Jemalloc 5.4.0
This release contains over 160 commits, focusing on the technical debtscleaning including refactorings, bug fixes, test coverage improvement, andoption cleanups. The release also includes portability improvements perupstream issues report. New features: Add EXTENT_ALLOC_FLAG_PINNED so custom extent-allocation hooks canmark non-reclaimable mappings, such as HugeTLB pages, for preferentialreuse outside the decay and purge pipeline. Add the mallctl […]
The scourge of x86 emulation
Welcome to the first feature article on our site. We’re going to cover an ongoing problem with x86 emulation that affects every application that we emulate. This comes down to a single over-arching term that has wide-reaching ramifications; Emulating the x86 Total Store Ordering memory model (x86-TSO). The problems with emulating this memory model on […]
Waymo in Singapore
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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Ἦσαν οἱ Πελασγοὶ βάρβαρον γλῶσσαν ἱέντες.Êsan hoi Pelasgoì bárbaron glôssan híentes.‘The Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek.’ ~ Herodotus (Histories 1.57) There are about 1,000 words in Ancient Greek that can’t be traced back to any Indo-European language or any other known language in the region. These lexical enigmas even include some words […]
Hacking OpenAI
Intro On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts. With these accounts, we could then access internal OpenAI repositories, and potentially many other connectors. To prove we had in fact gained the access we believed without allowing ourselves to learn any sensitive information, we used the employee’s […]
Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)
We were a little impatient. Qwen 3.8 27B was released on August 14, 2026. Four days later, on August 18, we published our first set of GGUFs. We called them ShapeLearn-Lite for a reason: they were produced using a much smaller optimization budget, fewer checks, and much less waiting. Now the full ShapeLearn models are […]
Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
The opposite is actually the case. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working. This summer, Australia realized this the hard way. Let me take this opportunity to give an example of why time matters to a modern society, what […]
Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe
A memory-safe systems language that is faster than C++ and Rust, on less memory, with no allocator/GC and no lifetime annotations. Tutorial · Specification · Samples · Benchmarks · Standard library Goose looks familiar like C or Rust, and is built on one idea: there is no heap. Every dynamic value lives inline on a […]
How to Write with an LLM
Two simple rules that let LLMs streamline and improve your writing without pasteurizing and jacking it with corn syrup. It’s tricky to write about writing. It comes across as a brag; you’re implying that you write well. Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t, but there’s for damned sure a quorum of critics on the […]
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
If worries about AI safety and the end of the world entered your life recently, it’s probably because of a resignation letter. On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the […]