IBM can’t afford an unreliable cloud
On August 12, 2025, IBM Cloud experienced its fourth major outage since May, resulting in a two-hour service disruption that affected 27 services globally across 10 regions. This “Severity 1” event left enterprise customers locked out of critic...
Retrieval-augmented generation with Nvidia NeMo Retriever
Nvidia was founded by three chip designers (including Jensen Huang, who became CEO) in 1993. By 1997 they had brought a successful high-performance 3D graphics processor to market; two years later the company invented the GPU (graphics processing unit...
Intel Upstreams XeVM Into LLVM
Intel's newest contribution to the upstream LLVM compiler stack is XeVM as their Multi-Level Intermediate Representation "MLIR" dialect catering to modern Intel graphics processors...
Go language previews performance-boosting garbage collector
Go 1.25, the latest version of the Google-developed open source programming language, has been released. The update brings new capabilities including an experimental garbage collector that improves performance, a fix for a compiler bug that could dela...
Google is killing the open web
Google is managing to achieve what Microsoft couldn’t: killing the open web. The efforts of tech giants to gain control of and enclose the commons for extractive purposes have been clear to anyone who has been following the history of the Inte...
Firefox 142 Brings New Tab Topics, AI-Powered Extensions + More
Mozilla has released Firefox 142, adding a crop of features it hopes will improve both the user experience and user experience — and yes, AI is involved. Firefox 141 delivered some AI features to the browser’s Tab Groups feature, although it was no...
Firefox 142 Adds New Tab Topics, Local AI in Extensions + More
Mozilla has released Firefox 142, rolling out several features aimed at improving both user experience and developer functionality — and yes, AI is involved too. Last month, Firefox 141 added AI to the browser’s existing Tab Groups feature, althoug...
MS-DOS development resources
If you’re interested in developing for and programming on MS-DOS and other variants of the venerable operating system, SuperIlu has collected the various tools and applications they use and like for this very task. In case you’re wondering who Supe...
Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention
A week ago we talked about focus stealing prevention on KDE and Wayland, and this time we have a similar article, but detailing GNOME’s approach instead. Many of the underlying mechanisms are the same, of course, but since GNOME uses a different wind...
AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs
We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been...
