News and context for the technology shaping everyday life.

A maker-built processor moved from simple demos to a playable Doom port after work on memory, caching, peripherals, and compiler issues—and a short video drew millions of views.

Cursor says its latest swarm system outperformed an earlier version on a Rust rewrite of SQLite, while using different planner-worker mixes to sharply reduce cost and coordination overhead.

The Oracle co-founder’s early days involved payment trouble, investor rejection and a CIA code name that became a company brand. Decades later, he bought nearly all of Lānaʻi and tied it to a renewable-energy vision.

A mathematician’s account describes Lean-based autoformalization systems finding and verifying counterexamples in real time, from geometry to algebraic geometry.

Beijing’s new levy on solar cells and lithium-ion batteries is being read as a push to slow overcapacity and speed consolidation in China’s clean-energy manufacturing base.

A community talk argues that data-hungry platforms do more than track people: they shape behavior, concentrate power, and make privacy harder to defend without public pressure.

The plastics manufacturer is advancing a 14.59 million euro project in Xanthi, with tax incentives covering half of the eligible cost and a broader 2026 capital spending plan underway.

A rural bowling-center operator describes replacing an expensive lane-scoring stack with commodity microcontrollers, relay boards, and a Raspberry Pi-based control layer.

Natural events from dust storms to volcanic ash have repeatedly shown that adding iron-rich nutrients to iron-starved waters can trigger phytoplankton growth and pull carbon downward.

A home-lab build log shows how a MikroTik L009UiGS-RM can handle WAN setup, Wi‑Fi control, PoE, and bufferbloat mitigation in a single small router.