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Microchip Acquires Edge AI Chip Startup Hailo
Published: July 28, 2026, 5:04 pm
Return to playbook for the acquisition-driven embedded giant.
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How to Build a 100Gbps Server-Grade AOI Platform for Next-Generation Semiconductor Inspection
Published: July 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
Discover how to overcome the bandwidth, scalability, thermal, and system integration challenges of modern AI-powered AOI. This white paper explains how server-grade architecture, high-speed frame grabbers, and GPU computing enable reliable 100Gbps image acquisition for advanced semiconductor inspection.
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Vibe Coding in Safety-Critical Software: Promise, Pitfalls, and a Path Forward
Published: July 28, 2026, 1:52 pm
Vibe coding can’t fly solo in safety-critical software; demand deterministic gates, human review, and proof before trusting AI-generated code.
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Will Purging Chinese Tech Cost Europe Its Digital Future?
Published: July 28, 2026, 8:19 am
The EU faces challenges in building its digital defenses, as the cost of replacing Chinese telecom equipment across Europe could reach $46 billion.
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Warning Shots Fired as AMD Announces New Data Center GPUs
Published: July 27, 2026, 4:58 pm
Red team’s new Helios racks offer 30% more tokens per dollar than Nvidia.
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Hackaday News
Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access
Published: July 28, 2026, 5:00 pm
If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, …read more
Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark
Published: July 28, 2026, 3:30 pm
The Attack Shark is a modern keyboard with fancy magnetic keyswitches, macros, configurable blinky LEDs, and more. The problem is that the configuration software only works on Windows, so [JR …read more
Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience
Published: July 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more
FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code
Published: July 28, 2026, 11:00 am
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more
The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next
Published: July 28, 2026, 8:00 am
At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Make a Smart Home – The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, Issue 167 @rpimagazine
Published: July 28, 2026, 7:09 pm
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 167 covers how to make a smart home, controlling electronic devices from one place. We’re here to even out the future. At least even it out within the domain of your home. We can add control to the uncontrolled and bring other bits together into one unified platform. […]
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 167: Make a Smart Home @rpimagazine
Published: July 28, 2026, 6:02 pm
The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 167: Make a Smart Home In this issue: The smart home is the dream of anyone who watched Back to the Future as a kid and identified with Doc Brown rather than Marty McFly. Who doesn’t want the power to control your kettle/oven/time machine through a single device, or […]
Cassegotchi: Arduino Nano Tamagotchi
Published: July 28, 2026, 5:35 pm
Do you miss cleaning up digital poo? Long live the 90s! This open-source project is a Nano-based Tamagotchi (digital pet) emulator living in a 3D printed custom shel was shared by by heychaostheory on Instructables. Tamagotchis are digital pets from the late 20th century, and people still love them today! Did you know that […]
CircuitPython Day will be August 21, 2026
Published: July 28, 2026, 4:12 pm
It’s that time of year! Adafruit has determined that August 21, 2025 is the snakiest day of the year and designated it CircuitPython Day! Adafruit will have special shows and more throughout the day. All times US Eastern: Time (Eastern) Presenter Format Title 11:00 AM Noe & Pedro livestream 3D Hangouts Special Edition 1:00 PM […]
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Catch Your ISP Cheating, New CircuitPython, A Python Coding Bot and More!
Published: July 28, 2026, 3:46 pm
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,375 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]
Electronics Weekly News
Cadence certifies AI reference flows for Intel 18A-P and 14A technologies
Published: July 28, 2026, 4:35 pm
DAC 2026: The next step in the partnership of Cadence and Intel Foundry collaboration was announced. Cadence’s AI-driven digital and custom reference flows and tools are now certified on Intel […]
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Swallowing A Good Yarn
Published: July 28, 2026, 1:22 pm
For decades the techies of Silicon Valley have known that Washington will swallow a good yarn. After all, not many people understand what the techies are up to at the […]
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Nvidia says agentic AI is reshaping chip system design
Published: July 28, 2026, 6:53 am
Agentic engineering is reshaping chip and system design and Nvidia is putting itself at the core of this movement with a concerted effort to deliver the tools and libraries designers […]
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Five DUV machines built by Shanghai Yuliansheng to ship this year
Published: July 28, 2026, 5:28 am
The immersion DUV machine developed by Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment specialist, will be shipped by Shanghai Aishengna Technology which has taken over Yuliansheng’s team. The intention is […]
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Schurter buys majority stake in Biaodi
Published: July 28, 2026, 5:27 am
Schurter has bought a majority stake in Biaodi, the Wuhan, China-based of developer of high‑voltage circuit protection products for electric vehicles and new energy applications. “Biaodi fills key gaps in […]
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