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How Much Impact Will AI Have on IoT Software Engineering?
Published: September 8, 2026, 8:06 am
In theory, AI is a surefire way to raise productivity in software engineering, but the reality may not be quite so cut-and-dried.
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Nvidia Acquires HuggingFace for $12.9B
Published: September 7, 2026, 3:58 pm
The open-source model hub will be acquired by the world’s biggest compute provider.
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Why Microcooling Will Be a Critical Enabler of Agentic AI
Published: September 7, 2026, 1:19 pm
Agentic AI won’t thrive on raw compute alone; tiny devices need microcooling to beat heat and sustain intelligence.
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Why Holistic Digital Twins are Needed to Accelerate SDV Development
Published: September 7, 2026, 1:00 pm
Discover how holistic digital twins help automakers shift left, overcome integration complexity and accelerate modern software-defined vehicle development.
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Kioxia’s Flash-for-DRAM Initiative Eyes AI Workloads
Published: September 7, 2026, 8:01 am
The CXL-attached memory expansion uses NAND flash optimized for high-speed processing alongside AI compute devices.
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Hackaday News
Old iPad Keyboard Makes For a Modern Netbook
Published: September 8, 2026, 8:00 am
Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on …read more
How Bats Prevent Doppler Acoustic Interference
Published: September 8, 2026, 5:00 am
As great as echolocation is, things can get rather messy once it’s not just you chirping away, but also hundreds of your buddies in roughly the same area. This is …read more
Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities Found to Drive Plasma Mixing on the Sun
Published: September 8, 2026, 2:00 am
As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme the conditions are, even on the surface of a rather unassuming star. …read more
ESP32-P4 Powers Video Alarm Clock
Published: September 7, 2026, 11:00 pm
Once upon a time, you had the option of waking up to a bell, a harsh buzzer, or whatever happened to be on the radio that morning. Now that it’s …read more
A Vacuum Tube Computer For The Home
Published: September 7, 2026, 8:00 pm
The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Is this the year of the Linux… television?
Published: September 7, 2026, 9:27 pm
WayDroid-ATV has published a set of Waydroid Android TV builds on GitHub. The images run Android TV on top of an existing Linux install rather than replacing it, so a desktop or server keeps doing its normal work while the TV interface runs alongside. The point is resource use. Android TV x86 ROMs like LineageOS […]
What it took to triple software engineering output in 18 months
Published: September 7, 2026, 9:14 pm
A technology leader writing in InfoWorld describes what changed at a legal software company after it rebuilt its product development life cycle around AI over 18 months. Output per engineer roughly tripled, deployments went from 82 to more than 155, and customer reported defects fell 65% per million lines of code. Progress was tracked with […]
The ill-fated HP-Compaq merger
Published: September 7, 2026, 8:40 pm
Dave Farquhar looks back at the HP-Compaq merger on his blog, The Silicon Underground. HP announced the $25 billion acquisition on September 6, 2001. At the time it was the largest technology merger in history. HP retired the Compaq brand in May 2012. Farquhar traces Compaq’s weakness to its own 1997 purchase of Digital Equipment […]
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Published: September 7, 2026, 8:28 pm
Austin Z. Henley set himself a weekend challenge on his blog at austinhenley.com: write a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes of C, with no macro tricks and no libraries. The original target was 512 bytes. A basic calculator that handled x = 1 + 2 * 3 and a single if statement already blew past that, so […]
The CircuitPython Show Episode 64 – CircuitPython Day 2026
Published: September 7, 2026, 8:15 pm
Episode 64 of The CircuitPython Show is a replay of The Bootloader livestream that ran on Adafruit’s YouTube channel for CircuitPython Day. Host Paul Cutler and co-host Tod Kurt look back at the past year of CircuitPython releases and community projects. The episode uses screen sharing, so the video version is the one to watch. […]
Electronics Weekly News
ASML and TSMC to lead transition to 12-inch photomasks for High-NA EUV
Published: September 8, 2026, 7:22 am
ASML and TSMC have announced a collaborative initiative to lead the semiconductor industry’s transition to a larger-format Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography photomask. While High NA EUV will be adopted for […]
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JJ IC has 3.8m junctions per cm2
Published: September 8, 2026, 5:14 am
This week, at the 2026 Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC), imec presents a three-metal-level (3ML) niobium-titanium-nitride (NbTiN)-based Josephson junction circuit, achieving circuit design densities of 3.8 million junctions per cm2 – […]
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US DoE has $12m funding opportunity for space-based PV R&D
Published: September 8, 2026, 5:12 am
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Integrated Energy Systems Office (IESO) announced the Space Photovoltaics Research and Development Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) opportunity which will award up to $12 million […]
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Astute Group transitions leadership
Published: September 8, 2026, 5:11 am
Astute Group has announced a leadership transition. Geoff Hill, founder and Managing Director, becomes Chairman. In this role, Geoff will continue to shape the Group’s long-term strategy, providing guidance and […]
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Q2 DRAM contract price up 59.5% QoQ
Published: September 8, 2026, 5:10 am
Q2 DRAM contract prices were up 59.5% QoQ pushing DRAM quarterly revenue to nearly $154.73 billion, reports TrendForce. Suppliers’ inventories remain at historic lows, with additional supply mainly allocated for […]
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