Hardware

Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

Ex-OpenAI robotics lead’s factory startup in insolvency proceedings

German automated manufacturing startup Daedalus was founded in 2024 by former OpenAI technical lead Jonas Schneider.

Bloom Raises $3.6M in Seed Funding to Expand AI Marketplace for Hardware Supply Chains

Insider Brief Detroit startup Bloom has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to expand its AI-native hardware supply chain marketplace. According to company, SNAK Venture Partners led the oversubscribed round, with participation from Flyover Capital, Mana Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Family…

Overlooked indium selenide phase enables wafer-scale logic transistors

Just as carbon atoms arranged in different ways can form either graphite or diamond—the hardest natural material—semiconductor materials can also exhibit completely different properties depending on their atomic arrangements.

Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.

Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra

Microsoft launched some new devices last night, complete with several new Copilot+ PCs powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark system-on-chip, but the big news appears to be a rebrand of the Surface range as "Surace."

Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

Glimpse wants to give hardware companies an X-ray view of every critical part

Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.

At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI

Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.

Atom-thin material could overcome key transistor bottleneck for next-generation computer chips

If computer chips could be built from semiconductors just one atom thick, they could pack far more transistors into a smaller space while using less power. So far, however, the technology has been held back by the weakness of "p-type" transistors, which make up half of every modern chip.

BSides Orlando 2026 Badge

Contribute to bsidesorlando/2026-badge development by creating an account on GitHub.

Security in the LLM Age

Driving the GDEH0154D67 e-paper display with Rust

A while ago I bought a SQFMI Watchy. It's an open source e-paper watch driven by an ESP32 that I specifically bought to hack on: the firmware is open source and you can very easily create your own watchface by cloning the firmware and directly modifying the code!

The forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

This blog post goes into quite some detail about how I first booted Linux on my M4 Mac mini. I encourage you to look up terms and concepts you don’t know, since I cannot explain all the background in this post ;)

How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x…

Productive, Durable, Fungible: How NVIDIA AI Factories Maximize Return on Investment

AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit capital on that scale with a clear view of the return on investment.