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Updated 2026-05-09 05:45
Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino
Intel and Apple have reportedly reached a deal in which the former will manufacture chips for the latter.
Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now
The price hikes have come for the last remaining current-gen console, as Nintendo has just announced that it'll make the Switch 2 more expensive in various regions around the world. America is getting a $50 bump this September, while Japan will see similar increases by the end of this month. Even Switch Online subscriptions will become costlier.
North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from
Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling overseas access to company laptops via RDP and generating over $1.2 million for the regime.
Maingear MG-1 (2026) review: Fast and clean, for a price
The Maingear MG-1 offers a super-clean build in case with personalization options, but the front panel could use some more ports.
Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11 — ancient Win32 API still the backbone, but CTO says it's 'more relevant than ever in 2026'
A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.
AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent
More jurisdictions across the United States have been enacting a data center ban, with the total number of active bans reaching 50 as of April 2026.
Testing the top Thunderbolt 5 docks with up to 140W Power Delivery, 10 GbE, and even internal M.2 SSD slots — Razer, CalDigit, Hyper, Ivanky, and WAVLINK go head-to-head
We've tested the top Thunderbolt 5 docks on the market, combining six into one battle for the crown.
Save $444 on this top-tier gaming PC combo with Asus Prime RTX 5070, Ryzen 9850X3D, X870E motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — world's fastest gaming CPU meets copious amount of RAM
Newegg's latest combo deal packs AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an Asus X870E motherboard, RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM into a nearly complete AM5 gaming PC for just $1,494.99 - a massive $444 off
The Middle East had everything data center builders and hyperscalers could wish for — then the Iran war happened
The Middle East has been a hotspot for investment into data centers, with multiple large projects in planning, attracting wide global investment. But that belief has been shaken by the disruption within the region after Israel and the United States launched their first attempt to decapitate the Iranian regime.
Save $575 off this stellar gaming PC armed with a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 memory — $1424.99 ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC prebuilt costs less than some of its parts
A 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM are highlights of this great value ABS Flux II Aqua prebuilt gaming PC.
Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business
Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County data center.
SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hun
The offers go well beyond standard long-term supply agreements.
Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing
Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are just about keeping up with the rising costs, but individual preservationists have given up for the time being. This is all on top of websites blocking scraping bots because of AI.
Google's DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations
Google will leverage data from one of the most complex and multi-layered sci-fi RPGs to train its AI, as DeepMind begins training in Eve Online.
Valve opens Steam Controller reservations today at 10 AM PT after record-breaking sell-out — reservation queue puts real fans ahead of automated bots
Valve will open Steam Controller reservations on May 8 at 10 AM PT, with a limit of one controller per user.
Lenovo joins retro gaming handheld race with new G02 system — handheld for sale on AliExpress, listed on Lenovo's official China site
AliExpress has started selling the Lenovo G02, a retro handheld gaming device that the company has not announced.
Devastating 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo b
Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available
AMD announces MI350P PCIe AI accelerator card with 144GB of HBM3E — roughly 40% faster in FP16 and FP8 theoretical compute compared to Nvidia's H200 NVL competitor
AMD launches a new MI350P PCIe AI-accelerator card with half the cores and memory of its flagship Instinct MI355X GPU. The new card provides customers with a drop-in upgrade solution for existing air-cooled servers.
White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion
The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
Lian Li’s new DK07 Wood motorized standing desk doubles as a dual-PC chassis with support for E-ATX systems and massive cooling setups — five new wood-finished models are available now
The updated version adds a dark walnut finish while retaining support for dual systems, large GPUs, and extensive cooling setups.
Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRoc
The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs.
Now 15% off, Razer's fantastic Basilisk V3 Pro wireless mouse with 30K DPI sensor is reduced to clear in this limited deal — 30K DPI sensor, optical switches, and long battery life for only $84
Grab 15% off the fantastic Razer Bailisk V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse at Woot in this limited clearance sale.
Intel Core Ultra 5 225 review: Arrow Lake’s forgotten CPU needs a price cut
Intel's Core Ultra 5 225 has been swept under the rug, given the disappointing debut of Arrow Lake, but with a slight price adjustment, it could be a compelling CPU.
Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,”
Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.
Save $1,100 on this powerful gaming rig with Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, Intel 14900KF, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage — ABS Stratos Aqua on deep discount
Score the potent ABS Stratos Aqua ready-to-game prebuilt with i9-14900KF and RTX 5070 Ti for just $2,175.
Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose&
Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do.
After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT
Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities.
High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies
As data center demand surges toward zettabyte scale, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital are pursuing sharply different technology strategies in their pursuit towards 100TB and beyond.
GameNative unlocks up to 100 fps gameplay for PC games on Android devices by adding multi-frame generation — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance
GameNative's latest update brings Lossless Scaling's multi-frame generation technology to Android devices. Enabling a triple-digit FPS experience from a 30 FPS base frame rate.
College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 l
College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains
Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 bi
Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company's chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.
Save nearly $300 on AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Asus Prime RTX 5070 bundle, plus an 850W PSU — score the core components to a new gaming rig for only $940
Pick up a 9850X3D, RTX 5070, 850W PSU, and a copy of Capcom's Pragmata game for just $940
3D-printed rocket fuel successfully tested, could enable lighter missiles and faster production rates — new additive manufacturing process tested at 1,800 PSI
Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing.
PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028
PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans
Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.
Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%
Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.
Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don't want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood
According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of last year, almost half of all queried Americans said they would oppose an AI data center being built near their community.
Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device
Valve just released the 3D CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, allowing gamers and enthusiasts to design and 3D print their own accessories for these gadgets. The company even encouraged everyone to share their creations.
New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options
The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays. The startup behind this model is a small team based in rural England and runs out of a barn located some 30 miles southeast of London.
AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs
AMD plans to expand its portfolio of CPUs for data centers that will be targeted at different workloads.
SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 Review: The Bright and Bold
The SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 is a really good mouse, despite being a little sluggish.
Dell XPS 16 (2026) Review: A flagship return to form
Dell's revived XPS 16 delivers the elite experience the brand is renowned for, though be prepared to pay for the privilege.
Score this 500Hz 27-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED gaming monitor at its lowest ever price, now just $649.99 — huge $349 saving nets you ultra-fast G60SF display with Nvidia G-Sync support
This Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SF gaming monitor is now at an all-time low price of just $649.99 for a limited-time only, thanks to Woot, saving you $349.
Grab a prebuilt RTX 5060 Ti 16GB gaming PC for just $1,063 using stackable discounts — Skytech Shadow 4 Gaming PC offers superb value without breaking the bank
For just a snip over $1000, you can bag yourself an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB-powered gaming rig when you apply these stackable discounts.
SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk's Terafab — total chipmaking fab investment could reach $119 billion
The capital figures in this filing far exceed what was disclosed when Elon Musk announced Terafab in March, where the project carried a $20 billion price tag.
Apple quietly axes 128GB Mac Studio amid supply constraints and local AI frenzy — highest memory capacity reduced to 96GB, two months after discontinuation of 512GB model
Apple quietly pulls high Unified Memory capacity Mac Studios and Mac minis from the Apple store as the memory crunch continues to affect consumer products.
AMD posts record first-quarter results, driven by skyrocketing data center CPU demand — company expects consumer andgaming revenue to decline in Q2 over rising memory and component costs
AMD sets record data center revenue as demand for CPUs from the AI sector skyrockets and is poised to increase even further as agentic AI gains momentum.
Global semiconductor sales hit nearly $300 billion in Q1 2026 — chips are on track to top $1 trillion for this year, says report
Sales of chips in Q1 2026 hit $298.5 billion and are on track to exceed $1 trillion this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy
Security researcher says that Google is likely in violation of EU law and wasting thousands upon thousands of kilowatts.
Denmark presses pause on new data center grid connections as total requests hit 60 GW — Nordic nation is the latest to put the brakes on AI buildouts
Denmark's Energinet grid operator has pressed pause on new connection requests in the country as potential new data centers and other installations put total demands of up to 60 GW on its docket.
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