The Hot Take: This has me wanting to try this again on my pixel after i unlock it.
GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Nvidia starting to feel the heat of competition and see those $ evaporate as they try other vendors.
Nvidia is preparing to launch a new chip designed to speed up AI responses, breaking with its long-running habit of flogging the same processor for every job. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is expected to unveil a chip focused on “inference”, meaning running models rather than training them. According to people familiar with the plans for GTC next week, the chip is the first new product to emerge from December’s $20bn deal to hire the founders of Groq, a start-up building “language processing units” tuned for high-speed answers to…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Intel doing what it's great at with it's CPUs, software optimizations.
With the introduction of the new Binary Optimization Tool (BOT), Intel is taking a significantly different approach to boosting the performance of modern processors than in the past. While traditional optimizations rely heavily on developers and are determined during the software compilation process, Intel is now focusing on a post-compilation optimization layer based directly on […] Source
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Linux appears to be getting more Rust by the day.
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper investment in the Rust programming language and its role in modern infrastructure. The company already maintains an up-to-date Rust toolchain for Ubuntu and has begun integrating Rust into parts of its stack, citing memory safety and reliability as key drivers. By joining at a higher tier, Canonical is not just adopting Rust but also stepping closer to its governance and long-term direction. The move also highlights ongoing tensions in Rust's…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: If this proves true ASML better watch out. Their monopoly might come crashing down if they don't get something that competes.
Lace Lithography raised $40 million in Series A funding on Monday to develop a chipmaking tool that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to pattern silicon wafers.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: US domestic job market appears to be expanding in tech.
The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: With GPUs and CPUs getting smaller and hotter need better transmission of heat.
A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm thinking more Ai slashing.
The Grey Box Shifter Dell is still swinging the axe through FY26, chopping 11,000 roles and shrinking its workforce by 27 per cent from FY23 to FY26. This latest trim was flagged in US Securities and Exchange Commission filings, with Reuters first clocking the move and the paperwork doing the grim confirmation. In its 10-K filed on 16 March 2026, Dell said its FY26 headcount was 97,000 employees. That is down 10 per cent from 108,000 a year earlier, which is a tidy slide for a company that sells itself on stability and long-term…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: This with Ai scare me, but I'm sure it's inevitable at this point...
The partnership between the U.S. and the U.K. is a key advantage, as it was during World War II.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I wonder why given that Windows has gotten bashed for the lack of performance vs Linux.
Microsoft has blocked the registry trick that allowed Windows 11 users to enable a native NVMe driver on their PCs. However, third-party tools can still help with a workaround.
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