Hardware digest · 2026-09-28

Thieves stole Nvidia-labeled trailers but found only sand — A security decoy operation for AI trucking startup PlusAI outsmarted GPU thieves targeting high-value AI hardware

Sources:[18] tomshardware.com

PS5 emulator hits 60 FPS on six titles — SharpEmu advances console emulation with playable speeds, showing rapid progress in shader translation and Vulkan support

Sources:[20] tomshardware.com

Intel 8087 FPU reverse-engineering reveals hybrid CORDIC algorithm — Ken Shirriff's ongoing teardown exposes how Intel's vintage math coprocessor computed trigonometric functions in hardware

Sources:[29] hackaday.com

Galileo encryption offers defense against satellite spoofing — New work leverages encrypted signals to protect navigation and timing systems from increasingly common GNSS attacks

Sources:[30] hackaday.com

Linux kernel compilation may drop below 10 seconds — Advances in PC hardware plus AI-assisted compiler optimization are pushing build times to unprecedented speeds

Sources:[21] tomshardware.com

Intel delivers major Linux memory hotplug performance boost — Optimization for VM expansion and CXL memory adds targets enterprise and cloud infrastructure demands

Sources:[26] phoronix.com

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14 second camera gains Linux support — Patch series addresses lingering compatibility gap for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" flagship

Sources:[27] phoronix.com

$1.7 million 24-carat gold mini PC promises 50% better heat transfer — Absurd luxury build highlights exotic thermal engineering with nearly 29-pound passive chassis

Sources:[17] tomshardware.com

Fluid simulation runs on enormous flip dot display — [mitxela]'s EMF 2026 installation demonstrates computational art on electromagnetic dot matrix hardware

Sources:[32] hackaday.com

Reverse engineering Apple's undocumented Mikey chip — Old iPod Classic headphone output chip finally documented, revealing Apple's hidden audio silicon design

Sources:[33] hackaday.com