IBM
11 mentions across all digests
IBM is a multinational technology company that, alongside Cisco, lobbied Colorado to exempt 'critical infrastructure' hardware from the state's right-to-repair law, and whose former CISO Talha Tariq joined Vercel as CTO of Security.
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
IBM's Granite 4.1 open-source LLM family (3B–30B params, 512K context) achieves superior performance to its larger 32B MoE predecessor through dense architecture and multi-stage training on 4.1M curated samples with GRPO reinforcement learning.
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes
Zig 0.16.0 expands to PowerPC and s390x while dropping proprietary OS support, marking a 1183-commit architectural push toward production-grade infrastructure with 244 contributors.
IBM pays $17M fine to end DOJ suit over DEI programs
IBM's $17M settlement marks the DOJ's first enforcement action under its Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, signaling aggressive regulatory scrutiny of federal contractors' DEI programs.
The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
Red Hat retracted a white paper on AI-accelerated military weapons targeting, exposing the defense-tech industry's struggle to reconcile AI ethics with defense contracts.
The Problem That Built an Industry
TPF's 10,000+ transaction-per-second performance locked airlines into 1960s mainframe architecture for 60 years because no Unix replacement ever matched it, cementing legacy data models across the entire industry.