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Crypto

Bitcoin miners may miss rewards as pool difficulty adjustment shows flaw

A potential flaw in how mining pools automatically adjust share difficulty could leave Bitcoin miners consuming power while failing to submit enough shares for reward calculations after a sudden drop in hashrate, an analysis said. The issue involves variable difficulty controllers that adjust share difficulty per connection, not the Bitcoin network’s overall mining difficulty. The review outlined a possible weakness and ways to test it, without proving widespread losses.

AI & Enterprise

U.S. to spend $875 million on airspace management; will AI cut flight delays?

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will introduce an AI-based system to forecast air traffic and flight delays, aiming to adjust flight plans before departure to address staffing shortages and ageing infrastructure. The FAA signed a 12-year, $875 million contract with Air Space Intelligence to build SMART software and the supporting FMDS data and services system. Initial operations are planned for the Washington, D.C. area this fall, with broader rollout after performance checks.

Industry

Demand spreads for integrated automotive SoCs combining driving and cockpit functions

Demand is rising for high-performance automotive system-on-chip processors used in domain controllers that handle driver assistance and cockpit functions. As automakers consolidate function-specific electronic control units into domain controllers and central computers, each chip must process more computing workloads. Qualcomm and Nvidia are expanding in a market long led by Renesas and NXP. Korean Tier 1 suppliers are weighing partnerships and in-house chip design as centralised architectures spread.