Articles by Adrian Parham
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FTC Investigates Whether Arm's First Chip Launch Lets It Squeeze the Licensees It Now Competes Against
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Arm Holdings on Friday, examining whether the British chip designer — majority-owned by Japan's SoftBank Group — intends to degrade or deny the CPU architecture licenses that Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and hundreds of other companies depend on, while simultaneously selling its own competing chips.
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VLT Captures First Resolved Image of a Cosmic Filament — and It Matches the Simulations Exactly
As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope maps the cosmic web across 13.7 billion years of galaxy history, a complementary result from the ground is quietly resolving what that web actually looks like up close.
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RuView Passes 55,000 GitHub Stars — and the WiFi Sensing Law It Outran Has Not Arrived
A GitHub repository that turns ordinary WiFi signals into a through-wall human tracking system crossed 55,000 stars this week, reigniting a debate that touches every WiFi router in every home, office, and apartment building: the same radio waves that deliver your internet connection can reveal whether you are home, where in your building you are, and whether your breathing is irregular.
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NASA's New Radiation-Hardened Chip: 500x Computing of JWST: Certification by Late 2026 for 2028 Moon Landing
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has confirmed that a next-generation radiation-hardened processor developed under its High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) project is now benchmarking at 500 times the performance of the chips currently running on active deep-space missions.
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California's 7.25% SaaS Tax Would Hit Every Business Running Microsoft, Salesforce, or Workday
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposal on May 14 that would apply the state's 7.25% sales tax to cloud-based and downloaded software — including SaaS subscriptions — meaning every California business that pays a monthly bill to Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, Workday, Oracle, or Atlassian could see those costs rise by more than 7% starting January 1, 2027.
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Trump and Xi Signal AI Safety Protocol Talks as Anthropic's Mythos Reframes the Threat
Both Leaders Acknowledged the Risk — But No Structure, Timeline, or Joint Commitment Has Emerged
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Radioactive Star-Forged Iron Found in Antarctic Ice Confirms Earth Drifts Through Supernova Debris
A study published May 13 in Physical Review Letters has confirmed that radioactive iron forged inside an exploding star has been falling on Earth for at least 80,000 years — and is still falling today.
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LinkedIn Scans Every Chrome User's Browser Extensions and Ties the Inventory to Their Professional Identity
Every time a professional opens LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser today, hidden JavaScript silently probes their device for up to 6,278 installed browser extensions, encrypts the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn's servers — where they are attached to that user's verified name, employer, and career history.
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Wisconsin Researchers Map Bacterial DNA Repair Restart, Revealing New Antibiotic Targets
Structural biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today published cryo-electron microscopy structures of the complete bacterial DNA replication restart complex — a molecular machine that lets bacteria survive antibiotic attack — and found an unexpected architectural link to the protein that fires up replication from scratch.
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G2 Geomagnetic Storm Batters Earth Tonight, Pushing Northern Lights to New York and Wisconsin
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for tonight, May 15–16, after a high-speed solar wind stream from a large coronal hole — a gap in the Sun's magnetic atmosphere — struck Earth's magnetosphere.
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Google Brings Android XR Glasses to I/O 2026 as Smart Glasses Face a Privacy Reckoning
Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster are set to appear at Monday's developer conference, but a UK investigation and a US class-action lawsuit against Meta's camera-equipped glasses warn Google of the regulatory minefield it is entering.
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Google Announces Googlebook: AI-Native Laptop Built on Android Arrives This Fall
Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops running an Android-based operating system with Gemini AI embedded at the system level, on May 12, 2026, at its Android Show event in Mountain View
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China's Jiuzhang 4.0 Photonic Processor Outpaces El Capitan by Tredecillion Years — Without Cryogenic Cooling
Chinese physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a study in Nature on Wednesday revealing that their room-temperature photonic processor, Jiuzhang 4.0, completed a standard quantum benchmark calculation in 25 microseconds.
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Floci Tops 10,000 GitHub Stars as Free, MIT-Licensed AWS Emulator Fills LocalStack's $39/Month Paywall Gap
Thousands of software development teams whose CI/CD pipelines depended on LocalStack's free community edition lost access to no-cost, no-account AWS emulation on March 23, 2026, when the company required mandatory authentication tokens and froze security updates for non-paying users.
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Mayo Clinic DNA Molecules Pinpoint Aging "Zombie Cells", Unlocking Precision Senolytic Therapy
Researchers at Mayo Clinic announced on May 15, 2026 that synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can reliably tag senescent "zombie" cells in mouse tissue—a long-sought step that could finally enable drugs to destroy these inflammation-driving cells without harming healthy neighbors.
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SpaceX Targets 6:05 p.m. EDT Today for CRS-34, Carrying a Space-Weather Sensor and Bone-Regeneration Research
SpaceX and NASA are targeting 6:05 p.m. EDT today, Friday, May 15, for the third launch attempt of CRS-34 — a Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying 6,500 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station after two consecutive weather scrubs.
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Chip Industry Presses Congress to Extend the Tax Credit Anchoring $640 Billion in U.S. Fab Investment
The Semiconductor Industry Association and 17 allied trade groups sent a formal letter to Congress on May 12 urging lawmakers to extend the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (AMIC) before its December 31, 2026 construction deadline expires and puts hundreds of billions of dollars in planned U.S. fab capacity at risk.
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Kazakhstan Orders AI in All Secondary Schools by 2029, With Government's First Pilot Deadline 17 Days Away
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree on May 12 mandating that the government integrate artificial intelligence into the country's entire secondary school system between 2026 and 2029, setting a June 1 deadline, just 16 days away, for pilot-school proposals that will affect every secondary student in a country of 20 million people.
