EE Times News
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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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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Hackaday News
LightInk, a Solar Powered ESP32 Smartwatch
Published: May 5, 2026, 11:00 am
There’s something about the ESP32 family of microcontrollers and timekeeping. We probably see it in clocks as often as we do anything else; we also probably see more clocks with …read more
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
Adafruit Blog News
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Cyberdecks are Hot Anti-AI Gadgets, RasPi CM0s On AliExpress and More!
Published: May 5, 2026, 2:15 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 […]
Take a Cardboard Hinge Masterclass with Itoshige Studio
Published: May 5, 2026, 2:00 pm
In just over 16 minutes on YouTube you’ll learn how to make 5 different hinges (craft paper, seamless, Kamichoban, flush and interlocking tab) with cardboard from Itoshige Studio. We’re huge fans of building with cardboard. Check out John Park’s Cardboard Fundamentals and see what else you can do with cardboard and electronics in the Adafruit […]
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 […]
Electronics Weekly News
Pic of the Day: ESA’s Plato spacecraft about to take wing
Published: May 5, 2026, 1:45 pm
ESA engineers have fitted the sunshield and solar panels to complete the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets.
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UAE goes its own way
Published: May 5, 2026, 1:22 pm
The UAE, which is leaving OPEC, is the biggest producer of oil and oil products in OPEC behind Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. Its exit from the organization marks the ...
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A fork in the road for sensor fusion in automotive design
Published: May 5, 2026, 10:44 am
Although a lot of headlines in the automotive domain have been around LLMs (large language models), a significant part of automotive design relies on traditional machine learning (ML) workflows in ...
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Gitai USA space robotics selected for Space-Based Interceptor programme
Published: May 5, 2026, 10:39 am
Gitai USA, the space robotics company, has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command for its Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) programme. It has developed a satellite platform that that ...
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Schurter’s micro TCS43 tactile switch for space-efficient PCB layouts
Published: May 5, 2026, 10:05 am
Schurter has released its TCS43 microminiature SMT tactile switch. It’s designed for consumer and medical applications requiring precise haptic feedback. Example use cases include UIs involving on/off switching, menu navigation, ...
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