2.5 Admins 2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2
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Apr 9, 2026 Discussion of Arm releasing its first branded CPU and what that means for licensees and the market. A major AI company accidentally leaked source materials through an unsecured map file. Practical talk about setting up resilient photo backups and choosing portable storage solutions like TrueNAS over lock-in appliances.
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Arm Starts Selling Its Own CPUs
- Arm moving from IP licensor to making its own CPUs signals a strategic shift in vendor-customer dynamics.
- Allan Jude and Jim Salter note ARM's scale lets it vertically integrate and potentially compete with its licensees, exemplified by the Neoverse V3 AGI CPU and Meta partnership.
Spec Sheets May Hide Marketing Overengineering
- Huge core counts and bandwidth claims can either reflect careful die-space optimization or marketing excess.
- Jim Salter doubts whether specs like 136 cores and per-core bandwidth are the result of deep research or simply headline-driven design choices.
Source Map Led To An S3 Leak
- Anthropic accidentally published a source-map that revealed human-readable code and an unprotected S3 asset.
- Jim Salter and Allan Jude point out the map file exposed an unsecured bucket, making the leak a basic operational security failure rather than a complex attack.
