Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime ...
CoinTelegraph

Bitcoin devs flocked back to work amid a big year for crypto

Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the ...
IEEE

Reverse Convolutional Precoding of Polar Codes: Design, Analysis, and Decoding Algorithms

Abstract: Convolutionally precoded polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are a promising variant of polar codes for short block lengths. The precoding in PAC codes has ...
Search Engine Land

Google algorithm updates 2025 in review: 3 core updates and 1 spam update

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...
IEEE

Simplified Viterbi-Like Successive-Cancellation Decoding Algorithm for Polar Codes

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...