Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver hints at progress on next‑gen DLSS 5
Nvidia’s latest GeForce Game Ready driver (610.47) adds three new DLSS profile options, indicating continued work on DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, and this driver update provides the first concrete sign of advancement.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series funding
From Glass Maker to AI Kingmaker: Corning’s Pivot
Corning has transformed from a traditional glass maker into a key supplier of optical fiber for AI data centers, highlighted by a multi‑year, up‑to‑$6 billion agreement with Meta. The company’s Optical Communications segment posted a 24% year‑over‑year sales increase to $1.7 billion in Q4 2025, while operating margins hit 20.2% thanks to its Springboard strategy that leverages existing factories. Corning now targets $11 billion of incremental sales by 2028, and its stock has surged over 50% in the past month, trading near all‑time highs.
Galaxy S26 Ultra's 'Privacy Display' Is so Cool, Rumors Say Other Brands Could Give It a Try
Samsung has officially teased a new "Privacy Display" feature for the upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra, which darkens the screen when viewed from side angles to block prying eyes. A Chinese tipster reported that several overseas OEMs are testing similar hardware‑level...
PocketBeagle 2 SBC Gets Industrial Version with 1GB RAM, 64GB eMMC Flash
BeagleBoard’s PocketBeagle 2 Industrial version upgrades the original PocketBeagle 2 Rev A1 with 1 GB DDR4 RAM, a 64 GB eMMC flash and an industrial temperature range of –40 °C to +85 °C. The board retains the Texas Instruments AM6254 quad‑core Cortex‑A53 SoC, the MSPM0L1105 M0+ MCU, USB‑C...
Physicists Open Door to Future, Hyper-Efficient Orbitronic Devices
Physicists have shown that chiral phonons in non‑magnetic quartz can directly transfer orbital angular momentum to electrons, creating an orbital Seebeck effect without magnets or charge currents. The breakthrough replaces heavy, scarce magnetic metals with inexpensive, abundant crystals, simplifying orbitronic...
Official YouTube SRT Verification for Appear’s X Platform
Appear has secured YouTube verification for Secure Rapid Transport (SRT) streaming on its X5, X10 and X20 hardware platforms. The certification confirms that Appear’s encoders meet YouTube’s reliability and performance standards for live, low‑latency delivery. The move follows a request...
Don't Wait Two Years Like Me, You Need Bazzite on Your Asus ROG Ally Right Now
The author installed Bazzite, a Linux‑based SteamOS fork, on an Asus ROG Ally Z1E, replacing the default Windows environment. By dual‑booting, half of the 2 TB SSD runs Bazzite while the other half remains Windows for work and anti‑cheat compatibility. Bazzite’s...
Ayar Labs Names Sankara Venkateswaran as VP of Engineering
Ayar Labs, a silicon‑photonic co‑packaged optics pioneer, has appointed Sankara Venkateswaran as vice president of engineering. Venkateswaran will oversee the development of the company’s TeraPHY optical engines and drive the transition from prototype to mass‑production for hyperscale AI workloads. His...
BluGlass Secures A$190,000 Order From TOPTICA for Custom GaN Visible Lasers
BluGlass Ltd secured a A$190,000 (US$132,500) order from TOPTICA Photonics to supply custom gallium‑nitride visible‑wavelength lasers for photonic integrated circuits. The lasers will be used in TOPTICA’s next‑generation single‑frequency PICs that enable quantum capabilities for trapped‑ion, neutral‑atom, and photonic quantum...
Apple to Start Assembling Mac Mini in the United States This Year
Apple will begin assembling the Mac mini in the United States in 2026, a notable shift for a product that makes up about five percent of global Mac sales. The 2024 redesign introduced the first major update since 2010, pairing...
A Resource for AVP News
A Reddit‑based weekly roundup, Last Week in AVP #107, aggregates the most compelling Apple Vision Pro (AVP) news, reviews, and videos into a single, ad‑free page. The edition highlights Apple’s potential immersive Formula 1 demo at the March 4 event, teases the...
Here’s Why Demand for Macs Has Spiked
Apple’s Mac lineup is experiencing unprecedented demand, pushing US lead times to two‑four weeks, the longest in years. The Mac Studio now has a 27‑day wait, followed by the M4‑powered MacBook Pro at 23 days and the Mac Mini at...
LUKS Encryption Compromised on Linux ICS Devices via TPM Bus Sniffing Exploit
Security researchers have disclosed CVE‑2026‑0714, a high‑severity flaw in Moxa’s UC‑1222A Secure Edition industrial computer. The vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the SPI bus to sniff the TPM2_NV_Read command and capture the LUKS full‑disk encryption key in...
Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Thales has launched the Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, a SaaS solution that centralizes enrollment, replacement, and revocation of FIDO2 security keys across enterprises. The platform offers a single‑pane‑of‑glass dashboard, on‑behalf key registration, granular policy controls, and comprehensive audit logging. By automating...
Bringing Aramine AutoNav Tele Loader to Life at Reward Gold Mine
RCT has installed Epiroc’s AutoNav Tele on an Aramine L350D loader at the Reward Gold mine in New South Wales, enabling remote operation in narrow‑vein underground conditions. The loader arrived from France and required a custom‑built mini AutoNav hut due...
Acer Launches Three Nitro Curved Monitors, Including 34-Inch 240Hz UWQHD
Acer introduced three Nitro‑branded gaming monitors built on a common platform of curved VA panels, AMD FreeSync Premium and HDMI 2.1 connectivity. The flagship ED340CURW0bmiipx offers a 34‑inch UWQHD display at 240 Hz, while the ED340CURJ0bmiipx provides the same size and resolution at...
RAD Debuts 400G Ethernet Platform for DCI, Enterprise Connectivity
RAD announced the ETX‑2i‑400G, a 400 Gbps Ethernet demarcation and aggregation platform designed for data‑center interconnect and high‑capacity enterprise links. The device targets communications service providers seeking low‑latency, SLA‑driven services that can handle AI‑intensive workloads. It incorporates multiple 400 G QSP‑DD interfaces...
Israel Upgrades UH-60 Fleet with Synthetic Vision Helmet System
Elbit Systems will equip the Israeli Air Force’s UH‑60 Black Hawk fleet with its Helmet Display and Tracking System (HDTS), delivering synthetic vision, head‑tracking, and multi‑sensor integration. The helmet provides three‑dimensional terrain and obstacle symbology directly in the pilot’s line...
MWC 2026 | Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone Demo Federated Edge Continuum
At Mobile World Congress 2026 the five largest European telcos—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone—demonstrated the first live European Edge Continuum, a federated edge infrastructure spanning their networks. The federation, built on EU‑funded IPCEI‑CIS components, is now operational in...
Salt on the Road: CATL’s Naxtra Battery Leaves the Lab – a Challenge to LFP and the Cold?
CATL and Changan have launched the first production vehicle equipped with the Naxtra sodium‑ion battery, delivering 175 Wh kg⁻¹ and a claimed 400 km range. The cell retains more than 90% of its capacity at –40 °C, vastly outperforming conventional LFP packs in sub‑zero...
The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
China’s growing threat to seize Taiwan has reignited U.S. fears over semiconductor supply chains. Taiwan manufactures roughly 90% of the world’s high‑end chips, feeding Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and AI data centers. Despite billions in Biden‑era grants and Trump‑era tariff threats,...
New Battery Made “Exclusively” For Homes Launches Onto Red-Hot Australian Market
Energy‑LIB, a China‑based firm, has launched the LIB HomeStack battery and inverter in Australia, positioning it as the first system built exclusively for residential use. The stackable units come in 16 kWh, 32 kWh and 48 kWh capacities, operate at under 25 decibels and...
Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations
Nvidia announced expanded partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage to embed AI‑driven security into operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). Using Nvidia BlueField DPUs, the collaborations offload security workloads from host CPUs, enabling hardware‑isolated,...
Boeing Demonstrates Large Language Model for Space-Grade Hardware
Boeing Space Mission Systems engineers have proven that a large language model can run on commercial off‑the‑shelf hardware and interpret satellite telemetry in natural language. The lab‑based test showed the model can generate human‑readable health reports, reducing latency compared with...
Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA
The open‑source PanVK driver for Arm Mali GPUs received a major update in Mesa 26.1 that reworks its framebuffer abstraction and moves MSAA resolves into a final frame shader. This change yields dramatic performance improvements in the Sascha Willems Vulkan multisampling...
Iowa Farmers Are Leading the Fight for Repair
Iowa's House Agriculture Committee advanced HSB 751, a Right‑to‑Repair bill targeting John Deere, with an 18‑5 vote. The legislation would require the manufacturer to provide farmers with the same diagnostic tools, software and parts that dealers use. Iowa accounts for roughly...
China’s Xiaomi Starts In-House Appliance Production in Push for Quality
Xiaomi has launched an in‑house home‑appliance production line at a new Wuhan plant, investing roughly RMB 2.5 billion ($350 million) and achieving a capacity of up to 7 million units annually. The company plans to manufacture about 20% of its air‑conditioners and other key...
Deploying Open Source Vision Language Models (VLM) on Jetson
NVIDIA’s Cosmos Reason 2B vision‑language model can now be deployed on the Jetson family using the vLLM inference engine. The tutorial walks through installing the NGC CLI, pulling FP8‑quantized weights, and running device‑specific Docker containers for AGX Thor, AGX Orin and Orin Super Nano. After...
GyroidOS Virtualization Solution Aims to Secure Embedded Devices, Ease Cybersecurity Certification
GyroidOS, an open‑source multi‑architecture OS‑level virtualization platform maintained by Fraunhofer AISEC, isolates guest operating‑system stacks on a single Linux kernel using namespaces, cgroups and capabilities. The solution targets embedded devices and integrates hardware‑root‑of‑trust features such as secure boot, TPM‑linked disk...
Navitas Semiconductor Corp (NVTS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Navitas Semiconductor reported Q3 2025 results that met guidance, but highlighted a decisive strategic shift called Navitas 2.0. The company is deprioritizing its low‑margin mobile business, especially in China, and reallocating resources toward high‑power markets such as AI data centers,...
Tailorable Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions From All-Van Der Waals Multilayer Stacking
Researchers have demonstrated a new class of multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) built entirely from van der Waals (vdW) stacked two‑dimensional crystals. By integrating ferromagnetic Fe3GeTe2 (F3GT) with ferroelectric CIPS and In₂Se₃ layers, the devices exhibit both tunnel magnetoresistance and electroresistance...
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA Bring AI Factory to Australia
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA are launching Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory, a sovereign AI infrastructure that keeps data and processing within the country. The facility will run on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric, and 1,024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra...
Three AI Glasses Tiers: Ultra-Light, Middle, Heavyweight Picks
I did a live stream over on LinkedIn this morning on another show and saw @auradeluxe asked me what my latest thinking on AI-driven glasses are. For me, it splits up into three different categories: 1. Ultra-lightweights Where...
KPGZ Captures Kearney Championship Run With Comrex
102.7 KPGZ in Kearney, Missouri leveraged Comrex’s FieldLink sideline reporter codec to enhance its live coverage of the Bulldogs’ high‑school football playoff run. The FieldLink system, which uses the free FieldTap app on iOS and Android smartphones, provided crisp, wireless...
Hair-Width LEDs Could Replace Lasers
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated hair‑thin microLEDs that outperform conventional designs in efficiency, output power, and beam control. By enclosing the InGaN/GaN emitting region with distributed Bragg reflectors, the devices deliver 20% more air‑side light, over 130% more...
This One Feature Helped Me Turn My Meta AI Glasses Into a Garmin for Video Workouts
Meta’s AI glasses can now overlay fitness data from Strava onto recorded workout videos, thanks to a new app integration. Users must launch the workout from the Strava app, preferably on a Wear OS watch, to capture heart‑rate and other metrics....
Sony Has Big PS5 Deals on PlayStation Direct and PlayStation Store
Sony Interactive Entertainment is offering deep discounts across its PlayStation ecosystem, targeting both physical and digital PS5 games, accessories, and the PSVR2 headset. Prices on flagship titles such as God of War Ragnarök and Marvel’s Spider‑Man 2 have dropped to $19.99‑$29.99, while...
Most Heated Steering Wheels Have A Strange Quirk That Annoys Some Drivers
Heated steering wheels are a popular comfort feature in modern vehicles. Recent observations reveal a temperature imbalance in the 2023‑2026 Toyota Tundra, where one side of the wheel stays cold while the opposite side heats above 114 °F. Thermal‑imaging evidence shared...
AI-Driven Workflows Could Ease New Tech Adoption
I have not used the TriFold but I am sure I would agree with Chris cause it is exactly the same argument I have made in the past about the great Android Tablets Samsung brought to market. I hope shifting...
Discussing Nvidia Earnings, Cloud Debt, and Emerging AI Firms
Headed on @CNBCOvertime in a bit to talk $NVDA earnings, Cloud debt, and interesting AI companies I'm tracking. https://t.co/F6LkN3AUt6
NQFF and Qolab Collaborate on Wafer-Scale Cryogenic Filters for Quantum Scaling
National Quantum Federated Foundry (NQFF) and Qolab have launched a research partnership to create integrated cryogenic low‑pass filters on silicon wafers for superconducting and spin‑qubit processors. By moving from discrete, bulky filters to wafer‑scale fabrication, the collaboration aims to shrink...
HP Omen Max 16 Gaming Laptop You Either Love It or Hate It
HP’s Omen Max 16 launches with three GPU options—RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090—and two CPU choices, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375. Priced from $2,099, the Intel‑based RTX 5080 configuration garners the most praise for its OLED 2.5K 240 Hz display and effective Tempest...
You Need a Separate Network to Protect Yourself From Your Smart Devices
Smart devices and IoT gadgets are rarely patched, leaving them vulnerable to malware such as Mirai. These products, from smart TVs to internet‑connected cameras, routinely harvest user data and can be hijacked to spy or launch attacks. Security experts recommend...
Panasonic TVs Are About to Change Forever – and Its 2026 Lineup Is Already Shocking
Panasonic announced a strategic partnership with Shenzhen‑based Skyworth to manufacture its televisions for the EU and US markets, marking a significant shift in its supply chain. The company also re‑absorbed its Entertainment division, ensuring continued production of 4K Blu‑ray players....
Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro II, GPU Monitoring Hardware
Thermal Grizzly’s WireView Pro II is a hardware‑level GPU monitoring device that sits between the graphics card and a 12VHPWR or 12V‑2×6 power cable. It provides per‑pin current data on a 320 × 170 TFT‑IPS colour screen and streams the information to the...
Portable USB DVD Writer with 2.5-inch SATA and SD Card Dock Slashed by 30% to $21 — Optical Drive Can...
Amazon has slashed the price of Alronly’s portable USB‑C/USB 3.0 CD‑DVD writer by 30%, dropping it from $29.99 to $20.98. The device reads and writes CDs at up to 24× and DVDs at up to 8×, while also offering a 2.5‑inch...
German Data Center Giant Hikes Prices up to 37% Starting April 1 — Hetzner Cites Rising Hardware Costs for Price...
German data‑center operator Hetzner announced price increases of up to 37 % on its cloud, dedicated‑server, storage and load‑balancer offerings effective 1 April 2026. The hikes affect both new orders and existing subscriptions across its European, U.S. and Singapore sites, with cloud instances...
Cobalt Digital To Feature New End-to-End IPMX, ST 2110 Solutions At 2026 NAB Show
Cobalt Digital will unveil a suite of new end‑to‑end IPMX and SMPTE ST 2110 solutions at the 2026 NAB Show, including the blueCORE 1RU processor family, upgraded PACIFIC ULL‑DEC decoder with dual SDI/ST 2110 output, a factory‑installed DVB‑S/S2 demodulator, and hybrid satellite‑internet...
Supplier Profile – Fibox
Fibox Enclosure Systems, with four decades of experience, designs UL‑listed, NEMA‑rated polycarbonate enclosures that protect electrical components in harsh, chemical‑laden or high‑impact environments. The company pioneered injection‑molded polycarbonate in 1966 and now operates manufacturing sites in Finland, Korea and China,...
With Steam Decks Selling Out and Game Pass' Future Uncertain, How Will the Next Generation Play Games at All?
Rising RAM prices, driven by AI‑related demand, are inflating component costs for PCs, consoles and handhelds. The shortage has left Steam Decks repeatedly out of stock and forced manufacturers like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to contemplate price hikes. A recent...
Hardware Is the Center of the Universe (Again)
The article traces four decades of hardware‑assisted verification (HAV) from its roots in 1980s in‑circuit emulation to today’s AI‑driven full‑stack validation platforms. Early emulators struggled with reliability but proved that pure software simulation could not keep pace with growing chip...