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Updated 2026-04-11 04:00
Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider program — fewer channels, and switching without wiping your device
Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features.
HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours
Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.
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’
Framework founder Nirav Patel said that the personal computing industry is facing a massive change as big companies are forcing it to move towards a subscription-based model. Still, he vows to continue making hardware that will enable the personal ownership of computation.
French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country's DINUM announced its exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system."
Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
Anthropic has convened America's big tech companies and the U.S. government to deal with the many bugs and vulnerabilities its new AI found, but this may be just the latest attempt by Anthropic to scare people into thinking its AI is the solution to its own discovered problems.
Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%
Vdura has materially revised the enterprise SSD pricing figures in its Flash Volatility Index, telling customers in an April 8 update that the cost of a 30TB TLC enterprise drive climbed 472%.
Score the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and an Asus X870E gaming motherboard for under $990 in this epic Newegg bundle — $200 saving brings the RAM cost down to just $196, with
This seriously good Newegg combo deal combines the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and an Asus TUF Gaming X870E motherboard for just $989.98, bringing the cost of the RAM down to a just $196 and saving you over $200 as a result.
Get 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for $101 - Newegg combo bundle also contains MSI's flagship X870E Godlike motherboard and AMD Ryzen 9800X3D for only $1,624.98
Score a high-end AM5 bundle at Newegg: Ryzen 7 9800X3D, MSI X870E Godlike, and 32GB DDR5-6400 for $1,624.98-nearly $300 off. Includes a free MSI 240mm AIO and Crimson Desert, making this a top-tier premium PC deal.
30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future
Lexar toured us around its R&D labs and production facilities to see how it's building storage solutions for today and tomorrow.
Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W power supply review: A competent entry-level choice
The Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W is a budget unit that punches above its class topologically, though compromised active components and an 85C bulk capacitor keep it from being anything more than a competent entry-level choice.
Beef up your gaming rig with this 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT for just $419 — save $50 on this 1440p champion
PowerColor's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB graphics cards receive a hefty $50 discount at both Newegg and Amazon.
Embattled streamer goes viral after playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS — ‘i5-8300H and a 1050ti with 4GB’ setup takes 12 hours to play through the first chapter, would make the g
Prolific Danish YouTuber Mongo TV recently went viral, with his video series showing him enjoying' RDR2 at a glacial 4 FPS.
Silverstone IceMyst Pro 360 Pro Review: Designed for RAM overclocking
Silverstone's IceMyst Pro 360 is a unique AIO that's designed for RAM overclocking. This review is tested with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU.
After jumping 2,200% over the last twelve months, DDR4 spot prices fall 5%, the first decline in nearly a year — DDR5 pricing sees some relief in China channel market
DDR4 16Gb spot prices fell about 5% over the past month to roughly $74.10, ending nearly a year of consecutive monthly gains.
US cybersecurity agency issues an urgent alert as Iranian hackers attack critical infrastructure — CISA guidance warns organizations to immediately shield certain programmable logic controllers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in conjunction with the FBI and NSA, have issued an alert that Iranian-affiliated cyber attacks are threatening critical infrastructure, exploiting programmable logic controllers made by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley to gain access.
Newbie overclocker destroys $5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU they used 'to learn how to solder' — practicing newfound hobby goes wrong in the most expensive way imaginable
An MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z owner sent their $5,000 GPU for repair after damaging it while "practicing" soldering a resistor on the board.
Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette
An engineer and software developer was able to make a 3.5-inch floppy drive work seamlessly with the Tesla with just a USB-to-FDD converter.
Ambitious hacker reduces worst-case memory latency by up to 93%, but with severe downsides — 1960s bottleneck overcome by hedging memory accesses to avoid running into DRAM refresh stalls
The clever software trick works on both x86 and Arm to radically reduce worst-case memory latency, but it has severe limitations, too.
Intel Arc GPUs can finally boot up and play 'Crimson Desert' — but you'll probably want to wait for official support
Intel's latest GPU driver is capable of booting Crimson Desert and can reportedly run at nearly 60 FPS at ultra settings on an Arc B580. But the game suffers from occasional crashing and visual artifacts.
Fueled by Musk's TeraFab tie-in, Intel's market cap hits highest level in 25 years — tops $300 billion on CPU, AI, and foundry momentum
Intel tops $300 billion, its highest market capitalization in 25 years on AI, CPU, and foundry announcements momentum.
Geekbench 6.7 adds Intel BOT detection to spoof out 'unrealistic' CPU scores — Benchmark runs with BOT enabled will be marked as invalid
Geekbench 6.7 comes with Intel BOT detection to ensure any runs using it are flagged. The developer argues BOT gives unrealistic performance bumps to select workloads that don't represent real-world performance.
Alleged images of the long-awaited Nvidia N1/N1X SoC surface on laptop motherboard — board features 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory alongside 8+6+2 phase VRM
Nvidia's N1 SoC leaks yet again, but this time in the flesh, with potentially a laptop motherboard featuring the long-rumored chip. It was spotted on sale on a Chinese marketplace for roughly $1,400. The pictures show the PCB rocking 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, robust power delivery, and a decent I/O selection.
Intel and Google announce multi-year chip deal — Google will deploy Intel Xeon with custom IPUs for next-gen AI, cloud infrastructure
Although Google now has its own Arm-based Axion CPUs, Intel's Xeon processors with custom IPUs will continue to be used for AI and other demanding workloads in Google's data centers for years.
Intel's EMIB-T packaging technology set for fab rollout this year — as TSMC CoWoS capacity remains limited,EMIB-T is preparing for advanced AI accelerator designs
If these billions per year" in deals close, it'd mark quite the turnaround for Intel Foundry, which generated just $307 million in external revenue last year.
Bryson DeChambeau to use 3D-printed 5-iron at 2026 Masters in golfing first — club he fabricated himself 'finally ready' to face Augusta
Bryson DeChambeau will use a 3D-printed 5-iron at the Masters this weekend.
UK navy tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, damage would 'have serious consequences,' Putin warned — US and allies expand seabed protection efforts
A Royal Navy warship and P8 maritime patrol aircraft have tracked three Russian submarines, including two Gugi-class deep-sea vessels, attempting to survey undersea cables and pipelines.
Build a $5,000 AM5 gaming PC for just $2,771 with this Newegg combo deal — 9800X3D and RTX 5070 also come with 128GB of DDR5 RAM, 4TB SSD, X870E motherboard, and AIO cooler
Build a gaming PC worth $5,019 for just $2,771.98 in this epic Newegg combo deal with a 9800X3D, a whopping 128GB of DDR5 RAM, an MSI X870E motherboard, and a RTX 5070, along with a free 4TB SSD, MSI MAG liquid cooler, and three free games, saving you over $2,247 in total.
Intel developing two-lever retention mechanism for LGA 1954 socket, according to new leak — Premium Nova Lake-S motherboards will feature 2L-ILM sockets
Some high-end motherboards for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors have been tipped to include a dual-lever retention mechanism called "2L-ILM." We've seen something similar before with LGA 2011, but that a server platform. Boards with 2L-ILM will live alongside standard ILM (1L-ILM?) variants that are cheaper to produce.
Acer Predator X27 X1 27-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Blending performance and value
Acer delivers a solid value with the Predator X27 X1. It's a 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor with 4K resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400, and wide gamut color. It delivers high speed and saturated color in equal measure.
Under $30, GameSir's Super Nova wireless controller has an unbelievable 40% slashed off the price in this limited-time offer — includes stick drift eliminating Hall Effect thumbsticks and switch
A fully loaded wireless gaming controller from GameSir for under $30.
Korean government to take action over soaring DRAM costs, including monitoring markets and pricing — internet data plans to be restructured and recycled PCs to be distributed to vulnerable group
South Korea is taking government action to reduce the pressure of the DRAM and NAND crisis on its population.
Go maintainer joins collective klaxon about encryption-breaking quantum computers — developer urges immediate switch to post-quantum methods to prevent worldwide disaster
Go maintainer joins collective klaxon about encryption-breaking quantum computers and urges immediate switch to post-quantum methods to prevent disaster.
Steam files suggest Valve is developing internal'SteamGPT' AI bot — aimed at tackling customer support tickets and CS2 anti-cheat
Leaked Steam files show that Valve is developing a "SteamGPT" AI bot that will help its employees with customer support and anti-cheat in CS2.
$21 billion stolen from more than 1 million Americans due to cybercrime in 2025 — $11 billion come from stolen crypto, $8.6 billion taken from investment scams, while AI-related attacks cost $89
The FBI breaks down the $21 billion lost by over a million Americans through online scams, with more than half involving cryptocurrency.
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,
Hacker or hacker group steals secret data concerning aerospace engineering, bioinformatics, fusion modeling from China's National Supercomputing Center.
Intel and SambaNova team up on heterogenous AI inference platform — different hardware performs different workloads
Intel and SambaNova announce heterogeneous inference platform that can take advantage of Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, SambaNova SN50 RDUs, and Nvidia GPUs.
PCI Express roadmap: The path to 1TB/s with PCI 8.0, the challenges of integration, and beyond
We take a deep-dive into the past, present, and future of the ubiquitous PCIe standard, and look ahead at the challenges that await manufacturers when integrating PCIe 6.0 and beyond into real-world hardware.
AMD reveals $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — first dual-cache X3D CPU is $200 more expensive than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D
AMD revealed its upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 will launch for $899 on April 22, which marks a $200 price increase over the previous Ryzen 9 9950X3D.
Bain Capital's data center unit removes disgraced tenant suspected of smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China — Megaspeed previously alleged to have spent roughly $2 billion on AI processors for illicit
Megaspeed gets final nail in its coffin after Bridge Data Centers cancels its tenancy and replaces it with U.S.-based Zenplayer.
British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report — Back refutes investigation, says parallels to Satoshi are just a coincidence
The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto has circled back to a likely candidate, Adam Back, thanks to a New York Times article that draws striking parallels between the two. Back denies being Satoshi, saying it's all just a coincidence and confirmation bias on behalf of the reporter. The 40-page-long investigation goes over decades of evidence to try to prove otherwise.
Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI
Many of these job cuts are blamed on AI, but some experts say that it's actually caused by bad business decisions or corporate pivots. Still, they do not discount the disruption that AI will have on the job market, even as some companies buck the trend and hire more junior roles.
Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is the cheapest Windows-based PC gaming handheld you can get right now, but some technical hitches and a mediocre processor don't help it shine next to the Steam Deck OLED.
A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass — inside the cat-and-mouse game between Denuvo and the piracy scene
A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass.
Taiwanese chip makers call on government to stockpile helium, liquid natural gas — TSIA pleads for strategic supplies as US and Iran sign ceasefire in Middle East
Taiwan's semiconductor industry alliance is urging the government to expand its strategic stockpiles of LNG and helium, find alternative suppliers, and restart nuclear power plants to ensure stability during times of crisis.
Grab an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for just $8 more than the GPU itself and score a whopping $1,600 off — huge HP discount requires a $39 controller or monitor to secure you a 4K powerhouse with
An epic deal over at HP's website is knocking over $1,600 off the price of this Omen Max gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 9800X3D, 32GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $3,808.69 if you purchase it with a monitor or a $39 accessory.
Get $100 off the ROG Xbox Ally handheld — Ryzen Z2 A-powered version with 16GB of RAM is under $500 again
Powered by AMD's Ryzen Z2 A chip and featuring a 120Hz display, the ROG Xbox Ally is now cheaper than ever
Snap up 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for just $192 when you pair it with AMD's 9800X3D processor and Asus X870E motherboard for $1,054 — bundle also includes a free 240mm AIO cooler and a copy
A premium Asus ROG Strix X870E motherboard, 9800X3D, 32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM, a free AIO cooler, and a copy of Crimson Desert are yours for just $1054.98
Russian state hackers are hijacking TP-Link and MicroTik routers to steal Outlook credentials, cybersecurity center warns — APT28 group targets DNS and redirects traffic to attacker-controlled s
The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russian state hackers have been exploiting vulnerable small office and home office routers since 2024 to overwrite their DHCP and DNS settings
be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
The Be Quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W combines exceptional build quality from CWT with Platinum-level efficiency and a comprehensive 10-year warranty, though its limited connectivity and premium pricing demand careful consideration.
China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment
Taiwan's National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.
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