Surprising biomedical application found for ASML’s chipmaking EUV lithography machines — they can mass produce nanopores for molecular sensing

IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines.
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Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI’s Codex as the best, while Google’s Gemini CLI as the worst

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI’s Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and …

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IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM

Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues.
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Over 1,800 North Korean applicants flood Amazon — suspected illicit applicants blocked by the company since April 2024

The Amazon CSO reported that the company has seen over 1,800 applicants that it suspects are North Koreans posing as Americans.
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Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend

Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago.

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China’s new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country

China has brought online a national experimental research network designed to support experimentation on future network designs and to improve data transmission quality.
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12 years ago, a whiskey-fuelled rant coined the iconic term HODL with a drunken mispelling — Bitcoin investment strategy would have turned $523 into over $87,000, a 16,666% gain

On December 18, 2013, a cryptocurrency investor felt compelled to pen a message rallying his fellow shellshocked troops on the Bitcointalk forums. Thus, the ‘HODL’ strategy was born.
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Nvidia-led NitroGen is a generalist video gaming AI that can play any title — research also has big implications for robotics

NitroGen is ‘an open-source foundation model trained to play 1000+ games.’

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Samsung introduces SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory module for AI data centers — new standard set to offer reduced power consumption and double the bandwidth versus DDR5 RDIMMs

Samsung has announced its own SOCAMM2 LPDDR5-based memory module designed specifically for AI data center platforms, pitching it as as a way to bring the power efficiency and bandwidth advantages of LPDDR5X into servers. …

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Taiwan considers TSMC export ban that would prevent manufacturing its newest chip nodes in U.S. — limit exports to two generations behind leading-edge nodes, could slow down U.S. expansion

Taiwan’s government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC’s advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas.
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