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Robotics & Drones1,943 words9 min read
Skydio's F10 Lightrunner: A 100 mph Autonomous Fixed-Wing Drone That Launches Itself From a Five-Aircraft Dock
For most of the last decade, the autonomous drone market has been a quadcopter market. The reason is physics, not marketing. A multirotor can hover, which means it can inspect a substation transformer from six feet away, hold a position…
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IoT
IoT1,912 words9 min read
Azure IoT Central Closes the Door: New Apps Halt, Existing Fleets Get Until September 2029
For a decade, Azure IoT Central was the friendly front door into the industrial internet of things. You defined a device template, pointed it at a fleet of sensors or gateways, and got…
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AI
AI2,078 words10 min read
OpenAI Ships 'Dots' Always-On Agents at DevDay One Day After Pulling Its Newest Model
San Francisco — For five years, the artificial intelligence industry has run on a simple rhythm: build a model, hold a conference, and watch the announcements land. OpenAI's 2026 DevDay…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,680 words8 min read
Akamai's $11.6 Billion Anthropic Bet: Why the Biggest AI Cloud Deal of 2026 Is for CPUs, Not GPUs
On the morning of September 25, 2026, Akamai Technologies shares jumped more than 20 percent in after-hours trading, touching as high as $133.71 in premarket activity. The trigger was an…
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity2,037 words10 min read
NeedyMantis: Microsoft's New Post-Compromise Malware Hides Inside Legitimate Apps
The most interesting thing about the malware Microsoft disclosed on September 28 is what it is not. It is not a remote code execution exploit. It does not need a phishing email, a stolen…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,654 words8 min read
Robots Building Robots: Inside the 10,000-Unit Humanoid Factory That Just Started Production in China
On 12 September 2026, a 14,000-square-metre building in Liuzhou, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China, started doing something that until very recently existed mostly…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors2,571 words12 min read
NXP and Vanguard Open S$8.5 Billion Singapore Fab as Specialty Chip Demand Outruns Supply
A wafer fabrication plant is one of the least glamorous and most consequential buildings in the global economy. No consumer will ever see one, photograph one, or name one. Yet every…
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EV
EV1,493 words7 min read
The €2,100 Question: Europe's Record EV Month Arrives With a Price Tag Attached
Europe's electric car market just posted a month that would have been unthinkable two years ago, and almost nobody in Brussels is celebrating. That tension — record adoption sitting on top…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,837 words9 min read
Volkswagen and Gotion Anchor a 37.5 GWh LFP Battery Chain Across Spain, Slovakia and Morocco
Volkswagen has spent the better part of five years trying to build a European battery industry it can call its own, and until now the results have been mixed. The Salzgitter site that was…
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IoT
IoT1,365 words7 min read
Thread Group Takes Mesh to Sub-GHz: Open IP Networking Targets the Industrial Long-Reach Gap
For most of its life, Thread has had one radio band. The open, IPv6-based mesh networking standard runs on IEEE 802.15.4 hardware in the 2.4 GHz ISM spectrum, delivering 250 kbit/s across…