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Updated 2026-08-13 19:00
Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched
Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender
Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade
The case for near-packaged optics (NPO) is strengthening, as the growing pains of co-packaged optics (CPO) become apparent. We explain the material differences between the two technologies as optics and silicon photonics make waves in the AI industry.
PS5 emulation arrives on Steam Deck, Astro Playroom showcased running at 0.6 FPS — milestone SharpEmu development shows promise, despite unplayable performance
Astro's Playroom runs at 0.5 to 1 FPS on the Steam Deck when emulated through SharpEmu. It's not much - it's nothing at all, in fact - but just the proof-of-concept alone is enough to stir up excitement for both Steam Deck and PS5 emulation scenes.
Memory maker CXMT overtakes Tencent to become China's most valuable company 17 days after its IPO — now worth $524 billion
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now the world's most valuable Chinese company after passing Tencent.
Keychron launches ludicrous 100-key custom macro pad — 10 x 10 ‘keyboard’ uses ‘exclusive’ Keychron Apex switches and features per-key RGB control
The Keychron C100 8K macro pad features 100 customizable keys, per-key RGB lighting, and 8K polling rate to give you the ultimate advantage in productivity and gaming. It also has hot-swappable Keychron Apex switches and transparent ASA keycaps, allowing you to further customize it to your liking.
Geekom IT13 Max 2026 review: Meteor Lake rides again in a $799 mini PC
Geekom mates an Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra 9 processor with soldered 24GB DDR5 dual-channel RAM to conjure up an attractively specified and priced mini PC for the RAMpocalypse era.
Best deals on PC setup accessories — save money on chairs, desks, monitor stands, boom arms, and more
We've scoured the internet and found the best deals on PC office and gaming furniture. Find the best desks, chairs, monitor arms, and more.
Maxsun Terminator B850M Pro II Motherboard Review: Comparable features, but US pricing is over MSRP
Maxsun's Terminator B850M Pro II is a decent budget option in the Micro ATX form factor, but only if you can find it for the $199.99 MSRP.
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft — gadget connects to an easily accessible port that overrides co
Security researchers discovered a way to tap into the avionics of a Boeing 737 and remotely give its flight management computer erroneous data through in-flight Wi-Fi. This coin-sized device plugs into a diagnostic port in the plane's avionics bay and could easily be hidden behind its protective dust cover.
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM free when you buy AMD's 9900X and an Asus TUF motherboard — $659 Newegg combo saves $274, and you get a free 240mm AIO
Save $274 and snag 16GB of DDR5 RAM for free in this 3-item Newegg combo with Ryzen 9 9900X, Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus Wifi7, and 16GB of dual channel Team Group T-Force Vulkan RAM
Critical 'Zoomsday' flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.
Zoomsday vulnerability let anyone in a Zoom meeting take over anybody else. The vulnerability was developed with AI assistance and took research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundred of millions of people.
This $57.99 8BitDo Ultimate 2 wireless controller is a brilliantly customizable option for PC gamers — fully customizable gamepad with Nintendo Switch compatibility includes dual triggers, TMR j
Save 17% on this 8BitDo Ultimate 2 game controller for your PC or Nintendo Switch right now.
Jump into PC gaming for under a thousand dollars with a $350 saving on this RTX 5060-powered laptop — the 15.6-inch MSI Cyborg 15 is just $949 at Walmart
Bag a new gaming laptop for under $1K at Walmart, thanks to a $350 saving on the latest MSI Cyborg 15.
Analysts see 'increasing foundry success conviction' as Intel CEO puts $12 million more of his own money in company — analysts point to accelerating foundry progress and capex expansion
Intel's Lip-Bu Ran reportedly buys $12 million worth of Intel stock as analysts believe that the management is increasingly convinced about landing external customers.
PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts
Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can't access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can't simply turn over the files, as it's legally owned by another entity, even if the channel is the ultimate owner of the stored data.
Alabama residents left powerless to stop massive Bitcoin mining data center despite county and town moratoriums — hole in state zoning laws lets facility through
Alabama residents left powerless to stop 50 MW Bitcoin mining facility despite county and town moratoriums thanks to the state's lack of appropriate zoning laws.
JSAUX FlipGo Horizon Pro dual-screen portable monitor review: Jack of all trades, master of some
The FlipGo Horizon Pro brings dual 15.6-inch displays and a built-in hub.
Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year
Elon Musk expects xAI to increase its nameplate power draw to 10 GW by late 2027, which will increase its performance by orders of magnitude what is available to AI today.
Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%
Cerebras keeps growing, but misses forecast as hardware sales dip amid explosive increase of AI cloud revenue.
The current state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers — Marvell, Phison, and SMI prepare controllers as drives finally come to market following years of delays
PCIe 6.0 SSDs are almost here. We review the state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers from Micron and Samsung, as well as controllers that can handle 2 Petabyte-class SSDs with 28 TB/s read/write speeds.
Vibe-coded app adds a 3D video rental storefront to your Jellyfin HTPC — self-hosted, open-source project brings back memories of browsing for VHS tapes on Saturday afternoons
A Redditor vibe-coded a Jellyfin front-end that mimics that old video rental stores from the 1990s. This simulation is more than just a selection screen, though, and is a complete experience on its own.
Qualcomm details Snapdragon C specs for $300 laptops for the first time — claims 67% faster performance on battery than Intel N250, AC performance remains a mystery
Qualcomm has detailed the specs for its Snapdragon C processor, with 8 cores and claimed "all-day" battery life.
Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions alrea
Oracle plans to cut more jobs this month, with reductions on some teams reaching double-digit percentages.
Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year
A data center GPU has become more expensive because of the AI boom enabled by unprecedented data center buildouts - shocking. Nvidia's RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell is now twice as costly as it was last year at the time of its launch, and 20% more expensive than even a couple of months ago.
AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws
Some data center developers are suing local governments for passing temporary bans and moratorium, saying that they such moves violated their rights to due process and equal protection. This move has gotten one county to reverse their decision, while others are still fighting the cases in court.
CoreWeave proves Nvidia's aging AI GPUs from 2020 can generate profit nine years after deployment, signs A100 contracts into 2029 — power constraints and legacy infrastructure keep old GPUs prof
CoreWeave reported $2.58 billion in quarterly revenue, up 112% year over year.
Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective h
Suspected China-linked hackers used autonomous AI agents to breach Taiwanese government systems, compromising 85 accounts and stealing 2,500+ records.
QIDI Plus5 3D printer review: The best one yet
QIDI Plus5 is polished, huge, and produces excellent prints with some of the toughest technical filaments.
Nova Lake CPUs with cut-down E-core clusters may still retain full cache pool, says new leak — 8P+12E config predictions revised from 33MB to 36MB, 4P+4E config from 15MB to 18MB
A new leak from Jaykihn says some Nova Lake SKUs, including mobile counterparts, will retain the cache config of their fully-enabled variants despite having reduced E-cores.
How optical interconnects and silicon photonics emerged as AI's next hot commodity — looming US-China summit puts photonics into the crosshairs
The U.S. wants Chinese optical transceivers out of future AI data centers, but China's current dominance of the rapidly evolving photonics supply chain could make a ban complicated
YMTC breaks into the top three NAND makers for the first time as AI servers swallow 48% of all flash — Chinese vendor has 14% share, according to research
Samsung led with 25%, SK hynix followed at 22%, and Micron rounded out the top five.
GMKtec Evo-T2 review: Panther Lake for a price
GMKtec has positioned its new Evo-T2 mini PC, built around Intel's 18A Panther Lake silicon, as a compact personal AI workstation. It is also plenty capable of performing well in office productivity and gaming with 64GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM.
Claude will begin digitally watermarking marking AI-generated text and images — Anthropic details how it'll comply with the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act
European users of Anthropic's Claude models can expect that future versions of those tools will begin embedding digital marks in generated text and images to identify them as the product of AI.
Asobi Remote Play app lets gamers stream PS4 and PS5 games on the Steam Deck, even without a console — dev breaks PlayStation Plus Premium cloud gaming support free of the PlayStation Portal
PlayStation Remote Play allows you to stream games from your PS4 or PS5 console to a variety of devices locally, but the Asobi: Remote Play service goes farther by extending the PlayStation Portal's exclusive PlayStation Plus Premium cloud game streaming support to the Steam Deck and other Linux devices.
Samsung Foundry updates process roadmap to move 1.4nm node to 2029 — high-NA EUV will enable 1nm-class and smaller nodes in 2030 and beyond
Samsung Foundry has delayed its 1.4nm-class node to 2029, making SF2 one of its longest-lasting process technologies ever. The company also aims to start using High-NA EUV for its 1nm-class process technology in 2030.
Save over $600 on a massive 18-inch gaming laptop as it falls to a new all-time low price at Amazon — Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI packs an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of memory
Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI gaming laptop hits a new all-time low price at Amazon. This massive 18-inch laptop freefalls by $600 in price.
Passenger returning from DEF CON 34 spoofs Delta Wi-Fi network while in flight using pentest tool — pilots tell ground crew to alert corporate security after attendee from hacking conference bri
A flight carrying passengers who attended a cybersecurity convention reportedly had its Wi-Fi network victimized by deauthentication attacks while an 'evil twin' hotspot rerouted potential victims to a phishing website. While flight safety was never affected, it's unclear if any of the other passengers had their credentials stolen while in the air.
Intel CEO hints at return to the memory business — says market is ripe for innovation, hints at stacking memory and CPU
Lip-Bu Tan says he has a pet project related to a new memory architecture.
Save $106 on this 4TB Team Group SSD with Gen 4 speeds, now 10.2 cents per GB — Newegg coupon deal makes this T-Force G50 one of the cheapest PCIe 4.0 drives on sale right now with this amount o
Get $106 off this 4TB TeamGroup T-Force G50 SSD, offering Gen 4 speeds and a huge capacity for a price that's hard to rival right now.
Commodore re-releases TAC-2 joystick after 40 years for just $49 — says retro-controller is tougher than ever and now comes in five colorways
After 40 years, Commodore has brought back the 'Totally Accurate Controller' joystick, better known among C64 and Amiga aficionados as the TAC-2.
Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies&r
Bookstores in Europe receive massive online purchases for obscure titles that haven't seen interest in years. They fear that these orders were made by AI firms looking to find more data to train their LLMs.
Resourceful gamer shrinks Valve’s Steam Deck into Game Boy, with custom 3D-printed cooling — plans display around 1200x1080, 90Hz AMOLED panel
A Steam Deck enthusiast and modder is close to finalizing their SteamBoy' design.
Two undersea cables reportedly damaged off the coast of Perth following suspicious vessel activity — company CEO says faults happened ‘straight after each other and in close proximity'
Subco CEO Bevan Slattery said that the Australian Federal Police should determine what caused the shunt faults on two undersea cables, which happened in suspicious circumstances. They also noted that a vessel was passing over the area at the same time that the disruption happened.
Razer Naga V3 Pro Review: My new 23-button mouse
Razer's Naga V3 Pro has the same form factor as its predecessor, but it features more buttons, an upgraded sensor and switches, and better battery life.
SK hynix to expand production capacity in China as it mulls Solidigm IPO, report claims — second phase of fab could boost local production by 50%
As demand for high-end data center SSDs peak, SK hynix upgrades its Chinese facilities and plans Solidigm listing at NASDAQ.
AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch
AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.
Intel raises $19.7 billion to help fund future projects as 14A production looms — share sale attracted $100 billion in demand, report claims
Intel is raising $19.7 billion through a stock offering to strengthen its finances as it expands manufacturing capacity, develops next-generation process technologies, and is trying to attract major external foundry customers.
Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price — unlocking 40 CUs, eight Zen 2 cores on the repurposed PS5 APU
The popular BC-250 APU has seen some major advancements over the past few months, including a 40CU unlock and enabling all eight Zen 2 cores. We put together a BC-250 machine to see how it works, and what these new mods offer.
DeepCool AK620 and AK400 G2 Review: Quiet and powerful, with woodgrain or a digital display
DeepCool's latest AK G2 series air coolers feature your choice of woodgrain tops or a digital display. We've tested both AK620 and AK400 G2 coolers with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark their thermal efficiency.
FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share
The FCC is drafting a proposal that would expand its list of equipment and services covered by the Secure Networks Act to include imports of new-model optical transceivers manufactured in China.
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