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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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GUC and Wiwynn Collaborate on Silicon-to-System Infrastructure for Next-Gen Hyperscale AI
Published: May 4, 2026, 12:39 pm
Collaboration unites SoC design, optical I/O, and liquid-cooled rack integration to help hyperscalers accelerate AI infrastructure.
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Hackaday News
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
A Shortwave Sensor to Monitor the Ionosphere
Published: May 4, 2026, 6:00 pm
The ionosphere is of great importance to shortwave radio transmissions, since it allows radio waves to be refracted and reflected over the horizon, and it’s therefore unfortunate that the height …read more
Strange Ways to Make Cold
Published: May 4, 2026, 5:00 pm
Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more
ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board
Published: May 4, 2026, 3:30 pm
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there’s technology, but it’s community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and– if the name doesn’t give …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
“His habits seem good, his disposition active and cheerful and his manner intelligent.”
Published: May 5, 2026, 12:01 am
Of the first Englush electronic engineer it was said: “His habits seem good, his disposition activeAnd cheerful and his manner intelligent.” So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics ...
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Crowded Space
Published: May 4, 2026, 1:31 pm
Almost 35,000 space objects of the size of a softball or above are currently known to exist in orbit. Data from the General Catalogue of Artificial Space Objects shows how ...
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Huawei on track to sell inference chips worth $12bn this year
Published: May 4, 2026, 5:25 am
Huawei is expecting revenues from AI ICs to grow from $7.5bn last year to $12bn this year based on orders it has already received, reports the FT. Most of the ...
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SensiBel hooks up with Silex for foundry
Published: May 4, 2026, 5:19 am
SensiBel, the optical MEMS sensing specialist, has engaged Silex for the manufacture of its MEMS microphone, which uses a precision optical detection module to deliver professional-grade audio in a compact, ...
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Mote’s foldables
Published: May 4, 2026, 5:16 am
Motorola has come up with some impressive foldable phones – the $799.99 Razr, the $1,099.99 Razr+, the $1,499.99 Razr Ultra and the book-style $1899.99 Razr Fold with a 6,000mAh battery ...
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