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Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does
An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousands of users was found to have zero authentication and security. That means anyone can access its backend and siphon users' data, including names, email addresses, and birthdates. While the issue has since been resolved, it remained open for six months (or longer) with the developers not taking any action.
OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community — left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure
OpenAI tests multiple autonomous AI agents at once and has difficulty identifying the threats each of them represents, if a new report from Reuters is accurate.
'RAM Machine' case probably costs more than the entire build — Nvidia RTX 5060, Core Ultra 5 CPU, and 32GB DDR5-8200 RAM are hiding inside
A Redditor is giving away an RTX 5060 gaming PC that's covered by RAM on the outside and has 32GB of RAM on the inside. You can join the sweepstakes simply by leaving a comment on the post.
Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake's View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%
Thermaltake has a no-brainer deal up on Woot right now where it'll let you have an $1,800 PC for as little as 1,177. For that price, you're getting an RTX 5060 Ti (8GB), a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, and a nice ARGB case.
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion AI partnership — plan to supercharge AI infrastructure with next-gen memory and massive AI factories
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure
Delaware’s Printed Solid rebrands to Prusa USA
Printed Solid, the Delaware-based filament manufacturer acquired by Czech Prusa Research in 2022, is now known as Prusa USA, Inc.
AOC U32G4 32-inch 4K Dual-Refresh gaming monitor review: Solid performance and value
AOC redefines the budget 4K gaming monitor with its U32G4. This 32-inch IPS panel sports 160 Hz, 320 Hz in FHD resolution, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color for around $320.
Microsoft shipped a native Xbox 360 emulator with its new backwards-compatible releases on PC — modders quickly got 360 games running with minor tweaks
Microsoft dropped four OG Xbox titles on PC a couple of days ago and they came with a native Xbox 360 emulator baked in. These games are packaged as Xbox 360 files, to the emulator runs them as such, then another emulator takes over to translate OG Xbox code inside the virtualized 360 environment.
Game Compressor can save you hundreds of GB across your game library — as storage prices remain high, utility leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings
Game Compressor leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.
Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system, shooting down Su-57 in friendly fire incident — Moscow confirms fifth-generation fighter jet crashed in 'technical malfu
An advanced fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jet crashed spectacularly during a routine training mission in the Moscow region on Thursday," say reports published by Russian state media. But some Ukrainian sources are claiming it as successful sabotage.
Lockheed Martin unveils counter-drone system that can ‘neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission’ — sensor-agnostic system uses High Power Microwave to purge enemies from
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a ground-launched high-power microwave counter-drone system which cab 'neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission.'
RAM thieves in China jailed after looting a string of eSport hotels — stole 16 sticks worth $2,000 in 'frenzied hotel room-dismantling'
The rise and fall of a pair of eSports hotel RAM thieves has been retold by Chinese news media.
Nvidia and 24 other companies sign open-weights letter as Washington weighs Chinese AI model ban — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google absent from the list
Signatories include chipmakers, server vendors, cloud operators, enterprise software firms, security companies, and venture funds
Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year
Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.
Geekom A9 Max 2026 review: Gorgon Point in a compact Mini PC
Mini PC specialist Geekom has updated its A9 Max design with AMD's latest mobile silicon. The incremental improvements of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX470 are supported by a revamped Ice Blast 3.0 cooling solution with larger fan and all copper heatpipes in a sleek 0.9L chassis.
OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare — contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse
Contemporary AI bots are far too competent at cybersecurity, and humanity may have reached a tipping point where it's hard to keep up.
Dell 14S review: High-class design and 20+ hour battery life
The Dell 14S makes good on its promise of serving as a cheaper alternative to the pricier XPS 14.
AMD working on new X3D V-cache mobile chip for gaming laptops, leaker claims — Ryzen 7 9800HX3D could launch with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB cache
A fresh leak suggests AMD is preparing an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 mobile processor with 96MB of L3 cache, potentially bringing the desktop Ryzen 7 9800X3D experience to gaming laptops.
Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5
The performance is impressive and it's good to see official support, but the question remains whether you can actually buy any of it.
South Korean memory giants Samsung and SK Hynix are set to announce massive deals with leading U.S. tech firms, report claims — Korean president arrives in Silicon Valley for meetings and high-p
Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to unveil multibillion-dollar memory-chip partnerships with major U.S. technology companies during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco
AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’
Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 Venice' CPUs, as well.
'When will the EA greed end': Fans vent their fury as company announces $150 version of FC 27 — annual game release comes in three editions, but top-tier option is 50% more expensive than GTA VI
EA's FC 27 is available in three options, starting at $69.99 for the base game and going up to $149.99 for the Ultimate Plus Edition. The top-tier option, which costs more than double than the Standard Edition, caused sticker shock for everyone and caught the ire of gamers.
OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days
OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.
President Trump expands AI data center ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to include state governors and utility companies — White House claims this will make electricity more affordable
U.S. President Donald Trump expands the 'ratepayer protection pledge' to include states, utility companies, and data center developers. He claims that the pledge will help electricity costs go down, even as PJM Interconnect, the largest grid operator in the U.S., increased power costs by 75.5% and slapped Maryland with a $2-billion bill for infrastructure upgrades.
45% off: Slashed to just $1,099, this bargain RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop is discounted by $900 at HP — near half-price HyperX Omen 16 is the perfect gaming laptop for heading back to school
Save a massive $900 on HP's HyperX Omen 16 with RTX 5060. The perfect back-to-school gaming laptop is now only $1,099.
Save $460 on this AMD 9800X3D gaming PC with RTX 5080 — get blistering 4K performance for less
Get an RTX 5080 gaming PC with 9800X3D for $2,829 at Newegg.
AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to 'reinvent our industry' paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination
On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.
AMD reveals CPU architecture roadmap through 2028, following Zen 6 'Venice' launch — Zen 7 'Florence' to debut in 2028 alongside diversified product family, confirms Zen 8 'Ravenna' in developme
AMD's Lisa Su shows off the company's roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.
AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake
Countering Intel's recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.
AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center
AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.
AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions
When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.
Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse
A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.
New semiconductor firm breaks cover, backed by $43 million in early-stage funding — TYLsemi aims to deliver custom silicon to customers without breaking the bank
TYLsemi is set to offer pre-validated chiplets, along with custom ASIC design services, and build highly custom multi-tile processors at relatively low costs.
AMD’s 256-core Epyc 9996 ‘Venice’ claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon competition, 20% over Nvidia Vera – Zen 6 comes with up to 1024MB of L3, 16-channel memory, and 5GHz+
After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.
AMD’s Venice-X CPU launches in 2027 with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and 5.15 GHz boost clock – Zen 6 CPU for high-performance computing comes with major pillars of Venice
AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.
Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support
The latest update introduces more realistic CPU and GPU workloads, redesigned multi-core testing, AI-focused benchmarks, larger datasets, and CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs.
AI memory shortage is now increasing the price of cars — GM warns of vast cost increases, BYD hikes driver assistance prices 20%
GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company's costs are expected to increase by $1.5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The move comes as the RAM shortage is affecting the automotive industry, right as cars are requiring more memory and storage due to infotainment and ADAS features.
Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day
The bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers companies earning at least $500 million in annual revenue from a model trained with compute costing more than $100 million.
Inside optical and the battle for scale – how the AI industry is racing to integrate photonic interconnects
With the limitations of copper looming, the industry is transitioning to photonic interconnects to scale data center capabilities. We spoke to experts such as Lightmatter chief executive Nick Harris about the new scale-out paradigm and the battle for control over emerging standards.
Intel and AMD sign long-term server CPU deals with Chinese customers as prices jump over 40%, report claims — agreements purportedly guarantee purchase volumes for about a year without fixing pr
Some customers have discussed commitments running two years or longer, one source told Reuters.
Arctic Senza AI 370 review: Strix Point in a stealthy under-desk fanless design
The Arctic Senza AI 370 is a fanless mini PC designed to mount under your desk. Everyday performance isn't held back by the lack of active cooling, and its soldered dual-channel 32GB LPDDR5X-8000 is appreciated during the RAM shortages. The meager front panel I/O is the only major drawback to the design.
Save 10% on the brand-new Creality Pika 3D scanner — easily scan models and textures for $629
Pre-purchase Creality's portable Pika 3D scanner at a discount. First come, first served: a 10% saving if you act within 19 days.
142 AI data center protests staged in 42 states as public opposition increases — organizers brand 'unaccountable' buildouts as an 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty'
Data center projects are facing increasing opposition from surrounding communities, making consent even far scarcer than the chips and power needed to run these facilities. Any developer planning to construct one must now consider the people living around the proposed site and take account for the months or years needed to approve it, if it even gets the green light.
This astonishing $850 gaming PC contains well over $1,200 worth of parts, including $400 of 32GB DDR5 alone — get a potent Steam Machine rival thanks to this budget Intel Arc desktop
Save $150 on this gaming PC with Intel Core i5 14400F, Intel Arc B580, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
Oregon will start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor — millions accrued over years will go toward state schools
Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.
Grand Theft Auto Multiverse with real-time portals created by ambitious modder — San Andreas, Vice City and GTA III all run simultaneously, with cross-game interactions
A modder by the name of Dryxio has built perhaps the most impressive mod in the history of Grand Theft Auto by combining three different GTA games into one, connected through real-time, fully functional portals.
Framework nearly doubles memory pricing for 32GB, 64GB Laptop 13 Pro overnight — CEO says absorbing LPCAMM2 supplier hikes would put 'our ability to operate at real financial risk'
The company is making adjustments to some existing pre-orders.
Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.
Fortinet becomes Intel 4's first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan's promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node
Intel will design, package, and fabricate Fortinet's sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6) on its Intel 4 node.
Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds
Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC will let gamers play classic Xbox games on PC and handheld.
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