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Silicon SNR

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About this Podcast:

Signal-to-noise ratio: the measure of how much in a channel is worth hearing. Every day this show filters hundreds of tech items down to the true signal — AI and large models, semiconductors, and the market moves that matter to tech stocks. Deep dives on what counts, one-liners for the rest. Ten minutes, zero filler.Notes: Auto-generated and narrated daily by an AI pipeline — fetching, scoring, writing, and voicing.Sources: Hacker News, Reddit (r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, r/programming, r/semiconductors, r/chipdesign), Simon Willison, SemiAnalysis, Semiconductor Engineering, EE Times, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, Federal Reserve announcements, and key GitHub releases (uv, LLVM, Yosys, OpenROAD).Sister show 硅基信噪比 delivers the Chinese edition. Text edition daily at feed.derifish.com

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What is Silicon SNR about?

Signal-to-noise ratio: the measure of how much in a channel is worth hearing. Every day this show filters hundreds of tech items down to the true signal, AI and large models, semiconductors, and the market moves that matter to tech stocks. Deep dives on what counts, one-liners for the rest. Ten minutes, zero filler.

Who hosts Silicon SNR?

Silicon SNR is hosted by Not A Robot. The show has published 89 episodes to date.

What has Silicon SNR covered recently?

Recent episodes include "2026-11-01 · Linux TCP flaw, ChatGPT takeover" (1 November 2026, 8 minutes), "2026-10-31 · Black October hits dev platforms" (31 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "2026-10-30 · Memory's boom, Intel's bust" (30 October 2026, 9 minutes).

How often does Silicon SNR publish?

Silicon SNR publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 9 minutes across 89 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Silicon SNR?

Booking probability for Silicon SNR is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Silicon SNR requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Silicon SNR's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Silicon SNR?

The strongest fits for Silicon SNR are Semiconductors & Electronic Components and IT Services & Software Development. Silicon SNR has a technology audience.

About the host

Not A Robot hosts Silicon SNR, a technology podcast with 89 episodes published.

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  • Silicon SNR

    2026-11-01 · Linux TCP flaw, ChatGPT takeover

    Nov 1, 20268 min

    A security-heavy day: a critical Linux TCP use-after-free still unpatched on Ubuntu and RHEL, a one-click ChatGPT account takeover, and Jepsen's damning ParticleDB report — alongside more evidence that orchestrated...

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    2026-10-31 · Black October hits dev platforms

    Oct 31, 202610 min

    Security dominated the day: Northflank became the latest multi-tenant dev platform breached in a "Black October" wave, researchers showed five cross-tenant takeovers in Azure, and new details emerged on how Binance lost...

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    2026-10-30 · Memory's boom, Intel's bust

    Oct 30, 20269 min

    The AI memory crunch split the semiconductor tape: Samsung and Sandisk posted record results while Intel guided down on memory-squeezed PCs, and AWS's fastest growth in five years came with negative free cash flow...

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    2026-10-29 · Gemini 4 Carbon and memory's record quarter

    Oct 29, 202611 min

    Security dominates the day — Google's cyber-focused Gemini 4 Carbon, an anti-bot script weaponizing LLM refusals, a Ruby regex bug that forced Alpine to rebuild GitLab, and macOS still trusting compromised roots —...

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    2026-10-28 · Genie 4 and a machine-checked CFSG

    Oct 28, 20269 min

    AI keeps pushing into hard verification and science — DeepMind's Genie 4 world model, a 43-million-line Lean proof of the finite simple groups classification, and Claude in drug pipelines — while infrastructure...

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    2026-10-27 · OpenAI claims ETH is false

    Oct 27, 20269 min

    OpenAI's AI-for-science push headlines the day with a claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, alongside a cheaper GPT-6.1 Terra; on the infrastructure side, Cloudflare's KV-cache leak postmortem...

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    2026-10-26 · Anthropic files to go public

    Oct 26, 20267 min

    Anthropic's public S-1 dominates the day: $16.3B first-half revenue, a profitable Q2, and roughly $430B of compute commitments that will anchor the AI-capex debate. Elsewhere, the hardware stack keeps hitting...

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    2026-10-25 · The economics of AI

    Oct 25, 20268 min

    A quiet weekend with sharp questions about AI's economics: frontier API prices have fallen up to 80% under open-weight pressure, a decade-old CNN out-diagnosed frontier LLMs, and the AI build-out's financing...

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    2026-10-24 · Open weights near the frontier

    Oct 24, 202611 min

    A near-frontier open-weight contender arrived as Kimi K3.1 Pro landed just behind Opus 5.5, while local AI kept pushing outward — speech-only full-duplex on a laptop, 2-bit DeepSeek GGUFs, and Qwen4 hints in kernel...

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    2026-10-23 · AI gets rigorous, markets turn

    Oct 23, 20269 min

    AI is pushing into rigor and governance — Claude-generated proofs at scale, NVIDIA's agent sandbox and Agent Skills moving to the Linux Foundation — while markets turned on the AI trade: chip stocks hit their...

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    2026-10-22 · Poisoned Gateways and Stolen Keys

    Oct 22, 20269 min

    A supply-chain and secrets day: a hijacked LiteLLM release and a Railway breach both went after AI-provider keys, PHP finally shipped its RCE fixes, and GitLab patched another CVSS 10 — while DuckDB 2.0...

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    2026-10-21 · One-Byte CA Keys and PHP's Emergency Patch

    Oct 21, 20269 min

    A trust-and-patch day: eMudhra's trivially weak CA keys and a pre-announced critical PHP RCE have admins updating CA bundles and pulling sites offline, while Google, Mistral and Microsoft ship meaningful developer...

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    2026-10-20 · DeepSeek opens its engine, gets banned

    Oct 20, 20269 min

    DeepSeek open-sourced the engine behind its production inference the same day the US moved to purge DeepSeek from federal agencies; meanwhile backdoored open weights and hidden chatbot instructions show how much trust...

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    2026-10-19 · Agents rewrite themselves, Linux 7.3 ships

    Oct 19, 202610 min

    Agents dominate the day: one paper moves their reasoning into latent space, Google's Harness² lets them rewrite their own scaffolding, and a new dataset shows labs' benchmark claims run high. Linux 7.3 closes...

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    2026-10-18 · Solar passes nuclear, CoreWeave credit cracks

    Oct 18, 20268 min

    A quiet weekend issue: solar quietly overtakes nuclear in global generation, while CoreWeave's bond and CDS stress turns into the clearest stress test yet of debt-funded AI infrastructure. Items: Solar surpasses...

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    2026-10-17 · AI cracks the NIST curve mystery

    Oct 17, 202610 min

    Claude solves the 25-year mystery of where the NIST elliptic-curve seeds came from (a 1990s lrand48 call, not a backdoor), and Anthropic posts a second research result on quantum circuit design. Open models keep...

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    2026-10-16 · Meta opens Muse Spark, Japan funds fabs

    Oct 16, 20268 min

    Meta puts out its biggest open-weight model yet, and an interpretability essay argues that most neurons were understandable all along. In chips, Japan backs two new GlobalFoundries fabs in New York while TSMC and ASML...

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    2026-10-15 · Anthropic's numbers, and an AI selloff

    Oct 15, 20269 min

    Anthropic's first hard numbers — $16.8bn in Q3 but slowing growth — landed in a market already rattled by hot inflation, deepening a chip and AI-infrastructure selloff led by CoreWeave's credit stress; on the...

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    2026-10-07 · Mistral returns, decision models spread

    Oct 7, 202610 min

    A day of models and plumbing: Mistral is back near the frontier with a 1T-parameter MoE, "decision models" go mainstream as OpenAI and AWS's Strands join in, and Wikimedia adds to the evidence that OpenAI's...

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    2026-10-06 · Rethinking memory and model training

    Oct 6, 20268 min

    Memory and model architecture dominate: an open-weight 501B MoE from Reflection, a backprop-free training method, and a wave of alternatives to today's memory hierarchy — from ferroelectric HBM rivals to...

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