How does HEVC implementation really work these days? You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people […]
Tag: Features
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Those who don’t remember the past… Here’s which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto. Sometime around […]
What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?
nice hypothesis you got there, shame if something happened to it… For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks […]
To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
Haven’t stopped worrying, don’t love the bomb LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. […]
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU. The cost of high-performance GPUs, typically $8,000 […]
Launch day has arrived for NASA’s Artemis II mission—here’s what to expect
“It’ll go when the engines light at T-0.” The Sun rises on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the […]
This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different
The first two launches of Orion felt hollow, but NASA is finally on a better course. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman […]
No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations
“It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.” NASA has proposed that a new core […]
Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
remember when PC building was fun? Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and […]
Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?
Decoding Orbital Data Centers “This is not physically impossible; it’s only a question of whether this is a rational thing.” […]