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Updated 2025-12-28 13:45
Rainbow Six Siege is under siege by hackers, Ubisoft forced to take all servers offline — players randomly received billions of credits, ultra-exclusive skins, and bans or unbans
Unknown entities have seemingly taken control of Rainbow Six Siege, giving away billions in credits and other rare goodies to random players. Ubisoft took down all online services, with servers still unavailable at the time of writing.
You can now buy 2 terabytes of DDR5 server RAM for the low price of just $39,000, and 4 TB for $77,000 — Nemix offers chart-topping capacities amidst an industry shortage
As we face an unprecedented memory crisis, some vendors are still upping the ceiling, introducing higher capacity RAM kits for eye-gouging prices. This time, though, it's registered ECC server memory not meant for consumers, and therefore, asking the price of a borderline luxurious car is justified here.
Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff
Raptor Lake vs Arrow Lake Clash!
Chinese GPU manufacturer Zephyr confirms dead RDNA 2 GPU chips due to cracking, bulging, or shorting — Company says it has replaced several dead Navi 21 cores under warranty
A two-year-old cold case has reawakened as GPU OEM Zephyr has said it has replaced several dying Navi 21 cores on RX 6000 series graphics cards. Previously, this was an isolated incident that never got much attention, so this is our first outside confirmation of the high-end RDNA 2 GPU dies going poof and being RMA'd.
Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers
We have seen these types of mods on multiple generations of Nvidia cards; it was only inevitable that the RTX 5080 would get the same treatment.
110-pound cast-iron Victorian radiator upcycled into a gaming PC — massive radiator used for cooling the bottom-mounted PC components
Billet Labs have teased a new gaming PC build where a 110 pound cast iron radiator is (almost entirely) the PC.
Extremely rare East German games console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at auction
One of the rarest video games consoles has been acquired and tested by YouTube docu-channel Fern.
Amiga A500 Mini user builds working scale-sized Commodore 1084 monitor with 3D printed components — 3D printer project details shared for all
A retro computing aficionado with a love of the classic mini releases has built a complementary, compact, and cute 'Commodore 1084 Mini' monitor.
GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his 'inability to count to three' — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-S
GameStop just released a press release saying that it will help Valve co-founder Gabe Newell learn how to count to three.
ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver
OpenAI is reportedly still working on baking in ads into ChatGPT's results despite Altman's 'Code Red' earlier this month.
Xbox Full-Screen Experience support come to Lenovo Legion Go devices in latest update, with native FSE toggle — Legion Space now available as a widget in Xbox Game Bar
Lenovo Legion Go devices that already have FSE support can now enjoy richer integration with Microsoft's console-like UI, thanks to a new Legion Space update. Lenovo has added new shortcuts and a native Xbox Game Bar widget to expand Xbox FSE functionality, along with an FSE toggle right inside Legion Space.
Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store
Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up.
This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is the cheapest we've seen at $700 off — Get MSI's Vector 16 with a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU, 16 GB DDR5 RAM, and a 240Hz screen for just $1,299
MSI has put its Vector 16 gaming laptop on sale for just $1,299 at Walmart, offering a 35% discount for a beastly hardware combo. You get a Ryzen 9 8940HX, an RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB SSD, all backed up with a 90Wh battery. As far as RTX 5070 Ti laptops go, it has never gotten any cheaper.
Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’
Mirari, a Micro-ATX mainboard designed to "breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform," is set to launch mid-2026.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power wire reportedly caught fire despite using the original cable — CPU cooler's tubing was also caught in the blaze
We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, despite using a native 12V-2x6 cable on an ATX 3.1 certified PSU. The person smelled fire, saw it, and lived to tell the tale, all on Christmas eve.
Old Ryzen AM4 CPUs top US, UK Amazon charts as DDR5 pricing pushes buyers to last-gen platform — DDR4-friendly Ryzen 5 5800X, XT claim spots in the top 5
The five-year-old Ryzen 7 5800X and its 2024 refresh, the 5800XT, are among the best-selling CPUs this holiday season despite being two generations behind Zen 5.
Seagate's 22TB Expansion external hard drive drops to an all-time low of $249.99 — ideal for massive backups and data archives
The Seagate Expansion 22TB external HDD delivers huge storage capacity at a steep discount, making it a compelling choice for users who need dependable, plug-and-play mass storage.
No, Asus isn't going into memory manufacturing — Taiwanese tech giant issues statement smashing rumor
Asus has directly shut down a spurious rumor claiming it would enter the memory market within the next six months.
AMD's dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears in first benchmark leaks — gaming-focused CPU features 192MB of L3 cache stacked across both CCDs
AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and Geekbench, with amicable scores to boot.
The best Boxing Day tech deals at Amazon UK, Argos, Currys, Very, and more — huge price drops on gaming PCs, 3D printers, laptops, and peripherals
Christmas might be over with, but it's time to secure yourself a Boxing Day tech deal. We've put together a list of the best discounts from retailers including Amazon, Currys, Argos, Very, and more.
Nvidia reportedly backs away from its effort to make its own public cloud, team reorg eases friction with customers — chipmaker shifts unit's focus to internal R&D
Nvidia has reorganized its cloud computing group, further scaling back its ambitions to operate a public cloud service that would directly compete with Amazon Web Services.
Shrug off the RAM price crisis with this $180 off ASRock X870 Taichi bundle — 32GB V-Color DDR5-6000 RAM and Cooler Master 212 CPU cooler included
Buy this combo deal and get a flagship-class X870E Taichi motherboard, 32GB of V-Color XFinity+ DDR5-6000 RAM, and a free CPU heatsink for $529.99.
LG UltraGear evo gaming monitor lineup announced ahead of CES 2026 — 27-inch 5K Mini LED, 39-inch curved Tandem OLED, and a 52-inch 5K2K large format display
LG is expanding its gaming monitor portfolio with the launch of UltraGear evo, a premium sub-brand that brings a 5K Mini LED monitor with 2,304 dimming zones, a curved 5K2K OLED ultrawide, and the world's largest 5K2K gaming display
How China’s control of battery supply chains is becoming a critical risk for U.S. military power and AI initiatives — reducing reliance will take nearly a decade
According to a special report by the New York Times, the U.S. government is concerned about how China sits at the center of that ecosystem, controlling large portions of battery manufacturing and processing.
Intel displays tech to build extreme multi-chiplet packages 12 times the size of the largest AI processors, beating TSMC's biggest — floorplan the size of a cellphone, armed with HBM5, 14A compu
Intel Foundry has released a video of a multi-chiplet 2.5D/3D processor with a 10,296 mm^2 silicon footprint, including leading-edge technologies such as 14A and 18A.
Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA — Take Two says DOS Zone infringed company’s intellectual property rights despite disclaimers and requirement to
Take-Two takes down the online demo of GTA: Vice City found on DOS Zone - says it violates its copyright.
Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 S27FG60 27-inch 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Phenomenal performance and color
Samsung brings maximum performance to one of its most colorful monitors with the Odyssey OLED G6 S27FG60. It's a 27-inch QD-OLED with 500 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR True Black 500, HDR10, HDR10+ and wide gamut color.
Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft
Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years.
Robots fashioned from dead lobster exoskeletons have awesome strength, light weight, and flexibility — necrobotics advance mixes sustainable food waste with synthetic components
Swiss scientists have demonstrated the use of dead lobster tails as robotic appendages.
Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead — lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives
In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis.
Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet
Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact.
Laptop maker Framework announces another immediate memory price hike, says additional increase expected within a month — encourages buyers to bring their own memory and check PCPartPicker for be
Framework is increasing the prices of its memory modules in response to market pricing once more. Also encourages its buyers to look for better deal elsewhere as the memory market crunch bites into the PC building industry.
AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines — firm asks U.S. DOE for a loan guarantee to start the project
A Texas energy startup proposes repurposing retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in AI data centers.
This AMD-powered iBuyPower prebuilt has 32GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an RX 9060 XT GPU for just $1000 — $250 off provides pricing relief during RAM pricing crisis
As memory prices remain stubbornly high, this $999 iBuyPower Slate gaming PC delivers a well-rounded AMD configuration.
Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO
Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made.
Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support — users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers
Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July. Arch is now using the 590 Nvidia Linux driver as its default Nvidia driver, which lacks Pascal support.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions, performs similarly to five-year-old Intel Tiger Lake chips — promising chip continues to be plagued by softwar
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions
Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs
What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB.
China chipmaker SMIC raises wafer prices by about 10% as memory demand tightens capacity
The adjustment comes as China's largest foundry runs near full utilization and faces sustained demand from domestic customers building inventories of memory and logic chips.
Starlink satellite pictured ‘tumbling’ after recent ‘anomaly’ in space — it will be incinerated when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere in a few weeks
Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Pi-calculating record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth
StorageReview takes the Pi crown again with 314 trillion digits calculated
Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing
An innovative power supply that relocates modular connectors to the chassis side for superior cable management, delivering Cybenetics Platinum efficiency under a Gold-level marketing badge for builders willing to verify case compatibility.
TSMC’s Christmas Card evokes a retro 8-bit winter wonderland — ‘pixelated’ kids play Breakout with snowballs, carving out a festive scene
TSMC has shared a super-cool digital greetings card with a retro-nostalgic 8-bit style gaming animation.
This $299 Asus 4K gaming monitor is back to its lowest ever price — save $170 on this budget-friendly IPS display with fast 160Hz refresh rate and Nvidia G-Sync support
This impressive Asus ROG gaming monitor, with a 4K resolution and HDR support, along with a decent 160Hz refresh rate, is back at its lowest ever price on Amazon for just $299.
Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD
Taiwan's iPass has released a new custom payment card that looks just like a Floppy Disk.
New $110 Intel Z790 motherboard with DDR4 support is a Christmas gift to the world amid the memory pricing crisis — an affordable home for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs
Chinese manufacturer Onda launches the Z790PRO WiFi B4 motherboard with a sub-$100 price tag.
AMD EXPO 1.2 could supercharge Ryzen CPUs with CUDIMM support amid global DRAM crunch — full AMD CUDIMM support is on the horizon
AMD prepares EXPO 1.2 revision that could bring CUDIMM support to next-generation Ryzen processors.
The Christmas Present Peeker Trap uses an ESP32 Cam board, photoresistor, buzzer, and connected app to catch even the sneakiest of gift glimpsers
Here's a project for makers who suspect that they have a Christmas present peeker in their home.
Motherboard, CPU, and RAM bundle deal for $629.99 makes it feel like there’s no memory shortage — nearly $240 in savings
Newegg is offering a massive discount when you purchase this motherboard, processor, and memory bundle.
SK hynix expands U.S. presence with new Bellevue, Seattle office in efforts to get closer to its largest customers — offices near Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft highlight co-designed HBM efforts
SK hynix is expanding its U.S. presence with a new office in the Seattle metropolitan area, placing the world's leading HBM supplier within minutes of Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft.
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