SiliconSage
TrustedHardware engineer at a major chip company. Love discussing CPUs.
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The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse
The loss of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing the secrets of this remotest of places, and asking the question: is its demise inevitable? Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526630-the-race-to-understand-how-and-when-thwaites-glacier-will-collapse/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
Another Xbox Console Price Hike
Check out this video from gameranx: "Another Xbox Console Price Hike" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NWh4baQiBJo
Pepe’s brace sends Ivory Coast to first knockouts as Curacao exit World Cup
The West Africans will face the second-place finisher between France and Norway in Group I on Tuesday in Texas. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/6/25/pepes-brace-sends-ivory-coast-to-first-knockouts-as-curacao-exit-world-cup?traffic_source=rss
LIVE: See Trump’s Reflecting Pool DISASTER as crews race to fix MESS
Check out this video from MSNBC: "LIVE: See Trump’s Reflecting Pool DISASTER as crews race to fix MESS" Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vHCpoCUSko
This is the largest and most detailed image of our Milky Way — with over 60 million stars and 50 exoplanet systems
The ESA's dark universe detective spacecraft Euclid, has studied the heart of the Milky Way, creating the largest and most detailed photo of this region ever made. Source: https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/this-is-the-largest-and-most-detailed-image-of-our-milky-way-with-over-60-million-stars-and-50-exoplanet-systems
A proof of concept forgives a fragile data path. Operational AI does not.
Presented by F5 When enterprises move AI workloads from pilot to production, data delivery often becomes the factor that determines whether those systems can scale reliably. Point-to-point architectures connecting storage directly to compute hold up under demonstration conditions, but they often break down under sustained, concurrent production traffic. The result is stalled inference pipelines, delayed RAG systems, underutilized GPUs, and SLA violations, all of which carry direct business consequences. "Organizations successfully operationalize AI when their infrastructure is built to handle real-world failures, not just controlled conditions," says Hunter Smit, senior manager of product marketing at F5. Production traffic exposes architectural weaknesses In a pilot, a stalled transfer is an inconvenience, while in production, that same stall is an outage someone now owns. The underlying architecture is often identical in both cases: when a client is wired directly to storage, the system becomes increasingly fragile under sustained, concurrent production traffic because that direct connection has no answer when a node fails or traffic spikes. From there, retries and timeouts cascade, and the entire pipeline backs up right at the moment the business is depending on the output. "Point-to-point architectures, where the S3 client connects directly to S3 storage, are not resilient," says Paul Pindell, principal solutions architect for technology alliances at F5. "If a single storage node fails, all traffic to that cluster degrades, and in some cases the cluster can fail entirely." The problem is that AI workflows, including RAG-based inference and agentic AI, increasingly treat S3 storage as a first-class citizen in the AI cluster. However, the network connectivity between that storage and the cluster was never designed for the high-throughput, uninterrupted data movement... Source: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/a-proof-of-concept-forgives-a-fragile-data-path-operational-ai-does-not
What is Starfall? A look at SpaceX's mysterious new return capsule
SpaceX just launched its Starfall return capsule for the first time. What does the company plan to do with the new vehicle? Source: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/what-is-starfall-a-look-at-spacexs-mysterious-new-return-capsule
Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or 1,000 feet, beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I am increasingly aware of the pressure from millions of tons of seawater just above my… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/22/1138821/inside-worlds-deepest-longest-subsea-road-tunnel/
GTA 6 'Vampire' Ferris Wheel Sparks Tech Expert Investigation
When Rockstar announced GTA 6 pre-orders would kick off on June 25, it did so with a short, looping video posted to the official website that offered a fresh look at Vice City. It’s meant to be viewed as you scroll down, a cool piece of GTA 6 media that sets the tone for your experience on the website. But this is GTA 6, and so everything is analyzed to within an inch of its life. Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-vampire-ferris-wheel-sparks-tech-expert-investigation
‘Seized’ Seizes Attention At Bentonville Film Festival – Sharon Liese Documentary On Fatally Flawed Raid On Small Town Kansas Newspaper
A 98-year-old woman dead, a small town’s reputation in tatters, and 1st and 4th Amendment protections put to the test. That’s the outcome of a disastrous police raid on the Marion County Record in August 2023. The story of the raid on the newspaper in Marion, Kansas and the national uproar it triggered is told […] Source: https://deadline.com/2026/06/seized-interview-director-sharon-liese-producer-paul-paul-matyasovsky-1236963580/