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Electronic certification testing equipment in a lab
Policy·

FCC just voted to bar Chinese labs from certifying US electronics. 75% of devices are tested there now.

Brendan Carr's FCC advanced the 'Bad Labs' rule on April 30 in a 3-0 vote, kicking off a 60-90 day comment period. The rule covers 126 labs in China and Hong Kong.

Apple Mac mini desktop computer on a clean background, showing the M4-era chassis.
Apple·

Apple killed the $599 Mac mini. The cheapest one is now $799 with 512GB.

Apple quietly pulled the 256GB Mac mini from its store on May 1. Tim Cook had warned the day before that demand was outpacing supply for months.

Tensor G5 chip on a green Pixel motherboard, used by 9to5Google to illustrate Tensor leaks.
Android·

Pixel 11's Tensor G6 leak: brand-new ARM cores paired with a GPU from 2021

Mystic Leaks pegs Tensor G6 with one C1 Ultra at 4.11GHz and six C1-Pro cores. The GPU is the same Imagination CXTP family that's been in the chip for years.

AMD EPYC server processor in cinematic studio lighting.
Hardware·

AMD Zen 7 'Florence' leak: 288 cores, a separate cache die, and a 25% IPC swing

Leaked slides describe Zen 7 EPYC scaling to 288 cores per socket, with all L3 moved off the CCD onto a stacked cache die. Tape-out is October 2026, launch late 2028.

Concept render of a near-bezel-less iPhone with a curved display in a vivid purple finish.
Apple·

Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone gets a custom 'micro-curved' OLED. Here's what Samsung is actually building.

MacRumors reports the 2027 iPhone will use a Samsung COE pol-less OLED with a crater-shaped diffusion layer. The panel curves on all four edges.

Steam Controller hardware press image.
Gaming·

$99 Steam Controller leak: a YouTuber broke embargo and Reddit thinks it's too much

Tech YouTuber Techy Talk pulled an early Steam Controller review minutes after posting. The leaked $99 price, gyro, and magnetic TMR sticks have already split fans.

Illustration of an AI-driven chip design process from IEEE Spectrum's coverage.
AI·

An AI agent built a working RISC-V CPU from a 219-word prompt in 12 hours. Here's what it actually did.

Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.

Reported foldable iPhone shown in a product mockup
Apple·

Foldable iPhone: final renders leak as Nikkei warns of 2027 delay

Jon Prosser posted what he calls the final foldable iPhone design. Hours later, Nikkei reported Apple's hitting hinge and display snags that could push launch into 2027.