Just wanted to say that I will also declare Norway as my enemy if I don’t win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow.

Today's work -- first w-i-p draft of a CX API for a CX Runtime for uniform services for accelerator CX libraries for RISC-V Composable Custom Extensions. github.com/riscv/compos... (lists.riscv.org/g/tech-compo...) Intrigued? Please join RVI riscv.org/members/join/ and then join our task group.

“Memory interfaces … rely on parallel, bi-directional buses, with separate command and data … at different frequencies … We believe on-package memory needs to undergo a similar revolution by adopting a unidirectional, serialized, point-to-point interconnect like UCIe, as proposed in this paper.”

Happy “Cal Professor gets a Nobel Prize” Day. The second in a week. We're gonna have to build a bigger on-campus reserved parking lot for our Nobel Laureates. Also 🧵 "Six of nine Nobel Laureates so far this year have been American based, half of whom immigrated to the US."

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

FUNARCH2025 just one week away. Safe travels and see you in Singapore! conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Excited to say that we're looking to hire someone to focus on OxCaml education! We're doing enough to change the language that we have a pretty big internal education task ahead of us, and we want to hire someone to focus on it! Please share this with others! www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...

Today is the anniversary of the launch of #Sputnik (1957), the first artificial Earth satellite. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks! 2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

"For the first time in a major (#semiconductor) node transition, the cost per transistor will rise." #TSMC www.eetimes.com/tsmc-price-h...

Et tu, #YouTube? #Google www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are hiring! Both technical and admin, please take a look at our jobs page! www.yosyshq.com/jobs #jobs #hire

Teaching processor design at Telecom Nancy Lesson 1: build your own risc-V processor at home using a FPGA Course notes are here: github.com/BrunoLevy/le...

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I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

In South African cricket, that 2am phone call came from Quinton de Kock and was to express his desire to play international cricket again. Now, he finds himself in the white-ball squads to Pakistan and could be in line for the next two World Cups. www.espncricinfo.com/story/quinto...

KIMMEL, v.t., to attack something or someone with power but not authority, for one's own political convenience.

Peace

"Where is Semicon headed in India" Podcast from InCore Semiconductors (one of the startups in India in the RISC-V space). Series "The Big Wafer Theory", Episode 1, interviewing InCore's Chief Product Officer Niraj Sharma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOv... (Disclosure: I've personal friends at InCore)

There’s a simpler way to describe anti-anti-fascism.

Check out the fantastic open source hardware hacker content from this weekend’s ORCONF’25! fossi-foundation.org/orconf/2025?... HT/thanks @mattvenn.net

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

#RoyalSociety Desecration of #Science

Von der Leyen is standing up to Trump when it comes to regulatory autonomy. In her State of the Union speech, the Commission president stressed the EU’s right to set and impose its own digital rules 👇 We unpack all her remarks on our live blog: ow.ly/f2BI50WUnnw

UNANIMOUS support for trans people from the Trades Union Congress - incredible news. Trans people - join your union today, if you haven't already

Oh hey, someone added our open-source project to the Homebrew package manager

"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

How do bottom-up, LR parsers work? Learn about this powerful and flexible parsing technique in my new Programming Language Pragmatics video! Video: youtu.be/Ct2fLcbFkJM Programming Language Pragmatics playlist: tinyurl.com/PLP5vids

It’s the sequelae, dumbasses. Each reinfection brings high risk of awful souvenir chronic diseases.

Congratulations @clairexen.bsky.social: #HotChips / IEEE TCMM 2025 Open Source Hardware Contribution Award

Perplexity’s $34B bid for Chrome is still not nearly as perplexing as what they’re planning to do with your browsing data. Let’s take a look. 👇 🧵 1/7

The French editorial cartoonist known as TRUANT points out that Russian President Vladimir Putin got everything he wanted: A green light to continue his war, no secondary sanctions and an ill-informed U.S. leader highly susceptible to unctuous flattery.

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

I think anyone who has any form of platform who is not saying anything about what happened in London yesterday is saying a great deal about the world they will accept m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0-V...

I'm back. herrdreyer.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/h...

"History is best told as a story of organised crime"

“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”

The front page of Scotland's newspaper The National.

Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/

Today, in 1969, the #Apollo11 mission landed #NeilArmstrong and #BuzzAldrin on the moon, forever changing our perspective of our place in the cosmos. Captured imagination of millions of young (including me) listening to live broadcast on Voice of America shortwave. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

I've been covering the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco for the last two weeks and it has been both joyous and challenging. Enjoyed the opportunity to write about some of my best memories for the The Guardian's Moving the Goalposts: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

GHC will start maintaining an LTS release – blog.haskell.org/ghc-lts-rele... by @andreaspk.bsky.social #Haskell

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

The New York Cosmos are back; this time including #Cricket "A lot of people are running away from diversity at this point. We’re going to run toward it." www.theguardian.com/football/202...