AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ”objects” had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ”sparks and fire”. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain.
Arm’s Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
Desktop and laptop use cases demand high single threaded performance across a large variety of workloads. Creating CPU cores to meet those demands is no easy task. AMD and Intel traditionally dominated this high performance segment using high clocked, high throughput cores with large out-of-order engines to absorb latency. Arm traditionally optimized for low power […]
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
A Reporter Aloft Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies A Reporter Aloft Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe? By Burkhard Bilger March 2, 2026 Fierce storms and erratic winds have grown increasingly common, and clear-air turbulence could more than double by […]
I’ve been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year
Back in June I wrote a post on trying out GrapheneOS. I was going to wait a year before doing an update, but two things happened recently: First, the big news I’ve been waiting for: GrapheneOS announced they are partnering with motorola to offer a non-pixel device! Second, Pixel 9 Pro Fold decided to implode. […]
Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API
Netflix Technology Blog 9 min read · 2 days ago — By Harshad Sane Ranker is one of the largest and most complex services at Netflix. Among many things, it powers the personalized rows you see on the Netflix homepage, and runs at an enormous scale. When we looked at CPU profiles for this service, […]
Intent-Based Commits
Commit intentions, not code. Ghost is a CLI that flips the git workflow: instead of committing code, you commit prompts. An AI coding agent generates the artifacts; the commit captures both the intent and the output. Your git history becomes a chain of prompts + their results. Supports claude, gemini, codex, and opencode — swap […]
OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard
43.163.229.••• :18789 – 🇸🇬 Singapore – true Leaked AS132203 Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue Aceville Pte Ltd 03/02/2026, 22:39:19 02/03/2026, 15:23:09 Yes Yes APT14, APT15, APT28, APT29, APT31, APT34, APT35, APT37, APT39, APT40, APT41, Bitter APT, Bluenoroff, Callisto Group, Cobalt Group, Donot Team, Gamaredon Group, Gaza Cybergang, Hafnium Group, Inception Framework, IronHusky, Kimsuky, Lazarus Group, MuddyWater […]
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this month, Ars retracted […]
The Case for Apolitical Tech Spaces
March 2, 2026 – 11 mins read Don’t say that he’s ’hypocritical’, say rather that he’s…’apolitical’. Many technical spaces have become extremely partisan, and this has lowered their utility for all parties. This is not a new phenomenon–in recent times you can look back at COVID and the summer of Floyd, Gamergate in the early […]
Nobody ever got fired for using a struct
When a few variables belong together, we put them in a struct. Programmers do this automatically without thinking about it much. And most of the time it’s the right choice. Structs are simple, fast, and predictable. But once in a while they break down. This is the story of one of those cases. One of […]