Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever
The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That’s according to the...
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Driving WS2812Bs With Pure Logic
The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about any microcontroller you can think of....
Read moreSamsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher price tag
The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are “more of the same for more money,” my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming...
Read moreThis AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
Read moreFTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages
The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children’s online privacy law against certain websites...
Read moreQualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all
In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers...
Read moreMicrosoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability
Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to...
Read moreFrom vibes to engineering: How AI agents outgrew their own terminology
Andrej Karpathy probably didn’t set out to retire “vibe coding” just a year after popularizing it, but time and technological advancement forced his hand. The developer...
Read moreHow Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves
Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.
Read moreBuilding Day 2 ops guardrails with Terraform and Packer
Provisioning infrastructure is only the beginning. The real risk shows up later — when environments change, drift, or simply get forgotten. That’s when teams run into...
Read moreBuilding the Haxocorder
The Haxophone is an open source MIDI saxophone project that has achieved some popularity. It’s caught the attention of [Shieladixon] not because she is a saxophonist...
Read moreThis Startup Makes Access to Rehabilitation Facilities Easier
When doctors in the United States refer patients to specialty or post-acute medical care such as physical therapy or long-term nursing care, nearly half never complete...
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