EE Times News
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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Industrial Control Systems Manufacturer Eliminates Stockouts
Published: May 4, 2026, 1:53 pm
As its products grew more complex, Nexus ACS needed software to manage multi-level bills of materials and eliminate stockouts and excess inventory.
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Manufacturing Steady in April as Inflation and Iran War Weigh In
Published: May 4, 2026, 1:16 pm
Manufacturing continued to expand in April despite supply chain issues and higher prices.
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Hackaday News
E-paper Dashboard Reimagines Smart Home’s Connection with Technology
Published: May 5, 2026, 8:00 am
When [Joel] and his partner got married, they had a goal to create a home with a healthy relationship to technology, which largely means avoiding smartphone use. Smartphones aren’t without …read more
Camera Slider: Build Instead of Buy Goes Awry
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:00 am
[TheHyperFix] had a problem. He’d spied a brilliant camera slider, but didn’t want to lay out big money to acquire it. The natural solution? Build one! Only, life is seldom …read more
The Math You Need to Start Understanding LLMs
Published: May 5, 2026, 2:00 am
Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model …read more
Teardown of a Shahed-136 Gimbaled Camera
Published: May 4, 2026, 11:00 pm
The Iranian Shahed-136’s basic design has seen many changes and additions since Russia began using them, with some featuring interesting payloads such as cameras in a gimbal, making these drones …read more
Sunlight Powered, Sunlight Readable: Solar Case for Nook Simple Touch
Published: May 4, 2026, 8:00 pm
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. What if life gives you a pile of old e-book readers? Well, when [spiritplumber] got box of old Nook Simple Touch devices, …read more
Adafruit Blog News
A Mac app to answer “What can this USB-C cable actually do?”
Published: May 4, 2026, 9:28 pm
WhatCable is a small macOS menu bar app by Darryl Morley that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do, and why your Mac might be charging slowly. USB-C hides a lot under one connector. Anything from a USB 2.0 charge-only cable to a 240W / 40 […]
Xash3D – Half Life source port 2026 build guide
Published: May 4, 2026, 9:20 pm
Moonmarch on the Raspberry Pi Forums posts: I haven’t played Half-Life in a long time, possibly since the last time I wrote the original Xash3D build guide back in June 2020, because I was having problems running the source port every time I compiled the software. The game menu did not show up, then I decided to test Xash3D recently, I […]
A post-quantum cryptography toolkit for microcontrollers
Published: May 4, 2026, 9:06 pm
PQCMicro is Pratul Deshpande‘s post-quantum cryptography toolkit for microcontrollers. PQCMicro is an advanced, production-ready C++ library that brings the latest NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standards to highly constrained embedded devices (ESP32, STM32, Arduino). Ported from the robust PQClean project, this library abstracts away the extreme memory requirements of lattice-based cryptography, allowing you to establish quantum-safe key exchanges and digital […]
An infrared ESL research toolkit for Flipper Zero
Published: May 4, 2026, 8:51 pm
I12BP8 on GitHub posts TagTinker V2.1, an infrared ESL research toolkit for Flipper Zero devices. TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app for exploring infrared electronic shelf-label (ESL) protocols. It allows you to transmit custom images and text to supported graphics tags. A companion web image preparer runs entirely in the browser and lets you drop, dither and […]
Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs
Published: May 4, 2026, 8:40 pm
Cameron Kaiser on Old Vintage Computing Research writes about testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs. It’s time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple’s first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Server was only ever officially able to boot AIX, IBM’s […]
Electronics Weekly News
ST sees orbiting datacentres as a possibility by 2029
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:30 am
ST says orbiting datacentres could be operating in three years time. “My wild guess as to when we could start to see, a relevant amount of orbital data centres in ...
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Arm CEO promoted to head Softbank’s international operations
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:28 am
SoftBank has appointed Arm CEO Rene Haas (pictured) to head up its international operations as CEO of SoftBank Group International (SBGI), which handles the group’s overseas subsidiaries. Haas will continue ...
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Cerebras looking for $3.5bn
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:27 am
Cerebras, the waferscale AI chip developer, has priced its upcoming IPO at $115-125. It is putting up 28 million shares for sale so is looking to raise up to $3.5 ...
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Softbank and Cosmos Lab to produce zinc-halogen batteries
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:25 am
SoftBank is hooking up with Cosmos Lab of Korea to produce zinc-halogen batteries for datacentres, reports the Nikkei. The attraction of zinc-halogen batteries is that they can be made with ...
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Q1 semi sales up 25% QoQ
Published: May 5, 2026, 5:15 am
Q1 semiconductor sales of $298.5 billion were 25% up QoQ, says the SIA. March sales of $99.5 billion were up 79.2% on the March 2025 total of $55.5 billion and ...
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