Sonoff Radiator Valve TRVZB Gets PID Smart Heating Update
Sonoff has launched firmware version 1.4.4 for its TRVZB Zigbee thermostatic radiator valve, adding a Proportional‑Integral‑Derivative (PID) control algorithm. The new "Smart Temperature Control" replaces the previous binary on/off logic with dynamic valve positioning that modulates heating output. This change curtails temperature overshoot, stabilizes room climate, and improves energy efficiency. The update is distributed OTA through Zigbee2MQTT and select Sonoff bridges, while native Home Assistant OTA support is still pending.
Summary of February 2026
February 2026 was a whirlwind of AI‑focused announcements, with Meta teaming up with Nvidia to build a massive AI infrastructure and Brookfield unveiling a $100 billion AI‑infrastructure program. The month also saw Anthropic raise a record $30 billion in Series G funding, pushing its...
Meta and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Infrastructure Partnership
Meta announced a multi‑year strategic partnership with Nvidia to power its AI‑optimized data centers. The deal expands the use of Nvidia GPUs, Spectrum‑X Ethernet, and Confidential Computing across Meta’s infrastructure. Joint engineering teams will co‑design hardware and software to improve...
Everpure: A New Identity for a New Era
Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure, signaling a strategic shift from pure storage hardware to comprehensive data‑management solutions. The new Everpure Fusion platform promises a people‑centric, policy‑driven enterprise data cloud that automates dataset lifecycle and governance. This week the company...
HyperBUNKER Granted US Patent for Hardware-Enforced Offline Data Vault
HyperBUNKER received US Patent No. 19/290,836 for its offline, hardware‑enforced Data Storage Security System that uses one‑way optocouplers, PLC‑governed drive cycling, and a multi‑vault architecture. The design physically isolates backups, eliminating network connections and login interfaces. It promises full system recovery...
Security Advisory: QNAP Warns Users of a Fraudulent Website Impersonating Qfinder Pro
QNAP Systems issued a security advisory warning that a fraudulent website, qfinder-pro.com, is impersonating its official Qfinder Pro utility. The fake site mimics QNAP branding to trick users into downloading tampered software, potentially exposing personal data and networks to malware....
AMD Makes Rocprof-Trace-Decoder Open-Source
AMD has released the rocprof‑trace‑decoder tool as open‑source under an MIT license. The decoder translates .att wave‑trace binary files into formats usable by profiling utilities, exposing GPU occupancy, instruction timing, and other metrics. This move removes one of the few...
IDEMIA Secure Transactions, Tele2 IoT and Cisco Launch SGP.32 IoT Solution
At Mobile World Congress, IDEMIA Secure Transactions, Tele2 IoT and Cisco unveiled the first commercially available end‑to‑end IoT solution built on the GSMA SGP.32 eSIM standard. The offering combines IDEMIA’s certified eSIM ecosystem, Cisco’s Mobility Services Platform, and Tele2 IoT’s global connectivity...
MediaTek Puts Spotlight on AI and Connectivity at MWC 2026
MediaTek used Mobile World Congress 2026 to unveil its "AI For Life: From Edge to Cloud" showcase, highlighting breakthroughs from 6G radio interoperability to AI‑driven connectivity. The company demonstrated the world’s first 5G‑Advanced CPE with Wi‑Fi 8, delivering up to 40%...
Nordic Semi nRF93M1 IoT Modules Offer LTE Cat 1bis Cellular Connectivity, Wi-Fi Location Capabilities
Nordic Semiconductors unveiled the nRF93M1 LTE Cat 1bis IoT module at Mobile World Congress 2026, offering up to 10 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplink speeds. The family includes two variants—LABA for Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, and LACA for global deployments—both supporting a...
The $75 Radio: Why US Special Operations Command Needs to Buy Off the Shelf for the Next War
U.S. Special Operations Command is urged to supplement its high‑signature, expensive military radios with disposable, low‑power commercial‑off‑the‑shelf (COTS) solutions such as LoRa. By operating in the unlicensed sub‑gigahertz ISM band and using chirp spread spectrum, these radios can hide below...
GMKtec EVO T2 with 180 TOPS, Panther Lake as the Technical Foundation of the AI Mini PC
GMKtec unveiled the EVO T2 mini PC, claiming up to 180 AI TOPS powered by Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra X9 388H. The platform combines a Xe3‑based Arc iGPU (~122 TOPS), NPU5 (~50 TOPS) and CPU (~9 TOPS) to reach...
MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi, The Second
MSI has launched a refreshed version of its B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WiFi motherboard, designated the MAX WiFi II. The update is purely cosmetic, reducing the yellow hue on the PCB, while retaining the original’s feature set, including four M.2 slots...
AMD EPYC Turin 128 Core Comparison: EPYC 9745 "Zen 5C" Vs. EPYC 9755 "Zen 5"
AMD’s EPYC 9755 and EPYC 9745 are both 128‑core Turin processors, but the 9755 uses full‑fat Zen 5 cores at 500 W TDP while the 9745 packs dense Zen 5C cores into a 400 W (or 320 W cTDP) package. The 9755 clocks higher (2.1 GHz base, 4.1 GHz...
Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Demonstrate Cryoelectronic Control of Ion-Trap Qubits
Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory successfully trapped and manipulated ions using in‑vacuum cryoelectronic ASICs, demonstrating low‑power control with reduced thermal noise. The proof‑of‑principle experiment moved and held individual ions, proving that cryogenic electronics can replace some room‑temperature wiring....
Apple Introduces the New iPad Air, Powered by M4
Apple unveiled the latest iPad Air, now powered by the M4 chip and equipped with up to 8 GB of RAM. The new processor promises a substantial performance uplift over the previous generation, delivering faster CPU and GPU speeds. Apple kept...
Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory Bring Scale, Sovereignty and Control to Production AI
Red Hat announced that Telenor has selected its cloud‑native and AI platforms to run the Telenor AI Factory, a sovereign AI service built on NVIDIA hardware. The factory uses Red Hat OpenShift AI, OpenShift Platform Plus, and Ansible Automation to...
Supermicro Expands Support for AI-RAN and Sovereign AI Solutions
Supermicro announced expanded AI‑RAN and sovereign AI infrastructure at MWC 2026, unveiling new 1U and 2U server models built on NVIDIA Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs. The ARS‑111L‑FR, ARS‑221GL‑NR, and ARS‑111GL‑NHR systems target distributed radio access networks and edge AI...
NTT Unveils Tech to Enhance AI Performance for 6G and Next-Gen Computing
NTT, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA will showcase IOWN photonics‑based networking at MWC Barcelona 2026, highlighting its role in powering 6G and next‑generation AI workloads. The group announced a university‑industry project that merges 6G and IOWN to enable autonomous AI...
Securing RISC-V Third-Party IP: Enabling Comprehensive CWE-Based Assurance Across the Design Supply Chain
RISC‑V adoption drives the need for third‑party IP security. Arteris (formerly Cycuity) introduced a CWE‑based assurance framework that translates MITRE weaknesses into reusable security requirements, verification properties, and portable C‑tests. A pilot with SiFive’s X280 core analyzed 16 of 60...
Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs
Linux kernel 7.1 will automatically attempt to power off the system when a fatal ACPI error occurs. Earlier releases only logged the “_Fatal opcode executed_” message and kept running. The change aligns the OS behavior with the ACPI specification, which...
Apple’s iPhone 17 Series 5G mmWave Antenna Module Revealed to Be Powered by Soitec FD-SOI Substrates
Independent teardowns confirm that Apple’s iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max use Qualcomm’s QTM565 mmWave antenna‑in‑package module, which is fabricated on Soitec’s Fully Depleted Silicon‑On‑Insulator (FD‑SOI) substrate via GlobalFoundries’ 22FDX process. The finding validates FD‑SOI as a high‑volume substrate for FR2 5G...
(PR) Yunzii Releases M1 Lightweight Tri-Mode Wireless Mouse
Yunzii introduced the M1 Lightweight Tri‑Mode Wireless Mouse, offering 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, and USB‑C wired connections for versatile, low‑latency use across gaming, office, and travel scenarios. The mouse features a PAW3311 sensor delivering up to 1000 Hz polling, 1 ms latency, and seven...
Intel Arc Pro B70 Pro-Viz GPU Tested with BMG-G31 Die
Intel confirmed its upcoming Arc Pro B70 “Battlemage” GPU, built on the long‑rumored BMG‑G31 die, featuring 32 Xe² cores, 32 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256‑bit bus, and roughly 4,096 FP32 cores—double the B60’s capacity. A smaller Arc Pro B65 will use the same...
TSMC Urging Customers to Apply for N2 Node Allocation as It's Almost Full Until 2027
TSMC is urging its customers to submit applications for the N2 process node as most capacity is already booked through the end of 2027. Remaining slots carry a six‑quarter lead time, and even allocated customers face up to twelve months...
(PR) NanoIC Launches Advanced Interconnect PDKs for Chip-to-Chip Designs
NanoIC, the imec‑coordinated European pilot line, announced the release of two advanced interconnect process design kits – a fine‑pitch redistribution layer (RDL) and a die‑to‑wafer (D2W) hybrid bonding kit. The RDL PDK supports line widths and spaces down to 1.3 µm...
Intel Launches Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" Xeon with 288 E-Cores on 18A Process
Intel unveiled the Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ at MWC, a chiplet‑based server processor that combines twelve 18A compute tiles with Intel 3 and Intel 7 base and I/O tiles. The design delivers up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores and more than 1 TB...
BBL Esports Announces Partnership with ATK Gear
Gaming peripheral brand ATK Gear announced a partnership with Turkish esports organization BBL Esports as its official VALORANT peripheral sponsor. The deal coincides with BBL’s participation in the VALORANT Masters Santiago Swiss Stage, where 12 teams compete for a $1 million...
Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Framework 13 AMD Gen1 To Follow
9elements is actively porting Coreboot combined with AMD's openSIL library to the first‑generation Ryzen 7000 Framework 16 laptop, with plans to extend the effort to the Framework 13 Gen1 model. The initiative focuses on integrating AMD openSIL Phoenix code into Coreboot, tackling early‑stage...
Run A Full OpenClaw Al Agent on A $5 Dev Board
ZClaw is an OpenClaw‑based AI assistant that runs on the $5 ESP32 microcontroller, fitting into an 888 KB firmware image. The platform provides secure Wi‑Fi, TLS, HTTPS, and Telegram bot integration, allowing hardware interaction through GPIO, task scheduling, and on‑device AI...
TMI About TMR
The article explains why traditional potentiometer joysticks suffer from inevitable drift and how contactless sensors are the logical replacement. Hall‑Effect sticks improved reliability but generate only micro‑volt signals that require amplification. Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors leverage quantum tunneling to deliver...
SoftBank Group to Acquire DigitalBridge for $4 Billion to Scale Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
SoftBank Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire DigitalBridge for an enterprise value of roughly $4 billion, paying $16 per share in cash. The deal represents a 15% premium to the recent closing price and a 50% premium to the 52‑week...
Innodisk Launches CXL Add-In Card for Scalable Edge AI Memory Expansion
Innodisk unveiled a CXL Add‑in Card (AIC) that expands memory via PCIe without using DIMM slots. The HHHL‑form factor card supports up to 256 GB using two DDR5 RDIMM sockets and delivers 32 GB/s over PCIe Gen 5 × 8. Built on CXL 2.0 Type 3, it enables...
More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1
ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel and AMD platforms are gaining expanded sensor monitoring support ahead of the Linux 7.1 release. New contributions to the ASUS‑EC‑Sensors driver and the hwmon‑next branch add VRM, temperature, current, and voltage readings for models such...
Armbian 26.02 Released: New Boards, Powered By Linux 6.18 LTS & RISC-V Xfce Desktop
Armbian 26.02, the latest Debian‑based Linux distribution for ARM and RISC‑V devices, upgrades to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and introduces a RISC‑V Xfce desktop option. The release adds new board support, including the SpacemiT MusePi Pro, Radxa Rock 4D,...
Intel Releases Llm-Scaler-Vllm 0.14.0-b8, Talks Up 1.49x Performance With BMG-G31
Intel released LLM‑Scaler vLLM 0.14.0‑b8, a Docker‑based runtime for running vLLM on Intel Battlemage GPUs. The update is rebased on vLLM 0.14, upgrades PyTorch to 2.10, and adds the latest oneAPI and oneDNN optimizations, delivering up to 25% higher INT4 throughput. It expands...
Nuclear Spins Controlled for Better Quantum Error Correction
Researchers at Kyoto University and partners demonstrated spin‑cat qubits encoded in ¹⁷³Yb atoms within an optical tweezer array, achieving a single‑qubit Clifford gate fidelity of 0.961 ± 0.005. The study revealed a predictable bias toward dephasing errors that grows with the encoded...
Junction Ageing Affects Superconducting Processor
Researchers at NUS and NTU have mapped the aging of Josephson junctions over three months, showing a logarithmic degradation curve that varies with storage environment. Ambient air storage accelerates aging, while nitrogen or vacuum storage slows it. Thermal annealing behaves...
Nanophotonics Boost Quantum Emitter Links on a Chip
Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark and collaborators have unveiled an integrated nanophotonic platform that uses surface‑plasmon‑polariton (SPP) interference to mediate long‑range interactions between solid‑state quantum emitters on a chip. The design achieves a peak concurrence of 0.493, approaching...
Clicks Communicator Features QWERTZ Keyboard and Extended Update Guarantee
Clicks Technology has expanded its Communicator smartphone line to include a QWERTZ keyboard for Germany, alongside AZERTY, Korean and Arabic layouts. The device pairs a classic physical keyboard with modern Android 16 hardware, featuring a 4.03‑inch OLED screen, MediaTek Dimensity 8300...
AMD Brings Ryzen 5 5500X3D to China and Revives AM4 in the Gaming Segment
AMD has officially released its budget‑friendly Ryzen 5 5500X3D in Chinese retail outlets, extending the X3D lineup beyond Latin America. The six‑core, 12‑thread Zen 3 chip uses the AM4 socket, offers 99 MB of combined L2/L3 cache via 3D V‑Cache, and is expected to retail...
Moore Threads AIBook: China’s ARM Announcement Against Intel, AMD, and Apple
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveiled the AIBook, a 14‑inch notebook powered by its own 12‑core ARM processor and a 50 TOPS AI accelerator. The laptop ships with 32 GB LPDDR5x‑7500 memory, a 2,880 × 1,800 OLED display at 120 Hz, and runs Android or...
Advancing Automotive Memory: Development of an 8nm 128Mb Embedded STT-MRAM with Sub-Ppm Reliability
Researchers have demonstrated an 8 nm, 128 Mb embedded STT‑MRAM designed for automotive applications, achieving sub‑parts‑per‑million failure rates across the –40 °C to 150 °C temperature range. The cell area was aggressively scaled to 0.017 µm², while process refinements reduced short‑fail defects and enhanced MTJ...
ESP32-P4-PC Board From Olimex Offers HDMI and MIPI Support
Olimex has released the ESP32‑P4‑PC development board, built around Espressif’s ESP32‑P4 RISC‑V SoC. The 90 × 60 mm board adds native HDMI output, MIPI CSI and DSI interfaces, Ethernet, four USB host ports, and Power‑over‑Ethernet support. It ships with a dual‑core 400 MHz processor,...
CEO Interview with Echo Yang of CSCERAMIC
CEO Echo Yang steers CSCERAMIC, a China‑based advanced ceramics maker, toward high‑purity alumina solutions for laboratory and high‑temperature industrial markets. The firm differentiates itself by engineering‑focused collaboration, tight dimensional control, and stable raw‑material sourcing rather than catalog sales. Customers benefit...
Turning a Cast-Iron Radiator Into a Water-Cooled PC
Billet Labs transformed a Victorian‑era cast‑iron radiator into a fully water‑cooled PC, a project that took three months to perfect. The 99‑kilogram system houses a substantial water volume, resulting in only a two‑degree temperature rise during stress testing. While the...
Apple Pro Display DR Alternative : Kuycon G32P 32-Inch 6K Monitor Priced Under $2,000
The Kuycon G32P is a 32‑inch 6K monitor positioned as a budget‑friendly alternative to Apple’s Pro Display XDR, retailing for under $2,000. It offers 6144 × 3456 resolution, 99% DCI‑P3 coverage and a ΔE of 0.63, delivering professional‑grade color accuracy. Connectivity includes...
Linux 7.1 Expected To See Nice Improvements For Reducing HRTICK Timer Overhead
A set of 48 patches targeting the Linux kernel’s HRTIMER subsystem aims to dramatically lower the overhead of the high‑resolution tick (HRTICK) timer. By streamlining deadline updates on context switches and wake‑ups, the reprogramming frequency drops from roughly 2,500 to...
The First Phone That Nods Back
HONOR unveiled the Robot Phone at MWC Barcelona, featuring a motorized 3‑axis gimbal that can physically track subjects across a room. The 4DoF system, built around a micro‑motor 70 % smaller than previous generations, is hidden behind a sliding panel and...
CHUWI CoreBook Air Plus 16 Review – Part 3: Ubuntu 25.10 on a Mid-Range AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Laptop
The CHUWI CoreBook Air Plus 16 was tested with Ubuntu 25.10 on an AMD Ryzen 5 6600H platform. Installation succeeded with 25.10 after the Ubuntu 26.04 daily image failed to launch its installer. Benchmarks show a single‑core Geekbench score of 1,917 and a multi‑core score...