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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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NXP Eying Ambarella: Is It About Automotive or Edge AI?
Published: August 3, 2026, 8:24 am
Ambarella has quietly transformed its automotive computer-vision technology to serve edge AI applications.
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Humanoid Manipulation at the Edge of Physical Interaction
Published: August 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
This white paper examines emerging humanoid robot architectures, focusing on how joints and dexterous hands are becoming intelligent, sensor-rich subsystems that require tightly integrated control, communication, and edge processing. It outlines key design challenges and opportunities for building scalable, high-performance humanoid manipulation systems.
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Hackaday News
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
Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
Published: August 4, 2026, 8:00 am
[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended …read more
A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:00 am
The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more
Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
Published: August 4, 2026, 2:00 am
In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more
Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604
Published: August 3, 2026, 11:00 pm
Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Byte Magazine’s “Technological Breakthrough” cover re-created as a photograph #ArtTuesday
Published: August 4, 2026, 12:27 pm
Bob Alexander at Galactic Studios has been recreating Robert Tinney’s Byte magazine paintings as photographs. The latest work is “Technological Breakthrough”. Byte’s January 1986 issue had a focus on robotics. Mr. Tinney painted a robot claw hatching out of an egg. As I’ve done with several other Byte covers, I re-created Tinney’s vision as if it […]
Before you buy that TV streaming stick
Published: August 3, 2026, 8:39 pm
Krebs on Security writes that security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves […]
The world’s first watch featuring computer functions
Published: August 3, 2026, 8:24 pm
The world’s first wrist computer system, released in 1984, consisted of a Seiko watch part and a separate “controller” console with a built-in printer. The user could input BASIC programing with a keyboard (sold separately) and enjoy playing games. It also included a memo function, a telephone directory, an address book, and a scheduling function. […]
Rooting the TP-Link TL-841N router
Published: August 3, 2026, 8:03 pm
A nice hands-on hardware hacking write-up making the rounds on Hacker News. The author picked up a bottom-of-the-line $10 TP-Link TL-841N (EU) off Facebook Marketplace specifically to practice the full end-to-end process of tearing into an IoT device: locating the UART, getting a root shell, and extracting firmware. The interesting part is that the firmware […]
Zephyr on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W bare metal
Published: August 3, 2026, 7:24 pm
Jonathan Elliot Peace has posted a Zephyr fork with board support for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a 26-file commit adding about 1,300 lines. The Zero 2 W runs a Broadcom BCM2710A1, the same silicon as the original Pi 3, packaged in an RP3A0-AU SiP with 512MB of LPDDR2. Zephyr boots it single-core with […]
Electronics Weekly News
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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Q2 wafer shipments up 7.4% YoY
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:11 am
Q2 silicon wafer shipments increased 7.4% YoY to 3,573 million square inches (MSI) from the 3,327 MSI recorded in Q2 2025 and 9.1% QoQ from the 3,275 MSI recorded oc […]
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6 – 18 GHz Driver Amplifier
Published: August 4, 2026, 5:00 am
Qorvo’s QPA0023 is a high-performance driver amplifier fabricated on Qorvo’s production 0.15 um pHEMT process (QPHT15). Covering 6 – 18 GHz, the QPA0023 provides 14 dB small signal gain and […]
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