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Security firm ESET has discovered a new type of ransomware that uses a local AI model to generate malicious scripts and perform other illicit activities. Because of the variance of LLM output, this malware is harder to track than traditional attacks.

Framework has updated its 16-inch laptop for 2025, featuring a new RTX 5070-powered graphics module, Zen 5 Ryzen AI HX CPU options, a G-Sync display, and a 240W Type-C charger.

Upgrade your computer with 1TB of PCIe Gen 4/5 M.2 SSD for only $64.99.

Chinese overclocker wytiwx has pushed Intel's Core i9-14900KF to 9130.33 MHz, establishing a new world record.

The U.S. Army has started training soldiers in how to 3D print drones and fly them using FPV goggles.

Bambu Lab's H2S is a premium 3D printer with room to roam.

Built on Intel's 18A node, the all-E-core Xeon packs 288 cores per socket and promises big efficiency gains.

President Donald Trump says that digital taxes are discriminatory' against American tech.

Intel's SEC filing warns that the U.S. government's 10% ownership stake, gained through an $8.9 billion CHIPS Act-linked funding deal, could bring political and legal risks, and potential backlash in international markets where Intel earns most of its revenue.

SK hynix kicks off mass production of its 321-layer 2Tb QLC NAND, offering higher speed and efficiency at lower cost and paving the way for cheap multi-terabyte client SSDs and ultra-high-capacity enterprise drives of up to 244TB.

On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland humbly announced that a new free operating system project was 'starting to get ready.'

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ASRock has launched a special 16-pin power cable with over-temperature protection for its Taichi and Phantom Gaming power supplies.

AMD's leaked mobile roadmap suggests Zen 6-based Medusa and Gator Range CPUs will arrive in 2027, bringing Copilot+-ready NPUs to premium, mainstream, and gaming laptops, while Zen 5-powered Gorgon Point will hit in 2026, and older chips like Mendocino and Hawk Point will persist at the entry level for quite a while.

A Microsoft Xbox 360 console that refuses to play due to bad debt' has raised more than a few eyebrows.

Rising power demands from AI GPUs like Nvidia's Blackwell and future Rubin and Feynman processors are pushing data centers beyond air and cold-plate cooling, making immersion cooling appear inevitable within a few years despite high costs and complexity. But is the industry ready?

Elon Musk lays out his highly-ambitious plans to scale xAI's compute power to 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs in the next five years. He doubles down on the vision while open-sourcing Grok 2.5 and even claiming that eventually billions of AI GPUs' worth of power will be in the palm of xAI's hands.

The 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD is currently available at Amazon for $229-one of its best prices to date for the hard drive.

Industrial PC parts manufacturer DFI has launched a new ITX motherboard featuring Intel's upcoming Panther Lake-H. We don't know what SKU it is, but it has a 25W TDP. Being an industrial motherboard, it has no x16 PCIe slot but there are tons of additions like EXT-OOB, along with vPro and CNVi support.

Alienware brings a competition-ready IPS panel to the speedy FHD monitor category with the attractively priced AW2525HM. It's a 320 Hz screen with Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, more color gamut coverage than the competition.

The 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G70B gaming monitor is currently available for $399, its best price to date and one of the best offers you'll find on a monitor with these specs.

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, and the UK government's Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, have discussed a deal which would see the UK's entire population given premium access to ChatGPT, according to reports.

New benchmarks suggest that the 5500X3D offers respectable performance in productivity workloads.

Researchers at imec and Ghent University have stacked 120 ultra-thin layers of silicon and silicon-germanium, a key step toward 3D DRAM. Using advanced epitaxial techniques, they controlled atomic strain to create a nanoscale skyscraper" of memory, paving the way for denser, faster chips.

Microsoft's momentous Windows 95 operating system became available to the public on this day 30 years ago.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is back in Taiwan for weighty negotiations with contract chipmaker TSMC, but still had some fun.

In a Q&A session, AMD claims the latest round of AM5 burnout/CPU failures is the result of overtuned BIOS settings set by its board partners. AMD's response is likely targeted at ASRock, which has struggled to fix problems related to CPU failures on its motherboards this year.

This massive handheld gaming console will let you play your games in 3D without needing glasses - but you'll have to pay for the privilege.

Samsung 850 Pro SSDs may be old, but they're still quite helpful in storing your Steam games and other easily replaceable data.

Kioxia has prototyped a 5 TB flash module that delivers 64 GB/s over PCIe 6.0, utilizing a daisy-chain controller design and PAM4 signaling to scale bandwidth efficiently. While latency still lags behind DRAM, the breakthrough positions NAND as near-memory storage for AI and data-intensive workloads.

A city in central Japan is considering regulating smartphone use to improve the health of its citizens.

Despite soaring demand for server chips, AMD's EPYC 9005 and Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs are selling at U.S. retailers for up to 50% below their official list prices.

The Snapmaker U1 raised $7.4 million, surpassing the Bambu Lab X1C record.

Sama steps into the air-cooling game with the A60E, an effective low-noise dual-tower air cooler. We've tested it with Intel's i7-14700K and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

The Wolfbox MF100 is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date over at Amazon-just $69 instead of its usual $89.

The new Commodore is already thriving with $2m in sales in the first week of the C64 Ultimate's debut.

Aoostar has launched the world's first MoDT motherboard with AMD's Ryzen 9 9955HX and 9955HX3D CPUs. Designed for desktops but powered by mobile chips, the mATX board offers PCIe Gen5, dual M.2 slots, and strong cooling-delivering near-desktop performance at a much lower cost, starting at $530.