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Minisforum unveiled the MS‑A2, a 1.78‑liter mini desktop server powered by AMD’s Ryzen 9 9955HX mobile processor. The compact workstation starts at $799 for the base model and tops out at $1,919 fully configured with 96 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD. It offers up to 23 TB of storage, dual 10 Gb SFP+ and dual 2.5 Gb Ethernet, Wi‑Fi 6E, and a PCIe 4.0 ×8 slot for GPU or I/O upgrades. The device targets developers, small businesses, and home‑lab enthusiasts seeking high‑performance compute in a small footprint.
The DRM‑Next tree received its first pull request this week, introducing two new graphics drivers slated for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel. A Verisilicon DC8200 display driver lands to enable HDMI output on the T‑Head TH1520 RISC‑V SoC, with StarFive JH7110 support pending. SUSE’s...
Motorola unveiled the Moto G Power 2026, a budget Android 16 handset featuring a 6.8‑inch 1080p IPS panel with a 120 Hz refresh rate, a 5,200 mAh battery, and the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 processor paired with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. Priced around $300,...
The article explores why hobbyists gravitate toward 3D printing, ranging from machine‑tuning experiments to creating functional daily‑use objects and decorative items. It highlights a niche of “hobbyist industrial designers” who craft custom solutions—like a dog‑poop‑bag holder—purely for the joy of...
Morse Micro’s MM8108 Wi‑Fi chip delivers up to 43 Mbps while extending coverage to several miles, far beyond conventional routers. The chip’s low‑power design enables solar‑ or battery‑powered installations, making it ideal for off‑grid and disaster‑relief scenarios. Global regulatory compliance and...
The Xiaomi 17 is Xiaomi’s latest compact flagship, featuring a class‑leading 7,000 mAh silicon‑carbon battery and the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. It retains the 6.3‑inch LTPO AMOLED display and premium build while offering up to 16 GB RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. Camera hardware remains...
The RaspyJack is an open‑source, handheld network toolkit built around the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. It combines a Waveshare 1.44‑inch LCD, a TP‑Link AC1300 dual‑band USB adapter, and a Pi Sugar power module for portable, field‑ready security testing. The device runs Linux utilities for...
IKEA’s new Matter‑over‑Thread devices, including bulbs, remotes and sensors, have been plagued by pairing failures, unstable connections, and firmware update problems. The Dirigera Hub, which coordinates these devices, also experiences frequent sync issues across major ecosystems such as HomeKit, Alexa...
Samsung is set to launch the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide in summer 2026, featuring a wider, shorter 16:10 display that promises more ergonomic multimedia, gaming, and productivity experiences. The device retains the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset but trims RAM and storage to curb...
Espressif Systems released a bug advisory for ESP32‑C5 chips, detailing three stability issues affecting PSRAM and sleep‑mode coexistence when running ESP‑IDF v5.5.1. The defects include a PSRAM reset hang, data corruption during unaligned AES/SHA accesses, and watchdog timeouts in Wi‑Fi/BLE/IEEE 802.15.4...
WLMouse unveiled the Ying Magnesium gaming mouse, tipping the scales at an ultra‑light 47 g (±2). The mouse combines a PixArt PAW3950 sensor, Nordic 52840 MCU, and 8 kHz polling with optional Omron optical or TTC Nihil transparent switches. Its magnesium alloy...
The Orange Pi Neo-01 handheld, slated for a 2026 launch, has been put on hold as DDR5 RAM and SSD prices soar amid a global memory shortage. The device, which would have featured an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U,...
Corsair announced it will fully absorb Drop, closing the Drop.com storefront by March 31, 2026, with the final order deadline on March 25. The move follows Corsair’s 2023 acquisition of Drop, aimed at expanding its peripheral portfolio beyond core gaming keyboards and...
Razer announced the Kraken Kitty V2 – Hello Kitty Rose Gold Edition, a limited‑edition gaming headset created with Sanrio. The headset features metallic pink earcups, rose‑gold shimmer, Razer Chroma RGB lighting, 40 mm TriForce drivers, and a HyperClear cardioid microphone. It...
Intel released microcode version 20260227 to address functional issues in its Xeon Granite Rapids D (Xeon 6700P‑B/6500P‑B) SoCs. The update, posted outside the usual Patch Tuesday cadence, corrects several errata related to ESRTPS support and PASID table handling. No other Intel processor...
Best Buy is offering the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255U, 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD for $920, roughly 35 % below the $1,400 list price. The discount is part of a broader February 27 promotion that also includes a...
Lenovo unveiled the Yoga Book Pro 3D concept, a dual‑screen laptop that adds a glasses‑free 3D display to its lower panel. The prototype will be showcased at Mobile World Congress 2026, but it remains a concept with no announced price...
SEALSQ Corp is expanding its footprint in Japan by showcasing its production‑ready QS7001 secure System‑on‑Chip and QVault Trusted Platform Module at two March 2026 industry events. The move backs Japan’s National Cyber Command Office mandate to transition all government and critical‑infrastructure...
QuTech researcher Tim Taminiau secured an NWO Vici grant to develop solid‑state quantum network devices that keep entanglement continuously available. The project will use silicon‑vacancy (VSi) spin qubits in silicon carbide (SiC) to build multi‑node nodes that combine a fast...
Researchers at Waseda University used femtosecond laser pulses to raise the electronic temperature in an indium‑nitride (InN) film, triggering transient Pauli blocking that makes the material switch from opaque to transparent. The effect spans the visible to near‑infrared spectrum and...
Researchers in China have created hollow graphene aerogel fibers that replicate the hollow, porous structure of polar‑bear hair. The fibers achieve a record‑low thermal conductivity of 1.28 mW·(m·K)⁻¹ and an electrical conductivity of 1,457 S·m⁻¹ after high‑temperature annealing. Their architecture provides exceptional...
LG unveiled the PuriCare AeroMini, a compact air purifier that integrates lifestyle accessories such as a leather carry handle and a flower‑holder vase. The unit is roughly 37% smaller than the flagship PuriCare 360°, covering 27 m² with the same three‑layer...
Intel released the 2025Q4 version of its open‑source Media Driver and VPL GPU Runtime, adding upstream support for the upcoming Nova Lake S platform. The update extends the driver’s compatibility from Broadwell up through Nova Lake, while also dropping accelerated MPEG‑2...
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Factory took center stage at Mobile World Congress’s 4YFN showcase, unveiling a catalog of 24 AI‑driven services organized into six strategic pillars. By January 2026 the factory had already delivered 505 services, trained 314 participants...
Avery Dennison has become the first company to mass‑produce NFC inlays that embed Pragmatic Semiconductor’s NFC Connect FlexIC chips. The partnership delivers low‑cost, edge‑level intelligence for consumer packaged goods, supporting digital brand experiences and compliance tools such as Digital Product...
The 2025 NVM Survey reveals that while embedded flash remains the default choice, awareness of alternatives such as MRAM, FRAM and ReRAM has risen above 25% among respondents. More than 80% of SoC designers are currently using or evaluating embedded...
The AI‑driven surge in datacenter demand has pushed RAM prices up threefold, delaying new products like the Steam Machine and threatening hardware makers. iFixit advises a scrappy approach: extend device life, buy certified refurbished or used parts, and harvest components...
Welinq and Pasqal have deepened their partnership to accelerate networked quantum computing using neutral‑atom processors. Backed by a €4 million InterQo grant from Île‑de‑France Region and BPI France, the two firms will integrate photonic interconnects into Pasqal’s QPUs and deploy Welinq’s...
Furiosa AI announced the mass production of its RNGD AI accelerator, with the first 4,000 units delivered by TSMC and ASUS. The chip offers 512 INT8 TFLOPS at a 180 W TDP and claims 3.5× higher compute density than Nvidia H100 systems. RNGD...
Infortrend unveiled its EonStor GS 5024U hybrid flash storage, delivering up to 125 GB/s throughput and 2.4 million IO/s while scaling to 20 PB of capacity. The system combines NVMe SSDs for hot workloads with HDDs for cold data, cutting costs by more than 50% compared...
NetActuate announced Global Edge Storage, a suite of high‑performance storage options that can be attached to compute resources at the network edge. The service offers block, S3‑compatible object, and custom storage, all provisioned through the same portal or API used...
Icy Dock introduced the MB411V4PO‑2B enclosure, turning a 9.5 mm ultra‑slim optical‑drive bay into a removable U.2/U.3 NVMe SSD slot. The adapter uses an OCuLink 4i (SFF‑8612) interface with PCIe Gen4 x4, delivering up to 64 Gb/s—over ten times faster than traditional SATA ODD connections. Its...
Media Duplication Systems (MDS) unveiled the XpressNVMe Compliance Suite, an integrated hardware platform that combines SSD sanitization with physical shredding to manage end‑of‑life solid‑state drives. The solution follows NIST SP 800‑88 guidelines, logs serial numbers, erasure methods and timestamps, and supports...
QBO Cloud and MinIO announced a joint solution that merges QBO’s bare‑metal cloud platform with MinIO’s AIStor, an exascale, S3‑compatible object storage system. The partnership delivers a unified, high‑performance data layer designed for modern AI and analytics workloads, emphasizing scalability,...
Akash Systems has shipped the world’s first diamond‑cooled Nvidia H200 GPU servers to NxtGen AI Pvt Ltd, India’s leading sovereign cloud provider. The proprietary Diamond Cooling layer sits atop existing air and liquid cooling, eliminating thermal throttling and delivering roughly...
Valve’s Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset that also supports wireless PCVR. In hands‑on testing it ran Half‑Life Alyx at 40‑50 FPS on low settings, aided by dynamic foveated rendering and eye‑tracking. The device offers a high‑resolution display, lightweight ergonomics,...
The Linux 7.0‑rc2 release includes a substantial batch of DRM driver updates, with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs receiving the most attention this week. Fixes address a suspend failure, buffer overflow, input sanitization, deadlock, null pointer...
Backpackers increasingly rely on electronic devices, making ultralight power banks essential. The guide identifies the Nitecore NB10000 Gen 4 as the top‑rated 10,000 mAh pack, offering the highest mAh‑per‑ounce ratio (≈2040 mAh/oz) and an IPX7 waterproof rating for under five ounces weight. Competing models...
Collabora has upstreamed support for the Rockchip VDPU381 and VDPU383 video decoders found in RK3588 and RK3576 SoCs, enabling hardware‑accelerated H.264 and H.265 decoding in mainline Linux. The contribution consists of a 17‑patch series that adds V4L2 UAPI controls for...
Vivo confirmed that its flagship X300 Ultra will be previewed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, marking the device's first global showcase. The X300 Ultra is positioned as a camera‑centric premium phone, rumored to house a 200 MP Sony main...
M5Stack unveiled the Unit PoE‑P4, a 64 × 24 mm module that combines Espressif’s ESP32‑P4 RISC‑V SoC with IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet. The board packs 16 MB Flash, 32 MB PSRAM, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PHY, dual MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces, and dual USB‑C ports, delivering up...
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Mitsubishi Chemical have published a pre‑print detailing quantum simulation algorithms aimed at improving extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a key step in advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The approach models the quantum‑driven radiation‑induced blur that limits pattern fidelity, using...
AMD is rumored to be developing a high‑end RDNA 5 GPU codenamed AT0, featuring up to 96 compute units, a 512‑bit memory interface, and possibly 32 GB of VRAM. The chip would mark a return to the $1,500‑plus enthusiast segment that AMD...
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 ships with two flagship SoCs: the new Exynos 2600, its first 2‑nanometer GAA chip, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Early Geekbench 6 results show Snapdragon leading CPU performance by roughly 18 % in single‑core and modestly ahead in multi‑core scores. Samsung’s Xclipse 960 GPU,...
NVIDIA pulled the GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 after users reported black screens, system crashes, unstable clock speeds, and fan‑control failures, especially on RTX 50 series GPUs. The driver was intended to optimize Resident Evil Requiem and embed DLSS 4 MFG and Ray...
NVIDIA announced a non‑exclusive agreement with Groq valued at up to $20 billion, positioning the startup’s low‑latency processing units (LPUs) as a core component of its inference strategy. CEO Jensen Huang likened the integration to the earlier Mellanox acquisition, suggesting LPUs...
Canonical released LXD 6.7, the latest update to its container and virtual‑machine manager for Ubuntu. The release introduces AMD GPU passthrough support using the new AMD CDI interface and a gpu_cdi_amd extension. It also upgrades VM GPU passthrough with newer QEMU...
Researchers at Qingdao University and China University of Petroleum discovered that liquid‑metal droplets can self‑sinter during ordinary solvent evaporation, using a Marangoni‑driven surface‑tension gradient between ethanol and toluene. The process creates a Janus film with a conductive liquid‑metal‑rich layer and...
The global semiconductor market surged to $792 billion in 2025, a 25.6% year‑over‑year increase—the strongest since the COVID‑recovery spike in 2021. AI demand propelled Nvidia’s revenue up 65% and drove a collective 29% revenue rise among major memory makers. While most...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched the Next Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI) to tackle the exploding electricity demand of AI‑driven data centers. The institute will combine ORNL’s strengths in energy science, high‑performance computing, cybersecurity and grid research to make...
