General AI News

Blackwell is Nvidia’s largest consumer GPU die, featuring 750 mm² area, 92.2 billion transistors, and 192 SMs.

Its high streaming multiprocessor count and 512-bit GDDR7 memory bus deliver massive compute and memory bandwidth.

Blackwell’s architecture overlaps graphics and compute tasks on the same queue for more efficient scheduling.

User lost IPv4 connectivity due to ISP issues but still had working IPv6.

They set up a WireGuard VPN server on a VPS with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Their home device connected over IPv6-only and tunneled IPv4 traffic through the VPN.

Schizophrenia affects about 1% of people and reduces reproductive fitness, posing an evolutionary puzzle.

Cliff-edged fitness functions propose that certain traits boost fitness up to a threshold, beyond which fitness drops sharply.

Evolution may favor cognitive and social traits linked to schizophrenia risk alleles below the threshold, offering advantages.

Apple Wallet sent a push notification ad promoting F1 The Movie, which is unprecedented for wallet apps.

Injecting ads into Wallet conflicts with user expectations of privacy and intimacy.

Users may believe Apple tracks their interests and activities through Wallet due to the ad.

The author built and maintains a beehive inside a bedroom wall with a plexiglas viewport and a bamboo entrance tube.

Historical references show wall hives date back to at least 60 CE and were common in warm-temperate Old World regions.

To install the hive, drywall and insulation were removed between studs, exposing original wood framing and shingling.

Middle-class musicians often earn little or no money from streaming and remain in debt due to unfavourable record deals.

Independent artists rely on advances and 360 contracts that require labels to recoup expenses before paying royalties.

Live tours were once a main income source, but post-pandemic costs, competition, and inflated expenses make tours unprofitable for many.

JSON is hierarchical and not easily split in the Unix shell without external tools.

Awk can be used to implement a basic JSON parser in about forty lines of code.

The parser defines a get_json_value function that takes JSON text and a dotted key path to return values.

ARRL Field Day is an annual ham radio open house event held on the fourth full weekend of June in the US and Canada, with more than 31,000 participants operating from remote locations to demonstrate public service, emergency preparedness, community outreach, and technical skills.

Field Day 2025 will take place on June 28–29, and participants can find or register event sites using the online Field Day Locator.

The event objective is to contact as many stations as possible across HF and VHF bands and to learn to operate in abnormal or emergency conditions.

The UK online passport application is framed as a minimalist text-based puzzle where applicants gather documents as artefacts.

Applicants face recursive document requests based on British nationality rules, requiring them to prove each ancestor’s status.

HMPO’s “Bureaucratic Logic” mirrors constructive logic, forbidding exclusive middle and enforcing original-document witnesses.

The U.S. Department of Defense will stop providing its weather satellite data to scientists and forecasters.

This data has been used for over 40 years to track hurricanes in real time and measure sea ice in polar regions.

The Defense Department cites cybersecurity concerns for ending data sharing, not funding cuts.