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.
SanDisk 512GB microSD Express Card Drops to $98 for Switch 2
A rare discount on an officially licensed Switch 2 storage card offers relief amid the ongoing memory shortage.
Fan Replica of ASML's Employee-Only High-NA EUV Lego Set Hits Rebrickable
A custom 810-piece recreation of ASML's exclusive TWINSCAN EXE:5000 Lego kit is now freely available on Rebrickable.
Amazon's Bee wearable AI listens in and turns chats into reminders
Amazon is expanding its Bee wearable line with two conversation-recording devices that feed summaries into Alexa and shopping recommendations.
APAC Midmarket SaaS and AI Adoption Outpaces Data Protection
A new report warns that fast-growing Asia Pacific midmarket businesses are adopting SaaS and AI tools without matching data protection safeguards.
UK Space Agency asks public to name orbital debris remover
Public naming contest opens for the UK's £60m spacecraft that will grab and de-orbit two defunct satellites.
Motor Speed Controllers Could Free Up Gigawatts of Grid Power
Retrofitting the nation's industrial and commercial motors with variable frequency drives could cut their electricity use by roughly half and ease grid strain.
AI Lab Pays Homeowners for Repair Data to Train Robots
HUMXN's free home-service program in three US cities trades skilled-trade work for wearable-sensor recordings meant to train future AI robots.
Open-weight models now dominate AI gateway traffic and spending
Vercel's gateway data shows open-weight models handle most tokens and have quadrupled their share of paid AI usage since June.
Intel packs, ASML booms, Sipeed challenges Nvidia, SK hynix tunes SSDs
Tom's Hardware's weekly roundup points to Intel's 12-reticle packaging goal, ASML's record revenue, a Chinese DGX Spark rival, and SK hynix's SSD controller cores.
Taiwan to Criminalize AI Server Exports to China With Five-Year Penalty
Taiwan is aligning its export controls with U.S. trade bans by making AI server smuggling to China a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison.
Cisco Adds Control Plane to Scale Quantum Networks
New prototypes aim to automate entanglement requests across heterogeneous quantum systems, moving beyond manual point-to-point setups.
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl leaves Deno behind for open-source Cloudflare Workers
Ryan Dahl's move from Deno to Cloudflare Workers signals a pivot from traditional Node-style servers to lightweight distributed runtimes.
Hardware Blog Roundup: UALink, GDDR7, and AI Testing
A weekly review of hardware engineering blogs highlights new interconnect and memory standards plus the need for real-world AI testing.
Chip Design's Growing Heat Problem Needs New Tools and Materials
As chips stack vertically, engineers must co-optimize voltage, timing, thermal, and power together—a loop no current tool can close.
Early In-Design Analysis Aims to Tame Complex Chiplet Packaging
A methodology embeds multiphysics simulation directly into chiplet package design to cut redesign cycles and late-stage surprises.
EPDA Tools Emerge to Tame Electronic-Photonic Design Complexity
A new design paradigm, electronic photonic design automation, is becoming essential as silicon photonics and bandwidth demands force tighter integration of light and electronics.
Chipmakers Rethink Design as Extreme Environments Multiply
Radiation, cryogenic temperatures, and mechanical shock are converging in space and defense systems, forcing chip designers to validate against multiple simultaneous stressors.