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Building a rocket engine from scratch
How I learned to stop worrying and love the burn.
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 150 posts.
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Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
An article studying the use of LLMs fror designing circuit boards
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First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium
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Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
Canon developed its own technology for forming large, high-purity artificial fluorite crystals using fluorite ore as a raw material.
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ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms
Our work shows that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on DDR4 devices on AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite deployed TRR mitigations. This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems , which greatly increases the attack surface, considering today’s AMD market share…
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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
Apple today introduced the new iPad mini, supercharged by the A17 Pro chip and Apple Intelligence.
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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online.
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AirPods fast connect security vulnerability
tldr: There's a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-27867) in the firmware of Apple AirPods. Anyone who knows the Bluetooth MAC address (which is somewhat public) can connect to your AirPods and listen to the microphone or play music. Even while the AirPods are connected to your phone (although music would stop playing…
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Our First Generalist Policy
Our first generalist policy, π0, a prototype model that combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with a new network architecture to enable the most capable and dexterous generalist robot policy to date.
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How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world. AlphaChip was one of the first reinforcement learning approaches used to solve a real-world engineering problem. It generates superhuman or comparable chip layouts in hours, rather than weeks…
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OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable. This device services…
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AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
There has been much anticipation around AMD's flagship MI300X accelerator. With unmatched raw specs, the pressing question remains: Can it outperform NVIDIA's Hopper architecture in real-world AI workloads? We have some exciting early results to share. For the past month, TensorWave and MK1 have worked closely to…
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
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Make your electronics tamper-evident
If the police ever have physical access to an electronic device like a laptop, even for five minutes , they can install hardware keyloggers, create images of the storage media, or otherwise trivially compromise it at the hardware, firmware, or software level. One way to minimize this risk is to make devices…
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Google Axion Processors – Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center
The custom Axion Arm-based processor is designed for general-purpose workloads like web and app servers, databases, analytics, CPU-based AI, and more.
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Caltech Develops First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure Blood Pressure
Device uses sound waves to gather blood pressure data from blood vessels, monitoring the response with ultrasound.
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Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
CT scans of Heinz's new recyclable ketchup cap reveal the channel geometry that replaced a silicone valve and why the redesign took eight years.
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0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
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MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown ex...
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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Diffractive Chocolate
Turn your chocolate into an edible color spectrum…
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Meta's open AI hardware vision
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware designs with the OCP community. These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rac…
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usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
usbredir is the name of a network protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection. It is also the name of the software package offering a parsing library, a usbredirhost library and several utilities implementing this protocol.
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DJI – The ART of obfuscation
Study of an Android runtime (ART) hijacking mechanism for bytecode injection through a step-by-step analysis of the packer used to protect the DJI Pilot Android application.
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An open-source flow battery kit
Kirk Smith’s personal blog