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SoftBank plans to buy companies that do not use AI or robotics, then apply new technologies to improve their operations and valuation.

Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, one of the three people charged of smuggling Super Micro servers with advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, has pleaded guilty, with sentencing set for September of next year.

Modder Sword has released PS5SX2 for the PlayStation 5, allowing gamers to play discs from previous PlayStation 2 games.

A Senate investigation on AI data centers question that costs and benefits that AI hyperscalers show when they apply for permits to put up their developments. The report says that these claims are misleading and that they don't show the real impact of these sites on the local economy.

We managed to install Windows 7 on a modern PC and put it to the test across eight DirectX 11 games and two DirectX 9 titles to see how its gaming performance compares to Windows 11 today.

One focus of these contingency plans is how to manage Congress after a catastrophic event puts these labs in the spotlight.

Easy Fox were surprised by the number of users and didn't expect that the demo's popularity would cause its AI expenses to go that high.

Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics boards. GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB rumored to become de-facto flagship from the green camp for a while.

PC modder TrashBench attached a 360mm radiator and custom cooling to a laptop and gained up to 14% in performance at the cost of the definition of a laptop.

Following a Ukrainian drone strike on a D.C. in Sasovo, Russia, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has suffered a similar fate with multiple modules completely out of service.

Team of graduates attempts to beat Guiness World Record for fastest jet-powered model aircraft using PETG and clever engineering.

Artificial Analysis scores Mistral's new Large 4 at 38, behind open models from Xiaomi, Z.ai, Moonshot, and DeepSeek.

Save 33% on the 32-inch ASRock Phantom Gaming 4K OLED gaming monitor at Newegg.

Grab Apple's 2026 MacBook Air with M5 chip for $1,099 right now, a $200 price drop that knocks it back to its early 2026 pricing.

Today, a quarter of a century ago, AMD launched its AMD Athlon XP processor family and its Performance Rating (PR) naming scheme.

Pre-orders for the Atari-licensed THE 800XL began today. This is a modernized yet claimed to be faithful recreation of the classic 8-bit home computer, popular in the early 1980s.

Wolfspeed has secured a conditional $1.5 billion, 30-year loan commitment from the U.S. Department of War to expand GaN epitaxy and radiation-hardened SiC and GaN technologies for U.S. national security applications

Finnish authorities say they cannot conduct a proper environmental assessment after the site has already been changed.

The industry is spending billions on more efficient chips, cooling, and grid connections. But what about making computers do less work - or doing it at a better time?

AMD is pursuing a 'broader partnership' with Samsung as memory company wants to tie advanced memory supply to its orders at its foundry unit.

The first-ever criminal case involving AI-assisted music streaming fraud has concluded, with an American citizen facing 18 months behind bars and an $8M fine.

u/Magga_ built a method that identified players by looking at how they use their mouse and keyboard. They can then use this to ensure that bans follow cheaters, even if they make new accounts from another device.

Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more - alternative client also packs Winamp skins and Milkdrop visualizations.

Two former Groq engineers sued Groq's board in Delaware over the Nvidia licensing deal behind the Groq 3 LPU.

SpaceX reportedly intends to borrow $40 billion to procure 360,000 Nvidia Rubin AI accelerators, infrastructure.

Two gaming PCs capable of 1080p gameplay have dropped below $1,000, a price that's hard to beat in the current market, thanks to sales at Best Buy and Walmart.

Taiwanese prosecutors indicted 10 company heads over Texas Instruments and Analog Devices chips allegedly resold to China.

Multiple Adobe creative tools were recreated using Claude and made open-source by one person.

A Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker sent about 1TB over a family's home Wi-Fi in 10 days, saturating an access point.

You really do need all of these tools to keep your electronics in good order, and luckily they are all on offer.

Pre-orders are live on Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, including the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra and devices from HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Dell.