GoKawiil
Tech News
Journalist Sigmund Judge reports that London-based filming for Ted Lasso season 5 is provisionally scheduled to start in January, with the show potentially returning to Apple TV as soon as summer 2027. Apple has not yet officially renewed the series, though season 4 continues airing new episodes through October 7.
An analysis of the Netherlands' waterway maintenance history shows that dredging was long done by hand, animal, wind and tidal power before the switch to oil-burning ships that now consume up to 3,000 litres of fuel per hour. Today the country removes 30 to 35 million cubic metres of silt annually to keep its harbours, canals and rivers navigable, a task growing more demanding as ships get bigger and cargo shifts from road to water.
Adafruit has released a small PCB accessory called the USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer, designed to correct USB-C devices that lack the required 5.1K CC resistors for proper power delivery. The device plugs into a cable or port and passes through data and power lines while adding the missing resistors and a power-good LED indicator.
Amazon is selling TCL's NXTPAPER 11 Gen 2 Android tablet for $159.97, a 30% cut from its $229.99 list price. The 11-inch tablet features a glare-reducing, paper-like display, an octa-core MediaTek chip, up to 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, an 8,000mAh battery, and ships with a stylus and flip case.
Researchers have identified a sophisticated malware toolkit called SynkLoader that revives an old screen-hijacking technique to steal passwords while also incorporating a range of newer capabilities. The malware supports multiple languages and functions as a multitool, suggesting it could serve as a precursor to ransomware deployment.
InferQuest has released two free, open-access learning paths aimed at engineers who want to specialize in either serving large language models efficiently in production or training them on limited hardware budgets. The curriculum, built from job-market research, includes milestones that require verification through drills rather than simple self-reported checkmarks. Browsing the roadmap is free, while signing in unlocks progress tracking and verifier tools.
Samsung presented plans at Hot Chips 2026 to rethink High Bandwidth Memory design by fabricating the base die on a 4nm logic process instead of a DRAM node, starting with HBM4 and HBM4E. This logic-node shift reduces power consumption and frees up unused base die area, which Samsung is now exploring ways to use, including a first phase that would integrate the memory controller directly onto the base die.
A longtime tech columnist who had repeatedly abandoned Firefox says the browser has gradually reeled him back in over the past year. He credits a combination of features, including a new theming engine currently available in the pre-alpha Nightly build, that now extends styling to toolbars, menus, and messages rather than just toolbars.
Nvidia said its Groq 3 LPX rack has entered full production and will be deployed with Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs at cloud provider Nebius later this year. The rollout follows Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq's assets in December, its largest purchase to date, and packages 256 Groq 3 chips per rack delivering 3,400 tokens per second per an Artificial Analysis benchmark.
Dr. Dre and Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine discussed AI's growing role in music production in a New York Times interview, with Dre confirming he uses AI as a tool to experiment with tracks he's already working on. Dre dismissed critics of AI music tools, comparing their resistance to earlier backlash against drum machines and synthesizers. Iovine claimed many producers, including Timbaland, secretly use AI but are reluctant to admit it publicly.
Alex Tarnava, inventor and patent holder of hydrogen water tablets used by roughly 100 wellness brands, has built a business selling about 40 million doses monthly without ever taking venture capital funding. He also created Inhale H2, a patent-pending medical gas and aerosolized drug delivery device priced at $6,499 that has sold out twice since its December launch. Tarnava says he bootstrapped everything despite a childhood spent below the poverty line.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a $20/month product adapted from its Codex coding tool, aimed at giving white-collar workers—not just software engineers—access to AI agents that can autonomously complete multistep tasks. To function effectively, the tool requires deep access to users' digital lives, including email, Slack, phone data and apps like Notion and Figma, as demonstrated by OpenAI's own lead engineer who granted it broad control over his accounts.