Riding the Rays: Sunswift Racing Shines in World Solar Challenge Race

In the world’s largest solar race car event of the year, the University of New South Wales Sunswift Racing team is having its day in the sun. The World Solar Challenge, which first began some 35 years ago, attracts academic participants from across the globe. This year’s event drew nearly 100 competitors. The race runs Read article >

Silicon Volley: Designers Tap Generative AI for a Chip Assist

A research paper released today describes ways generative AI can assist one of the most complex engineering efforts: designing semiconductors. The work demonstrates how companies in highly specialized fields can train large language models (LLMs) on their internal data to build assistants that increase productivity. Few pursuits are as challenging as semiconductor design. Under a Read article >

Disruptive amd64 snapshot coming

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted to
tech@
a message entitled
disruptive amd64 snapshot coming.
It reads:

There is a pretty disruptive amd64 snapshot coming, so anyone who is
using snapshots for critical stuff should take a pause. (This warnin…

Turning the Tide on Coral Reef Decline: CUREE Robot Dives Deep With Deep Learning

Researchers are taking deep learning for a deep dive, literally. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Autonomous Robotics and Perception Laboratory (WARPLab) and MIT are developing a robot for studying coral reefs and their ecosystems. The WARPLab autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), enabled by an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module, is an effort from the world’s Read article >

The Sky’s the Limit: ‘Cities: Skylines II’ Streams This Week on GeForce NOW

The cloud is full of treats this GFN Thursday with Cities: Skylines II now streaming, leading 15 newly supported games this week. The game’s publisher, Paradox Interactive, is offering GeForce NOW one-month Priority memberships for those who pick up the game first, so make sure to grab one before they’re gone. Among the newly supported Read article >

OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released

Hot on the heels of the release of OpenBSD 7.4, Omar Polo (op@) has announced the release of OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0. The announcement reads,

Subject: OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released
From: Omar Polo <op () openbsd ! org>
Date: 2023-10…

Next-Gen Neural Networks: NVIDIA Research Announces Array of AI Advancements at NeurIPS

NVIDIA researchers are collaborating with academic centers worldwide to advance generative AI, robotics and the natural sciences — and more than a dozen of these projects will be shared at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI conferences. Set for Dec. 10-16 in New Orleans, NeurIPS brings together experts in generative AI, machine learning, computer Read article >

OpenBSD’s built-in memory leak detection

As
announced
on the
misc@
mailing list,
Otto Moerbeek (otto@),
the author of OpenBSD’s
malloc(3)
implementation
[a.k.a. "otto malloc"],
has written a
tutorial on the new
malloc(3) leak detection available in OpenBSD 7.4
Read it …

OpenBSD’s built-in memory leak detection

As
announced
on the
misc@
mailing list,
Otto Moerbeek (otto@),
the author of OpenBSD’s
malloc(3)
implementation
[a.k.a. "otto malloc"],
has written a
tutorial on the new
malloc(3) leak detection available in OpenBSD 7.4
Read it …