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January 2, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Atlas 900 and Ascend supernodes highlight a scaling-first approach as Huawei trades per-chip efficiency for system-level throughput. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Huawei’s Ascend and Kunpeng progress shows how China is rebuilding an AI compute stack under sanctions
Atlas 900 and Ascend supernodes highlight a scaling-first approach as Huawei trades per-chip efficiency for system-level throughput.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025.

Humanity's evolution is
AI wasting all the world's water to suggest solutions to water scarcity.

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AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2...
How much of a resource hog is AI?
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January 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
One good use of drone technology (finally): to scare away birds from chicken farm, to prevent spread of avian flu:

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Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu
Feathered poultry farm visitors are scattered by laser beams.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
U.S. allows Taiwanese TSMC to import chipmaking equipment to its China fabs — Samsung, SK hynix likewise receive go signal from U.S. Commerce Department

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U.S. allows TSMC to import chipmaking equipment to its China fabs — Samsung, SK hynix likewise receive go signal from Commerce Department
The U.S. is playing it safe when it comes to chipmaking tools entering China.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Israel Deploys World's First Drone Defense Laser

It's a 100,000-watt laser air-defense system capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and mortars at negligible per-shot cost.

They need to send it to Ukraine immediately.
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100,000-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed — it can also shoot down rockets, mortars, and other aerial threats
Israel deployed the first Iron Beam systems on Sunday, to complement its Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow multi-layered defense architecture.
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January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'
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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'
This is the second Internet Time Service disruption this month.
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January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Don Lemon has had a great career. He’s really a legend in his industr.
January 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Kim Stanley Robinsons #MinistryForTheFuture muss viel stärker zirkulieren & 100tausende inspirieren (die #ChildrenOfKali zu gründen), wenn wir noch irgendwie den ökolog. Kollapsprozess zivilisationskompatibel begrenzen wollen. Oder wir appellieren weiter an den polit.-industr. fossilen Todeskult 🤷🏻‍♂️🤡
January 1, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Manufacturer intentionally bricks a dude’s vacuum because he blocked it from spying on him.

In this new world, tech doesn’t serve you, you serve tech!

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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline
The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.
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January 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
For those wondering about the comparison

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December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Musk to expand xAI's training capacity to a monstrous 2 gigawatts with third building at Memphis site — announcement comes days after Musk vows to have 'more AI compute than everyone else'

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Musk to expand xAI's training capacity to a monstrous 2 gigawatts with third building at Memphis site — announcement comes days after Musk vows to have 'more AI compute than everyone else'
xAI makes its next move in the AI race.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents

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UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents
One small step for chips, one giant leap for a lack of impurities.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Great Notion & Cellarmaker Brewing Collaborate On Juice Williams mybeerbuzz.com/beer-industr... @GreatNotion @CellarmakerBeer #beernews #newbeer #beer #beers #California #Oregon
December 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library
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#semiconductor #DDR5 #powergating #chiplets #MEMS
December 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So I get very tetchy when it comes to cyber security experts who do not practice with ethics. And this is an example of why integrity is important in certain roles and industries. Just because you could doesn't mean you should. #IT #CyberSec #Ethics #Tools #Law

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U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks, face 20 years in prison each
Two former cybersecurity experts pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion. The perpetrators are facing 20 years in prison each.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM