EE Times News
Jamie Urquhart (1957-2026): Friendly, Supportive, Right to the End
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:33 pm
Arm co-founder Jamie Urquhart backed chips, startups and people to the end—read how his quiet force shaped an industry.
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New Space: Power, Computing and Thermal Challenges Beyond Earth
Published: August 4, 2026, 2:48 pm
New Space explores the technologies reshaping the commercial space economy.
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Protecting Military AI Agents From Cyberthreats
Published: August 4, 2026, 7:36 am
Military AI faces hackers, poisoned data, and weak rules; lock it down with zero trust, red-teaming, and real governance.
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Renesas Tackles Memory Bottleneck with MRDIMM Update
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:00 pm
Renesas’s Gen 3 DDR5 MRDIMM attacks AI’s memory choke point with 16,000 MT/s bandwidth and no platform overhaul.
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Video Interview: ChipAgents CEO on Latest Funding for Agentic AI in EDA
Published: August 3, 2026, 2:07 pm
ChipAgents raises $60M as EDA’s AI gold rush heats up, pitching autonomous chip-design agents over tired copilots.
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Hackaday News
At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode
Published: August 4, 2026, 6:30 pm
If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among 8080 and Z80 computers and while there …read more
BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:00 pm
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more
Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)
Published: August 4, 2026, 3:30 pm
In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more
Road Trains Roam The Backroads of Australia
Published: August 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
Trains and the railways they run on are a great way to move lots of stuff, or lots of people, a long way. Steel wheels on steel rail can shift …read more
Testing Hundreds of Used LFP Cells Requires Some Automation
Published: August 4, 2026, 11:00 am
Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured …read more
Adafruit Blog News
A simple 65C02 based computer for fun and learning
Published: August 4, 2026, 7:24 pm
Memo-1 is a simple 65C02 based computer for fun and learning. The Memo-1 consists on a 65C02 CPU running at 1Mhz, crudely attached to 32K of ram, 16K of rom, and has a 65C22 via and a 6551 ACIA (NOT the W65C51). The system is thought to have 8k of rom available as extension, and […]
Complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters
Published: August 4, 2026, 7:08 pm
Inflect-Micro-v2 is a complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters. It has a fixed-voice English Text to Speech (TTS) with deterministic seeds, long-text handling, and CPU or CUDA inference. Inflect v2 uses one public API across two sizes: Micro prioritizes quality below 10M parameters; Nano prioritizes footprint below 4M. The model can be found […]
An ESP32 based plane radar display
Published: August 4, 2026, 6:58 pm
Alex Kretzschmar built this project, made for a perfect lazy Saturday unwind, after a busy week giving a talk at Devrelcon in NYC. Plane radar is a neat little project that turns an ESP32-C3 and a 1.28-inch round display into a live aircraft radar. It pulls nearby ADS-B traffic, plots each aircraft by distance and […]
NEW GUIDE Alert: Pico Bootloader Retro Console
Published: August 4, 2026, 6:55 pm
Build your own multi-console emulator system with the Fruit Jam and play all of your favorite retro games! Frank Hoedemakers has created a new multi-emulator launcher called Pico Bootloader that makes it simple and fast to get going. It uses an innovative system of re-flashing the Fruit Jam with a given emulator stored on the […]
Boosting ESP32-C3 SuperMini WiFi: a simple and effective antenna mod
Published: August 4, 2026, 6:42 pm
The ESP32-C3 SuperMini modules are incredibly affordable, costing around €2, and are equipped with a compact SMD antenna. However, this tiny antenna significantly limits the usable WiFi range due to its design. To address this issue with minimal effort, Peter Neufeld implemented a simple antenna modification that drastically improved performance. This modification involves adding a […]
Electronics Weekly News
DigiKey boasts adding 104 Suppliers in Q2
Published: August 4, 2026, 2:07 pm
DigiKey is highlighting that it expanded its linecard with 27,000 new products in Q2 of 2026, reflecting company growth. This was coupled with 104 new suppliers across its core business, […]
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The Rise Of The Humanoids
Published: August 4, 2026, 1:30 pm
The U.S. government last week banned the import of new advanced robotic devices manufactured abroad. The move is mostly aimed at China. While the ban applies to state-of-the-art humanoid robots, the Federal […]
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Themis reusable rocket moves one step closer to flight
Published: August 4, 2026, 9:55 am
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) rocket prototype, Themis, has passed its first wet dress-rehearsal on the launch pad at the Esrange Space Center in Sweden. The ESA describes it as […]
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Japan taps Ukraine, US and startups for defence drone capability
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:16 am
Japan is hooking up with companies in Ukraine and the US to stimulate local participation in the defence drone market which is currently 91% supplied by Chinese firms. Under a […]
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DeepX raises $30m Series D at $2.2bn valuation
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:12 am
DeepX, the 7 year-old Korean IC designer, has raised a $30 million Series D at a valuation of $2.2 billion. Investors were DeepX’s existing backers existing backers BNW Investment and […]
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