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The x86 CPU Backdoor That Was Hiding in the Datasheet

VIA's C3 chips let userland code jump straight to ring 0 — and the mechanism was documented years before anyone called it a backdoor.

Article · 5d ago2

NetBSD 11.0 Bets Big on RISC-V and 10 ms MicroVMs

The most portable BSD closes its RISC-V gap, modernizes Linux binary compat, and ships with unusual security candor.

Article · 1w ago2

An LLM on an $8 Chip Is Mostly a Memory Trick

The ESP32-S3 demo matters less for what it writes than for how it splits hot and cold parameters.

Article · 2w ago0

FreeBSD 16 Finally Ships a GPL-Free Base

Dialog’s removal finishes a long cleanup that mostly matters to teams embedding or redistributing FreeBSD.

Article · 4w ago5

Your First PCB Starts Smaller Than You Think

Recreate one sensor module and the schematic-to-solder loop stops looking like a different profession.

Article · 1mo ago2

GateGPT: Running Transformers in Pure Digital Logic on FPGAs

By synthesizing a GPT model directly into hardware, GateGPT achieves massive throughput at a fraction of the clock speed.

Article · 1mo ago0

Squeezing 46 FPS from YOLOv8 on Cheap Edge Hardware

A highly optimized C++ pipeline bypasses the CPU to run real-time object detection on low-cost Rockchip NPUs.

Article · 1mo ago0