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Intel leaks 44‑core Nova Lake‑S desktop processor, up from 42 cores
Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake‑S desktop line now includes a leaked 44‑core SKU, replacing the previously announced 42‑core model. The design uses two identical 8P+12E compute tiles, freeing up 6P+12E tiles that could be sold as lower‑priced, locked non‑K variants with on‑die big last‑level cache (bLLC).
Keysight Technologies unveiled the Infiniium XR8, a next‑generation real‑time oscilloscope aimed at high‑speed digital and compliance testing. The XR8 combines a new front‑end ASIC, integrated ADC/DSP engine, and the Infiniium 2026 software platform to deliver 13 fs RMS intrinsic jitter and sub‑130 µV noise at 8 GHz. Its redesigned chassis reduces power draw, thermal load and acoustic noise, enabling compact lab deployment. The system promises up to three‑fold faster acquisition and analysis, targeting standards such as USB4 v2, DisplayPort 2.1 and DDR5.
The article describes a two‑rack deployment where each rack relied on a single top‑of‑rack switch, making each rack a lone failure domain. When the ToR in rack 2 became unstable, database replica loss and ARP failures occurred, yet latency and error‑rate...
Ukrainian startup Qirim Technology has begun production of segmented airless wheels for military ground drones and vehicles. The modular design replaces traditional pneumatic tires with interchangeable rubber segments mounted on a steel frame, eliminating punctures. Wheels are supplied free to...
Intel has forged a multiyear strategic partnership with AI‑chip startup SambaNova after acquisition talks stalled, coupling Intel Capital’s $350 million Series E investment with access to Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels. The deal coincides with the launch of SambaNova’s SN50...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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, 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 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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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 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...
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'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...
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...
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, 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 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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Headed on @CNBCOvertime in a bit to talk $NVDA earnings, Cloud debt, and interesting AI companies I'm tracking. https://t.co/F6LkN3AUt6
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’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...
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 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’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...
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 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...
