Nice post explaining the need of ACPI or Device Tree and how they are leveraged by kernels.

It looks like analog chips for neural network workloads are on the verge of finally becoming reality. This would reduce consumption by an order of magnitude and hopefully more later on. Very early days for this new attempt, let's see if it holds its promises.

A good question, it is somewhat of a grey area at times. We need to come up with better answers.

It's interesting to see such a reverse engineering of this infamous bug straight from the gates layout.

This is an excellent milestone reached for the OpenWrt project. Easily available hardware is a must. It's rather cheap too.

We always think about the energy consumption, but large data centers gobble billion liters of water too. This would need to be improved.

Nice to see open hardware for VR hitting such a price point.

Fascinating research about side-channel attacks. Learned a lot about them and website fingerprinting here. Also interesting the explanations of how the use of machine learning models can actually get in the way of proper understanding of the side-channel really used by an attack which can prevent developing actually useful counter-measures.

Nice graphic tricks when the hardware was harder to work with. It's amazing how much we could fit back then out of sheer motivation.

A reminder that Secure Boot is worth nothing if the device makers don't manage cryptographic keys properly...

We keep finding floppies in use at surprising places. There's clearly lot of inertia for technologies getting replaced.

As Moore's law fades away this question is indeed essential. Looks like there will be more pressure on software and algorithms than before (at last one might say, we had decades of waste there). Streamlining hardware architectures will have a role too, we might see simpler cores in greater numbers.

Nice reverse engineering of a NFC chip used in a disposable transportation ticket.

Very nice explanation and metaphors on how CPUs cache levels work.

Strange things do happen when the hardware fails... indeed the systemd open question at the end is mysterious.

Interesting how much extra performance you can shave off the GPU by going back to how the hardware works.

Confused? Well, not surprising we mostly use those terms with very lax definitions.

Sure you can expect mice, but raccoons? This is a funny finding... well scary if you're responsible of this machine room.

Another type of devices where clearly they could be repairable and batteries could be swappable if manufacturers would put care in the design. At least, Fairphone is showing it's doable.

Considering using a server rack for a homelab? This is a nice tutorial with plenty of advices.