WebAssembly has GC. It still needs JavaScript for console.log
Wasm now has SIMD, exceptions, 64-bit memory and GC. Yet a simple Web API call still crosses JavaScript. Mozilla wants Components to move that glue into the browser itself.
Archive
Tech · page 9
IRZ Tech archive, page 9.
The prototype boots. Production has to repeat it without mistakes
The Compute Module 5 jig turns manual provisioning into a repeatable cycle and can create device-specific security state along the way.
He wanted a Gaussian Splat 1,000× faster. Four weeks later, he had an iPhone app
Scantic trains Gaussian Splats directly on an iPhone. The useful number is not 1,000×, but what its developer actually moved from a desktop workflow into the phone.
Prusa opens its designs, but not the market
OCL v1.1 lets non-commercial users modify and share, but blocks commercial replication by default. Its new plugins only add more conditions. Under OSHWA’s definition, this is not open-source hardware.
PINE64 released 84 MB of PinePhone geometry. It is not the source code
PINE64 released the full PinePhone STEP assembly. IRZ opened its 84.2 MB: 265 products and 927 assembly occurrences, in a 2020 geometry export rather than the native parametric CAD.
Making a MXene in 30 Seconds Does Not Take 30 Seconds
Rice etched nine MAX families into MXenes in under 30 seconds. The raw data tell the more useful story: the reaction becomes almost instantaneous, while the full process keeps a second clock.
This electric aircraft flew for 27 minutes. It was not a range test
Heart X1 flew for 27 minutes with more than one megawatt of electric propulsion. The flight validates integration at regional-aircraft scale, not the 200 km range promised for the future ES-30.
Sold as 8GB, this mining card hides 64GB of VRAM behind its firmware
The CMP 170HX, an Ethereum mining card that sank to $250, carries A100 silicon and HBM2e throttled by firmware. The open-source cmpunlocker tool wakes up the 64GB soldered on the board.
Firefox can finally talk to your ESP32, and it matters more than a checkbox
Firefox 151 ships the Web Serial API: flashing CircuitPython, reading a USB power meter or configuring ESPHome no longer requires Chromium. The interesting part is the permission model, not the compatibility checkbox.
Six hazards, six vibration patterns: this patch speaks straight to your skin
A NC State patch detects dangerous gases, aerosols and heavy metals in water, then warns you through distinct vibration codes. The interesting part is not the sensor. It is the end of the chain.