Ex-NCA officer who stole Bitcoin from Silk Road 2.0 case ordered to repay £1.8M
A former National Crime Agency officer who stole 50 Bitcoin from the Silk Road 2.0 investigation must pay back over £1.8 million.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Composable AI Thermal Solver Speeds 3D-IC Analysis by 178x
Cadence and Notre Dame researchers show a domain-decomposed neural solver that reuses block models across package topologies while cutting thermal simulation time dramatically.
Mod brings full DLSS 5 suite to AMD Radeon GPUs
A community mod now lets Radeon owners use Nvidia's DLSS upscaling, frame generation, ray reconstruction, and neural rendering in DirectX 12 games.
A Control-Systems Researcher Wants to Remove Traffic Lights
Christos Cassandras, a longtime researcher in machine decision-making, argues that connected smart cars could make stoplights obsolete.
AI System Detects Concealed Handguns Using Wi-Fi Signals
Researchers at Sweden's FOI have built an experimental AI that identifies concealed handguns from Wi-Fi signal distortions, with precision around 72.5% in controlled tests.
U.S. Grid Order Targets Foreign Hardware and Firmware Risks
A new executive order restricts high-risk foreign grid equipment, pushing provenance checks down to firmware and subcomponents.
DJI Dock 4 swaps drone batteries in 25 seconds, but no US sales
DJI's first battery-swapping dock cuts drone turnaround to under 45 seconds, but the system is not FCC-authorized for sale in the United States.
Bloomberg Terminal's History Mirrors Market's Need for Speed
The Bloomberg Terminal's evolution shows how financial information technology has consistently chased ever-faster data delivery.
HPC Career Notes: September 2026 Roundup Tracks Community Moves
HPCwire's monthly career column offers a snapshot of promotions, hires, and accolades across the high-performance computing community.
LLMs Could Ease Chip Design's Verification Bottleneck
A Semiconductor Engineering analysis argues that large language models are arriving just as functional verification has become chip design's dominant bottleneck.
Windows command prompt appears on OOHPod parcel locker screen
A parcel locker in Ireland briefly exposed a Windows command prompt, highlighting the risks of running unattended kiosks on general-purpose OSes.
NEM-Gated Gain Cells Target More Efficient Embedded DRAM
A UC Berkeley, Samsung, and Intel team proposes nanoelectromechanical switches to replace transistor gates in gain-cell eDRAM, addressing retention and write-voltage issues.
Ugreen 10-Port PoE+ Switch Drops to $37.79, a New Low
A budget-friendly unmanaged switch adds eight PoE+ ports with 30W per port, ideal for smart home gear.
7 in 10 enterprises to abandon vendor agentic AI by 2028
A new forecast expects most enterprises to drop vendor-built agentic AI by 2028, driven by heavy dependence on outside expertise.
Anycubic Kobra X 3D Printer Drops to $299.99, an All-Time Low
The award-winning four-color printer is now available at its lowest price ever for Amazon Prime members.
Cyrillic Homoglyph Corner Case Still Evades Chromium's Typosquatting Defenses
A single overlooked Cyrillic character can still let a lookalike domain slip past Chromium's otherwise best-in-class typosquatting protections.
Where AI data lives: HPE and NVIDIA tackle regulated-industry barriers
An off-record Washington dinner will address the data residency and control questions that stall AI in regulated industries.
America.gov Chatbot Serves Up Hot Dogs for July 4th Queries
The Register reports that the new America.gov chatbot responds to queries with hot dog content, an odd quirk for a government AI assistant.