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Updated 2026-07-27 14:45
Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site
OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy's 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.
AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory
Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.
Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery
A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.
AMD splits Zen 7 into three EPYC families for 2028 and starts selling server CPUs by the agent — Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza to be applied across AI-focused product stack
The company named Florence, Ferrara, and Fidenza in its launch release, extended its annual CPU, GPU, networking, and rack cadence out to 2030.
'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room': Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to
Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, filed a case against a data center for generating noise pollution 24/7 for over two years. They said that the site has violated city noise ordinances but hasn't made any improvements.
Chinese memory maker CXMT posts blistering 466% leap in Shanghai IPO — bulk of spending to be focused on DRAM production, no HBM in sight
The prospectus splits 29.5 billion yuan across three projects.
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with AMD's brand-new 7700X3D — Ryzen 7 with an X870 motherboard, G.Skill Ripjaws, and an AIO for just $588
Get a single stick of 16GB DDR5 RAM for just $16 when you buy it with a Ryzen 7 7700X3D and MSI Pro X870-P motherboard.
Save $1,000 on Lenovo's over-the-top RTX 5090 gaming laptop — this 18-inch monster packs 64GB of RAM and up to a 440Hz refresh rate
B&H Photo has chopped $1,000 off the price of this super-powerful RTX 5090-laden Lenovo Legion 9i gaming laptop with 64GB of RAM
California's largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-
Buildout of large AI data centers in regions historically specializing on agriculture may have long-lasting
Physicists turn particles in chaotic orbits into liquid computers — but this fluid hardware still trails memristor rivals
Each oscillator is a silica sphere of 3m radius, capped on one side with 80nm of carbon and suspended in a water-lutidine mixture held at 28C.
Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70,000 — DIY medical equipment costs less than 7% of a full-sized MRI machine’s $1.1 million starting price
This open-source project uses 3D printing to build the core of a portable MRI machine, although it still has a lower resolution compared to multi-million-dollar full-sized machines. One tech expert suggested that an AI model be trained on high-field MRI data or the physics of the actual machine to overcome this limitation.
Chinese CXMT DRAM doesn't look like the budget savior many were expecting — new modules enter the market, but prices still track the big three
Chinese retail listings indicate that CXMT-based memory modules are priced similarly to those featuring chips from the big three, despite expectations that they must be cheaper.
XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to its lowest price of the summer — save $90 on AMD's flagship RDNA 4 graphics card
If you've been waiting for RX 9070 XT prices to fall, this $90 discount on XFX's triple-fan Quicksilver model is one of the best deals currently available.
Minecraft system requirements raised for the first time in 17 years — Microsoft now recommends 16GB of RAM and a 2020s or newer CPU to run the Java Edition
Microsoft is increasing the minimum and recommended system requirements for Minecraft for the first time, 17 years after it launched. Although the system upgrade is quite reasonable and the hardware falls squarely within the most popular components in the most recent Steam Hardware Survey, those playing with a bare-minimum PC would have to upgrade their systems.
HP OmniBook X Flip 14 Review: Premium design, middling performance
Though HP's OmniBook X Flip 14 offers premium quality and features, rivals offer better display value or stronger performance for the money.
3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor' — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things
An FPGA and embedded systems expert has recreated the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer (CADC) in an FPGA. It is demonstrated in a scale 3D printed model aircraft
Zeiss expands German site that caps ASML's EUV scanner output — first new building opens four years after Oberkochen site groundbreaking
Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology has confirmed that it's adding around 25,000 square meters of production and production-adjacent space at Oberkochen in southern Germany.
AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second
A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does
An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousands of users was found to have zero authentication and security. That means anyone can access its backend and siphon users' data, including names, email addresses, and birthdates. While the issue has since been resolved, it remained open for six months (or longer) with the developers not taking any action.
OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community — left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure
OpenAI tests multiple autonomous AI agents at once and has difficulty identifying the threats each of them represents, if a new report from Reuters is accurate.
'RAM Machine' case probably costs more than the entire build — Nvidia RTX 5060, Core Ultra 5 CPU, and 32GB DDR5-8200 RAM are hiding inside
A Redditor is giving away an RTX 5060 gaming PC that's covered by RAM on the outside and has 32GB of RAM on the inside. You can join the sweepstakes simply by leaving a comment on the post.
Grab an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with Core Ultra 7 CPU and 32GB RAM for under $1,200 — Thermaltake's View u2660T-170 slashed by 33%
Thermaltake has a no-brainer deal up on Woot right now where it'll let you have an $1,800 PC for as little as 1,177. For that price, you're getting an RTX 5060 Ti (8GB), a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, and a nice ARGB case.
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion AI partnership — plan to supercharge AI infrastructure with next-gen memory and massive AI factories
Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure
Delaware’s Printed Solid rebrands to Prusa USA
Printed Solid, the Delaware-based filament manufacturer acquired by Czech Prusa Research in 2022, is now known as Prusa USA, Inc.
AOC U32G4 32-inch 4K Dual-Refresh gaming monitor review: Solid performance and value
AOC redefines the budget 4K gaming monitor with its U32G4. This 32-inch IPS panel sports 160 Hz, 320 Hz in FHD resolution, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color for around $320.
Microsoft shipped a native Xbox 360 emulator with its new backwards-compatible releases on PC — modders quickly got 360 games running with minor tweaks
Microsoft dropped four OG Xbox titles on PC a couple of days ago and they came with a native Xbox 360 emulator baked in. These games are packaged as Xbox 360 files, to the emulator runs them as such, then another emulator takes over to translate OG Xbox code inside the virtualized 360 environment.
Game Compressor can save you hundreds of GB across your game library — as storage prices remain high, utility leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings
Game Compressor leverages Windows' built-in LZX compression for substantial space savings and can save you hundreds of gigs across your game library.
Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system, shooting down Su-57 in friendly fire incident — Moscow confirms fifth-generation fighter jet crashed in 'technical malfu
An advanced fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jet crashed spectacularly during a routine training mission in the Moscow region on Thursday," say reports published by Russian state media. But some Ukrainian sources are claiming it as successful sabotage.
Lockheed Martin unveils counter-drone system that can ‘neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission’ — sensor-agnostic system uses High Power Microwave to purge enemies from
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a ground-launched high-power microwave counter-drone system which cab 'neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission.'
RAM thieves in China jailed after looting a string of eSport hotels — stole 16 sticks worth $2,000 in 'frenzied hotel room-dismantling'
The rise and fall of a pair of eSports hotel RAM thieves has been retold by Chinese news media.
Nvidia and 24 other companies sign open-weights letter as Washington weighs Chinese AI model ban — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google absent from the list
Signatories include chipmakers, server vendors, cloud operators, enterprise software firms, security companies, and venture funds
Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028 as its sales rise 25% year-over-year
Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.
Geekom A9 Max 2026 review: Gorgon Point in a compact Mini PC
Mini PC specialist Geekom has updated its A9 Max design with AMD's latest mobile silicon. The incremental improvements of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX470 are supported by a revamped Ice Blast 3.0 cooling solution with larger fan and all copper heatpipes in a sleek 0.9L chassis.
OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare — contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse
Contemporary AI bots are far too competent at cybersecurity, and humanity may have reached a tipping point where it's hard to keep up.
Dell 14S review: High-class design and 20+ hour battery life
The Dell 14S makes good on its promise of serving as a cheaper alternative to the pricier XPS 14.
AMD working on new X3D V-cache mobile chip for gaming laptops, leaker claims — Ryzen 7 9800HX3D could launch with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB cache
A fresh leak suggests AMD is preparing an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 mobile processor with 96MB of L3 cache, potentially bringing the desktop Ryzen 7 9800X3D experience to gaming laptops.
Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5
The performance is impressive and it's good to see official support, but the question remains whether you can actually buy any of it.
South Korean memory giants Samsung and SK Hynix are set to announce massive deals with leading U.S. tech firms, report claims — Korean president arrives in Silicon Valley for meetings and high-p
Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to unveil multibillion-dollar memory-chip partnerships with major U.S. technology companies during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco
AMD exec was ‘very happy’ to see Nvidia‘s Vera performance results – ‘I actually thought we were beating them by smaller numbers’
Nvidia took the first stab with its Vera results earlier this week, and now AMD is biting back with SPEC results for its Zen 6 Venice' CPUs, as well.
'When will the EA greed end': Fans vent their fury as company announces $150 version of FC 27 — annual game release comes in three editions, but top-tier option is 50% more expensive than GTA VI
EA's FC 27 is available in three options, starting at $69.99 for the base game and going up to $149.99 for the Ultimate Plus Edition. The top-tier option, which costs more than double than the Standard Edition, caused sticker shock for everyone and caught the ire of gamers.
OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days
OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.
President Trump expands AI data center ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ to include state governors and utility companies — White House claims this will make electricity more affordable
U.S. President Donald Trump expands the 'ratepayer protection pledge' to include states, utility companies, and data center developers. He claims that the pledge will help electricity costs go down, even as PJM Interconnect, the largest grid operator in the U.S., increased power costs by 75.5% and slapped Maryland with a $2-billion bill for infrastructure upgrades.
45% off: Slashed to just $1,099, this bargain RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop is discounted by $900 at HP — near half-price HyperX Omen 16 is the perfect gaming laptop for heading back to school
Save a massive $900 on HP's HyperX Omen 16 with RTX 5060. The perfect back-to-school gaming laptop is now only $1,099.
Save $460 on this AMD 9800X3D gaming PC with RTX 5080 — get blistering 4K performance for less
Get an RTX 5080 gaming PC with 9800X3D for $2,829 at Newegg.
AMD confirmed $5.4 billion ATI acquisition 20 years ago today — deal to 'reinvent our industry' paved the way for Radeon GPU innovation, APUs, and games console domination
On this day in 2006, AMD confirmed its acquisition of graphics chip firm ATI. AMD stumped up a cash-and-stock deal worth a total of $5.4B for the Canadian PC graphics innovators.
AMD reveals CPU architecture roadmap through 2028, following Zen 6 'Venice' launch — Zen 7 'Florence' to debut in 2028 alongside diversified product family, confirms Zen 8 'Ravenna' in developme
AMD's Lisa Su shows off the company's roadmap through 2030, including teases of Zen 7 and Zen 8 CPUs.
AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake
Countering Intel's recent moves, AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs to the realm of robots, and physical AI. Designed for 24/7 operation and a 10-year embedded lifecycle, X100 will also be offered as a Kria System on Module (SOM) robot developer platform.
AMD takes the wraps off its Instinct MI455X AI accelerator — CDNA 5 and Helios rack-scale architecture combine to take the fight to Nvidia in the data center
AMD showed off its MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, demonstrating its strong competitive performance, large HBM memory capacity, and Helios rack-scale architecture.
AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions
When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.
Nvidia RTX 3090 and RTX 3050 team up to hit 144 FPS at 4K — Lossless Scaling turns old Ampere GPUs into a gaming powerhouse
A gaming enthusiast leverages Lossless Scaling to supercharge a gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3050 to deliver up to 144 FPS at 4K.
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