May 2025

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

Thomas Germain, BBC: “(Microsoft declined to comment for this article.)”

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Approximation

Mike Hoye: “… carefully curated training data will be a key differentiator, operationally the proverbial moat. Librarians are way, way more important than anyone realizes, and a great dataset librarian will be the bedrock under every great engineering organization.”

Sunday, 11 May 2025

USENIX ATC ANNOUNCEMENT

USENIX: “And in the spirit of our ever-evolving community, field, and industry, we announce the bittersweet conclusion of our longest-running event, the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in July 2025, following USENIX ATC ‘25.”