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Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.

Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.

10 former Samsung employees are accused of leaking Samsung's 10-nm DRAM technology to CXMT, allegedly allowing the latter to achieve technological breakthroughs on stolen information.

In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.

FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S.

Conducted between late October and November, Operation Sentinel saw international law enforcement agencies shut down cybercrime infrastructure, decrypt ransomware variants, and prevent large-scale financial losses across the region.

AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't be dismissed just yet.

A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.

Priced at under $590 right now, Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld with an AMD APU and running SteamOS is the best value alternative to the Steam Deck right now.

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free.

This 15.6-inch Acer Nitro gaming laptop features an RTX 5060 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and all for just 899.99.

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 - the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project.

The ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC is on sale for $999.99, slashing $400 off its regular price. This pre-built comes with an Intel Core i5-14400F, an RTX 5060, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave up.

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early.

The Switch 2's Game-Key Card controversy has a burning new development, and we might finally have a middleground between expensive 64 GB Game Cards and digital-only releases. Smaller capacity cartridges, such as 16 or 32 GB, are reportedly in production but industry-wide shortages might disrupt their adoption and make them more expensive.

A massive, multi-year project to recover Sega Channel games from the mid 1990s has been a resounding success, with many exclusives saved.

Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago.

Imagery of spools carrying 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber, for FPV drone control, have been shared on Russian social media channels.

Moore Threads has just revealed its next-gen GPU architecture coming in 2026, dubbed "Huagang," which will bring new gaming and AI GPUs. The "Lushan" gaming GPU is promising up to 15x increase in AAA gaming performance, while the "Huashan" AI GPU is gunning for a spot between Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell lineups.

AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 4 seemingly works on older hardware but is currently not officially supported.

The Windows Server 2025 registry tweak that activates native NVMe support can also be activated in Windows 11, but at your own risk.