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Updated 2025-08-29 01:15
Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue — Content creator with over a million subs issues warning after buying an old copy of Bayo 3 on eBay
A Switch 2 owner has had their Nintendo console 'restricted' after installing a Switch game they bought on the used market.
Nvidia to resume H20 sales in China — says U.S. government has promised to grant licenses, deliveries to start soon
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been busy lobbying the U.S. and China so that the company can resume the sales of its H20 AI GPUs.
Zotac breathes new life into leftover MXM RTX 5000 Ada GPUs in China at $4,700 a pop — PCIe adapter brings mobile Ada Lovelace GPU to desktops
The MXM variant of the RTX 5000 Ada from Zotac has gone on sale in China with an eye-watering price tag of around $4,742.80.
Upscaling can't save the world's slowest 'modern' GPU — FSR doubles performance on GT 1030, but titles still barely playable
Nvidia's 5-year-old GT 1030 was tested in several games, including AAA games to see if FSR upsclaing can bring frame rates into playable territory. Spoiler alert, it did not.
$5,500 RTX 5090D with dual 16-pin power connectors and 2000W TDP lands on eBay — Galax's HOF OC Lab XOC 5090D, formerly exclusive to China, hits resale market
After being banned in China, Galax's RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC, with dual 16-pin connectors and a 2,000W BIOS, has surfaced on eBay for over $5,500. Built for record-breaking overclocking, this might be the most extreme 5090 out there.
Windows 7 runs natively on the Steam Deck, but only in portrait mode — desktop OS enthusiast aims to push beyond strange limitation in otherwise straightforward process
Windows 7 can run natively on the Steam Deck, according to testing by operating systems enthusiast Bob Pony.
Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid U.S. AI tech — 'they don’t need Nvidia’s chips or American tech stacks in order to build their military'
Jensen Huang said in an interview that we don't have to worry about the Chinese military using advanced American AI tech to develop its own capabilities.
Switch 2 devs are already bleating about performance issues — Donkey Kong Bananza director reveals challenges
Nintendo Switch 2 developers are already feeling the constraints of the new console's hardware and are aware of performance drops in the new Donkey Kong Bananza.
New Rowhammer attack silently corrupts AI models on GDDR6 Nvidia cards — 'GPUHammer' attack drops AI accuracy from 80% to 0.1% on RTX A6000
GPUHammer is a new Rowhammer-based attack targeting NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory. It flips bits in VRAM to silently corrupt AI models, dropping accuracy from 80% to under 1%. NVIDIA urges users to enable ECC, though it slightly reduces performance and available memory.
Leaked ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Ally X prices hint at a similar price range to existing models — 599, 899 euro prices spotted in the EU
Alleged European prices place the Xbox Ally consoles in the same range as current ROG models.
Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10 Review: Dual-screen productivity powerhouse
Lenovo's dual-screen ultrabook, the Yoga Book 9i, offers stunning screens, but short battery life.
Slashed in price by 37%, SanDisk's 512GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 is only $78 while stocks last, and that won't be very long
A rare 512GB microSD Express SanDisk card is on sale at Walmart for a ridiculously low price.
Google Gemini crumbles in the face of Atari Chess challenge — admits it would 'struggle immensely' against 1.19 MHz machine, says canceling the match most sensible course of action
Google Gemini decided to call off its chess match against the ancient 1.19 Mhz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.
Enthusiast builds a fully functional CPU from old memory chips — hand-solders every wire, writes 1800 lines of assembler code, and makes it play The Matrix on a VFD display
Someone just built a fully functional CPU from scratch using old memory chips and logic parts from the 8-bit era. Spanning four perfboards and over a kilometer of wire, it runs real code, handles interrupts, and even plays The Matrix-all using logic simulated entirely through EPROMs.
TensorWave just deployed the largest AMD GPU training cluster in North America — features 8,192 MI325X AI accelerators tamed by direct liquid-cooling
TensorWave has built North America's largest AMD AI cluster with 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325X GPUs, delivering 21 exaFLOPS of FP8 throughput. It's a bold move against NVIDIA's dominance and marks ROCm's first major public cloud-scale deployment for general-purpose AI training.
Snot-filtering tech could be the answer to a dust-free PC — Korean scientists turn to nature to improve air filtration
A recent research paper, 'inspired by the natural filtration abilities of mucus-coated nasal hairs,' might have some answers for improved PC air filtration.
Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment rumors suggest it would rather sell AI infrastructure than compete with ChatGPT and Gemini
AWS is in prime position to power the AI revolution, rather than win it.
Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD panel behind a curved acrylic sheet
Japan's Mizuki Co. is crowdfunding a monitor to match its attractive X68000 Z Super and X68000 Z XVI miniature retro reprint PCs.
This 32-inch LG Ultragear curved monitor is now just $196 — even cheaper than Amazon Prime Day
The LG Ultragear 32GS60QC-B is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date-just $196 instead of its recommended $299.
Intel axes thousands of technicians and engineers in sweeping U.S. layoffs — cutting 4,000 positions in the U.S., 2,392 in Oregon
Intel is cutting 2,392 jobs in Oregon, with about 4,000 nationwide, mostly affecting technicians and engineers, despite claims of targeting managers, as part of a broader push for automation and decentralization.
Maker 3D prints left-handed Logitech MX Master 3S — fixes awkward button layout made for righties
Matthias Deblaiser has created a left-handed version of the Logitech MX Master 3S gaming mouse which is originally optimized for right-handed people.
Nvidia's new driver update finally brings Smooth Motion to RTX 40-series GPUs, works like AMD's Fluid Motion Frames and claims to double your FPS with a single click in any game
Nvidia's Smooth Motion is finally available for RTX 40-series GPUs through a preview driver. You can download the update, along with Nvidia Profile Inspector, to double your FPS in any game, without worrying about support.
Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB capacity per cartridge — HoloMem says optical ribbon-based carts work with some components of existing systems, red
Further details about HoloMem's holographic tape have come into view.
McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025
A pair of security researchers have revealed vulnerabilities in the McHire chatbot Paradox developed for McDonald's that could have been exploited to reveal personal information about roughly 64 million people who have used the service to apply for jobs at their local franchises. (Hat-tip Wired.)
Jensen Huang adds voice to those warning of AI-induced job losses - but only 'if the world runs out of ideas'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that while AI could dramatically boost productivity, it may also cause job losses unless society continues to innovate and create new opportunities.
Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now
A security researcher discovered that the wireless RF communication between the first and last car of American trains isn't encrypted.
Core Ultra 5 245HX blasts past desktop counterpart in PassMark — mobile Arrow Lake chip is up to 40% faster than the Core i5-14500HX
In a weird twist, Intel's Core Ultra 5 245HX is allegedly faster than the desktop Core Ultra 5 245 in PassMark, featuring better single-core and multi-core scores.
Shuckable Seagate 20TB external hard drive is on sale for $219 — back up your data at 1 cent per GB
The Seagate 20TB Expansion Desktop HDD is available right now at B&H Photo for $219 instead of its usual $279, saving $60 off the asking price.
Russian pro basketball player gets the cuffs for allegedly being a member of ransomware gang — lawyer claims client "sucks at computers and is not even able to install an application"
Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin is suspected of acting as a ransomware negotiator for the ransomware gang behind some of the attacks in the U.S. between 2020 and 2022.
Mini-PC production line video shows a combination of machine automation and human efforts to make PCs
A new video shows the careful and intricate business of manufacturing and preparing a mini PC for retail.
Grab a 4TB SSD for 5 cents per gigabyte – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB
Roomy 4TB SSDs cost a lot less than they used to, and even some 8TB models are approaching affordability.
Nintendo Switch pirates sunk by the FBI as they seize the site for hosting pirated games — American and Dutch authorities take down NSW2U.com
This seizure will definitely make it harder to find pirated ROMs for the average user, but one can expect a few more to appear in the coming days.
The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299
The Commodore 64 Ultimate will be the first new hardware released under the auspices of the new management, and pricing starts at $299.
Colorful puts two M.2 SSD slots inside upcoming GeForce RTX 50-series GPU — Blackwell GPU repurposes unused PCIe lanes for fast storage
Upcoming iGame Ultra GPU adds two NVMe drives using PCIe bifurcation.
Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’
Used Nintendo Switch games that have been copied and are being sold online might get your Switch 2 banned for life.
Asus just made an RTX 5090 with 11 lbs of real gold worth $500,000 — RTX 5090 ROG Astral Gold Edition is the most expensive GPU of all time
As everyone knows, the RTX 5090 was not expensive enough as is, so Asus decided to finally help out poor Nvidia by making one out of pure gold. It's comprised of half a million dollars' worth of gold, so you can enjoy your games knowing you didn't pay over MSRP for a 5090.
Prime Day is officially over, but here are some great deals you can still get at Amazon, Newegg, and others
These are our favorite last-minute Amazon Prime Day deals
New leaked Bambu Lab 3D printer diagrams reveal H2S model in the works — diagrams accidentally included in Wiki page
More leaks from Bambu Lab reveal that a new single-nozzle sister to the H2D is coming soon.
The best Bambu Lab 3D printers are up to 43% off until July 15 — anniversary celebration serves up stellar deals
Save big on some of the best 3D printers during Prime Day 2025
AMD's 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX benchmark results listed in Geekbench database
As AMD's 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX approaches its launch, unofficial benchmark results have been posted to the Geekbench database, revealing some details about its performance.
MyMiniFactory swoops on Etsy 3D printing controversy — new Premium Merchant Program will let anyone sell physical 3D prints on its platform for a monthly fee
MMF responds to Etsy's attempt to shut out 3D print makers.
This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action
Team Group's new M.2 2280 SSD comes with a big red button. Hold it one second too long, and it destroys your NAND instead of just erasing the data.
This $5000 Prime Day PC build is fit for Jensen Huang — the more you buy, the more you save
With a discounted RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 9950X3D, there's nothing this PC can't do.
Prime Day ends today, but there's still time to grab some of our favorite deals before time runs out
These are our favorite last-minute Amazon Prime Day deals
AMD's Ryzen 7000 series CPU still selling at all-time lows as the clock runs out on Prime Day — Ryzen 9 7950X drops to $450, Ryzen 7600X at $162
AMD Ryzen 7000 series prices down to an all-time low.
Gigabyte B550 Eagle motherboard is at an all-time low price for the end of Prime Day at 26% off
The Gigabyte B550 Eagle is a mid-range AM4 motherboard
Apple's MacBook Air with M1 is at an all-time low price — just $599 at Walmart
Apple's MacBook Air, powered by the M1 processor, is on sale for $599.
The ultimate SSD deal to beat on Prime Day — grab a 4TB Crucial P310 for $199, the most affordable 4TB SSD on the market, in the final hours of Prime Day
Get 40% off Crucial's huge 4TB SSD in this excellent Prime Day discount
Core Ultra 7 265K CPU selling at all-time low $259 with two free games on last day of Prime Day — 97% of the gaming performance of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K, but for $260 less
The Core Ultra 7 265K goes on sale for Amazon Prime Day at $259, down from the chip's $404 MSRP.
This M3 iPad Air deal is 20% off — just in time for iPadOS 26 and proper windowing support
Apple's iPad Air with M3 is $479 for Prime Day.
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