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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Two developers built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini in one month via clean-room reverse engineering.
Niklas and the author reverse engineered Apple's AGX GPU firmware ABI and user-space components in about a month, a process that normally takes years, producing an OpenGL ES 3.0 conformant driver fast enough to run Minecraft at 200fps on an M4 Mac Mini. The work was done transparently using hypervisor traces without examining Apple binaries, following clean-room practices, and included a custom shader compiler, command stream builder, and a full Linux kernel driver for the firmware ABI. The A18 Pro firmware ABI proved significantly more complex than the M1's, with 1.5x as many structs and twice as many pointers. All experiments and provenance evidence were published in public agx-re repositories.
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GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a frontier model scoring 97.6% on FrontierMath and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, capable of autonomous AI engineering at roughly $6 per hour.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, described as its first Stargate and lightly looped frontier model, beating Fable 5.1 on many metrics and saturating the hardest FrontierMath (97.6%) and ARC-AGI-3 (99.9%) benchmarks. Latent Space tested the model with over 20 billion tokens, reporting it can train and select models, label data, deploy and debug systems, and orchestrate 20-50 parallel subagents. The authors measured about $6 per hour of agentic engineering at 33 tokens per second, with token efficiency independently confirmed by Artificial Analysis.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: May 19, 2026
Help Net Security's roundup lists cybersecurity openings across many countries, including CISO, threat intelligence, OT security, and AI security expert roles.
The roundup lists cybersecurity vacancies including CISO, SOC analyst, threat intelligence analyst, security engineer, OT security manager, and principal AI security expert positions. Employers include DataFence, Aldermore Bank, GDIT, Netcraft, Sonar, Sylvamo, MED-EL, and Crisis24 across the US, UK, India, Ireland, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, and the UAE. Nearly all listings were marked as no longer accepting applications at publication.
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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code
New Relic study finds AI-generated code doubles critical runtime issues, with senior engineers losing a third of their week to fixes.
A New Relic survey of U.S. technology leaders reports AI now writes the majority of shipped code, with senior SRE and DevOps engineers spending up to a third of their week triaging and refactoring it. A large majority of organizations had at least one AI-related production failure in the past six months, and roughly three in ten saw newly introduced security vulnerabilities. AI-generated code showed nearly twice as many critical runtime issues as peer-reviewed human-authored code, with gaps concentrated in edge cases, concurrency, deprecated APIs, and complex state changes. Most teams now prompt AI tools to embed logs and traces directly into generated code.
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