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Updated 2025-06-28 03:45
GameSir's Kaleid gaming controller is on sale for $47 — Hall Effect joysticks eliminate stick drift
An alternative option to a standard Xbox controller, the GameSir Kaleid is a worthy upgrade thanks to its Hall Effect joysticks and switches and $47 price tag.
Microsoft Azure China offers Chinese businesses a loophole to OpenAI’s departure
In the midst of OpenAI cracking down on developers accessing its AI models through VPNs and other forms of obfuscation, Microsoft's Azure China continues to give businesses a legitimate means to use GPT-4.
Sabrent launches discrete $30 clip-on Steam Deck Gaming Hub — brings USB-A storage options and USB-C PD upstream power delivery
The Sabrent USB Type-C 3-Port Gaming Hub for Steam Deck expands that single Type-C port on the handheld to give you three USB ports.
Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales
Qualcomm and Microsoft are pushing AI features so buyers will buy AI PCs, but many are simply choosing these laptops for their better battery life.
Maxsun Terminator Z790M D5 Ice Review: White Micro ATX with five M.2 sockets
Maxsun's Z790M D5 Ice is a sleek white and silver Micro ATX board with five M.2 sockets, two 20 Gbps Type-C ports, and above-average performance out of the box.
China to boost its state-owned compute performance by 30% by 2025, plans to hit 300 exaflops
China is set to increase its computing capacity to 300 ExaFLOPS by 2025.
Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
Complete approval of Intel's Magdeburg fab is still pending, construction set to start in 2025.
US, China Chip War may continue for decades, says former ASML CEO — Wennick shares insights from selling chipmaking gear to both sides
Former ASML CEO Peter Wennick shared in a recent interview his thoughts on the Chip War. Recently retiring after turning ASML into a giant, Wennick played both sides of the conflict to sell chipmaking equipment.
Asus launches NUC 14 Pro+ powered by Meteor Lake CPUs — Core Ultra 5 125H, 512GB SSD, and 16GB RAM for $860
Asus adds a new variant of the NUC 14 Pro+ with a 5 x 4-inch anodized aluminum casing to accommodate a series of heat pipes, a double-sided heat exchanger, and a fan for optimal cooling for Intel Meteor Lake CPUs with integrated NPU.
HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash — Instant Ink subscription gets the boot, too
HP has discontinued its cheaper e-series printers, which required an HP+ subscription and Internet connection to stay active in exchange for lower pricing.
AMD now has better brand recognition than Intel — firm rides AI wave to win on Kantar’s BrandZ Most Valuable Brands report
Kantar has released its 2024 BrandZ Most Valuable Brands report, and AMD has been distinguished as one of the top risers since last year.
Intel preps Lunar Lake-optimized adaptive sharpening filter for Linux deployment
Intel is developing a new basic adaptive sharpening filter for upscaling games and photos, specifically for Lunar Lake and Linux operating systems.
Samsung workers in South Korea begin 3-day strike — labor union striking for first time in Samsung's history
The National Samsung Electronics Union, whose 30,000 members represent 1/4th of the South Korean Samsung workforce, is striking today for one more day of annual leave and a change to the company's mysterious bonus structure.
Qualcomm hires former AMD ray tracing expert for its GPU team
Qualcomm's Adreno GPU in its Snapdragon Elite X has failed to meet gaming expectations. The recent hire of a ray tracing expert could change that.
AMD engineer discusses firm's 'Layoff Bug' — infamous Barcelona CPU bug revisited 16 years later
Phil Park, an AMD memory and Fabric performance engineer, discusses a critical Windows Vista-era AMD CPU bug that struck Barcelona CPUs.
Alleged Ryzen 9 9900X result puts AMD on top as single-threaded CPU champ in Geekbench
A purported AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Geekbench 6 CPU test run has been surfaced by Benchleaks. The single-threaded score of 3,401 points is remarkable, and if genuine it would go straight to the top of the Geekbench 6 processor benchmark charts.
G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6400 C32 2x48GB Review: Soulmate For Dual-DIMM Motherboards
G.Skill launched a DDR5-6400 C32 96GB memory kit for prosumers, but can it hang with the higher-clocked competition?
Microsoft’s official guide to switching from a Microsoft Account to a local account in Windows has been reinstated
Microsoft's official guide to switching from a Microsoft Account to a local account in Windows has been reinstated. These particular instructions were scrubbed from the article back in June.
AMD may unveil next-gen Radeon RX 8000-series GPUs at CES 2025 according to leaker
Leaker says the first RDNA 4-based GPUs set to be announced at CES 2025.
Tiny $10 Raspberry Pi 5 PCie board brings low-cost, high-speed storage – the end of micro SD is nigh
Pineboard's latest PCie based product shrinks what you need for M.2 storage and AI add-on boards into $10 package.
Key chipmaking tools are missing from China’s new self-made list of semiconductor industry challenges — lithography machines are curiously absent
The China Associate for Science and Technology listed the country's semiconductor challenges, and lithography tools are notably absent from the list.
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads' MTLink fabric tech challenges Nvidia's NVLink, can now scale to 10,000 GPUs for AI clusters
Moore Threads is making significant progress in the data center space and can now scale GPU clusters to 10,000 accelerators.
Google claims new AI training tech is 13 times faster and 10 times more power efficient — DeepMind's new JEST optimizes training data for impressive gains
DeepMind researchers have published their findings on the JEST technique, allowing large language models to be trained at significantly improved speed and efficiency. It remains to be seen whether companies will adopt it to keep power draw low, or crank things to the max.
Ubisoft will add NFTs into Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles
Ubisoft is still intent on 'Web3' via an NFT-backed digital card game.
After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
Microsoft tested an updated Notepad app with integrated spellchecking back in March this year. Now this enhanced version of the Notepad plain text editor has quietly rolled out to mainstream Windows 11 users.
2D quantum cooling system reaches temperatures colder than outer space by converting heat into electrical voltage
A research team at EFPL LANES built used an indium selenide sheet with graphene electrodes to convert heat into electricity and hit temperatures as low as 100mK.
China's AI model glut is a 'significant waste of resources' due to scarce real-world applications for 100+ LLMs says Baidu CEO
Industry experts expect China's over 100 publicly-available LLMs to be pared down to just five in the next few years.
This 34-inch curved Asus TUF Gaming monitor is only $249 at Amazon
The Asus TUF Gaming VG34VQEL1A 34-inch curved gaming monitor is currently available for one of its lowest prices to date.
E-Ink touchscreen and IPS panel collide in dual-screen laptop — $199 Bluegen OKPad all-in-one launches on Kickstarter
A dual-screen E-Ink tablet has launched on Kickstarter.
Your Wi-Fi can now double as a home security system — Gamgee uses home Wi-Fi networks for intruder detection
A Dutch startup has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a home security system that piggybacks on your Wi-Fi to detect intruders. Using a home mapping app and artificial intelligence, Gamgee's Wi-Fi Home Alarm is claimed to offer precision protection by body printing' your household's trusted people and pets.
AI models that cost $1 billion to train are underway, $100 billion models coming — largest current models take 'only' $100 million to train: Anthropic CEO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI model training costs could jump to $100 billion as early as next year.
Philips Evnia 49M2C8900 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Tremendous color and performance
Philips expands its Evnia line of gaming monitors with the 49M2C8900. It's a 49-inch 32:9 curved OLED with DQHD resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400. It also covers 114% of DCI-P3 color and delivers superlative game performance.
Full AMD Ryzen PC crammed into a folding mini keyboard — includes a built-in trackpad and battery; all you need is a display
Chinese PC maker Linglong has just introduced a tiny PC that fits into a foldable keyboard. The company shared its live presentation, where the presenter pulled out the actual device from his back pocket.
Zotac server misconfig exposed customer info to Google searches — customer RMA documents are available on the open web
Because of an apparent server misconfiguration, a massive data leak of customer information was readily available through a simple Google search.
Asus tests BIOS update enabling Microsoft Dynamic Lighting control — makes it easier to avoid Armory Crate software
Asus is testing a BIOS update for its latest motherboards, including those with the AMD Z970 chipset, that will allow you to control your motherboard's RGB lighting in sync with other compatible devices.
52-Pi Ice Tower Plus for Raspberry Pi 5 Review: Fast and furious cooling performance
If Dominic Toretto used Raspberry Pi, this would be the cooler that he would buy.
These 3D-printed QR codes are scannable and edible
The Singapore University of Technology and Design uses 3D printing to create edible creations, including a working QR code.
New AMD firmware brings performance optimizations for Ryzen 9000 CPUs
Gigabyte has released new BIOS updates that support AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series processors running AMD's latest AGESA 1.2.0.0a firmware.
Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords
The RockYou2024 leak compiles 9,948,575,739 unique passwords in one place.
Mt. Gox customers benefit from 3500 percent increase in value, recoup losses despite only 15 percent of coins being returned
Although only 15% of cryptocurrency has been recovered, the massive increase in bitcoin prices means customers are getting much more than they lost in 2014.
ASRock finetunes Arc Alchemist GPU cooling — Arc A770 and Arc A750 SE arrive with better coolers
ASRock's upcoming Challenger SE series will feature the Intel Arc 770 16GB and Arc 750 8GB, which are more compact and promise better heatsink design and other features.
Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 exposed in new benchmark — octa-core Zen 5 chip falls behind the Core Ultra 9 185H
CrossMark benchmark results for a new Ryzen 7 variant, dubbed the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360, have emerged. However, its performance was underwhelming in this specific benchmark.
PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit sold for $6,500 — thinly-disguised Sony PS5 dev kit slips past Sony
PS5 Dev kit gets sold in a disguise that is just thin enough to avoid Sony's legal team.
Scam Nvidia RTX 4090 uses a relabeled RTX 3080 Ti GPU, counterfeit memory chips — repair shop exposes new swindle that's impossible to spot at checkout
A GA102 card disguised as a AD102 with faulty memory is sold as normal GeForce RTX 4090.
How to make a connected badge that shows the latest news headlines — and looks like a floppy disk
With some code, electronics and 3D printing, we can make an editor's dream project come true.
Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo Review
If you need dual NVMe drives, PCIe devices on your Raspberry Pi 5 then there aren't too many options right now, but Pimoroni's new board offers everything you need.
ASRock preps AMD GPUs for AI inference and multi-GPU systems — Creator series GPUs with dual-slot, blower-type design and 16-pin power connectors
ASRock's Creator series comprises Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT WS, which have a dual-slot, single-blower-type design and 16-pin power connectors.
Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it — Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy supply chains, cripple South Korean chipmakers
The current prevailing thought is that TSMC's existence and the threat of its destruction are among the things holding back China from invading Taiwan. But what if we're wrong?
TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan Eco DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review: Eco-Friendly DDR5 Performance
TeamGroup's Vulcan Eco lineup brings innovation to the table, but is it sufficient to rival the modern competition?
Mysterious quantum computing restrictions spread across multiple nations — UK cites national security risks and refuses to elaborate
Four EU states have all issued identical bans on the export of quantum computers with more than 34 qubits and error rates below a certain threshold. The nature of the bans is a mystery, with states declining to elaborate per national security concerns.
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