Google Japan's Conveyor-Belt Keyboard Moves Keys to Your Fingers
A new experimental keyboard from Google Japan uses four motorized belts to bring keys to the user's hand, reducing finger movement for one-handed typing.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Used CPUs Can Carry Hidden Anti-Cheat Bans
A used Ryzen 7 5800X3D arrived with a Valorant hardware ban, highlighting the uncheckable risk in the secondhand CPU market.
Musk confirms TSMC talks for Terafab chipmaking collaboration
The discussions could reshape Terafab's planned reliance on Intel's 14A process and give TSMC a dedicated fab serving Musk's companies.
Newegg's Fantastech Sale II Returns With Price Protection Guarantee
Newegg's Fantastech Sale II runs October 5–11, with automatic refunds for early shoppers if prices drop during the event.
RTX 5090 prebuilt melts after year in box; Digital Storm and PNY trade blame
A $5,245 prebuilt PC with an RTX 5090 suffered melted power connectors, exposing a warranty gap between system builder and GPU maker.
SQLDoom runs the classic shooter entirely in database queries
A new port puts Doom's rendering and game loop in SQL, showcasing CedarDB's query compilation.
AMD's Cancelled Ryzen 9 5900X3D Surfaces With 128MB L3 Cache
A leaked engineering sample of the cancelled Ryzen 9 5900X3D shows AMD's early 3D V-Cache experiments and why it chose an eight-core design for gaming.
GPT-6 Astra Clears WoW Orc Starting Zone Blind in 40 Minutes
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra navigated World of Warcraft using only network traffic and quest data, clearing the orc starting zone with no deaths.
Tech sales trip to China turns into wasp sting, police custody, 13-hour meeting
A Register reader's account of a visa-less China trip shows how a single sales call can cascade into a multi-day ordeal.
VDURA V12 Targets AI Storage Bottlenecks for Neoclouds
VDURA's V12 storage system aims to keep expensive GPUs in AI factories busy by accelerating data throughput.
D-Wave Opens Beta for Gate-Model Quantum Simulator
The beta program gives early users access to a simulator aimed at improving quantum error correction in gate-model systems.
Aaeon's AirJet-Cooled Panther Lake Mini PC Runs at Under 21 dBA
Aaeon's fanless Up Xtreme PTL Edge Air uses Frore's AirJet ultrasonic cooling to keep Panther Lake chips quiet and compact for industrial use.
ClusterShell Joins High Performance Software Foundation
The open-source cluster management library gains a neutral governance home under HPSF.
Caliptra Root of Trust: From Open Standard to Data Center Production
A new white paper examines how the open-source Caliptra framework can move from foundation to production-ready root of trust for data center and AI infrastructure.
PCIe 8.0 Over UCIe 3.0 Bridges Chiplet Interconnects
Running PCIe 8.0 over UCIe 3.0 adapts a proven protocol for short-reach, in-package chiplet communication.
Forward-Deployed Engineers: Old Practice, New AI Label
The term 'forward-deployed engineer' is gaining buzz as AWS and Microsoft pour billions into embedded AI consultants, but vendors say the practice is hardly new.
CISO's leetspeak password exposed after BlueKeep left 2,500 PCs open
A law firm's security chief used a symbol-substituted password while leaving a known wormable RDP flaw unpatched, allowing a pentester to compromise thousands of machines.
Signaloid Joins CERN openlab Testbed for Heterogeneous Computing
Signaloid will test its computing technology in CERN openlab's heterogeneous architectures testbed, part of CERN's effort to evaluate emerging technologies for scientific computing.