Trump's Midterm Redistricting Master Plan Is Falling Short (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trumps-midterm-redistricting-master-plan-is-falling-short-868ce156
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p2#a260207p2
Equilibria: Fair Multi-Tenant CXL Memory Tiering At Scale
Kaiyang Zhao, Neha Gholkar, Hasan Maruf, Abhishek Dhanotia, Johannes Weiner, Gregory Price, Ning Sun, Bhavya Dwivedi, Stuart Clark, Dimitrios Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08800
arXiv:2602.08800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for hyperscaler workloads. Existing tiering solutions, including current Linux support, face fundamental limitations in production deployments. First, they lack multi-tenancy support, failing to handle stacked homogeneous or heterogeneous workloads. Second, limited control-plane flexibility leads to fairness violations and performance variability. Finally, insufficient observability prevents operators from diagnosing performance pathologies at scale.
We present Equilibria, an OS framework enabling fair, multi-tenant CXL tiering at datacenter scale. Equilibria provides per-container controls for memory fair-share allocation and fine-grained observability of tiered-memory usage and operations. It further enforces flexible, user-specified fairness policies through regulated promotion and demotion, and mitigates noisy-neighbor interference by suppressing thrashing.
Evaluated in a large hyperscaler fleet using production workloads and benchmarks, Equilibria helps workloads meet service level objectives (SLOs) while avoiding performance interference. It improves performance over the state-of-the-art Linux solution, TPP, by up to 52% for production workloads and 1.7x for benchmarks. All Equilibria patches have been released to the Linux community.
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Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was 'so irresponsible', shows court filing
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-executive-warned-facebook-messenger-encryption-plan-was-…
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@emd/116183119035053665
Managed to get a flight home tomorrow! Long day but I’m glad they didn’t risk flying on a broken plane.
Now to get some refunds for upgrades I wont get to use.
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
I'm going to try the following experiment. I'm clearing ~half a day every week to plug a gap in my knowledge. To learn something I've been meaning to learn about for ages. Could be in my field (like energy based models) could be outside (like electronics).
I'll keep a running todo list of things to learn, and just pick one on the day that I feel like reading up on.
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…
Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/1