Dubai International Airport (DXB) has launched a biometric AI border control system that clears passengers in 3.4 seconds without requiring a passport or boarding pass, reducing terminal transit time …
Bahrain's Economic Development Board (EDB) is actively courting investors in the UK and China despite regional headwinds, as CEO H.E. Noor bint Ali Alkhulaif targets manufacturing, energy, life scienc…
LLM code generation enthusiasts are creating 'vibe forks'—reimplementations of existing projects using AI coding tools—raising concerns about the value of source code as a moat. However, curation, tru…
A surge in cyberattacks, physical strikes on cloud infrastructure and AI-driven threats have forced Gulf states to rethink critical digital protection since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28. Dai…
False sharing alignment on x64 should be 128 bytes instead of the traditional 64 bytes because Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture and later CPUs may load cache lines in pairs via a spatial prefetcher, …
Former MIT AI Lab researcher Richard Stallman convinced the author that open source software accelerates progress, a lesson now threatened as AI companies close their most advanced models. The author …
Intel engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions (ACE), a cross-vendor x86 specification for optimizing AI and machine learning workloads. The ACE specification, devel…
A Haskell developer explores methods to invoke low-level CPU instructions from GHC, such as computing the full 128-bit product of two 64-bit integers, despite GHC lacking inline assembly support. The …
GCC 17 has landed support for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core, the first widely-available RVA23 profile compliant design, via -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting. The SpacemiT K3 SoC …
A developer explains how to optimize I/O in C++ by disabling synchronization between C++ streams and C standard streams, and by manually flushing the output buffer. The post details the performance co…
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group released the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification on June 15, 2026, defining standardized x86 extensions for matrix multiplication and tile registers to accelerat…
A developer published a tutorial on building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using Python and OpenAI's SDK, with a focus on applications in the GCC region. The system uses Pinecone as a …
SPEC has released SPEC CPU2026, an updated version of its industry-standard CPU benchmark suite, which now includes 52 workloads (up from 43 in SPEC CPU2017) with larger code sizes. The new suite uses…
The article compares four major C++ deque implementations—libstdc++ (GCC), libc++ (Clang/LLVM), Microsoft STL (Visual Studio), and Boost.Container 1.90—highlighting their differing design choices for …
The article details the process of building and loading a RISC-V firmware for the SNESTang FPGA project, choosing the minimal RV32I architecture for its small size and mature toolchain. The firmware, …