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Japan's Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

RISC-V gets Hot Plugging support through version 6.11 of the Linux kernel.

A surprise report from the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Safety has revealed its process to enforce the Entity List of export licensing controls is outdated and mostly done by hand.

Biden administration reportedly tightening high-tech shipments to Huawei.

Raptor Lake and Alder Lake Intel CPUs are vulnerable to new "Indirector" attacks. These attacks exploit flaws in the chips' hardware components to access indirect branches and steal data.

Google may be considering rebooting its much-maligned Google Flu Trends (GFT) service, which died of embarrassment in 2015.

Chinese companies still have access to Nvidia's A100 and H100 GPUs due to smuggling.

MK4 3D printers and Prusament filament will now be made in the USA.

One of our favorite reviewed mechanical keyboards and my daily driver, the Mountain Everest 60 keyboards is on sale for a must-have price.

The NSTC intends to allocate grants between $500,000 and $2 million to 10 workforce development projects.

I/O connectivity has been revealed for Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake-S processors.

AceMagic preps the X1 dual-screen laptop with full-sized screens and a keyboard.

OpenAI announced that it China, including Hong Kong, will no longer have access to its API by next week. Home-grown LLMs are now taking steps to woo customers their way.

AMD is introducing a new add-on to Curve Optimizer, dubbed Curve Shaper, in conjunction with the Ryzen 9000 series launch. This add-on adds 15 voltage offset points for enthusiasts to play with to extract maximum overclocking performance from their CPU.

A developer has successfully booted a Linux system from Google's cloud storage platform. After overcoming a multitude of hurdles, they managed to boot a storage-less laptop from Google Drive and thus create a Cloud-Native Computer.

Qualcomm moves onto the football pitch to advertise its Snapdragon line and becomes the new front-of-shirt sponsor for Manchester United FC. All three kits will feature Snapdragon front and center.

Huawei is encountering significant difficulties in expanding the production of its Ascend 910B AI processors due to insufficient yields at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC), reports Chosun.biz, a Korean business daily.

The Australian Federal Police were able to identify and arrest 42-year-old Michael Clapsis, who created fake wireless access points during domestic flights to steal data from unsuspecting users.

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory made a GaN transistor that lasted three days at 125 degrees Celsius inside a nuclear core.

Facing growing restrictions on technology from the U.S. and others, China says it needs to ramp up its domestic tech innovation.

Windows 11 advertisements now invade the Weather app, not just the Start menu and other locations.

MSI is adding a 240Hz 34-inch and a 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED monitor to its lineup.

Noctua has finally released its highly anticipated NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler. We saw the final design at Computex in early June, and today the Austrian PC cooling specialist has made the revamped NH-D15 available via its Amazon outlets.

Intel will ship the final Optane Persistent Memory 200-series DIMMs in late 2025.

France's Autorite de la concurrence is set to launch antitrust charges against Nvidia for alleged anti-competitive practices, according to sources obtained by Reuters. Concern lies with Nvidia's proprietary software and partnership with CoreWeave.

China-based DPU developer delisted from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange this month.

In a press release, Micron revealed that its GDDR7 will provide 30% greater frame rates than its older GDDR6 memory in ray tracing and rasterized video games.

Milk-V, a system integrator known for its work with RISC-V, has released the Milk-V Jupiter, a mini-ITX motherboard with a RISC-V processor preinstalled. Orders will open next week.

Available on Amazon in a limited-time deal, Logitech's G Yeti GX USB microphone hits an all-time low price of $119.

Windows 10 support can be kept alive using essential patches without Microsoft's help.

Cable Matters unleashes the world's first Thunderbolt 5 cable in 1 ft to 3.3 ft lengths. The new cable supports the new standard's features, including its blisteringly fast 120 Gbps bandwidth boost mode, aimed at high-resolution/high refresh rate displays.

Vaio Corporation has announced that it has created the world's lightest portable monitor. The Japanese firm says the new Vaio Vision+ 14 weighs just 0.72 pounds (325g).

The FBI has increased the bounty on missing CryptoQueen Dr Ruja Ignatova to $5 million. Bulgaria-born German national Ignatova went missing in 2017 after a federal warrant was issued for her arrest. She is accused of defrauding crypto-investors out of more than $4 billion.

What is GDDR7 memory, and when will we see it? We dig into the details of the upcoming VRAM technology and cover what it is, along with the benefits it provides.

A skilled computer engineer has provided a tutorial that helps you root your Sleep Number bed and disable the company's backdoor into its controller hub.

The AMD RX 6600 goes up against Nvidia's RTX 3050 in our budget GPU matchup, with both cards offering 8GB of VRAM on a 128-bit interface. We compare performance, price, features, power consumption, and more in this budget faceoff and declare the overall winner.

A diagram reportedly for upcoming Intel events showcasing the Arrow Lake processors and motherboards confirms previous leaks but doesn't offer much new information.

New regulation in China prohibits any organization or individual from encroaching upon or destroying rare-earth resources.

The Samsung 990 EVO 2TB SSD is currently available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date, according to price tracking data from CamelCamelCamel.

Mt. Gox begins paying back users, ten years after it began collapsing in February 2014.

TSMC's fabs in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. will contribute 10% of the company's capacity, so 90% of TSMC's output will remain in Taiwan.

Jim Hall built FreeDOS as an answer to Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. 30 years later, the command-line operating system is still alive and kicking and getting a renaissance thanks to retro gaming.

Sony is cutting 250 jobs at its optical media manufacturing plant in northeast Japan, according to local newspaper reports. It explains that cuts are due to the reduced demand for optical media, and the continued rise of streaming services.

SK hynix and its parent company wants to invest billions of dollars to focus on AI and semiconductor technologies.

Akasa's Gecko is a blower-style cooler for your PCI-e 5 SSD. Can it handle the heat from our stress tests?

Microsoft is trying to get you to buy a Copilot+ PC based on three exclusive Windows features that nobody wants or needs.

One European retailer has already begun accepting preorders for the AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU lineup, which will have lower launch prices than the previous generation.