10 trillion downloads are crushing open-source repositories - here's what they're doing about it
Companies are treating these repositories like content delivery networks - now the Linux Foundation and colleagues are saying enough is enough. Here's the plan.
Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips - Schneier on Security
A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs. On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks against two cards from Nvidia’s Ampere generation that take GPU rowhammering into new—and potentially much more consequential—territory: GDDR bitflips that give adversaries full control of CPU memory, resulting in full system compromise of the host machine. For the attack to work, IOMMU memory management must be disabled, as is the default in BIOS settings. “Our work shows that Rowhammer, which is well-studied on CPUs, is a serious threat on GPUs as well,” said Andrew Kwong, co-author of one of the papers. “...
The more I look at how we actually build systems now, the more it looks like Terraform is dead.
Not “declining.” Not “evolving.” Dead. What’s left is just inertia.
What Terraform Actually Solved
Terraform solved a very specific problem: how do we make infrastructure deterministic, reviewable, and repeatable?
The answer was a DSL, a plan step, and a state file. It worked, and it still works.
But it also forced an awkward compromise. Humans ended up describing intent in a language that was never designed to express it, and HCL is not how anyone actually thinks about systems.
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 25% from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 - Semiconductor Industry Association
Worldwide chip sales in March increase 79.2% year-to-year, 11.5% month-to-month WASHINGTON—May 4, 2026—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales were $298.5 billion during the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 25% compared to Q4 of 2025. Global sales were $99.5 billion during the month of March 2026, an increase of 79.2% […]
What agent-ready looks like for a static blog · Joost.blog
I ran joost.blog through Cloudflare's isitagentready.com and got a 25. Here's what I built to close the gaps: markdown content negotiation, Content Signals, Link headers, an API catalog, an agent skills index, WebMCP tools, and a server-side MCP endpoint. Also: where the scoring gets it wrong.
Adobe’s ‘Modern’ User Interface Is Just Webpages – Pixel Envy
Marcin Wichary did a wonderful job of poking through a few of the dialog boxes revised by Adobe in recent versions of Photoshop and — surprise, surprise — they are not good in lots of pretty rudimentary ways: I know I brought up that an existing power user base can be a huge pain in […]
Small language models: Rethinking enterprise AI architecture
As LLMs hit the limits of scale and cost, specialized SLMs are emerging as the faster, cheaper, and more private workhorse for the autonomous enterprise.
Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.
Is this not going to be a thing because he said it'll be a thing eventually? | Andy Jassy says Amazon investors will be rewarded by all its AI spending
CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon’s massive AI spending reflects a once-in-a-generation opportunity and will ultimately reward investors.
