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Security
By Mira Chen· 4h ago

Post-quantum encryption lands in TLS 1.3 — what it means for your stack

NIST's finalized ML-KEM standard is now shipping in Chromium and Firefox nightlies. We break down migration paths for legacy services, the performance overhead on embedded systems, and why firmware updates are no longer optional for IoT vendors.

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Cloud
By Dev Okonkwo· 9h ago

AWS unveils Graviton5 — 2.3× inference perf per watt vs. Graviton4

Amazon's sixth-generation custom silicon targets the economics of on-device LLM inference. Early benchmarks from our lab show substantial gains in vector search workloads, though memory-bandwidth ceilings remain a concern for large-context transformers.

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Open Source
By Priya Raman· 1d ago

Linux 6.12 merges real-time PREEMPT_RT by default

After two decades of patch-set maintenance, deterministic scheduling is now a first-class citizen in the mainline kernel. We interview the maintainers and profile latency improvements across audio, robotics, and high-frequency trading workloads.

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Framework Laptop 16 — Modular, repairable, finally fast enough
Laptop · $1,399 · Reviewed 3 days ago

The Ryzen 9 8945HS configuration delivers sustained multi-threaded performance that finally closes the gap with soldered competitors, while the expansion bay system remains the most thoughtful approach to modular I/O we've tested.

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8.7
PineTab 2 — A Linux tablet that respects your autonomy
Tablet · $399 · Reviewed 1 week ago

Phosh on Wayland has matured considerably since the original. Touch latency is acceptable for note-taking, the M.2 slot is a welcome surprise at this price, and the community firmware updates arrive faster than most OEMs ship security patches.

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7.9
Samsung 990 Pro 4TB — Fast, but the thermal story is complicated
Storage · $329 · Reviewed 2 weeks ago

Sequential reads hold steady at 7,400 MB/s in our sustained write test — but only with active cooling. In a passively-cooled NAS enclosure, throttling kicked in within 47 seconds. A drive that demands you read the fine print.

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