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Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, with a deal likely valuing SambaNova below its $5B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/intel-in-talks-to-acquire-ai…

A transmission hologram for slitless spectrophotometry on a convergent telescope beam. Optimisation and characterization
Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne, Marc Moniez, Jeremy Neveu, Aurelien Blot, Pierre Antilogus, Claire Juramy, Leurent Le Guillou, Philippe Repain, Eduardo Sepulveda, Christophe Michel, Francois Colas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.255…

A transmission hologram for slitless spectrophotometry on a convergent telescope beam. Optimisation and characterization
This article details the optimisation and the characterisation of the hologram described in a companion paper published in 2021, which showed the superiority of a holographic optical element over a periodic grating as a disperser installed in the path of a converging beam on an on-axis detector (unbent spectrograph) for slitless spectroscopy. In this article, we describe in detail the development and optimisation of the final optical holographic element installed on the spectrograph of the auxi…

from my link log —
Arcan as operating system design.
https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-design/
saved 2025-12-28

Arcan as Operating System Design
Time to continue to explain what Arcan actually “is” on a higher level. Previous articles have invited the comparison to Xorg ( part1, part2 ). Another possibility would have been Plan9…

Det här var ord och inga visor av Banverkets fd generaldirektör Bo Bylund och Miguel Guirao, projektchef Svealandsbanan. https://www.dn.se/debatt/svensk-jarnvag-ar-en-katastrof-och-vi-star-och-tittar-pa/

”Trafikverket misslyckas – svensk järnväg i kris”
DN Debatt. Experter kräver åtgärder för att stoppa järnvägens förfall och förbättra svensk infrastruktur.

Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. 
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…

Republican Rep. Caught With Sex Workers Ahead of Trip to Afghanistan
Cory Mills can’t have one day without a scandal, apparently.

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

I Paris satsar kommunen på subventionerade hyresrätter. Resultatet är en mer blandad innerstad, där människor från olika samhällsklasser och bakgrunder möts. Men det finns också kritik. https://www.dn.se/varlden/bor-granne-med-louvren-far-hyran-sponsrad-av-kommune…

De bor granne med Louvren – får hyran sponsrad av kommunen
De bor granne med Louvren i Paris – får hyran sponsrad av kommunen

from my link log —
Always-on processor magic: how “Find My” works while iPhone is powered off.
https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html
saved 2021-09-30

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

(2021) MOT: Loppuun pelatut ravihevoset #dokumentti #eläinoikeudet

Loppuun pelatut ravihevoset | MOT
Hevosten terveysongelmien esiin nostaminen voi johtaa jopa tappouhkaukseen. MOT tutkii suomalaista ravimaailmaa, jossa liikkuu huippunopeuteen trimmattujen eläinten lisäksi vuosittain yli 200 miljoonaa vedonlyöjien rahaa.

Amazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure | Amazon Web Services
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined. This tactical adaptation enables the same […]

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.

Global lead exposure still costs trillions and endangers children, study finds #environment

Global lead exposure still costs trillions and endangers children, study finds
Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline in road vehicles in 2021. But has global lead pollution truly been resolved?

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
#robots

Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

from my link log —
Rust programs written entirely in Rust, without libc.
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/rust-programs-entirely-in-rust/
saved 2021-09-08

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 2021 führte #Indien vor der Küste von Odisha in Balasore erfolgreich den zweiten Test seiner Agni-P durch, einer ballistischen #Mittelstreckenrakete mit nuklearer Fähigkeit.

Covert Quantum Learning: Privately and Verifiably Learning from Quantum Data
Abhishek Anand, Matthias C. Caro, Ari Karchmer, Saachi Mutreja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07193 http…

Covert Quantum Learning: Privately and Verifiably Learning from Quantum Data
Quantum learning from remotely accessed quantum compute and data must address two key challenges: verifying the correctness of data and ensuring the privacy of the learner's data-collection strategies and resulting conclusions. The covert (verifiable) learning model of Canetti and Karchmer (TCC 2021) provides a framework for endowing classical learning algorithms with such guarantees. In this work, we propose models of covert verifiable learning in quantum learning theory and realize them witho…

from my link log —
The sixtyforgan: a Commodore 64 with a spring reverb; chiptunes like a church organ.
http://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/
saved 2021-03-30 htt…

from my link log —
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/
saved 2021-03-18

from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09

from my link log —
Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
https://wallisc.github.io/rendering/2021/04/18/Fullscreen-Pass.html
saved 2025-09-29