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

Qualcomm intends to buy Intel?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-takeover-recent-days-wsj-reports-2024-09-20/

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

Valve will support Arch Linux working on critical projects on a freelance basis.

ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life

in the meantime, Nvidia are about to open-source and release their multimodal model

https://nvlm-project.github.io/

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 can alter results by ~10%!”.

Full article:

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

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/

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.

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