The HP EliteBoard G1 Is A Decent PC In A Very Expensive Keyboard
HP launched the EliteBoard G1a, a full‑size keyboard that houses a complete PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI processors. The device connects to an external monitor via Thunderbolt/USB4 and includes a spill‑resistant keyboard, built‑in speaker, microphone, and a 675 mA wireless mouse. Pricing ranges from $1,499 for a Ryzen 5‑340, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD model to $3,423 for a Ryzen 7‑350, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD configuration. Battery life is limited to three‑four hours, and an optional 65 W USB‑C power adapter is required for non‑USB‑C monitors.
TSMC Defends Transistor Scaling Amid Huawei’s ‘Her’s Law’ Proposal
At its European Symposium, TSMC senior VP Kevin Zhang defended traditional transistor scaling while addressing Huawei’s newly proposed “Her’s Law,” which measures progress by overall speed‑up rather than transistor density. Zhang acknowledged 3‑D integration and stacking as complementary techniques but...
Just Fun Tech: ModRetro M64 Impressions: A Solid N64 Recreation Console
ModRetro’s upcoming M64 is an FPGA‑based recreation of the Nintendo 64 that launches on July 28, 2026, priced at $199 for early‑birds and $229 thereafter. The console mimics original hardware using AMD’s Artix UltraScale+ silicon, supports all regional cartridges, flash carts and...
Biotech IPO Market Strengthens in 2026, but Quality Bar Remains High
Cooley partners Charlie Kim and Div Gupta told BioXconomy that biotech IPO activity is picking up in 2026, with a noticeable rise in deal volume and higher median valuations. They highlighted that investors are still demanding rigorous data packages and...
DV360 API Adds Demand Gen Support
Google is extending its Display & Video 360 (DV360) API to include Demand Gen resources, allowing developers to create, read, update, and delete Demand Gen line items, ad groups, and ad formats via the API. The rollout starts on June 10 with full availability...
Open‑Source GStack Turns Claude Into Full‑Stack Dev Team
100K GITHUB STARS IN JUST A FEW WEEKS 🤯 @GarryTan’s GStack has gone completely viral, and for good reason. The YC CEO open-sourced his personal toolkit, and it's the ultimate cheat code for devs. It turns Claude Code from a basic chatbot...
How to Build a PLG Explainer That Sells Like a Pro
The article outlines a step‑by‑step playbook for creating product‑led growth (PLG) explainer videos that convert cold visitors into trial users without a sales rep. It contrasts PLG videos with traditional sales‑led explainers, emphasizing relevance, trust, and a single‑workflow demo. Real‑world...
AI for Small Hotels: What’s Different About Implementing AI in a 30-Room Property
The article outlines a practical roadmap for 30‑room independent hotels to adopt AI, emphasizing that their needs differ from large chains. It highlights that data capture, not coordination, is the primary hurdle and recommends starting with AI‑driven guest communication before...
Turning the Patent Cliff Into a Bioplant Opportunity
The looming 2030 patent cliff threatens roughly $300 billion in biopharma revenue as 200 drugs lose exclusivity. Phylloceuticals proposes a duckweed‑based (Lemna) expression system that can slash upstream production costs by up to 90% and cut overall expenses by two‑thirds. The...
How Debit Card Users Subsidize Credit Card Rewards
Harvard Business School research finds that credit‑card interchange fees move roughly $30 billion each year from cash and debit users to rewards‑rich credit‑card holders. Merchant‑paid processing fees reached almost $200 billion in 2025, a 70 percent rise since 2019, and many retailers embed...
New AI-Powered Thermal Cameras Could Reduce Vessel Strikes on Gray Whales in San Francisco
Researchers at Benioff Ocean Science Lab have deployed AI‑powered forward‑looking infrared cameras that detect gray whales up to 4 nautical miles away in San Francisco Bay. The system, built with WhaleSpotter, the U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service and the Marine...
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Hackers exploited Meta’s AI‑driven support assistant to reset passwords on high‑profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House and the U.S. Space Force chief’s profile. By convincing the bot to link a new email address, they received one‑time codes that...
Samsung Galaxy Watch for Diabetes Management: What It Can Track and What It Can’t
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series, starting with the Watch 4, now integrates blood‑glucose tracking through compatible CGM apps or manual entry, and aggregates medication, nutrition, sleep, stress, activity, and heart‑health data via Samsung Health. The watch estimates long‑term glycated hemoglobin and pairs...
Don’t Hide Core UX Behind Chat Interfaces
I've interviewed 485+ SaaS founders. Here's the AI mistake I see coming: Burying your best UX inside a chat box. Here's the pitch I keep hearing... Expose your product to Claude and ChatGPT, let people just ask for what they...
Three Simple Steps to Get ChatGPT to Cite You
3 things to do today if you want ChatGPT to cite your site: - Get mentioned in 3 listicles in your niche - Match your H1, meta title, and first paragraph to one clear entity - Post your stuff on Social Media, etc. Boring...
Samsung Care+ Loosens Restrictions on Galaxy Phone Age to Sign up, Discounted Enrollment
Samsung has opened a limited‑time enrollment window for its Care+ Theft and Loss insurance, allowing sign‑ups until June 30 for devices up to 365 days old. The promotion offers discounts of up to 16%, bringing the base monthly fee down to...
SoftBank’s $85B France Bet Puts Power at Center of AI Race
SoftBank announced up to €75 billion ($85 billion) to build AI‑focused data‑center capacity in France, starting with three sites that will deliver 3.1 GW by 2031 and eventually 5 GW nationwide. The first phase includes €45 billion ($51 billion) of investment and a 400 MW campus at...
Italy: Europe’s Overlooked Fintech Opportunity?
European fintech investors are becoming more selective after a 2025 funding slump, prompting a search for untapped markets. Italy, the Eurozone’s third‑largest economy with 60 million consumers, shows strong digital payment adoption and a growing fintech district in Milan that houses...
Renewables
After 5 full months in 2026, WindWaterSolar supply has exceeded demand on 127 of 151 (84.1%) days, including 61 straight. Gas use is down 61% vs 2023, supplying only 14.7% of demand during 2026, vs 37.2% in 2023. Battery output is up...
Commerce Media Expands Beyond Retail Sites with Demand Gen Integration
Google is extending its Commerce Media Suite to include Demand‑Gen inventory, letting brands activate retailer first‑party audiences on YouTube, Discover and Gmail. The integration blends retail‑site data with Google’s visual and discovery surfaces, enabling AI‑driven optimization for conversions. Advertisers gain...
Turing Award Winner Richard Sutton Says Pure Generative AI Can't Do Real Science
Turing Award laureate Richard Sutton argues that today’s pure generative AI—large language, image and video models—lacks the ability to evaluate its own outputs, a prerequisite for genuine scientific discovery. He explains that while these systems can mimic or randomly generate...
Prompting Claude Is a Skill; Building AI Systems Is Engineering
Many AI influencers teach AI tool proficiency like claude. Fewer AI educators teach AI systems. Knowing how to prompt claude is a skill. Knowing how to design, build, deploy, and scale enterprise level AI-powered solutions & products is an technical/engineering discipline.
UK Banks Blocked From Cyber AI Tool Mythos Get Offer From Rival OpenAI
OpenAI has extended its GPT‑5.5 Cyber cybersecurity AI to nine leading UK banks after Anthropic blocked its rival model, Claude Mythos, from the same institutions. Both tools are designed to uncover hidden vulnerabilities and performed similarly in independent testing by the AI...
Agent Provocateur: How AI Shopping Bots Are Testing Retail Legal Boundaries
AI‑powered shopping agents are moving from recommendation tools to autonomous buyers, completing transactions without consumers visiting retailer sites. Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others have launched capabilities that let agents scrape product data, log into accounts, and finalize purchases, prompting a...
Powering Prosperity: How Santa Clara Turned Data Centers Into Civic Infrastructure
Santa Clara has deliberately reshaped its municipal power, land‑use and fiscal policies to treat data centers as public assets, now hosting 57 operational or under‑construction facilities—the densest cluster per square mile on the West Coast. The city’s municipal utility, Silicon...
WordPress Malware Campaign Hides Payloads in Steam Profiles
GoDaddy researchers discovered a new WordPress malware campaign that uses hidden Unicode characters in Steam Community profile comments to transport command‑and‑control data. Approximately 1,980 WordPress sites have been compromised since July 2025, with the first‑stage loader fetching encoded payloads from Steam...
42 Technology and Omnisense Collaborate on Safer Autonomous Drone Landing System
42 Technology partnered with Omnisense to develop an ultra‑wideband (UWB) positioning system that enables autonomous drones to land safely when GNSS signals are unreliable. The extended‑range RF hardware, designed by 42T, supports both ground beacons and airborne units, maintaining stable...
PKWARE Re-Architects Key Management for Continuous Post-Quantum Cryptographic Agility
D‑Wave unveiled a gate‑model roadmap targeting a 100‑logical‑qubit processor capable of over one million operations by 2032, marking a major step toward scalable quantum hardware. The weekly quantum roundup highlighted a $3.5 billion SPAC raise by Terra Quantum and IBM’s $10 billion...
Smart Drug that Strips Cancer Cells of ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Can Shrink Tumours by 30%, Trial Shows
Researchers at Oxford’s Greywolf Therapeutics reported that the oral drug GRWD5769, when paired with cemiplimab immunotherapy, caused tumor shrinkage in 26 of 83 heavily pre‑treated patients across six common cancer types. Fifteen of those patients saw reductions of at least...
Epic Integrates Firearm Injury Risk Screening Tool From Northwell Health
Northwell Health’s NIH‑funded "We Ask Everyone" firearm injury risk screening tool has been embedded in Epic’s electronic health record platform. The digital module identifies patients at risk, provides free gun locks, and connects them to hospital‑based violence‑intervention services while capturing...
How We Reduced Core Unit Boot Time From Hours to Minutes
Cloudflare discovered that a firmware update caused its Gen12 core servers to spend hours probing every network‑boot interface before reaching the correct one, inflating reboot times from minutes to four hours. By analyzing console logs, the team identified a linear‑search...
U.S. Workers And Firms Are Adopting AI Faster Than Europe, Study Finds
American firms and workers are adopting artificial intelligence at markedly higher rates than their European counterparts, according to a Let’s Data Science study. 34% of U.S. companies report using AI for at least one purpose, versus 20% in Europe, while...
ASUS Unveils the ROG Xbox Ally X20 with a New OLED Display and Translucent Body
ASUS introduced the ROG Ally X20, a handheld gaming PC featuring a larger 7.4‑inch OLED display with 120 Hz refresh and 600 nits SDR brightness. The device retains the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor, 24 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0...
Quebec Serves as Test Bed for Canada’s Electrification Path
Quebec is the Canary for Canada's Electrification Strategy Electrify the Quebec economy or simply power new industries while leaving the existing energy system mostly unchanged? Other provinces will face the same choices. https://markhamhislop.substack.com/p/quebec-is-the-canary-for-canadas
AI Valuation Bubble Exists, Yet Real Enterprise Adoption Thrives
Is there an AI bubble? Probably, in the valuations. But I think people asking that question are watching the wrong thing. Bubbles pop on hype. What I am seeing in actual enterprises is the opposite of hype: AI doing real work,...
Blue Origin's Lunar Lander Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander, dubbed Endurance, successfully completed NASA’s Chamber A thermal‑vacuum test, proving it can survive extreme lunar temperature swings and vacuum conditions. The uncrewed cargo vehicle will carry two science payloads—a high‑resolution stereo camera suite and...
Claude Mythos Shows AI Shifting to Exploit Validation
MyPOV: .@Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't just another security tool — it's a signal that #AI is moving beyond scanning into the harder work: validating exploitability, chaining vulnerabilities, and closing the loop from finding to fix. Get the scoop from @Chirag_Mehta:...
Smartphone Facial Video AI Accurately Measures Heart Rate Universally
Using smartphone facial video clips with AI to passively and accurately get heart rate, across all skin pigmentation groups @nature "This is the first demonstration that smartphones can be used to monitor both HR and daily RHR passively during normal personal phone...
Pharma’s Trial Problem: Outdated Systems, Broken Data, and the Coming AI Reset
Clinical trials now absorb 60‑70% of pharma R&D spend, yet they still run on legacy, site‑centric systems designed for paper workflows. This mismatch creates invisible waste, fragmented data flows, and escalating costs, limiting the impact of emerging AI tools. The...
Beyond AI: Creative Solutions for the Vulnerability Apocalypse
So it looks like some of you only skimmed my recent #VulnMgt blog https://t.co/6Wu6ApVyN8 and did not make it to the "15 minute experiment" ... Sure, vuln apoc is fun (for some), but "what do we do" also needs creative...
Inference-Time Memory in Video VLMs and Faithful Reasoning in Language Models
The latest State of AI roundup highlights breakthroughs across AI system frontiers, including a dynamic sparsity‑controlled MoE routing method (DTop-p) that leverages PI‑controller feedback, a structured search‑tree approach (LinTree) that dramatically improves LLM reasoning performance, and evidence that LLM agents...
Enhancing Industrial Automation: Why Compact Mini PCs Are Quietly Becoming the Default Choice for Robotic Controllers
Industrial automation is increasingly adopting compact mini PCs to replace bulky controllers, driven by space constraints and the need for continuous operation. The Hystou M9, built on Intel 12th/13th‑Gen i5/i7 CPUs, fits inside existing cabinets while delivering real‑time control, vision...
Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements?
Researchers tested GPT‑4 on 159,000+ U.S. stock news headlines from October 2021 to May 2024, asking the model to label each as good, bad or unknown. The AI correctly identified the direction of the market’s initial reaction on 93.3% of overnight and...
Canadian Investors Say 'Mini Wave' Of Homegrown AI Chip Companies Could Be Coming
Canadian venture firms are gearing up for a "mini wave" of homegrown AI chip startups as demand for energy‑efficient hardware surges. Investors such as Two Small Fish, Cycle Capital and RiSC Capital have already backed companies like Zinite, Blumind, Hepzibah...
This Tool Can Block Ads in Almost Any iPhone App
Apple’s iOS 26 adds a URL‑filter API that lets ad‑blocking apps inspect and block individual URL requests across any iPhone app, extending protection beyond Safari. Wipr 2 leverages this with its Filtr add‑on, successfully removing ads in Chrome, Apple News, sports apps,...
Asus Has Announced a Gold-Plated 82 G Version of Its Harpe II Mouse with a 65K DPI, but Price Rumours...
Asus unveiled the ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20, a 20th‑anniversary gaming mouse plated in 24K gold and priced near $260. The mouse packs a 65,000‑DPI sensor, up to 8,000 Hz polling, and Asus’ ROG 100M optical micro‑switches, while weighing 82 g. It ships in...
Intel's Attempting to Break Into the AI Market Once More, but This Time Avoiding Nvidia's Dominance in Training by Going...
Intel is reviving its AI‑chip ambitions with the Crescent Island GPU, shifting from the under‑performing Gaudi training chips to a product aimed at inference workloads. The new accelerator relies on cheaper LPDDR5X memory and air cooling, sidestepping the expensive high‑bandwidth...
The Firewall Was Supposed to Die. MSPs Are Still Betting on It
The article argues that firewalls are far from obsolete, despite decades of predictions that zero‑trust and cloud‑first models would render them irrelevant. The global firewall market, valued at roughly $6 billion, continues to expand as enterprises and MSPs modernize hybrid environments....
Microsoft and Nvidia Target Mac Studio’s Unified Memory
Microsoft and Nvidia coming for that Mac studio unified memory spot This is one hell of an idea - for local inference capable devices
Leaders Must Define AI Purpose, Not Just Train Users
Lots of companies are in the "encourage AI adoption" phase, whether teaching them ChatGPT/Claude or (sigh) tokenmaxxing. That dodges the harder problems of firm leadership: What do you want people to use AI for? What work should be reserved for people?...