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Can AI Be Trusted? Synopsys on Agentic AI and Autonomous Engineering
Published: October 7, 2026, 8:07 pm
See how Synopsys uses agentic AI to orchestrate trusted EDA tools for precise, explainable chip design, and faster engineering workflows.
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Why AI’s Limit Is Power, Not Chips: Gopi Sirineni at AI Infra Summit 2026
Published: October 7, 2026, 7:56 pm
Gopi Sirineni says AI’s bottleneck is power, not chips, and autonomous rack controllers can boost efficiency up to 30%.
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AMD’s Mark Papermaster: Exclusive Video Interview at World Summit AI
Published: October 7, 2026, 6:39 pm
For AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, tailored computing and holistic design are key to delivering AI.
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Engineering Reliability: Power Architectures for High-Performance Burn-In
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:47 pm
Join this session where our expert will examine key power technologies, design considerations, and best practices that help manufacturers enhance product quality, accelerate qualification, and reduce risk.
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Enhance Power Quality with a GaN-based AC/DC Three-Level Vienna Rectifier
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Data centers have become essential to almost every part of the global economy with the continuing rise in computing demands. Modern data centers, consisting of rows of equipment racks for storing, processing, and sharing data, require front-end AC/DC converters that are reliable, operate at unity power factor, offer low input current THD, and achieve high […]
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Hackaday News
Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete
Published: October 7, 2026, 11:00 pm
There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more
Handheld Atari 2600 Packs a CRT
Published: October 7, 2026, 8:00 pm
We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console wrapped up with a CRT as a handheld. …read more
Repairing a Couple of Very Expensive Registered DDR5 RAM Sticks
Published: October 7, 2026, 6:30 pm
It’s definitely a sign of the times when repair shops get handed sticks of registered ECC DDR5 RAM by businesses to try and fix, rather than just tossing the defective …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing
Published: October 7, 2026, 3:30 pm
People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple …read more
ESP32 As Your Raspberry Pi’s Linux Wireless Co-processor
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Integrating Electronics With Human Cells
Published: October 7, 2026, 8:00 pm
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed a flexible mesh that integrates electronics with human cells. The mesh is capable of providing a continuous electrical supply. The study was recently published in Science Advances. Their ‘biohybrid mesh harvester’ could change the way wearables and implantable electronics are powered. Harvesting that cellular power requires […]
The Hexa-Bouncer ball juggling robot
Published: October 7, 2026, 7:50 pm
T-Kuhn has built the Hexa-Bouncer, a ball juggling machine published on Electron Dust and the successor to the Octo-Bouncer. It is a rotary hexapod that uses universal joints on all six arms instead of ball joints. An IK simulation in Unity showed the upper joint also needed to rotate around the end link’s axis, so […]
Easy Flash: Flash your ESP32 from the browser
Published: October 7, 2026, 7:28 pm
Easy Flash is a browser based tool for writing firmware to ESP32 boards. Pick a hardware project from the list on the page, connect the board, and the flashing happens in the browser with no toolchain to install. It uses the Web Serial API, so it needs Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or another Chromium-based browser. […]
Enigma: the machine and its history
Published: October 7, 2026, 7:22 pm
A website called enigma.design puts a working 3D model of a German Enigma machine in the browser, with lessons on how it was used and how it was broken. The German military used Enigma during World War II to send encrypted messages. Polish, British, and French cryptanalysts exploited weaknesses in the machine and in the […]
A Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on an ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM)
Published: October 7, 2026, 7:18 pm
Zed (@M-Abozaid) published a DNS ad-blocker on GitHub that runs on a $2 ESP32-C3 with no PSRAM. Most ESP32 DNS sinkholes load blocklist domain strings into RAM, which is why they need PSRAM. This one stores each domain as a sorted 40-bit FNV-1a hash in flash and binary-searches it. Over 140,000 domains fit in about […]
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Published: October 7, 2026, 3:00 pm
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Teradyne Magnum E2 addresses advanced DRAM and high-speed NAND flash
Published: October 7, 2026, 2:34 pm
The Teradyne Magnum E2 is a high-speed memory test system for advanced DRAM and flash interfaces. Its design, says the company, matches the test demands driven by AI and high-performance […]
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Queen’s University opens Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre
Published: October 7, 2026, 1:06 pm
Queen’s University has officially opened the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC), a £100m investment through the Belfast Region City Deal to support innovation and growth for manufacturing in Northern Ireland. […]
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An Orderly De-Frothing?
Published: October 7, 2026, 11:15 am
There’s a chance that the de-frothing of the AI market could be an orderly retreat rather than a sudden bust. Anthropic’s two largest customers are weaning themselves off Anthropic products […]
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Omron R1 inverter drives into high-power applications
Published: October 7, 2026, 9:17 am
Omron is introducing its R1 (3G3R1) variable speed drive as the most powerful member of its inverter family, for demanding, high-power applications. For example in pump sequencing, solar pumping entrance […]
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