Articles by rbanffy
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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (aresluna.org)

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Apple IIc: A smaller, sleeker Apple II from 1984 (dfarq.homeip.net)

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A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience (quantamagazine.org)

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US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons (arstechnica.com)

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Hitachi Ltd, Part I (abortretry.fail)

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PEP 830 – Add timestamps to exceptions and tracebacks – peps.python.org (python.org)

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PEP 831 – Frame Pointers Everywhere: Enabling System-Level Observability (python.org)

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AI-Designed Thermoelectric Generator Slashes Design Time (ieee.org)

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CuRast: CUDA-Based Software Rasterization for Billions of Triangles (arxiv.org)

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Ham Radio Brings Teletext Back to Life (ieee.org)

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Design.md: A format spec for describing a visual identity to coding agents (github.com/google-labs-code)

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The Atari 1200XL – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

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Why are the Mac mini and Mac Studio gradually becoming impossible to buy? (arstechnica.com)

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In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe (arstechnica.com)

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AI-Powered Tool Helps Computer Architects Boost Processor Performance (ncsu.edu)

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For Enterprises, GPUs Need Virtualization as Much as CPUs Ever Did (nextplatform.com)

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Lirantal/PyPI-security-best-practices (github.com/lirantal)

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Python Type Checker Comparison: Speed and Memory Usage – Pyrefly (pyrefly.org)

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Machine Learning Visualized – Machine Learning Visualized (ml-visualized.com)

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Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

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Apple Bandai Pippin: That time Apple made a game console (xda-developers.com)

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Life Beyond Biosignatures: A New Method in the Search for Life (universetoday.com)

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The Second Time Will Be the IPO Charm for Cerebras (nextplatform.com)

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The Ultimate Personal AI Supercomputer – Nvidia DGX Station (nvidia.com)

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GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready for Release with Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX and Algol 68 (phoronix.com)

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The Second Time Will Be the IPO Charm for Cerebras (nextplatform.com)

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Investors lost billions on Trump's memecoin. Another gala won't fix that (arstechnica.com)

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It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU-S New Age-Verification App (wired.com)

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Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time (arstechnica.com)

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Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)

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I saw MOVA's new 3D printer handle 36 colors without the waste (xda-developers.com)

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Hitachi Ltd, Part I – By Bradford Morgan White (abortretry.fail)

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Curing U.S. Health Care, Part I (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)

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The American Society of Cinematographers – Zero Day: Exploring An (theasc.com)

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After a saga of broken promises, a European rover has a ride to Mars (arstechnica.com)

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DARPA Launches HARQ to Build Multi-Qubit Quantum Systems (thequantuminsider.com)

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Age verification app ready as EU moves to curb children's social media access (reuters.com)

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Chinese groups call for global AI governance framework – Chinadaily.com.cn (chinadaily.com.cn)

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Why, After All These Years, MZI-Based Transistorlessness Might Be Here (write.as)

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Sam Altman Is Dangerously Disconnected from Reality (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

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Nature is our source of randomness: on the death of Michael O. Rabin (heise.de)

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance in 340 Linux Benchmarks Review (phoronix.com)

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For Enterprises, GPUs Need Virtualization as Much as CPUs Ever Did (nextplatform.com)

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Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time (arstechnica.com)

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How do you kill a Supercomputer? (twitter.com/lauriewired)

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Let Sleeping CPUs Lie – S0ix (freebsdfoundation.org)

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Offers new docking adapter for large space stations – SpaceNews (spacenews.com)

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Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle (arstechnica.com)

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A 129FPS Full HD Real-Time Accelerator for 3D Gaussian Splatting (arxiv.org)

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ALD W-Doped SnO2 TFTs for Indium-Free BEOL Electronics (arxiv.org)

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A Comparative Study of Power-Capping Nvidia H100 and H200 (arxiv.org)

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Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition and Decision Making in a Modern Age (hackaday.com)

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Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing (insideclimatenews.org)

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HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-Training on Ascend NPUs (arxiv.org)

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A scalable platform for nanometer-scale quantum confinement (arxiv.org)

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Sustaining Exascale Performance: Lessons from HPL and HPL-MxP on Aurora (arxiv.org)

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Caught Off Guard Again:How Democrats Keep Misjudging the Information Battlefield (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

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Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds (ecoportal.net)

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Tahoe TCP Overflow Bug (mjtsai.com)

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The Dollar's Special Status: Sources and Threats (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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The Polycorp Poly 1. New Zealand's school computer (classic-computers.org.nz)

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The Infinity Man – The Chip Letter (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Leveraging an Asteroid's Early Data for Faster Mars Transits (preprints.org)

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Macframe – IBM Mainframe Emulator for macOS (github.com/vitorallo)

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The Structure of the Puma Computer System [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

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Bulldog: A compiler for VLIW architectures [pdf] (yale.edu)

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Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512 (acm.org)

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State Dept. Directive Signals Shift from Counter-Disinfo to Cognitive Warfare (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

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AI and Tech brief: Ireland ascendant (washingtonpost.com)

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ESA Launches 7 New Missions to Supercharge Space Data Transfer (universetoday.com)

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Time Brings Order to the Universe (nautil.us)

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The Biological Basis of Imagination (nautil.us)

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Survival of the Wittiest (nautil.us)

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Iranian hackers are targeting US energy and water sectors, federal agencies warn (politico.com)

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The Ones: Actron AM1608 16-Bit CPU. – The CPU Shack Museum (cpushack.com)

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An Atari 8-Bit Computer Timeline – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

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Hitachi Ltd, Part I – By Bradford Morgan White (abortretry.fail)

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Contemplating Meta's Homegrown MTIA Compute Engine Roadmap (nextplatform.com)

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Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 – By Chester Lam (chipsandcheese.com)

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Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging (wired.com)

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Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices (arstechnica.com)

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Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors to PyTorch Foundation (linuxfoundation.org)

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Nuclear brinkmanship usually works. It's also dangerous (natesilver.net)

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Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging (wired.com)

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Why Ambiverts Make the Best Leaders (truity.com)

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In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants (techcrunch.com)

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Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon (arstechnica.com)

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Linux 7.1 Expected to Begin Removing I486 CPU Support (phoronix.com)

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Toshiba goes glassy-eyed with 11-platter 34TB SMR drive (blocksandfiles.com)

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The Forgotten Ones: Actron AM1608 16-Bit CPU. – The CPU Shack Museum (cpushack.com)

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Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac – anderegg.ca (anderegg.ca)

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Artemis II Tracker – Live Mission Control (cdnspace.ca)

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Hitachi Ltd, Part I – By Bradford Morgan White (abortretry.fail)

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Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office (theregister.com)

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Information and Technological Evolution – By Brian Potter (construction-physics.com)

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Artemis Real-Time Orbit Website (nasa.gov)

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History and mystery surround NASA's 2028 nuclear Mars mission – Science – AAAS (science.org)

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Arm Makes Chips – The Chip Letter (thechipletter.substack.com)

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The Future of Space Stations – Part II: Commercial Space (universetoday.com)