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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter, before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery.

Rust alumnus spins up new language Rue in weeks – thanks to Claude

Steve Klabnik co-wrote the book on Rust. LLMs may now be good enough that he can write a better compiler in Rue, he thinks.

OpenAI apparently has a 68% "compute margin" - we don't know how its Chinese rivals are doing

A leak shows the rawest of OpenAI's margins is looking strong, as two Chinese competitors prepare for IPO but keep their numbers close to their chests.

NIST had a disaster scare, but NTP came through (by 5µs)

After two days on a backup generator, a key time service in Colorado sneezed, but network time didn't get a cold.

AI is so mature it isn't worth splitting out, says Accenture – but much growth still left

"Advanced AI" is now more than 10% of its new bookings, but that's the last time you'll see that number.

You're not getting DRAM or NAND until 2027 – and maybe not then

Micron said it was making mysterious multi-year deals for chips amid memory super-cycle

Critical Cisco vulnerability exploited. No patch yet. Attackers gain persistence

A technical support case revealed a remote exploit of web-exposed spam quarantine management to gain root.

Nemotron 3: NVIDIA goes wide open on big-context, mixture-of-experts model

The chipmaker opened its Transformer-Mamba MoE model, plus a trove of training data, in hopes it will "help strengthen an open ecosystem" for AI.

Flat to the horizon

The Ramp index says paying customers have stopped flocking to the big AI providers. But that isn't necessarily the end of a bubble.

"Source available" vs "open source": no-SaaS tool triggers OSS definition debate

Ruby on Rails' DHH says definitions are arbitrary and have no enforcers – and the GPL isn't free anyway.

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