Day: December 27, 2025

2025 EOY Report: Blockchain of the Year

2025-12-27 By admin

2025 was a defining year for Web3, marked by widespread enterprise adoption and a major shift toward real‑world asset tokenization. Despite the global rise of artificial intelligence, crypto adoption in the U.S. accelerated sharply after the Trump administration rolled back prior regulatory barriers, helping blockchain maintain strong momentum. 2025 proved to be another watershed moment […]

XRP ETFs’ 2025 Launch: Rapid Inflows and a Strong Institutional Debut

2025-12-27 By admin

XRP spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launched in mid-November and quickly amassed over $1.1 billion in inflows. Consistent weekly demand and rising assets positioned the products as a serious contender heading into 2026. Capital, Liquidity, and Conviction: XRP ETFs in 2025 XRP ETFs entered U.S. markets late in 2025, but they wasted no time making an […]

Question – Zen 6 Speculation Thread

2025-12-27 By admin

ATX dying would probably require a drastic upheaval beyond even CAMM. Likeliest candidate for the executioner would be tied to development of glass PCBs with photonic interconnects – something I don’t expect to land anytime soon even with TSMC and other non Intel parties making moves on photonics.

Notepad++ 8.9

2025-12-27 By admin

Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Read more…

Discussion – Apple Silicon SoC thread

2025-12-27 By admin

M15 nmUnified memory architecture – LP-DDR416 billion transistors 8-core CPU 4 high-performance cores192 KB instruction cache128 KB data cacheShared 12 MB L2 cache 4 high-efficiency cores128 KB instruction cache64 KB data cacheShared 4 MB L2 cache(Apple claims the 4 high-effiency cores alone perform like a dual-core Intel MacBook Air) 8-core iGPU (but there is a […]

Discussion – Samsung Exynos SoC thread

2025-12-27 By admin

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is rumoured to feature the Exynos 2400e SoC (presumably an underclocked version of the 2400). The remarkable thing is that this chip will be in Galaxy S24 FE phones of all regions, including the USA. That’s right, this is the first Samsung phone since the Galaxy S6 to feature […]

Discussion – RDNA 5 / UDNA (CDNA Next) speculation

2025-12-27 By admin

Global LDS patent Patent available here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US12001334B2 It’s a radiating fabric paradigm. Does nearest neighbour searches first, then propagates out to other CUs further out. The patent is old so likely major tweaks since then (LDS instead of L0 etc…). But the … docs.google.com

WildBit Viewer 6.19

2025-12-27 By admin

WildBit Viewer is a fast, feature-rich image viewer with slideshow, editor, multi-screen support, EXIF/IPTC info, customizable thumbnails, shell toolbar, and support for 70+ graphic formats. Read more…