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Updated 2025-12-11 23:00
'Outlet' RAM sold in Japan as new with huge markups, scuffed packaging — Crucial DDR5-5600 64GB kit commands $600 overseas as AI shortage bites
Japanese retailer Sofmap offloads Crucial's Pro DDR5-5600 C46 64GB (2x32GB) memory kit for $602.74.
Hoto's electric screwdriver set is a hobbyist's ultimate Christmas gift for less than £29 — record-low price for 12-bit precision kit with USB-C charging, perfect for PC builds and DIY
Grab this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits at a record-low price
Chinese government wades into Dutch chipmaker dispute — presses Netherlands to resolve Nexperia saga as supply concerns grow
China has called on the Netherlands to move quickly to resolve the dispute surrounding Nexperia after months of supervision measures and a retaliatory export freeze disrupted shipments of components.
Asus' new 5K gaming monitor is so high-end it doesn't even officially support RTX 40-series GPUs — the XG27JCG is a 5K 180Hz beast with 330Hz 1440p dual-mode support
Asus is betting on overpriced GPUs in this ultra high-res and high refresh rate pairing, dubbed the "XG27JCG," a new 5K 180 Hz monitor that can only run on Nvidia's RTX 50-series, officially, or AMD's RX 7600 and up. It supports all the gaming features you could ever want, along with solid color accuracy and HDR support.
CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC packs 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM and an RTX 5080 GPU for $2499 — that's $700+ of RAM in today's market
Procure yourself a gaming PC before the RAM prices push prebuilt rigs beyond reach. CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC with RTX 5080 and 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM is reduced to $2499.
ASRock X870E Taichi OCF Motherboard Review: The right formula for extreme AMD overclocking
ASRock's X870E Taichi OCF is a well-designed motherboard full of high-end features and tools for manual overclocking.
Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million
Intel lost its challenge to overturn an EU antitrust ruling on Wednesday, meaning it now faces a fine of $278 million.
TMSC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers
TSMC reportedly mulls making 4nm chips in Japan amid putting construction of Fab 23 phase 2 on pause.
Biwin Black Opal OC Lab Gold Edition DDR5-6000 C28 4x48GB Review: High-Performance Memory For Demanding Applications
Biwin launches a very special DDR5-6000 192GB memory kit from its OC labs. Can the spacious memory kit outperform the current competition on the market?
UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," studen
PhD student rivalry extends to repeated physical laptop damage, hidden camera shows.
Score a new Bambu Lab 3D printer for as little as £149 in this massive UK end-of-year sale — savings include up to 20% off printers and 46% off filament, ready for Christmas
Save on these top 3D printers this Christmas in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale
RAM scalping takes hold on eBay, some DDR5 selling for more than $2,000 — price-gouged kits fetch 7x their original value, adding almost double the markup on already inflated prices
Scalpers exploit the memory shortage to sell memory kits at exorbitant prices on platforms like eBay.
Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic join forces to form Agentic AI alliance, according to report — organization backed by the Linux Foundation is set to create open source standards for AI
The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents. The move will focus on three key open source tools to begin with, sharing findings on technical problems.
Dev gambles on 'obviously fake' $8K Grace Hopper system, scores $80,000 worth of hardware on Reddit for one-tenth of the cost — buyer's haul includes 960GB of DDR5 RAM worth more than what he pa
This used Nvidia Grace Hopper system price seemed unbelievable. But it required a lot of cleaning and intricate work to get it running smoothly.
Prusa brings Noctua's iconic beige and brown to 3D printer nozzleheads everywhere — accurately matching 3D printed parts to Noctua gear is now trivial
Prusa releases Noctua color-matched 3D printing filaments
Basement AI lab captures 10,000 hours of brain scans to train thought-to-text AI models — largest known neural dataset collected from thousands of humans over six months
Conduit says it has collected roughly 10,000 hours of noninvasive neural data from thousands of unique individuals" in a basement studio.
China starts list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not
Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry?
User reports claim December Windows 11 security update fixes AMD GPU hanging and driver crashing
A multitude of AMD GPU owners claim the December security update for Windows 11 has fixed GPU hanging and driver crashing, primarily on RX 9000 series GPUs.
Framework puts Dell and Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices — modular laptop maker will be forced to increase memory prices, but won't "gouge customers" like other vendors
Memory prices are rising everywhere, and the latest to be hit in the aftermath of this crisis is modular laptop manufacturer Framework, which just announced its own price hike in a very interesting fashion. The company replied to a tweet showing Dell's allegedly insane markup on RAM upgrades that later turned out to be incorrect.
Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale is live with up to 35% off — score huge discounts on 3D printers and accessories while you can
Save on some of the best 3D printers in Bambu Lab's end-of-year sale
The Nvidia H200 export saga, as it happened — Beijing ponders response and buyers line up, while Blackwell remains locked behind restrictions
The U.S. government has formally approved the export of Nvidia's high-performance H200 AI chips to China, reinstating access to a class of silicon previously barred under national security rules.
Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring
DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise.
China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand
China convened emergency meetings with its largest technology companies on Wednesday to assess how many of Nvidia's H200 accelerators they intend to buy.
Nvidia develops software-based tracking for AI GPUs to quash smuggling concerns — solution devised to prevent shipments to nations with export controls in place
Nvidia has quietly developed a software-based location-verification system for its Blackwell-generation GPUs that can approximate where the hardware is operating, which could prevent smuggling of AI GPUs to China.
This prebuilt MSI gaming PC includes 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and an RTX 5060 GPU for $929 — a superb value system
MSI's Codex R2 gaming PC is just $929, an unbelievable value in the current climate.
Prusa CORE One L 3D printer review: Bigger and better
Prusa Research releases a roomy new bed size.
Microsoft promises to make Windows 11 the best operating system for gaming — says it will focus on background workloads, power and scheduling, graphics stack, and drivers
Microsoft says Windows 11 will receive major gaming-focused enhancements in 2026, including broader support for Xbox Full Screen Experience, Auto Super Resolution for handhelds, expanded Advanced Shader Delivery, and more.
White House U-turn on Nvidia H200 AI accelerator exports down to Huawei's powerful new Ascend chips, report claims — U.S. committed to 'dominance of the American tech stack'
According to a new report, the Trump Administration's U-turn on allowing exports of the Nvidia H200 AI accelerator chip is down to competition from China's native Huawei, which offers comparable power.
Snapmaker Raises Millions as Chinese Big Tech Investors Pile Into 3D Printing
Snapmaker rides its U1 tool changer to the big leagues.
This £849 Asus V16 is the cheapest RTX 5060 gaming laptop you can buy right now — 10-core Intel CPU, 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD make up this brilliant Christmas bargain
This 16-inch Asus V16 gaming laptop features an RTX 5060, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and all for just 849.99.
Buy a Gigabyte Z890 board and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, get a free Cooler Master AIO and Star Wars Outlaws game for under $650 — incredible Newegg bundle is cheaper than buying the RAM by itself
Avoid outlandish DDR5 prices in this tremendous deal from Newegg. $649.99 buys an enthusiast-class Gigabyte Z890 motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 360mm AIO, and free Star Wars Outlaws game
Supersonic airline outfit Boom unveils turbine for AI data centers — 42 MW Superpower turbine uses the same tech designed to power Concorde successor to Mach 1.7 at 60,000 ft
Superpower gas turbine will efficiently feed AI datacenters
Secretlab's Christmas Holiday gaming chair deals — up to $249 off select products, including deals on desks and accessories
Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Christmas Holiday sale.
Corsair builds multi-function touchscreen LCD into a $400 case — Frame 4000D enclosure gets a modular Xeneon Edge upgrade
Corsair ensconces a Xeneon Edge touchscreen in its Frame 4000D case
Nvidia Dawn and Dusk demo PC resurfaces alongside its original FX 5950 Ultra graphics card — state-of-the-art dream machine made gamers' hearts race in 2004
The Dawn and Dusk demo PC, an enchanting artifact dating back to when Nvidia was very firmly a gaming-first company, has resurfaced many years on.
2012 AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPU card runs Arc Raiders at playable frame rates — but half of its GPU power goes unused in the process
YouTuber turns 2012 AMD FirePro S10000 dual-GPU workstation graphics card into a gaming GPU, capable of running Arc Raiders at more than 40 FPS.
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra X9 388H is up to 8.7% faster for 1T perf than Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — Panther Lake gains significant ground on Strix Halo in early Geekbench leak
Intel's Panther Lake family is still awaiting release, but the possible flagship chip of the bunch has been spotted on Geekbench. The Core Ultra X9 388H scores 3,057 points in the single-core test and 17,687 points in the multi-core test, racing past its Arrow Lake-H predecessor and AMD's Strix Halo.
Secretlab's UK Christmas gaming chair sale is here, dropping prices by up to £200 — huge discounts on desks and accessories are included too
You can save up to 200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, ready for Christmas.
3D Printing Holiday Gift Guide: What to Buy for Makers in 2025
Whether you're shopping for a beginner with their first machine or a seasoned hobbyist with a crowded workbench, this list highlights practical, high-impact gifts that every 3D printer owner will appreciate.
Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains
Qualcomm's recent acquisition of Arduino has introduced the Arduino Uno Q, a board that combines a Linux SBC powered by Qualcomm's Dragonwing with an STM32 microcontroller. But are two brains better than one?
Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once
A growing body of forecasts from AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and major research firms now points toward a semiconductor market that passes the trillion-dollar threshold before the decade closes.
Latest Steam Client Beta backport keeps Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming PCs on life support — unofficial solution gives a lifeline to legacy users
Gaming enthusiast Eazy Black has backported the latest Steam beta client (December 4, 2025 build) to support Windows 7 and Windows 8.
This DDR4 RAM and B550 motherboard bundle saves you $110 — 32GB of G.Skill Ripjaws memory paired with Asus's TUF gaming mobo for only $199
Newegg's Asus B550 motherboard and G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 RAM bundle saves you $110
This GitHub script claims to wipe all of Windows 11's AI features in seconds — "RemoveWindowsAI" can disable every single AI feature in the OS, from Copilot to Recall and more
If you've been unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken Windows, offering no meaningful improvements beyond AI and aesthetics, then, well, not much can be done about that. But, at least you can disable all the AI features that seem to have populated every corner of the OS, with a simple script from GitHub.
HAVN BF360 Flow case review: Air scoop design delivers low GPU temps
HAVN's BF360 Flow PC case is focused on GPU temperatures, using two large 180mm intake fans, directed by a ramp, to deliver the best performance possible.
Intel boosts India's chip push with new Tata Group strategic partnership — includes manufacturing and packaging of Intel products for local markets
Intel's new partnership with Tata signals a transformative step for India's chip ecosystem, enabling domestic manufacturing, advanced packaging, and enterprise compute solutions.
This £289.99 Intel Core Ultra 265K gaming CPU bundle is a huge bargain for a PC build — includes free MSI 360mm AIO cooler and Battlefield 6 code
You can grab this Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU, MSI AIO cooler, and free game bundle worth around 450 for just 289.99 right now.
Trump approves Nvidia H200 exports to China, with 25% fee attached — report suggests that companies will have to follow strict Beijing rules to import foreign chip, AMD and Intel to benefit from
The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to approved customers" in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday.
Two more perps apprehended over smuggling of $160 million of Nvidia chips to China — DOJ says H100 and H200 shipments were relabelled with a fictional brand to dodge export controls
Several suspects have been apprehended for allegedly violating export control laws regarding the supply of Nvidia H100 and H200 AI chips to China.
ASML under fire for selling DUV equipment to Chinese firm with military ties, says the machines are not subject to export controls — fears grow that 'old technology' will bolster Beijing's quant
Dutch chip manufacturing design firm, ASML, has been accused of selling chip fabrication hardware to a Chinese defence firm tied to the ruling party. Although it claims the technology was old, it has raised concerns over its potential use in developing new quantum technologies, particularly with military applications.
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