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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league could begin using a chip-equipped “smart ball” for officiating as soon as 2027. Silver told CNBC that the NBA is working with Wilson on a basketball containing a Bluetooth sensor that weighs about 1 gram. The sensor can track movement, spin and changes in trajectory. The key update…
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GitHub CodeQL 2.27.2 adds C++ regex parsing, stronger Rust and Go analysis, and a macOS/Xcode compatibility warning.
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Newegg now lets U.S. shoppers buy eligible products directly inside Google’s Gemini app and AI Mode in Search without leaving the conversation. Newegg announced the integration on October 8. Checkout is powered by Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP. Shoppers can ask about specifications and use cases, compare products, then pay with Google Pay inside…
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Learn SPI bus engineering: CPOL/CPHA timing, chip-select architecture, multi-device buses, throughput, DMA, RTOS concurrency, Linux SPI drivers, signal integrity, timing margins, and validation.
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Kubernetes says NVMe-backed node swap can increase pod density by up to 3× in some CI, browser-sandbox and Python-sandbox workloads.
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SpaceX’s June 5 SEC filing says Google agreed to pay $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, plus CPUs, memory and related infrastructure. That means the agreement has entered its full-fee period this month after a reduced-fee capacity ramp through September. The SEC filing says…
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A maximum-severity flaw in SonicWall’s SMA1000 remote-access appliances is now being targeted in the wild, according to updated government and researcher reporting. SonicWall disclosed CVE-2026-102255 on October 6. The pre-authentication server-side request forgery flaw carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and affects SMA1000 models 6210, 7210 and 8200v on older 12.4.3 and 12.5.0 hotfix levels.…
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Intel says its next-generation Xeon platform, code-named Diamond Rapids, will be the last Xeon to include Software Guard Extensions, or SGX. The company said on October 9 that its future confidential-computing roadmap will focus on Intel TDX. SGX isolates selected application code and data inside protected enclaves. TDX instead protects an entire virtual machine. Intel…
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AI data centers are increasingly bringing their own electricity. Ranked by announced dedicated or on-site generation capacity, these are seven of the largest publicly documented projects BitcoinVersus.Tech could verify as of October 11, 2026. Capacity is planned or permitted—not necessarily operating. 1. Fermi Project Matador — 11 GW Fermi America plans an 11 GW private-grid…
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Anthropic launched OSS Scanner on October 8, a free opt-in service that periodically scans eligible open-source projects for security vulnerabilities using its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. Anthropic said its models found more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities over six months, while people manually reviewed about 6,000. Nearly 5,000 unverified reports were also sent to maintainers…
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Learn SPI bus troubleshooting: SCLK, MOSI, MISO, chip select, CPOL/CPHA modes, logic-level checks, logic-analyzer and oscilloscope decoding, bus contention, timing faults, flash/peripheral diagnosis, and safe validation.
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Kitware published new guidance showing how CMake instrumentation can trace slow configure, build, test and install steps and feed the results into automated callbacks.
