How the Intel 8087 FPU Knows Which Instructions to Execute
An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU...
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Otto Kekäläinen: Do AI models still keep getting better, or have they plateaued?
The AI hype is based on the assumption that the frontier AI labs are producing better and better foundational models at an accelerating pace. Is that...
Read moreNASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s...
Read moreArturia’s FX Collection 6 adds two new effects and a $99 intro version
Arturia launched a new version of its flagship effects suite, FX Collection, which includes two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910. FX Collection 6 also...
Read moreMiranda’s Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There’s Life Clinging On Around Uranus
If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has...
Read moreSony’s WH-CH720N headphones offer excellent value at full price, but right now they’re a steal.
Sony’s WH-CH720N headphones offer excellent value at full price, but right now they’re a steal.
Read moreJonathan Dowland: Lanzarote
I want to get back into the habit of blogging, but I’ve struggled. I’ve had several ideas of topics to try and write about, but I’ve...
Read moreRetrotechtacular: Bleeding-Edge Memory Devices of 1959
Although digital computers are – much like their human computer counterparts – about performing calculations, another crucial element is that of memory. After all, you need...
Read moreAppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0
The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements and fixes for Linux 7.0…
Read moreGeorgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law
Of course, it’s the guy who constantly complains about voter fraud who may have committed voter fraud. | Image: The Verge For all his bluster about...
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.0 on CRAN: Easier Calendar Switching
The eighteenth release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN today. There has been no calendar update in QuantLib 1.41 so it has been relatively quiet...
Read moreWhy Kubernetes 1.35 is a game-changer for stateful workload scaling
With Kubernetes 1.35, the In-Place Pod Resize feature has graduated to GA, and Vertical Pod Autoscaling InPlaceOrRecreate update mode has graduated to beta. This means VPA...
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