Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver hints at next‑gen DLSS 5 work
Nvidia’s GeForce Game Ready driver 610.47 adds three new profile options—Enable DLSS NR override, Enable DLSS NR SL override, and Override DLSS NR presets—suggesting continued development of DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal had sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, and the new driver hints at a quiet but ongoing effort.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series A
Intel Bartlett Lake on Z790 via BIOS Mod: A Community Discovery Reveals the Line Between Socket Compatibility and Firmware Locks
A community modder successfully ran Intel’s Bartlett Lake‑S Core 9 273PQE, a 12‑core embedded processor, on an Asus Z790 consumer motherboard by applying a custom BIOS. The hack bypasses Intel’s firmware restrictions, proving that the socket and electrical design are compatible, but the platform is deliberately blocked at the BIOS level. Intel markets Bartlett Lake for edge and industrial use, and motherboard partners officially support it only on IPC boards, not on mainstream Z790 platforms. While the experiment shows the technical feasibility, it remains a niche, non‑reproducible workaround for enthusiasts.
Samsung Turns Privacy Into Physical Screen Feature
Samsung may have just made Apple’s privacy model feel a little outdated. What interests me here is not just the feature. It is the innovation behind it. The Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces a Privacy Display designed to make the screen much harder to...
China's Limits: Why It Can't Replicate ASML
Why China Can't Copy ASML? https://t.co/A0c2vGrU8i via @YouTube #microprosessor #chip #ASML #tech #semiconductor @sonu_monika @enilev @Jagersbergknut @TysonLester @chidambara09 @labordeolivier @BetaMoroney @tlloydjones @Nicochan33 @jeancayeux @RLDI_Lamy @pierrepinna @pierrecappelli @pchamard @JeromeMONANGE @thierry_pires @MaiaGabunia @amalmerzouk @NewsNeus @mary_gambara @PawlowskiMario @XavierAncelin @drsharwood @kalydeoo @AnthonyRochand @Sharleneisenia @1OFFGINGER @smaksked...
Intel Officially Launches the Core Series 3: Wildcat Lake Brings 18A and AI Features to More Affordable Laptops
Intel launched the Core Series 3 (codenamed Wildcat Lake) on April 16, 2026, targeting affordable laptops, education, small‑business PCs and edge devices. The line uses the Core Ultra Series 3 architecture on Intel’s 18A process, offering up to 40 TOPS AI performance, Thunderbolt 4, Wi‑Fi 7 and...
Mindfactory’s Sales Plummet: The DIY PC Market Shows Clear Signs of Fatigue in April 2026
German DIY retailer Mindfactory reported a dramatic drop in CPU sales, with weekly volumes falling to roughly 1,000 units in weeks 14‑15 of 2026 – a decline of more than 50 percent. AMD still outsold Intel in unit count, but...
OnePlus Watch 4 Spotted on Google Play Console with Snapdragon W5 Specs
OnePlus Watch 4 surfaced on the Google Play Console, revealing a model number OPWWE261, a 466 × 466 pixel circular OLED display and a Snapdragon W5 processor. The leak suggests a launch in the coming weeks, positioning the device as a possible...
Teledyne FLIR Secures $35 Million TacFLIR Deal with Poland’s WB Group
Teledyne FLIR Defense announced a $35 million contract to supply its TacFLIR 280-HDEP surveillance system to Poland’s WB Group, integrating the sensors onto Rosomak and Borsuk armored vehicles. The deal underscores Warsaw’s push for advanced ISR and deepens U.S. defense ties...
U.S. Army Arms Hunter Wolf UGV with .50‑Caliber Machine Gun, Expanding Combat Role
The U.S. Army has fitted its Hunter Wolf unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) with a .50‑caliber machine gun during a 101st Airborne Division exercise, shifting the platform from pure logistics to a security‑focused combat configuration. The move signals a broader push...
Tech Index Hits Record Highs While Figma Slides 6.8% After Anthropic Unveils Claude Design
U.S. tech indexes reached all‑time highs on Friday, buoyed by AI chip demand and easing geopolitical tensions. In contrast, Figma shares tumbled 6.8% to $18.92 after Anthropic announced its Claude Design product, underscoring how AI news can create divergent moves...
Cadence Commits $65 M to Deepen AI and Robotics Ties with Nvidia and Google Cloud
Cadence Design Systems announced a $65 million investment to broaden AI and robotics partnerships with Nvidia and Google Cloud. The funding will fuel joint design initiatives, integrate Nvidia’s Omniverse and CUDA‑X libraries, and launch a cloud‑based AI agent for chip layout,...
UCL Researchers Show Quantum‑Enhanced AI Beats Classical Models by 20% on Fluid Dynamics
University College London scientists have demonstrated that an AI model trained with quantum‑derived patterns predicts complex fluid dynamics 20% more accurately than conventional AI, while using hundreds of times less memory. The breakthrough, published in Science Advances, signals a practical...
Semiconductor Roadmaps Align Industry on Future Scaling
#Technology #Thread #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Roadmaps The Semiconductor Let Us Explore Roadmaps: 1/ - Semiconductor Roadmaps Define The Long-Term Direction Of Technology, Manufacturing, And System Innovation. - They Align Industry Players On Scaling Challenges, Investment Priorities, And Ecosystem Evolution
Europe’s AI Chip Push Gains Momentum, Still Funding‑Limited
Europe’s AI chip ambitions are gaining momentum, but face structural limits. Startups like Euclyd are seeking significant funding to scale, reflecting strong demand in the sector. The challenge is clear. Europe has the talent and intent, but funding depth and manufacturing capacity...
AEQ to Showcase Forum IP Plus and Systel Max at NAB Show
AEQ will debut its new Forum IP Plus AoIP digital console and the Systel Max call‑management system at the NAB Show. Forum IP Plus offers 32 mix buses, 10 N‑1 buses, up to 24 motorized faders and multichannel connectivity via...
$999 Dash Device Turns Any Car Driverless
This is the future of the industry. A $999 dash mounted device that can take practically any car and make it driverless Tesla should make something like this too https://t.co/32vT7EEodZ
Streetlights Now Power Phones Wirelessly
Light Up and Charge Up: Smart Street Lighting with Wireless Phone Charging by @gigadgets_ #Innovation #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech https://t.co/6SgmW9UeOd
Your Old iPad or Android Tablet Can Be Your New Smart Home Panel - Here's How
Turning an unused iPad or Android tablet into a dedicated smart‑home control panel is a low‑cost way to centralize lighting, climate and security devices. The article walks readers through hardware basics, mounting options, and how to lock the device to...
Quantum AI Unlocks a New Competitive Advantage
Unleashing the Advantage of Quantum #AI by @haimengzhao @IQIM_Caltech Learn more: https://t.co/1IrJRKEnm7 #QuantumComputing #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #Tech https://t.co/jYDoJEAHm8
IoT Advances Make Solar Water Cooling Commercially Viable
Internet-of-Things could bring solar module water cooling closer to commercial viability #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/2fLmWs7pqf
AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched
A floating‑point divider state sampling (FP‑DSS) vulnerability has been disclosed for AMD Zen 1 and Zen 1+ processors, including early Ryzen and EPYC chips. The flaw is a transient‑execution issue that could let a locally‑privileged attacker extract data through the floating‑point divisor...
AutoFlight’s 2‑Ton eVTOL Tea Delivery Marks China’s First Heavy‑Payload Urban Air Mobility Test
AutoFlight successfully completed China’s first 2‑ton‑class eVTOL cargo trial, moving fresh spring tea from Anshun to Guiyang in 37 minutes. The flight, combined with high‑speed rail to Shanghai, delivered the product to eastern markets within 24 hours, showcasing a new...
XCharge Launches First European EV Charger Assembly Plant in Spain
XCharge has opened a 3,000‑square‑meter assembly line in Silla, Valencia, marking its first European manufacturing footprint. The plant will begin full‑scale production of the GridLink battery‑integrated fast charger in 2027, strengthening local supply chains and supporting Spain’s EV market growth.
AI-Powered Prosthetic Hand Adapts Through Daily Use
A Smarter Prosthetic: Esper Bionics’ #AI Hand Learns from Everyday Use by @EsperBionics #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/K70lFhcy74
TSMC’s 58% Q1 Profit Jump Gives Nvidia’s AI Roadmap a Boost
TSMC’s first‑quarter profit surged 58% as AI chip demand surged, offering investors a rare glimpse into Nvidia’s upcoming product pipeline, including the Vera Rubin GPU slated for 2026. The earnings beat underscores the deepening reliance of the world’s leading AI...
Sabi Unveils Brain‑Reading Beanie with Up to 100,000 Sensors
Silicon Valley startup Sabi announced a wearable beanie that decodes imagined speech into on‑screen text, targeting release by the end of the year. The device packs 70,000‑100,000 EEG sensors and leverages a large‑scale AI model trained on 100,000 hours of...
TSMC Accelerates 3nm Rollout, Sparking $56B Capex Surge and Advanced Packaging Boom
TSMC announced an unprecedented expansion of its 3‑nanometer production across Taiwan, the U.S., and Japan, prompting a record $52‑56 billion capital spend and lifting Everlight Chemical’s stock as its PSPI material becomes critical for advanced packaging.
C12 Sets 2033 Target for Fault‑Tolerant Quantum Computers with Four‑Generation Roadmap
C12 announced a detailed four‑generation roadmap that aims to deliver a utility‑scale, fault‑tolerant quantum computer by 2033. The plan emphasizes architecture over qubit count, targeting sub‑watt power per qubit and a 17 m² system footprint, and signals a bold push toward...
Blue Origin Unveils Project Quartz Global Ground Station Network
Blue Origin announced Project Quartz, a global network of proprietary ground stations and operation centers to support its New Glenn heavy‑lift rocket and Blue Ring orbital‑logistics vehicle. The infrastructure, now under construction, aims to replace third‑party ground‑as‑a‑service providers, giving the company tighter control...
Exynos 2600 Beats Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 by 20fps
Exynos 2600 once again outperforms the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in gaming Achieving 102fps, over 20fps more than the 8 Elite Gen 5, is an incredible result From @ luancastro_lc on X
NextNav Cleared for More Coexistence Tests
NextNav received FCC clearance to conduct a second round of field trials in Pueblo, Colorado, evaluating how its proposed 5G‑based GPS backup can coexist with railroad automatic equipment identification (AEI) systems. The tests, which run through October 1, 2026, follow a similar...
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'We Can Lose Three [Computers] and Still Ride Through’: Inside the 8-CPU Brain of NASA’s Artemis II that ‘Votes’ on...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission relies on an eight‑CPU architecture that runs identical flight software in parallel. The design employs a voting‑style fault‑tolerance system that can silently drop a faulty processor and even survive the loss of three...
Lone Worker Safety with UWB Tech Is Solving Blue-Collar Recruitment Crisis
Heavy‑industry plants are grappling with a severe labor shortage, intensified by safety concerns on sprawling, unmonitored floors. Deploying ultra‑wideband (UWB) real‑time location systems (RTLS) gives precise, sub‑meter tracking of lone workers, instantly alerting responders to emergencies. The technology eliminates blind...
Snapdragon X2 Could Thin Surface Laptop Studio Design
Surface Laptop Studio with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme would be a dream come true At the same time, it would allow this design to be more feasible thanks to not needing as much cooling, maybe even eliminating the stacked base in...
Sweden’s Helsingborg Leads with Ultra‑Cheap Dynamic Power
Sweden is simply so next level Helsingborg 📍 #alwaysbecharging #MOREPLUGS ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #einride photos: Thorsten Bunz € 0,50/kWh by the time you read this early afternoon :) #dynamicpricing #monta https://t.co/LMcEHrNLRs
L3Harris Technologies (LHX) Wins $465 Million Army Contract For Next-Generation Night-Vision System
L3Harris Technologies announced a seven‑year, $465 million contract with the U.S. Army to supply its next‑generation Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) system. The award centers on the company’s NOVA night‑vision goggles, which attach to helmets and deliver continuous situational awareness for...
Allbirds' $50M AI Data Centre Can Power Seven Chatbots
SCOOP: Leaked photo of the first AI compute data centre that Allbirds built with its recent $50m investment. Insiders say that the rack has enough capacity to provide tokens for 7 AI chatbot users. https://t.co/eWfoeVYWCq
Perfect for the Beach, Pool, or Park, This Skullcandy Portable Speaker on Sale for Just $33 Right Now
Skullcandy’s Terrain Mini portable speaker is on sale for $32.99 with free U.S. shipping. The palm‑sized device boasts an IPX7 waterproof rating, Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity up to 33 feet, and up to 14 hours of battery life via USB‑C charging. It includes...
You're Not Talking to Somebody Who Woke Up a Loser
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, engaged in a roughly 40‑minute debate with investor Dwarkesh Patel about whether the United States should continue exporting AI‑focused chips to China. Patel raised concerns that Chinese firms could use Nvidia hardware to train powerful...
Six‑bay AI‑enhanced NAS Packs PC‑level Specs
Powerful six-bay AI enhanced NAS featuring specifications that you’d usually see in a PC. https://t.co/41XXeO1evz
Onn 4K Pro 2 and Onn 4K Stick Prices Fluctuate by as Much as 50% From Store to Store
Walmart’s new Onn 4K Pro 2 and Onn 4K Stick streaming devices show dramatic price swings across stores. The Pro 2 typically retails for $59.88 but can be found for $49.88, while the Stick usually costs $39.98 and drops to $19.88 in...
These Tiny Hunter-Killers Ram Shahed Drones Right From the Sky. America Wants Them, Too.
The Bumblebee family of quadcopter drones—Ukraine’s AI‑assisted interceptor and the U.S.‑bound Bumblebee V2—use artificial‑intelligence‑guided visual tracking to collide with and destroy hostile Shahed drones. Both systems are inexpensive, lightweight and rely on a “hard‑kill” kinetic strike rather than missiles. The Pentagon’s...
Apple's Original AirTag Still Tracks Effectively, and You Can Get a 4-Pack for Its Best Price Ever
Apple’s first‑generation AirTag remains a reliable Bluetooth tracker, now available in a 4‑pack for $60 at Best Buy—a $39 discount. While the newer Gen 2 adds a louder speaker, Ultra Wideband support and longer range, the original model still covers everyday tracking...
Flawed Cisco Update Threatens to Stop APs From Getting Further Patches
Cisco's recent IOS XE update for over 200 wireless access point models adds a log that grows about 5 MB per day, eventually exhausting flash memory and blocking further patches or bricking devices. Affected models include Catalyst 9130AX, 91361, 9162x, 9164x, IW9167...
Dell and Nvidia Turn AI Infrastructure Into the New Power Center of Enterprise Tech
Dell Technologies and Nvidia are deepening their partnership to deliver unified AI infrastructure that blends servers, software, and models for enterprise use. The collaboration focuses on flexible, hybrid deployments that span on‑premises, edge, and cloud environments, emphasizing scalability and security....
Wireless Cassette Player Revives Tapes Without Headphone Cords
The Maxell Wireless Cassette Player is a nifty blend of old and new, bringing your old tapes to your ears without the need for a wired pair of headphones. https://t.co/bxxWO2EfqB
MIT Unveils Solid‑State Quantum Sensor That Measures Multiple Properties at Once
MIT scientists have built a solid‑state quantum sensor that uses entanglement to capture several physical parameters in a single readout. The device, demonstrated at room temperature, measured the amplitude, frequency and phase of a microwave field simultaneously, outperforming sequential measurements....
Bloom Energy Jumps ~24% on $2.8 GW Oracle AI Data‑center Fuel‑cell Deal
Bloom Energy stock surged roughly 24% after Oracle announced a 2.8‑gigawatt fuel‑cell agreement to power its AI and cloud data centers, including 1.2 GW already under construction. Analysts lifted price targets, and clean‑energy ETFs rallied, marking the deal as the largest...
Pearl TV Launches NextGen TV Converter Box Program Targeting 15 Million OTA Households
Pearl TV announced the NEXTGEN TV Converter Box Program, inviting consumer‑electronics makers to produce low‑cost ATSC 3.0 set‑top boxes for an estimated 15 million over‑the‑air U.S. households. The initiative, unveiled at the NAB Show, seeks to accelerate affordable adoption of the NextGen...
Chinese Researchers Grow Wafer‑Scale 2D Semiconductors 1,000× Faster
Researchers at China’s Institute of Metal Research have demonstrated wafer‑scale growth of monolayer tungsten silicon nitride films using a liquid‑gold/tungsten bilayer substrate. The new chemical vapor deposition process is roughly 1,000 times faster than conventional techniques and produced films up...
Polaris Secures $80 Million to Accelerate India's Smart‑Meter Rollout
Polaris Smart Metering Private Limited has closed an $80 million financing round with British International Investment (BII). The capital will fund the deployment of more than 2.2 million advanced metering infrastructure units in West Bengal, advancing India's target of 250 million smart meters...