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Intel appoints Alex Katouzian to lead client computing and physical AI efforts and confirms Pushkar Ranade as CTO, signaling a deeper shift toward AI-driven and edge computing systems

The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before they're released to the public.

Valve's long-anticipated Steam Controller sold out almost immediately, and scalpers have stepped in with price demands of $300 or more.

Start your next gaming build with this this combo from Newegg featuring a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a Micro-ATX B650M motherboard from ASRock for just $430.

Secretlab dropped a Mandalorian Edition, along with other Star Wars-themed designs, to its Titan Evo gaming chair lineup on Star Wars Day.

The Alienware 16 Area-51 is a slightly updated spaceship of a laptop that's powerful and finally gets an OLED display option.

The Ryzen AI 5 435G shows similar performance to the existing Ryzen 5 8600G in new Geekbench 6 benchmarks.

CISA warns of the actively exploited Copy Fail" Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431), enabling root access, with a public exploit released before patches were ready.

In a new review for the Arc Pro B70, the workstation GPU performs rather well across five games tested at 1440p resolution. On average, it loses to the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in traditional raster but beats it in ray tracing. Overall, the B70 was only 2.9% behind the 5060 Ti in all games when you average out both RT and raster.

Asian suppliers now represent roughly 90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from about 65% a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Newegg deal actually delivers. Score the ABS Kaze II Aqua with i9-14900KF and RTX 5070 Ti for $2,175 with code-over $1,100 off a powerful, ready-to-game prebuilt.

The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 appears to retain the same core configuration as its predecessor while adding more unified memory and slightly better performance.

Demand for storage devices is so high that large customers are willing to sign up to five-year long-term supply agreements, according to Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital.

A new Ryzen PRO series processor has appeared on PassMark with just three samples, but a very promising spec sheet. The Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D is a 16-core Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache, making it the first of its kind. It performs quite closely to the standard 9950X3D it's based on, but likely has a lower TDP.

A Chinese TechTuber scaled a tower PC large enough for a human to work and play in. It has air conditioning, too.

This Newegg bundle offers cutting-edge performance with practical value, combining AMD's latest flagship CPU with high-end supporting components at a discounted price.

Anthropic has reportedly held early discussions with London-based chip startup Fractile about purchasing the company's inference accelerators.

Chinese courts ruled that companies cannot automatically fire workers simply because AI can do the job more cheaply, declaring that automation alone does not justify dismissal under labor law.

Jensen Huang says China has become a lost market for Nvidia due to U.S. sanctions, but warns that America could lose out in a broader AI competition.

Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6.

Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.

Pretty much no games recommend more than 16GB of RAM, even in the unoptimized era we're living in right now. Only a few titles at their highest presets say 32GB is ideal, so Microsoft claiming that 32GB is the future-proof standard isn't exactly wrong. You'll be fine with 16GB today, but perhaps not tomorrow.

Building a PC has its advantages, such as cheaper parts costs and a learning experience that'll stick with you forever. However, when our AI overlords suck the joy out of DIY custom rigs, we need to venture out to find good deals in such turbulent times, and these prebuilts from ABS provide exactly that.

Sony increased prices for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles, following its move last month to make brand-new models more expensive.

A French retailer is willing to sell you defective RTX 5090s for half of what they cost new, on the condition that you'll be able to repair or recycle them. You can either get a random 5090 variant, depending on stock, for around $1,760 or pay almost $2,000 specifically for an MSI Ventus 3X OC model. The units come with transport-related damage.

The FCC estimates that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics are currently tested in Chinese facilities.

A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient temperatures despite consuming over 300 watts of power.

Gigabyte's Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibility, all for a compelling sub-$280 price.

Apple CEO Tim Cook warns Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages could continue for months as developers rush to buy high-memory Apple Silicon systems for running local AI models and agentic AI workloads.

The Hackinator delids an Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor and prepares it for a die shot using unconventional techniques.

A Reddit user tried their luck with a $20 4TB external HDD, and, to no surprise, they received a microSD card strapped inside a card reader and hot-glued to the back of the plastic case of an "external hard drive."

Canonical under sustained DDoS attack as Ubuntu 26 releases

The Biwin M350 is a budget PCIe 4.0 SSD done right. It has good performance where it matters and good power efficiency, too. But it still has the weaknesses of QLC flash, like poor sustained performance.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion.

Xbox Mode replaces the standard Windows desktop with an Xbox-style interface designed for gamepad navigation.

SoftBank is planning to launch an AI and robotics startup in the U.S. to build data centers. The firm is gunning for a $100 billion valuation and aims to list the startup this year.