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A Steam Chat user who burned through a month of mobile data in 5 minutes" blames Valve's animated stickers.

Przemysaw Psyho" Dbiak, a Polish programmer and former OpenAI engineer, defeated the company's own advanced AI model in the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals. In a grueling 10-hour coding contest, he outscored the AI by 9.5%, proving human ingenuity still has an edge, at least for now.

You can find the AMD Ryzen7 9800X3D gaming CPU at both Newegg and Amazon for just $451-its lowest price to date.

GTA 5 was released worldwide in 2013. Now, almost 12 years later, gamers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE can finally enjoy the game legally, as it launches in the region under a new 21+ age rating.

Alienware is giving away models of its Area-51 desktop made from Lego bricks, but the limited edition models are only available through its reward program.

Intel shuts down Clear Linux OS as part of the broad global cost-cutting strategy, but it is set to continue upstreaming Linux innovations to the Linux kernel.

An enthusiast has created some Reference Circuit Books where the pages' are PCBs.

Legislators criticize the U.S. government for allowing AMD and Nvidia to sell AI GPUs to China again, but instead of reinstating the ban, they call for new export rules based on what China can build itself.

Titan Army delivers tremendous value with its C34A1R. It's a curved 34-inch 21:9 VA panel with WQHD 3440x1440 resolution, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It's also a lot less expensive than you might expect.

AMD's 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX reportedly scores 73% higher than its predecessor in Cinebench R23, though the result raises doubts about its realism.

A very low-priced 2TB SSD at Newegg sees the Platinum P41 from SK hynix for only $114.

The Core Ultra 5 225 and Core Ultra 5 225F are now selling for over 13% lower than their respective MSRPs.

Linux developers have managed to get Steam games running on RISC-V-powered platforms using a refined x86 emulator.

Intel is set to launch the Arrow Lake-S refresh in the latter part of this year and, clashing with previous rumors, it apparently doesn't even have a new NPU. The company might only be overhauling the clock speeds for its upcoming desktop lineup.

The ROG Strix G16 makes some fair hardware tradeoffs to reach a more attractive price point than more premium competitors.

Discussions and marketing around gaming performance with frame generation enabled have mostly focused on output frame rates, but that focus leaves out a critical piece of the puzzle: input latency. We dig into this issue, explore how it can be measured with readily available software, and use our findings to explore how potential applications of this measurement can guide gamers to the best framegen-enhanced gaming experience.

After posting a record $30 billion revenue in Q2 2025, TSMC announced plans to build at least 15 new fabs worldwide.

Donkey Kong Bananza is among the list of Nintendo Switch 2 games that do not have DLSS support, one of the most exciting features in the new handheld.

A YouTuber fixes a degrading Ryzen 7 5800X by downclocking the CPU by 300 MHz in the BIOS.

AMD shares the pricing and release date for the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 WX-series processors and Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics cards for professional and workstation users.

Some operations in FFmpeg are now as much as 100x faster due to the crafting of handwritten assembly code.

The CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme with an RTX 5060 Ti and Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivers good mid-range gaming performance with quiet cooling for a reasonable $1,859.

The Intel Oregon workforce is down to its lowest point in more than a decade, but there may be more cuts on the way.

Just one month on from Meta investing an alleged $15 billion in data annotation firm, Scale AI, and it's letting go of 200 of its employees, claiming that it scaled up its generative AI teams too quickly.

The lowest-priced RTX 5090 if you want to build a super-high-end gaming rig.

Analogue will delay shipments of its long-awaited reimagining of the Nintendo 64, again.

Game (or work) in comfort with 20% off the Herman Miller Vantum gaming chair.

AMD introduces the Ryzen AI 5 330, a budget-friendly quad-core processor with a 50 TOPS NPU that meets Microsoft Copilot+ PC requirements, aiming to bring AI features to inexpensive Windows 11 laptops.

Gaskar Group denies that the attack was successful, but Ukrainian intelligence is reportedly telling a different story.

Nvidia's consumer PC processors N1 and N1X, originally expected in 2025, have been delayed to at least 2026 due to reported 'critical hardware defects' in the chips, possibly requiring a costly and time-consuming silicon respin, according to unofficial sources.

Fortunately, the example provided appears to be "prank software" rather than more sophisticated malware.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition comes with ultimate requirements. To play the game at 1080p 60 FPS, you need an M3 Pro with 18GB of RAM, and that doesn't include ray tracing. MetalFX dynamic resolution scaling will be used to upscale the game's internal resolution to hit the target.

A popular Intel leaker says that Team Blue is preparing a competitor to AMD's Strix Halo chips, slated to arrive in 2027.

New data shows entry-level" 3D printer sales are up in 2025.