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TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC - RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature

Researchers from Curtin University in Australia have come up with a way to potentially track down seized 3D-printed guns to their source by identifying differences in material properties in various PLA products.

PsiQuantum's eight-port optical switch typically loses 1.2 dB, under a quarter of its light, where data centers allow up to 3 dB.

An investigation revealed that thousands of drives have been lost, with officials having no idea where they could be.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.

The properties will supposedly house SpaceXSI staff while also giving a chance to those who don't want to live near the data center to sell their homes.

The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental preservation organizations in the U.S., has now put forth an estimate that by 2030, U.S. data center buildouts will be outputting as much carbon dioxide as the entirety of Mexico.

It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.

Sources say that Alice Huang, a senior executive at an Nvidia cloud partner who has close ties with Jensen Huang, is suspected of passing information to Beijing.

Nvidia's near $13 billion buyout of Hugging Face has come under scrutiny over concerns that it will impact competition in the AI space.

Tech whizz' internet-accessible Synology NAS gets bit by transomware attack - security updates 18 months out of date in a series of catastrophic errors

Over the past six months, CPUs have taken center stage as agentic AI workloads evolve. Here's our first attempt at trying to measure CPU performance when running agentic workloads.

You can save $1,250 on this Alienware Aurora gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, now priced at just $2,599.99.

Fujifilm plans to increase the production of magnetic tape by as much as 5x as it works to meet a newfound demand for AI data center storage.

This Newegg AM5 combo deal is $234 off. Priced at only $1,069, you get a Ryzen7 9800X3D, X870E Aorus Elite Wifi7 board, 32GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000 RAM and a free MSI AIO cooler.

Anthropic's S-1 splits its $8.9 billion H1 compute bill: most went to R&D, with less than a third estimated to serve Claude customers.

A research administrator at the University of Kentucky was granted a Title VII exemption, allowing them to not use AI tools as it goes against their moral beliefs.

Dayton, MN's city council removed Flock cameras and canceled its contract in August, but Flock reinstalled cameras anyway, almost a month after the program's suspension.

Malaysian customs seized 30 servers containing more than $12 million worth of advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, as authorities investigate a suspected smuggling network linked to multiple previous seizures.

PC manufacturing in China tends to be cheaper because of an established supply chain and workforce. Smaller Chinese suppliers are also winning orders by offering easier access to domestic chip manufacturers like CXMT.

Amazon has published new engineering guidelines warning developers and managers against tokenmaxxing,' arguing that AI usage metrics are deeply flawed' unless tied to long-term outcomes. The move follows similar spending concerns at Uber and Accenture.

50 U.S. marines are joining a NATO mission to help protect and monitor undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

Solidigm, an American subsidiary of SK hynix, is in discussions about potentially investing $45 billion in a new flash chip factory that would be built in the United States.

With dozens of titles unofficially ported to PC over the past few months, the big questions are: why is this now possible, and what changed?

The island is building an autonomous system that would work with various drones, allowing it to extend the reach and endurance of its coast guard ships.

Nvidia's Vera CPU is now generally available on Oracle's OCI Superclusters, a win for Nvidia as it moves past NVL72 to a standalone Vera deployment at a major hyperscaler.

Someone listed a massive 300-rack AI supercomputer on eBay for $59.7M. Packed with 9,600 A100 GPUs and 4,200 EPYC CPUs, it even ships for free.

$4,700 audiophile-grade network hub promises a noise-free experience and music with "emotional impact." Seven isolation stages per port were chosen with "listening comparisons"

Award-winning mathematician Richard Brocherds says that it's a waste of time and money to grade AI answers, so he now only uses in-person exams to see how well his students are doing in his classes.

The defense contractor aims to fully bring back laptop manufacturing on U.S. shores, with its first BlueChip laptop prototypes having 90% procurement cost coming from suppliers in the U.S. and other allied countries.

Citizen Lab and Confiant linked Israeli firm Discover-Tech to suspected surveillance through online advertising. Researchers said its ads appeared across nearly 200,000 websites and mobile apps. TrendAI separately identified related activity under the codename SHADOW-EARTH-79." The findings raise concerns about ad auctions being exploited to track users across sensitive networks, though ad impressions alone do not confirm spyware infections.

TSMC is reportedly weighing a price increase of up to 20% for its CoWoS advanced packaging technology as Nvidia's Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips intensify pressure on capacity. Equipment deliveries now reportedly take up to eight months, while separate wafer-price increases of 5% to 10% are expected in 2027, with some customers potentially facing total cost increases of up to 25%.