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An engineer has tapped into Apple's LidAngleSensor MacBook API, adding a creaky door sound effect to his lid angle measurement app.

HP's Omen 16 Slim is a solid gaming laptop that allows you to jump the barrier into entry-level RTX gaming at a low cost. With a sleek design, beautiful 16-inch screen, fast refresh rate, capable cooling, it's great at games and can double as a daily machine for most.

Someone bought an Asus TUF RTX 4090 from eBay, and it wouldn't post. It is easy to see the problem with the cooler removed.

A new report from VirusTotal shows that more than 44 compromised SVG files went completely undetected by antivirus systems.

AMD's ROCm 6.4.2 software stack lists a non-existent Radeon RX 9060 XL GPU, likely a typo confusing internal 'Navi 44 XL' die naming with official product branding. But who knows?

Tokyo's renowned electronics shopping district was plunged into darkness on Friday due to a very rare power outage.

Creality plays catch-up with a color bedslinger.

Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and PRO 6000 GPUs are reportedly being plagued by a reproducible virtualization reset bug that can leave the cards completely unresponsive until the host system is physically rebooted.

With premium performance at a mid-range price point, the Deco BE68 is a superstar mesh router.

The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft's August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn.

Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf.

The old Enermax gaming PC still has a few years left in it.

Intel has provided its first update for APO in 2025, featuring support for 15 new games and performance improvements of up to 14% recorded on its flagship Core Ultra 9 285K.

At IFA 2025, AMD delivered a less dramatic defense of its long-term strategy and outlined its vision for AI and the future of the PC.

SSDs are becoming increasingly affordable, and we've got just the deal for you from Western Digital. The WD_Black SN7100 is currently priced at only $0.05 per gigabyte on Amazon, where you can purchase its 4TB variant for just $210. It features speeds up to 7,000 MB/s along with a custom controller and flash from Sandisk.

A PC novice has shared details of their stunning $9 desktop DIY bargain and is looking for upgrade suggestions.

AMD has just launched the Ryzen 5 9500F in China, after weeks of leaks spoiled its arrival. The new Zen 5-based CPU features six cores and 12 threads, along with 32MB of L3 cache, all powered by a 65W TDP. AMD says it's at least 7% and up to 24% faster in games than the 7500F. However, it's priced higher.

Someone discovered an engineering sample of the Radeon AI Pro 9700 GPU with 32GB of VRAM and they're asking what to do with it.

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models.

The SAMA P1200 Platinum is a compact, value-oriented power supply unit that delivers solid performance with proven components and practical thermal management in an understated design.

The Seagate Exos M sets a new record for single drive capacity with new technology for extra power savings. However, the tech feels like more of the same in performance terms.

The user's Amazon Echo speakers used over 4 GB of data in a span of 24 hours, even if they weren't using them.

Amon said that Intel is not an option today," but left open the possibility for a future partnership, adding we would like Intel to be an option."

Broadcom has secured a $10billion deal to supply custom AI accelerators and rack-scale hardware to an undisclosed customer - widely believed to be OpenAI - signaling that the design has been validated and full-scale deployment is on track for late 2026.

Anthropic has updated its terms of service to block access to its Claude AI models for any company that's majority-owned or controlled by Chinese entities.

AMD holds the gaming performance crown for desktop CPUs. It wasn't always like that, and a dive into the history of how the current status quo came to be is wrought with a hard-fought battle between two titans.

The RTX 5070 Ti is a big step up over the 8GB RTX 5070 when it comes to gaming laptops, but it's often an even bigger jump in price. Thankfully, Acer has your back with its Predator Helios Neo 16S AI that's on sale for just $1,599 right now at Best Buy.

Having designed an AI-enhanced EDA toolset, Synopsys now adds Assistive and Creative capabilities for chip designers that can accelerate chip design across all phases.

Gigabyte launches the AI Top CXL R5X4 add-in-card to expand the amount of memory on the brand's TRX50 AI Top and W790 AI Top motherboards.

On September 2, nonprofit hardware collective 256 Foundation tweeted that it had received a delivery of 260,000 Intel BZM2 ASICs Proto.

Anker's latest devices at IFA 2025 include a 14-port dock with a display, a fast-charging battery pack with a display, and a display, and a compact 160W charger with a... you know.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that has completely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production.

Can this be turned into a heartbeat sensor a la 'Call of Duty?'

The president said that his administration will 'very shortly' impose a 'fairly substantial' tariff on imported semiconductors from companies that are not making chips in the United States.

You can save hundreds of dollars on your next PC build with this Newegg combo deal

The TeamGroup MP44Q is another budget SSD from the company, this time using QLC flash instead of TLC. It performs well with good power efficiency, but has the expected QLC drawbacks.

A Chinese electronics wizard had shown off super wide 32:9 screen PC gaming handheld.

Portable 3D printed Water from Air device is claimed to be able to capture 1.6 gallons (6 liters) of drinking water per day.

Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex and Smart Motion concepts appear to have a better-than-average chance of reaching production.

Lenovo goes all-in with OLED panels on its latest Legion gaming monitors and gaming laptop.