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Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.

Another out of band update has been issued to Windows 11 users to address a major bug that caused Outlook, Dropbox, and more to become inoperable after January's disastrous Patch Tuesday updates.

From ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?

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I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be…

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Germany faces calls to repatriate gold from the Fed as Trump-era uncertainty and geopolitics grow.

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