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How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the Linux terminal with abcde
Rip your CDs directly from the Linux terminal using the abcde bash tool.
PCIe 7.0 spec finalized with up to 512GB/s speeds — PCI-SIG targets 1TB/s for 8.0 as 'exploration' phase begins
PCI-SIG has revealed the specs for PCIe 7.0, and its plans for 8.0.
SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC "until 2030," Nvidia demands SSDs with 100 million IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs
The CEO of Silicon Motion discusses the prospects of independent developers of SSD controllers, PCIe 6.0 SSDs, PLC 3D NAND, and other exotic types of non-volatile memory, as well as why NAND makers are poised to continue using controllers from third parties.
Massive privacy concern: over 40,000 security cameras are streaming unsecured footage worldwide
Bitsight warns of real-time privacy breaches as cameras in homes, offices, and factories stream openly on the web
AMD's Instinct MI355X accelerator will reportedly consume 1,400 watts
As power consumption of accelerators for supercomputers continues to grow in the coming years, AMD expects zetta scale-class datacenters to consume 500 megawatts, require nuclear reactor.
AMD Zen 5 CPU has dropped to a staggeringly low price — Ryzen 5 9600X now just $189, even includes a free 512GB SSD
AMD's Zen 5 Ryzen 5 9600X paired with a free 512GB Patriot P300 M.2 SSD for just $189.
Scalpers list ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition GPU for as much as $22,900 on eBay
The Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition has hit the eBay marketplace with prices varying between $8,500 and $22,900.
Banned China chipmaker YMTC sues Micron again, now over serious defamation claims — Micron funded anti-Chinese tech misinformation campaigns to get ahead, says YMTC
Yangtze Memory Technologies Company has launched its second lawsuit against Micron within the last two years, the third total in their lengthy legal battle. The new suit accuses Micron of funding a lengthy astroturfing misinformation campaign aimed at slanderizing YMTC in the American market.
AMD says zettascale supercomputers will need half a gigawatt to operate, enough for 375,000 homes
AMD shared a graph at ISC 2025 demonstrating the projected growth of supercomputer power consumption until 2035. It expects by the mid-2030s, supercomputers will require 500 megawatts of energy to run.
How to Use Tio — Connecting to Serial Devices with Linux
Tio, is a tool for Linux that enables easy and fast connections to serial devices. If you are working with the Raspberry Pi Pico or Arduino, then this is a great tool for you.
Nvidia is building the 'world's first' industrial AI cloud—German facility to leverage 10,000 GPUs, DGX B200, and RTX Pro servers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing AI factories towards European manufacturers to "advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing."
CHIPS Act beneficiaries 'mired in NIMBY fights and two-year permits' — delays to Micron, Amkor, and SK hynix NY fabs costing $5M per day
Several major U.S. semiconductor projects - including Amkor's packaging plant in Arizona, Micron's $100B DRAM fab in New York, and SK hynix's HBM site in Indiana - are facing delays or opposition due to environmental reviews and local protests.
Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get
Manage your third party applications as easily as software from the official repositories with deb-get.
Maingear's new Ultima 18 laptop pairs a 4K screen with top-end RTX graphics in a Clevo-designed chassis
Maingear's new 18-inch gaming laptop, the Ultima 18, is a desktop replacement with a 3840 x 2400 screen, up to 192GB of RAM, and fits four PCIe SSDs.
BenQ DesignVue PD3226G 144 Hz gaming monitor review: A 4K pro monitor with gaming chops
BenQ brings top-shelf gaming cred to its DesignVue line with the PD3226G. It's a 32-inch 4K IPS panel with 144 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color. It's well-suited for pro graphics and video, and high-performance gaming.
Despite $2M salaries, Meta can't keep AI staff — talent reportedly flocks to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic
Employment in AI companies is growing, with Anthropic quickly becoming one of the most popular startups to go to.
Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux
Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
Nintendo Switch 2's 3.5 million opening weekend sales smashes brand's console record — beats Switch 1's opening month by almost a million in four days
Nintendo says it sold 3.5 million Nintendo Switch 2 units worldwide in its opening weekend.
AMD supercomputers take gold and silver in latest Top500 as Chinese HPC remains shrouded in secrecy
The Top500 project's 65th list of performance results reveals U.S. leadership in supercomputing. The AMD-based El Capitan, Frontier, and Intel-powered Aurora take the top three spots. AI-focused systems like Microsoft's Eagle and Germany's GH200-powered Jupiter Booster make early appearances. China submitted no new entries for this Top500 edition.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: plenty of performance with 16GB
AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB delivers solid performance at seemingly reasonable pricing, though current retail costs are about 10% higher than the official MSRP. It's a good option with no massive shortcomings, unlike the 8GB cards that are still being foisted off on less knowledgeable consumers.
GeForce RTX 5050 listed with 2,560 CUDA cores and 2,250 MHz boost clock
German IT company Kiebel reveals the specifications for Nvidia's unreleased GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card.
3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing
This 3D printer simulator, created by 5minlab, is much more than a game-it's a practical tool and learning platform that gives you the chance to see your 3D printed object without wasting filament.
'In the last 10 years, AI has advanced 1 million times' — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hails 'incredible' speed of industry change
At London Tech Week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed that AI has advanced a millionfold over the past decade, likely referencing explosive growth in GPU performance and system scale.
Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR
In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.
IBM is building a large-scale quantum computer that 'would require the memory of more than a quindecillion of the world's most powerful supercomputers' to simulate
IBM has shared its roadmap to deliver the 'world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer' in 2029.
EVGA motherboard owners furious over modern GPU issues — DIY users resort to taping over pins to fix RTX 50 Series problem on Z690 boards
A Redditor devised a crafty solution to fix RTX 50 boot-up problems on their EVGA motherboard by insulating the problematic pins with Kapton tape.
TSMC slows down global plans due to soft demand, but accelerates Arizona fab plans by six months for A16 / N2 production
TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investment gets speed boost
1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date
NASA-backed astronomy project has just released the 'largest look ever into the deep universe.'
FSP MEGA TI 1650W Titanium power supply review
The FSP Mega TI 1650W Titanium PSU offers extreme-efficiency power delivery for the most demanding systems, featuring premium performance and an exceptional thermal design.
'Our single chips still lag behind the US by a generation' — Huawei CEO says Washington has exaggerated its achievements, saying the company isn't that powerful
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said in an interview on the People's Daily that its Ascend chips are a generation behind U.S. tech.
Giant 42-inch OLED gaming monitor from Asus hits an all-time low price at Amazon
Save 29% on this 42-inch Asus ROG Swift PG42UQ OLED gaming monitor
Getting To Know the Linux Filesystem — Demystify the directories
It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn't a maze of dead ends. Here's the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.
Starlink shut down on United regional jets — Reports of radio interference on Embraer E175 aircraft prompt switch off
United has turned off Starlink on its regional Express service following reports of radio interference.
Nvidia's 20-core N1X leaks with 3000+ single-core Geekbench score — Arm chip could rival Intel and AMD's laptop offerings
A preliminary Geekbench listing for Nvidia's future N1X SoCs for mobile devices suggests performance near Intel's Arrow Lake-HX and AMD's Strix Halo chips.
Frantic manufacturers are pushing RTX 5090s out the door to beat tariffs — MSI and Gigabyte lead race to get ahead of 'the biggest uncertainty for the rest of the year'
MSI and Gigabyte are rushing to get their stock out before the deadline of Trump's tariff pause expires.
Vital chipmaking software access restored to China — shift follows high-level call between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping
Industry reports indicate access to some vital semiconductor design software has been restored in China, following a call between President Trump and Xi Jinping.
Open source Switch 2 adapter brings M.2 NVMe SSD to Nintendo's latest console — MicroSD Express and NVMe share a similar pinout that could even theoretically support an eGPU
A console modder has shared details of their SDEX2M2 Adapter project, which adds M.2 SSD storage to the Switch 2.
How To Manage Linux Users via the GUI and Terminal
Managing users in Linux is easy and we'll show you how to use both the GUI and the terminal to add and remove users to and from different user groups.
macOS Tahoe is the last release for Intel Macs — Apple Silicon-exclusivity will mark end of Hackintoshes
Five years after the launch of Apple Silicon, macOS Tahoe is the last major release to support Intel-based Macs.
Apple says generative AI cannot think like a human - research paper pours cold water on reasoning models
Apple researchers found that today's most advanced AI reasoning models, though better than standard LLMs on moderately complex tasks, ultimately fail at higher complexities. That exposes fundamental limits in their ability to generalize reasoning.
Custom PC company stuffs a NUC inside a GPU — GeeFarce 5027 POS packs 2X more memory than Nvidia's RTX 5090
CherryTree Inc. has revealed the GeeFarce 5027 POS, a NUC stuffed into a damaged Gigabyte GeForce RTX 20-series graphics card.
Apple debuts macOS 26 Tahoe at WWDC with 'liquid glass' redesign
Apple announced the next version of macOS, version 26 and named "Tahoe," at WWDC with a new look.
Plans to shrink particle accelerators by 1,000x could speed chipmaking by 15X - Inversion Semiconductor proposes 'tabletop' particle accelerators with petawatt lasers
Inversion Semiconductor, a 2024 startup backed by Y Combinator, aims to develop a compact, LWFA-based light source that 10 times more powerful than ASML's current EUV light sources while also targeting even shorter wavelengths.
Nvidia RTX 5050 won't use GDDR7 memory— entry-level GPU tipped to use Samsung & SK hynix GDDR6 modules instead
A media outlet has reportedly received confirmation from Nvidia's board partners that the upcoming RTX 5050 will receive GDDR6 memory rather than GDDR7.
How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal
Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.
How To Copy Files and Directories in the Linux terminal
Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when accessing a system remotely.
How To Find Files in the Linux terminal
In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.
Gigabyte revives striking orange Force motherboard series — B850 for AM5 offers DDR5 up to 9,600MT/s, Wi-Fi 6E, and a throwback PS/2 port
Known for its orange styling and overclocking capabilities, the SOC Force returns with a modern twist
ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic
It is claimed that OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o model got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level" of Atari Chess on an Atari 2600 console from the 1970s.
Crucial's 2TB T500, one of the fastest PCIe Gen 4 SSDs available at 7400MB/s, is now only $132
Crucial's T500 2TB SSD is on sale for just $132. A great price for one of the fastest Gen 4 drives on the market.
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