… Molnar similarly justified the elimination of 486 support in the notes. "We have various complicated hardware emulation facilities on x86-32 to support ancient 32-bit CPUs that very very few people are using with modern kernels," Molnar explained. …
… Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS There's still life in OpenGL yet Valve's success in selling consumer gaming hardware based around OS-level emulation isn't just driving Linux development. …
… Elastic IPs were trapped on dead hardware. If AWS had tried to bill normally and then process refunds, it would have meant thousands upon thousands of individual support tickets, each one a paper trail documenting precisely what failed and when. …
… "For that, we need a range of both infrastructure hardware as well as the types of models that can run on them." Google's new 31B-parameter model can easily be run at full 16-bit precision on a single RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell with plenty of room left over to support a reasonable number of concurrent … …