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Border Gateway Protocol was designed in 1989 with zero security assumptions. Thirty-seven years later, BGP hijacking still knocks major services offline and reroutes sensitive traffic through adversarial networks. RPKI cryptographic route validation is the proven remedy — but adoption sits below 50% of global prefixes.
Ethereum's Pectra hard fork went live on mainnet in May 2025, and EIP-7702 — the proposal that gives externally owned accounts temporary smart contract capabilities — is its most consequential change for everyday users.
LPCAMM2, the new memory standard that makes low-power soldered RAM upgradeable again, has moved from concept to consumer products in 2025. Here is what it means for laptop buyers and the broader PC ecosystem.
Speculative decoding has emerged as the most practical technique for making large language models faster at inference time — and it works by exploiting a counterintuitive trick about how autoregressive generation actually behaves.
V2G — sending EV battery power back to the grid — has been a demonstration technology for a decade. Three things changed in 2025: ISO 15118-20 standardized the communication protocol, a second generation of bidirectional-capable vehicles arrived, and utilities in California, the UK, and Europe built the market structures to pay for grid services.
WebAssembly started as a way to run C++ in browsers faster than JavaScript. By 2026, WASI 0.2 and the Component Model have turned it into a language-agnostic, sandboxed compute target running in production at Cloudflare, Fastly, and a growing list of edge platforms — with cold starts measured in microseconds.
NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station in January 2031. Four companies — Axiom Space, Vast, Starlab, and Blue Origin's Orbital Reef — are building what comes next. Their designs, timelines, and business models are very different, and not all of them will make it.
As third-party cookies disappear from Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, advertisers have turned to browser fingerprinting — assembling a unique identifier from canvas rendering, AudioContext output, GPU vendor strings, and dozens of other hardware-specific signals. Unlike cookies, fingerprints require no storage, leave no trace, and don't trigger consent dialogs.
The Steam Deck proved that PC gaming in a handheld form factor was viable. The ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and a wave of competitors followed. In 2026, the handheld gaming PC is an established product category — but the tradeoffs are real and the target audience remains specific.
The mRNA platform that produced COVID vaccines in record time is now being used to build vaccines tailored to each patient's tumor. Moderna and BioNTech's phase 2b results showed a 49% reduction in melanoma recurrence. Phase 3 trials are underway.
Anduril, Shield AI, and dozens of smaller companies have turned autonomous weapons systems and military software into some of venture capital's most active investment targets. The money followed Ukraine. The debate about whether it should has not been resolved.
Zipline has made over one million deliveries of medical supplies in Africa. Wing has completed hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Australia and the US. Amazon Prime Air is finally operational. The technology is proven. What limits the industry now is regulation, airspace, and economics — not the hardware.