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Samsung announced a new 14-meter standard size for its Onyx cinema LED displays, designed for Premium Large Format theaters. The screen can be scaled up to 20 meters, but the new format requires a pixel pitch of 3.3mm to maintain image quality.
Shenzhen team runs coal through oxide membrane, captures CO₂ on-site, skips combustion. Lab unit silent, but scale-up durability unproven.
X's new messaging app, XChat, fully adopts iOS 26 design language but currently has no announced release date for Android. The app promises end-to-end encryption and ad-free messaging.
Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce in May, affecting 8,000 employees, while eliminating 6,000 open positions. The cuts are intended to offset billions in new AI investments. The company says it cannot share details with staff until later in May.
CATL says its sodium-ion batteries retain 90% capacity at -40°C and cost 30% less than LFP, but their 175 Wh/kg density currently limits them to affordable small EVs.
Attackers gained access through a compromised employee Google account linked to a third-party app, exposing unencrypted credentials. Vercel warns of downstream breaches across "hundreds of users across many organizations."
A dirt-powered fuel cell using soil microbes generated 68 times more power than required to run its sensors. It lasted 120% longer than similar technologies and worked in both dry and flooded conditions. The researchers are now working to make it fully biodegradable.
Amazon will acquire Globalstar for $11.57 billion in cash or stock, giving it Apple's satellite business for Emergency SOS and messaging. The merger won't close until 2027, with Amazon's own D2D service not launching until 2028.
Rust support graduates from experimental after the 2025 Kernel Maintainers Summit. The shift brings memory-safe code into the stable kernel for the first time. Most distributions will delay packaging until their own validation cycles complete.
A ransomware attack on healthcare IT vendor ChipSoft forced 11 hospitals to disconnect patient portals after the company advised terminating VPN connections. Patient data including diagnoses and national ID numbers may have been accessed; attackers remain unidentified.
A hacker claims to have extracted 10 petabytes from China's National Supercomputing Center over six months via a compromised VPN. The dataset allegedly includes missile schematics and documents marked 'secret' from defense-linked organizations.
Multiple blue screens and the WHEA Logger ID 17 error in the Samsung 990 Pro + ASUS TUF Z790 combination. Two M.2 slots, formatting, BIOS update... None of them solved it alone. The real problem was in the SSD firmware and the solution was much closer than we thought.
