Ex-Tesla Optimus engineer settles trade secret lawsuit and raises $11M to build robot hands

You, too, can build this ESP32 plane tracker to keep an eye on the skies

Một người chơi nghiệp dư đã chế tạo bộ theo dõi chuyến bay ESP32-S3 hiển thị dữ liệu máy bay gần thời gian thực bằng API OpenSky Network, cập nhật 120 giây/lần. Thiết bị gồm hai màn hình (TFT + OLED), cần điều khiển (joystick) và nút bấm, vốn được thiết kế làm module cho máy chơi game cầm tay rồi sau đó được tái sử dụng thành bộ theo dõi chuyến bay độc lập. Mã nguồn và hướng dẫn lắp ráp có trên GitHub.

Lập trình viên sẽ tìm hiểu cách tích hợp API công khai OpenSky Network vào dự án IoT của mình để theo dõi vị trí máy bay với chi phí thấp và tính năng đa dạng, từ đó mở rộng khả năng ứng dụng trong các giải pháp giám sát không gian không gian.

Discounted 1.25 GHz Raspberry Pi 4 Model B shows up online

Cytron bán Raspberry Pi 4 Model B "Special Value Board" với RAM 4GB/8GB, xung nhịp 1.25 GHz (thấp hơn chuẩn 1.8 GHz) do lỗi sản xuất nhưng vẫn hoạt động ổn định. Giá giảm còn $87.25 (4GB) và $147 (8GB), tiết kiệm $13–$18, nhưng chỉ còn 258/189 sản phẩm.

Lập trình viên nên đọc vì những phiên bản Raspberry Pi 4 này có giá thấp hơn đáng kể nhưng vẫn hoạt động ổn định, giúp bạn có thể thử nghiệm các ứng dụng hoặc dự án với chi phí tiết kiệm mà không lo về hiệu suất bị giảm đáng kể.

DEBIX T62P-01 Raspberry Pi-like industrial SBC features TI AM62P SoC, dual GbE with TSN, multi-domain UART

Polyhex Technology has launched the DEBIX T62P-01, an 88×59mm industrial SBC powered by the Texas Instruments Sitara AM62P SoC (quad Cortex-A53 + dual Cortex-R5F). It supports up to 8GB LPDDR4, up to 256GB eMMC, dual GbE with TSN (one PoE-capable), Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, MIPI DSI/CSI, and a 40-pin expansion header. A dedicated USB-C debug port exposes three UART domains for the heterogeneous multicore architecture. Software support includes Linux 6.12, Android 16, and FreeRTOS for the real-time cores. The board targets IIoT, robotics, edge computing, and HMI applications, with standard and wide-temperature variants planned.

Old Vintage Computing Research: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

A detailed hands-on exploration of the Lemote Yeeloong, a Chinese MIPS64-based netbook famous for being Richard Stallman's laptop of choice due to its fully libre software stack. Covers the history of the Loongson/Godson processor family from its origins at the Chinese Academy of Sciences through successive chip generations, the laptop's hardware internals including its cooling system quirks, and a thorough walkthrough of installing OpenBSD on the machine. Key technical challenges include working around two serious Loongson-2F hardware errata involving branch misprediction bugs that caused kernel panics, the PMON bootloader's limitations, lack of binary packages for mips64el, and workarounds needed to boot OpenBSD from an SD card while keeping existing Debian on the internal SSD.

Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

Red Hat ARM Team engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz spent nearly a year using an Ampere Altra 80-core AArch64 system as his primary Linux desktop, built around an ASRockRack board with AMD Radeon graphics. After eleven months, he abandoned the experiment and returned to his AMD Ryzen x86_64 desktop. Key pain points included weak single-threaded performance, recurring PCIe controller issues requiring weekly custom kernel patches, AMDGPU driver bugs on Linux 7.0+ causing video and gaming regressions on ARM64, and missing NVIDIA Flatpak support for AArch64 after switching to Nouveau. He concluded that the problems were platform-specific quirks rather than fundamental architectural flaws, and that a future AArch64 desktop attempt would require entirely new hardware. The Ampere Altra system now runs headlessly for RISC-V package builds where its multi-core throughput shines.

Tesla FSD: settlement ends one case, probe rolls on

Tesla has quietly settled a lawsuit stemming from a 2023 fatal crash involving its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system in Arizona, where a 71-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed by a Model Y. The settlement terms were not disclosed. However, the NHTSA federal investigation — escalated to an engineering analysis in March 2026 — remains open and could result in a software recall. The agency found Tesla's system fails to detect and warn drivers under degraded visibility conditions like sun glare and airborne dust. Compounding Tesla's troubles, a separate fatal crash in Texas involving Autopilot has triggered additional NHTSA and NTSB investigations, and another inquiry is examining FSD running red lights and drifting into wrong lanes. Tesla's camera-only approach faces mounting regulatory and legal scrutiny as the company positions FSD as central to its AI and robotics identity.

Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices

Pocket, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised $11M from Accel, YC, and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski. The company sells a $129 credit card-shaped puck that attaches to the back of a phone to record and transcribe conversations offline, with no subscription required for basic use. Having sold over 130,000 units since launch, Pocket targets professionals like lawyers, doctors, and salespeople who need real-world (not just online meeting) transcription. A $200/year plan unlocks unlimited AI summaries and assistant queries. Enterprise features include webhook support, integrations with Google Calendar, Obsidian, Claude, Cursor, and an MCP server. The company competes with both software players like Otter and Fireflies and hardware rivals like Plaud.