Agents Week: network performance update
When it comes to the Internet, performance is everything. Every millisecond shaved off a connection is a better experience for the real people using the applications...
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Introducing Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI
AI is writing more code than ever. AI-assisted contributions now account for a rapidly growing share of new code across the platform. Agentic coding tools like...
Read moreWhy Postgres wants NVMe on the hot path, and S3 everywhere else
People keep trying to collapse two very different storage jobs into one. S3 is durable, cheap, and effectively bottomless, so the temptation is obvious: why not...
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Russell Coker: Home Battery
Prices On the 19th of March I got a home battery system installed. The government has a rebate scheme so it had a list price of...
Read moreGlibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
Loongson’s LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library...
Read moreWith the right settings, Pragmata can hack it on the Steam Deck – more or less
Sci-fi dadblaster Pragmata is Capcom’s second smooth-running RE Engine game in two months, dishing out loads of ray-traced frames on muscular PCs while still running at...
Read moreBuild an entire 9800X3D PC with 128GB of RAM for $2,999 — Newegg bundle includes Asus B850 motherboard, 1TB of storage, and RTX 5070 Ti
Score a massive Newegg combo deal: save $1,933 on a high-end gaming PC bundle with Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 128GB DDR5, RTX 5070 Ti, and more –...
Read more‘A real concern for millions and probably hundreds of millions of European citizens’ – Stop Killing Games has its day in European Parliament and it seems to go very well
Stop Killing Games, the initiative dedicated to preventing game termination and subsequent inaccessibility, has made its case for getting new regulation in the European Parliament, and...
Read moreBryson DeChambeau Moving Forward and Backward With 3D Printed Clubs
In 2024, we wrote about golfer Bryson DeChambeau, who turned to 3D printing to make custom clubs for himself. Rather than find a big-name sponsor (he...
Read moreCoolfly Aura Review: More Angles, Fewer Advantages
Coolfly’s Aura is colorful, clever, and flexible, but its signature feature ends up being more hassle than help.
Read moreBrendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel
As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting on any given...
Read moreLinux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this...
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