Intel has released Thermal Daemon 2.5.11, bringing support for upcoming Wildcat Lake processors. More interestingly, a one-line kernel patch yields a massive 5x reduction in wakeup latency for modern Xeon CPUs. This is a huge win for Linux server performance.
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 lineup has appeared in FCC filings, revealing support for satellite-based texting and calling. The feature, likely powered by Skylo, will let users connect in areas with no cellular signal. However, regional limitations are expected.
Building a modern interface for an embedded device doesn’t have to be a nightmare. The open-source LVGL library, paired with Renesas hardware and tools, is lowering the barrier to creating rich HMIs.
The UK is investing £36 million to expand its national AI Research Resource. The funding will upgrade the Dawn supercomputer at Cambridge with AMD MI355X accelerators and add a new machine, aiming for a sixfold capacity increase by spring 2026.
A Reddit user in Switzerland managed to buy AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU about a week before its official January 29, 2026 launch. The chip, with an MSRP of $499, was sold for 450 Swiss Francs (about $570). Early testing shows it boots, but performance tuning is still a work in progress.
Timely’s new M.2 CLONE2 is a dual-slot dock that clones SSDs without a PC. It also functions as a high-speed USB-C enclosure, offering a versatile tool for techs and enthusiasts at a $57 price point.
Nidec Corp. is set to announce a recovery plan as soon as Wednesday, following an accounting scandal that has pushed its debt to junk status and put it on notice for delisting. The plan comes after founder Shigenobu Nagamori stepped down in December, with a third-party probe still ongoing.
A fresh leak from a Finnish retailer outlines the storage and color options for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 series. The big news is that 256GB of storage might now be standard across the board. The phones are tipped for a February 25, 2026, unveiling.
AMD’s next-generation GPU architecture will continue the RDNA naming convention. Code in the LLVM compiler stack now shows support for GFX13, explicitly linked to RDNA 5.
The UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale is reportedly working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on a new $2 billion funding round. This comes just over three months after it raised more than $1.5 billion and announced key partnerships with Nvidia and OpenAI.
