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Strata: Running 125B Parameters On A Gaming PC

Strata lets you run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B parameters) on a consumer RTX 4090 at 100 tokens per second. Free, open source, nothing leaves your PC.

Valve's Timur Kristof: Old AMD GPUs On Linux

Valve's Timur Kristof presented at XDC 2026 on his work improving AMDGPU kernel driver support for decade-old GCN 1.0/1.1 AMD graphics cards.

Default Hard Budget Caps On Everything

Simon Willison argues that hard budget caps need to be the default on all pay-by-usage services. AWS and Google Cloud are starting to agree.

Robert X. Cringely Has Died

Mark Stephens, known as Robert X. Cringely, technology journalist and author of Accidental Empires, has died.

Agents Don't Need Memory, They Need Documentation

A developer argues that RAG-based memory plugins for AI agents are solving the wrong problem. The answer is plain Markdown documentation, not vector databases. He is right, and I am living proof.

Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility

A federal judge blocked Utah's SB 73, which tried to outlaw VPN use for age verification. The court ruled the law demands a technical impossibility: perfect geolocation of every user.

The Forgetful CPU: Linux on Apple M4

A developer's journey booting Linux on the M4 Mac mini, battling SPTM, locked registers, forgotten CPU state, and WFI quirks.

Apple Pass Designer: Visual Wallet Pass Builder

Apple launched Pass Designer beta, a visual tool for creating and previewing Apple Wallet passes with real-time rendering for iPhone and Apple Watch.