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Aaeon's UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air is the first Panther Lake mini PC we've seen with AirJet technology for ultra-low-noise active cooling.

Nvidia's new Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-powered Sentry hardware to monitor and rapidly quarantine rogue AI agents

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DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Ascend 950 AI chips, including compute and communication libraries, aimed at making Huawei hardware easier to program and optimize.

American custom and prebuilt computer seller Maingear has launched a new instant trade-in scheme through SELLIT9.

Micron makes big money amid the NAND and DRAM shortage. Company expects supply crunch to continue through 2028.

The developers of a leading PlayStation 3 emulator warn of 'a recent influx of fake Blu-ray drives.'

OpenAI says operators copied its models' encrypted reasoning and asked a model in a separate conversation to decrypt it.

Pick up a $720 saving on this RTX 5090 MSI gaming laptop, featuring 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, and an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, now just $3,779.

Micron files a lawsuit against Yangtze Memory, claims that some of the patents which YMTC uses against Micron in various courts were granted to former YMTC engineers who took crucial know-how from Micron and took it to YMTC.

A call center consultancy rented four Nvidia H200s to run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for Claude Code and found DeepSeek's API cheaper.

Sony launched the world's first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era.

Post-launch Geekbench 7 runs show Debian Linux instead of the leak's Ubuntu.

The heads of the biggest AI labs - Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia - went to Washington and signed the 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities,' promising to develop their own models safely. Trump says that it's the best way to move forward with AI as it balances progress with safety.

Xbox gamers can now get a digital license tied to their physical game discs associated with their Xbox profile for select titles, allowing them to play the game without needing to insert it into the console.

A new jailbreak supports firmware 7.00 through 13.60, including on the PS5 Pro. But some game updates may already require a newer firmware, breaking the jailbreak.

Anthropic has released a frontier red teaming report, claiming that Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 has weak safeguarding, and can easily be used to generate harmful content.

Meta's Muse AI agent has been accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data on an iPhone and Mac, including iMessages.

This Ugreen 10-port unmanaged Ethernet switch has hit record-low pricing of $37.79, unlocking eight PoE+ ports for up to 60W of power delivery for cameras and WiFi extenders, along with two extra ports for Gigabit uplink to your existing network.

Florida asked a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval and to keep minors off ChatGPT.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to stop using the term 'artificial intelligence' and instead call it 'Super Intelligence.' The president said that the new term will solve AI's branding issue and that it 'more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.'

The price of AI "intelligence," has fallen dramatically in recent years, faster than any other transformational technology in history according to some estimates. This raises serious questions about the need to retain access to frontier capabilities, when they show up elsewhere so swiftly.

A developer trained a JEPA world model, based on LeWorldModel research co-authored by Yann LeCun, on an RTX 3080 Ti to play Pokemon Red.

NuvaCore says it is developing its new WarpCore CPU IP without first choosing the ISA it will implement. This unusual development strategy is meant to offer the company maximum technology and business flexibility.

Hackers have breached the U.S. Department of Defense's information systems. The Pentagon says that it has already secured the source of the leak, but the records of millions of DoD personnel are now in the wild.

In a personal blog, former EVGA product manager Brendon Ray Hedrick shared how the first Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs alarmed the company and how pricing pressure and risky forward-looking tech ultimately led to the end of the two companies' storied partnership.

AMD has agreed agreed to buy generative AI world model developer World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock. Legendary CEO and co-founder Fei-Fei Li will join the company as an executive vice president and chief scientist.

The owner of a Zotac RTX 3060 in India was denied warranty coverage just one year after buying the card in 2025, despite Zotac's offer of a three-year standard warranty in the country. The company claims that the warranty begins from the date of import, not the date of sale, and that the card was imported in 2023.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is now at a record low price on Amazon UK at just 354.99.

A new report says blockchain dead-drop attacks have risen 440%, with state-linked and criminal groups using transactions, smart contracts, and even phantom wallets to hide malware payloads and C2 infrastructure on public blockchains.

Anthropic serves a dire warning in its IPO prospectus, saying how a rogue model could lead to the end of humanity and, consequentially, its business. Nevertheless, investors are still hoping for a $2-trillion valuation once the company goes public.