IC Verification Shifts From Design Checks to System Confidence
A new 2026 study indicates chip verification is moving from pure design complexity toward building confidence in software-driven silicon systems.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Titanium Cherry Blossoms Bloom on $14,000 Gaming PC
A custom Aftershock PC uses 70 handcrafted titanium cherry blossoms that unfurl as internal temperatures rise.
Sony INZONE M10S II Review: 540 Hz OLED Gaming Monitor Impresses
Sony's latest 27-inch QHD OLED monitor pushes refresh rates to 540 Hz, aiming to stand out in a crowded high-end gaming display market.
WhiteFiber Continuum Links Data Centers Into One GPU Supercluster
A new distributed networking architecture lets enterprises treat multiple data centers as a single GPU cluster, removing bandwidth as a constraint on AI infrastructure.
KAIST's RAIBO2 quadruped finishes marathon on one battery charge
A reinforcement-learning-trained robot dog completed a full marathon on a single charge, beating the human cost-of-transport benchmark and pointing toward longer-range legged machines.
AMD Epyc Venice details: 256 cores, 5 GHz, CXL 3.1, 1GB L3
AMD's Zen 6 Epyc 'Venice' chips double down on chiplets, adding 256 cores, 16 DDR5 channels, and CXL 3.1 memory pooling.
MELT observability falls short for AI-era networks, NETSCOUT report warns
Traditional metrics, events, logs, and traces leave most organizations with visibility gaps that undermine both incident response and autonomous AI operations.
OpenAI's Astra LLM Passes a Driving Test, Slowly and Costly
Astra becomes the first large language model to pass a driving test, though the feat happened in a parking lot at a snail's pace and at considerable expense.
EDA’s Next Phase: Agentic Workflows With Proof, Not Just Speed
Chip design’s AI shift is moving beyond individual tools to orchestrating entire flows, with trust and cost as the deciding factors.
EDA Design Agents: A Five-Level Autonomy Scale
A framework from Cadence classifies agentic AI in chip design from bounded optimization to orchestrated workflows, with human accountability still central.
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Adds AI Vector Search to Live Database
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL now offers high-performance vector search directly on live data, easing AI application development.
RIPE NCC governance overhaul would give CEO a board vote
Europe's internet registry proposes a 'governance correction' to formalise the CEO's real executive role while keeping board oversight.
Substation Exit Design White Paper Targets Feeder Reliability
A sponsored white paper from IEEE Spectrum and Wiley examines how covered, spacer-supported overhead construction can reduce faults at the critical substation exit.
Salesforce AI demo may breach SAP API policy, experts say
A Dreamforce keynote showing an AI agent working inside SAP has sparked expert disagreement over whether it violates SAP's restrictions on autonomous AI access.
China's LX 7G100 GPU stalls at RX 580 level, far behind modern cards
New benchmarks show Lisuan Tech's flagship GPU still trails nine-year-old AMD and seven-year-old Nvidia cards, despite driver updates.
Firewall shortcut exposed immigration records, researcher says
A government contractor's developers bypassed security review to open a firewall path from a shared datacenter VPN to a classified server holding 50 million immigration records.
Portable RoboMeshA Platform Brings Robotics and AI to Classrooms
A student team in Guadalajara built a self-contained mobile lab that lets high schoolers run robotics and AI lessons from a web browser.
HPE, NVIDIA Face Data Sovereignty Questions at Off-Record AI Dinner
A Chatham House dinner in Washington will let AI buyers and vendors discuss data location and access without the constraints of a public briefing.