AMD, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and OpenAI, a pioneer in generative artificial intelligence, have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing AI infrastructure at an unprecedented scale. This partnership positions both companies at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI landscape, combining AMD’s cutting-edge hardware capabilities with OpenAI’s groundbreaking research and AI […] The post AMD & OpenAI Partner to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs appea...| AIT365
A new system, made by splitting a laser beam into 12,000 tweezers and trapping 6,100 neutral atom qubits, hit new heights for coherence times.| Latest from Live Science
Your computer will still work, but it will be more vulnerable and less able to keep up with your day-to-day needs.| Best Buy Corporate News and Information
Fujitsu has announced an expanded strategic partnership with NVIDIA to develop comprehensive AI infrastructure that integrates advanced AI agents. This initiative is designed to strengthen enterprise competitiveness through AI while allowing organizations to maintain autonomy in how they leverage these technologies. The collaboration will focus on co-developing and delivering an AI agent platform tailored to […] The post Fujitsu Teams Up with NVIDIA for Full-Stack AI Infrastructure appeared...| AIT365
SuperX AI Unveils the XN9160-B300 AI Server, Built for High-Performance AI, ML, and HPC Workloads, Delivering Unmatched Speed and Efficiency.| AIT365
It’s been over three years since my last post on this blog and I have sometimes been asked, understandably, whether the project I announced in my previous post was actually happening. The ans…| Gowers's Weblog
According to 9TO5Mac's report, Apple is adding MCP (Model Context Protocol) support to its ecosystem to enable agentic AI capabilities. The implementation path closely aligns with our speculation in Weekly #077| Fatbobman's Blog
One year after the release of Swift 6.0, Swift 6 welcomes its second major version update. Beyond the much-anticipated Default Actor Isolation, Swift 6.2 brings numerous practical new features.| fatbobman.com
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.| Live Science
CompuShow is an image viewer software product, developed by a small company named Canyon State Systems and Software. It was maintained from around 1987 to 2001. It was for DOS, and later Windows. I…| Entropymine
Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum information technologies, today announced a key milestone in the Scalable Quantum Atomic Lattice computing tEstbed (SQALE) project—the successful demonstration of a 16x16 neutral atom array—the largest reported array of its kind in the UK. This achievement is a crucial step toward building scalable quantum processors capable of supporting fault-tolerant quantum computing.| Infleqtion
Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.| Futurism
Rabat – Nvidia will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to develop one of the largest computing infrastructures ever attempted, marking a major step in the race to power next-generation artificial intelligence models. The partnership aims to deliver up to 10 gigawatts of advanced computing capacity. The first phase is expected to begin […] The post Nvidia Commits up to $100 Billion in Partnership With OpenAI to Build Massive AI Infrastructure appeared first on Morocco World News.| Morocco World News
September 16th, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of when MOS Technology unveiled the MCS6501 microprocessor, MCS6502 microprocessor, and MCS6530 ROM-RAM-I/O-Timer chips at 24th Annual Western Electronic Show and Convention (WESCON) in San Francisco, CA. WDC would like to take a moment to celebrate this milestone and share a few of the many stories behind this technology dear to so many of us.| wdc65xx.com
Japanese scientists have identified a novel method of understanding the long-elusive W state of quantum entanglement.| The Debrief
Tomorrow marks the official release of iOS 26, and a large number of users are likely to upgrade immediately to experience the brand-new Liquid Glass design language. Compared to previous years, this year’s adaptation workload is significantly heavier—especially for apps with complex interactions, which may face many unexpected issues.| Fatbobman's Blog
Google has announced that starting September 2026, it will extend Play Store developer verification requirements to all Android app installation methods, fundamentally altering the platform's open distribution model. This policy requires all developers distributing apps outside Google Play to register with Google, provide government-issued identification, and pay fees. The policy will first be implemented in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, before expanding globally in 2027. This r...| Fatbobman's Blog
While Swift has offered strict concurrency checking for some time, many of Apple's official APIs have yet to be fully adapted, and this situation may persist for quite a while. As Swift 6 gradually gains adoption, this problem becomes increasingly prominent: developers want to benefit from the concurrency safety guarantees provided by the Swift compiler, while struggling with how to make their code meet compilation requirements. This article will demonstrate the clever use of MainActor.assume...| Fatbobman's Blog
In the blink of an eye, this newsletter has reached its 100th issue. Looking back to the first issue in October 2023, I wasn't sure I could keep this going for so long. Yet over these two years, through consistent creation, I've gained so much.| fatbobman.com
Le Dimanche 7 septembre 2025, j’ai donné une interview à Jean-Marie St Cyr dans Le Défi L’Hebdo sur la nécessité, dans une Île Maurice moderne, d’avoir une population, des plus jeunes aux plus âgés, ayant des connaissances et des competences en numérique, y compris l’Intelligence Artificielle, et aussi une compréhension poussée de l’information et des médias. En voici les grandes lignes.| Avinash Meetoo
How often are we so busy that we don’t take the time to reflect? We know it’s good to be busy but over Summer we’ve used the opportunity to also take some time to reflect and plan. We’re moving toward…| like technologies
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.| RogerBW's Blog
Homescreen Heroes: BigOven has quickly become my ultimate recipe manager and meal planner| TechRadar
Patton is 13 years old now. While he usually displays far more energy and vitality than other dogs his age, various health issues have inevitably emerged as he's gotten older. Recently, Patton was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, and the vet prescribed a targeted treatment plan. Just as I was feeling relieved that the treatment seemed to be working, last Monday afternoon, Patton suddenly couldn't stand, was drooling excessively, and showed clear signs of cardiac distress.| fatbobman.com
| A dwindling interest in Computing and STEM? GCSE Results Analysis| FE News
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
Preview.app shown in NeXTStep 1.0 courtesy of infinitemac.org In yesterday's post, I talked about the things I do and don't miss about MacOS, mainly focusing on the global menubar search as the main positive from my experience with Mac OS X. Looking over blog post ideas note …| R.L. Dane
What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS| rldane.space
Whereby I talk about programming language development and why, and where it might go...| Send More Paramedics
Whereby I talk about an under-appreciated technique in Clojure where function arities serve as a pseudo-protocol...| Send More Paramedics
I was fortunate to appear on the April 22, 2025 episode of the Apropos podcast...| Send More Paramedics
Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 is nu beschikbaar en markeert een grote stap voorwaarts in belangrijke functies zoals snapshots, hoge beschikbaarheid en| Stackscale
Measures of Central Tendency For symmetric normal-like distributions there is a clear winner for measuring central tendency: the sample mean. The mean has the highest precision/efficiency and is also representative of a typical observation from the population distribution. The mean is not robust, e.g., is too affected by extreme values, when the distribution is heavy-tailed or asymmetric. For general continuous distributions with arbitrarily heavy tails or skewness, the sample median is robus...| Statistical Thinking
Swift's concurrency model introduces numerous keywords, some of which are similar in naming and purpose, often causing confusion among developers. This article examines several keywords related to cross-isolation domain passing in Swift concurrency: Sendable, @unchecked Sendable, @Sendable, sending, and nonsending, helping you understand their respective roles and use cases.| Fatbobman's Blog
Swift 6.2’s Default Actor Isolation reduces boilerplate by inferring isolation for unmarked code, but brings new actor-boundary rules and macro challenges| fatbobman.com
Background In yesterday's article, I went over the GUI programs that I enjoyed using over the years and remembered fondly. While I was going to go over TUI programs today, I realized that there's a category of GUI that straddles the line between GUI and TUI that deserved its own …| R.L. Dane
I was going to post a much more serious blog post about anhedonia yesterday, but I didn't get to do so, as I was feeling... anhedonic! One thing I do when I'm struggling to feel... anything (because I've spent way too much time feeling way too much, but that's a …| R.L. Dane
Why I love vim| rldane.space
Background The goal here is strong internal validation after fitting a pre-specified regression model or one that was derived using backwards step-down variable selection such that the same variable selection procedure can be repeated afresh for each bootstrap repetition. So strong internal validation means estimating a variety of model performance measures in a way that does not reward them for overfitting and that penalizes for all aspects of model selection and derivation that utilized the...| Statistical Thinking
Compared to some open-source frameworks, Core Data and SwiftData, despite having Apple's official endorsement, often leave developers helpless when exceptions occur due to their "black box" nature, making it difficult to quickly locate problems and find effective solutions. This article documents an app startup timeout incident caused by Core Data model migration, shares the solution, and deeply analyzes the underlying causes.| Fatbobman's Blog
Last week I went to the theater to watch *F1*, Apple’s latest original movie—and the experience far exceeded my expectations. While the storyline was admittedly a bit thin, the sheer sense of immersion and racing excitement it delivered easily justified the ticket price. When Brad Pitt’s APXGP car thundered down Silverstone Circuit, the roar of the engine shaking the IMAX sound system transported me back to those days, over 20 years ago, when I’d sit glued to the TV cheering on the fi...| fatbobman.com
Note: When I say "Online" in this context, I literally mean "on a computer," vs. "on paper." This is the older, more classic meaning of the word, similar to "on-line documentation" (i.e., "on the computer," not "on the internet"). Background I know a lot of folks like solutions like …| R.L. Dane
Just now, I was doing what all great bloggers do when they run out of (easily) actionable blog post ideas: I got around to cruising my RSS feeds! To be fair, there are many wonderful bloggers that keep up with their RSS feeds and dutifully read and comment on all …| R.L. Dane
Greetings! If you are reading this, it means you were selected by TODD (the Temporal Observation Directorate Division) for a temporal excursion. Since you're a member of the Computing Sciences History Reading Room, you will no doubt want to brush up on how to procure computing resources in your assigned …| R.L. Dane
Welcome to the PADDING. This blost is a part of the interstitial spaces that make up my blog. It's here to support other blosts. Think of it as one of the glial cells supporting the superstructure of the twisted online brain that ishttps://rldane.space/. Of course, that doesn't …| R.L. Dane
About two and a half months ago, I bought a Wacom digitizer to do doodles with, but I found the process of sketching with a standalone digitizer a bit dissatisfying after using an iPad in years past. To be clear, the fact that the screen and digitizer are separate devices …| R.L. Dane
Background I've used android as my main mobile OS for about four and a half years, and used it previously for about a year and a half before then. In total, I've spent eight and two thirds years on iOS, and six and one third years on Android (so far …| R.L. Dane
Following the release of the new Liquid Glass style, Apple promptly introduced Icon Composer, a tool for creating icons that comply with the Liquid Glass standard. According to Apple's introduction, Icon Composer appears straightforward to use. It essentially requires users to place images in layers, and that's it. However, in practice, several details require careful attention. Megabits'll use his app as an example to briefly describe the issues I encountered during the process.| Fatbobman's Blog
After installing iOS 26 beta 3, users quickly noticed that the Liquid Glass effect is no longer as translucent as in the previous two beta releases. This change has sparked two opposing perspectives: some see it as a sign that Apple’s flagship design concept from WWDC 2025 is facing challenges, while others view it as evidence of Apple’s responsiveness to user experience data and its ability to iterate quickly. Either way, such a significant UI adjustment within a short time underscores t...| fatbobman.com
Kayla Block is a mixed media artist and creative technologist whose work lives at the intersection of memory, machine, and material. "This project explores a human-AI art collaboration in which the artist relinquished creative agency to ChatGPT, following its instructions to create a mixed-media piece. Rather than functioning as a passive assistant, the AI was prompted to issue direct, uncompromising commands. The resulting work revealed both the strengths and limitations of a language model ...| Interalia Magazine
This article explores the ethical, scientific, and philosophical implications of AI consciousness, analyzing whether artificial intelligence could ever develop self-awareness and what that would mean for society. It examines key theories of consciousness, governance challenges, and the potential redefinition of human identity in a world where intelligence is no longer exclusively biological. With AI advancing rapidly, policymakers must consider legal rights, autonomy, and ethical safeguards b...| Interalia Magazine
This article by Dr. Domenico Meschino was written in collaboration with Omni Intelligence AI, a next-generation cognitive model for scientific reflection and research. "In this piece, we present a groundbreaking model that challenges the traditional view of time as linear. Drawing from patterns observed in physics, biology, and cosmology — alongside recent advancements in nonlinear theories — the article argues that time operates as an inward spiral, not a straight arrow. This model align...| Interalia Magazine
Paula Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the School of English in Dublin City University, specializing in popular film, especially film and technology, and Irish literature and film, with an emphasis on new and marginal voices. “I have just published a book on representations of artificial intelligence in film, AI in the Movies, with Edinburgh University Press, and a number of related journal articles: - ‘"You Feel Real to Me, Samantha": The Matter of Technology in Spike Jonze's Her’. ...| Interalia Magazine
Lucy Gill-Simmen is the Vice-Dean for Education and Student Experience and a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has a passion for management education and seeks to provide the best and most equal education experience for all students. She holds both a MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Imperial College Business School, London. Her pedagogic research interests lie in the development of human skills amongst students,...| Interalia Magazine
Veena D. Dwivedi is Director – Centre for Neuroscience; Professor - Psychology | Neuroscience, Brock University "The goal of my research program is to understand how the human mind/brain effortlessly understands language. I propose a "heuristic first, algorithmic second" model of language processing. This model integrates the latest findings from neuroscience, psychology and linguistic theory." For more information about my research program, visit the Dwivedi Brain and Language Lab website:...| Interalia Magazine
Gordon A. Gow is Director, Media & Technology Studies, University of Alberta "I am a professor of media and communications at the University of Alberta, where I currently serve as Director of the Media & Technology Studies unit and hold a cross-appointment with the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Alberta in 2006, I was a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, where I directed the Graduate Programme in Media and Commu...| Interalia Magazine
Dr. Daniel Zhou Hao is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in AI and Robotics, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester. He is the founder of the Dynamics and Neural Intelligence (DANi) Lab and the Team Lead of the DriverLeics research-inspired education group in AI-powered robotics and autonomous systems. Dr. Hao is the Leicester's PI in the UK Space Agency (UKSA) funded PLATOR project. He is also the Robotics Lead for the ESA/NASA Mars Sample Return DWI Project (E...| Interalia Magazine
To support the scientific leaders of tomorrow at the Eddleman Quantum Institute where researchers can exchange ideas on quantum science. The post Eddleman Quantum Institute appeared first on Brilliant Future: The Campaign for UCI Secure giving.| Brilliant Future: The Campaign for UCI Secure giving
Text is heavily used in SwiftUI. Compared to its counterparts in UIKit/AppKit, Text requires no configuration and works out of the box, but this also means developers lose more control over it. In this article, I will demonstrate through a real-world case study how to accomplish seemingly impossible tasks with SwiftUI's approach - finding the first view among a given set where text is not truncated, and using it as the required size.| Fatbobman's Blog
Since mid-June, my city has also experienced unusually high temperatures. Although 30-31°C may not seem dramatic compared to other regions that routinely see 35-40+°C, for me, accustomed to temperatures in the 20s, this heat has become quite unbearable.| fatbobman.com
On Friday 27 June 2025, I had the honour of joining a panel discussion on “Bridging Mauritius Towards an Intelligent Island” during ELCA Mauritius’ Tech Days 2025.| Avinash Meetoo
At Stackscale, as specialists in private cloud infrastructure based on Proxmox VE, we’ve witnessed firsthand how Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts are changing the| Stackscale
A month-long journey with Claude Code reveals how AI reshapes coding, and why developers should stay actively involved to truly grow and avoid over-reliance.| fatbobman.com
An article by Rob Allen| akrabat.com
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sets and combinations. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
Most numbers that are representable as machine integers are not exactly representable as floating point numbers.| John D. Cook
Glitch is closing soon, so I've been working on my migration plan.| The lost outpost
De adoptie van generatieve kunstmatige intelligentie (GenAI) groeit in bedrijven met ongekende snelheid. Volgens recente gegevens gebruikt 75% van de| Stackscale
Discover Swift 6.2’s new concurrency-safe NotificationCenter.Message APIs to ensure type safety, eliminate runtime errors, and streamline notification handling.| fatbobman.com
Discover how SwiftUI's ZStack uses layoutPriority to compute size, allowing dynamic container resizing by toggling view importance—no ifs, no switches.| fatbobman.com
WWDC 2025 arrived right on schedule. Apple released all session videos at once, allowing developers to dive into the new features and APIs they care about without delay. After skimming through them over the past two days, my initial takeaway for this year’s conference is: as expected, yet unexpected.| Fatbobman's Blog
Ahead of WWDC 2025, the Swift official website has undergone a comprehensive redesign. The new design aims to enhance user-friendliness, highlight Swift’s technical strengths, and make it easier for beginners to get started. As a programming language deeply connected to the Apple ecosystem, the website naturally incorporates strong Apple-style visual elements.| fatbobman.com
Enable prebuilt SwiftSyntax in Swift 6.1.1+ to speed up macro builds by avoiding source compilation—works with Xcode and command-line builds| Fatbobman's Blog
Notepad.exe is a native macOS Swift editor for fast, lightweight coding. Run @main projects, use per-file Toolchains, and test SPM libraries effortlessly| fatbobman.com
Swift 5.9 adds the package access modifier to limit API visibility to within the same package, improving modularity and encapsulation without using public| Fatbobman's Blog
Master Swift’s Measurement API for safe unit conversion, precise formatting, and custom unit support—perfect for building internationalized, user-friendly iOS apps| fatbobman.com
Fix SwiftLint not working in Swift monorepos by setting config search paths in VSCode and specifying included directories in .swiftlint.yml| Fatbobman's Blog
Learn how to test Core Data in VSCode or Cursor by configuring the Xcode toolchain and manually converting xcdatamodeld to momd with xcrun momc.| fatbobman.com
On Tuesday 17 June 2025, I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our Blue Economy. This panel took place during the National Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Socio-Economic Development of Mauritius, organised by the University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM), in celebration of its 25th anniversary.| Avinash Meetoo
People should try to compare the quality of the kernel git logs with| tylercipriani.com
I wanted to try a new-to-me compressor, lz4, but it turned into a full ADHD-fueled file compression shoot-out: Dang, lz4 is crazy fast! Data/setup The corpus is a 2.29 GiB uncompressed tar file consisting of several years worth of GPS data in various plain-text formats. The computer is …| R.L. Dane
I was on a panel marking the 13th anniversary of the London Platform User Group, reflecting on the evolution of PaaS, the impact of Kubernetes, and future trends in digital sovereignty.| The lost outpost
The Information Age was a consequence of two developments: the ability to work with information programmatically and the democratization of that capability. We are now entering a similar period in …| Matthew Mandel
THE QUANTUM COMPUTERS ARE COMING…right? We got Samuel Jacques and John Schanck at short notice to answer that question plus a bunch of other about error correcting codes, logical qubits, T-gates, and more about Google’s new quantum computer Willow. Links: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ https://research.google/blog/making-quantum-error-correction-work/ https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/ https://www.nature...| Security Cryptography Whatever
When I was in High School, I fell madly in love with Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fascinating characters, the (at the time) amazing special effects, the stories, the optimism, but most of all, the technology. My eyes dazzled seeing huge touchscreens, digital tablets, and incredible spacefaring vessels every …| R.L. Dane
Background One minor foible of the fediverse instance I'm on is that searching (for accounts or hashtags) can be quite slow. As a workaround for now, I've saved a list of accounts I've followed for easy reference, but I also wanted some way of saving a list of hashtags to …| R.L. Dane
Partially for the sake of my daily doodles, which I've been posting to the Fediverse, and also because I've been learning the Persian alphabet, I recently purchased a small USB pen digitizer, the "One by Wacom," by Wacom (great branding 😄). For those of you not familiar with digitizers, think of …| R.L. Dane
I wanted to take some time out today to acknowledge some folks on the fediverse that are remarkably prolific, just for fun. Prolific blogger — Rubenerd Oh holy moly. This fella has words. Lots of words. Many very fine words. Just look at bro's output for 2024: ~ $ curl -s https://rubenerd …| R.L. Dane
Used laptops are wonderful... except when you need batteries| rldane.space
I updated my Framework 13 to Fedora 42 about two weeks ago, just before the final release. It has been pretty solid! This evening, I went to start up my VPN (I use NordVPN, FWIW). No luck. Just no …| The lost outpost
On Thursday 24 April 2025, I had the opportunity to speak at a workshop on disinformation held at the Media Trust and organised by the University of Mauritius with support from the French Embassy. The event brought together around 25 professional and student journalists. My presentation focused on Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) and how these tools can support journalists in their daily work.| Avinash Meetoo
Our paper on Rethinking Dynamic Networks and Heterogeneous Computing with Automatic Parallelization has been accepted by the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNET'25). Abstract: Hybrid parallelism techniques are crucial for the efficient training of large language models (LLMs). However, these techniques often introduce differentiated computational and communication tasks across nodes. Existing automatic parallel planning frameworks […]| Dirk Kutscher
When people talk about “AI” these days – which depending on how healthy and well-adjusted your social environment is can be very little or if you are on LinkedIn all the fucking time – the main focus is on what is called “generative AI”, sometimes shortened to “genAI”. Generative AI (in the way most people […]| Smashing Frames
This article highlights the differences between web developers and software developers. We'll explore their roles, responsibilities, skills, and the| Access Creative College
Why I love Markdown| rldane.space
Background This article considers the following setting. Suppose we have one continuous predictor and an outcome variable and we wish to estimate a smooth, usually nonlinear, relationship between and some property of such as the mean or the probability that exceeds some specified value. When there is no censoring on , one can estimate such a smooth relationship nonparametrically using a standard smoother such as loess or the R “super smoother” supsmu. Semiparametric ordinal regression, us...| Statistical Thinking
I’ve got a piece out this week in a new venue: FirstPrinciples.org, where I’ve written a profile of a startup called Vaire Computing. Vaire works on reversible computing, an idea that t…| 4 gravitons
