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Updated 2026-03-15 16:15
Facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway — Tennessee grandmother latest victim of AI-driven misidentification
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case.
Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level
A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft's unhackable' Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference.
AMD's upcoming RDNA 5 GPUs might improve dual-issue execution & use shader units more efficiently — LLVM patch adds new FMA instruction to ease compiling
A new LLVM patch has added V_FMA_F32, a 3-operand fused multiply-add (FMA instruction and introduced the VOPD3 instruction format for RDNA 5. Both of these changes should make it easier for compilers to use dual issue execution, working around the strict pairing rules that would otherwise limit max FP32 throughput in certain workloads.
ASML workers still in the dark seven weeks after 1,700 management cuts announced — cuts represent 4% of its global workforce
The prolonged uncertainty is generating internal unrest, according to an ASML spokesperson who spoke to Dutch broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated
A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been 100% backed up!"
Chinese GPU-maker Lisuan flaunts new design details for its LX 7G100 gaming card, also updates LX GPU product pages with server and workstation specs
Meanwhile, the older 7G105 GPU name no longer appears on the site; all four cards now sit under the LX product branding.
Apple's MacBook Neo modded to a 1 TB SSD, breaking the firm's 512 GB barrier — base 256 GB model gets modded in expert NAND swap surgery
DirectorFeng, an expert technician in China has just performed what is likely the first hardware mod of its kind on the new MacBook Neo. He has birthed the world's only MacBook Neo with a terabyte of storage by physically changing the NAND chip on the logic board. Whether this mod is worth the price given the Neo's target audience, well, that's for you to decide.
Elon Musk says his chipmaking 'Terafab Project' venture will launch in seven days — Musk's latest moonshot multi-billion project launches on a Saturday
Elon Musk plans to start his 'Terafab Project' semiconductor production venture in a week.
ASRock launches new Frankensteined motherboard with one DDR4 slot and two DDR5 slots — Intel board signals the RAM apocalypse is truly nigh
A motherboard that can accept both DDR4 and DDR5 memory can be the difference between you being able to build a new PC or putting it off till the shortage is over. ASRock's new H610M Combo II is otherwise pretty barebones, not even featuring PCIe 4.0 storage, but it does have enough to get you by before things settle down.
Sega’s missing link Saturn 'TRIP accelerator' project was real — 1996-era plans revealed by engineer for the first time
An ex-Hitachi, ex-Sega, and ex-Sony engineer has confirmed that he proposed and developed a Saturn graphics accelerator, codenamed TRIP, based on Hitachi's SH3 processor.
Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a LaserDisc, discovers Techtuber — a 12-inch vinyl-like disc that stores SD analog video
Images representing the contents can clearly be seen when studying the surface of a CED LaserDisc' under a microscope.
‘Clean-room reimplementation’ of DR-DOS hits early beta, modernizing the operating system 38 years after its debut — runs Doom, Warcraft, SimCity, and other period-appropriate titles
DR DOS version 9.0 is now in beta testing, with Revision 291 recently released and available for anyone to download and test.
40-year-old Arcade classic shoot ‘em up Gradius gets pure ASCII PC remake — you can even save your gaming screenshots as .TXT files
A developer has rebuilt the classic Gradius arcade game from the ground up, using ASCII.
AMD's former pound-for-pound gaming champ hits its historic low again — Ryzen 7 9800X3D offers unmatched value for gamers at $429
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price, making it a more enticing option than the slightly more performant but also much more expensive Ryzen 7 9850X3D.
Shopper scores $1,000 in PC hardware for just $86 in a shocking pricing glitch — Newegg shrugs off massive loss and responds with a thumbs-up emoji
A Redditor only paid $86.98 for a Ryzen 5 7600X, a Gigabyte B850 Eagle motherboard, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance RGB kit from Newegg. The CPU even included a free 240mm Cooler Master AIO worth $85 on its own. All these parts would typically cost $1,012, but this customer scored a combo deal for the ages.
Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code — Glassworm attack uses blockchain to steal tokens, credentials, and secrets
The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code editor and terminal.
MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max Wifi II Motherboard review: Sharpening the Tomahawk’s blade
The B850 Tomahawk Max Wifii II refines the popular budget AM5 board with additional M.2 storage, an OC Engine chip, a 64MB BIOS, a minor facelift, and a small price increase.
US gov't revokes controversial AI hardware export rule that would mandate investments from foreign companies — new export rules are still in the works, though
U.S. Department of Commerce withdraws draft export rule for AI accelerators that would give the U.S. government ultimate power over export controls and mandate investments of foreign firms in the U.S. AI sector.
Chocolate 3D printer startup Cocoa Press levels up with former Prusa executive
David Randolph brings 10 years of manufacturing experience to the chocolate printer startup, Cocoa Press.
Noctua teases upcoming PC case with brown color scheme and bundled fans — appears to be Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition with NF-A14x25 G2 fans
The case builds on the standard Flux Pro design with enhanced cooling hardware, mesh airflow panels, support for large radiators, and Noctua's well-known brown color scheme.
Chip material prices double as Middle East conflict compounds China's existing gallium export ban — wide range of materials for chipmaking skyrocket as supply constricts
Manufacturers have said that prices for key chipmaking metals have doubled, and gallium has climbed sharply, as disruptions from the ongoing Middle East conflict pile onto supply constraints.
Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vib
U.K. fiber network provider Openreach used startup firm Lightsonic's technology to detect leaks in Affinity Water's service area, helping save over 2 million liters of drinking water daily.
DoJ dismantles botnet made of 360,000 infected routers and IOT devices spread across 163 countries that ran for 16 years — SocksEscort proxy network eliminated in joint operation with Europol
Long-running SocksEscort proxy network brought down by US-EU operation
CPU fraud scandal erupts as another Chinese laptop busted with a fake chip — second device sporting a disguised Ryzen 5500U uncovered after vendor threatens legal action
Notebookcheck has uncovered yet another case of a Chuwi laptop allegedly featuring a processor different from the one advertised, intensifying concerns over CPU authenticity.
Enthusiast rebuilds AA-battery-powered PC, sextuples run time to 30 minutes with 64 batteries — uses three voltage regulators in parallel to achieve stability, runs computer for over 30 minutes
YouTube creator ScuffedBits re-did their experiment and was able to eke out 30 minutes of game time (and a benchmarking session!) while running their desktop PC on 64 AA batteries.
Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured — six month of tests find TDK is a clear leader, Verbatim and Memorex d
A tech enthusiast has shared their DVD rewritable durability findings, following six months of testing.
US and Gulf states race for Ukrainian interceptor drones, 3D printed model costs $1,000 apiece — Shahed-136 kamikaze drone threat spurs rush for interceptors
Ukraine has sent drone interceptors and training crews to the U.S. and its Gulf State allies as the Iran War rumbles on.
Windows 11 is getting support for 1,000 Hz+ monitors soon as part of Insider builds — Microsoft has reportedly increased the refresh rate limit to 5,000 Hz
Microsoft says "monitors can now report refresh rates higher than 1000 Hz" in the patch notes for its latest Windows 11 Insider builds. These updates are part of the Release Preview channel, which means they're very close to final, public release. On the other hand, Nvidia has also pushed the first update for its G-Sync Pulsar displays.
Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout's big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limita
AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Meta have formed an Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop a standardized optical interconnect for AI data centers, with the aspiration to build a PHY capable of handling speeds of up to 3.2 Tb/s.
Nvidia claims 1 million times better path tracing performance is coming in future gaming GPUs — says current GPUs are already 10,000x faster than Pascal
At GDC 2026, Nvidia held a presentation somehow aimed at gamers and not data center clients. Still, it was sprinkled with AI pat-on-the-backs, with the company touting that its future gaming GPUs will offer 1,000,000 better path tracing performance. And the current-gen Blackwell family is apparently already 100,000x better due to dedicated Tensor and RT cores.
The ongoing Strait of Hormuz blockage will impact the semiconductor and AI industries with Aluminum, Helium and LNG shortages — and with no timeline for re-opening, supply chains face significan
As global oil prices spike due to the ongoing pseudo-blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, other shortages are looming, and they could hit the chip and AI industries dramatically. Aluminum and helium for chip production have been impacted, but shortages of LNG could also cause problems for gas turbines powering many AI data centers.
ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April — Microsoft touts 30% performance boost thanks to AI-powered image upscaling
Auto Super Resolution, an OS-level AI upscaling feature for Windows 11, is heading to the ROG Xbox Ally X and could deliver noticeable frame-rate improvements.
Grab a new Elegoo 3D printer for as little as $154 in this massive Spring sale — save up to 31% on top-rated FDM and resin models before the stock runs out
Elegoo's Spring sale has just started, slashing prices on its FDM and resin printers by up to 31% until March 26, with bulk-buy deals on filament, too.
Creality Sermoon P1 3D Scanner review: 3D scanning on the go
The Creality Sermoon P1 is a standalone 3D scanner that allows users to go through the entire scanning workflow without having to touch a computer. The 22 crossed laser line mode is surprisingly fast, and the single laser line mode was able to scan deep holes during testing. The NIR (near-infrared) mode is capable of scanning without requiring any markers, and the on-device editing allows users to make on-location edits without needing to stop. The Sermoon P1 handled everything we threw at it, but the color texture was the only disappointing part of the testing.
Iran conflict delays Meta’s 2Africa undersea cable project — cable layer declares force majeure, says it can no longer safely operate in the Persian Gulf
Meta is delaying work on the Pearls section of its Africa2 network after its contracted cable-layer, Alcatel Submarine Networks, declared force majeure due to the risk of getting hit during the Iran conflict.
China's ByteDance to access 36,000 Blackwell GPU cluster through Malaysia cloud operator — Nvidia confirms no objections, deal is in line with US export controls
Nvidia says it is permissible for ByteDance to use AI clusters outside of China to develop its AI prowess as long as these clusters are built in compliance with the U.S. export controls.
11-month old Russian outfit claims it has developed 16-core and 32-core chips, flaunts Cyrillic-badged processors — chips appear to be sanctions-swerving rebadged Chinese Loongson processors
Russia-based Tramplin Electronics obtains samples of Loongson's LS3C6000 processors with Cyrillic inscriptions, claims these are its own CPUs.
Save over £40 on the latest SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite audiophile-grade headset — world's first Hi-Res audio certified wireless gaming headset
SteelSeries' Elite Arctis Nova wireless gaming headset is discounted by over 40. This audiophile-grade headset features the world's first Hi-Res audio certification in a wireless gaming headset.
Grab this £59.99 TP-Link wireless router with Wi-Fi 7 support at its lowest ever price — 31% discount unlocks faster connections for lag-free streaming and gaming
Score a 31% discount on this TP-Link Archer BE3600 router, offering Wi-Fi 7 capability to your existing LAN for just 59.99
Get $399 of Corsair Vengeance RAM essentially free with a Ryzen 7 9850X3D and high-end X870E motherboard — Newegg bundle saves you $436 on the core of an overclockable AM5 build
Score on a great combo deal with AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Apex, 32GB Corsair DDR5-6400 RAM for $1,187.99 - it's $436 off retail, effectively making the RAM free.
How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse – newer drives will definitely cost more, and some may offer up shockingly poor performance
If you're shopping for a new external SSD, you might want to buy a drive soon, and something that was released before the AI demand seemingly gobbled up all the good flash.
2026 PC shipment forecast slashed amid memory shortages — IDC says total PC market value to nonetheless increase to $274 billion due to ongoing price hikes
IDC expects unit shipments of PCs in 2026 to be down 11.3% year-over-year, but the whole market value will increase 1.6% due to higher prices.
Silicon Power US RMA policy now hedges against AI-driven RAM and SSD shortages — company says it will refund the original purchase price 'if there is a shortage of replacement products'
Most RAM and SSD manufacturers still offer in-warranty replacements as Silicon Power U.S. hedges policy against shortages
China bans OpenClaw from government computers and issues security guidelines amid adoption frenzy — nation scrambles to rein in popular AI agent
China's central government warned state enterprises and agencies not to install OpenClaw on office computers this week as multiple government bodies moved to rein in the AI agent.
Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL — update promises developers improved compression ratios, faster loading, and more
DirectStorage 1.4 brings along key upgrades to the API, including support for Zstandard compression as well as CreatorID for improved GPU scheduling.
Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets compressed malware leisurely stroll past 95% of antivirus apps — security suites are blissfully unaware of security issue
Zombie ZIP vulnerability lets malware stroll past gates of 95% of AV suites
The FBI is looking for victimized Steam users who downloaded games with hidden malware — Investigation underway into multiple infected titles from 2024 to 2026
Several games on Steam that were secretly carrying malware now seem to be under active investigation by the FBI. The department is looking for victim information tied to these games; anyone who installed and played an infected game and was harmed is being urged to step forward and share more info to help with the investigation.
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion — 1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens
V-Color announces new 1+1 DDR5 memory kits with one real memory module and one filler module for AMD-based systems.
AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters — Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI to benefit as speeds eventually scale to 3.2 Tb/s
AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia team up with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI to develop protocol-agnostic optical scale-up interconnects for AI clusters.
RTX 5090 gets 12% gaming boost in Ubuntu 26.04, thanks to optimizations with Gnome 50 — latest popular distro update brings significant performance uplift for Nvidia's top GPU
Phoronix tested Ubuntu 26.04 on an RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 and found that the new version performs up to 12% better on the 5090 compared to Ubuntu 25.10.
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