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The French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) has successfully conducted the first outdoor free-flight test of its electromagnetic railgun system, firing a projectile at the Institute’s proving ground in Baldersheim in a test that lasted only milliseconds but marked years of laboratory research and engineering. Unlike conventional firearms, which use chemical propellants to accelerate a […]

The Linux kernel’s 7.2-rc3 release candidate contains an unexpected patch series: fixes for the Sega Dreamcast’s GD-ROM optical disc driver, tested on real Dreamcast hardware with physical disc media. The same kernel cycle that is winding down support for the i486 architecture, a CPU design that defined PC computing for over three decades, found room […]

Minisforum has announced the MS-03, a compact desktop workstation designed for enterprise edge computing and local AI inference, built around Intel’s Panther Lake Core Ultra 9 386H processor. The MS-03 is a 196 x 189 x 48 mm chassis, roughly the size of a thin ITX build, that houses a 16-core, 16-thread Core Ultra 9 […]

Apple’s next-generation M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 terabytes of unified memory, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, roughly double the capacity planned for the M5 Ultra and matching the highest RAM configuration available on the 2019 Intel-based Mac Pro, a ceiling Apple Silicon has not reached since the company transitioned […]

Apple’s self-driving car project, known internally as Titan, was cancelled in 2024 after a decade of development and an estimated $10 billion in investment. But the project that Tim Cook once called “the mother of all AI projects” may have left behind something more valuable than a prototype vehicle: the technological foundation for Apple’s next […]

A working Apple-1 computer, one of the first 50 units ever built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, is heading to auction as part of Sotheby’s History of Science & Technology sale, with an estimated value of $300,000 to $500,000 (approximately £233,000 to £388,000). Serial number 01-0033 comes from the first production batch […]

A Shanghai-based startup claims to have established the world’s first 8-inch pilot production line dedicated to two-dimensional semiconductors , a technology that could offer China a pathway to advanced chips without the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines that US export controls block. Yuanjiwei (also romanized as Yuanjiwei Semiconductor) says its pilot line covers the entire […]

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and UK-based ORCA Computing have demonstrated that a quantum computer can improve the accuracy and reach of AI-driven peptide design, opening a potential path to cheaper, faster development of drugs for rare diseases and underserved populations. Peptides, short chains of amino acids that act as signalling molecules […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has acknowledged that staff were forced to build the agency’s incident response playbook during the early stages of an active security breach, according to a postmortem report released Friday. The revelation came after a CISA contractor employee uploaded sensitive credentials, including AWS GovCloud passwords, to a publicly accessible […]

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid probe has successfully rendezvoused with Kamo’oalewa, a quasi-moon of Earth, and sent back the first close-up images of the enigmatic asteroid that some scientists believe may be a fragment of the Moon. The spacecraft, launched in May 2025 aboard a Long March 3B rocket, reached Kamo’oalewa on June 7, 2026. While the […]