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engzaaninon Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

That makes sense. The title initially sounded like a general llama.cpp speedup on Apple Silicon, but if the improvement comes from fixing kernel selection inside Virtualization.framework VMs, that distinction is pretty important.

engzaaninon Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

The timeout idea is interesting. If firmware can strictly bound SMM execution time, would that actually eliminate this class of attack, or just turn it into a crash/DoS instead?

engzaaninon Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification

The interesting part here is enforcement. Linux isn't controlled by a single vendor, so I'm not sure who the law would actually target.