EE Times News
Rising Costs, Compute Demand Push ADAS Toward Modular AI
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:00 pm
Rising semiconductor costs and computing requirements drive automakers toward modular ADAS AI solutions.
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Breaking the AI Infrastructure Power Wall: From Grid to xPU
Published: October 8, 2026, 12:36 pm
Register now for our webinar to discover how Navitas 2.0 is revolutionizing AI infrastructure power delivery.
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Rohm Semiconductor Expands Back-End Chip Manufacturing Outsourcing
Published: October 8, 2026, 7:18 am
Rohm Semiconductor retains wafer fabrication in-house as it expands its back-end semiconductor operations and R&D footprint in India.
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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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Hackaday News
The World’s Smallest TV Console Plays DOOM
Published: October 8, 2026, 11:00 am
We’ve seen plenty of game console projects here, many of them that seek to produce a miniature game console. But this one from [RayTriangle] may break a new barrier entirely …read more
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper
Published: October 8, 2026, 8:00 am
Retrocomputing is more than just hardware. It’s also a feel, a vibe, and [valkyrie0528]’s Retro Terminal Bartop Arcade Topper has it in spades. Here’s how it happened. The gorgeous device …read more
Solve Your TTL Video Woes With An RP2350
Published: October 8, 2026, 5:00 am
Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten …read more
Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32
Published: October 8, 2026, 2:00 am
As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century …read more
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
Adafruit Blog News
Fixers are warming up for Repair Day across the globe
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:22 pm
James Pickstone, writing on openrepair.org, previews what communities have planned for International Repair Day on October 17. This is the 10th edition, and the global event map is still filling up. Vienna’s re:pair Festival runs 17 days, with textile workshops, furniture restoration demos, musical instrument repair clinics and a repair cafe. Vivita Philippines is running […]
mIRC-style chat client for MeshCore LoRa mesh nodes
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:15 pm
Developer bclml has released mcIRC on GitHub, a desktop chat client for MeshCore LoRa mesh nodes that copies the old mIRC layout: a window tree on the left, a switchbar of direct message buttons, and unread windows turning red. It works with any board running MeshCore Companion firmware over USB, Bluetooth or WiFi. It is […]
Floating Ghost Dog #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:00 pm
Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Floating Ghost Dog By O3D makerworld.com/en/models/3323936-floating-ghost-dog-halloween-tealight-holder Bambu X1C PolyMaker PLA 2hr 18mins X:110 Y:94 Z:74mm .2mm layer / .4mm Nozzle 10% Infill / 1mm Retraction 200C / 60C 36g 230mm/s Every Thursday is #3dthursday […]
When your EGA CRT is failing: hack it
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:00 pm
Marcin Wichary, writing on aresluna.org, tells the story of his first hack. As a teenager in the early 1990s he had a hand-me-down PC clone with an EGA card and a 14-inch cathode ray tube. The tube began to fail. The picture warped and bulged within three minutes of warming up, but only in the […]
Tapo now speaks TPAP: third-party compatibility can stay off
Published: October 8, 2026, 12:50 pm
A post on mihai.dinculescu.dev explains why Tapo smart plugs started returning 403 Forbidden to scripts that had worked for months. Firmware 1.4.0 brought a new protocol, TPAP, and plugs will only talk the old way when the “Third-Party Compatibility” switch is on in the Tapo app. That switch is off by default. Lights followed on […]
Electronics Weekly News
Fable: The Guy Who Focussed
Published: October 8, 2026, 1:15 pm
There was once a sprawling corporate which was bleeding to death. It lost $5.7 billion one year on top of the $3.1 billion it had lost the previous year. Then a […]
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Pic of the Day: Google’s Project Suncatcher datacentre satellite in orbit
Published: October 8, 2026, 11:24 am
Check out the launch of Google's Project Suncatcher prototype datacentre satellite, with its Trillium TPUs (Tensor Processing Units). It's courtesy of SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission.
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Connectivity challenges evolve as systems move into higher-frequency operation
Published: October 8, 2026, 11:00 am
As the communications network moves into the millimetre-wave spectrum connectivity becomes a larger challenge, writes Dr Tudor Williams. As satellite constellations expand 5G infrastructure becomes more densely deployed and defence […]
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SuperSharp to lead THEOSCOPE IR Earth observation mission
Published: October 8, 2026, 9:10 am
SuperSharp, a specialist in ultra-high resolution thermal infrared (TIR) imaging from space, has been chosen to lead Europe’s THEOSCOPE Mission. This is an Earth observation project with €4 million of […]
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Qualcomm vs Arm (day 3)
Published: October 8, 2026, 5:16 am
Yesterday the Qualcomm vs Arm case covered the struggle for leverage, differing architectural interpretations and good faith (or not) in the negotiations regarding Arm’s v10 technology. A major focus was […]
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