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Updated 2026-08-19 20:00
Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes
Samsung raised prices on new orders across its 4nm, 5nm, and 8nm foundry processes in July, with increases reaching 15% for customers in China.
China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent build
Chinese tech giants are putting up data centers in rural Chinese provinces with zero resistance. The abundance of land and energy in these areas allowed infrastructure to easily be built with limited issues, although some experts still question how much development they can bring to these areas.
Qualcomm retracts select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after publication — updated slide removes idle apps and web browsing results
Qualcomm has issued an updated slide for its Snapdragon C power efficiency claims, removing two benchmarks from the results.
You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.
Hacker leaks GTA VI gameplay and map to protest digital-only release — claims pre-orders are a legacy of physical game releases
Hacker Cyberleek leaked gameplay clips and the entire map of GTA VI in protest of Rockstar's decision to launch pre-orders of a digital game. They claim that pre-orders were created because physical discs could run out at retailers, meaning gamers will pay more to ensure they have a copy on launch day. But because digital copies cannot sell out, there is no need for a pre-order system.
Google to stop making Pixel devices in China, report claims — India and Vietnam prime candidates for manufacturing shift owing to Beijing-Washington tensions
To reduce reliance on China, Google plans to relocate production of Pixel smartphones, smartwatches, and headsets from China to India and Vietnam.
Comcast turns Xfinity routers into home motion detectors — free Wi-Fi sensing feature tracks RF interference with zero extra hardware required
To appease concerns about privacy, Wi-Fi Motion is opt-in
Samsung's fab roadmaps examined — Taylor, Pyeongtaek, and the yield woes behind a $16.5 billion Tesla deal
Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung's fab roadmap runs from the Korean bases at Pyeongtaek, Hwaseong, and Giheung to the new U.S. site at Taylor.
Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
Two indie brands join together in a viral ad campaign asking people to pee on computers. Taylor Swift's brother-in-law, Jason Kelce, who co-owns one of the brands, stars in this humorous ad where he pees in a bottle and carries it to a post office to send to his AI data center of choice.
Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
An AI-themed bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing's rare earth export curbs
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.
Snag AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X3D with 16GB of RAM, motherboard, and a cooler for just $609 — save $124 on a B650 ATX board and Corsair Vengeance RAM for a new gaming build
Newegg's combo deal pairs the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard, and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $609.99, plus a free 240mm AIO-an affordable way into AM5 amid the RAMpocalypse.
MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country's AI windfall 'can be shared by all,' 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge
Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island's residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.
First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can't power them
Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.
$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 15
id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.
Cut the stress out of PC building with this $500 discount on this RX 9060 XT 16GB desktop — Intel Core Ultra 9 285 build also features 32GB of DDR5, 2TB SSD
Get an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 PC with an RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU for just $1,849.
Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for 'obscure' Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github
A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.
Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work
Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks' available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.
White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions
Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies list for the first time since February 2024.
GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound
A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines class
The DC Circuit reversed one of four findings, ruling that a lower court upheld a fully redacted justification without reading the classified record behind it.
Start your 3D printing journey with Bambu Labs' awesome P1S printer and AMS color-printing module bundle for the all-time low price of $499 in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary Sale
Step into 3D printing with Bambu Lab's P1S and AMS combo bundle for $499. Back on sale at its lowest-ever price point.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC'
Nova Lake desktop CPUs look to be the exclusive recipient of bLLC, Intel's answer to AMD's X3D, as the company looks to debut bLLC on mobile with Razor Lake-HX, and possibly Razor Lake-AX. As such, the Razor Lake family is also rumored to be manufactured on TSCM's N2X process node.
AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.
Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM 32-inch OLED gaming monitor review: A flagship display with premium performance and imagery
Asus delivers another flagship OLED with the ROG Swift PG32UCWM. It pulls out all the stops with a 32-inch Tandem RGB Stripe panel, 4K resolution, 240 Hz with 480 Hz/FHD dual mode, HDR10, Dolby Vision, Adaptive-Sync and wide gamut color.
Adata XPG Novakey RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — Turning salvage into pure performance
Amid the memory crunch, Adata unleashes its new XPG Novakey RGB memory kit series. But can the new lineup convince consumers to pick it up?
How to choose a new motherboard without overpaying — scoping out the features you need, and what you might never use as component costs soar
How much motherboard is too much? We look at what you actually get as prices climb - from VRMs and connectivity to premium features and diminishing returns.
Overclocker updates Hydra overclocking tool with VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs — new update gives up to +3000 MHz memory offset
Overclocker 1usmus has released a new update for their Hydra overclocking tool that features VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs.
China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD
China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.
GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more
One man's trash is another's treasure, and GameStop just paid out over $10,000 for hundreds of broken consoles.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymize
A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines' treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.
Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity
A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.
Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale
Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.
Best Buy has slashed $1,350 off this 'outstanding' OLED RTX 5080 laptop — 16-inch Lenovo Legion Pro 7i features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM
Get $1,350 off this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i with RTX 5080.
Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does
404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.
China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns
China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.
Firm test-fires 3D-printed, fully cryogenic reusable rocket engine — Indian startup leverages SLM printing to create its first working prototype
Othisis, an Indian startup that's only been in business for two years, has demonstrated a fully 3D-printed, reusable rocket engine.
Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX
CMP Unlocker enables previously disabled VRAM on Nvidia's five-year-old CMP 170HX cryptocurrency mining graphics card.
Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32GB RAM of RAM despite selling it as a 64GB configuration
A Redditor claims that Best Buy repaired' a blue screen-afflicted under-warranty laptop by simply removing one of its two SODIMMs, and when it passed tests simply sent it back with half the memory installed.
Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs — company responds with guidance, removes malicious package
Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini-PCs - maker requests takedown of report on the situation
Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Ki
Alibaba has agreed to sell its game development unit, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, according to an internal staff memo.
Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under
There's light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS after a judge has cleared the way for it to retrieve archival data and programming from Iron Mountain.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
America's largest grid wants to cut power to new data centers first during shortages — 50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs
PJM Interconnection has asked federal regulators to approve rules that would cut power to new data centers ahead of households during supply shortages.
Asus ROG Edition 20 gaming PC build – A pretty powerhouse PC that next to no one can afford
What's it like to build a PC with some of the most expensive components on the market? Asus sent us its ROG 20th anniversary components so we could find out for ourselves.
Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000
Intel's best Battlemage GPU is now even more expensive due to its large 32GB memory pool that's very useful for AI workloads.
GoldenEye 007 for N64 has been '100% decompiled' — success of half-decade project opens up possibilities for complex mods and ports
A reverse engineering and retro gaming enthusiast has finally succeeded in their goal of decompiling GoldenEye 007, the monumental James Bond adventure shooter from Rare.
Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among
Cherokee Nation, with more than 475,000 citizens, has banned hyperscale data center development on its tribally owned and trust lands.
AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for near
A new CIC forecast projects that the data center optical interconnect market will grow from $13.7 billion in 2024 to $144.4 billion by 2030, with silicon photonics accounting for 63.7% of revenue.
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