China’s autonomous ‘bionic robot’ fish looks just like the real one, perfect for covert military operations — Robocean BG5 could also be used to track poachers
 China’s autonomous ‘bionic robot’ fish looks just like the real one, perfect for covert military operations — Robocean BG5 could also be used to track poachers

China’s viral robot “spy fish” is lifelike and steers itself around a tank, but it has been on sale since 2023 and tops out at 5 meters deep

‘Every solar plant is a latent data center’: US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use
 ‘Every solar plant is a latent data center’: US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use

Rune’s RELIC system uses unused solar electricity to power GPUs, avoiding grid connections and conventional data center construction requirements.

Samsung could follow Micron by outsourcing DDR5 and SSD production to third parties to focus on more lucrative HBM and enterprise products — could SanDisk follow suit?
 Samsung could follow Micron by outsourcing DDR5 and SSD production to third parties to focus on more lucrative HBM and enterprise products — could SanDisk follow suit?

Samsung is outsourcing additional DDR5 and SSD production while reserving internal capacity for HBM, advanced packaging, and higher-value memory products.

China is readying the world’s first giant submarine UAV carrier — built with a 1115ft dock, the unnamed mothership could be longer (and bigger) than WW2 light aircraft carriers and carry 148ft underwater drones

China appears to be building a 670ft mothership for 148ft robot submarines, and it could change how far its underwater drones can reach.

Masters of Miniature delivers minuscule upgradable Ryzen AI laptop — Mouse has a 12.2-inch screen, weighs 981g, but ain’t on sale outside Japan
 Masters of Miniature delivers minuscule upgradable Ryzen AI laptop — Mouse has a 12.2-inch screen, weighs 981g, but ain’t on sale outside Japan

Mouse’s X2 combines a 981 g chassis, 12.2-inch display, Ryzen AI processors, expandable RAM, and a 60 Wh battery capacity.

‘The fixes are architectural, not bigger pipes’: OpenSSL President on what businesses can expect and how to prepare for a post-quantum internet

I spoke to Tim Hudson, President of OpenSSL Corporation, to learn more about how business can prepare for a post-quantum internet and the logistical problems involved in securing post-quantum encryption.

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Geekom A5 mini PC 2027 Edition review: Good value, well-made, and a decent user experience for those who aren’t excessively ambitious
 Geekom A5 mini PC 2027 Edition review: Good value, well-made, and a decent user experience for those who aren’t excessively ambitious

This mini PC keeps the same well-liked enclosure and upgrade-friendly layout as its predecessor, but swaps in a lower-power chip and a reworked cooling system.

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10 boats in one van: Russia goes DIY with a plywood vessel that can be built in 4 hours and can carry 4 fiber-optic UAVs

Russia’s new drone-carrying warboat is made of plywood, ships flat-packed, and assembles in four hours with a screwdriver, letting you pack 10 in a van.

This 8-bit computer plans to run flight sim and generates a ‘pleasant homely aroma’ by burning dust off 1950s vacuum tubes — oh, and it can explode at any time

The homebrew vacuum-tube computer the internet fell for this week reminds us how far we’ve come.

Quote of the day by ex-OpenAI chief scientist and SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever: ‘AI will keep getting better and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do’ — a staggering prediction about a future superintelligence

Scientists predict that AI will one day be able to outdo humans on not just some, but all, tasks that we currently excel in