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Widely ridiculed Intel stock buyer who invested $700,000 inheritance has the last laugh (if they held) as it nearly triples in value — investment is now worth around $1.89 million
In August 2024, a Redditor was widely, repeatedly, and mercilessly ridiculed for investing the majority of an $800,000 inheritance in Intel stock. It's been a rollercoaster, but that looks like it was a great decision.
KTC H27P3 27-inch 5K dual-mode gaming monitor review: Incredible pixel density and flexibility
KTC delivers tremendous pixel density with its H27P3. It's a 27-inch IPS panel with 5120x2880 5K at 60 Hz, 2560x1440 QHD at 120 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR and wide gamut color. It's color accurate out of the box and delivers a lot of flexibility.
Xbox outlines broad plan to revitalize brand with a back-to-basics approach that focuses on console — New Xbox strategy reprioritizes console, while bolstering cloud and services
Microsoft Gaming has been rebranded to just Xbox and the new leadership at the company is looking to shift focus to what worked in the first place. The new open letter titled "We are Xbox" goes over four main points that the brand is putting at the center of this identity transformation. Surprisingly, it includes a reprioritization of console, too.
Union rally causes Samsung fab production to plummet by 58% during night shift as workers demand up to $400,000 bonuses — updated figures show over 40,000 people attended rally for better pay an
Samsung's memory fab and contract chip foundry production for a single night-shift fell by up to 58% after a one-day strike. The union is gearing up for an extended 18-day labor action if company management refuses to meet their demands when it comes to pay and bonuses.
Save a massive $520 on a gaming PC upgrade with this mega Newegg DDR5 RAM combo worth $1,159 separately — free 1TB SSD thrown in ramps up the value of this $639.99 upgrade bundle with 32GB memor
Start your AM5 build off right and save almost $200 with this Newegg combo. Get 32GB of DDR5-6000 CL28 RAM, an MSI X870E Tomahawk Wifi motherboard, and a FREE 1TB Western Digital SN850X M.2 SSD for only $639.99.
Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for just $28 in this Newegg combo with the new 9950X3D2 that saves you a huge $441 — $1,729.99 deal with AMD's first dual-X3D CPU also ships with a 2TB WD Black SSD
Save 20% on this Newegg combo kit with AMD's first dual-X3D chip in the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, along with an Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus WiFi7 motherboard, 32GB (2x16GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6400 RAM, and a 2TB WD Black SN7100 SSD, all for $1,729.99.
Intel stock jumps 28%, setting a record, after it posts strong Q1 with rising forecasts — Intel says yields are improving faster than expected with new nodes
Demand for Intel's products exceed expectations and supply, but Intel is still bleeding money.
120 Steam users now own 20,000 games or more, three whales own over 40,000 games — one player's library is worth nearly $750,000 at today’s prices
It is easy to get sucked into Steam Sale fever and end up buying more games than you have the time or the inclination to play.
Amazon Eero and Leo routers gain FCC Conditional Approval for US sales — Eero products can skirt router ban for the next 18 months, firm joins Netgear on approval list
Amazon's Eero is the latest router manufacturer to gain Conditional Approval" from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to sell its routers in the United States.
SoftBank subsidiary working with Intel to develop radical new ZAM memory is now receiving Japanese gov't subsidies — new memory designed as a lower-power HBM for AI workloads
Japan's SaiMemory, a SoftBank subsidiary collaborating with Intel, has secured NEDO funding to develop Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), a next-gen DRAM architecture addressing HBM limitations
Intel CEO says he can 'think of no better partner than Elon Musk' to explore 'unconventional' ways to improve chip manufacturing — TeraFab partnership aims to rethink how chips are made to reduc
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan commented on the company's partnership with Elon Musk's TeraFab project, but details about the relationship are still light.
First Intel Wildcat Lake laptop spotted in the wild, geared to compete with MacBook Neo — features an aluminum chassis with 11W fanless mode
Intel's Wildcat Lake family was launched recently, but no devices featuring the CPUs have actually shown up yet. Analyst Vaidyanathan S shared pictures of a real laptop running the new 'Core Series 3' silicon, but it's just an Intel reference machine. It also shows that Wildcat Lake has a 17W PL1 and an 11W fanless mode, along with a 22W PL1 Max and a 35W PL2 mode.
Intel shutters open-source evangelism program and archives key community projects — closures point to significant shift in open-source leadership
The latest round of GitHub closures underscores a broader pullback in Intel's open-source footprint amid ongoing restructuring.
Crypto scam takes advantage of Strait of Hormuz crisis by taking fake payments, leading to two ships being fired upon — two vessels reportedly fell victim and paid fake 'Iranian authorities'
Two vessels waiting to transit the Strait of Hormuz reportedly fell victim to scammers posing as Iranian authorities and asking for transit fee payments in crypto.
Anthropic surpasses biggest rival OpenAI in secondary market valuation — surges to $1 trillion amid frantic investor interest
Anthropic's secondary market valuation has reportedly surged to $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI's $880 billion, driven by intense investor demand for AI exposure, and highlighting speculative pricing in secondary markets.
SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs — $1.75 trillion IPO listing reportedly includes in-house GPU production
Elon Musk's SpaceX set to produce 'own GPUs' at its own multi-billion fab as the company warns that it may be unable to purchase all the silicon it needs to meet its goals.
UK spy agency releases malware-blocking gadget for HDMI and DisplayPort cables — SilentGlass blocks malicious traffic traveling between display and computer
The NCSC, a part of the British GCHQ, has deployed this protective gadget throughout various government estates and is now making it publicly available through Goldilock Labs.
Hands On: Corsair’s Frame Configurator brings dozens of customization options (and rippling wood) to its 4000 Series PC cases
Corsair's 4000-Series cases and configurator offer up dozens of customization options, including unique wood and RGB front panels, three motherboard trays, and more.
You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x
WSL9x enables users to run the most modern Linux kernels in Microsoft OSes as old as Windows 95.
More than 30,000 Samsung union members take to the streets to demand an average bonus of $400,000 per worker — May 21 strike date looms, union points to rival SK hynix granting higher bonuses to
Workers at Samsung's largest chip fab staged a rally today, demanding higher pay and bonuses, comparing their compensation to what SK hynix offers its people.
Grab this epic Creality K1C 3D printer at its lowest-ever price for a limited time only, now just $369 — huge $190 saving nets you a fast, fully enclosed Core XY rig that beginners and enthusias
A huge $190 saving can be had right now on this Creality K1C 3D printer, fully enclosed and ready for fast printing, and on sale for just $369 right now, matching its best-ever price.
Bag a set of Razer Nommo 2.0 speakers for just $69 for a limited time — save $40 on new desktop speakers
Bag a set of Razer Nommo 2.0 speakers for just $69. Save $40 on new desktop speakers at Woot
U.S. Commerce Secretary says Nvidia still hasn't sold any H200 AI GPUs to China — Chinese government is blocking imports in an attempt to push domestic semiconductor industry
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia still hasn't sold a single H200 AI GPU to China, despite the ban being lifted four months ago. The Chinese government is making it difficult for Chinese companies to import Nvidia chips in a bid to support the country's own domestic semiconductor industry.
Bolt Graphics tapes out its first Zeus GPU test chip on TSMC 12nm — firm touts 17x lower cost of compute
Bolt Graphics has announced its completed tape-out of a test chip for its Zeus GPU, marking the startup's first move from FPGA emulation to manufactured silicon.
Seagate FireCuda X Vault (8TB) review: A USB-powered, RGB-lit hard drive aimed at gamers
Seagate's FireCuda X Vault is a gaming-focused 3.5-inch external drive with easily controlled RGB and a single USB-C cable for power and data.
AI agent designs a complete RISC-V CPU from a 219-word spec sheet in just 12 hours — comparably simple design required 'many tens of billions of tokens'
AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core.
Elon Musk says his TeraFab facilities will use Intel's 14A process technology to make AI chips — SpaceX will be responsible for high-volume chip manufacturing in likely Intel tech licensing deal
Elon Musk reveals details about TeraFab: Intel provides technology, Tesla builds pilot line, SpaceX constructs high-volume fab.
TSMC unveils process technology roadmap through 2029 — A12, A13, N2U announced, A16 slips to 2027
TSMC strengthens its bifurcated process technology development approach with A14, A13, and N2U aimed at client applications and A16, A12, and N2X for high-performance data center designs.
Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000+ bill despite $7 budget, thanks to forgotten API key in published project — attacker put in 60,000+ requests and blasted through $1,400 spending cap
Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than 60,000 requests while they were asleep.
Samsung engineer sentenced to 7 years in prison for selling chipmaking trade secrets to Chinese chipmaker — ex-employee supplied 10nm DRAM data to CXMT for $2 million
An ex-Samsung employee accused of corporate espionage has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for sharing over 600 critical chipmaking steps.
Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems
Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal to remove obsolete ISA and PCMCIA-era Ethernet drivers from the mainline kernel, citing rising maintenance burden from AI-driven bug reports and fuzzing. The change would cut around 27,000 lines of legacy code
Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — more L3 cache and dual 3D V-cache-stacked CCDs
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is AMD's latest CPU release. Here's where you can pick one up.
Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop now available with AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition — top CPU config starts at $4,449.99 with RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5
Alienware is the first to launch a system powered by AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, combining the new flagship CPU with high-end components.
Microsoft facing $2.8 billion UK lawsuit for overcharging 60,000 businesses using Microsoft Server on other clouds — Azure users allegedly received lower wholesale pricing
A lawsuit alleging the company is overcharging Windows Server for non-Azure users has been certified to proceed to trial, although Microsoft is still appealing the decision. The lawyer handling the case alleges that the claim affects almost 60,000 businesses and is worth about $2.8 billion.
Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty after leaking victims' insurance details to 'BlackCat' hackers — perp gave attackers a precise picture of exactly how much each target could afford to pay
Martino, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, is the third and final member of a trio of cybersecurity professionals charged in the scheme.
Keychron K3 Ultra Review: Got Wood?
Despite a couple of flaws, the Keychron K3 Ultra is one of the best mechanical keyboards I have used in a while.
Score this epic 1440p Samsung gaming monitor back at its lowest-ever price, now just $159 — limited-time discount nets you this 27-inch IPS display with a fast 200Hz refresh rate for your gaming
This 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G53F gaming monitor is back down to a record-low $159.99, thanks to this limited-time Amazon deal, offering a 1440p resolution and fast 200Hz refresh rate at a great price.
Congress moves to strip the DoC of chip-export discretion with the MATCH Act — DUV lithography machines among those targeted in chipmaking tool crackdown
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware Act, or MATCH Act, in early April.
Just $479 nets you the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, B850 Max motherboard, and 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM — perfect start to a low-cost gaming PC build
Put together a pokey little gaming PC with components that won't break the bank. This $479 Newegg bundle includes a CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and a 360mm AIO CPU cooler
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol includes a critical remote code execution vulnerability — newly discovered exploit puts 200,000 AI servers at risk
Researchers at OX Security have exposed an architectural vulnerability in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that allows for remote code execution on affected systems.
Valve VRAM hack may improve gaming on 4GB GPUs — testing showed mixed results in select titles, with FPS almost tripling in certain games
Valve's VRAM hack can boost performance on 4GB GPUs, with testing showing FPS gains of up to 3x in some titles, though results vary widely depending on the game and settings.
AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works — driver-level tweak will let gamers upgrade existing titles to FSR4 ML-based frame generation
AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works
Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage'
Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.
Enthusiast builds his own RAM in garden shed cleanroom — fledgling array of memory cells groundwork for much larger future project
This is the first time ever RAM has been made at home' boasts a garden shed-based semiconductor maker.
Framework’s overhauled Laptop 13 Pro brings a redesigned chassis — Intel Core Ultra Series 3 system aims to be a 'MacBook Pro for Linux users'
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the company's first redesign of its chassis, with CNC aluminum, a haptic touchpad, larger battery, and an option for pre-loaded Ubuntu.
Intel teases wider range of overclockable CPUs for future platforms — VP Robert Hallock says budget builders 'deserve the same level of features' as more well-heeled enthusiasts
In a new interview, Intel VP Robert Hallock unveiled a renewed focus on the entry-level enthusiast market with a commitment to release more budget-friendly unlocked CPUs over time.
Microsoft announces surprise Xbox Game Pass price cuts, ends day one Call of Duty inclusion — Ultimate down to $22.99 while PC Game Pass drops to $13.99
Microsoft surprise-drops significant Xbox Game Pass price cuts
Showstopper Build: Greyscale — building a custom-looped ITX PC that pushes the form factor to its limits
Building an ITX PC can be challenging in and of itself, so naturally, we decided to amp up the difficulty factor and see if we could build something uncoolable.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 review: More cache, more cash
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is one of the most unique CPUs we've ever reviewed, and although its price feels like a kick in the gut, it offers some interesting, highly specialized improvements in certain workloads based on our testing.
TP-Link seeks to secure conditional approval from FCC following router import ban — company stresses it is no longer Chinese-owned
TP-Link, one of the most popular consumer router brands in the U.S., met with FCC officials to discuss how it can secure a conditional approval to continue introducing and selling new routers.
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