NEW DELHI: Union Budget 2026 moved towards strengthening India’s efforts towards becoming a global manufacturing powerhouse in electronics by announcing a new incentive plan for semiconductor manufacturing, while nearly doubling the outlay under the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme to Rs 40,000 crore.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 1.0 had helped expand India’s semiconductor sector capabilities. “Building on this, we will launch ISM 2.0 to produce equipment and materials, design full-stack Indian IP, and fortify supply chains,” she said, promising fresh funds to attract global fabrication companies, and supply chain players.

A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...