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Raspberry Pi’s CM0 targets OEMs, not hobbyists

Raspberry Pi has a new module in the family-CM0-and you won’t find it in your favorite web shop. What’s notable here isn’t a headline CPU bump or flashy I/O; it’s channel strategy. By keeping CM0 out of retail, Raspberry Pi is signaling that this board

GNU Unifont: the quiet workhorse behind readable Unicode

GNU Unifont is the font you only notice when everything else breaks-and that’s exactly the point. It’s the universal fallback many Linux distros, terminals, and toolkits ship to keep “tofu” boxes at bay across the long tail of scripts. What’s notable here is the breadth: Unifont aims

From If Statements to Parameters: Why “4 Billion Ifs” Framed 2023’s Software Shift

“4 billion if statements” became shorthand in 2023 for a real architectural change: replacing brittle, hand-coded branches with learned decision surfaces packed into billions of parameters. Under the hood, that’s not literal control flow-it’s vectorized matrix multiplies and activation functions running on GPUs/TPUs. What’s notable here

Rivian lays its autonomy cards on the table: custom silicon, R2 lidar plan, and “Universal Hands Free”

Rivian is tightening its stack with three linked moves: in-house silicon, a lidar roadmap for the R2, and a new “Universal Hands Free” driving mode. What’s notable here isn’t any single feature, but the architectural through-line. Under the hood, bespoke chips let Rivian tune compute, memory, and power