Coding, software craftsmanship, and interfacing with the AI frontier.
Sony Group said on Tuesday it would invest about $500 million in a joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co that will build a $7 billion chip plant in Japan. From a report: Construction of the factory, which local media said last month would supply semiconductors to Sony’s image sensor Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: US-based Nvidia partner EVGA has reported that a shipment of GPUs it was sending to a distribution centre has been stolen from a truck. A forum post by EVGA product manager Jacob Freeman states “PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on October 29, Read more…
On Friday, a transparency activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) posted a 1.8-terabyte trove of police helicopter footage to its website. “DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best says that her group doesn’t know the identity of the source who shared the data and that no affiliation or motivation for Read more…
ZDNet reports: JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders — making it the world’s most popular programming language “by a wide margin”. SlashData’s 21st State of the Developer Nation Report examined global software developer trends across 160 countries Read more…
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Pixelglass Games and BitBeamCannon are working on new commercial Amiga games. Metro Siege is a 2-player beat ’em up for the Amiga 500 with 1 MB of Ram. You can watch a teaser trailer here. Alarcity is a shoot ’em up for the Amiga Read more…
A wild bear broke into a parked car looking for food. This set AI pundit Lance Eliot a-thinking… The AI driving system of a self-driving car is always intact. A parked self-driving car is immediately able to become a moving car…. If the self-driving car is making use of its Read more…
Talking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Arm CEO Simon Segars said this chip-supply crisis was the worst he’d ever seen: The most important thing to do to get out of the woods in this situation and minimize similar ones in the future, he argued, is to improve collaboration between Read more…