A New York Times investigation traces how Inspur Group, the
Shandong-based server manufacturer Commerce placed on its Entity List
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TLDR HARDWARE 2026-09-07
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HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES
HOW A BLACKLISTED CHINESE TECH GIANT KEPT BUYING AMERICA'S BEST AI
CHIPS (5 MINUTE READ) [4]
A New York Times investigation traces how Inspur Group, the
Shandong-based server manufacturer Commerce placed on its Entity List
in March 2023 specifically to cut it off from restricted US
technology, kept acquiring Nvidia's most advanced AI chips for years
afterward. The workaround was structural rather than clandestine:
Inspur and entities connected to it routed purchase orders through
affiliated subsidiaries and third-party resellers whose names never
appeared on the blacklist itself, letting racks of cutting-edge
hardware flow through channels the Entity List was never built to
catch.
DEEPSEEK PLANS LARGE HUAWEI CHIP ORDER FOR NEW INNER MONGOLIA DATA
CENTRE (4 MINUTE READ) [5]
DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips to power a
reported one-gigawatt data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, which
could begin partial operations in late 2027 or early 2028. Nvidia's
most capable accelerators can't legally sell into China, leaving
Huawei's Ascend family as one of the few domestic options at this
scale. DeepSeek has already been tuning models for Ascend, its V4
model launched in April built for the Ascend 950, prompting Chinese
cloud providers to order hundreds of thousands of units. Nvidia's
Jensen Huang has called this shift a “horrible outcome” for the
US, since every model optimized for Ascend chips away at CUDA's
ecosystem advantage.
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ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS
ROOMBA DUO LETS ONE AUTONOMOUS ROBOT CARRY AND DEPLOY ANOTHER ROBOT
(6 MINUTE READ) [6]
The Roomba Duo is a dual-robot architecture where the larger
autonomous machine physically carries and deploys an ultra-compact
companion using a top-mounted mechanical arm. Both robots share a map
and coordinate in real time, while dual-line LiDAR, PrecisionVision
AI, and additional top-mounted cameras provide navigation and
perception. The main robot adds a 60 mm roller mop with 46 N
downforce, steam pre-treatment, 17 cm hub-motor wheels, and a
centralized autonomous maintenance dock.
OPEN SOURCE HUMAN TRACKING DRONE FOR INDOOR APPLICATIONS WITH FULL
SIM-TO-REAL PIPELINE (3 MINUTE READ) [7]
This open-source repository provides a simulation-first autonomy
stack for an indoor person-following quadcopter using ROS 2, ArduPilot
SITL, and the Gazebo simulator. It integrates real-time visual
tracking, state estimation, and dynamic trajectory planning designed
to transition reliably from virtual digital twins to physical flight.
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RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES
COSMIIC — OPEN SOURCE IMPLANTABLE NEUROMODULATION PLATFORM (3
MINUTE READ) [8]
The COSMIIC System is an open-source, modular implantable
neuromodulation platform designed for adoption by medical technology researchers and startups. It provides standardized, interoperable
hardware modules—such as pulse generators, power supplies, and
biopotential recording units networked over a Controller Area Network
(CAN) bus—to accelerate translational development from benchtop
testing to human clinical trials.
RESEARCHERS WEAPONIZE EM INJECTION TO EAVESDROP ON HEADPHONES FROM 30
METERS AWAY (4 MINUTE READ) [9]
An attacker beaming a tuned electromagnetic carrier at a device can
exploit the nonlinearity already built into ordinary components like amplifiers, ADCs, and power converters to modulate a device's
low-frequency secret signals onto that carrier, upconverting them into detectable EM emissions that wouldn't otherwise radiate far enough to intercept. By tuning the injection frequency and amplitude, the
resulting InjectEave attack lets an adversary actively shape how much
leakage they get rather than passively waiting for it. The team
demonstrated eavesdropping on audio from both wired and wireless
headphones up to 30 meters away using accessible RF gear.
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MISCELLANEOUS
SKD-1: A LOW-COST OPEN SOURCE SKID-STEER GROUND VEHICLE (2 MINUTE
READ) [10]
The SKD-1 repository provides open-source ROS 2 packages and
configuration files for developing and operating a custom skid-steer
mobile ground vehicle. It includes URDF robot descriptions,
ros2_control hardware interfaces, and Gazebo simulation environments
to support kinematic validation and autonomous navigation.
NHTSA LAUNCHES PROBE INTO TESLA CYBERCAB AS PUBLIC RIDES BEGIN (3
MINUTE READ) [11]
Right as Tesla's steering-wheel-less Cybercab began offering public
commercial rides in Austin, NHTSA opened a formal investigation into
whether the vehicle was properly certified, reviewing the technical
data and compliance procedures Tesla used to self-certify up to 1,000
units under Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The core issue is
hardware: the Cybercab has no steering wheel, pedals, or side-view
mirrors, and automakers building vehicles without manual controls
generally have to petition NHTSA for a regulatory exemption, a path
Amazon's Zoox used successfully in July, but Tesla never filed one,
instead self-certifying SAE Level 4 autonomy in Texas under new state
rules and maintaining the Cybercab isn't subject to the standard
2,500-vehicle exemption cap.
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QUICK LINKS
OPEN SOURCE 3 AXIS MICROMANIPULATOR (2 MINUTE READ) [12]
This Thingiverse project shares a 3D-printable, three-axis manual micromanipulator designed for precise positioning in benchtop
experiments and inspection tasks.
RUNNING FRONTIER LLMS ON NVIDIA'S RTX PRO 6000 BLACKWELL WITHOUT
NVLINK (2 MINUTE READ) [13]
A community-maintained wiki has emerged documenting reproducible
Docker builds, runbooks, and benchmarks for running frontier LLMs like
GLM-5, DeepSeek-V4, and Kimi on Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards
over PCIe alone, without needing NVLink.
GRAVIS ROBOTICS RAISES $200M FOR CONSTRUCTION AUTONOMY (4 MINUTE
READ) [14]
Gravis Robotics secured $200 million in Series A funding to
accelerate the commercial deployment of autonomous retrofit systems
for heavy construction machinery.
REFRAME SYSTEMS RAISES $40M TO SCALE ITS ROBOTIC MICROFACTORIES FOR
HOME BUILDING (4 MINUTE READ) [15]
Boston's Reframe Systems raised $40 million in Series A funding to
expand its network of robotic microfactories that manufacture modular, zero-carbon housing components.
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