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Espressif's ESP32-S31 adds Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, and PUF-backed security
Espressif's new ESP32-S31 is a dual-core 32-bit RISC-V SoC clocked at 320 MHz with a 128-bit SIMD data path, 512 KB SRAM, and DDR PSRAM support. Connectivity is
Gemma 4 12B ditches multimodal encoders, runs locally on 16GB laptops
Google released Gemma 4 12B, a mid-sized open-weight model that drops the conventional approach of using separate vision and audio encoders. Instead, image and
Gooey: GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig targets Metal, Vulkan, and WebGPU
Gooey is an early-stage UI framework for Zig that renders through native GPU APIs: Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux/Wayland, and WebGPU in the browser via WASM (
Hacker News Surfaces a Literal Knot-Tying Guide as 'Secure Shoelace Knot'
Ian Fieggen's long-running shoelace site resurfaced on Hacker News with his Secure Shoelace Knot, a variant of the standard bow that adds an extra wrap through
Inside Anthropic's Playbook for Containing Claude Across Three Products
Anthropic outlines how it caps the blast radius of its increasingly autonomous Claude agents across claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork. The company argues that
Inside the PlayStation: How Sony Built a 3D Console on MIPS and Custom Silicon
Sony's original PlayStation was architected around simplicity and affordability, pairing in-house audio and graphics chips with a third-party CPU sourced throug
Let's Encrypt Bets on Merkle Tree Certificates for Post-Quantum Web PKI
Let's Encrypt has chosen Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) as its path to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI, with a staging environment targeted for late 2026 and produ
Mathematicians warn AI is closing in on research-grade problem solving
Mathematicians are growing uneasy as large language models move from struggling with basic arithmetic to tackling problems that resemble genuine research mathem
Meta Softens Employee Surveillance Tool After Internal Backlash
Meta has scaled back its Model Capability Initiative (MCI), a tool that logs employee keystrokes and mouse clicks to train AI models for agentic computing. Foll
NASA Confirms Five-Foot Meteor Exploded over Massachusetts, Fell into Cape Cod Bay
A meteor roughly five feet wide and weighing 5.6 metric tons entered the atmosphere over New England at 42,000 mph on Saturday afternoon, breaking apart 31 mile
NSF to Pull 900+ Ocean Sensors Tracking Atlantic Current Near Collapse
The National Science Foundation is shutting down the Ocean Observatories Initiative, recovering more than 900 instruments deployed off Oregon, Washington, Alask
Reverse-engineering a Yamaha THR10c guitar amp via JTAG and UART headers
A hobbyist hardware hacker documents the process of accessing the firmware on a Yamaha THR10c guitar amp after spotting UART and JTAG headers in the service man