Tech cannibalization to become mainstream? Removing expensive components and reballing memory set to reach 7–9% of smartphones by 2027

TrendForce estimates this approach will account for 3–4% of smartphones in 2026, before its market penetration increases to approximately 7–9% next year. The shift is being driven by expensive mobile DRAM , which is…

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November Pixel Drop arrives with major changes

It introduces a ton of new features , while also making some massive improvements to the overall Pixel experience. Or as Google likes to put it, "new and expanded features make your Pixel devices more personalized…

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OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder

Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s now working for OpenAI, helping the AI lab with the future of travel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this looks like an acqui-hire. Davidson’s announcement…

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What is the 'Dead Internet Theory' and should humanity be worried?

If this sounds familiar, you aren't alone: a paradigm called the "dead internet theory" has been gaining momentum in the last several years, positing that the internet is increasingly dominated by non-human activity…

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OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect

The state opened a registration portal Tuesday, with which large frontier AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI will be required to register by January 1, 2027. The RAISE Act , New York’s safety and transparency bill…

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Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development

But that didn’t stop Sahir Raoof, a former SignalFire investor and executive at two healthcare startups, from raising $27.5 million for his first solo VC fund. Raoof’s firm, Proximal Ventures , is betting that AI can…

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X-energy gets green light to build its first small modular nuclear reactors

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the construction permit application for four of X-energy’s Xe-100 reactors at a Dow chemical plant in Texas. Each reactor will be capable of generating 80 megawatts of…

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To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them

"Coding agents can reverse-engineer shipped packages, CLIs, and WASM in minutes," Zhang told The Register in an email. "Classic obfuscation was built for humans and static tools, not LLMs that reason about meaning. Blind…

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Russia finds a devastatingly simple way to make killer drones evade Ukrainian EW — doubles antennas to 32 and orders 100,000 units

The upgrade complicates efforts to disrupt incoming weapons by interfering with the satellite signals they depend upon for navigation. The navigation equipment, known as Kometa, produced by VNIIR-Progress, uses multiple…

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AI firms sign Macron’s Paris Call, but safety group says it lacks teeth

The Paris Call for AI Safety and Security was agreed on Monday at a meeting hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. L’intelligence artificielle avance très vite. On l’a déjà vu : cela implique des risques réels pour…

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