Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components
The launch of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform for AI and HPC next year could mark significant changes in the AI hardware supply chain as Nvidia plans to ship its partners fully assembled Level-10 (L10) VR200 compute trays with all compute hardware, cooling systems, and interfaces pre-installed, according to J.P. Morgan (via @Jukanlosreve). The move would […]
Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]
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Gnome 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades
Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself. In other words, […]
V8 Garbage Collector
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about 5 years of developments in V8’s garbage collector, today I’d like to bring that up to date with what went down in V8’s GC over the last couple years. methodololology I selected all of the commits to src/heap since my previous roundup. There were […]
RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries
TL;DR – RegreSQL brings PostgreSQL’s regression testing methodology to your application queries, catching both correctness bugs and performance regressions before production. As puzzling as it might seem, the common problem with production changes is the ever-present “AHA” moment when things start slowing down or crashing straight away. Testing isn’t easy as it is, but there’s […]
Fastmcpp (Fastmcp for C++)
High‑performance C++ implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with support for tools, resources, prompts, and multiple transport layers (STDIO, HTTP/SSE, WebSocket). fastmcpp is a C++ port of the Python fastmcp library, providing native performance for MCP servers and clients with a small, focused dependency set. Status: Beta – core MCP features track the Python […]
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
Of all the senses cultivated throughout the 19th century, it was the sense of hearing that experienced the most dramatic transformation, as the science of sound underwent rapid advancement. Lucas Thompson delves into a particular genre of popular acoustics primers aimed at children and amateurs alike, which reveal the pedagogical, ludic, and transcendental strivings of […]
Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data
WASHINGTON (AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the government-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates. Emails […]
Copyright Winter Is Coming (To Wikipedia?)
This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. It was originally posted here, addressing Judge Stein’s Order Denying OpenAI’s Motion to Dismiss in Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Inc., No. 25-md-3143 (SHS) (OTW) (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 27, 2025). A […]
Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun Are Both Betting on “World Models”
AI has finally reached the “we need to model the whole world” phase. In the same season, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs shipped Marble, a “multimodal world model” that turns prompts into walkable 3D scenes in your browser, and reports emerged that Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to build a world-model startup of […]