Chips and Cheese
Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)
Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?
Sunday, 23 August 2026
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Planet GNOME / KDE News
Philip Withnall: Flatpak repository key rotation
In recent weeks, I’ve been working on adding key rotation support to flatpak, so that repositories which sign their commits and summary files with a key with an expiry date have a way to push updates to that key to all the clients which use them. Currently that’s not possible without each client…
Chips and Cheese
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
TechBBQ 2026 : l’écosystème nordique face à son âge adulte
Le nom a gardé quelque chose de bon enfant, un barbecue, entre voisins, pour parler startups. Treize ans plus tard, c’est plus de 10 000 personnes qui convergeront vers le Bella Center de Copenhague, dont 4 000 fondateurs et opérateurs et près de 2 000 investisseurs venus de plus de 90 pays. Le nom…
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Q2 Call Reports: How Are Evolve & Varo Faring?
Florida AG Sues Sweepstakes-Casino Payment Processors, Voters Distrust Crypto’s Political Influence
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded
Researchers have used AI to uncover the DNA signature of a key genetic “switch” involved in turning genes on. After analyzing about 500,000 DNA sequences, the model identified the initiator in roughly 60% of human genes. The breakthrough could help predict the effects of harmful mutations and…