PicoJool Raises $27.5M to Scale Optical Connectivity for AI
The Series A led by Socratic Partners signals growing investor appetite for optical interconnects as AI clusters strain conventional networking.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Amazon weighs drone delivery expansion in Australia, Asia
The Register reports Amazon is evaluating drone deliveries in Australia and Asia, signaling a possible expansion of its Prime Air service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
G.Skill Replaces $150 RAM Kit Now Worth $1,200, Fan for Life
A PC builder's warranty claim shows G.Skill honoring a replacement for a memory kit that has jumped eightfold in price, bucking a trend of companies refunding only original purchase costs.
Pennsylvania bill would force game publishers to keep titles playable
A proposed state law would require game companies to offer offline play, a server patch, or a minimum refund before shutting down online-only games.
HMRC paid Capgemini £4.2B after vowing to cut outsourcing
Despite a public pledge to back British business, HMRC has paid the French supplier billions since starting to dismantle its flagship Aspire contract.
Open source thinking could rescue datacenter industry's reputation
A Register columnist argues that the datacenter industry's lack of transparency and reliance on unproven solutions is fueling backlash, and open source approaches may offer a way forward.
Thunderbolt 5 Dock Shootout: VectoTech V-Core vs Orico TB5
Two sub-$400 Thunderbolt 5 docks promise similar specs, but a closer look reveals big differences in build quality and port selection.
Jev: A cheap, fast system-one model takes on LLMs for enterprise AI
TypeSafe AI's Jev offers a deterministic, low-cost alternative to generative LLMs for decision-making tasks, gaining rapid enterprise traction.
AMD Prices EPYC 9006 Lineup from $700 to Nearly $15,000
AMD's Zen 6 Venice server processors deliver up to 256 cores per socket, with per-core cost falling as core counts rise.
Liquid Metal 3D Printing Guides Heat in Soft Silicone
A Virginia Tech lab 3D-prints a gallium-indium silicone composite that conducts heat 40 times better along aligned droplet paths.
Tom's Hardware Makes AI Chip Design Week Free for Readers
The publication will open its Premium paywall for a week of coverage headlined by an interview about OpenAI's AI-designed chip.
CSS shape() and border-shape break the web's rectangular layout mold
New CSS properties let designers define fluid, non-rectangular page borders and shapes without plugins or JavaScript hacks.
Assistive Robotics: Charlie Kemp on Designing for Real People
Hello Robot's CTO argues that useful assistive machines must begin with a deep understanding of the people they are meant to serve.