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Waymo robotaxi calls cops on riders handling loaded AR-style ghost gun — Waymo alerted San Francisco police, then juvenile riders were stopped and arrested

Following a tip-off from robotaxi firm Waymo, San Francisco police conducted a “high-risk vehicle stop” and arrested two juveniles last week.

Samsara (IOT) Crosses $2B, But Growth Comes With A Hardware Tax

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs

If you're not yet subscribed to Tom's Hardware Premium , we've got you covered with this weekly roundup of everything we've posted throughout the week.

Hardware-accurate NeoGeo AES+ delayed to late 2027 due to memory shortage — decision driven by surging demand and AI-driven RAM crunch

Plaion's release of the NeoGeo AES+ , a contemporary, hardware-level 1:1 replica of SNK's evergreen NeoGeo console, is being delayed by 10 months, with a new September 16, 2027 release date.

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrializat

NEC was one of the first developers of quantum computers back in the 1990s, but it is now among the first companies that originally researched quantum computing technologies to quit development of quantum computing hardware, according to a Diamond Online report.

Trezor, BitBox warn users about fake hardware wallet security alerts

BitBox said multiple Bitcoin companies appeared to have been targeted through a shared newsletter provider, while Trezor confirmed a breach at its email service.

The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

With the iPhone Duo, Apple has pulled off a familiar trick.

Engadget Podcast: Diving into the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Apple's new hardware

We finally have an Apple foldable, and it looks pretty damn compelling.

Bitcoin and Ethereum race quantum clock as U.S. backs $300 million hardware push

The threat is not here yet, but fault-tolerant machines and crypto’s migration plans are starting to converge on the same 2029 window.

Apple Watch 12 and Ultra 4's biggest upgrade isn't the hardware—it's what your wrist can now hear

Starting at $399

Apple adds 37 hardware identifiers ahead of ‘Surprise and Shine’ event

Apple has added new hardware identifiers for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other devices, some of which could be announced as soon as tomorrow at its “Surprise and Shine” event. Here are the details. more…

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

Article URL: https://copperhead.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610059 Points: 158 # Comments: 59

IEEE Senior Membership Demystified

For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library , which I underutilized.

IEEE Student Conference Provides Visibility to Budding Authors

The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November.

NASA’s Cargo-Moving Robotic Arm Named 300th IEEE Milestone

In the 1960s NASA began developing a system of reusable space shuttles to make its work more efficient and to reduce costs.

Workshops Educate African Researchers On How to Publish With IEEE

Many researchers and students in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda struggle to access and publish scientific and technical articles because of financial barriers including publishing fees and subscriptions to research libraries.

IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election

For this year’s IEEE annual election , the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward after the election results are accepted by the IEEE Board of Directors .The incent

Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with illegally developing ro

Senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Cezar have announced their Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act .

Dumpster diver builds home lab Proxmox server from weekly landfill runs for SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, and even RAM — weekly e-waste raids net multi-drive Proxmox server

A tech enthusiast says that they managed to put together a home lab-worthy Proxmox server using PC parts scavenged from the nearby county landfill.

Sanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the lead — record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage system

The IO500 Committee has removed storage subsystems based on Sugon's ParaStor F9000 all-flash storage systems from its Production IO500 list, as the system does not meet reproducibility requirements, which include sufficient architecture details and general availability, as notice

Desktop graphics card shipments hit four-year high of 12.5 million despite increasing prices — Nvidia takes 90% share as gamers rush to beat looming price spike

Discrete graphics card shipments for desktop PCs in Q2 2026 totaled 12.5 million units, the highest number since Q1 2022 despite record-high prices and cratering shipments of desktop CPUs, according to findings from Jon Peddie Research .

Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can't break America's monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chip

Jiangsu Pacific Quartz, a high-purity quartz (HPQ) producer from China, is already supplying its HPQ material to leading domestic and overseas producers of chipmaking tools, including Lam Research and Tokyo Electron.

A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft

Summary NASA and industry engineers propose a synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket (S‑BNR) to dramatically cut transit times to destinations around the solar system, such as Mars, by combining nuclear thermal and electric propulsion.

AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

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Noodling on Nuclear Engines

One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a placemat to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC.

IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA

At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed.

The First Battery Was Inspired By a Dead Frog

In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there’s an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper.

The E.U.’s AI Drive Undermines Its ​Own Chip Strategy

This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press .

This Teen Helped Native American Students Earn Ham Radio Licenses

For many high school students, summer vacation is a time to unplug.

Applying Different Forms of Mentorship

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter.

IEEE President’s Note: Technology for Social Good

Across IEEE, our strength lies not only in the excellence of our individual communities but also in our ability to bring them together around shared problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions.

AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S.

Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp .

Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy

I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif.

An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter.

Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91

Franklin “Frank” Kuo Codeveloper of ALOHAnet Fellow, 91; died 14 April Kuo helped develop ALOHAnet , a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa , in Honolulu.

The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives

Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs.

Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids

Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.

Responsible AI for Higher Education

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters.

Meta Quest user vibe-codes 3D object throwing to 3D printer — ‘I've never felt more like Tony Stark’ says the software engineer

A software engineer and creative tinkerer has shown off a futuristic Meta Quest plus 3D printer workflow in a video shared on social media.

Asus ROG Swift PG27UCWM gaming monitor review: Speed and pixel density in a premium package

Asus has introduced some of the best OLED gaming monitors in recent years, and with each generation, it makes incremental improvements in performance, features, and technology.

Save $1,289 when you build an extreme PC with these top-tier components — combo deal features AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor along with an 8TB 9100 Pro SSD, M

When money is no object, but you still want to be slightly frugal, combo bundles like today's Newegg offering might pique your interest.

Proven 8-pin PCIe plugs aren't immune to melting — Thermal Grizzly WireView adapter burns out on Radeon RX 7900 XTX

If you believe that the 8-pin PCIe power connector is entirely immune to the problems that have plagued the newer 16-pin connector, think again.

Micron offers Taiwan employees $31,650 cash bonus as unions threaten strike over AI windfall — workers reject record payout package, demand 15% profit-sharing p

Micron has announced a one-time cash appreciation bonus of NT$1 million (US$31,650) as part of a broader compensation/reward package for its employees based in Taiwan.

Gaming takes a backseat as Nvidia overhauls the RTX 5090 for maximum AI margins — RTX Pro 5500 delivers 2.6X VRAM at matching specs

The GeForce RTX 5090 is undeniably one of the best graphics cards money can buy.

Nvidia's RTX 5090 vanishes from online retail in the US — third-party sellers now demand as much as $9,500 for Nvidia's fastest GPU

Nvidia's fastest gaming graphics card, the RTX 5090, has been on a tear of price increases over the past several weeks.

Nvidia, Palantir, and others restrict advanced AI model usage over privacy concerns, report claims — 'paranoia' rising over customer intellectual property

Anthropic and OpenAI are both facing uncomfortable questions from some large AI customers over concerns about how proprietary data may be used to train AI models.

Apple Is Reportedly Working on Beats-Branded iPhone Game Controllers

Summary Apple develops two first-party game controllers for the iPhoneHardware launches under the Beats brand rather than the main Apple lineupLower price points and lifestyle branding target a wider gaming audience Apple is supposedly developing two first-party iPhone game contr

Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop

Hit hard by sanctions and lacking resources, Russia is left to rely on foreign advanced technologies to compensate.

What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer

The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place.

Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire intern

The progress of artificial intelligence technologies in recent years is undeniable, and its pace is pretty much unbelievable.

Dell Pro 5 Webcam 2K Review: So you can look good in office

Just because you're in the office doesn't mean you might not still need to be on camera — so I guess it's not too surprising that some of the best webcams are made specifically for the office.

AMD’s best gaming CPU drops below launch price and includes free 240mm AIO cooler and Onimusha: Way of the Sword — grab the Ryzen 7 9850X3D for $484

For those seeking the highest performance for gaming, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D is currently the best CPU money can buy.

Maryland data center developers offer residents biggest-ever US community benefits package as big tech seeks to quell fears — $110 million deal includes $30 mil

Residents of Frederick County, Maryland, could be the beneficiaries of what is purported to be the biggest residential benefits package yet to be offered by data center developers, in a move a new report claims is a sign of a growing trend that Big Tech is trying to get ahead of

Building Technology People Can Trust

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US Customs supervisor busted for stealing Core i7 CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from Homeland Security PCs, damage estimated at $105,800 — stolen tech swapped with

According to a report from The Maine Wire , the FBI has arrested and charged Terry “Jiajia” Liu, a Customs and Border Protection supervisor based in Calais, Maine, for theft and damage to government property.

Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missil

Iran's spiritual leaders tend to call the U.S.

Transparent wall-mounted CD player raises over $540,000 on Kickstarter — $109 Syitren RM1's visible disc and mechanisms channel 90s B&O nostalgia with Bluetooth

With subscription services on the rise, it's probably not surprising that many people are seeking reassurance in the physicality and immutability of tangible media such as game cartridges, vinyl records, and CD players.

Ukraine triumphs in 'first-ever' drone-vs-drone boat battle — video shows Russian MBeK destroyed by Sargan 3000's 12.7mm automatic turret

Ukraine’s Navy has claimed that it has won “the first-ever battle of unmanned naval boats” (machine translation).

Build a high-end AMD gaming PC for less — Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle includes an X870E motherboard, 32GB DDR5, AIO cooler and a game for $1,109.99

With the ongoing memory crisis driving up the price of RAM and other components, it is arguably one of the worst times to build a new gaming PC.

Playable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chip — $25 board with dual-core 400 MHz ESP32-P4 MCU scales OpenLara up to 1,024 x 600 playable pixels

A retro video gaming devotee has showcased Lara Croft adventuring in and among ancient tombs on a humble ESP32-P4 microcontroller.

Mexican cartel's crypto farm seized in mountain raid — 300 GPUs, satellite links, and industrial transformers tapped hydroelectric power

There is increasing evidence that Mexican drug cartels are diversifying into cryptocurrency mining and are using crypto platforms to diversify their income and, at the same time, launder their ill-gotten gains and fund other illegal activities.

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpe

While China claims to have advanced AI models that may well compete against those developed in the U.S., for some reason, hundreds of China-linked agents allegedly used Anthropic for at least five different programs: two military, two surveillance, and one aimed at distilling Cla

AZZA PSAZ-750G ATX 3.1 power supply review: An adequate budget 750W unit

AZZA is one of those brands that has been around far longer than its shelf presence suggests.

Thrustmaster Airbus Add-On Grip with AVA Joystick Base Review: A First-Class Flight Experience

The past few years have been an exciting time for flight simulation hardware.

Intel revives One Mono font after brief retirement during open-source purge — typeface built to fight coder eyestrain gets reprieve

Intel has reversed its decision to shelve its open-source font project designed specifically with developers in mind.

Iran could potentially reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone — several Iranian embassies mock US over capture, Navy claims lost Anduril vehicle was defe

Iran is likely to study and attempt to reverse-engineer a U.S.

Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last

We always like to review Kioxia drives because they usually provide the perfect marriage of performance and reliability.

Engineer turns simulated fly brain into a crypto day trader, posts downloadable sim to GitHub — 166,700 virtual neurons read candlestick charts for dopamine hit

Simulating animal brains seems to be the latest buzz.

Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%

Architectural enhancements and significantly higher clock speeds enable Apple's A20 Pro application processor (AP), used in the company's latest iPhones, to deliver not only a substantial generation-to-generation performance boost but also to outperform leading desktop CPUs from

Lucky PC scavenger discovers 12 RTX 3070 GPUs from the crypto mining era — cards survived years of basement storage with only minor signs of wear

A Reddit user has stumbled upon a GPU jackpot by claiming two old cryptocurrency mining rigs with 12 Zotac-branded Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics cards.

Save 20% on this 144-in-1 screwdriver set, perfect for hobbyists and PC builders under $40 — epic starter toolkit ships with electric and precision drivers, alo

If you need to kickstart your hobbyist toolbox with a set of kit, then you'll want to take advantage of this Amazon deal.

GameStop is reopening recently closed stores despite massive retail cuts — select locations return nationwide starting September 11

GameStop is bringing some of its recently closed stores back to life.

China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000 — 3x more VRAM at 65% the cost of the original

The GeForce RTX 5090 is already at the pinnacle of the best graphics cards .

At IFA 2026, computing chased the high and low ends — AI and budget-focused machines left little for the rest of us

The computing world is splintering into two.

Thermalright TR-KG750 750W power supply review: HKC-built KG unit with a Thermalright badge for $91

Thermalright is a CPU cooling company that happens to sell power supplies.

Why Dell and HPE were the S&P 500’s top-performing stocks today

Oracle’s earnings provided an upbeat read for hardware suppliers — but the Fed’s interest-rate moves could dictate just how much they continue benefitting.

This $399 Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo with $1 filament is the perfect 3D printer deal for beginners — flash sale discount nets you a Core XY printer with fou

Elegoo is running a special sale on new 3D printers throughout September, in celebration of its community of makers.

Apple’s new A20 Pro smartphone chip around 25% faster than its predecessor in leaked benchmark — the 2nm CPU in the iPhone Duo and 18 Pro hits nearly 5 GHz cloc

We reported on the new Apple A20 Pro system-on-a-chip (SoC) for smartphones yesterday, an integral attraction within Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, and in the iPhone 18 Pro devices.

AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 for budget PC builders — new budget Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs soften the blow from high RAM prices

AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500, two strong contenders for the best CPUs on the market if you're on a budget.