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A curated digest of cutting-edge developments across power, electronics, IT & cybersecurity, telecommunications, and research — gathered from leading sources and reviewed by the SEEITE Secretariat.
Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier
Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People's Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times. The skyrocketing prices of RAM and storage have driv
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ICT CYBERSECURITYUkraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, an
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ELECTRONICS AUTOMATIONRequiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting …read more
Read on HackadayApple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.
Read on TechCrunchThe Guardian’s Kai Wright refuses to buy a new phone
That is an objectively dope couch. | Image: Kai Wright Kai Wright is the co-host of Stateside with Kai and Carter over at the Guardian. But Wright has been bringing his unique insights to listeners for years. He's also hosted Notes From America, The United States of Anxiety, and Indivisible. He's a Peabody Award-winnin
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ELECTRONICS AUTOMATIONHacking Routers Like It’s 2008
How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more
Read on HackadayThe fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.
When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.
Read on TechCrunchIndie developers got tired of waiting for a new Star Fox, so they’re making their own
Nostalgia remains a powerful force. So much so that, in exploring the echoes of a late-'90s childhood spent skimming the water of Corneria and sneering "cocky little freaks!" in time with a monkey encased in a Gundam suit, I'm simultaneously describing playing Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars if you're nasty) in 1997 and stream
Read on The VergeAsian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
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ELECTRONICS AUTOMATIONA Quantum Magic 8-Ball
If you ever cracked open one of those Magic 8-Ball toys, you found little more than a polyhedron floating in some dark-colored fluid. It was a quasi-random way of asking …read more
Read on Hackaday“We had no clear path about how this was going to turn out”: Day 1-1000 of Blaaiz
Convinced that the problem was worth fixing himself, Ayodele left the certainty of consulting, teamed up with Gbenga Oni, and started building Blaaiz.
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ELECTRONICS AUTOMATIONDo Metal Roofs Turn a Bird House into an Oven?
Birdhouses can be a great way to help out nesting birds in your area, but they can be a bit intensive to make. As part of a 500 birdhouse marathon, …read more
Read on HackadayLower temperatures, higher heat pump efficiency
A large-scale study of UK heat pump installations has revealed a major gap between hypothetical performance and real-world data. Changes to commissioning could make all the difference. pv magazine caught up with Oxford University’s Jan Rosenow and Heat Pump Monitor’s Trystan Lea to hear how installers can achieve highe
Read on pv magazineEricsson makes AI agents a first-class part of its OSS/BSS stack
Ericsson’s architectural blueprint adds an agentic service experience layer In sum – what we know: Ericsson has put agentic AI at the center of its operations and business support stack, formalizing a new OSS/BSS architectural blueprint where AI agents are…
Read on RCR Wireless NewsData centers are ready to negotiate flexibility for speed
Hyperscalers want their data centers online and utilities want to provide interconnections, but experts say both are still looking for common operating guidelines.
Read on Utility DiveThe grid operates in seconds, but financial settlement still moves in months
Big Tech is allocating hundreds of billions of dollars for data center expansions; creating reporting frameworks for energy flexibility is the next step, writes Andrii Garanin at Silicon Foundation.
Read on Utility DiveASHRAE to tackle data centers, thermal systems at annual conference
The engineering society’s annual meeting, starting this weekend in Austin, Texas, will have programs on managing energy costs and integrating energy storage projects, among others.
Read on Utility DiveSubsea resilience needs to move beyond cable count – here’s why (Reader Forum)
Subsea network resilience must be measured by corridor-level risk rather than cable count alone, argues Steve Roberts of EXA. He warns that shared dependencies, geopolitical instability, and repair constraints can undermine perceived route diversity. Route diversity has long been the…
Read on RCR Wireless NewsGlobe says AI execution, not adoption, is now the industry’s biggest challenge
Speaking during a keynote session at MWC Shanghai 2026, Globe president and chief executive officer Carl Cruz said AI is fundamentally changing how companies compete In sum – what to know: AI execution focus – Globe chief executive officer Carl…
Read on RCR Wireless NewsSingle-Base-Station Indoor Localization via Super-Resolved Relative Power Delay Profiles
Indoor multipath is shaped by surrounding reflectors, scatterers, and blockages, so a relative power-delay profile (PDP) can serve as a location fingerprint without an identifiable LoS path, angle information, or absolute time-of-arrival ranging. However, a communication receiver observes finitely many noisy pilot-freq
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