As we gather in bucolic celebration of Our Lord’s most gracious gifts I breathe in the dulcet air- redolent with the aroma of our prosperity: roasted turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie, and may we be reminded with each fragrant bite- of the blessings bestowed upon us- through His Divine Providence. I raise my […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Had the Whipswitch not stolen the source of Clan Calder’s fire, the thatched huts that dotted the river’s edge as it cut through the canyon below would have been alight with hearth-fires- however, this not being the case, the flat fields to the left and the right looked desolate in the twilight. Neither the feigned […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
She hadn’t meant to fall asleep in the attic. But here she was- still wrapped in the old quilt that had been their bedspread back when they were tiny and shared a double bed. Back before he made this attic room his lair and locked her out of every aspect of his world. The bright […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
She cataloged every scar with meticulous precision. The lies, the disappearances, the nights she cried herself to sleep. Names circled, dates underlined, each painful moment catalogued. She blamed them all- every lover, every betrayal. But one night, while rereading the passages alone, the truth smacked her harder than any fist ever had- she’d been the […]| Thru Violet's Lentz
Photo Courtesy of Dale Rogerson Detective Raymond almost tossed the crumpled coffee receipt, but the blue ink bleeding through from the backside stopped him. Flipping it over, he found a note scraw…| Thru Violet's Lentz
Interview: An interview with Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo started by discussing AIOps and its Enterprise Data Cloud’s control plane and finished with the concept of Pure as a dataset management company. It is developing a full stack of dataset management features and function layered on top of its storage arrays and their software. Part […]| Blocks and Files
Deduplicating backup target appliance supplier ExaGrid has passed 4,800 customers and says it’s the largest independent backup storage provider behind the big primary storage vendors, meaning Dell, HPE, NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, Huawei, and IBM. ExaGrid’s appliances are disk drive-based and ingest backup data into a so-called landing zone where it is kept in a raw […]| Blocks and Files
UK-based AI data storage firm PEAK:AIO has secured more than $6.8 million in seed funding to accelerate product development, expand its team, and forge partnerships for global growth. The software-defined all-flash storage company was founded in 2021. In March, it announced a 2RU DataServer, a pNFS NAS system based on a Dell server with Solidigm […]| Blocks and Files
Cloud storage supplier Wasabi has raised $32.5 million and set up AI data storage facilities with export to external GPU compute. Wasabi Technologies started out providing S3-compatible public cloud object storage as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service supplier (IaaS). Now it has file (NAS), video surveillance and video media storage offers. Basically, it resells disk drive space for […]| Blocks and Files
Data protector Acronis announced GA of True Image 2026 with built-in patch management for Windows and a strengthened security engine with AI-based threat detection, anti-ransomware, and malware scanning. Acronis claims it is the first consumer software to proactively safeguard against emerging cyberthreats and provide identity protection, fast backup, easy recovery, and advanced cyber protection in […]| Blocks and Files
BestBrokers has collated data from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and more, and provided a table of the biggest funding rounds in AI in September 2025: It also has a graphic showing what it believes to be the largest AI funding rounds in the whole of 2025 so far: … Databricks launched Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to help […]| Blocks and Files
Infinidat has refreshed its fourth-generation (G4) InfiniBox arrays with larger drives, more slots, faster internal networking, a smaller all-flash model, S3 protocol support, QLC flash, and a new capacity-upgrade scheme. The InfiniBox arrays are high-end and scale-up storage array products competing with Dell PowerMax, Hitachi Vantara VSP and IBM DS8000 systems. Their unique features include […]| Blocks and Files
L’ambasciatore del Sudafrica in Francia, Emmanuel Nkosinathi Mthethwa, 50 anni, è stato trovato morto oggi, martedì 30 settembre, davanti all’hotel Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile, nel XVII arrondissement. La polizia lo cercava da lunedì, dopo la denuncia di scomparsa della moglie, che aveva ricevuto un “messaggio preoccupante”. Mthethwa aveva prenotato una camera al 22esimo piano dell’albergo, […] The post Parigi, trovato morto ambasciatore del Sudafrica in Francia: ipotesi suicid...| L'INDIPENDENTE
Oggi in Pakistan, nella regione separatista del Belucistan è stato condotto un attentato suicida in seguito al quale sono state uccise almeno 10 persone e altre 33 sono rimaste ferite. L’attentato, riportano le autorità, è avvenuto all’esterno della sede di una forza paramilitare situata nella città di Quetta, una delle principali città della regione. Dopo […] The post Pakistan, attentato suicida nel Belucistan: 10 morti appeared first on L'INDIPENDENTE.| L'INDIPENDENTE
Il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump ha annunciato nuovi dazi. I primi colpiranno i film prodotti all’estero, che verranno colpiti da una tariffa del 100%. Il presidente aveva preannunciato tale misura mesi fa; nell’annuncio, Trump si è scagliato contro il governatore della California, il democratico Gavin Newsom, attribuendo a lui il calo dell’industria cinematografica […] The post Trump annuncia dazi del 100% su film prodotti all’estero e tariffe su mobili appeared first ...| L'INDIPENDENTE
RP2350-PICO2-BB48 is improved version of Raspberry PI PICO2 with the following features: USB-C connector DCDC +3.3V voltage regulator with 2A output Reset and Boot buttons 16MB Flash 8MB PSRAM micr…| olimex
Photo Courtesy of Crispina Kemp Every Thursday, the ladies from the Garden Club came to admire Maudie’s rhubarb. It stood taller than theirs, with stalks thick as wrists and leaves that curled like…| Thru Violet's Lentz
Ein Foto hochladen, einen Satz tippen, fertig – schon steht da eure hyperrealistische Action-Figur mit Verpackung und allem Drum und Dran. "Doll in a Box 2.0" erobert gerade TikTok und Instagram, und dahinter steckt Googles kostenlose KI "Nano Banana". Wir zeigen euch, wie ihr in wenigen Klicks zum digitalen Superhelden werdet.| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
GPU frenzy feeding components market too, Hynix preps HBM4, gets ZUF, MinIO preps pods, and OWC stages motion picture RAID| Blocks and Files
Althea Downs spends all summer break in her bedroom. Through the pivot roof window, the sun deep fries her no matter where she sits. She drinks berry-kale smoothies and listens to macabre podcasts that give her strange dreams about swimming pools full of blood. She showers at midnight and sweats through the entire night, wakes up cocooned in sheets so soaked you’d think the scale would finally plunge below 100. It does not. She thinks about killing herself, but only casually. This is her te...| X-R-A-Y
It tastes so god I can’t hav another bite I say — and the hole of evrybody jus shuts up like oh is she about to stop? Loud one second and then gasping like is this reel? I hear somone literallay go holy fuk is that the end of Mis Plasteek? They’re holding out ther phone recording as they say, Guys I can’t beleev I’m catching this on video, plees like and subscribe. Meenwile I see the Produser behind the curtain mouthing to me: okay nice, now milk it. Which is jus wat we rehursed....| X-R-A-Y
PHOTO PROMPT © Yvette Prior A homeless man had taken to lurking at the edge of the crowd whenever Eli set up in his usual busking spot. One slow Thursday- Eli approached the man. “You enjoying the …| Thru Violet's Lentz
You’re all so thin and beautiful. I only wanted to be like you. To want for nothing. To live in a gorgeous Tribeca loft. To wear Brunello Cucinelli and Loro Piana like it was nothing. To show up to morning drop-off at P.S. 234 with an expensive blowout and a full Alo set, en route to pilates. You lived the life I thought I deserved. One day. For now, I was supposed to be your yoga teacher. Your guide. I wanted my body to look like all of yours, but I was the reason yours looked the way th...| X-R-A-Y
Photo Courtesy of Crispina Kemp They walked the same street, but today every crack in the pavement felt unfamiliar. “Do you think I’ll like the new school?” Jamie asked. Pauly shrugged. “Sure.” But…| Thru Violet's Lentz
Trendforce says AI rollouts, manufacturing concerns, and rise of Chinese player mean supply mismatches and market uncertainty| Blocks and Files
There’s a line in Clueless from the character Dan Hedaya plays: “You divorce wives, not children” Well, every situation is different and I’ve not been as good a step as Mel Horowitz was. But I am still filled with good feeling and every best wish for those kids. It was great to see Tony last...| ArtLung
Josie uses her key to let herself and her sister Amy into Cora’s apartment. She walks in first, then turns to see Amy standing in the doorway, hand braced against the doorframe. Josie says, impatiently, “Come on.” Finally, Amy enters this apartment their mother lived in for three years, moving here after she injured her knee and at last accepted that it made no sense for an older woman to be living in a house with two sets of stairs. But Amy has never seen it, because she’s so stubb...| X-R-A-Y
On the Fourth of July the grandmother took Vase to the top of the warehouse where a rickety carriage of iron stairs led to the roof. The sky was as orange as a snake’s belly and smelled of powder and dust and oil. They sat without speaking watching the brilliant detonations which Vase had never seen before just as she had never seen the full horizon of sky over Los Angeles and when the grandmother felt tired Vase was sorry to have to leave the sight so soon. Vase had only been with the gr...| X-R-A-Y
From Illustrator in 1987, Mac-only until 1989, through Photoshop in 1990, Mac-only until 1992, to InDesign, Dreamweaver and the dreaded Flash.| The Eclectic Light Company
It’s another hot day, and the tide is rising. The son shoulders his father’s rifle and walks back toward the beach house thinking the reason he’s shot the hole in the tank is because his dad refused to buy him a half million follows. “Please like, comment, and subscribe.” He says, holding his phone at eye level and trying to steady his hand because he is still shaking with generational anger he will probably never understand. Water spills out onto the ground as the cat patiently w...| X-R-A-Y
The US is reversing its stance on export exemptions, which effectively cripples Samsung and SK hynix's DRAM and 3D NAND production in China.| Blocks and Files
Pure Storage knocked its revenue ball out of the quarterly results park, beating its guidance and upping its full year expectation. Revenues in its second fy2026 quarter, ended August 3, increased 13 percent year-on-year to $861 million with GAAP net income of $47 million, up 31 percent Y/Y. Product sales amounted to $446.3 million, up […]| Blocks and Files
The epoch of tiramisu in bed on a Saturday morning. Of sharing soap, of rituals, what it means to live a thousand lifetimes within a year, knowing your mother will never love me and pretending it won’t matter someday. The epoch of organizing socks. Of grocery lists, of intricacy. The epoch of lavender sheets, of you coming home to me, the way everything else feels so small. Of sleep talking, post-it notes in a lunch bag, back porch thunderstorms, letting in the rain. The epoch of choosing t...| Memoir Magazine
My mother used to save her used tea bags in a small glass cup. I don’t think that she ever used one twice. Having grown up during the Great Depression, the thought of throwing the bag away after only one use was probably disturbing to her—much too extravagant. I watched the saved tea bags dry, shrink, curl, turn brown, and stick to the bottom of the cup—a monument to good intentions. The full Tea Bags by David Margolin can be found at Memoir Magazine.| Memoir Magazine
NetApp eked out one percent growth in its first fy2026 quarter but it won the number one all-flash array market share position for calendar Q1 2025. Revenues in the quarter ended on July 25, 2025 were $1.56 billion, with a GAAP profit of $233 million, down 6 percent Y/Y. The revenue was above the mid-point […]| Blocks and Files
New Zealand startup Novodisq demonstrated ultra high-capacity SSD storage at the FMS 2025 summit, showing an 11.5 PB 2RU blade server.| Blocks and Files
SK hynix says it’s going to produce ultra-high-capacity, high-performance SSDs for AI servers by using its 321-layer 3D NAND in QLC format. SK hynix is beginning mass production of a 321-layer, QLC 2 Tb die, the world’s first implementation of more than 300 layers using QLC technology, with product shipping in the first half of […]| Blocks and Files
The soccer field was a miracle, an oval of fenced-in grass behind a middle school, where she could train her new small dog, play with it until it trusted her, understood their togetherness. She hop…| Okay Donkey
Distributed, NoSQL database supplier Aerospike introduced new expression indexes to speed up machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI workloads while reducing memory use and operational costs. It says most NoSQL databases scan every record for a query, even if most are irrelevant. Aerospike’s approach pushes conditional logic into the index itself, so only relevant […]| Blocks and Files
GNOME 3.32 will very soon be released, so I thought I'd go back on a few of the things that happened with some of our content applications.| /bɑs ˈtjɛ̃ no ˈse ʁɑ/ (hadess) | News
Authors : Joanne Harris, Archita Mittra, Kat Day and A. L. Munson Narrators : Joanne Harris, Tatiana Grey, Kat Day and Samantha Loney Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “The Talented Beetle” was first published on the social media platform Bluesky, on 13th April 2025 “My Heart in a Snow Globe” is […]| PseudoPod
Authors : David Marino, Lindz McLeod, Laura Blackwell and Cyrus Amelia Fisher Narrators : Ben Phillips, Kat Day, Eve Upton and The Word Whore Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Shallow Fangs” is a PseudoPod Original “Glean” previously appeared in a Bag of Bones micro horror anthology “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Lyndsey Croal, Hannah Greer and S.L. Harris Narrators : Lindz McLeod, Kitty Sarkozy and Elie Hirschman Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh is a PseudoPod original. “Every Part of You”: CW terminal illness, body horror, insects “Every Part of […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Kat Day, Sam Lesek, Marjorie Bowen and Harriet Beecher Stowe Narrators : Kat Day, Kara Grace, Lisa Blackwell-Dickinson and Dave Liloia Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly is a PseudoPod original. “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original […]| PseudoPod
Authors : Orrin Grey , Jacob Steven Mohr and Joule K. Zelman Narrators : Robert C. Eccles, Halloween Bloodfrost and Leanna Renee Hieber Host : Alasdair Stuart Audio Producer : Chelsea Davis “Masks” originally appeared in Forbidden Futures and was reprinted in the 2022 collection How to See Ghosts & Other Figments “The Machete at the […]| PseudoPod
VAST Data is integrating Nvidia’s AI-Q AI agent building and connecting blueprints into its storage to help its customers enter the AI agent-building rat race. AI-Q is a blueprint or reference design plan for integrating Nvidia GPUs, partner storage platforms, and software and Agent Intelligence Toolkit when developing AI agents. It includes Nvidia’s Llama Nemotron […]| Blocks and Files
Flash laid the conceptual groundwork for much of what we now do with native web technologies.| Los Angeles WordPress & web developer - Webinista, Inc.
The wild gyrations in tariffs on computer goods, including storage, make it impossible for businesses that rely on them to calculate costs.| Blocks and Files
This topic of population by latitude has always interested me, and it's something I've written about here before. But I'm also very interested in population by altitude, so that's what this short post is about - population by altitude across Great Britain. This is one of a few pieces I've had sitting on my computer, unfinished, for a while so I'm posting what I have now because I think people might find it interesting.| Stats, Maps n Pix
SK hynix has started mass producing its 321-layer 3D NAND, winning the flash layer count race, which Western Digital has claimed to be over.| Blocks and Files
The new Camp Snap 1.03B camera tweaks the older model and remains arguably the best bang for bucks lo-fi digital you can buy.| Canny Cameras
NIGEL SIMON’S MEMORY LANE Shooting Script: “Accidental Tourist”/Asturia (Episode 1) GVS: THE FARMHOUSE, SHOTS OF NIGEL EXITING VAN, WALKING UP DRIVEWAY, GREETING OWNERS IN YARD, VIEWS FROM TERRACE NIGEL (VO) It’s been twenty years since I stumbled upon this beautiful spot in the Asturian countryside. Indeed, ‘stumbled upon’ is the right phrase; it was a […]| Nefny Writes
VAST Data has named its first ever chief financial officer in what could be a sign that it is edging closer to an IPO. Putting aside the fact it seems strange that VAST has never had a CFO before, despite already raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, it has now selected and hired […]| Blocks and Files
Data protector Acronis says its flagship Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office product is reverting to its original name – Acronis True Image – with a new version release. It has enhanced performance and cyber security – real-time protection, illicit crypto mining protection, vulnerability assessments, and antivirus scans. Acronis True Image is specifically designed for home users. […]| Blocks and Files
"'It is particularly requested that no flowers be sent.' This is the newspaper notice written by the doctor’s only surviving son..." -- Katherine Rawson| Hippocampus Magazine - Creative Nonfiction Published Monthly
SPONSORED FEATURE: Pure Storage’s Evergreen subscription services, aimed at making on-premises storage service consumption as much like the public cloud as feasible has been proven across eight hardware generations and over 30,000 controller upgrades for customers. There is a fair amount of flattering me-too imitation occurring in the storage industry but the Evergreen services portfolio […]| Blocks and Files
From Here to Eternity by Diane Gottlieb So, I’m going to live forever. Living forever was never my plan but it must be God’s because I’m 98 and while I’ve lost a few teeth and my bladder control (keep that…| FlashBack Fiction
The Wife of Michael Cleary by Marie Gethins Are you a witch, or are you a fairy / Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary? We watched and waited and brought rough woollens to her for mending. Other days…| FlashBack Fiction
The Myth of an Unknown Girl by Heain Joung It was summer. We were going to go on a day trip to the sea. “There is no need to bring food,” my father said. “We will pick up seashells when…| FlashBack Fiction
I Am Held in the Hands of God Who Is Named Walter Potter; or, from the Case of ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin’ by Elou Carroll I am born again with eyes of glass. The hand of God…| FlashBack Fiction
by Sebnem Sanders Ivy fascinated Ivan. English, with prominent white or yellow-green veins. Boston, with a reddish bronze colour in the spring, and bright, deep green during summer, turning to shad…| Spelk
by Chris Milam You can learn a lot about a man by what he spreads across his wholegrain English muffin. If he uses butter, he is delusional and uninformed. The good trumps the bad in the mind of a …| Spelk
by Janice Leagra Maybe you knew it when I was three and still wearing diapers and you were convinced that I was either doing it out of spite or because I loved walking around in my own piss. Or may…| Spelk
by Rich Giptar It was sunny enough to burn so we took the bus/Renault/Land Rover down to Skegness/Bournemouth/Sandbanks beach. I loved the beach though I’d never learned how to swim/how to snorkel/…| Spelk
by Alexa Hailey He thundered into town on the heels of a storm. That night the rain fell heavy, pounding the pavement outside the bar. The wind screamed a warning, but inside the yellow light was w…| Spelk
“A little warm for a fire, don’t you think?” “It’s for inspiration, not warmth.” “Well, it’ll burn better if you stop poking it.” “I’m tickling it. To amuse it. You know, Shakespeare? Oh, to amuse …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
Harold had expected the last dragon would be … larger. “Disappointing, I know.” The dragon, barely three feet long, spoken in a voice like a bamboo flute—high, thin and melancholy. “Hardly a …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“So, how does this work, exactly?” “First step is intake. That’s what we’re doing now. We’ll determine your goals and map out a strategy for how to achieve them. You’ll train in our bubble—the enti…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“Do you see anything you like?” “Yes. Could you tell me about the Donzheur?” “Ah. It’s pronounced Danger, just like it’s spelled. But I’d love to recommend something else. Do you know what you’ll b…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
“Did you know, Mr. Peterson, that a human being can drown in just two inches of water?” Stephen Peterson did not know that. Nor did he care. He did recognize the false charm of the obsequious fuck …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
A gray bus under a gray sky makes its way along a lonely rode to who knows where. The passengers, in identical gray uniforms, don’t speak to each other, even those sharing a bench seat. Perhaps the…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
Jacob tugged his older brother’s hand. “Can we go in? I don’t like it.” “It’s a nice night,” Carter said. “Get a bug bite?” “C’mon, we can watch something.” “Cable’s still out. Less you want to wat…| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
by Howie Good I like naps. As it wasn’t too late, I wanted to enjoy a nap under a tree. I started for the door, but a short stocky man with an uncanny resemblance to Stalin, the dictator who put th…| Spelk
by Katy Ward Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Sue had heard this for the first time at a networking conference in Peterborough from her “career cheerleader” Sandy — a woman in her …| Spelk
by Jacqueline Harrett Five o’clock. I’m awake. It’s still dark. I lie listening to Derek’s soft breathing. How can he sleep? I haven’t been able to sleep for days. Exhaustion is slowing me down. I’…| Spelk
by Wilson Koewing In the sky above Rouses Market, anvil-shaped thunderclouds matured. Jane Sprinkle — red hair draped over the hood of a yellow rain jacket — admired the looming storm and went insi…| Spelk
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