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• 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
• 5/28/26 Qualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops
• 5/28/26 Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
• 5/28/26 Creative launches flagship Sound Blaster AE-X internal sound card for audiophiles
• 5/28/26 LG Display Begins Mass Production of World's First 240 Hz RGB Stripe OLED
• 5/27/26 Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9
• 5/23/26 Huawei develops 122TB SSD with new packaging tech to sidestep US sanctions on 3D NAND chips — Chinese firm develops proprietary tech to cram more NAND dies in a smaller footprint
• 5/21/26 Mozilla officially confirms Firefox 2026 "Nova" redesign, and you can already enable it
• 5/13/26 Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor
• 5/12/26 Google gives early peek at Android laptops: Googlebooks
• 5/8/26 Sysinternals tools receive major updates
• 5/8/26 Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions
• 5/7/26 High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies
• 5/6/26 PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028
• 4/29/26 PS5 Linux loader goes public, turning ‘Phat’ consoles into full Linux PCs — build script includes bootable Ubuntu 24.04 image, can output 4K games at 60 FPS
• 4/27/26 TSMC's details next-gen CoWoS roadmap: over 14-reticle packages and 48x leap in compute power expected by 2029 — massive size enables 24 HBM5E stacks and additional memory bandwidth jump
• 4/25/26 AMD's memory-boosting EXPO 1.2 is here, adds support for three Chinese memory vendors — performance gains could be muted until Zen 6
• 4/24/26 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is now available with Linux 7.0 and native CUDA
• 4/20/26 Linux 7.1 update includes new in-kernel NTFS driver — delivers storage support upgrade for Linux users
• 4/18/26 WireGuard For Windows Reaches v1.0
• 4/16/26 IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Google services, matching IPv4 — increased usage eases pressure on the IPv4 address market as 'new' protocol designed in 1998 finally hits its stride
• 4/13/26 Linux 7.0 released
• 4/5/26 Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
• 8/8/24 Bus Pirate 5XL & Bus Pirate 6
• 1/22/24 Bus Pirate 5 is here!
• 6/15/18 The 5G standard is finally finished
• 3/24/18 The web will soon be a little safer with the approval of this new security standard
• 6/8/17 Cisco: IP traffic shoots up to 3 zettabytes by 2021, video will be 80% of it
• 5/24/17 Microsoft now uses Git and GVFS to develop Windows