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Shipments of desktop add-in-boards in Q2 were the highest since Q1 2022 despite rising prices and dropping sales of desktop PCs, according to new numbers from Jon Peddie Research.

The HyperX Omen Max 16, featuring the powerful Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, is down to $3,699.99 right now, saving you $1,000.

Windows 11 users can soon recover from serious installation problems without relying on a USB drive or a custom recovery image.

Anthropic claims Claude refused instructions to potentially develop biological weapons - alleged state-linked accounts tried to evade identification and regional blocks

NATO foiled a Russian training exercise simulating the deployment of a secret weapon against Norwegian undersea cables.

Nintendo is offering a 30% sale with its tariff refunds, as opposed as returning the money directly to customers.

The first Apple A20 Geekbench 6 benchmark results are starting to pop up online and the single-core score is very impressive.

Grab this budget-friendly 3D printer from Elegoo, the Centauri Carbon 2 Combo, for $399, and pay just $1 extra for 1KG of filament.

The ringleader of a cybercrime gang, which reportedly formed after meetups in Minecraft online, has plead guilty to a racketeering charge and now faces up to 20 years in jail.

Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

Using an 'age of agents' Linux distro a 'MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.'

Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).

Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.

ASML, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC back development of 6*12-inch to build large processors using High-NA EUV lithography systems without stitching.

This MSI gaming laptop is fit for 1080p gaming, thanks to an RTX 5060, with $250 off knocking the price down to just $1049.99.

Valve starts enforcing Australian age verification law, but its privacy-minded choice of bank card as the only verification method is causing issues with many consumers.

Hypertune is an automated overclocking tool built on top of Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK and built in collaboration with engineers at Intel.

Modular laptop maker Framework is dropping some of its memory pricing, including for some already-shipped orders, in a piece of good news for consumers.

Microsoft appears to be using dynamic pricing to push select users to commit to Xbox Game Pass.

OpenAI announced that a team using one of its internal frontier models has solved the Navier-Stokes problem. However, the announcement has been mired in controversy.

Nintendo is releasing its first-ever limited-edition Switch 2 to commemorate Zelda's 40th anniversary and it will cost $520. It does not come with Ocarina of Time, but you can purchase a similarly-themed Pro Controller for $100.

OpenAI has made bold claims with its new GPT-6 Astra AI model, and it's certainly capable, but benchmarks suggest it has many of the usual weaknesses alongside the strengths, while cost and accessibility are still the biggest factors in widespread usage.

Save 10% on this 4TB Crucial T705 SSD, the cheapest Gen 5 4TB SSD on the market by some distance at the moment, now just $502.51.

A modder has recreated the never-released RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM using GDDR6 chips instead of the GDDR6X the retail 3070 Ti actually shipped with.

An anonymous security researcher has reconstructed the source code of the infamous Stuxnet worm, which was built to subtly interfere with Iranian uranium enrichment during the Bush and Obama administrations.

Patagonia, a region of Argentina with 17,300 glaciers has the potential to turn into a data center hotspot.

Anthropic AI safety researcher has warned there's a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans.

Intel is reportedly set to raise CPU prices by 10%, following two other price increases, as it prepares for a major product launch in March 2027.

A Super Smash Bros Melee decompilation project hit its key long-standing goal a few hours ago.

Sony Japan has introduced a customer-harassment policy as anger continues over PlayStation's plan to phase out physical game discs by 2028.