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New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC

Nvidia invests $2B in Synopsys' common stock and announces a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/nvidia-takes-2-billion-stake-in-synopsys.htm…

"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM

Open Access: Bibliothek der Association for Computing Machinery öffnet sich
Ab Januar 2026 sollen alle Publikationen der ACM Digital Library öffentlich zugänglich sein. Das soll Wissen zugänglicher machen und Innovation fördern.

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

»Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon:
Der Cloud- und Cybersecurity-Anbieter Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen. Im Fokus steht die WebAssembly-basierte Function-as-a-Service-Technologie.«
Schon länger ist WebAssembly (@…) im Aufwind, nun aber auch umf…

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7h2osvsy22u

An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was "inappropriate", IBM's quantum bet, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/829868/ib

📽️ computing with projected light: the folk computer
#computing #ui

for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…

Anyone done any Linux kernel development? Kinda wanna get into it but not too sure where to start haha
#linux #kernel #computing

Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/horizon-qu

Computing power propagates this temptation of abuse: reducing fellow human beings, or even oneself, into what can be counted, weighed and measured.

This omnipresent, invisible threat is the whole reason tech must be governed and regulated to support sustainability and human dignity.

IEEE Spectrum writer Dina Genkina compiles this list of top computing stories from 2025. The list includes subjects ranging from the year's top programming languages, to data centers on the Moon.
"The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-computin

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
saved 2020-01-26 https://

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Brainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive

This time we look at why you may not be able to hand your household chores over to robots just yet, Delhi Police’s dystopian turn and Japan’s biggest port under ransomware attack.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/are-you-ready-for-the…

Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft
and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots.
-- Linus Torvalds

Und los geht's: Vintage Computing Festival Berlin aka @… JETZT mit Kurzvorträgen per remote. Setzt euch einfach mit 'nem Tee oder 'nem Bier vor den Monitor und wählt euch ein: https://www.vcfb.de/2025/

Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…

"There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.
The first, and perhaps most limited, is nostalgia. Nostalgia is the least inclusive interaction with a museum of historical artefacts because you cannot teach anyone nostalgia: they either were there and remember the thing on display, or they do not."

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.mtrl-sci. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.mtrl-sci/new
[1/1]:
- Ovonic switches enable energy-efficient dendrite-like computing
Kang, Lee, Oh, Song, Park, Kim, Park, Jang, Kim, Yi, Kumar, Lee

Dispersion-Aware Modeling Framework for Parallel Optical Computing
Ziqi Wei, Yuanjian Wan, Yuhu Cheng, Xiao Yu, Peng Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18897 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18897
arXiv:2511.18897v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optical computing represents a groundbreaking technology that leverages the unique properties of photons, with innate parallelism standing as its most compelling advantage. Parallel optical computing like cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) based offers powerful computational capabilities but also introduces new challenges, particularly concerning dispersion due to the introduction of new frequencies. In this work, we extend existing theories of cascaded MZI systems to develop a generalized model tailored for wavelength-multiplexed parallel optical computing. Our comprehensive model incorporates component dispersion characteristics into a wavelength-dependent transfer matrix framework and is experimentally validated. We propose a computationally efficient compensation strategy that reduces global dispersion error within a 40 nm range from 0.22 to 0.039 using edge-spectrum calibration. This work establishes a fundamental framework for dispersion-aware model and error correction in MZI-based parallel optical computing chips, advancing the reliability of multi-wavelength photonic processors.
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The fastverse is a suite of complementary high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. #rstats

Quoting the Resonant Computing Manifesto.
Five principles for the future of computing: 
private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, and prosocial.
(I've signed.)
https://resonantcomputing.org/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Even as much of the internet is inaccessible right now, Metacurity appears unaffected. So check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to rectify cuts in 2025,
--Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced,
--Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments,
--A cr…

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max…

This comment on the "resonant computing manifesto" really nails it.
The job of that manifesto was to capture the growing trend of "fuck this tech landscape" vibe und direct it in a way that the same people who profited of the last decades will continue to profit. Off of us.
https://

What I find so curious about some of the "AI" stans that are my age—it's basically anti-personal computing. Going back to timesharing on corporate-controlled mainframes.

Laut #Handelsblatt setzen 82 % der Unternehmen auf kostenpflichtige Cloud-Services – oft aus reiner Bequemlichkeit. Die Abhängigkeit wächst, die Datensouveränität schrumpft. Man kauft Komfort, bezahlt aber mit Kontrolle. Cloud-first klingt smart – bis die Rechnung wirklich kommt.
#CloudComputing

The UK government has announced plans to provide free AI training to all adults, aiming to upskill 10 million people by 2030 and boost confidence and adoption of AI across the workforce.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/govt-plan-ai-trai…

SETI@home veröffentlicht Ergebnisse von 21 Jahren Distributed Computing
21 Jahre lang analysierten private Rechner Daten aus dem Weltall nach Spuren von Außerirdischen. Die verheißungsvollsten Signale werden jetzt überprüft.

That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot

I can't spend 230 euros on a damn 8 TB hard drive. That's crazy. The AI race has driven up the prices of almost everything related to computing.
I need a new temporary strategy for my backups.

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-age…

Anybody remember when every major operating system besides Windows decided to concede defeat to the hard drive companies that had been lying about disk capacity for years by officially redefining 1 kilobyte == 1000 bytes, overturning terms of art well-established in computing for decades? (Except for RAM, because it would be too hard and confusing to explain to people why their new computer has 17.17987 GB of RAM.)

In our latest research into IT trends we asked a simple question: is AI a bubble? Given all the talk of impending doom, on the face of it the results seem quite positive for AI, but there are several red flags.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/is-…

ntoh*/hton* is a bad API, says purplesyringa
#computing

Seventeen years after the Large Hadron Collider switched on,
particle physicists are realizing that they can use the collider to explore how information flows through quantum systems
— a question at the foundations of quantum computing.
The two possible spins of the quarks correspond to the 0 and 1 states of a qubit,
a unit of quantum information.
“It is treating the process of colliding things together and forming new particles as a quantum processor,”
s…

"Personal computing must be [...] a social project of all of us building things, trying things, learning from one another."
(Original title: Personal computing)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-computing/

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Taiwanese attempts to charm the mercurial US administration, an Indian regulator’s ongoing attempts to juice Apple and Jensen on his travels.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/chip

Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…

»Souveränität in der Cloud:
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet für Unternehmen und Behörden Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.«
Kein neues Thema und mMn noch den wenigsten bewusst. Klar die Umstellung kann aufwändiger so wie teuerer sein und doch hatten sich die meisten aus Bequemlichkeit such nicht darum gekümmert.
☁️

The third path here -- beyond personal computers or renting them from the cloud -- is walkable mixed density co-op computing.
@paul-rony.bsky.social covers this in "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us", @causalislands.com Berlin.
https://www.

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/s…

"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering of top-spec chipmaking equipment and North Korea’s ill-gotten crypto hoard.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/japa

The birth of the Web — The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
🌐

“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Is “Resonant Computing” malleable software with a positive ideology applied?
I still haven’t found an umbrella term that captures Causal Islands, Ink & Switch, and similar vibes.
Shades of DWeb principles too.
I’ll keep hosting events that point us in this direction.
Mike Masnick https://

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115939583202357863
Computing in 2026 is running indeterministic software on indeterministic hardware

France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.
Under the plan, a domestically developed video meeting service known as Visio will become the standard tool for public servants, with full adoption expected next year.
https://www.

Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related redundancies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/amazon-to-lay-off-thousands-mor…

Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855412/nvidia-launches-ve…

The UK must act quickly to position itself as the world's leading hub for environmentally sustainable "Green AI", according to a new report from the country's AI industry body.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/uk-has-…

The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error in granting planning permission.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

Microsoft Q2 gaming revenue fell 9% YoY, including a 32% drop in Xbox hardware revenue and a 5% decline in Xbox content and services, which includes Game Pass (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869493/microsoft-q2-…

Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/0

Growing number of company bosses are questioning the business case for AI after a global survey found most have yet to see financial benefits from the technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/corporate-leaders-question-r…

The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything from smartphones and cars to household appliances.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s autonomous automotive menace, the latest in the Nvidia AI chip saga, and India’s $38 billion antitrust case against Apple.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/…

Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…

Nvidia invests an additional $2B in CoreWeave to help speed up adding 5GW of AI computing capacity by 2030 and deploy Nvidia's new Vera CPU; CRWV jumps 9% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/nvi…

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Tencent’s abusive bot, Chinese AI startups profiting from IPOs and Indian tech’s pessimistic outlook.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/chinese-chatbot-has-had-e…

Sources: ByteDance bought more Nvidia chips than any other Chinese company in 2025, but Chinese regulators now block it from using the chips in new data centers (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-slowly-surely-breaking-…

The #Matrix protocol is designed to facilitate collaboration and exchange while preserving national sovereignty. Computing Deutschland spoke with Dr Patrick Alberts, product manager and MD for Germany at #Element, the commercial arm of the Open Matrix project.

Nvidia says it is "delighted by Google's success" and it has "made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google", but "Nvidia is a generation ahead" (@nvidianewsroom)
https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055

A decisive Lords vote to ban under-16s from social media has exposed both a rare political consensus but also disagreement over whether prohibition or tougher and more targeted enforcement is the best way to protect children from the harms of social media.
https://www.…

Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they feel like VR shrunken to a far smaller form, the 70° FoV is small but enough for immersion, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/google

Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/london-mayor-ai-mass-destroyer-of-jobs

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new form of attack that hackers could leverage to steal sensitive information from Microsoft's Copilot chatbot with just a single click.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/single-click-attac…

Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new "hideaway" hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/computing/the-asu

Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.

A live blog of Nvidia's keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company is showcasing AI, robotics, simulation, gaming, and more (Katie Teague/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/computing/watch-t

OpenAI strikes a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy 750 MW of computing capacity from Cerebras over three years; sources: the deal is worth more than $10B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-fo…

The government has rolled back a key part of its plans to introduce a digital identity scheme by the end of this parliament.
People will no longer be required to sign up to the digital ID scheme in order to seek work in the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…

A look at claims from Google and others about quantum computing breakthroughs over the past few months that helped boost quantum computing stocks in 2025 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Plans for a massive new #Oracle datacentre in the US state of Michigan have been left in limbo after funding talks with its key financial partner broke down.
https://www.comput…

Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23…

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged over 1,900% in the past year as the potential of quantum computing captivates investors (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Report suggests datacentre firms embrace flexible connection agreements, allowing grid operators to temporarily curtail their loads during peak demand or emergencies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/datacentres-hoarding-power-capacity-ai-demand

A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ethnic groups and genders.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/police-facial-recognition-…

SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM and NAND Flash, is experiencing significant price increases, primarily attributed to the explosive demand from operators of AI, who are buying up these essential components in enormous quantities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2025/