Lego unveils new smart brick with embedded computer inside — Smart Play platform features tiny 4.1mm custom ASIC with sensors, RGB LEDs, and even a tiny speaker

LEGO has pulled the wraps off a familiar-looking product that behaves like a small computer. The new Smart Play platform centers on a standard 2×4 LEGO brick that packs processing, sensing, audio, wireless networking, and …

Nvidia CEO confirms Vera Rubin NVL72 is now in production — Jensen Huang uses CES keynote to announce the milestone

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced during his keynote speech at CES that Vera Rubin NVL72 is now officially in production. The new datacenter AI platform offers up to 5x the performance of Blackwell counterparts.
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AMD touts Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X AI accelerators and Helios rack-scale AI architecture at CES — full MI400-series family fulfills a broad range of infrastructure and customer requirements

AMD reveals additional details about its strategy for AI and HPC deployments this year with EPYC ‘Venice’ and ‘Venice-X’ CPUs as well as Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X accelerators.
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Nvidia CES 2026 keynote live blog — Jensen Huang takes the stage to reveal what’s next for the AI company, but don’t expect new consumer GPUs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage at CES 2026, following a record year for the company. The keynote, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, is set to begin at 1 p.m PT, and we’ll be covering it live, with the latest upd…

China’s top chip foundries move to consolidate as Beijing pushes semiconductor self-sufficiency — SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor deals pave the path to unified power

China’s two largest pure-play foundries, SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor, are in the middle of significant consolidation efforts that demonstrate how industrial policy is reshaping the country’s chip sector.
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Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis — fragile sector rocked by undersupply, which may end worse than the 2021 shortage

Due to DRAM demand and the rapid scale-up of AI infrastructure, the automotive industry faces a fresh chip crisis, which means that the industry stands on the precipice of a tightened supply, as stocks dwindle.
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U.S. electricity grid stretches thin as data centers rush to turn on onsite generators — Meta, xAI, and other tech giants race to solve AI’s insatiable power appetite

The AI infrastructure boom is pushing the national electricity grid to its limit, but artificial intelligence is too lucrative for companies to wait for a connection. So, they’re taking the solution for their power supply …

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US Army tests 20,000W vehicle-mounted laser systems for drone defense — updated LOCUST device is now more lethal against drones

The U.S. Army is now testing a more lethal 20kW vehicle mounted LOCUST laser weapon system from AeroVironment (AV) Inc.
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Micron secures $318 million Taiwanese subsidy for HBM R&D as AI memory arms race intensifies — three-year project aims to develop leading-edge, high-performance memory

Micron has secured another major vote of confidence from the Taiwanese government, winning approval for an additional NT$4.7 billion (approximately $149 million) in subsidies to expand HBM research and development in Taiwa…

Debian maintainer criticizes email-managed bug tracker as outdated for modern development — there is a web interface for viewing, but email remains the only way to perform critical functions

A dispute has flared up inside the Debian project after a senior maintainer criticized the distribution’s bug tracking system as outdated and increasingly unworkable for modern software development.
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