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SiFive, a company founded in 2015 by the UC Berkeley engineers who created an open source chip design, has landed a $400 million oversubscribed round that values the company at $3.65 billion. This deal is interesting for a bunch of reasons. For one, SiFive’s RISC-V open chip design is based on the RISC processor, not Intel’s x86 or ARM, the two major types of CPUs that currently feed Nvidia’s GPU computer system AI empire. Also, Nvidia was investor in this round, alongside a long list of VCs, private equity, and hedge funds. The round was led by Atreides Management, founded…

Denon Home 400 brings rich, expansive sound to your home HomeDolby AtmosDenon Home 400 Wireless Smart Speaker Gadget Flow Editors Bring extraordinary sound to every room.Editor’s QuoteDenon Home 400 Wireless Smart SpeakerBring life to your home audio with the Denon Home 400. This wireless smart speaker built for rich home audio, easy streaming, and flexible multi-room listening in one clean design.Dolby Atmos Music: Dual height speakers add vertical detail, so music sounds wider, taller, and more immersive from a single speaker.Six-driver array: Two tweeters, two up-firing drivers, and two woofers work together for clear highs, strong bass, and balanced stereo…

If Nothing sticks to its usual launch timeline, the CMF Phone 3 Pro could arrive in the coming weeks, considering the Phone 2 Pro debuted on April 28 last year. While the brand has yet to share any official details, a new leak has revealed the key specifications of the upcoming phone. According to the leak, the CMF Phone 3 Pro will switch to a Qualcomm chipset this year, and is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 SoC, replacing the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro used in its predecessor. CMF Phone 2 Pro The display size remains…

Amid horrific threats from United States president Donald Trump as the US and Iran negotiated a ceasefire, the US government warned this week that Iran-linked hackers were carrying out attacks against US energy and water infrastructure targets. With nearly one in five people in Lebanon displaced by Israeli attacks, the government is attempting to manage the crisis without modern digital infrastructure and an emergency system that is barely hanging on. Plus, a WIRED analysis looked at Syrian government account hijacks in March and the inadequacies they expose in Syria’s baseline cybersecurity defenses.Amid rising fears of political violence, a WIRED investigation…

NASA’s Artemis II crew of four astronauts from the United States and Canada are set to return to Earth on Friday after their historic trip to the far side of the moon. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen have spent 10 days aboard the Orion spacecraft. They are expected to begin re-entry at 7:33 p.m. ET with a splashdown of 8:07 p.m. NASA has a live feed for when the crew lands in the Pacific Ocean later today. The Orion spacecraft is expected to splash down off the coast of San Diego, California. The Artemis II mission…

Last week, Oppo announced that it would unveil the Find X9 Ultra and Find X9s Pro on April 21 in China, while confirming that the Find X9 Ultra will also be launched in international markets. Now, Oppo has confirmed that the Find X9s Pro will also make its global debut on April 21 at an event in China at 7 PM local time. Machine translated from Chinese Additionally, Oppo is taking pre-orders for the Find X9s Pro through its Chinese website, which confirmed the smartphone’s design, colors, and memory options. Oppo Find X9s Pro The…

CIQ Rolls Out ARCA Single-Stack Solution for Academic HPC Operations RENO, Nev., April 9, 2026 — CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today launched the Academic Research Computing Advantage (ARCA), a complete infrastructure solution for R1 research universities* and HPC centers. University research computing teams get one vendor, one support contract and one escalation path across their entire environment. ARCA packages the complete infrastructure stack into a single, commercially supported platform: RLC Pro, RLC Pro Hardened, RLC Pro AI, Warewulf Pro, Fuzzball, Ascender Pro and Apptainer. University HPC centers operate some of the world’s…

After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the Moon a success. Integrity, the name of the crew’s spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time, according to NASA. The four crew members aboard — three Americans and one Canadian — were all in “green” (or safe and healthy) condition after the Orion craft’s “perfect” landing. The crew was composed of Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and…

The Samsung Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57, which were unveiled last month and went on sale in the US and a few other countries recently, are now available for purchase in more regions, including the UK. Both smartphones are available in the UK through Samsung’s official website and select retailers. The Galaxy A37 is offered in Awesome Lavender, Awesome Charcoal, Awesome Greygreen, and Awesome White colors, while the Galaxy A57 comes in Awesome Navy, Awesome Grey, Awesome Icyblue, and Awesome Lilac. The pricing and memory options of the two smartphones are detailed below. Samsung Galaxy A37 (6GB/128GB): £399 Samsung…

Lego-style propaganda videos alleging war crimes are flooding online feeds, echoing the White House’s own turn toward cryptic teaser clips and meme-native visuals. This is not just content drift. It is a new front in the information war, one where speed, ambiguity, and algorithmic reach matter as much as accuracy.One Iran-linked outlet, Explosive News, can reportedly turn around a two-minute synthetic Lego segment in about 24 hours. The speed is the point. Synthetic media does not need to hold up forever; it only needs to travel before verification catches up.Last month, the White House added to that confusion when it…