Microsoft to redesign its Windows security and finally preventing access to kernel after the infamous CrowdStrike outage.
The company is committing to providing “more security capabilities to solution providers outside of kernel mode.”
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-Linux-gaming-success-with-plan-that-would-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html
The company is committing to providing “more security capabilities to solution providers outside of kernel mode.”
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-Linux-gaming-success-with-plan-that-would-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html
Notebookcheck
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Microsoft has officially announced its intent to move security measures out of the kernel, following the Crowdstrike disaster a few short months ago. The removal of kernel access for security solutions would likely revolutionise running Windows games on the…
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Qualcomm intends to buy Intel?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-takeover-recent-days-wsj-reports-2024-09-20/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-takeover-recent-days-wsj-reports-2024-09-20/
Reuters
Qualcomm approached Intel about a takeover in recent days, source says
Qualcomm has in recent days approached Intel to explore a potential acquisition of the troubled chipmaker, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday, in what could be a transformational deal in the sector but faces many hurdles.
Since 20/09/2024, Linux has been officially an RTOS:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=baeb9a7d8b60b021d907127509c44507539c15e5
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=baeb9a7d8b60b021d907127509c44507539c15e5
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life
Phoronix
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI
The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API
in the meantime, Nvidia are about to open-source and release their multimodal model
https://nvlm-project.github.io/
https://nvlm-project.github.io/
Byte by Byte
LLMs don't do any formal reasoning... A new research on LLMs by six Apple researchers found “no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names…
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Microsoft just opensourced a blazing fast inference framework for 1-bit LLMS. Now you can run up to 100B LLMS locally on your CPU (GPU and NPU support coming in the future) and get 5-7 tokens/second.
https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
Brilliant article on Arm's approach for the future, challenges (AI, Qualcomm and Apple turning into competitors, AMD and Intel joining forces to improve x86) and mini-interview to Christopher Bergey, senior VP and GM of the Client Line of Business at Arm. A very good read.
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/10/22/arm_custom_silicon_interview/
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/10/22/arm_custom_silicon_interview/
The Register
As Arm rivals cook up custom silicon, Mediatek sticks to tried-and-true Cortex recipe
Exec Chris Bergey tells us what the chip designer is doing to stay competitive
Thomas Eugene Kurtz, father of BASIC, has died peacefully today in his retirement home. He was 96. Thank you, Thomas, for enabling at least two generations of human beings to get to learn and use a personal computer.
This is truly the best time for retro gaming and emulation. Ten years ago I would have sworn we'd never see a working emulator for extremely complex systems such as the PS3 and its IBM Cell, a PowerPC-based CPU. Now RPCS3 runs even on ARM64 CPUs, including Apple Silicon, thus opening a new landscape for PS3 emulation even on extremely portable devices.
For more information on the specific RPCS3 case, read this blog post on their website.
For more information on the specific RPCS3 case, read this blog post on their website.
Interesting article on AMD's quite incredible feat to run crude C++ code on their GPUs for AI workloads, thus threatening the de-facto monopoly Nvidia has with CUDA and their GPUs (biggest market cap in the world).
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Standard-C-Code-GPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Standard-C-Code-GPUs
Phoronix
How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs
Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects…
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The research paper "All You Need Is Attention" from the Google Research Team that came up with transformers (which radically changed and improved artificial intelligence and gave rise to genAI as we know it) might have found its successor.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
Some good discussion and interpretation of results can be found in the comments section here.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
Some good discussion and interpretation of results can be found in the comments section here.
arXiv.org
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
Over more than a decade there has been an extensive research effort on how to effectively utilize recurrent models and attention. While recurrent models aim to compress the data into a fixed-size...
Imagine playing a simple game of Hangman with an AI.
You'd think that explaining the game mechanics step-by-step would be enough, but my favorite benchmark test for Large Language Models (LLMs) has consistently highlighted their limitations.
Most LLMs can't successfully play Hangman—even after a detailed explanation. They end up accepting all guesses as correct, fail to understand the turn-based nature of the game, and often mix up who should come up with the blank word or provide guesses. In my recent tests, between the commercially available LLMs, only ChatGPT 4o has been able to play Hangman correctly.
This quirky but telling failure shows that while these models can seem incredibly smart, there's still a big gap between surface-level understanding and actually grasping logical, step-by-step processes. Read more about it in my latest post on Substack.
You'd think that explaining the game mechanics step-by-step would be enough, but my favorite benchmark test for Large Language Models (LLMs) has consistently highlighted their limitations.
Most LLMs can't successfully play Hangman—even after a detailed explanation. They end up accepting all guesses as correct, fail to understand the turn-based nature of the game, and often mix up who should come up with the blank word or provide guesses. In my recent tests, between the commercially available LLMs, only ChatGPT 4o has been able to play Hangman correctly.
This quirky but telling failure shows that while these models can seem incredibly smart, there's still a big gap between surface-level understanding and actually grasping logical, step-by-step processes. Read more about it in my latest post on Substack.
Substack
Hangman and Circles
How LLMs struggle with Simple Reasoning
New post on Substack. Just in time for a good lunch read, I suppose. Don't miss it!
https://atsetilam.substack.com/p/the-fabled-ai-on-the-edge
https://atsetilam.substack.com/p/the-fabled-ai-on-the-edge
Asahi Lina left the Asahi Linux project for “personal reasons”. We lost a fantastic developer who was focused on an incredibly difficult and extremely important work - bringing Linux onto the Apple Silicon platform. Such a pity. She says she is “safe”, luckily.
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