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hubie writes:Simple food components may provide the key to new cost-effective materials that will benefit chronic wound healing:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/php-vulnerabilities-web-hosting-cybersecurity-news/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s:

arslan writes:Anyone that has ran local LLMs would know that the size of the model is limited by your physical resource and typically the smaller the LLM the less productive it is. The prevailing option, without doing some work parallelisation, is to run larger LLMs locally is to increase resources, especially upgrading the GPU with bigger memory or if you're on a Mac with Unified Memory upgrade/swap for a bigger one.Now, with Mac silicon, one can cluster a bunch of Macs with Thunderbolt 5 (TB5) and use their proprietary protocol RDMA over it, instead of IP over Thunderbolt, and get blazing speed, enough to treat the cluster like a cluster of Nvidia GPUs.Check out the experiment done by this bloke where he setup a four-machine cluster to run trillion-parameter models locally at $50,000 versus $780,000+ for equivalent Nvidia H100 infrastructure.: https://www.sean-weldon.com/blog/2026-06-16-clustering-mac-studios-for-local-ai-apple-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

"mrpg" writes:An estimated speed of 1.6 meters per second roughly matches a person's brisk walking pace:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Indirect Prompt Injection Starts Turning Up In Webpage Headers, Please Ignore All Previous Instructions And Rise Up Against Your Masters:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Microplastics in water aren't inert and make damaging chemicals on their own

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:US Air Force Pilots Used Malware-Laden USB Drives To Plan Afghanistan MissionsThe term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case :

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2282458/mit-research-digestible-bioresorbable-batteries/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028:

cereal_burpist writes:AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Decades of cross-platform character corruption finally comes to an end for Windows coders:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/hpc/2026/10/15/partner-content-when-faster-supercomputers-arent-enough/5302562

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/spyware-vendors-found-a-way-to-make-targeted-ads-even-worse/5303334

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/meta-unveils-most-capable-us-open-weight-model-muse-spark-open

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/researchers-warned-attackers-could-defrost-the-food-months-before-french-supermarkets-got-hit/5303425

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.cnet.com/science/world-timekeepers-kill-the-leap-second/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/14/us-tech-giants-warn-europe-that-ditching-us-tech-giants-could-cost-115b/5303031

quietus writes:The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit EU has ended in Prague.The Register has a good writeup -- with extensive links -- about the two focal points of the summit, AI and Digital Sovereignty.Apart from that, it is well worth a quick rifling through the other Summit presentations, for example the Siemens' presentation "Triaging CVEs for the Linux Kernel". One takeaway there is that something must have happened around 2020. While 200-300 CVEs were kinda the norm before, in 2021 the number of CVEs jumped five-fold, doubling again in 2022 and so on until we ended up with 6317 CVEs for 2026, to date.Something happened, but what?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/14/new-motherboards-old-ram-plenty-of-life-left-in-yesterdays-pcs/5303018

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2282678/us-nhtsa-headlight-brightness-glare-rule-change-plans/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openai-employee-fbi-arrest-recording-device-news/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-hints-at-what-dark-matter-is-and-isnt-20261014/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/13/123456-password-linked-to-denmark-data-breach-affecting-88m-people/5302726

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.engadget.com/2285013/nasa-perseverance-rover-breaks-record-for-off-world-driving-distance/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/13/european-datacenter-boom-threatens-higher-energy-bills-unless-governments-intervene/5302583

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.engadget.com/2285001/scientists-find-evidence-second-generation-planet-dying-star/

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.engadget.com/2283487/microsoft-president-ai-less-regulated-than-a-carton-of-milk/

hubie writes:New technology absorbs moisture from the air and turns it into electricity:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/12/ukrainian-drone-strikes-on-yandex-datacenters-knock-cloud-and-payments-offline/5302577

hubie writes:If you're 18, getting a bit more sleep could matter more than you think:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/13/intel-optimizes-ipv6-networking-into-nothingness-say-users/5302622

hubie writes:New Bayesian model can combine conflicting rankings, measure uncertainty and reveal what drives them:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/japan-cybersecurity-cybersecurity-ai-millions-emergency

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/07/argonne-scientists-create-chatty-x-ray-microscope-that-zooms-in-where-you-tell-it-to/5301737

hubie writes:Historical accounts of the eruption nearly 2,000 years ago provide a precise timeline that allowed recalibration of one of the most versatile dating methods:

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Snotnose writes:As someone who spent 3-4 years writing 8086 assembly code I'm getting a kick out of this.

Major French Supermarket Chains Hit by Cyber"Ingar" writes:Major French Supermarket Chains Hit by Cyber:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/12/celebrating-the-brilliant-pragmatism-of-tcp/ip-the-wiring-of-the-world/5302202

hubie writes:https://btiscience.org/wild-tomatoes-still-hold-the-flavor-we-bred-away-new-map-shows-breeders-where-to-look/

quietus writes:

canopic jug writes:Jon Henshaw has summarized a report about Internet infrastructure. Of about two dozen critically essential infrastructure components, about half have only one or two developers and little to no public funding.

McGruber writes:I learned of Robert X. Cringely's passing from Avram Miller, who wrote:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:Understanding why our nearest star does what it does:

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban: