Energy-hungry AI data centers spur new power transformer technology Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/energy-hungr…
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Energy-hungry AI data centers spur new power transformer technology Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and someday households. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/energy-hungr…
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 becoming available on August 24, 1996. Windows NT 4.0, codenamed “Tukwila,” went on retail sale exactly 30 years ago. This was the version …
Eigen Labs, a five-year-old tech biz based in Seattle, Washington, estimates that owners of Apple Silicon hardware can earn $120 to $200 per month on average by selling idle compute power for AI infer…
Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/2023203/trump-admin-moves-to-impose-more-than-100k-fee-for-h-1b-worker-visas?utm_source=r…
Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax c…
Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/1853204/raspberry-pi-shares-its-official-tutorial-for-making-a-cyberdeck?utm_source=rss1.0…
Feds deepen probe into General Motors brake failures The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/feds-deepen-probe-into-general-mot…
Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/1844211/nvidia-senior-manager-linked-to-supermicro-scheme-smuggling-ai-servers-to-ch…
China Delays Ambitious Chang'e 7 Lunar Mission Until 2027 https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/1736239/china-delays-ambitious-change-7-lunar-mission-until-2027?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
A complaint filed in a California District Court has accused peripheral maker Logitech of withholding tariff refunds from customers, and asked for the proceeds from its activities to be returned to pu…
A suspected Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a small UK power plant around the time that a series of digital intrusions disrupted American water utilities across 12 states. A British government spoke…
A YouTuber on a mission to liberate semiconductor manufacturing from the grip of multinational megacorporations is back with a new round of DIY success, this time manufacturing working LEDs in his bac…
FDA Approves First Alzheimer's Blood Test For Americans As Young As 40 https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/1637252/fda-approves-first-alzheimers-blood-test-for-americans-as-young-as-40?utm_sou…
Modern trade of mummified remains may carry its own "mummy's curse" "Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance." https://arstechnica.com/s…
Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway. Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/trump-tried-to-curb-clean-…
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling. https://arstechnica.com/tech-polic…
Nvidia’s $20 billion bet on Groq’s LPU tech sure looks like it was a good one. On Monday, the GPU giant offered the first glimpse of just how big a speedup its Groq 3-based LPX racks will provide. In …
Work on Linux kernel 7.3 is underway, and a bug fix just came in from an unusual source: Linus himself. Well, kind of… The new bug fix has the title of Don’t hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VR…
More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July. Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, said …
Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/089213/humanoid-robots-run-100-meters-faster-than-usain-bolts-record-pace?utm_source=rs…