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U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia-powered servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore, allegedly using false paperwork to conceal their final destination

The base PS5 is getting an optimized version of Sony's AI-powered upscaling technology, offering developers a new way to improve image quality and stability without demanding more powerful hardware.

Amazon and chip design tool maker Synopsys have inked a multi-year partnership worth over a billion dollars. As part of the arrangement, Amazon will license Synopsys' chip designs and its design tools to create and optimize new AI chips. Synopsys will adopt Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI agents, and adopt AWS computing and storage services, while optimizing its own tools for Amazon hardware.

U.S. cities consider deploying Flock drones that automatically respond to emergency calls. However, other jurisdictions are pushing back against the service due to privacy and other concerns.

Nvidia is introducing a 64GB version of its DGX Spark local AI workstation that's tailored for a new generation of highly intelligent yet compact local models. Starting at $4999, the more affordable configuration is otherwise identical to the original 128GB Spark and its GB10 siblings.

OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeno ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm's AGI or Nvidia's Vera.

The TP-Link Archer BE550 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $169.99, netting you powerful kit with six antennas and five 2.5G Ethernet ports.

Micron's consumer business is its most profitable by margin according to the company's fiscal Q4 2026 financial report, despite shipping less memory in the quarter.

The form requires RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase. However, it remains unclear how Micro Center can use this information to track illegally exported GPUs.

California will require 3D printer manufacturers to include firearm blocking technology once ASTM International publishes a standard for it. However, the California DOJ is only mandated to check for one until July 1, 2029, after which it is no longer obliged by law to do so.

Aaeon's UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air is the first Panther Lake mini PC we've seen with AirJet technology for ultra-low-noise active cooling.

Nvidia's new Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-powered Sentry hardware to monitor and rapidly quarantine rogue AI agents

Can AI outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.

DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Ascend 950 AI chips, including compute and communication libraries, aimed at making Huawei hardware easier to program and optimize.

American custom and prebuilt computer seller Maingear has launched a new instant trade-in scheme through SELLIT9.

Micron makes big money amid the NAND and DRAM shortage. Company expects supply crunch to continue through 2028.

The developers of a leading PlayStation 3 emulator warn of 'a recent influx of fake Blu-ray drives.'

OpenAI says operators copied its models' encrypted reasoning and asked a model in a separate conversation to decrypt it.

Pick up a $720 saving on this RTX 5090 MSI gaming laptop, featuring 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, and an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, now just $3,779.

Micron files a lawsuit against Yangtze Memory, claims that some of the patents which YMTC uses against Micron in various courts were granted to former YMTC engineers who took crucial know-how from Micron and took it to YMTC.

A call center consultancy rented four Nvidia H200s to run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for Claude Code and found DeepSeek's API cheaper.

Sony launched the world's first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era.

Post-launch Geekbench 7 runs show Debian Linux instead of the leak's Ubuntu.

The heads of the biggest AI labs - Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia - went to Washington and signed the 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,' promising to develop their own models safely. Trump says that it's the best way to move forward with AI as it balances progress with safety.

Xbox gamers can now get a digital license tied to their physical game discs associated with their Xbox profile for select titles, allowing them to play the game without needing to insert it into the console.

A new jailbreak supports firmware 7.00 through 13.60, including on the PS5 Pro. But some game updates may already require a newer firmware, breaking the jailbreak.

Anthropic has released a frontier red teaming report, claiming that Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 has weak safeguarding, and can easily be used to generate harmful content.

Meta's Muse AI agent has been accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data on an iPhone and Mac, including iMessages.

This Ugreen 10-port unmanaged Ethernet switch has hit record-low pricing of $37.79, unlocking 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.

Florida asked a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval and to keep minors off ChatGPT.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to stop using the term 'artificial intelligence' and instead call it 'Super Intelligence.' The president said that the new term will solve AI's branding issue and that it 'more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.'

The price of AI "intelligence," has fallen dramatically in recent years, faster than any other transformational technology in history according to some estimates. This raises serious questions about the need to retain access to frontier capabilities, when they show up elsewhere so swiftly.