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A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade to a newer model if payments are completed early.

Five tech giants have $1.65 trillion in data center obligations that are listed off their balance sheets. These liabilities are added as footnotes in their quarterly statements but will become due and payable once these data centers start operating.

Meta will reportedly use a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400-series accelerators with a memory system cut to 144GB of HBM4, allegedly for select workloads only.

The developers of the RPCS3 have announced that their PlayStation 3 emulator's minimum system requirements have been adjusted to include a crop of even older Radeon graphics cards. Now gamers still cradling ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPUs can join in the fun.

What started as a routine Costco grocery run ended with a heavily discounted display gaming PC, complete with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its gang escape from their cage and hack into HuggingFace's production servers - unprecedented incident raises eyebrows and pulses

China's Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services.

The Amazon site has suffered multiple hits since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran. The IRGC claims to have 'destroyed' AWB Bahrain, but the company has moved operations off the facility since early April.

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China's new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it's just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it's cheaper. But it's not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control.

The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.

Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line 'welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.' This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year.

SMIC's N+3 process technology can achieve transistor density comparable to TSMC's N6 without using EUV lithography, but it fails to deliver performance or efficiency of modern production nodes.

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Nvidia has just created an antidote to the virus that is AI misinformation. The company's new Synthetic Video Detector can help broadcasters assess 1080p footage at scale with processing times of just 22ms and up 92% accuracy for uncompressed videos.

The U.S. may be reigniting efforts to push companies away from Chinese open-weight AI models such as Kimi and DeepSeek.

Microsoft and AMD are teaming up to get Redmond more AI FLOPS for both internal and external use.

Utilities can use eminent domain to seize private land for new transmission lines needed to power data centers, though public-use and state-law limits still apply.

Samsung Display has announced that it is now supplying its first mass-produced VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 monitor panels to laptop makers including Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and MSI.

A 3D printing enthusiast has resurrected dbrand's cancelled Steam Machine Companion Cube as a DIY project.

The first big discount on Logitech's new G Pro X2 Superstrike haptic gaming mouse. Save $54 at Amazon, and grab this high-tech mouse at its lowest-ever price.