NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you look at the entire journey of […]

New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx

We have to admit that even users of a well rounded operation system like OpenBSD sometimes encounter hardware that is not quite supported yet.

Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Dar…

openssh-10.6 released

In their usual, unassuming fashion, the OpenSSH project have released a new version, release 10.6.

The full text of the 10.6 release nodes reads:

OpenSSH 10.6 was released on 2026-10-06. It is available from the
mirrors listed at https://ww…

LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released

In a move that hints strongly that the new OpenBSD release is about to drop soon, the LibreSSL project have announced the new stable releases.

The announcement reads,

List: openbsd-announce
Subject: LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 release…

Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models

Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost.  Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care.  NVIDIA’s latest State of AI in Telecommunications report reflects this shift, with […]

From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer colleagues. And when a diagnosis arrives, the tests that inform treatment can take weeks to return results.  […]

Headers Up! What’s New in httpd and relayd

As previously noted, Rafael Sadowski (radowski@) has been behind a recent pickup in development of httpd(8)
and
relayd(8).

Now Rafael has written a new piece,
entitled
Headers Up! What’s New in httpd and relayd,
on some of his recent work on
…

NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally.  Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB of unified memory from top manufacturer partners — Acer, […]

How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users.  Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x faster token generation than the Astra Standard mode. For developers, […]

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

In another hint that a
new OpenBSD release
is close,
the
OpenBGPD project has
announced
a new release of its software, version 9.3:

We have released OpenBGPD 9.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirro…