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US | Trump administration considers mandatory pre-release vetting of AI models — Anthropic's Mythos cited as catalyst for policy reversal

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The company that wanted AI regulation under Biden may have gotten its wish, just not on its own terms.

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Intel swipes Qualcomm veteran of 25 years to lead client computing — Alex Katouzian jumps ship to oversee consumer CPUs and physical AI

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Tech companies are increasingly pivoting towards AI

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Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup — Fractile's SRAM architecture reduces need for pricey memory during extreme pricing and shortage crunch

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The Claude developer is exploring a fourth chip supplier alongside Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.

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A suspected YouTube interface bug  spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loop

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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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A suspected YouTube interface bug  spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loop

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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

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We tested supercharging the RTX 5090 in PhysX games using an RTX 5060 as a secondary GPU — SLI may be dead, but how much can dual GPUs boost performance in classic PhysX titles?

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Dialing PhysX back up.

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Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered

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OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project would have restored cloud access to Orca fans.

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Slimline Commodore 64C Ultimate Edition computers go up for pre-order — firm reintroduces the C64’s sleeker 1986-1994 styling across the range

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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification — LX 7G100 GPU joins Nvidia, AMD, and Intel as it crosses the WHQL driver finish line, first Chinese firm to earn certification

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WHQL certification could help put Lisuan Tech’s 6nm GPUs on the map.

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Crucial Taiwan undersea cable severed by old shipwreck — backup microwave communications activated to keep population connected

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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification

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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification

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Chinese GPU maker Cambricon's Q1 revenue hits $423 million as country's homegrown AI chip market accelerates — Chinese chipmakers continue to leech market share from Nvidia

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MetaX also posted strong growth, but remains unprofitable four months after its IPO.

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Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification — LX 7G100 GPU joins Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

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Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered

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Complex that supplies 70% of global critical PCB base targeted in Iranian strike — attack could fracture the already disrupted electronics supply chain

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Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected — 2K Games and Denuvo reportedly retaliate with mandatory 14-day online checks

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Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue — Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave shares all tremble on the news

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Complex that supplies 70% of global critical PCB base targeted in Iranian strike — attack could fracture the already disrupted electronics supply chain

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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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Commodore backs down over FPGA firmware lockdown — firm stops trying to block third-party firmware installs but will stand firm against bricked modded units

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Intel has reportedly cancelled discrete gaming GPUs for the upcoming Xe3P Arc "Celestial" family — gaming GPU remains uncertain even for the next-gen Xe4 "Druid" lineup that lands in 2027

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Intel has reportedly cancelled discrete gaming GPUs for the upcoming Xe3P Arc "Celestial" family — gaming GPU remains uncertain even for the next-gen Xe4 "Druid" lineup that lands in 2027

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Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage'

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The report, which claims that “American ‘black boxes’ failed at zero hour of the attack on Isfahan,” concerns devices that Iran claims either rebooted or dropped offline despite the country having already been disconnected from the global Internet, a fact it says “indicates deep sabotage.”

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Intel CEO says he can 'think of no better partner than Elon Musk' to explore 'unconventional' ways to improve chip manufacturing — TeraFab partnership aims to rethink how chips are made to reduce costs

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CEO Lip-Bu Tan opens up about SpaceX, Tesla, xAI partnership.

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Intel shutters open-source evangelism program and archives key community projects — closures point to significant shift in open-source leadership

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KTC M27T6S 27-inch QHD Mini LED gaming monitor review: Affordable, colorful, and bright

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KTC delivers high brightness and saturated color from the M27T6S.

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US gov't blocks China's largest LED chipmaker's $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds — US blocks acquisition attempt of European firm

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Sanan Optoelectronics, China’s largest LED chipmaker, has abandoned its $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) ruled the deal posed “irresolvable U.S. national security risks,” the South China Morning Post reported.

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Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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US gov't blocks China's largest LED chipmaker's $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds — US blocks acquisition attempt of European firm

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Semiconductors using gallium nitride tech continue to be a red line for CFIUS.

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Taiwan considers TSMC export ban that would prevent manufacturing its newest chip nodes in U.S. — limit exports to two generations behind leading-edge nodes, could slow down U.S. expansion

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Largely maintained for now, it is set to go in the future.

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TSMC begins quietly volume production of 2nm-class chips — first GAA transistor for TSMC claims up to 15% improvement at ISO power

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As planned.

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Chinese chipmakers made record profit in 2025, despite slipping margins — U.S shipments fall 34% as Beijing shores up local chipmaking efforts

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Domestic price competition is eroding profitability even as Beijing hits localization targets.

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Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

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Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

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Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

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40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time

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IBM framed the announcement as American tech fighting back against Japan’s increasing domination of the memory market.

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40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time

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IBM framed the announcement as American tech fighting back against Japan’s increasing domination of the memory market.

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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ‘nearly lost his composure’ when pressed on selling chips to China — ‘You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser’

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The Nvidia boss says that keeping Chinese AI researchers using the American tech stack is a good thing for the U.S.

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Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

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A postcard spy

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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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DB = Dropbox, OD = Onedrive

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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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DB = Dropbox, OD = Onedrive

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Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours

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US lawmakers amend new restrictions on Chinese chipmakers — MATCH Act's blanket restrictions removed from select chipmaking tools

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But they could not legally get these tools anyway.

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Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux

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TSMC warns of Intel Foundry's growing prowess during the company's latest earnings call — 'We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them'

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After all, this is the world’s second-largest foundry.

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Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) review: Big CPU power in a mispriced gaming laptop

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A compact laptop that excels at productivity but stumbles when its gaming ambitions meet reality.

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Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout

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Fixing problems Commodore had “no hand in creating, nor the ability to diagnose… isn’t sustainable,” the company warns.

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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China

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This gave Tehran enhanced satellite imaging capabilities and made it nearly impossible for Israel and the U.S. to target the infrastructure supporting it.

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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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10 petabytes of sensitive data stolen from China's National Supercomputing Center, hackers claim — daring heist would be largest ever China hack, covering 6,000 clients across science, defense, and be

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Intel and Google announce multi-year chip deal — Google will deploy Intel Xeon with custom IPUs for next-gen AI, cloud infrastructure

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X86 is alive and kicking. Did anyone have doubts?

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Intel's promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores — new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the works

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All other Nova Lake SKUs feature only 2 Xe3 cores.

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Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP

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Battle for gaming supremacy

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Espresso Lite 15 Review: An entry-level portable monitor with a splash of color

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The Epresso Lite 15 features something that we don’t see: colorful case options.

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Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

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People are fighting back and winning against these soulless tech giants. Most uplifting news I’ve seen in weeks.

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NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership

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The company allegedly engaged in just about every kind of deceptive business practice possible, and even targeted children.

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New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

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Terahertz waves enable the detection of transistor activity in a chip

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Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots

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Due to rose-tinted retro spectacles, people may have forgotten their frustrations with Clippy.

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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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Two manufacturers commit to keep Blu-ray alive after others quit manufacturing — Verbatim and I-O Data extend Blu-ray supply pledge as manufacturers exit the market

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Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, bypasses become plug-and-play — cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

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Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’

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You will own nothing and be happy about it.

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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

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2026 is set to be l’année de Linux.

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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

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HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours

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The download links for HWMonitor and CPU-Z were redirected to compromised versions of the files.

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AMD reveals $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — first dual-cache X3D CPU is $200 more expensive than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment

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If you can’t develop your own semiconductor prowess, maybe stealing is an option

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Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

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These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.

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Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

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These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption

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More than a dozen shareholders are filing resolutions ahead of this spring’s annual meetings.

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Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support

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BenQ DesignVue PD2770U 4K professional monitor review: A blend of flexibility, control, and precision

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A flexible and capable professional monitor with a 27-inch IPS panel, 4K resolution, and premium build quality.

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Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

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Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice

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Player defeats Darks Souls II using only poop — 42 hits of dung pie defeats the final boss

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The hardest part is finding a way to farm dung pie without using other weapons.

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Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

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Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.

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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa

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Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready

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Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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Iran says it has struck Oracle data center in Dubai, Amazon data center in Bahrain — country has threatened to attack Nvidia, Intel, and others, too

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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million

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Existing licensees are grandfathered.

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Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months

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A Wi-Fi chip that can withstand heavy doses of radiation would give cleanup robots more freedom to move around without worrying about getting tangled in their communications line.

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Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers

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U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.

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Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers

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Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

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Global semiconductor foundry market hit a record $320 billion in 2025 as TSMC pulled further ahead

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TSMC grew 36% while most of the foundry market managed 8%.

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