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Microsoft claims that it has made drastic improvements to the performance of Windows 11 while using 8GB of RAM.

Intel says its next-generation process technology is reaching expected performance and yield maturity.

A Mississippi xAI data center is using eight converted jet engine turbines as a power source despite the known health risks of the carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds they produce.

Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are facing strong demand for memory from AI data centers, prompting manufacturers to prioritize higher-margin server products and high-bandwidth memory. That shift is tightening supplies of conventional DRAM and NAND flash used in smartphones, laptops, and other consumer devices. The squeeze is also affecting smaller manufacturers, with Fairphone reporting that memory now accounts for nearly 60% of the bill of materials for some of its phones

Nvidia has told cloud providers who use its data center products that they must sell less than half of their services to Chinese companies as part of a new policy that will further impact China's ability to keep up with the global AI surge.

Last week, Google released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, topping intelligence rankings charts.

Firm says it has completed the world's first commercial data center deployment of an integrated 800-volt DC power system.

A Chinese research vessel ignored the Philippine coast guard's attempts to move it as it loitered over an undersea cable near its coast as the PRC continues to use civilian vessels as "gray-zone" warfare against potential future adversaries in the region.

Customs authorities only check the performance specifications of a server's processors, allowing smugglers to attach high-end memory chips to low-end processors and ship them into China.

The latest Steam Survey appears to show that gamers blessed with systems packing 32GB or more RAM and 1TB or more storage are a dying breed.

The developer's latest experiment takes Windows 11's hardware requirements to an extreme, managing to retain basic desktop functionality with just 128MB of memory, although the resulting installation is far too slow for everyday use.

Grab a $1,229 saving on this Alienware Area 51 gaming laptop right now with an RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5.

Nick Saraev says Amazon closed his account after canceling Nvidia DGX Spark orders; Tim Sweeney reports canceled orders after a GPU buy.

OpenAI expects AI to become a major issue in the 2028 presidential election and is preparing a policy and public relations push after the U.S. midterm elections. The company is also promoting the term AI compute campuses" for its data centers as it seeks to address concerns over electricity demand, water consumption, pollution and rising utility bills

Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.

President Putin has told non-state Russian data centers that they must set aside 10% of their total capacity for use by the country's own IT infrastructure.

The Raspberry Pi 16GB has gone up in price by $80 to $385. It now costs more than triple its January 2025 launch price.

A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments about data centers in the community across more than 410 local governments, and the consensus is that people don't like them one bit.

Nvidia is investigating a security incident involving its Brev cloud development platform after detecting unauthorized activity between October 4 and October 20. The incident may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer virtual machines. Nvidia has rotated the affected keys and updated customer instances, but says it is unaware of any improper use

Qwenputer is an experimental blend of the stock Qwen 3.5 4B LLM with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled and inserted directly into its weights.

Google's proposed Hermantown data center has cleared a major approval hurdle after the city council unanimously backed the project on October 30.

Russia's Rosstat admitted that its servers were attacked by hackers but denies data leaks which appear to show as many as 50,000 military deaths per month.

Anthropic employee confirms that Claude Code now has orders not to reproduce game IP - company "iterating to ensure [...] the right balance"

This ABS Stratos II Aqua gaming PC has dropped to $2,549.99 at Newegg right now, giving you a rig with a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, a 2TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

Sony may be preparing to abandon the standalone 4K Blu-ray player market after retailers in Japan reportedly stopped expecting new shipments of its final remaining model, the UBP-X700K. The company has not confirmed a worldwide withdrawal, and the player remains listed in the U.S. However, Sony's retreat from other physical media products, alongside exits by Oppo, Samsung, LG, and Reavon, raises further questions about the future of dedicated disc players.

A second cyberattack has struck supermarket freezers across Europe.

Cisco Talos says the VOLTA infostealer sends stolen victim data to Claude Opus 4.6 to rank assets by monetization value.

The lawyers of a plaintiff in a labor case attempted to use prompt injection to influence the court's AI but were caught. They won the case anyway, as the defendant did not respond, making the move totally unnecessary.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with around 50 Samsung executives in South Korea on October 31 to discuss AI's future, business opportunities and the technology's impact on corporate operations. The meeting comes as demand for memory chips grows alongside AI infrastructure spending, putting pressure on global DRAM supplies. Samsung and SK hynix together accounted for approximately 83% of global high-bandwidth memory revenue in the second quarter of 2026, highlighting South Korea's central role in supplying the hardware behind the AI expansion.

An open-source UEFI tool, nv-uefi-unlocker, lifts Nvidia's tensor rate cap on RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs under Windows.

The Plymouth City Council was left with no choice but to physically disconnect the cameras after Flock failed to respond to its demands.