AI Daily Digest — August 1, 2026: ARC-AGI-3 Harness Discovery, EU AI Gigafactories, Devin SWE-1.7
🤖💻 AI Daily Digest — August 1, 2026 OpenAI Shows How Two Harness Settings Tripled ARC-AGI-3 Scores OpenAI published a rare technical deep-dive on July…
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I once found a silicon bug in a protocol spec — not in the RTL.
True story from an AXI interconnect project. We had a well-verified slave. 500k+ simulation cycles. Code coverage > 98%. The DV team signed off. Ta…
What Actually Happens Between "Export Gerbers" and a Physical PCB Showing Up at Your Door
If you've ever designed a board in KiCad, EasyEDA, or Altium, clicked "Export Gerbers," uploaded a zip file to a fab house, and then a couple weeks la…
Best NAS for Home Backup 2026
Originally published at woitzik.dev Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links (marked with *). If you buy through them, I earn a small com…
Best Mini PC for Homelab 2026
Originally published at woitzik.dev Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links (marked with *). If you buy through them, I earn a small com…
Tesla Built the First Wireless Remote Control
In 1898, years before radio broadcasting existed and decades before anyone used the word "electronics," Nikola Tesla stood in front of a crowd at Madi…
Mastering USB Type-C: Power, Data, and Alternate Modes for 2024 Developers
Originally published on tamiz.pro . Understanding USB Type-C's Architecture USB Type-C's reversible connector design hides a complex array of 24 pins …
The Guardrail Has to Be Code: How a Runaway Local LLM Corrupted APFS and Bricked a Mac Mini
Originally published on hexisteme notes . I run a small fleet of local agents on a Mac Mini M4 with 24 GB of unified memory. One afternoon it went dow…
VMware + macOS Ventura + Barrot Bluetooth (0A12:0001 / 0x08E7) — Looking for developers familiar with Apple's Bluetooth stack
I've spent several days reverse engineering a Bluetooth compatibility issue between VMware Workstation and macOS Ventura. This is not a normal Bluetoo…
Choosing an LCD Panel for Embedded Systems: IPS vs TN Technology Explained
When designing an embedded device, selecting the right LCD panel is often more complicated than simply choosing a display size or resolution. The pane…
Benchmark a Personal AI PC Across Battery, Thermals, and Sleep Recovery
NVIDIA announced RTX Spark on June 1, 2026 for personal AI agents on Windows PCs. The company describes up to 128 GB of unified memory and local suppo…
GPUs for AI in 2026: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Compared
The AI hardware landscape has shifted significantly in 2026, with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel all competing for developers who need GPUs capable of running…
Test a Pocket AI Device Across Battery, Offline, and Permission Loss
Pocket computers and first-PCB build stories are attracting attention today. For an AI-enabled edge device, a demo while plugged into Wi-Fi proves ver…
Linux 7.2 Improves Multi-GPU Displays, M3 Support, Mesa Rusticl Defaults Arm Mali
Linux 7.2 Improves Multi-GPU Displays, M3 Support, Mesa Rusticl Defaults Arm Mali Today's Highlights This week's hardware and driver news highlights i…
I couldn't find how much heat my PC puts in the room, so I built a widget
I game in a room that warms up fast. I could see CPU usage in Task Manager and watts in HWiNFO if I went looking. What I actually wanted was simpler: …
4 Cool Open-Source Hardware Projects to Spark Your Next Build
tags: hardware, iot, opensource, electronics As software developers, many of us reach a point where writing code inside a virtual environment isn't qu…
Why PCB Assembly Should Start Before Your PCB Layout Is Finished
Most hardware teams follow the same workflow: Requirements → Schematic → PCB Layout → Gerber Files → PCB Assembly On paper, this process looks perfect…
Why HDI PCB Manufacturing Starts Long Before the First Hole Is Drilled
Why HDI PCB Manufacturing Starts Long Before the First Hole Is Drilled When people think about PCB manufacturing, they usually imagine drilling, plati…
AI-NT-No-Problem: Cramming a 9950X3D and RTX 5090 Into an SFF Custom Loop
My homelab workstation — hostname AI-NT-No-Problem — has been running a Ryzen 9 9950X3D and an RTX 5090 in an Antec Performance 1 FT full tower for mo…
OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño, a Custom Inference ASIC: Inference ASIC vs GPU
What: The OpenAI and Broadcom Jalapeño announcement (June 24, 2026) is OpenAI's first custom LLM-inference ASIC — a reticle-sized compute chiplet pair…
MAX20151R: The 40V, 500mA Ultra-Low-Noise LDO That Silences Power Rails
Why 40V Input and 500mA Output Matter in Noise-Sensitive Designs You’ve probably fought a power rail that looked clean on a multimeter but still trash…
My Journey from Electronics Student to Embedded Hardware Engineer
Hello everyone! 👋 My name is Vishal Kumar Sahni, and I currently work as an Embedded Hardware Engineer at Teravolt. I am passionate about embedded sys…
Network Transformer Selection for IoT Ethernet: PHY Compatibility, EEE, and Low-Power Design
IoT Ethernet designs have different transformer requirements than standard networking equipment. Here's the complete technical reference for IoT- spec…
DIY Smart home project: Restoring the wall switch
Background In a previous post , I wrote about building a presence sensor to automatically turn my bedroom lights on and off (smart bulbs connected to …
The First Computer Bug Was a Real Moth
Every developer who has ever muttered "there is a bug in this" is repeating a word with a surprisingly literal origin. On September 9, 1947, the opera…
Blackwell MLPerf Dominance, Intel Nova Lake Compute Runtime, & Weston 16 Vulkan HDR
Blackwell MLPerf Dominance, Intel Nova Lake Compute Runtime, & Weston 16 Vulkan HDR Today's Highlights NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture showcased u…
CUDA for AMD Lemonade, Intel Arc Pro Linux Gains, XPU Manager 2.0
CUDA for AMD Lemonade, Intel Arc Pro Linux Gains, XPU Manager 2.0 Today's Highlights Today's top GPU news highlights include AMD's Lemonade SDK gainin…
How Hedy Lamarr Invented Wireless Frequency Hopping
Ask most engineers who laid the groundwork for modern wireless and you will hear names like Marconi, Shannon, or the committees behind the IEEE 802.11…
Vortex 3.0 RISC-V GPGPU, Pragtical SDL GPU Backend, NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch
Vortex 3.0 RISC-V GPGPU, Pragtical SDL GPU Backend, NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch Today's Highlights Today's top stories highlight significant advancements …
Linux 7.1 Boosts Intel Arc, Flatpak Integrates ROCm, Vintage AMD Driver Refined
Linux 7.1 Boosts Intel Arc, Flatpak Integrates ROCm, Vintage AMD Driver Refined Today's Highlights Recent developments enhance GPU performance and acc…