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Le géant américain Boeing a annoncé la prolongation de son partenariat de niveau « Platinum » avec l’Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), organisatrice du célèbre rassemblement aéronautique AirVenture à Oshkosh, dans le Wisconsin. Un engagement renforcé jusqu’en 2029 qui souligne la volonté du constructeur de soutenir la filière aéronautique dans toutes ses dimensions — du loisir au transport […]

The Gophers football team has lacked a reliable big target at wideout, and Auburn transfer Perry Thompson might fill that hole for the 2026 season. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound wideout committed to Minnesota on Monday. “Gopher nation let’s ride,” he wrote on X after visiting the U campus. Thompson had 17 receptions for 154 yards across 12 games in his sophomore season for the Tigers last fall. He had five grabs for 126 yards and one touchdown in 10 games as a true freshman. With two years of eligibility left, Thompson will join the receiver room for new position coach Isaac Fruechte. Minnesota’s No. 1 target, Le’Meke Brockington, was a senior last season, and returning quarterback Drake Lindsey needed more options on top of Jalen Smith and Javon Tracy in 2026. Both of them are smaller receiver types than Thompson. Thompson, a composite four-star recruit out of Foley, Ala., was considered a top 30 receiver in the transfer portal class, per On3.com. He entered the portal a few days after new Tigers head coach Alex Golesh took over at the SEC program. Thompson was the sixth overall commitment to the U this week. Related Articles Gophers win recruiting battle over Iowa for Division II defensive back Gophers add stout Marshall defensive tackle transfer Naquan Crowder Gophers add Eastern Michigan linebacker transfer Andrew Marshall Gophers add massive Tennessee lineman transfer Bennett Warren Shipley: Gophers can’t spin Koi Perich’s decision to enter portal

If you’re an old-timer in the personal computer world, you probably remember form factors like the Commodore 64, which shoved an entire PC (sans monitor) under the keyboard. This form factor has been attempted a few times, most recently by Raspberry Pi. But HP thinks it’s time for a more full-power revitalization. Enter the “EliteBoard.” HP This unassuming keyboard with a number pad is hiding full laptop guts inside. And no slouch of a laptop, either: Up to an AMD Ryzen AI 350, complete with RAM, storage, wireless, external ports, and—on the more interesting model—a battery. (A wired-power version of the EliteBoard G1A replaces one USB-C port with a permanently affixed cable.) That means that not only is this thing using laptop ports, it can effectively work as one, if you can add a USB-powered monitor and perhaps a mouse. Why carry all that gear instead of, well, a laptop? HP says it’s designed for hybrid workers who constantly travel between their home office and a corporate office, the idea being that you can go from dock to dock without any issue. A laptop would certainly be more capable if you’re constantly working from the road, but this keyboard-only design is lighter and more bag-friendly, at only 1.7 pounds (768 grams). Michael Crider / Foundry Handling the device, you can’t immediately tell it’s more than just a keyboard, even if it’s a chunky one given the low-profile keys. The only clues are two USB-C ports (just one on the model with the permanent power cable and no battery) and both intake and exhaust for the fans. HP representatives told me that because this device is intended for corporate employees, both the RAM (DDR5, up to 64GB) and storage (gen4, 2TB maximum) are user-replaceable. I asked to see inside. They said no. If there’s one thing that’s disappointing about the design, it’s that the keyboard itself is rather uninspiring. It looks like something right off a laptop, not bad, but its scissor mechanism over a membrane is pretty tame compared to even a basic mechanical board, like the Raspberry Pi 500. You can at least swap out the keyboard part of the design if it needs a repair, something IT managers will probably be happy to hear. HP It’s an intriguing design, certainly. I’d be interested to see how many orders HP gets from customers like hotels or schools, that can make use of a device like this with no display. I would guess that HP is hesitant here, testing the waters before jumping into a relatively niche form factor. But even so, I’d love to see it offered as a consumer model, perhaps even bundled with a USB screen for those times you just have to get some untethered work done.

AMD is using CES 2026 as a launch vehicle to add several of its popular Ryzen AI Max+ and Ryzen 9000 X3D processors to its stack, but the real story might be the performance improvements AMD is claiming as part of its updated ROCm software instead. AMD is adding two processors to its Ryzen AI Max+ series: the Ryzen AI Max+ 392, and the Ryzen AI Max+ 388. It is also tucking the Ryzen 7 9850X3D inside its matrix of Ryzen 9000 X3D gaming processors, hopefully adding a more affordable alternative. AMD did not disclose any of the prices of its new processors, however. A year ago, AMD launched the Ryzen AI Max+ (Strix Halo) chip, a unique combination of a massive amount of level-3 SRAM cache for running LLM workloads locally, combined with a robust graphics engine for gaming and AI work, and an NPU to boot. Ryzen AI Max+ chips debuted in both laptops and tablets as well as mini PCs like the Framework Desktop, where the chip shone. AMD might score more design wins with its Ryzen AI 300 series of laptop chips, but the Ryzen AI Max lineup attracted Acer, Asus, HP, and Lenovo, among others. AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max+ chips offer more powerful alternatives, sticking with the processor’s 60 AI TOPS and offering the same 40 graphics CUs as the existing top-of-the-line Ryzen AI Max+ 395. Note that AMD hasn’t disclosed prices on these new chips. The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D improves upon the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, however, which costs $479 from AMD directly. While the existing 9800X3D offers a max boost of just 5.2GHz, the 9850X3D bumps that up to 5.6GHz, which is more in line with the other Ryzen 9000 X3D processors at the top of AMD’s stack. Although some believed that AMD might launch a Ryzen 9000 X3D2 at CES, with cache populating both CCDs, AMD doesn’t appear to have done so. AMD said that it believes that the 9850X3D will outperform the competing Intel Core Ultra 9 285K by an average of about 27 percent across multiple games, ranging from Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (a 5 percent boost) on up to Baldur’s Gate 3 (a 60 percent increase.) AMD’s Ryzen 9000 X3D processors have been critical to AMD’s continued market-share increases on the desktop, and a string of profitable quarters. Under the hood, however, lies AMD’s ROCm software, the open-source software stack that developers can use to address AMD GPUs and CPUs. AMD has said previously that it neglected ROCm while its competitors used it to eke out performance gains. Now, AMD has made ROCm a priority, and it’s paid off: AMD released ROCm 6.4 in February 2024, and ROCm 7.1 this past October. Between the two, AMD measured up to a 5X improvement in AI image and video generation: 2.6X faster in SDXL, 5.2X faster in Flux S, and 5.4X faster in Wan 14b, executives said. Users can easily add the updated ROCm support by downloading and updating AMD’s Adrenalin Edition software, the company said. ROCm now is integrated within the ComfyUI stack, and now supports the Ryzen AI 400 chip, AMD’s next-generation mobile processor that was also announced at CES 2026.

By BRUCE SCHREINER President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president’s backing. Related Articles Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO Cuba faces uncertain future after US topples Venezuelan leader Maduro FACT FOCUS: Fabricated and misrepresented images shared widely online after US removal of Maduro Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians Massie, showing his non-interventionist leanings, fired off a series of social media posts criticizing the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and removed him from the South American country. “Wake up MAGA,” Massie wrote. “VENEZUELA is not about drugs; it’s about OIL and REGIME CHANGE. This is not what we voted for.” The congressman claimed that Trump wrongly circumvented Congress when ordering the attack. “In the Constitution, the Founders vested war making power in Congress, not the Executive branch,” he wrote. Gallrein responded that Massie had “shown his true colors” by criticizing the military operation. “This operation sends a clear message: the United States will not allow rogue regimes to enable criminal networks or use oil and other resources to fuel our global adversaries,” Gallrein said on social media. “Holding bad actors accountable is how we restore law and order, deter aggression, and protect American families.” Gallrein added that American intervention “opens the door to a new chapter for the people of Venezuela — one defined not by decades of oppression, but by the possibility of peace and prosperity.” He is Trump’s choice to challenge Massie, a maverick who has had an up-and-down relationship with Trump. The primary election in May will test Trump’s hold over Republican politics. The sudden emergence of Venezuela as an issue will test the president’s ability to hold together his coalition during a challenging election year for Republicans that could be defined by domestic concerns like health care and affordability. The libertarian-leaning Massie has won reelection by lopsided margins since entering Congress in 2012 — even when he incurred Trump’s wrath. The military action in Venezuela is the latest example of Massie standing up to Trump. The congressman opposed the massive tax breaks and spending cuts package last year that Trump calls “beautiful” but Massie says will grow the national debt and hurt the economy. Massie said the president lacked authority to attack Iran’s nuclear sites without congressional approval. And Massie was at the forefront of efforts to force the public release of case files on the sex trafficking probe into the late Jeffrey Epstein. In his bid to unseat the congressman, Gallrein has the president’s vaunted political operation on his side, and a super PAC launched by Trump aides has run ads attacking Massie. But he will confront an entrenched, well-funded incumbent in Massie. Trump on Monday reiterated his support for Gallrein on his social media platform and urged other Republicans to stay out of the May primary. “I have heard that there are other Candidates exploring a run for this seat, but I am asking all MAGA Warriors to rally behind Captain Ed Gallrein, the Candidate who is, far and away, best positioned to DEFEAT Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the beautiful Commonwealth of Kentucky,” Trump said. So far, at least two Democrats have filed to run for the congressional seat stretching across northern Kentucky, along with a third Republican besides Massie and Gallrein. The eventual Republican nominee will be heavily favored in a district last represented by a Democrat two decades ago.