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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-05-25.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • IBM lands a $1B CHIPS Act grant to spin off 'Anderon,' the first pure-play quantum chip foundry.
▸ • Researchers prove Jira is Turing-complete, meaning your sprint board is technically a computer.
▸ • A fundamental rule of aerodynamics is overturned: microscopic roughness beats perfect smoothness.
IBM is launching 'Anderon,' America's first dedicated 300mm quantum chip foundry. Backed by a $1B CHIPS Act grant and $1B of IBM's own cash, it's a massive bet on superconducting silicon.
Amazon's new AI wrist gadget records, transcribes, and summarizes your entire day. It's a productivity powerhouse that requires access to your location, contacts, and health data—what could possibly go wrong?
Google's smartglasses partner Xreal unveiled tethered OLED glasses running Android XR. Google is pushing a four-tier strategy for face computers, hoping we've all forgotten the 'Glasshole' era.
The OpenSCAD Pantheon benchmark shows autonomous coding agents outperforming human-in-the-loop setups. Turns out, our 'help' might actually be dragging the AI down.
Nicolas Seriot mapped a two-counter Minsky register machine onto Jira's automation rules, proving the tool can simulate any computation. The next time your velocity drops, just tell your manager you're debugging a distributed state machine with no observability tooling.
A long-held aeronautical principle—that smoother surfaces mean less drag—has been overturned. Biomimetic microscopic roughness (like shark skin) actually reduces skin friction, potentially cutting global aviation fuel use by 10%.
A new command-driven geometry studio built with automatic differentiation. It lets you use broadcasting semantics and backpropagation in a visual, reactive setting.
A fast, differentiable, JIT-free finite element method (FEM) library built natively on PyTorch. You can now move your entire FEM workflow to the GPU with full autograd.
An Ars Technica writer confesses to spending years forcing themselves to finish The Witcher 3. A stark reminder that just because a game is a 'masterpiece' doesn't mean you owe it your free time.
TechCrunch rounded up kitchen gadgets that make 'adulting' easier. Because sometimes a robot stirring your soup is the only thing standing between you and a breakdown.