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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material’s magnetism strongly
Daily briefing: Lung microbiome linked to a mysterious tissue-scarring condition
<p>Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01828-7">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01828-7</a></p>Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis appears to be linked to a receptor that’s responsible for keeping bacteria in check. Plus, scientists’ thoughts on Microsoft’s newest quantum chip and what drives us to want to socialize.
What is space-time? A mystery at the heart of reality
What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time challenges the popular view that the past, present, and future all exist together in a timeless "block universe." The argument suggests that physicists may be blurring the difference between things that exist and things that merely occur, creating deep confusion about what space-time actually is.
Heat breaks the rules at the nanoscale and scientists used it to their advantage
Scientists used nanoscale gold metamaterials to supercharge heat transfer across tiny gaps, achieving up to four times more energy flow than similar conventional systems. The breakthrough could lead to better chip cooling, more efficient energy technologies, and a new era of precision heat engineering.
San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority 2025 Calendar Photo
My Photos Selected for San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority 2025 Calendar
Retaining EXIF Metadata In GIMP
GIMP Photo Editing and EXIF Metadata In Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer
Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the rooms have been generated ...
IBM, GlobalFoundries get $1.4 billion for quantum computing
IBM says it plans a major expansion of its operation in Albany after the federal government awarded the company and GlobalFoundries a combined $1.375 billion in grants for quantum computing.
Aram Harrow, quantum researcher: ‘These computers won’t take 10 years; they’ll arrive sooner’
The traditionally skeptical MIT scientist believes the technology’s breakthrough is closer than expected, though its real‑world impact remains uncertain
Microsoft announced a breakthrough in quantum computing
During the keynote address at Microsoft's Build developers conference, the company's CEO also announced a new quantum processor named Majorana 2.
Microsoft Quantum Push And Board Shift Raise New Valuation Questions
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) has announced its Majorana 2 quantum chip, targeting a scalable quantum computer by 2029 with improved qubit reliability. Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co founder, plans to exit Microsoft's board, with the company indicating the move is not linked to any disagreement. For you as an investor, these updates touch two core parts of the Microsoft story: advanced computing and board level oversight. NasdaqGS:MSFT already spans cloud, productivity software and AI services, and...
Microsoft Says It Will Have A Useful Quantum Computer In Three Years
Microsoft releases its second-generation quantum chip. Ultrasound could replace pacemakers. And why you shouldn’t skip breakfast.
Show HN: Cordium – FOSS self-hosted sandbox platform alt. Codespaces/E2B/Daytona
Hello HN , Cordium is a FOSS, self-hosted, general-purpose sandbox platform that I've been working on for a long time now that is built on Kubernetes and Octelium https://github.com/octelium/octelium, my main work. Cordium can be used for various persistent/ephemeral long/short-lived workloads, including coding for developers with VSCode, Zed, etc. (i.e. self-hosted GitHub Codespaces alternative), AI agent tasks (i.e. FOSS alternative to AI sandbox products suc
Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores
I've been working with storage engines for quite a while and really there was no similar tool to sysbench and or HammerDB for key-value storage engines. Thus I introduce a POC called keybench. I hope you check it out, and do give it a run to drive your favorite engine.<p>Cheers!
Show HN: TeardownHQ, teardowns/playbooks of how indie startups grew
Launching TeardownHQ: a directory of indie startups with revenue pulled from real signals (and labeled where it is an estimate), plus deep teardowns/playbooks of exactly how each one grew. The channels, the pricing, the GTM, all sourced, instead of the usual self-reported screenshots.
Why I am building it: Starter Story proved people want "how they actually did it," but it skews ecommerce and general business, and because it is human-interviewed it is slow and broad. I am going na
Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
Hello HN,I've been working on a simple OS for tinkering and running bare metal apps on vintage PCs.Since I couldn't quite decide whether to target pure 16-bit, or slightly more capable 32-bit machines, I ended up with two separate versions:- GentleOS/32 (https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32) works on i386+, requires 4MB of RAM and VGA display supporting 640x480x16 mode or any 256-color VESA mode.- GentleOS/16 (https://github.com/luke8086&#
Ask HN: Is it feasible to run a model on device for complete privacy?
Tried Gemma, Qwen and a few others. Need vision and larger context windows for an application I am working on. Results were quite poor Gemma 4E2B probably the best of the ones I tired but still fell apart and keep hallucinating with ~5000 tokens. Cloud based models had no problems even even Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.4 mini do a lot better and a way faster.
Show HN: Typol – Static typing layer for Polars
Hello! Wanted to share Typol, a thin static typing layer around Polars that lets you enforce columnar schemas. We've been hesitant in the past to go with dataframes for processing reporting data, especially with Pandas, due to the long-term maintainability burden of tooling not understanding the data we're processing, or the library itself. Polars is well typed and encourages constructing shapes up rather than modifying in-place, so adding schema typing to it seemed like a natural exte
MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar
A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every galaxy, including the Milky Way. When a black hole is active, it pulls material in as a whirpool of high-temperature gas and dust. As this cosmic material piles up and falls onto a black hole, it lights up its vicinity, radiating a huge amount of energy. The most energetic supermassive black holes are known as quasars, and they are some of the most active and luminous objects in the universe. These voracious systems take in so much m
Quantum Secure Direct Communication Is Moving From Research Curiosity To Critical Infrastructure
But a newer category is beginning to mature from theoretical research into deployable infrastructure. Unlike QKD, which ...