon hacks.mozilla.org · “Secondly, Apple did not actually ship their Rosetta 2 emulator preinstalled on the Apple Silicon machines but its installation is triggered when the user tries to run an Intel application.”
Jan 20
Intel Problems stratechery.com · “The only way to fix this incentive problem is to spin off Intel’s manufacturing business.”
Jan 19
Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models to Feature Flat-Edged Design, MagSafe, No Touch Bar and More Ports macrumors.com · “Kuo says the MagSafe charging connector design will be restored, though it’s not quite clear what that means as Apple has transitioned to USB-C.”
Jan 15
WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source tedium.co · “Cisco was essentially compelled by the threat of legal action to release the Linux-based firmware under the GPL, but it was not thrilled to see that the device whose success finally gave it the foothold in the home that had long evaded the company being used in ways beyond what the box said.”
Jan 13
Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware's Pat Gelsinger to replace him cnbc.com · “Critics have pointed to the fact that Intel’s chief executive did not come from a technical background, having previously served as CFO.”
Jan 13
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I rosenzweig.io · “This poses a problem for those of us in the Asahi Linux project who wish to run Linux on our devices, as this custom Apple GPU has neither public documentation nor open source drivers.”
Jan 7
Memory access on the Apple M1 processor lemire.me · “It looks like a single core has about 28 levels of memory parallelism, and possibly more.”
Jan 6
ECC matters realworldtech.com · “Intel has been detrimental to the whole industry and to users because of their bad and misguided policies wrt ECC.”
Jan 3
Shooting High-Res Thermal Photos of Iceland to Show Nature at Work petapixel.com · “Since I wanted to image wide-angle landscapes in high resolution, and my thermal camera’s field of view was only about 24 degrees, I had to put together a DIY rig to panoramically scan the scene.”
Jan 2