Last October Slashdot reported on René Rebe’s discovery of a random illegal instruction speculation bug on AMD Ryzen 7000-series and Epyc Zen 4 CPUs — which Rebe discussed on his YouTube channel. But this week’s YouTube episode had a different ending, reports Tom’s Hardware… Two days ago, tech streamer and host of Code Therapy René… Read More »
In 2015 Amazon purchased chip designer Annapurna Labs, remembers IEEE Spectrum, “and proceeded to design CPUs, AI accelerators, servers, and data centers as a vertically-integrated operation.” The article argues that while AMD, Nvidia, and other big-name processor companies may also want to control the full stack (purchasing server, software, and interconnect companies) — Amazon Web… Read More »
“It is with great relief that I welcome you home!” SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell posted on X. “This mission was even more extraordinary than I anticipated.” “SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home,” reports CNN, “capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s first commercial spacewalk — by splashing down in the… Read More »
An anonymous reader shared this report from DecClass: A report from developer-focused analyst Redmonk finds “there does not seem to be a clear link between moving from an open source to proprietary license and increasing the company’s value.” Senior analyst Rachel Stevens studied the question of whether the companies that changed from open source to… Read More »
In 1980 a 23-year-old woman was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant in a small county in central Kansas. 44 years later, the county sheriff made a Facebook post… Over the years, dozens of law enforcement officers looked at the case to no avail. In mid-2022 I was approached by Detective Sgt. Adam Hales… Read More »
It was one year ago that “an odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the globe,” reports the Washington Post. “A day passed, and the slow tremor still reverberated. When it continued for a third day, scientists worldwide began assembling…” Some initially thought the seismic instruments recording the signal were broken, but that was… Read More »
“For 75 years Cosm built planetariums,” reports a Texas news station, “and then a few years ago realized this technology could take you from the night sky to anywhere under the sun.” So now Los Angeles and Dallas have massive 9,600-square-foot, 8K-resolution screens that one reviewer for SFGate calls “an absolute game-changer” for sports fans.… Read More »
“New malicious software packages tied to the North Korean Lazarus Group were observed posing as a Python coding skills test for developers seeking a new job at Capital One, but were tracked to GitHub projects with embedded malware,” reports SC magazine: Researchers at ReversingLabs explained in a September 10 blog post that the scheme was… Read More »
Google’s describes their new Gemini-powered foldable phone as “an epic display of Google AI” (also calling it “unfoldgettable”). The Android Authority blog says the phone is “impressive,” “incredibly thin” — and, at $1,800, expensive. But long-time Slashdot reader mprindle notes some complaints from the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything (“known for in-depth testing of phones and other… Read More »
Police in Italy “smashed” a videogame trafficking ring, reports the BBC. They seized fake vintage Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles that didn’t meet strict safety standards, as well as counterfeit games — including Mario Bros., Street Fighter and Star Wars — that together were worth almost €50m ($55.5m) Around 12,000 consoles holding over 47 million… Read More »