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With the emergence of more processors with 64 cores or more, I'm thinking more about whether it makes sense to implement a hypercube virtualised on a single chip with a single vector of memory, or as a literal hypercube of 64 (say) RP2350s. I understand the problems of transferring data across a hypercube, but I don't have a good feeling of how the bus contention on a multicore processor scales. What should I read?

Implementing post scarcity hardware
Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/waymo-to-issue…

Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses | TechCrunch
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.

Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present
The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
https://www.ocrampal.com/the-zoetrope-of-logic-why-programs-live-in-frozen-time/

The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present The Illusion of Time in Software When you watch a video game character run across a screen, witness a real-time stock ticker update, or see a physics simulation unfold, you're experiencing what appears to be continuous, flowing time.

💸 Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
#software

Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

Attention detectives: If the AI software you're using specifically tells you not to use it in court filings, then don't bloody use it in court filings. #WrongfulConvictions

Cleveland detective ‘misled’ judge about use of AI in murder investigation, ruling says
Judge Richard McMonagle reaffirmed a prior ruling tossing out evidence for a case in which a suspect was identified via artificial intelligence.

The text file that runs the internet
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders

Flowing architecture by Frank Gehry #RIP #architecture

Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-sued-by-autodesk-over-ai-powered-movie…

🎋 So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
#software #linux

So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
Cet article est aussi disponible en français. This article contains quite a few technical terms, which I will explain these in the following paragraphs, those that are already familiar with these terms may skip to the next section. A basic understanding of linux and it’s desktop environments is assumed. Server side decorations (SSD) is the term for when when the application’s titlebar is drawn by the system and client side decorations (CSD) is the term for when the applications draws it’…

Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…

Salesforce Tableau Chief to Leave Following Slack Executive Exit
The chief of Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.