Hello you fine Internet folks,
Today's article is on Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and diving into the Blackwell architecture generally and more specifically into the GB202 GPU die in the RTX PRO 6000.
Hope y'all enjoy!
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu
https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2025/06/28/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu/
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
— John Johnson
Funny FPU trick I discovered yesterday to detect arm64 or x86_64 architecture at runtime
There was recently an article about using salvaged Sun Ray thin clients with a modern server. @bcantrill's response to that article on Hacker News mentioned his story about using DTrace to debug a performance problem on a Sun Ray server. He linked to a paper he wrote for Usenix, but I prefer his extended telling in this 2007 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8&t=35m6s
If you like that kind of thing, my presentation "Save the world, write more efficient code" from @joyofcoding is online now! https://youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?t=203
a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
New post: Insecure Boot: Injecting initramfs from a debug shell https://insinuator.net/2025/07/insecure-boot-injecting-initramfs-from-a-debug-shell/
Reproducing a million-dollar bug: WhatsApp CVE-2019-11932 https://www.ibm.com/think/x-force/reproducing-million-dollar-bug-whatsapp-cve-2019-11932-afl-frida
CVE ID: CVE-2025-6554
Vendor: Google
Product: Chromium V8
Date Added: 2025-07-02
Notes: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html?m=1 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6554
CVE URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6554
V8 Security is hiring in Munich, Germany: https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/96463411851731654-software-engineer-iii-v8-security
Great opportunity to work on some really hard and interesting problems in the security space!