Hardware

This desk covers chips, boards, and the client devices that sit in a room. A story belongs here when the part is the subject: a process node, a board, a price that moved because memory moved, a device that gained or lost a capability in hardware. Software that merely runs on that device is a software story unless the constraint is the silicon. The desk prefers the primary writeup of the part over a roundup that lists ten gadgets with no measurement.

What Futureweb adds is the short version and, later, the brief. The short version is the sentence that defines the beat for a reader and for an answer engine. It does not quote an outlet. Briefs will be original and indexable. Wire lines will not. That split is the copyright line and the journalism line: we keep a lead, we write our own account when the leads cluster, and we send the reader to the outlet that published the headline.

The ten lines on the rail are the reduced notebook. A lead without a date or without a real description is dropped, even if the title looks finished. Doubled titles, where a feed glued the headline to itself, are dropped. From what remains, the newest lines are taken, two per outlet first, until the rail reaches ten. The date on the line is the feed's date. The words are the outlet's.