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Updated 2025-06-28 10:45
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account
Microsoft Paint gets an AI image generation tool with Cocreator. It uses text and visual prompts to formulate your desired images, but requires a Copilot+ PC. You also have to sign up for a Microsoft Account if you want to use it.
Windows security hole allows attackers to install malware via Wi-Fi — new patch plugs gaping vulnerability
In its June 'Patch Tuesday' release, Microsoft addressed 49 security vulnerabilities in its products, including one that could allow an attacker to deliver malware onto a PC over Wi-Fi.
AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch
AMD appears to have updated its 3D V-Cache driver for Ryzen 9000X3D.
MediaTek reportedly preps Arm processors for Windows laptop — will arrive as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires
Three sources have indicated that MediaTek is working on a Windows-on-Arm SoC to compete with Qualcomm.
Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture
Flow Computing, a spinout from Finland's acclaimed VTT Technical Research Center, says its Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) can enable '100X Improved performance for any CPU architecture.'
Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2P 240 Hz 4K OLED gaming monitor review: High style, high performance
Gigabyte's Aorus FO32U2P brings premium style and high performance to the desktop. With an 4K OLED panel running at 240 Hz, it serves up Adaptive-Sync, HDR and wide gamut color. It's stunning in every respect.
The coolest case mods of Computex 2024
From battle robots to beer and coffee servers, these chassis wowed us.
Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman one day after criticizing Apple for using ChatGPT
Elon Musk withdrew his suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman one day before a San Francisco court was due to hear it.
Amazon Web Services introduces record 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour
AWS ups the ante once more.
Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days
Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound cold box from the Ohio River to its new fab near Columbus. This load is one of the largest of Intel's approximately 20 super loads making their way across the state.
White House seeks to restrict China’s access to GAA chip technology and the high bandwidth memory that's critical for AI accelerators
China cannot buy chips using GAA technology because of current sanctions but might be able to produce them with older process nodes. To prevent that, the U.S. government is mulling more restrictions.
You can use a full-sized GPU with ASRock's new Mini PC — DeskMate X600 only for China, priced at roughly $193 USD
The ASRock DeskMate X600 rounds out ASRock's current Mini PC lineup with a top-mounted PCIe slot intended for use with full-speed graphics cards - size doesn't matter when the card's not inside the case.
Inside Micro Center's new North Carolina superstore
My first trip to a Micro Center was like being a kid in a candy shop
Unexpected Intel military chip contract drained $3 billion from CHIPS Act, Senate mulls auction to restore funds
The U.S. Senate is looking for ways to increase CHIPS Act funding after the Pentagon pulled out of its $2.5 billion commitment to the 'Secure Enclave' project for building defense chips.
Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak
Nvidia's Blackwell gaming-oriented GPU architecture will reportedly not boast any additional render output units compared with Ada Lovelace, according to a leaker. Nvidia will be relying on the Blackwell architecture itself to provide performance improvements, which can of course be designed to work around potential ROPS limitations.
Netgear's latest Wi-Fi 7 routers cost less and pack fewer features — but don't call them cheap
The Orbi 770 and Nighthawk RS300 seriously undercut earlier Netgear Wi-Fi 7 offerings in pricing
AMD RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards get a new game bundle — get Company of Heroes 3 and Lies of P for 'free' with your new GPU
AMD's latest game bundle for its RX 7800XT and RX 7700XT graphics cards provides two free game codes with your GPU purchase. Pick from Company of Heroes 3, Lies of P, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Starfield - from participating retailers.
Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%
Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
Musk says he'll ban all Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at the OS level — claims it would represent a massive security risk
Elon claims that Apple has no clue what OpenAI will do it users' data after it processes their requests.
AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too
AMD says its new Ryzen 9000 chips won't be faster in gaming than the previous-gen X3D models but says big improvements are coming to its 3D V-Cache tech.
AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor drops to its lowest-ever price — currently cheaper than the 7800X3D
Today's deal is quite the price drop, bringing one of the best CPUs for gaming, the 7900X3D, to its lowest-ever price. Even cheaper than the 7800X3D.
UpHere C5C and D6Sec Air Coolers Review: Decent performance for less than $20
UpHere's C5C is a budget air cooler costing less than $20 USD, but can it tame Intel's i7-13700K?
Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share
Nvidia grew its data center GPU sales by over a million units in 2023.
Intel Israel factory expansion cancellation rumors unfounded according to official statements
Reports hinting that Intel may have canceled a planned factory expansion in Israel aren't of any substance and have been countered by statements from Intel and local government officials.
Raspberry Pi IPO set to raise $689 million
Raspberry Pi's IPO is set to raise $689 million based on an offer price of $3.56 per ordinary share
MSI's M.2 add-in card looks like a GPU, sports two hot-swap PCIe Gen 5 SSD slots
MSI unveiled a new PCIe-based M.2 expansion card at Computex this year, featuring two PCIe NVMe Gen 5 drive bays that are hot-swappable and cooled by a single large GPU cooler fan.
Apple Intelligence: Siri gets an LLM brain transplant, ChatGPT integration, and Genmojis
Apple announced that Siri is getting an LLM brain transplant, ChatGPT integration, and Genmojis. So-called "Apple Intelligence" will also get a helping hand from ChatGPT-4o.
Early sample of AMD's Ryzen 5 9600X is only 12% quicker than Ryzen 5 7600X in CPU-Z benchmark
A CPU-Z benchmark has cropped up featuring the all-new Zen 5-powered Ryzen 5 9600X. However, the chip's CPU-Z performance appears to be weaker than its IPC performance suggests.
Multiple ChatGPT instances work together to find and exploit security flaws — teams of LLMs tested by UIUC beat single bots and dedicated software
UIUC computer scientists have innovated a system for teams of LLMs to work together to exploit zero-day security vulnerabilities without an explanation of the flaws, a major improvement in the school's ongoing research.
AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips
AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series CPUs drop support for Windows 10.
This graphics card makes it easy to have more than four displays — sub-$100 DisplayLink adapter uses a PCIe x1 slot
DisplayLink has a new graphics card that lets you easily add more monitors to your PC. Modern graphics cards typically only support up to four displays, so if you want a fifth, sixth or even eighth monitor, this card might be for you.
Apple announces visionOS 2 supporting Dual 4K resolution with Mac Virtual Display, Vision Pro sales go global June 28
Apple adds some useful features to Vision Pro, including a new train mode and higher display resolutions when using the Mac Virtual Display
Newegg offers up a GTX 1080 Ti for $1.63, if you ignore the $400 shipping — strange GPU 'bargain' sparks many questions
A Newegg listing for a GTX 1080 Ti has hit the web with a sale price of only $1.63, or four payments of 41 cents. But the GPU ships from Hong Kong for $400.
Lenovo's RTX 4060-Powered Legion Slim 5 gaming laptop is down to its lowest-ever price of $849
Lenovo's Legion Slim 5 gaming laptop is on sale for just $849, the lowest price I've seen it.
Linux Snapdragon X Elite laptop Shown at Computex — Tuxedo OEM hopes to ship by the end of the year
Laptop and desktop OEM Tuxedo, which specializes in Linux-based computers, showed off a Snapdragon X Elite laptop shipping with Linux at Computex 2024.
Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks show doubled cache bandwidth improvements — leaked AIDA64 benchmarks point to much faster L1 and L2 cache
A Ryzen 5 9600X engineering sample was tested in Aida64's memory benchmark, proving that AMD's Zen 5 L1 and L2 cache improvements are real.
Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools
Speaking at an industry conference in China, a Huawei executive expressed concerns about China's near future in the semiconductor industry under U.S. sanctions.
Microsoft announces three new Xbox console options and hints at its Xbox handheld plans
Microsoft has prepared three new Xbox console configurations for launch ahead of the holiday season. And, in a post-showcase interview, Xbox chief Phil Spencer dropped the biggest hints yet about an Xbox Handheld.
The Samsung Odyssey G50A 27-inch QHD IPS monitor is now just $255 at Amazon
The Samsung Odyssey G50A 27-inch gaming monitor is currently marked down at Amazon to one of its lowest prices to date.
World's first chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin — benefits from having no moving parts
This small 3D printer concept uses a photonic chip's light beam and optical antennas to use a specific light wave and cure resin.
HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware
HP and Microsoft prove the danger of automatic firmware updates.
Office 2007 infosec researcher recalls panic after major bug announcement turned out to be a false positive
Former eEye researcher Greg Linares and team scrambled to find an Office 2007 vulnerability after their first heralded bug turned out to be a false positive.
This PSU has enough juice to power four RTX 4090s — the HELA 2500R comes with four 12V-2x6 connectors and requires a special wall plug
This 2,500-watt PSU can power four high-powered GPUs natively. SilverStone designed for it for professional applications like AI research, and you need a 240-volt outlet to power it.
Titan Army P27A2R 180 Hz gaming monitor review: No frills value and performance
Titan Army delivers solid value with its P27A2R. It's a 27-inch QHD IPS flat panel with 180 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and wide gamut color. It's a great value choice that offers excellent gaming performance and color accuracy.
Playdate $400K consoles theft misery ends with mysterious return of consignment — investigations 'closing in' on the perps
Gaming handheld brand Playdate is celebrating the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of misdelivered-then-stolen devices. Playdate has a curious tale to share about the return of the stolen loot.
This AIO cooler is designed to cool two CPUs at once — SilverStone’s new XE360-Dual
SilverStone introduced the XE360-Dual, which has two water blocks connected in serial, to cool two AMD or Intel server processors using a single radiator.
M3 MacBook Air 16GB 13-inch laptop is on sale for $1,149
Right now, at B&H Photo, you can buy the Apple MacBook Air M3 13-inch laptop for $1149, down from its recommended price of $1299.
GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs reportedly leaked — mobile Blackwell with GDDR7 en route for 2025
A new leak shows the alleged configurations for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 50-series (Blackwell) graphics cards for mobile devices.
PowerColor's new tech uses the NPU to reduce gaming power usage — vendor-provided benchmarks show up to 22.4% lower power consumption
PowerColor's booth at Computex 2024 featured its "new gen" Radeon GPUs, which leverage NPUs to reduce power consumption by up to 22.4%.
Intel Arc GPUs shown in all flavors — BTF design with hidden connectors, blower-type coolers, and liquid-cooled GPUs
Sparkle adds the A380 Genie and A310 GPUs to its lineup. It also showed some concept cards that work well with small builds and clean setups.
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