According to new information provided by a whistleblower, previously disclosed Ubiquiti security breach was more serious than publicly announced. Make sure to delete any old profiles, change your passwords, and update to the latest available firmware.

Arm finally announced long awaited Armv9 architecture. It has better scalable vector extensions with support for mandatory SVE2 (think of it as NEON SIMD on stereoids), AI and ML related acceleration and security improvements.

It’s been a while since I posted any new information on this site. Since then AMD announced RDNA2-powered GPUs, RIP number of stocks, Apple released M1-powered Macs, ARM shared details of Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 based designs, AV1-based HW decoders are released in latest Nvidia, Intel and Exynos-based products, AV1 and AVIF support has been added to Android 12, Flash player reached End-of-Life Source code of BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine got reverse engineered, Deno reached 1.0 state, Nuvia got acquired by Qualcomm, Nvidia announced Ampere architecture and consumer GPUs. Good luck finding at MSRP though! Safari enabled WebP, VP9, and HTTP/3, Interesting papers or links:

I’ve been planning to move my hobby website to a serverless architecture such as Cloudflare Workers for some time. Recent rise of serverless platforms really interests me and I’ve been experimenting with some basic ideas for a while including this website. So that means I do not need any VPS providers such as GCP, AWS or Linode anymore to host my website. Particularly, isolates used by Cloudflare Workers seems to be the next step of sharing more resources on the same hardware. Also, since it includes WebAssembly, you can code in a different language such as Rust and still target this platform.

The Ryzen Mobile 4000 series processors announced at CES by AMD got put on sale recently by various OEM providers. They seem to offer great power and battery life on paper over their predecessors. Especially 8C/16T model seem to offer very good multithreaded performance for tasks that can benefit from them. I hope they get even more premium design wins over the next years. I am looking at you Apple :)