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The Shield TV Pro remains one of Nvidia's longest-running consumer devices, but its $299.99 price tag now makes the streaming box considerably more expensive than when it launched.

Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.

The CPU's previous owner apparently used it for cheating on Valorant, with its HWID getting flagged by Vanguard. When the Redditor bought and installed it on their PC, their Valorant account received a ban, too.

Daniel Newman's number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.

Don't let huge 3D printer prices scare you, because Bambu Lab's Halloween sale has knocked up to 30% off a new printer, with big bulk discounts on filament rolls, too.

Until routers on Asus's 3.0.0.6_102 firmware are updated, the company says not to import untrusted VPN files.

Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.

When one gamer's prebuilt PC had a GPU and power cables burn up, they didn't know where to turn: the system builder or the GPU manufacturer. It turned into a headache of differing policies and warranties.

California state Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a subpoena to OpenAI, compelling it to submit information on the hacking incidents that its models have been involved in. While the investigators haven't determined yet whether the company has broken any rules or regulations, Bonta said that developers are responsible for the models they build and should be held legally accountable if they perpetrate cyberattacks.

AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a company blog post that it will allocate $1 billion over five years to key issues that data center communities raised, including education, workforce pathways, energy affordability, and more. This amounts to grants of $200 million annually, even as the company allocates $220 billion on data center infrastructure for 2026.

The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI's Codex.

U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia-powered servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore, allegedly using false paperwork to conceal their final destination

The base PS5 is getting an optimized version of Sony's AI-powered upscaling technology, offering developers a new way to improve image quality and stability without demanding more powerful hardware.

Amazon and chip design tool maker Synopsys have inked a multi-year partnership worth over a billion dollars. As part of the arrangement, Amazon will license Synopsys' chip designs and its design tools to create and optimize new AI chips. Synopsys will adopt Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI agents, and adopt AWS computing and storage services, while optimizing its own tools for Amazon hardware.

U.S. cities consider deploying Flock drones that automatically respond to emergency calls. However, other jurisdictions are pushing back against the service due to privacy and other concerns.

Nvidia is introducing a 64GB version of its DGX Spark local AI workstation that's tailored for a new generation of highly intelligent yet compact local models. Starting at $4999, the more affordable configuration is otherwise identical to the original 128GB Spark and its GB10 siblings.

OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeno ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm's AGI or Nvidia's Vera.

The TP-Link Archer BE550 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $169.99, netting you powerful kit with six antennas and five 2.5G Ethernet ports.

Micron's consumer business is its most profitable by margin according to the company's fiscal Q4 2026 financial report, despite shipping less memory in the quarter.

The form requires RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase. However, it remains unclear how Micro Center can use this information to track illegally exported GPUs.

California will require 3D printer manufacturers to include firearm blocking technology once ASTM International publishes a standard for it. However, the California DOJ is only mandated to check for one until July 1, 2029, after which it is no longer obliged by law to do so.

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

Can AI outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.

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.