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Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Production to 10M Units After Demand Surge
Apple has reportedly doubled its 2026 MacBook Neo shipment target from 5 million to 10 million units, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The budget
Berkeley CS failure rates triple as students lean on LLMs and skip the math
UC Berkeley's spring 2026 computer science courses posted failure rates far outside department norms: 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students recei
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero, Pledges $1M to Keep Vite Vendor-Neutral
Cloudflare is absorbing VoidZero, the company built around Evan You's Vite ecosystem (Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and the commercial Vite+ toolchain). The enti
Creative Katana V2X soundbar can be turned into a remote BadUSB over Bluetooth
Security researcher nns reverse-engineered the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X and found a chain of weaknesses that lets anyone within roughly 15 meters fully
DaVinci Resolve 21 adds Photo page and AI tools for de-aging, voice cloning, search
Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 21 extends the editor well beyond video, adding a dedicated Photo page that brings the software's node-based color grading,
DDR5 32GB Floor Hits $375 as AI Demand Drains PC Memory Supply
DDR5 pricing has spiraled into territory that's reshaping what a reasonable gaming build looks like. The cheapest 32GB kit tracked on PCPartPicker now sits at $
Espressif's ESP32-S31 adds Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, and PUF-backed security
Espressif's new ESP32-S31 is a dual-core 32-bit RISC-V SoC clocked at 320 MHz with a 128-bit SIMD data path, 512 KB SRAM, and DDR PSRAM support. Connectivity is
Gemma 4 12B ditches multimodal encoders, runs locally on 16GB laptops
Google released Gemma 4 12B, a mid-sized open-weight model that drops the conventional approach of using separate vision and audio encoders. Instead, image and
Gooey: GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig targets Metal, Vulkan, and WebGPU
Gooey is an early-stage UI framework for Zig that renders through native GPU APIs: Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux/Wayland, and WebGPU in the browser via WASM (
Hacker News Surfaces a Literal Knot-Tying Guide as 'Secure Shoelace Knot'
Ian Fieggen's long-running shoelace site resurfaced on Hacker News with his Secure Shoelace Knot, a variant of the standard bow that adds an extra wrap through
Inside Anthropic's Playbook for Containing Claude Across Three Products
Anthropic outlines how it caps the blast radius of its increasingly autonomous Claude agents across claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork. The company argues that
Inside the PlayStation: How Sony Built a 3D Console on MIPS and Custom Silicon
Sony's original PlayStation was architected around simplicity and affordability, pairing in-house audio and graphics chips with a third-party CPU sourced throug