Chips and Cheese
Arm’s Cortex A55
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
Sunday, 2 August 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible
Mathematicians have shown that no electoral system can perfectly balance local representation, proportional national results, and a fixed-size parliament once enough parties compete. A newly proposed voting method could soften these unavoidable trade-offs and produce outcomes that are much closer…
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
BeCPP Symposium 2026 - Phil Nash - Contemporary C++ Testing
BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube! Phil Nash - Contemporary C++ Testing Abstract: It's been 15 years since Catch claimed to be a "Modern C++ Testing framework". C++ has been through some game changing stages of evolution in that time. What would a test framework built for…
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Lineage, One-Time Partner to Bankrupt Synapse, Hit With New Enforcement Action
Charter Digest: Upstart, Flex, Dakota, Increase
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Qwen 3.8 Max is now available on AI Gateway. Qwen 3.8 Max handles text-only and vision-language work in one model, with 2.4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The model is suited for software engineering and office productivity, along with visual work like turning…