Apple M3 Ultra(apple.com)
1016 points by ksec | 958 comments
Apple press release announcing the M3 Ultra chip, claiming up to 2.6x M1 Ultra performance, Thunderbolt 5, and over half a terabyte of unified memory.
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Tailscale is pretty useful(blog.6nok.org)
736 points by marban | 353 comments
Personal blog post describing the author's experience starting to use Tailscale to access a simple server running on an old Raspberry Pi 1.
MacBook Air M4(apple.com)
670 points by tosh | 827 comments
Apple's official product page for the MacBook Air laptop, featuring the M4 chip model.
Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order(theregister.com)
594 points by latexr | 223 comments
The Register news article reporting Apple has filed a complaint with the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal challenging a government order to break iCloud encryption.
Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server(xmox.nl)
493 points by yamrzou | 271 comments
Homepage for Mox, an open source, MIT-licensed all-in-one email server written in Go supporting IMAP, SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and webmail.
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award(awards.acm.org)
485 points by camlinke | 101 comments
ACM announcement naming Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton recipients of the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for foundational work in reinforcement learning.
Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges(tomshardware.com)
479 points by m463 | 289 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting that Brother allegedly uses forced firmware updates to block third-party ink cartridges and removed older firmware versions from its support portals.
QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning(qwenlm.github.io)
445 points by nwjsmith | 147 comments
Qwen Team blog post announcing QwQ-32B, a 32B-parameter reasoning model trained with scaled reinforcement learning.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention(gilesthomas.com)
350 points by gpjt | 26 comments
Blog post, part 8 of a series working through Raschka's 'Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)', explaining self-attention with trainable weights.
The Demoralization is just Beginning(geohot.github.io)
344 points by surprisetalk | 521 comments
George Hotz blog post using a map of US vs China as primary trading partners from 2000 to 2020 to argue that American demoralization is just beginning.
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”(alecmuffett.com)
340 points by jjgreen | 202 comments
Alec Muffett blog post reporting that NCSC, GCHQ and UK government removed advice recommending Apple encryption for legal professionals, coinciding with Apple's backdoor lawsuit.
Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics(mooncake.dev)
333 points by moonikakiss | 77 comments
Mooncake blog post announcing pg_mooncake v0.1 and its ClickBench results showing Postgres performing among top analytics databases.
Git without a forge(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
300 points by todsacerdoti | 128 comments
Apple unveils new Mac Studio(apple.com)
287 points by ksec | 234 comments
MS Paint IDE(ms-paint-i.de)
197 points by smusamashah | 63 comments
Skynet won and destroyed humanity(dmathieu.com)
156 points by xena | 100 comments
SMBC Parts Ways with Hiveworks(smbc-comics.com)
148 points by momeara | 61 comments
NetBSD on a JavaStation(fatsquirrel.org)
148 points by jaypatelani | 66 comments
We're Charging Our Cars Wrong(spectrum.ieee.org)
136 points by jnord | 128 comments
Tmux – The Essentials (2019)(davidwinter.dev)
111 points by devonnull | 62 comments
The Dead Planet Theory(arealsociety.substack.com)
105 points by sebg | 58 comments
Intel the CPU Company(abortretry.fail)
74 points by rbanffy | 22 comments
Explore Sutro Tower(explore.sutrotower.com)
68 points by archagon | 24 comments
The Strategic Crypto Swindle(theatlantic.com)
65 points by zfg | 41 comments
The Nightmare Bicycle(geoffreylitt.com)
46 points by surprisetalk | 39 comments