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Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year

The Verge

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X 10, and a move to Intel chips before unveiling its plans to use Apple’s own ARM-powered silicon in Macs in the future.

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Meltdown and Spectre exploits: Cutting through the FUD

Network World

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine. Chris Evans revisits the discussion regarding Arm processor architectures in the public cloud. Time will tell how successful they are.

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. So useful.).

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Technology Short Take 129

Scott Lowe

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Since Apple’s announcement at WWDC 2020 about the transition to ARM-based CPUs, there’s been a lot of analysis and discussion of what this means. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Technology Short Take 135

Scott Lowe

Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Servers/Hardware. Programming.

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