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This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to storage; it's instead intercepted by the custom firmware and copied into the microcontroller's SRAM during hashing.

A champion coder's latest confection is a Piet Quine - a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.

Crucial memory owner recounts their experience with Micron's warranty process since the company has axed the Crucial brand.

The owner of 'the original engineering copy of the Intel 8080 rubylith mask' is looking for a skilled restorer.

Newegg is offering a big discount on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle that includes an MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard and an MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240 AIO liquid cooler.

We tested gaming performance with both NVMe and SATA SSDs across 11 games to determine if upgrading to a faster drive is worth it.

Intel's orbital data center architecture uses powerful higher-orbit satellites to manage LEO constellations, reducing reliance on terrestrial control centers.

Researchers used Evo AI models trained on trillions of DNA building blocks to design entirely new viral genomes, 16 of which became viable bacteriophages capable of infecting and reproducing inside E. coli.

NASA ensured that all laptops destined for use in the International Space Station had the same 'cannon' power connector by implementing a modification.

A modder has figured out how to send an audio stream to the Steam Controller's haptic motors in order to make them play pretty much anything. While the wireless connection over the puck is limited, audio quality over a USB cable is genuinely impressive for a device with no speakers.

The per GB price of memory modules have gone back to 2007 levels because of AI demand. This is the first time that prices have shot up in the realm of tech, Lemire says.

Some protesters brought a guillotine to public consultation for a potential data center in Salem, Oregon. Even though this was displayed outside the venue, it was a confrontation between the data center's representatives and some of the community members that led the latter to leave early.

The Nvidia booth at QuakeCon 2026 is offering Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 GPUs at MSRP. Supplies are limited, though, so you should head out ASAP if you want to snag one right now.

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Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its compute buildout and allow it to make its AI models specifically more efficient for its designs.

An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user's entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it "the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had."

Virginia's public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the 'ratepayer protection pledge' into an actionable policy.

Apple reportedly as $1 billion worth of iPhone 18 processor wafers awaiting packaging, which hasn't been completed due to DRAM shortages.

The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor's plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.

The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.

You can save $1,400 right now on this Omen Max gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 64GB RAM, and 2TB SSD storage, and on sale for $5,599.99.

You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident" recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company's $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.

Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.

Microsoft once recommended 32GB of RAM as a future-proof "no worries" upgrade for gamers, but it seems that it wants you to forget that it ever gave that suggestion. That's because laptop manufacturers, including Microsoft itself, has once again started selling models with a base configuration of 8GB of RAM as companies memory prices skyrocket out of control.

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