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News
Researchers identified an unpatchable Boot ROM vulnerability ('usbliter8') affecting Apple A12/A13 chips. Significant for security research, though requires physical access.
Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms
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Security breach at market intelligence firm Klue exposed customer data across multiple major cybersecurity vendors due to a compromised legacy credential.
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)
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Crucial update on Secure Boot certificate expiration. Explains the risk to Linux installs and the role of firmware/LVFS in mitigation.
Deno Desktop
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Deno announces 'deno desktop' for bundling web projects into native apps. An alternative to Electron/Tauri worth tracking.
firecrawl/firecrawl
aidatabackend
High-reliability web scraping and interaction API designed for LLM agents. Provides structured data output and crawler capabilities.
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
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Microsoft and Chevron to build a 2.67-gigawatt gas power plant for AI data centers, highlighting the tension between rapid AI infrastructure expansion and corporate sustainability goals.
Open-source AI lab Reflection AI secures a $6.3B compute deal with SpaceX, underscoring the high cost and strategic importance of AI infrastructure access.
Major data breach at Tata Electronics, a key supplier for Apple and Tesla. Potential exposure of manufacturing specs.
AWS Graviton5 Reaches General Availability with 192 Cores and Formally Verified VM Isolation
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Analysis of AWS Graviton5 instances, highlighting the move to 3nm, increased core/cache counts, and verified isolation.
Groq raises $650M following their Nvidia IP licensing deal. Discusses the business strategy shift toward cloud inference.
Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
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Chevron and Microsoft partner on 2.67GW gas-powered data center project. Notable for scale and energy source selection.
Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon
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Hardware supply chain impact: legacy RAM (DDR2/DDR3) prices surging as manufacturers pivot to HBM and modern DRAM.
Articles
Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
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Analysis of residential proxy SDKs embedded in smart TV apps, turning home devices into proxy nodes. High security risk for local networks.
Excellent die-level reverse engineering of the Intel 8087 math coprocessor's barrel shifter. Deep dive into historical hardware design.
lyogavin/airllm
aisystems
Enables inference of massive LLMs (up to 405B) on low-resource hardware by optimizing memory usage layer-wise.
Presentation: Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
backendsystemsinfrastructure
Case study on replacing Google Analytics with an in-house tracking service, focusing on architecture, cost, and reliability.