Samsung Electronics is planning to more than double production of its sixth-generation HBM4 and seventh-generation HBM4E memory chips next year, industry sources say. To support this, the company will raise outsourced cleaning of glass carriers—supports used to stabilize wafers during thinning—from 20,000 sheets monthly this year to 50,000 sheets monthly in 2025, continuing a trend that saw volumes double from 10,000 sheets last year.
A Microsoft engineer explains the history behind x86's UD2 instruction, which architecturally guarantees an invalid opcode exception and is used by compilers to mark unreachable code. Before UD2 existed, developers relied on undocumented byte sequences like 0F FF and 0F B9 that happened to trigger the same crash behavior, splitting programmers into informal camps depending on which sequence they used.
A solopreneur recounts trying ChatGPT after its 2022 launch, initially impressed by creative outputs like poems but disappointed when applying it to real work tasks. The output was judged too shallow or unreliable for practical business use, leading to early abandonment of the tool before revisiting it later with better strategies.
A new open-source tool called Tithon decouples Jupyter kernel execution from the client, running the kernel and streaming its output through a host-side daemon instead of the editor process. This means closing VSCode, losing SSH, or shutting a laptop no longer kills a long-running notebook session, and reconnecting restores the full output history rather than a blank slate. It also stores notebooks as compact .py files with real image outputs instead of bloated .ipynb JSON, making them easier for AI agents to read.
SRhonyra is selling a single-slot, low-profile RTX 3060 with 12GB of memory and dual monitor outputs that draws all its power from the PCIe slot rather than external connectors, priced at $495.59 on Newegg. The card, once seen for around $340 two months ago, reflects a broader surge in GPU pricing, and the vendor markets it specifically as suitable for running 7B to 13B parameter local LLMs.
Elon Musk announced on X that SpaceX will begin manufacturing turbine blades and vanes internally to increase production of natural gas turbine generators used to power AI data centers. The move addresses a supply bottleneck as data center operators increasingly rely on portable gas turbines to bypass slow grid connections, with blade casting alone typically taking 60 to 90 weeks per batch. Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are also each targeting 100GW/year of solar capacity, but gas turbines remain necessary to bridge power needs in the near term.
Independent consultants report that client attitudes toward AI have evolved rapidly since ChatGPT's debut, moving from outright bans to conditional acceptance for speeding up certain tasks. Solopreneurs are now expected to clarify their own AI practices and ensure they match what clients expect or permit.
Sahuarita, Arizona police chief John Noland told the Daily Wire that his 68-officer department has used electric-shock gloves, known as GLOVEs, for roughly two years, calling the devices successful at gaining compliance. His comments follow reporting that ICE has ordered a large supply of the same equipment and that Oklahoma officers used them on students during the 2025-2026 school year.
Reverse engineering of Windows Paint and Photos apps found that both send user prompts to a Microsoft server for moderation even when image generation runs locally via onboard AI models. That server returns a GUID alongside the approved prompt, and this GUID gets invisibly embedded into the pixels of the generated image, separate from the visible watermark toggle users can control. This applies even on Copilot+ PCs where generation happens entirely on-device.
Meteoric Technologies, founded by two Cambridge engineers, wants to deploy fleets of autonomous drones into low- and mid-altitude clouds above solar farms to alter water droplets and reduce cloud reflectivity without chemicals. The startup claims this could boost annual power generation from existing solar assets by 10-30%, though this figure comes from a computer model rather than field measurements at an actual solar farm. Its only public evidence so far is a claimed 13% dissipation of an artificial cloud in an undisclosed cloud-chamber test.
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