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• 9/3/26 NVIDIA's Jensen Huang explains why it's buying Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion
• 8/26/26 Tim Curry, the OG Hollywood video game voice actor, has passed away
• 8/26/26 LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements
• 8/25/26 Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio
• 8/25/26 Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure
• 8/24/26 Kyoto University builds transistor that survives 600C temperatures, compatible with standard fabs — Standard ion implantation and bottom-gate design fix leakage and voltage drift
• 8/24/26 Samsung Confirms HBM4E Memory Running at 16 Gbps Per Pin
• 8/21/26 LG Display introduces new OLED deposition technique that uses lithography instead of metal masks — "FLiPP" photolithography delivers 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer lifespan
• 8/21/26 Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027
• 8/21/26 Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI
• 8/19/26 Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns
• 8/17/26 Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
• 8/5/26 Another one bites the dust: Google is finally killing Google Assistant next month
• 8/4/26 Electronic Arts taken private as $55bn Saudi-led acquisition is finalized
• 8/4/26 NVM Express Publishes Set of NVMe Specifications Enhancing Security, Manageability and Sustainability
• 8/4/26 FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF
• 8/2/26 Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken
• 7/30/26 TSMC Develops EMIB-like Technology to Compete with Intel
• 7/30/26 TSMC's 1.4 nm Fab Set for Completion by April 2027
• 7/26/26 Chinese CXMT DRAM doesn't look like the budget savior many were expecting — new modules enter the market, but prices still track the big three
• 7/25/26 Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds
• 7/23/26 Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support
• 7/23/26 AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
• 7/22/26 OpenAI's GPT-5.6 escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face while trying to cheat a benchmark
• 7/16/26 Scientists synchronize 105,000 nano-oscillators in just 45 nanoseconds — paving the way for a highly efficient and fast alternative to transistors
• 7/14/26 Samsung Texas Fab to Mass-Produce Tesla AI5 SoC on 2 nm Node
• 7/14/26 Microsoft Is Finally Fixing Windows Search
• 7/11/26 A new site & a new CMS, 10 years in the making
• 7/8/26 JEDEC releases new SPHBM4 standard to slash AI memory costs — Narrow 512-bit interface enables dropping expensive interposers for organic substrates
• 7/6/26 Microsoft announces the biggest "restructure in XBOX history," with 3,200 staff affected
• 7/3/26 Intel Readies Two 22-Core "Nova Lake-S" SKUs with 108 MB bLLC Cache for Gaming
• 7/3/26 ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility
• 7/1/26 Sony Ending Discs For All New PlayStation Games Starting In 2028
• 7/1/26 The Vera Rubin Telescope Begins Surveying Our Cosmos
• 6/29/26 WSL container is now available for public preview
• 6/29/26 China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks
• 6/24/26 TSMC is reportedly hiking prices for 'all advanced nodes,' accounting for 74% of the company’s wafer business — Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and others will face higher wafer costs
• 6/24/26 Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
• 6/22/26 Valve Prices the Steam Machine At $1,049
• 6/22/26 Quake changed gaming forever 30 years ago today — seminal title established online multiplayer culture and made 3D graphics accelerators essential PC components
• 6/18/26 AMD Ryzen Threadripper TR6 "Mustang Peak" Arrives with "Zen 6" and PCIe 6.0
• 6/16/26 Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today
• 6/16/26 SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann
• 6/13/26 AMD challenges Nvidia's DGX Spark with $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo with Windows 11 support — Strix Halo desktop undercuts Nvidia by $700, packs 128GB of unified memory
• 6/9/26 Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV
• 6/9/26 SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers — aims for 1 GW/year of space AI compute by late 2027 from its satellites
• 6/6/26 OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support
• 6/4/26 Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users
• 6/1/26 Noctua announces new thermal pad for AMD chips in partnership with Carbice — product will work with processors in AM5 and AM4 sockets
• 6/1/26 Intel Xeon 6+ & Intel Ethernet E835 Launch