GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide and tirzepatide are showing robust clinical benefits for cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and liver disease — benefits that appear independent of how much weight patients lose.
Intel's Hala Point system, unveiled in April 2024 and now shipping to research partners in 2026, demonstrates that brain-inspired computing architectures can achieve energy efficiency three orders of magnitude beyond conventional GPU compute. The technology is leaving the lab and entering specific workloads where it has no practical competitor.
The npm ecosystem now hosts 2.5 million packages, with the average production Node.js application pulling in over 1,000 transitive dependencies. Supply chain attacks via npm have doubled year-over-year since 2022. Understanding where your actual risk lives — and which concrete tools shrink it — is now a baseline engineering responsibility.
After years of incremental lithium-ion improvements, silicon-carbon anode technology is entering mass-market smartphones with a genuine leap: 20–30% more energy density in the same cell volume. Vivo, Honor, and Xiaomi have already shipped devices; Apple and Samsung are expected to follow by late 2026.
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.