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Nvidia at CES, Vera Rubin and AI-Native Storage Infrastructure, Alpamayo

Nvidia’s CES announcements didn’t have much for consumers, but affects them all the same.

The man who made India digital isn’t done yet

Nandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future. He started nearly 30 years ago, masterminding an ongoing experiment in technological state capacity that...

Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental “acer-wmi-battery” kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features....

DRM Splash Screen Updated To Simply Drawing A Colored Background, Displaying A BMP Image

Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for...

Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch

Has work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite...

This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard to Fix

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977...

Superstition

Intel is planning a custom Panther Lake CPU for handheld PCs

Intel announced yesterday that it’s developing an entire “handheld gaming platform” powered by its new Panther Lake chips, and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is...

Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since...

Lenovo is building an AI assistant that ‘can act on your behalf’

While most attention in the AI race is focused on model builders and cloud platforms, Lenovo sits closer to millions of users than most companies. As...

Linux’s Old Mount API Code On The Chopping Block For The 7.0 Kernel

The Linux kernel’s “new mount API” that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man...

A Developer’s Guide to Proxy Servers

Every time you open a website, your device talks directly to another server on the internet. Your IP address, location, and basic network details are visible...