News · 2026-09-08

Matthew McPherrin factored two 512-bit RSA keys from Netscape 4.51's E-Certify roots using a Ryzen 9 5950X.

A non-AMD/Intel entity is developing an x86 CPU with 16 and 32 tile AMX, APX, FRED, and x86S.

Google Research and HHMI Janelia mapped the MaleCNS v1.0 connectome of a fruit fly, enabling an AI model of 166,000 neurons to play Doom and Super Mario 64.

InferenceX released results showing Google's TPUv7 Ironwood delivers up to 50% better performance per dollar than NVIDIA's B200 and B300 chips.

The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and must, thus, restart). Work merged in the 6.19 release to improve the performance of restartable sequences broke the TCMalloc allocator , which was relyi...

LLVM merged Zen 5 and Zen 6 support for AMD's RMPREAD, RMPOPT, and RMPCHKD instructions.

SRhonyra's one-slot, low-profile, bus-powered Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs is available at Newegg for $495.59.

Intel surpassed one million High-NA EUV wafers using EXE:5000 tools and EXE:5200B scanners.

Arm announced the Compute Subsystem for Mobile 2 with a C2-Ultra core and Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU for agentic AI and desktop-class gaming.

Huawei launched the Kirin 950 Pro processor, claiming it is free of US technology and features its own LinxiCore cores.

The Canary suspended operations after being debanked by Lloyds Banking Group and Metro Bank, leaving it unable to pay staff.

Brad DeLong cites a San Francisco Federal Reserve chart showing Wall Street expectations for the fund rate to argue market forecasts are flawed.

The Trump administration awarded $500 million to seven companies to compete with China's 95% spodumene processing dominance.

Author stayathomemacro argues the Fed should hike rates in September, potentially totaling 50 or 75 basis points by year-end.

Peter Lang's 2017 paper estimates nuclear cost reductions to one-tenth by 2015, while only a few of over 240 engineered microbe applications were approved.

Ed Glaeser argues in a new NBER working paper that shared mobility and autonomy likely complement urban living in east Asia and the developing world.

A new study shows ASEAN investments skyrocketed since 2024 as US businesses seek low-cost, low-tariff alternatives to China.

Alhambra Investments notes the 10-year yield near its four-year peak at 4.78% amid diverging data like a 1.1% drop in durable goods orders.

Scale-QLoRA freezes E2M1 code planes to achieve code-invariant merging, dropping training steps by 3.9x per step on the 8B model.

Researchers proposed Minimax Expert Score Allocation (MESA) to fix load-balancing collapse in over-dispersed MoE models, achieving smallest worst-case degradation at 25% pruning on gpt-oss-20B.

Authors developed nonconvex block-Lp estimators for p between 0 and 1 to approach the 1 divided by 1 minus epsilon trimmed-block oracle constant.

Substituting one treebank for another reversed nearly 40 percent of pairwise language orderings across 38 Universal Dependencies v2.18 pairs.

This study establishes a minimax lower bound of order $(n\sigma^d)^{-1}$ for estimating FLIPD from $n$ observations under a regular manifold model.

This work analyzes self-supervised pre-training where data augmentations of the same datapoint are pooled despite inter-dependencies.

Researchers introduced PerfReasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol surpassed an 80% pass rate while all other configurations averaged below 15%.

Replacing continuous state propagation with deterministic 4-bit storage increased estimation errors for τ1 and τ2 by approximately 70x and 300x respectively.

Russia struck Kyiv after a three-day pause expired, downed 142 drones and 31 of 32 cruise missiles, and killed two people in Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi.

Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back called for renewed US-North Korea talks backed by strong deterrence with Seoul's military support.

Iran-backed Houthis attacked four Saudi cities, wounding over 70 and setting oil installations ablaze with dozens of drones and missiles.

Iran-backed Houthis attacked Saudi oil facilities, wounding 73 people and setting installations ablaze in Abha, Najran, and Jazan.

Houthi rebels attacked Saudi Arabia, wounding 73 people and igniting fires at oil facilities in Abha, Jazan, Najran, and Khamis Mushait.

Russia launched round-the-clock strikes on Kyiv using fast jet-powered drones, averaging 10 daily air raid alerts since late August 2026.

Democratic Party of Korea leader Kim Min-seok urged Seoul to build stronger independent defense capabilities as US-North Korea diplomacy may reshape deterrence.

New data compiled by the Nautilus Institute and published by Guardian Australia reveals that US military forces and defence corporations control or have access to over 100 facilities across Australia. Specifically, the US military controls 17 facilities on mainland Australia and accesses 75 additional Australian-run installations, while defence corporations access 18 more. Analysts describe this saturation as a "colonisation" of the continent. Activities include gathering intelligence, accessing satellite data, intercepting communications, training 2,500 marines in the Northern Territory, pre-positioning Osprey aircraft, and maintaining logistics hubs for weapons and fuel. The article questions whether this extensive presence could drag Australia unwillingly into war.