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SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time.
https://sander.saares.eu/2024/12/31/you-do-not-need-multithreading-to-do-more-than-one-thing-at-a-time/

You do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time
As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing …

Per-Row Activation Counting on Real Hardware: Demystifying Performance Overheads
Jumin Kim, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Hwayong Nam, Michael Jaemin Kim, Sukhan Lee, Kyomin Sohn, Jung Ho Ahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05556

Per-Row Activation Counting on Real Hardware: Demystifying Performance Overheads
Per-Row Activation Counting (PRAC), a DRAM read disturbance mitigation method, modifies key DRAM timing parameters, reportedly causing significant performance overheads in simulator-based studies. However, given known discrepancies between simulators and real hardware, real-machine experiments are vital for accurate PRAC performance estimation. We present the first real-machine performance analysis of PRAC. After verifying timing modifications on the latest CPUs using microbenchmarks, our analy…

@… I've found it harder and harder to focus on reading, post-grad school, so my dream future e-reader would be one that does synced audiobooks ebooks, like Storyteller: https://s…

Shield AI has emerged as a lead contender in the increasingly crowded race against competitors like Anduril and AeroVironment
to outfit the U.S. military with killer drones.
The $5 billion-valued startup, founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng,
sells a suite of hardware and products, including autonomous piloting software that has been used to fly fighter jets.
In March, it raised $240 million in a funding round led by Korean conglomerate Hanwha and Amer…

How A Grisly Injury Threw $5 Billion Drone Startup Shield AI Off Course
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.

At #GPN23, I spoke about #DRAM initialization, a core part of #firmware for hardware platforms. ✨👩‍💻
The recording is already available:

Now playing Lomax on PS1 — the underrated lemmings spinoff. fun platforming and hand-drawn style 🎮 About halfway through the adventure! Come hang out: #PS1

I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading

#ndwgoecountdown Merkur – Planet der Extreme
Der Merkur ist der sonnennächste Planet und ein Ort der Extreme. Die Strahlungsintensität der Sonne an der 470 Grad heißen Oberfläche ist zehnmal so hoch wie bei der Erde. Die Doppel-Raumsonde BepiColombo erforscht den Planeten aus der Nähe. 2026 wird die Sone in eine Umlaufbahn einschwenken und geteilt. Mit an Bord: Hardware aus Gö…

Honestly I’m really disappointed. Why releasing a new model if it’s worse than the previous one?
Fairphone 5 always seemed like a miracle, a phone that actually cared about being fair and that had good postmarketOS support while still having good modern specs compared to other companies phones out there. Fairphone 6 had me excited since the obvious assumption would be even better hardware, but then that’s what we got? Damn, is the dream of a fair phone with good specs over?
As it is today, I’d probably buy a Fairphone 5 over a Fairphone 6. But then once that became outdated, which will happen eventually, it seems that I’d just be orphaned without a phone to upgrade to…
I hope they revert this when they make the Fairphone 7.
Please tell me that the dream of a postmarketOS phone with great specs isn’t over…
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS

Wenn Wiener Jugendliche in Terrorpläne verstrickt sind, Straßenkämpfe austragen oder Überfälle begehen, fällt schnell sein Name:
Abubakar D. ist eng vernetzt.
Nun drohen ihm 15 Jahre Haft.
Der Staatsschutz stuft Abubakar intern als Risikogefährder ein. Wegen seiner Kontakte in die salafistische Szene.
Nach seiner ersten Haftentlassung im Sommer 2019 beginnt Abubakar offenbar als Security-Mitarbeiter zu arbeiten..
#Wien #Favoriten #TaylorSwift #Terroranschlag #Österreich