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u/Hartkralle says that eBay refunds them when they report these fake drives, so getting scammers banned from the platform is worth their effort. While fake sellers would likely just create a new account on eBay in an hour or so, they say that it's still another hour before an unsuspecting victim buys these fraudulent items.

A Russian family has just saved the house $120 in GPU repairs after the father fixed it with a salvaged capacitor from an old radio.

As the U.S. makes up its mind on export controls for Chinese chips, China has been developing its own supply chain, and associated trade network.

A Brown University professor suspected that almost his entire class cheated on take-home mid-term exams using AI tools after they scored unusually high. In-person final exams showed that only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score, with just one getting a higher grade compared to their midterms.

Nvidia and Sega have scheduled an event next week to celebrate their history and longstanding friendship.

This 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G53F gaming monitor is on sale for $169.99 right now, offering a 1440p resolution and fast 200Hz refresh rate at a great price.

FTC clearance to acquire Mesh Optical hands Musk the missing layer between Terafab's chips and Gigasat's satellites, amid tightening interconnect AI bottleneck

Attackers can exploit how AI bots hallucinate software URLs to create massive botnets. The vulnerability is endemic to every model.

Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head, the Future Nostalgia Project is asking retro hoarders to Copy That Floppy!

Save nearly $61 on this two-for-one Hoto combo deal at Amazon right now, giving you the NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 25 bits with its AutoCare 4-in-1 air duster and vacuum cleaner in a combo Amazon deal for under $90.

The first independent benchmarks for AMD's EXPO ULL memory are available, showing just up to a 4% improvement despite an increase in price.

A Reddit user named u/Slawrfp shared on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that Chinese courts have allowed heirs to inherit games and other digital assets after the original user has since passed on. While Chinese inheritance law hasn't explicitly covered digital properties, multiple rulings have already set precedent.

China is warning against the use of Claude Code versions released between April and June 2026 after it's revealed that hidden code is sending sensitive user information to remote servers. The government told users to uninstall the app or use its latest version, despite the fact that the AI tool is not approved for use in China.

CERT/CC has disclosed a critical authentication backdoor affecting multiple Tenda router firmware versions. Tracked as CVE-2026-11405, the flaw grants full administrator access without valid credentials, and no vendor patch is currently available after CERT failed to reach Tenda.

The global AI memory squeeze is pricing cheap phones out of existence and forcing mid-range devices to compromise on hardware.

How a limited run CPU could open the right doors for Europe's first HPC processors on markets its developers barely hoped to address any time soon.

Oregon approves the 29.7% price hike that Portland General Electric (PGE), the state's largest power provider, will impose on users that consume 20MW or more. This move is backed by Oregon's POWER Act, which helps ensure that data centers in PGE's coverage area pay their fair share.

Smart pet technology firm Fi has launched the Fi Ultra Dog Tracker today, the first such device with Starlink connectivity.

Ubisoft's remake of the 2013 game has been circulating online more than a month before its official release date, despite Denuvo DRM protection. Incident questions the effectivity of anti-piracy app, which causes performance hits and requires intrusive online check-ins.

The creator of DLSS Swapper is warning against using random DLLs that claim to fix issues pertaining to DLSS, FSR, or XeSS, even if said file is available on the app's GitHub repo.

This great value gaming PC from Newegg's ABS brand features a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti GPU and 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, giving you a rig ready for 1440p gaming.

These drivers will make it easier for your Steam Deck or Steam Machine to play nicely with Windows 11. However, Valve says it does not offer customer support for 'Windows on Steam Hardware,' and instead points stuck users to the SteamOS recovery instructions.

While the use of Windows' GDID to catch Scattered Spider hacking group member Peter Stokes is unusual, that device identifier is only one bit of telemetry that can be used to fingerprint a user across the wider Internet these days.

Space Force has announced that the first high-energy 'Meadowlands' electronic warfare system has been delivered for operational duty.

Total graphics power figures for Nvidia's unanounced, unreleased RTX 50 Super-series graphics cards have appeared in Seasonic's PSU capacity calculator, revealing potentially higher TGPs of those products.

Chinese memory and storage manufacturer Longsys expects to post a massive increase in profits due to the AI-driven chip shortage.

Grab this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop with an RTX 5090 for just $3,199 right now at B&H Photo, saving you $1,800.

It looks like Intel is adding back AVX-512 support to its client CPUs starting from the upcoming Nova Lake desktop lineup. Previously, we expected to see AVX-256 debut on a consumer family, allowing E-cores to execute 256-bit code, but now it seems that even the E-cores will gain native 512-bit registers.

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

The British government ruled that nationally significant infrastructure projects, which include data centers, can bypass local council approvals. This move is expected to speed up developments by up to a year and save more than a billion dollars.

A developer has ported Linux to the Atari Jaguar console. To succeed at the task, they had to overcome severe memory limits, the lack of an MMU, and face off against a handful of unusual hardware quirks.

This Ugreen 10-port unmanaged Ethernet switch is on sale for just $37.97 right now, delivering eight PoE+ ports for up to 60W of power delivery for cameras and WiFi extenders, along with two extra ports for Gigabit uplink to your existing network.