Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told employees the company will lay off workers globally following annual performance reviews, with affected staff to be notified starting in November. The memo, reported by Reuters, said the cuts target employees who have consistently underperformed, though it did not disclose which departments or how many jobs would be affected. Qualcomm had about 52,000 employees at the end of its 2025 fiscal year.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-21
A new speech recognition model called Whistle has been released for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home devices, automotive systems and microcontrollers. It ships as a single 16.9 MB file that runs entirely on-device via CPU with no dependencies, handling transcription, word-level timestamps and speech embeddings for seven languages without sending audio off the device.
cactuscompute.com
· 2026-10-08
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) combines software-defined networking, threat prevention, access control and application security into a single cloud-delivered platform managed through one interface. It relies on globally distributed Points of Presence to enforce security and networking close to users, and typically begins deployment with SD-WAN, which intelligently routes traffic across MPLS, broadband, LTE and 5G links before organizations layer zero-trust security on top.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-23
A developer has released a lightweight database designed specifically for AI agent memory, built on a typed schema with supersession rules instead of relying on semantic text retrieval. The system aims to run cold-first at the edge, avoiding the cost and complexity of maintaining hot vector indexes in RAM or SSDs for smaller, resource-constrained deployments. The project was shared as a Show HN post on Hacker News.
polign.com
· 2026-08-26
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