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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.

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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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A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn't directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

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As cooling becomes a crucial element for economic efficiency of AI data centers, Frore claims that using is LiquidJet coldplate could increase efficiency of token generation by 15%.

A modder has attached a full-sized RTX 5060 graphics card to a ZimaCube 2 NAS server and achieved up to 8x faster performance in games. The jerry-rigged setup doesn't look the most polished, and the CPU is heavily bottlenecked, but it still, uh, exists.

AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.

Japanese technology supplier and distributor confirms that the Gigabyte graphics card will cost between 20% and 40% more due to a new price increase.

Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.

OpenAI denies Apple's allegations in a blog post. The company claims that it doesn't have and even doesn't want its rivals trade secrets.