News · 2026-09-27

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Frozen routers of light match Lie-Taylor jets on liquid metal.

Technology & AI (10)

▸Intel Panther Lake TeardownSemiAnalysis · 8d ago
Intel Panther Lake debuted commercial backside power delivery and gate-all-around transistors in the Intel Core Ultra 7 365.
The author reverse-engineered the 1980 Intel 8087's 90-microsecond tangent algorithm by chiseling open the chip to image its 1,648-instruction microcode ROM.
watchTowr reports two unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE zero-days are actively exploited without vendor workarounds or confirmed fixes.
Perplexity replaced DynamoDB with internally built CobbleDB to cut latency fivefold and reduce storage costs by 20%.
Elon Musk announced SpaceXAI will add 660,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs this year, bringing total operational GPUs to 1.44 million. The new units include 220,000 online next week, 220,000 in November, and a potential 220,000 by late December. This expansion supports Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which currently host 150,000 H100, 50,000 H200, 110,000 GB200, and 440,000 GB300 GPUs. SpaceXAI resolved power constraints by deploying its own 1.2-GW plant, though it faced a lawsuit over unpermitted gas turbines. Musk aims to grow capacity sevenfold by 2027 and reach 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs by 2030, including plans for a million-satellite orbital data center.
Nvidia updated its RTX Mega Geometry SDK to version 2.0, saving 1GB of VRAM and boosting performance by 13% on an RTX 4090 at 4K.
▸The Least Annoying of All EvilsHackaday · 8d ago
The Raspberry Pi Foundation updated firmware to lock the boot process if non-original RAM chips are detected.
Tower and Japan co-invest $4 billion to convert idle Fab 6 in Arai to 300mm production.
Daniel Mangum observed the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20 returning stale cached values due to a J-Link software bug.
Virginia Tech's VT MADE Lab created a self-repairing conductive material using gallium and indium liquid metal alloy in a PDMS matrix.

Finance & Markets (8)

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KDIC allows stocks and bonds as settlement advances, accepting government bonds at up to 98% collateral.
KCCI reports Q4 2026 manufacturing outlook improved with BSI rising to 86 and semiconductor sentiment hitting a record 139.
Iran hit at least three ships with missiles and drones in the Strait of Hormuz after US President Trump rejected Iran's ceasefire offer.
AI drives blue-collar jobs with 125.1% salary spikes, yet 70% of Americans oppose local data centers.
Andrew Korybko argues Russia could condition an energy truce on resuming pipeline exports to Europe by New Year's Day 2027.
Matthews Asia's Andrew Mattock argues investors must target China via his MCHFX fund, which holds at least 80% in stocks like Tencent and Alibaba.
▸CROSSPOST: SINEAD O’SULLIVAN: SpaceX Pivots Away from SpaceGrasping Reality (Brad DeLong) · 8d ago
Sinead O'Sullivan argues SpaceX pivots from Mars to terrestrial broadband and AI, generating $11B from Starlink in 2025.

Science (8)

Researchers fine-tuned a 406M Fusion-in-Decoder system on 2,000-word retrieved spans to achieve 36.33 ROUGE-1 on QMSum.
▸FrontierMath Erd\H{o}sarXiv cs.CL · 11d ago
GPT-6 Astra scored 3% on FrontierMath Erdős, a 68-problem Lean benchmark, while all other AI models scored 0%.
The stochastic inertial Krasnosel'skii-Mann iteration achieves $\widetilde O(\epsilon^{-2})$ sample complexity and $O(K^{-1})$ residual rate.
The paper answers Lu (2024) by characterizing consistency for arbitrary binary hypothesis classes in ZFC without a uniform mistake bound.
TW3Cast, a frozen router for lightly fine-tuned foundation models, achieves a mean MASE rank of 19.4 on GIFT-Eval.
TinyUDE achieved 0.0020 field error on an ESP32 using 61.3 kB of static memory.
ChipMEM achieved 39 of 54 equivalence-passing outputs on RTLRewriter-Bench versus 35 without memory.
The DELPHI platform achieves an AUC of 0.950 when transferring to a 246,293-antibody public library.

World (8)

On September 8, US forces blew up the Don Rufo fishing boat, leaving 10 Ecuadorian fishers adrift.
US President Donald Trump rejected Iran's seven-day peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and renamed it the "Trump Strait.
On September 25, 2026, President Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insists on a seven-day plan after US President Donald Trump rejected it.
The Supreme Court allowed Trump to use the SAVE database, overturning Judge Sparkle L Soonnan's ruling despite Texas finding 10% of flagged voters were likely citizens.
President Lee Jae Myung returned to Seoul after a five-night trip facing a Supreme Court dispute, Cabinet vacancies, and DMZ mine blasts.
Scholar Mor Sobol found fatalistic passivity rose from 26 to 37 percent in 2024-2025 surveys of 2,745 respondents.
South Korea will abolish its 78-year-old prosecution service Friday, but successor agencies await chiefs.

Today's digest, illustrated

A surreal editorial illustration blending a disassembled Intel processor with glowing neural networks into a stormy sea where small fishing boats are struck by lightning, while floating above the chaos are translucent sheets of code summarizing meetings and golden coins representing European debt paying for American growth, all rendered in a dramatic, high-contrast watercolor style with sharp, recurring jagged lines symbolizing friction.