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New 7-Zip high-severity vulnerabilities expose systems to remote attackers — users should update to version 25 ASAP
Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in 7-Zip could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening a malicious ZIP archive.
UPS reportedly destroying packages due to customs confusion — thousands of parcels per day are seemingly affected by delays due to documentation issues
UPS is experiencing issues with thousands of parcels due to incomplete information, resulting in customs delays and, in some cases, item destruction.
AmeraLabs introduces elastic 3D printing resin with long-lasting squish — a full bottle is priced at $140
FLX-300 features an exceptionally low compression set, enabling printed parts to spring back to their original shape after repeated deformation reliably.
Trump strikes back at China with a 100% tariff and critical software ban — major escalation retaliates for China's rare earth restrictions
President Trump imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese goods and announced export controls on undefined 'critical software,' a move that could cripple China's tech and manufacturing sectors more than tariffs themselves.
I was ‘forced’ to update to Windows 11, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought — How to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 without tearing your hair out
I prefer using Linux, but upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 was a smooth process. If you are being nagged to upgrade before October 14, then this how to will show just how easy it is.
Bride surprises new husband with an RTX 5090 on wedding day — Chinese number slang reveals surprise gift
A wedding video on social media shows a young couple exchanging gifts, with the groom receiving a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.
Oklahoma man charged with supplying over one hundred 3D-printed machine gun conversion kits to a person he thought was an al-Qaida operative — suspect allegedly shipped a range of firearms parts
A resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma is facing a potential 20 years in prison, for supplying another individual hundreds of 3D printed gun components.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Review: The Next Generation
The next generation of Titan Evo range sees a new leatherette fabric and supportive padding to keep you gaming and working in relative comfort.
Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum — historic array includes Sinclair (Timex) ZX Spectrum 48K and Commodore 64
A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum.
Battlefield 6 peaks at 747,000 concurrent players — newly launched game ranks among the top three most-played on Steam today
Hours after the Battlefield 6 launch, concurrent player counts have reached upwards of 747,000 on Steam, making the game the third most-played game on the platform.
InferenceMax AI benchmark tests software stacks, efficiency, and TCO — vendor-neutral suite runs nightly and tracks performance changes over time
InferenceMax AI benchmark measures software stacks, efficiency, and TCO
President Trump warns of massively increased tariffs in wake of China's rare earth mineral 'monopoly position' — Xi Jinping meeting cancelled as Trump promises retaliation for Beijing's expanded
President Trump, in a fiery Truth Social post, has just warned China about potential new tarriffs as a response to Beijing's expanded export controls surrounding rare earth minerals. Trump says for every element China monopolizes, America has two, and that other moves are also being considered in retaliation.
Intel's 18A production starts before TSMC’s competing N2 tech — here's how the two process nodes compare
Intel has begun mass production of its Core Ultra 3 'Panther Lake' processors built on 18A node at Fab 52 in Arizona, marking the first large-scale deployment of this advanced process ahead of TSMC's N2.
U.S. Senate passes bill that forces AI chipmakers to prioritize sales to American companies — House now set to amend or pass legislation
The Senate just passed the bill forcing Nvidia and AMD to prioritize US orders over exports.
SoftBank is seeking $5 billion loan to invest in OpenAI, plans to use Arm shares as collateral — rapid AI expansion continues, investment could top $30 billion
SoftBank is securing a $5 billion loan backed by Arm shares to expand its OpenAI and AI infrastructure investments, raising total Arm-collateralized debt to $18.5 billion and further highlighting its leveraged AI expansion strategy.
Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center after community pushback — 244-acre Caledonia site on hold, but Redmond says it remains committed to the region
Microsoft is canceling its plans to build a data center near the Oak Creek Power Plant after the community rallied against its plans.
Back to its all-time low price, Alienware's AW3225QF4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is reduced by $350 in Dell's post-Prime Day deal
Save $350 off the price of Alienware's gorgeous 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor.
China’s new rare-earth curbs target chipmaking industry in retaliation to US restrictions — rare earth curbs reach back to older 14nm process tech and 256-layer memory
China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain.
China bans research company that helped unearth Huawei's use of TSMC tech despite U.S. bans — TechInsights added to Unreliable Entity List by state authorities
Beijing has banned TechInsights from doing business with Chinese companies because it has "defied China's strong objections to engage in activities such as so-called military-technical cooperation with Taiwan, made malicious remarks concerning China, and assisted foreign governments in suppressing Chinese companies."
Microsoft deploys world's first 'supercomputer-scale' GB300 NVL72 Azure cluster — 4,608 GB300 GPUs linked together to form a single, unified accelerator capable of 92.1 exaFLOPS of FP4 inference
Microsoft has just added a GB300 NVL72 supercluster to Azure, deploying a total of 4,608 GB300 GPUs across 64 racks. Each rack consists of 72x GPUs interconnected via NVLink, allowing for 1.44 PFLOPS of FP4 Tensor Core performance. Each rack is then intra-connected via Quantum-X800 InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s per GPU.
China issues port crackdown on all Nvidia AI chip imports, says report — enforcement teams deployed to quash smuggling and investigate data center hardware, targeting H20 and RTX 6000D shipments
Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on unlicensed Nvidia chip shipments, with enforcement teams deploying at major ports to inspect hardware shipments.
Singapore company allegedly helped China smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway
An investigation has uncovered that a Singapore-based firm with Chinese ties bought $2 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPUs through Inspur's U.S. subsidiary to funnel them to Malaysia and Indonesia, where they were allegedly used by clients from China or resold to customers in the PRC.
Spacious 24TB hard drive is a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB HDD is back on sale for $249
This Seagate BarraCuda 24TB HDD is available at Newegg for $249-one of its best prices to date and an excellent deal for anyone in need of storage.
Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance
Sony and AMD teased several new technologies that will be making their way into Sony's next-generation console, dubbed Project Amethyst. Upgrades include new cores for rendering path tracing in real time and a new interconnect that will boost AI-rendering performance.
The best 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 is still 28% off — save $62 on the Lexar Play Pro 1TB
Amazon Prime Day is over, but you can still get this awesome Lexar Play Pro 1TB microSD Express card for your Switch 2 for a whopping 28% off.
Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools in these prime Day deals you can still get — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera
3D printers need maintenance and with these great tools you'll be producing great prints all day long.
3D Printer Sales Bonanza is still ongoing after Prime Day — these are the best deals we found at all five sales
There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you.
Concerns grow after spate of social media posts showing SpaceX Starlink satellites burning in the sky — we are currently seeing a ‘couple of satellite re-entries a day,’ says respect
An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.
South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke
858 TB of South Korean government data goes up in smoke, with no backups
AMD could beat Nvidia to launching AI GPUs on the cutting-edge 2nm node — Instinct MI450 is officially the first AMD GPU to launch with TSMC's finest tech
AMD is set to use TSMC's leading-edge N2 fabrication process for its next-generation CDNA 5-based Instinct MI450 accelerators, but Nvidia's Rubin may have an edge over these GPUs when it comes to brute force compute performance.
Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture breaks cover — Panther Lake's 12 Xe Core iGPU promises 50+% better performance than Lunar Lake
Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture arrives on Panther Lake CPUs, and Intel has used it to build its largest, highest-performance integrated GPU yet.
Intel takes the wraps off Panther Lake — first 18A client processor brings the best of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake together in one package
Today, Intel is giving the world its first look at Panther Lake, its first family of laptop SoCs to incorporate cutting-edge 18A silicon. With Cougar Cove P-cores, Darkmont E-cores, and up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores, Panther Lake is poised to bring the efficiency of Lunar Lake and the scalability of Arrow Lake-H together in one family of chips.
Best Amazon Prime Day Tech Deals You Can Still Get Live Blog — Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
Here is live coverage of the best Amazon Prime Big Deals Day deals across tech, PC hardware, laptops, SSDs, peripherals, accessories, and more.
China expands rare-earth export controls, creating risks for PC component supply — Beijing tightens grip on materials for HDDs and more to protect national security
China has expanded its export controls on rare-earth elements, adding new items to a growing list of restricted materials and processing technologies.
Washington's ambition for a 50/50 semiconductor deal with Taiwan is missing a key component — lack of a mature homegrown supply chain could be the missing link
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's plan to split leading-edge chip production equally between America and Taiwan seeks greater self-sufficiency and security but lacks clarity, overlooks U.S. industry realities, and remains largely symbolic given global dependencies on Japan, Europe, and Korea for materials, tools, and memory.
Valve's next-gen 'Deckard' VR headset reportedly enters mass production, company allegedly plans to ship up to 600K units annually — upcoming 'Steam Frame' could launch before the end of the yea
Steam's upcoming "Deckard" next-gen VR headset is said to have entered production, with 400,000-600,000 units planned to be shipped every year. Deckard, which may be officially named the Steam Frame, is poised to cost up to $1,200, and be released before the end of the year.
Legendary Microsoft developer reveals the true story behind the most famous product activation key of all time — infamous Windows XP 'FCKGW' licensing key was actually 'a disastrous leak'
Legendary Windows dev confirms the infamous XP-era 'FCKGW' volume licensing key was just a leak, not a hack.
Bank of England, IMF, warn AI bubble risk has shades of 2000 dotcom crash — Goldman Sachs cautions we're not there 'yet'
Major banking institutions are starting to warn of an impending market correction for AI companies and their stock prices. Although not all agree when it'll happen, most suggest it is coming as the major industry players continue to invest in each other, driving up investments and share prices in turn.
U.S. finally grants Nvidia license to ship AI GPUs to UAE: 500,000 Blackwell GPUs coming to the Gulf region
The U.S. has approved tens of billions worth of Nvidia AI hardware exports to the UAE under a new bilateral agreement linking up to 500,000 GPU shipments per year with $1.4 trillion in Emirati investment, in the U.S.
Discord says only 70,000 government ID photos exposed in third-party service breach, denies 2.1 million figure — says it won't pay $3.5 million ransom and has cut communications with hackers, wh
Discord has hit back at claims its recent breach via a third-party service revealed government ID photos of over two million users. Instead, it claims only 70,000 were affected, but it's been clear that it will not be paying any blackmail demands, regardless.
AI adoption far outpaces that of the early Internet — report sheds light on worldwide AI penetration and usage patterns
A Financial Times report sheds light on worldwide AI penetration and usage patterns
Lucky PC builder snipes RTX 5090 for just $1,119 — humbles proud shopper who scored one for $1,399 just two days earlier
Two Redditors compete online to see who bought the cheapest GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.
RISC-V set to announce 25% market penetration — open-standard ISA is ahead of schedule, securing fast-growing silicon footprint
RISC-V International will announce that silicon on the ISA has reached 25% market penetration later this month. This outpaces projections set just last year by other research groups like Omdia.
Anker’s 25,000 mAh Laptop Power Bank is $89 for Prime Day — this discounted portable charger includes two integrated USB-C cables and 165W max output
At $89.99, the Anker Laptop Power Bank is TSA-approved and ready to power all of your portable devices
3D Printer Sales Bonanza during Prime Day 2025 — these are the best deals we found at all five sales
There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you.
These are the best CPU cooler deals we found this Prime Day, up to 37% off — deals from Cooler Master, Thermalright, MSI, Corsair, and Thermaltake for every budget
As Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day comes to a close, there's still a chance to snag some awesome deals on CPU coolers. We have singled out options from across the board, highlighting the best offers at each price point. Thermalright's Grand Vision 360 is the stand-out deal at the moment, but you can't go wrong with any other option either.
Samsung's speedy 24-inch 180Hz gaming monitor hits historical all-time $109 low — nearly half-price Odyssey G3 G30D is $90 off on stellar sale for Prime Day
The Samsung Odyssey G3 G30D gaming monitor has lowered to $139 at Amazon - its lowest price to date.
Keep your PC dust-free with 20% off the Wolfbox MF50 electric air duster during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
If you've been putting off cleaning your PC, this limited-time deal on this air duster might be the perfect reason to finally do it.
This deal is the cheapest RTX 5070 graphics card on the market right now — save $30 off MSRP and get free games with this Nvidia RTX 5070 gaming GPU for Prime Day
Newegg sells the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Twin Edge OC for $519.99, $30 below its MSRP.
Nvidia is turning GPUs into capital, but questions exist around sustainability — AI companies are financing hardware like debt, as bank warns of 'sharp market correction'
As demand for GPUs outpaces supply, AI companies are financing hardware through debt, leasing, and vendor-backed equity. Elon Musk's xAI and OpenAI are at the center of billion-dollar deals that blur the line between chip vendor and capital provider.
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