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Manuals for Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
These manuals describe the architecture and programming environment of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 16 posts.
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Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner
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I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [video]
Historically, proprietary systems created the need for binary machine interfaces. This extended to the deepest layers of the system, where the PC BIOS was…
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Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac
In collaboration with the Metal engineering team at Apple, we are excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac. Until now, PyTorch training on Mac only leveraged the...
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Apple Unveils M2
Apple today announced M2, beginning the next generation of Apple silicon designed specifically for the Mac.
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Apple M1 Ultra
Apple today announced M1 Ultra, the next giant leap for Apple silicon and the Mac.
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Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)
strengthening digital self-defense | research and development | providing privacy-focused goods and services
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MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
MIT engineers have flown the first silent, fuel-free “ion plane.” The light aircraft is the first plane to fly with no propellers, turbine blades, or other moving parts.
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NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
In 1983, the PX-1000 pocket telex used DES encryption. But with help of Philips, the NSA managed to replace DES with an alternative (weaker) algorithm that they could break. That NSA algorithm is now broken.
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ESP32-C5: Espressif’s First Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 MCU
Espressif’s ESP32-C5 is the industry’s first RISC-V SoC solution that supports 2.4 and 5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi 6, along with Bluetooth LE. It is designed for applications that require a high-efficiency wireless transmission.
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Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard
The communtiy section for u-he. Makers of creative software synthesizers and effects.
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An Armful of CHERIs
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog2022105 points24 commentscited by 3Security & Privacy details
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing. Morello is the first…