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TechFading · day 6

Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to CPU performance bottom

A competitive leaderboard ranks x86 instructions by slowest single-instruction latency, led by fxrstor64 at 198 billion cycles.

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“Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performance optimization—making code run as fast as possible. The Assembly Hall of Shame takes the opposite…”— Assembly Hall of Shame project · GitHub repository · full quotes →
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SportsQuiet 2d · day 3

Cardinals to retire Larry Fitzgerald's No. 11, add him to Ring of Honor

Arizona will honor the Hall of Fame receiver at halftime of its Oct. 25 game against Denver, days after his Canton induction.

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“No one who has ever worn a Cardinals uniform is more deserving of this honor.”Michael Bidwill— Michael Bidwill, Arizona Cardinals owner · ESPN · full quotes →
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AIQuiet 3d · day 8

DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model achieves breakthrough cyclone forecasting

Google DeepMind's AI model predicts hurricane tracks and intensity with unprecedented accuracy, giving forecasters an extra day of warning.

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“Our three-day forecasts are as good as what prior models were able to provide for only the next two days. This scale of improvement corresponds roughly to a…”— DeepMind, Research organization · DeepMind official blog · full quotes →
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BusinessQuiet 2d · day 6

"Trumpflation" Spreads: Iran War Inflation Now Hits Beyond Energy Sector

Analysts say price pressure from the five-month-old Iran war, triggered by Trump's military strikes, is bleeding into the broader U.S. economy well past gas pumps.

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“The inflationary effects of President Trump's Iran war could stick around considerably longer than initially forecast.”— The Motley Fool, Financial commentary outlet · The Motley Fool / Yahoo Finance · full quotes →
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