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These investments aren't massive one-time expenses - data center operators are expected to upgrade their expensive GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years, as new semiconductor technologies arrive on the market.

A team of modders have taken leaked source code and recompiled it to run the game logic natively on the Switch's Arm-based SoC. As long as you overclock the system, you can get a relatively-stable 30 FPS experience without major battery drain or overheating.

Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies' AI agents into running arbitrary code. This supply-chain attack, done via using data in public llms.txt guidance files, illustrates the dangers of data becoming code.

Claremore admits that one of its reasons for charging so much is because it fears that the documents will be "subject to wide distribution, including on social media."

The entire second batch of Russian Rassvet satellites have failed to reach their target operational altitudes, according to reports.

A developer revitalized his smart TV performance by using Claude Code to debloat it.

Alienware's AW3226Q and AW2527HX gaming monitors target two different segments of the market.

A new localonly password manager, notes app, and secure vault that hides your secrets in an ordinary-looking .PNG image file is now available.

This Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI gaming laptop has dropped to just $1,899.99, giving you a high-end rig with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD.

Save $300 on a brand-new iBuypower Slate gaming PC in the Best Buy Labor Day sales.

Samsung detailed a three-phase HBM roadmap at Hot Chips 2026 that progressively moves logic into the base die and ultimately stacks DRAM directly on the processor.

Proxy advisers kick against Arm's proposal to approve a performance pay plan that could award CEO Rene Haas about $800 million if the chip designer reaches a $2 trillion valuation.

President Donald Trump claims that communities rejecting AI data center constructions "want to end up being backwards and poor."

German and Japanese researchers demonstrate a heat-driven elastocaloric cooler that uses shape-memory alloys to turn waste heat into cooling.

This Newegg 3-item bundle pairs the fast, gaming-focused Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro board for only $1,113.99. That's a $240 savings, plus two freebies, making this one of the better combo deals available right now.

Nvidia's sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sits alongside Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck.

Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. However, it seems like a driver conflict more than a deliberate blacklist since another app, Hydra 2.3B Pro, is working just fine.

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world's largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products.

Asus refused to replace a loyal customer's wireless headset receiver because accessories are apparently not covered under warranty. The customer was not happy to see his dedication be put into question like this, brining receipts of past purchases to express their disappointment over this betrayal.

A Taiwanese man sued his wife for having an affair using recordings from a robot vacuum to prove his case. He won, but got sued by the wife for infringing on her personal privacy and was fined the equivalent of 30% of what he earned as compensation previously.

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk wants to bring their manufacturing in-house at SpaceX.

An epic book preservation effort.

A user on Reddit shared their story about how the factory-applied liquid metal on their Asus Zephyrus M16 gaming laptop corroded the heatsink and lid of their CPU. It got so bad that the corrosion was about to eat away and seep onto the silicon itself, but thankfully a simple re-paste job averted catastrophe.

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 - by soldering wires directly to the card's PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they've created perhaps an even bigger fire hazard.