Netflix’s engineering team published a method for handling wide partitions in Apache Cassandra. The research work targets Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, […]
Category: Hardware
The Nintendo Switch’s days are numbered—but what is that number?
Skip to content Ars analysis suggests the 9-year-old console could keep selling for years. A Nintendo Switch at the Nintendo […]
Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Valve announced renewed availability of the Steam Deck OLED (at a […]
The Steam Controller’s “drop-in” charger almost started a fire for this owner
Reddit user Toikka shows the aftermath of a Steam Controller puck coming into contact with a metal watch band. Reddit […]
Zyphra Introduces Tensor and Sequence Parallelism (TSP): A Hardware-Aware Training and Inference Strategy That Delivers 2.6x Throughput Over Matched TP+SP Baselines
Training and serving large transformer models at scale is fundamentally a memory management problem. Every GPU in a cluster has […]
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
Valve’s new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price. I am Steam Controller, second of his name! […]
OpenAI Scales Trusted Access for Cyber Defense With GPT-5.4-Cyber: a Fine-Tuned Model Built for Verified Security Defenders
Cybersecurity has always had a dual-use problem: the same technical knowledge that helps defenders find vulnerabilities can also help attackers […]
Defeating the ‘Token Tax’: How Google Gemma 4, NVIDIA, and OpenClaw are Revolutionizing Local Agentic AI: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark
Run Google’s latest omni-capable open models faster on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, from NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, GeForce RTX desktops […]
Meet Mamba-3: A New State Space Model Frontier with 2x Smaller States and Enhanced MIMO Decoding Hardware Efficiency
The scaling of inference-time compute has become a primary driver for Large Language Model (LLM) performance, shifting architectural focus toward […]
Don’t worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine “this year”
Valve quickly reconfirmed that it plans to ship the Steam Machine and other recently announced hardware products “this year,” after […]