Latest articles on AI, technology, and software development.
DDR5 module prices for consumer builds have climbed sharply in 2026, driven by a shortage in DRAM wafer supply and soaring demand from hyperscaler AI memory purchases. Here's what's happening and what buyers should do now.
GPT-4, Mixtral, and Google's Gemini all use a Mixture-of-Experts design that activates only a fraction of the model's parameters on each token. The engineering tradeoffs are more nuanced than the marketing suggests.
Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD have all shipped PC chips with dedicated neural processing units. After two years of 'AI PC' marketing, the use cases are becoming real — and some of the limitations are too.
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Zed, and a dozen others are competing to become the default coding environment for the AI era. The real competition isn't over autocomplete anymore.
The EU's Digital Markets Act forced Apple to allow third-party app stores and sideloading on iOS. The results are more complicated than either critics or advocates predicted.
BGP, the protocol that holds the internet together, was built for trust — not security. RPKI is changing that, and major networks are finally deploying it at scale.
Browser fingerprinting builds unique user profiles from hardware and software attributes without storing anything on the device. It bypasses cookie consent entirely, and enforcement has been sparse despite GDPR technically covering it.
V2G and V2H technology lets electric vehicles export stored power to homes and the grid. The hardware, standards, and utility programs are finally aligning — but battery degradation concerns and fragmented standards are slowing mainstream adoption.
WASM's sandboxing model and near-zero cold-start times are proving more valuable in serverless functions, plugin systems, and edge computing than in the browser applications it was originally designed for.
Four separate companies are racing to have crewed stations operational before the ISS deorbits around 2030–2032. The transition window is tighter than most people realize, and the next 18 months of hardware decisions will determine whether humans maintain continuous low Earth orbit presence.
BMW, Amazon, and several tier-1 automotive suppliers have moved humanoid robots from proof-of-concept to production lines. The tasks they can handle — and the ones they still cannot — reveal where the technology actually stands in 2026.
For decades, game NPCs responded from scripted trees. Now large language models are being embedded directly into game engines, giving characters memory, personality, and the ability to respond coherently to things designers never anticipated. The results are remarkable — and the challenges are real.