Interesting Engineering

STEP tokamak gets modular fusion reactor core design to reduce downtime, boost maintenance

UK engineers are rethinking the tokamak structure, replacing massive welded hulls with independent, modular rings.
techtimes

AMPERA Unveils First 3D-Printed Thorium Reactor Core: Subcritical Design Targets AI Power

A Florida energy startup pulled the cover off a basketball-sized silicon carbide sphere on July 1, 2026, and claimed a manufacturing milestone that the nuclear industry has been working toward for ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...
PCMag

I Tested 'Wildcat Lake,' Intel's New CPUs for Budget Laptops. Here's the Early Verdict

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Spring AI 2.0 Goes GA, Giving Java Developers a More Mature AI App Stack

Spring AI 2.0 advances the Java framework for generative AI apps with a Spring Boot 4 baseline, cleaner agentic tooling, Model Context Protocol support and vendor-backed integrations including Azure ...