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SK hynix to place custom tiny CPU cores in its SSD controllers to ease Arm load as drive speeds rocket
SK hynix detailed H-TPU, tiny in-house cores that offload routine I/O from the Arm CPUs in its next enterprise SSD controllers.
PS5 homebrew storefront with over 1,600 free PS5 and PS4 games taken down by Sony
Over 1,600 PS4 and PS5 games have been made free on jailbroken PS5 units thanks to Overdrive. The homebrew was quickly shut down after going viral, but was quickly revived through forks and re-releases under new accounts.
SpaceX limits Starlink service for Ukraine’s high-speed military drones without prior warning
Ukrainian officials say SpaceX imposed new speed restrictions on military-grade Starlink terminals without warning, disrupting drone and logistics missions and forcing some operations to be canceled
Analyzing Intel's EMIB and Foveros advanced packaging roadmaps
Intel was the first large chipmaker to start using advanced packaging methods in 2017 - 2019. But where are Intel's EMIB and Foveros technologies today and where are they heading?
Elon Musk's Terafab will reportedly receive its first EUV tool from ASML in mid-2027
Elon Musk may prefer FEL light sources for in-house chip production, but Terafab will start with proven tech from ASML.
Qualcomm wins architecture breach verdict against Arm but gets just $2
A federal jury sides with Arm on select issues, rules in favor of Qualcomm in other cases. The legal battle set to continue.
Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting $14 recording device in company office
An OpenAI engineer has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications and is facing up to five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine.
AI sector wipeout risks global financial contagion, IMF report warns
The International Monetary Fund has produced a report examining how financing for the global AI buildout could result in contagion should the industry fail to produce its promised profits.
Offset extortionate memory pricing with 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM for $151 with this 9800X3D bundle
Offset high memory and storage prices with a combo deal from Newegg.
Apple researchers turn idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud with ‘Minions’
Apple researchers describe Minions, an internal system that runs AI inference jobs on idle Apple Silicon Macs when GPUs are scarce.
After a $93 million crypto hardware-wallet supply chain attack, Ledger to review sales and anti-tamper policies
Ledger is reviewing chain-of-custody practices and anti-tamper protections after modified hardware wallets sold through a third party were allegedly fitted with LTE implants that captured recovery phrases and enabled $93 million in crypto theft.
Nvidia GPU prices spike in Japan; prices up to 41% higher than Amazon US
A Japanese retailer has increased the prices of RTX 50-series GPUs between 12.71% and 41.10%, with the mainstream models bearing the brunt of the price increases.
32GB of DDR5 6000 RAM now costs $450
32GB of DDR5 6000 RAM now costs $450, as supply for consumer DIMMs remains constrained.
Modder injects leaked DLSS 5 4x Multipass on 1996 Quake
Ukrainian modder puts DLSS 5 over the original Quake, and the results are not impressive compared to the RTX Quake mod.
GTA 6 could come to PC as early as Q1 2027, leak claims
GTA 6, the biggest release of the year, will be console-only at launch, with a PC launch now expected within the first three months of 2027.
Framework Laptop 12 (Wildcat Lake) review: Growing up amid an unprecedented shortage
The Framework Laptop 12 gets an infusion of 18A with Intel's Wildcat Lake, but the poor display performance is a tough sell when prices often reach above $1,000.
Chinese AI companies buy 1 million Nvidia GPUs in a single year, report claims
A new report has revealed China may have bought up 1 million Nvidia GPUs for AI this year.
Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI worm threat that doesn't need data centers to self-improve and spread
Anthropic's paper establishes conceptual model capabilities, but doesn't quite demonstrate a real threat until models improve further.
Hacker claims ‘123456’ password let them breach the Danish national registry, accessing 8.8 million records
The Danish Central Register of Persons (CPF) was breached through the account of an IT and data services business. The hacker claimed that one of the breached accounts was only protected by a '123456' password.
Nvidia doubles DLSS 5 performance, reduces 4K VRAM usage by 20% with latest model
Nvidia has announced that DLSS 5 is now two times faster while using less VRAM.
AI causes uproar in mathematics as experts warn against sharing research with LLMs after OpenAI shares 722 manuscripts and proofs
Last week, OpenAI shared over 400 results for longstanding mathematical formulas that have troubled humans for decades; now researchers say it could take years for humans to validate and prove all the AI-driven work
Epic Games reportedly delays Disney shooter title so it can pivot to AI coding
Developers working on an unnamed Disney shooter title for Epic Games were surprised when they were ordered to use as much AI as possible in their workflows.
Save $1440 when you go for this 4K gaming rig with a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM and a 4TB SSD
Pick up a prebuilt desktop gaming and video editing PC with 64GB of memory and a large 4TB SSD and save $1440
CXMT president says company’s first 4F² DRAM will be a server DDR5 RDIMM due by year-end
CXMT president Cao Kanyu says the company's first 4F^2 DRAM product will be a DDR5 RDIMM for servers, expected by the end of 2026.
Store-bought hardware crypto wallets had secret chips installed that enabled stealing crypto recovery phrases
Store-bought Ledger hardware crypto wallets in Southeast Asia and Europe compromised in ongoing supply chain attack - $71 million and counting thanks to implanted eSIM and LTE modules
Get an RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop for just $1,449
Get $700 off an RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop.
Nintendo stands by physical games as Sony embraces a digital-only future
Bill van Zyll, VP and General Manager for Nintendo in Latin America, has confirmed that Nintendo has no plans to ditch physical media.
Intel's Crescent Island AI accelerator officially powers new GPU D-Series products
Intel's Crescent Island AI inference accelerator will come to market as the GPU D-Series family, promising 1.3 PFLOPS of FP8 compute alongside up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X delivering 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Bambu Lab officially teases its first 3D scanner
Bambu Lab teased its S1 3D scanner, and FCC filings hint at what Bambu Lab is keeping a secret right now.
Jev-like decision models are flooding the AI market, after researcher claims TypeSafe copied their research
Jev and the flood of AI decision models - TypeSafe allegedly copied researcher's architecture but got copied itself
Meet the modders porting ringfenced DLSS features to older GPUs
DLSS Multi-Frame Generation and DLSS 5 Neural Rendering can now run on hardware never intended for it, at least according to Nvidia. Now, two of the modders foundational to the release of these community advancements speak out.
Developer uses Claude to enable Xbox Cloud Gaming on jailbroken PS5s
RafaelNGP released a native Xbox Game Pass app allowing Xbox Cloud Gaming on the PS5, with support for 4 controllers and 4K upscaling on the PS5 GPU.
GlobalFoundries unveils 7nm-class FDX Fusion node — comes 7 years after firm abandoned FinFET
GlobalFoundries returns to advanced FD-SOI development with 7nm-class FDX Fusion process - production planned for 2028.
Intel to phase out SGX after Xeon Diamond Rapids in favor of TDX
Intel set to discontinue SGX after Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' and focus on expanding TDX capabilities to meet emerging security requirements of cloud computing, enterprise workloads, and agentic AI.
Diamond-infused watercooling coldplates for 2,300W Nvidia Rubin drop temps by up to 22C
A bespoke coldplate for custom designed AI servers: Frore's LiquidJet Diamond.
Gigabyte GO27Q24G 27-inch OLED 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Tremendous bang for the buck
Gigabyte delivers extreme brightness and performance at a low price with its GO27Q24G. This 27-inch OLED panel boasts HDR peaks of 1,300 nits, wide gamut color, QHD resolution, 240 Hz and Adaptive-Sync.
AMD debuts Helion reference design for agentic AI servers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 ‘Venice’ cores
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores.
TrendForce expects declining global laptop shipments to slow manufacturing exodus from China
Higher component costs could force laptop makers to raise retail prices or accept lower profit margins as consumer demand weakens in 2027.
Vibecoder mods Minecraft inside GTA V running natively on an iPhone
C22's native port of GTA V on iOS/MacOS gets modded with Minecraft, and you can fly the Ender Dragon around.
Coder creates NvidiaWatch tracker site that monitors hundreds of GPU driver bugs
independent-arg built this labor of love for the Nvidia community.
'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.
Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory
A customer paid approximately $350 for what appeared to be a repairable RTX 4090, only to receive a fake GPU with components that were painstakingly designed to resemble the real thing.
Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's source code
Maurice Heumann's Claude and Codex agents rebuilt Modern Warfare 2's source; 83% of functions match the original byte for byte.
Walmart has slashed $750 off this RTX 5060 gaming laptop, now 40% cheaper
Save $750 on this HyperX Omen 15-inch laptop.
Upgrade to OLED with this $384 deal on Asus' 27-inch Republic of Gamers WOLED gaming monitor
Save 36% on the 27-inch Asus ROG WOLED gaming monitor at Amazon.
Redditor unknowingly buys stolen rental PC, and it gets remotely blocked by rental firm
Fragile, NZXT's PC rental partner, helped a Redditor who got scammed into buying a "stolen" computer that eventually got blocked by replacing it with a new one.
Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB
A Reddit user bought a nine-GPU Nvidia P106-100 mining rig with 54GB of VRAM for $35 and ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on it locally.
Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%
PlayStation sales dropped by 25% YTD compared to last year, while Xbox contracted by 33%, marking the biggest decline in retail sales over the past decade.
Cyberleek threatens full GTA 6 build leak unless Take-Two apologizes and his $30 million crypto memecoin goal is met
Notorious GTA VI leaker Cyberleek is threatening to release a full build of GTA VI if Take-Two doesn't release a physical build, but only if its memecoin hits $30 million.
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