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Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology look like? Our latest Innovators Under 35 list offers a glimpse. Every year,…
Eight months after hackers dumped Sony’s PlayStation 5 BootROM keys online, the console maker still has no fix, and by its own hardware design, it may never have one. The leak, first reported in early January 2026, exposed cryptographic keys baked directly into the read-only memory of the PS5’s system-on-chip. Because those keys sit in…
Dark mode looks trivial until you actually ship it. Toggle a class, flip some CSS variables, done — except your Next.js page flashes white for 40 milliseconds before hydration finishes, or your Nuxt app forgets the user’s choice on every route change. The gap between “add dark mode” and “add dark mode that doesn’t flicker,…
Every programmer who has spent a decade at a keyboard eventually asks the same question: why does this key do that, and can I change it? The answer used to mean soldering irons and AVR datasheets. In 2026 it means picking a firmware. QMK, VIA, and ZMK are the three names that dominate every Reddit…
Pokémon Champions is not getting a single-player mode anytime soon, and the reason has nothing to do with a lack of ideas at Game Freak. According to a report published by My Nintendo News on September 7, 2026, the game’s director explained in a recent interview that adding offline content would work against the title’s…
N-able shipped a fourth emergency hotfix for its N-central remote monitoring and management platform on September 6, 2026, after Huntress security researchers flagged CVE-2026-86218, a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw carrying the maximum possible severity score of 10.0. It is the third distinct N-central vulnerability disclosed inside six weeks, and the second time in three…
A Bitcoin sidechain used by several major exchanges to move funds behind the scenes has just handed the crypto industry its biggest security scare of the second half of 2026. On September 6, an attacker withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million, from the federation reserve behind Blockstream’s Liquid Network. Within a day, most…
Nintendo wants $124.99 for a second Switch 2 dock. That price, more than a quarter of the console’s own retail cost, is why a crowded field of third-party challengers has spent the past year trying to build something cheaper without getting locked out by Nintendo’s firmware. The Genki Covert Dock 3, the JSAUX OmniCentro Charger…
AWS rolled out Lambda MicroVMs in June 2026, and it changes the calculus for anyone building interactive, multi-tenant, or AI-agent workloads on serverless infrastructure. Instead of the stateless, sub-15-minute request-response model that has defined Lambda since 2014, MicroVMs give each user or job a dedicated, VM-isolated compute environment that can hold state for up to…
