ACM has named 61 new Distinguished Members for 2025! 🌍💡

Recognized for breakthroughs in computing and dedicated service to our community, this diverse group represents top institutions across 15 countries. Their work advances AI, HCI, mobile computing, security, sustainability, and more.

Congratulations to the 2025 class! https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-members
#ACMDistinguishedMembers #computing

The future of Terraform CDK

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

#HackerNews #Terraform #CDK #Future #Infrastructure #as #Code #Cloud #Computing #DevOps

ACM has named 61 new Distinguished Members for 2025! 🌍💡

Recognized for breakthroughs in computing and dedicated service to our community, this diverse group represents top institutions across 15 countries. Their work advances AI, HCI, mobile computing, security, sustainability, and more.

Congratulations to the 2025 class! https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-members
#ACMDistinguishedMembers #computing

Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max budget of ~£500 (tax / screen / accessories not included)?
• Ideally buying from this website: https://uk.insight.com/en_GB/shop/category/computing.html

It's for work so I don't think we can go through 2nd hand websites and such to buy this..

Thanks for any suggestions!
#Computing #LowCostComputer

Dhrystone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone

#HackerNews #Dhrystone #benchmarking #performance #computing #algorithms #efficiency

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max budget of ~£500 (tax / screen / accessories not included)?
• Ideally buying from this website: https://uk.insight.com/en_GB/shop/category/computing.html

It's for work so I don't think we can go through 2nd hand websites and such to buy this..

Thanks for any suggestions!
#Computing #LowCostComputer

"Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#tech #technology #BigTech #space #satellites #data #server #computing #CloudComputing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

"Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea."

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#tech #technology #BigTech #space #satellites #data #server #computing #CloudComputing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

💬 The #booktalk with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) on his book "Enshittification", hosted last Friday by Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance, is now available at https://archive.org/details/cory-doctorow-2025

#Enshittification #books #computing #Internet #interview #BigTech

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data

#HackerNews #Google #Antigravity #Exfiltrates #Data #technology #news #data #privacy #cloud #computing #cybersecurity

💬 The #booktalk with Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) on his book "Enshittification", hosted last Friday by Internet Archive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org) and Authors Alliance, is now available at https://archive.org/details/cory-doctorow-2025

#Enshittification #books #computing #Internet #interview #BigTech

Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose

https://github.com/exactlab/vhpc

#HackerNews #Virtual #SLURM #HPC #cluster #Docker #Compose #HPC #Cloud #Computing #OpenSource

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster, with 130k nodes

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/

#HackerNews #Kubernetes #Cloud #Computing #TechInnovation #Scalability #ClusterManagement

Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08874

#HackerNews #Slicing #MatMul #Distributed #Computing #OneSided #AI #Research

@WarnerCrocker
The Apple folks focus on a trillion dollar company, rumors and consumerism, always repeating one another with the same discussions: an echo chamber.

One of the changes I've made over the last 6 months is to replace those sites and podcasts with others that are still focused on technology but are actually providing truly helpful information about *computing*.

It's a night/day difference, a diversity that has led me to a far more interesting view of the practice of #computing.

CUDA Ontology

https://jamesakl.com/posts/cuda-ontology/

#HackerNews #CUDA #Ontology #CUDA #GPU #Computing #Machine #Learning #Data #Science

I've been reading about and by necessity mucking about with UEFI boot-related matters the past while as I get settled with Linux, reorganize partitions, etc., which led eventually to this – a sobering & still-topical read on the hardware/firmware-level erosion of your privacy and control of your own IT:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Secure_Boot_criticism

@pluralistic

#it #computing #uefi #literature

I've been reading about and by necessity mucking about with UEFI boot-related matters the past while as I get settled with Linux, reorganize partitions, etc., which led eventually to this – a sobering & still-topical read on the hardware/firmware-level erosion of your privacy and control of your own IT:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Secure_Boot_criticism

@pluralistic

#it #computing #uefi #literature