I personally insisted in person that Re-PC post on Bluesky more, so please go buy things from them.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie does not have the momentum to catch its predecessor in terms of box office and will perhaps be hundreds of millions of dollars short. I think that's a signal of something.

Interesting thread: apparently the creator of the Z80 had a break from reality, and as is often the case, decided to explain that break from reality using quantum physics.

I'm very tempted to pull a New Yorker and insist on "microöoperations" in my next draft (which is on a quite fun SoC, actually...)

Another unsubstantiated claim in the latest Bloomberg newsletter is that Switch 2 is “currently selling […] at a loss”. Its source is most likely Hideki Yasuda (Toyo Securities), who “estimated” a $160 loss per Japanese unit (i.e., $30 loss per US unit). Does that sound remotely plausible? 1/

For quantum computing & communication folks out there, I am looking for additional Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. HMU if you are interested in giving back to the community that supports your research! #QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet

the last 24 hours in the linux world have been chaos because someone found a kernel exploit, but forgot to tell any of the distros, and instead had an AI write a webpage for them that was full of branding garbage and lies it's like a three stooges bit, they turned a potentially […]

To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

“SAY ‘AGENTIC’ ONE MORE TIME.”

Gentle reminder that FPGAs are absolutely emulation.

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Watching X Files and Mulder just killed an AI by putting a floppy disk in the machine and maybe we should give that a try

Return to 6502.

Was in an Uber yesterday, and the driver wanted to talk politics. Weirdly, he insisted that the only good appointee of the Trump administration was Scott Bessent, which… like, how did I get the one Scott Bessent stan?

As much as "IT'S OVER 9000!" in the Ocean dub is a meme, this dub joke from Dragon Ball Z Kai is excellent.

Has anyone tried to catalogue / decode the data encoded on the data matrix on the lid / heat spreader of the M4 Max / M5 family? @lina.yt @itanium.bsky.social

Minor job update: I'm now "Senior Analyst, Microprocessor Report," meaning I get to spend more of my work day writing alternatingly philosophical and technical articles about microprocessors than I already did. Best job in the world.

I am 5000 words into this draft, and I am ready to be finished with it. (I am not finished with it.)

“Max Headroom” is the obvious choice, but I’d genuinely enjoy the opportunity to write a reboot of “Profit” that tries to match the current level of crazy in the corporate world. Or a “Secret World of Alex Mack” reboot.

Apropos of nothing, the tendency in tech/media circles to portray CEOs as celebrities is deeply strange to me. (Certainly, some actively try to cultivate that!) The creative or athletic attributes of entertainment or sports celebrities doesn't convey to business.

Thanks?

This graphic is really absurd.

Let’s go #Mariners!

managing people, communicating, planning; all those soft skills we said were important then sacked everyone who had them...

Hello, Portland!

This whole "no tax on tips" claim is kind of a scam. 1. There are still taxes: state (maybe), social security, medicare. 2. There's a cap of $25K. 3. It expires in 2028. 4. You cannot claim anything on large party gratuity. (Thread 1/2)

In computer science, Epsilon is the smallest distinguishable difference between two numbers in floating point. But did you know the idea of an epsilon came to the inventor when staying in a hotel and trying to find the tiny gap between scalding & freezing on his shower dial?

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Learning about how the Japanese economy works and muttering “huh!” and “that’s crazy”

Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs. It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.

A meeting with JD Vance did for Viktor Orban’s career what it did for Pope Francis

There’s so many posts and videos of people modding their MacBook Neo with a thermal pad to get a small (but measurable!) performance boost, it reminds me of people unlocking AMD Phenom CPUs with a pencil.

The ASUS NUC team is doing an AMA on Reddit’s /r/IntelNUC this Friday from 12 PM to 2 PM PDT. Post your questions now! www.reddit.com/r/intelnuc/c...

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The ASUS NUC team is doing an AMA on Reddit’s /r/IntelNUC this Friday from 12 PM to 2 PM PDT. Post your questions now! www.reddit.com/r/intelnuc/c...

[Help Needed] I’m in search of some software for a tiny project: I’m looking for an open-source CMS for serving downloads (drivers, bios files, etc.). The CMS architecture isn’t important, but the downloads will live in an S3 bucket. What’s the best/lightweight way to do this?

My MacBook kernel panics when attached to an external monitor when idle, and it's driving me crazy. Weirder still, I've changed the MacBook and the monitor, and it's still doing it. (Please help.) www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/...

Please buy this laptop before I try to do something crazy with it.

The best chance that the US has for adopting the metric system is by convincing people that the price of gas is lower by pricing it in $ per liter.

Really interesting mix of reactions to this in the replies and quotes * Sympathy for this kid * Suggestion they change majors and teach themselves to code * The ick: bro coder edition * They’ll be the most employable CS grad in about 5 years * Is education about mastery or employability in a trade?

I've had a stress headache for like... three weeks straight, and it's not fun!

For Microprocessor Report, I'm looking at NVIDIA's T239 SoC found in the Nintendo Switch 2, and how it stacks up against competing SoCs from AMD, as well as the prospect of Intel producing a Panther Lake SoC for gaming handhelds. bit.ly/mprswitch2

Instead of an April Fool's Day joke, here's an old post from the past that I'm dusting off: Fantastic gift idea to make the electrical engineers, IT people, and other nerd or nerd-adjacent people in your life visibly uncomfortable: the seamless power strip!

Topically relevant (today).

I see some people are frustrated by how strident the anti-AI sentiment has gotten on here but whose fault is that, do you think

I can't overstate how big of a deal it is that @geekwire.com has Mary Jo Foley as a columnist now. Great work, @toddbishop.bsky.social.

By 2028 you won’t be able to find a single mention of Donald Trump at CPAC anywhere. Mark it.