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How Spain’s ICFO Helped Build a Quantum Security Startup for the AI Era
Published: May 6, 2026, 8:00 am
ICFO spinoff Quside has developed a quantum random number generator chip for secure cryptography applications.
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Looming Quantum Threat as PQC Market Expands
Published: May 5, 2026, 11:37 am
PQC market will expand from $1.2 billion in 2026 to $13 billion by 2035, driven by "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later."
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The Next Phase of Europe’s Semiconductor Strategy
Published: May 5, 2026, 7:50 am
Europe’s semiconductor future will hinge on aligning geopolitics and industrial strengths into a coherent, long-term strategy.
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AI Accelerator Spec Maintains Rapid Update Pace
Published: May 4, 2026, 6:48 pm
UALink spec 2.0 launches with in-network compute, chiplet support, and smarter management.
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Agentic AI Tackles RTL Verification’s Productivity Gap
Published: May 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
Agentic AI shifts RTL verification from tool automation to workflow intelligence, reducing coordination overhead while keeping engineers in control.
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Hackaday News
RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More
Published: May 6, 2026, 8:00 am
Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to …read more
Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone
Published: May 6, 2026, 5:00 am
It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is trying …read more
Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us
Published: May 6, 2026, 2:00 am
Microplastics absolutely saturate the Earth’s environment, and that’s probably not a good thing unless you’re looking for a sediment marker for the Anthropocene period. On the other hand, environmental contamination …read more
Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock
Published: May 5, 2026, 11:00 pm
Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more
Cutting Steel Gears with Homemade EDM
Published: May 5, 2026, 8:00 pm
Electric discharge machining (EDM) may be slower than alternatives like laser cutting, water jets, or a milling machine, but for some applications there’s no alternative: it can cut through any …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Raspberry Pi 4/5 PS2-Themed Case #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Published: May 6, 2026, 12:00 am
Cypherous shares: Introducing the PiStation 2, a cute little case for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and Pi 5, this model is themed around the Playstation 2 console from many of our childhoods download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication […]
The latest System Source warehouse sale
Published: May 5, 2026, 9:09 pm
RetroTech Chris on X (formerly Twitter) posts videos of the latest sale of vintage computer equipment from System Source Computer Museum sale north of Baltimore, Maryland. Typically they have pallets of old computers for sale for very low prices. Conditions are typically “as-is”. Check out the video posted by Chris in post here. Various images […]
Google announced the projects that will be part of the Summer of Code 2026
Published: May 5, 2026, 8:41 pm
Google announced the projects that will be part of the Summer of Code 2026 project. Here is what the GSoC students will be working on this year. Aymi will be adding support for animated multibody dynamics visualizations. The project will be built on top of the 3rd-party Motion workbench (by Jose Gabriel Egas Ortuño) and the […]
Open-source 3D-printed stethoscope validated against the clinical gold standard
Published: May 5, 2026, 8:27 pm
GliaX has published open design files for a 3D-printed stethoscope that has been peer-reviewed and validated against the Littmann Cardiology III. Total material cost runs $2–5, with the main body printed in PETG or ABS at 100% infill, a diaphragm cut from a standard report cover, and silicone tubing from common stock. You can see […]
Building the MetaClockClock78: 156 analog clocks in one display
Published: May 5, 2026, 8:11 pm
Erich Styger over at MCU on Eclipse has completed his most ambitious clock build yet: the MetaClockClock78, a pair of wall clocks each containing 78 individual analog clock faces arranged in a 6×13 matrix. Combined, the two panels put 156 independently controlled clock faces — each with a 360-degree dual-shaft stepper motor and a ring […]
Electronics Weekly News
Infineon gives upbeat forecast
Published: May 6, 2026, 6:34 am
Infineon had calendar Q1 (FY Q2) sales of €3.812 billion for a profit of €653 million at a margin of 17.1%. For the current quarter it expects revenue of €4.1 ...
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Semiconductor downturn forecast
Published: May 6, 2026, 5:29 am
Alone among semiconductor analysts, the normally bullish CEO of Future Horizons, Malcolm Penn (pictured), forecasted an industry downturn – “maybe this year, if not, next year” – speaking at IFS ...
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120 students tape out ASIC designs
Published: May 6, 2026, 5:26 am
The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield recently hosted a landmark hands-on chip design workshop bringing together students from across the UK to design and ...
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SiTime TCXO enhances GPUs
Published: May 6, 2026, 5:14 am
SiTime is sampling the Elite 2 Super-TCXO which aims to increase GPU utilisation and improve compute efficiency in AI datacentres by delivering better time synchronisation. The chip targets a $1.5 ...
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Two tape-outs for Weebit ReRAM
Published: May 6, 2026, 5:11 am
Weebit Nano says that two of its customers have taped out SoCs using its ReRAM IP and one customer has a prototype already manufactured and functional.. Overlord Labs has integrated ...
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