IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544454
IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
Link: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ibm-ai-(-bob-)-downloads-and-executes-malware
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544454
닷넷은 8.0이후로 Microsoft만이 아니라, Canonical, RedHat 등 각 리눅스 배포판 관리자들이 Microsoft를 대신하여 본인들의 배포판 OS에서 잘 작동할 수 있도록 검증 과정을 거쳐 독자적으로 빌드하여 패키징을 하고 있습니다.
그 덕분에 매우 유의미한 발전이 하나 있었는데, IBM 메인프레임 (s390x)과 IBM PowerPC (ppc64el)에서도 우분투 리눅스를 사용하면 이제 닷넷 10을 아주 손쉽게 apt install dotnet-sdk-10.0 명령어 하나로 바로 설치해서 쓸 수 있게 됩니다.
https://forum.dotnetdev.kr/t/ibm-s390x-ibm-powerpc-ppc64el-10/14096
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324
FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT
Link: https://bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945784
IBM patented Euler's 200 year old math technique by repackaging a well-established mathematical concept of generalized continued fractions with new, flashy branding like "CoFrNets" and "ladders."
They implement this in PyTorch, using the reciprocal as a nonlinearity, and achieve mediocre results (61% accuracy on a simple dataset).
https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/ibm-patented-eulers-fractions
IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
Link: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/ibm-patented-eulers-fractions
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45918732
IBM is the latest addition to the OpenSearch Software Foundation!
https://itsfoss.com/news/ibm-joins-opensearch-software-foundation/
A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios
Link: https://int10h.org/blog/2025/11/lost-ibm-at-model-bios-analysis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827661
Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991
Link: https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745382
Granite 4.0 Nano is the IBM's smallest AI model yet!
'Western Qwen': IBM Wows with Granite 4 LLM Launch and Hybrid Mamba/Transformer
Link: https://venturebeat.com/ai/western-qwen-ibm-wows-with-granite-4-llm-launch-and-hybrid-mamba-transformer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458987
IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)
Link: http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/intellipower185.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401907
I’m a EE (communications / signal processing focus) by training, which I’ve been putting to use for quite a while now working on high-performance #MRI reconstructions at the Mayo Clinic in #rochestermn, using C++, #OpenMP and #MPI.
I use #FreeBSD and #ZFS anywhere I can, and manage to put in a little time maintaining a few #MacPorts packages that I use for the dayjob.
Previously worked on optical #FibreChannel and #Ethernet for #IBM and JDS Uniphase.
IBM Technology Atlas
Link: https://www.ibm.com/roadmaps/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259139
👋¡Hola! soy Javi, otro cazurro más en la diáspora
Amo la #Montaña correr por senderos, lo del #TrailRunning el alpinismo, la escalada, el #Gravel y las bicis en general, la música, me flipan las furgos, pooa VW T5, trastear con #UNIX amante incondicional de los #Gatos
Me considero una persona progresista, y abiertamente antifascista
Me gano la vida trabajando como una especie de #SRE para #IBM Research peleando con la infraestructura de #Quantum
<ESC>:wq
Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
Link: https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111909
IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture at Hot Chips 2025
Link: https://www.servethehome.com/ibms-power11-processor-architecture-at-hot-chips-2025/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016542
Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.
So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun
@dexterMichael Dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware
#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness
For the 10th anniversary of #ThinkPad #IBM Japan released a 65% scale model kit of one of the most iconic computers ever built: the ThinkPad 701c. Today, let's build one of those kits and talk about this amazing portable computer.
#ThinkPadThursday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQRHlI3-B8
A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91356463/ibm-thinkpad-701-butterfly-keyboard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568147
Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible
Link: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/tandy-corporation-part-3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530179
Look at this gorgeous IBM risc system! I'd love to get it but it's expensive and, honestly, it would just sit on the shelf next my other vintage systems I never use. Maybe someone here wants to give it a good home?
#retrocomputing #ibm #ebay #risc
Some twenty years ago you could just order stuff on the Internet for free. Big companies were giving away cool things: I remember you could get IA-32 programming manuals from Intel at zero cost (and zero shipping costs).
Me being stupid me got this. A whole package of IBM DB2 8.1 for AIX (32-bit) disks including learning materials.
I still wonder what to do with these.
There's zero chance of me stumbling upon an AIX-supported hardware.
“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”
– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust
The more things change…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691
#IBM #Holocaust #BigTech #SiliconValley #Google #Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid #settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicity https://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881
I could save an #IBM model M #keyboard that was about to be sent to the e-waste. It is the dirtiest keyboard I have ever seen 😅 But it works and will be cleaned. It is in a good shape, too! #mechanicalkeyboard
@dexterMichael Dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...
Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"
14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!
So it's now up to me for an #introduction . I do Linux kernel stuff at #IBM. Nothing mainline mostly hacking around. I love #hacking #coding #retrocomputing #woodworking ...
💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻
This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]
As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).
The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.
So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM
@dexterMichael Dexter electricity comes next 🧠
#FreeBSD #Linux #POWER9 #PPC64le #IBM #RaptorTalos #FMT2 #colo #datacenter #onprem #homelab #hardware #engineering #goodtimes #sunday #meditation #whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM