Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have both escaped punishment after the McLaren team mates collided on the final lap of the Singapore Grand Prix Sprint.
Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix.
Cadillac's Sergio Perez and Aston Martin's Lance Stroll both suffered an early exit from the Sprint at the Singapore Grand Prix, with the pair colliding less than one lap into the event.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen overcame a difficult start and challenging conditions to take victory in the Sprint at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton improved from P6 to P3 on the opening lap of the Sprint in Singapore, which became P2 following George Russell’s early retirement.
Max Verstappen followed up his victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia by winning Saturday’s Sprint race around the streets of Singapore – mastering the mixed weather conditions while George Russell crashed out early on and the McLaren drivers clashed in the closing stages.
After snatching the lead of the Sprint from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, George Russell crashed out of the event at the Marina Bay Circuit.
McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have given their perspectives on the collision between the pair during the Singapore Grand Prix Sprint.
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague:
With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux.
This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM... For end-users that may already be relying on the likes of Zswap or ZRAM, CRAM is offering near-native DRAM speeds. Read-only data is shown to be as fast as the raw DRAM performance. And for memory writes, CRAM is much faster than ZRAM or Zswap or plain swap.
"Most of the individual pieces needed to support CRAM are already mainline," the article points out.
Tom's Hardware writes that "It uses a private NUMA node (essentially, a ghost CPU) instead of pretending to be a block device, and this lets Linux continue using all of its memory semantics, including migration and ballooning, to manage CRAM."
Because CRAM is stored in RAM and treated as RAM, with full cacheline/byte access, it can be accessed in a read-only fashion with little delay; just the cost of hardware-offloaded compression...
Even when you enable writes, CRAM is still much faster than ZRAM; 5.4x in the worst tested case of 20% writes. That's a huge drop from the 452x read-only case, but keep your context; a 5.4x speedup is still titanic. The massive performance cliff when writes are involved comes down to the need to page fault and migrate folios back to the original NUMA domain, as you can't write directly to compressed data; you'd corrupt everything...
While the obvious target of the work here (given its origin at Meta Platforms) is big Linux servers, ZRAM and Zswap are used all over the Linux ecosystem, even on machines as constrained as the Steam Deck. Many distributions enable one or the other by default. CRAM seems like it could offer a considerable speed-up for some of these machines, so hopefully it finds its way into the kernel once the remaining implementation questions are answered.
With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux.
This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM... For end-users that may already be relying on the likes of Zswap or ZRAM, CRAM is offering near-native DRAM speeds. Read-only data is shown to be as fast as the raw DRAM performance. And for memory writes, CRAM is much faster than ZRAM or Zswap or plain swap.
"Most of the individual pieces needed to support CRAM are already mainline," the article points out.
Tom's Hardware writes that "It uses a private NUMA node (essentially, a ghost CPU) instead of pretending to be a block device, and this lets Linux continue using all of its memory semantics, including migration and ballooning, to manage CRAM."
Because CRAM is stored in RAM and treated as RAM, with full cacheline/byte access, it can be accessed in a read-only fashion with little delay; just the cost of hardware-offloaded compression...
Even when you enable writes, CRAM is still much faster than ZRAM; 5.4x in the worst tested case of 20% writes. That's a huge drop from the 452x read-only case, but keep your context; a 5.4x speedup is still titanic. The massive performance cliff when writes are involved comes down to the need to page fault and migrate folios back to the original NUMA domain, as you can't write directly to compressed data; you'd corrupt everything...
While the obvious target of the work here (given its origin at Meta Platforms) is big Linux servers, ZRAM and Zswap are used all over the Linux ecosystem, even on machines as constrained as the Steam Deck. Many distributions enable one or the other by default. CRAM seems like it could offer a considerable speed-up for some of these machines, so hopefully it finds its way into the kernel once the remaining implementation questions are answered.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Trans-Canada Summer (documentary, 1958, YouTube) - The designated route will be the shortest practical east-west route through each province consistent with the needs of the provinces and the interests of Canada as a whole. This film is about that road and about places and people and the life it serves.
Honderden mannen liepen een ‘mannenmars’ door Amsterdam omdat ze vinden dat het nu „echt een keertje aan hen” is om op te komen voor de veiligheid van vrouwen. De Dolle Mina’s vinden de mars „dapper”, maar hekelen de insteek dat vrouwen beschermd moeten worden door mannen.
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De nieuwe EU-begroting, die vanaf 2028 voor zeven jaar gaat gelden, wordt al meer dan een jaar publiekelijk bevochten. Zaterdag deed roulerend voorzitter Ierland een voorstel om de onderhandelingen vlot te trekken.
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Terwijl Europa zich toenemend bedreigd voelt door aanvallen vanuit Moskou en Oekraïne steunt tegen Ruslands agressieoorlog, maakten Poetin en Trump vrijdag bekend elkaar te helpen. Experts betwijfelen of extra leveringen van diesel de prijs substantieel naar beneden kunnen brengen.
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The Lionesses beat Greece last night 3-1 in the first leg of their World Cup qualifying play-off and our very own Suzy Wrack has analysed the performance:
Rayo Vallecano supporters stopped their team’s La Liga match against Athletic Bilbao by throwing paper airplanes and other objects onto the field, forcing the game to be suspended.
Continue reading...Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without fail
If she really was raped, why didn’t she speak up earlier? Why did she get drunk? Why was she wearing such a short skirt? Why did she walk home by herself?
God, it’s exhausting, isn’t it? Every time a story about a woman being raped becomes headline news, the same pattern repeats without fail. People accuse the woman of asking for it. They question her motives; they scrutinize her looks; they attack her character. And without fail, she is punished for speaking up.
Continue reading...Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including flooding
When South African billionaire Koos Bekker bought an old country estate in a sleepy corner of Somerset to turn it into a luxury hotel, residents thought it was a sign their area was on the up.
Walking through his peaceful manicured gardens, which feature a maze of apple trees twisted into perfect shapes using the espalier method, it’s easy to feel that all is well in this quiet, picturesque pocket of England.
Continue reading...The sports-mad city has embraced its new superstar, even as he choppers in from Manhattan and makes no secret of the fact that Philly was never his first choice
Philadelphia has always had an instinctive affinity with athletes who embrace the grind over the glamour. In a place where sports mean a little too much, commitment has traditionally counted for more than celebrity. What it demands above all, sometimes unreasonably, is the sense that they have bought in, that the city and its fortunes matter to them as much as they do to the people who devote their lives to backing its teams.
Few embodied that ethic more completely than Lane Johnson, the Eagles’ revered right tackle and best player for more than a decade, who abruptly announced his retirement Tuesday after 14 seasons, two Super Bowl titles and a career spent neutralizing some of the most freakish physical specimens to walk the earth. Johnson’s quotidian greatness on the offensive line was almost perversely workmanlike. According to Pro Football Focus, he allowed just 10 sacks across close to 7,000 pass-blocking snaps in the last 13 years, going entire seasons without letting his man bring down the quarterback. The Eagles won nearly two-thirds of their games when he played and lost nearly two-thirds when he didn’t.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Former Brazilian environment minister warns of destruction as far-right scion favourite to become president
The former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has said that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the “perverse project” of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his jailed far-right father.
The Amazon was thrown into chaos during Jair Bolsonaro’s 2019-2022 presidency, when Brazil’s environment and Indigenous protection agencies were gutted and environmental criminals ran riot, causing surges in deforestation and violence.
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Miffy_ has added a photo to the pool:
From the 45th floor in Shinjuku. This was right during sunset around 17:00 hours.
