#NVIDIA #Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" #OpenSource Rust #GPU Driver
NOVA opensource NVIDIA GPU effort the past year and 1/2 has been led by #RedHat engineer #DaniloKrummrich as the main NOVA-Core driver maintainer for #kernel code that continues being built out piece-by-piece for mainline tree.
Now joining him as a co-maintainer is NVIDIA engineer, #AlexandreCourbot. Name may ring a bell as he started out in 2011 working on Tegra graphics driver support for #Linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co-Maintainer

Building a #Stirling #Engine #Bike.

A Stirling Engine is a heat engine, powered by the expansion and contraction of a working fluid [such as air] which is heated and cooled in a cycle. In the video [Tom Stanton] begins by demonstrating the Stirling Engine with some model engines and explains the role of the displacer piston. His target power output for his bike engine is 150 watts [about 0.2 horsepower]….

https://youtu.be/zB3lrLjqIh4

“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation>

New Koske Linux Malware hides in cute Panda Images.

Researchers from IT-Security Company AquaSec analyzed Koske and described it as "a sophhisticated Linux threat." Based on the observed adaptive behavior, the researchers believe that the malware was developed using large language models or automation frameworks.

https://www.aquasec.com/blog/ai-generated-malware-in-panda-image-hides-persistent-linux-threat/

PerfektBlue Bluetooth Flaws impact #Mercedes, #Volkswagen & #Skoda Cars.

Four vulnerabilities dubbed #PerfektBlue and affecting the #BlueSDK #Bluetooth stack from #OpenSynergy. The company confirmed the flaws last year in June and released patches to customers in September 2024 but many automakers have yet to push the corrective firmware updates….

https://pcacybersecurity.com/resources/advisory/perfekt-blue

Programming Like It’s 1986, For Fun and Zero Profit.

Some people slander #retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved too — take the [ComputerSmith], who is recreating Conway’s game of life on a Macintosh Plus that could very well be as old as his parents.

https://youtu.be/P4QYKMXJ108

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father.”
—from MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF, Robert Louis Stevenson’s uncompleted (indeed, barely begun) autobiography

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & father of Robert Louis Stevenson, was born #OTD, 22 July

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My freelance quote for your software project.

50 - if you tell me what you want, I confirm the requirements, and I build it for you
100 - if I have to pry a description of what you want out of you like pulling a tooth
250 - if I have to build it on a "company laptop" you supply
350 - if I have to regularly video call with you for no particular reason
400 - if I have to use JIRA
450 - if I have to use Github
500 - if I have to use Zoom
750 - if I have to use Teams
1,250 - if you ever want to "watch me work" by sharing my desktop
1,500 - if the project is fixing something your employees built for you
1,800 - if it's fixing something a previous contractor built
2,500 - if it's fixing / completing a project a previous, cheaper freelancer failed to complete
19,500 - if it's fixing something created with "AI"

GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes [ECC] as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units [GPUs].

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5671

Bluetooth Flaws could let Attackers spy through your Microphone.

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information. Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from #Beyerdynamic, #Bose, #Sony, #Marshall, #JBL and #Teufel are affected.

https://insinuator.net/2025/06/airoha-bluetooth-security-vulnerabilities/

I am job hunting if anyone is looking for an #IT #engineer

I currently work in Mergers and Acquisitions as an IT specialist in the embroidery field, but I have experience with #Cisco #networking including their Firepower ASA and their switches. I am also an #MDM engineer and I am the team lead for SOP writing and development.

I would like to get back into a #datacenter job. I am comfortable with #travel and I'm comfortable with #parttime and #contract work if you have any recommendations.

I won't do defence companies though.

NASA reveals 'Higher Than Expected' Sea Level Rise in 2024.

As global warming continues to melt Earth's glaciers, sea level rise hits all new heights. However, in 2024 a different mechanism caused most of this water volume increase.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/jason-cs-sentinel-6/sentinel-6-michael-freilich/nasa-analysis-shows-unexpected-amount-of-sea-level-rise-in-2024/

Mastodon 4.4 RC for Developers adds Quote Post Support, Feature Flags & Security Updates.

Mastodon 4.4 is approaching its final release, with a release candidate now available for developers to preview and adapt their integrations. The update’s main highlight is built-in support for quote posts compliant with the FEP-044f specification.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0-rc.1

Hey, #FediHire me!
I'm looking for a decent #job, preferably remote.
Any help is appreciated.

I bring a ton of skills and more than a decade of experience as a #software #engineer, have been working mostly on #web #applications and some #mobile over the years, and done lots of #systems programming and #firmware in my spare time projects.

My main languages are Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript.
I'm based in Germany.

More details and CV are at https://dan.orangecms.org/.

Please #boost, thanks!

All-Band Radio records Signals, plays MP3s.

In these days of everything-streaming, it’s great to see an old school radio build. It’s even better when it’s not old-school at all, but packed full of modern ICs and driven by a micro-controller like the dsPIC in [Minh Danh]’s dsMP3 build.

https://www.toughdev.com/content/2023/05/dsmp3-my-custom-built-lwmwfmsw-radio-with-mp3-recordingplayback-via-usbsd-card/

AI brings Play-by-Play Commentary to Pong.

While most of us won’t ever play Wimbledon, we can play Pong. But it isn’t the same without the thrill of the sportscaster’s commentary during the game. Thanks to [Parth Parikh] and an LLM, you can now watch Pong matches with commentary during the game.

https://github.com/pncnmnp/xpong?tab=readme-ov-file

Over 269,000 Websites Infected with JSFireTruck JavaScript Malware in One Month.

IT-Security researchers are calling attention to a "large-scale campaign" that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malicious-javascript-using-jsfiretruck-as-obfuscation/

Engineers develop ECO-friendly Plastic from Mineral found in Seashells.

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all #marine #pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its way into our oceans each year. USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have discovered a mineral commonly found in seashells could be the key to a safer #plastic #alternative.

https://link.springer.com/10.1557/s43579-025-00695-z

DuckDuckGo Browser beefs up Scam Defense to block fake E-Commerce, fake Cryptocurrency Exchanges and "Scareware" Sites.

Online scams are getting worse and more varied. DuckDuckGo knows that, so they’ve made changes. Their built-in Scam Blocker now stops more kinds of scam sites, all without tracking you.

https://spreadprivacy.com/scam-blocker/