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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...
VentureBeat

Nvidia researchers unlock 4-bit LLM training that matches 8-bit performance

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a novel approach to train large language models (LLMs) in 4-bit quantized format while maintaining their stability and accuracy at the level of high-precision ...
IEEE

W-Band CMOS 4-Bit Phase Shifter for High Power and Phase Compression Points

Abstract: A CMOS 4-bit phase shifter is designed for W-band applications using a 65-nm CMOS process. Switched-delay-type 90°, 45°, and 22.5° 1-bit phase shifters are designed to have high ...
The New York Times

Horse Bits Have Been Used for Thousands of Years. Now They’re Being Reconsidered.

They are used to steer a horse, but some think placing a hunk of metal in their mouths and tugging on it is cruel. A few riders have found another way. By Sarah Maslin Nir As Brendan Wise gallops his ...
IEEE

32-Bit 4 × 4 Bit-Slice RSFQ Matrix Multiplier

Abstract: A 32-bit 4 × 4 bit-slice rapid single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) matrix multiplier is proposed. The multiplier mainly consists of bit-slice multipliers and bit-slice adders. The multiplication of ...
GitHub

Support 6-bit ASCII

frutool currently doesn't support 6-bit ASCII. However, FRU files may rely on this encoding. "6-bit ASCII" is the 64 characters starting from character 20h (space) from the ASCII+LATIN1 set. So 6-bit ...
theregister

Oracle boasts zettascale 'AI supercomputer,' just don’t ask about precision

Comment Oracle says it's already taking orders on a 2.4 zettaFLOPS cluster with "three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer." But let's get precise about precision: Oracle hasn't actually ...