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We're expecting at least three new SKUs in the Arrow Lake refresh that Intel is cooking up behind the scenes, with decent improvements across the board in terms of better memory support and higher clock speeds. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, in particular, looks to be almost on par with a current-gen 285K if this leak is to be believed.

The real 'world's first microprocessor' was a classified military secret for nearly 30 years.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's approach to its single-player campaign has got players complaining.

The top-of-the-line Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is priced at $3,999 and will be available in only 1,000 units worldwide.

The WD Black SN850X continues to stand out thanks to its strong sustained performance, improved efficiency, and full PS5 support.

Five individuals were convicted of various crimes, including wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, for facilitating the illegal remote employment of North Korean workers.

Bitfarm says that it will convert its Washington Bitcoin mining facility into an AI data center and exit crypto mining completely in a couple of years.

A PC repair tech has detailed how a $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 GPU reportedly snapped under its own weight, breaking the PCIe connector and rendering the card useless.

Using a shunt mod and a freezer, Trashbench achieved a 23% boost in clocks on the smallest Blackwell GPU.

Tachyum's newly published Prodigy specs make sweeping claims of GPU-beating performance, but the shift to a 2nm multi-chiplet redesign means the need to restart RTL, which implies that the processor is now likely delayed by another four to five years.

Microsoft has just been dealt a major legal blow as the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has essentially declared that reselling perpetual licenses is perfectly fine. Microsoft's most recent claim argued that its products qualify for copyright infringement (which the licenses protect against) since they can be used to create original work, a notion that the judges ruled against.

Anthropic reported that it has detected and mitigated an AI-powered cyberattack that targeted 30 companies and government agencies.

A Chinese company gains access to Nvidia hardware by renting compute from a Jakarta-based telecommunications company.

Multiple users reported on Reddit that the latest 21.0.0 firmware for the Switch 2 blocks some third-party docks. However, vendors have found a workaround.

FSR Redstone is here and Call of Duty's getting it first. In Black Ops 7, there's a "Ray Regeneration" option that allows users to clean up ray tracing data before it's fed into the upscaler, resulting in higher-quality ray-traced lighting, shadows and reflections. It only works with RX 9000 series cards at the moment, but support for older RDNA lineups might be possible.

The Steam Deck 2 is not happening anytime soon, a notion that has just been reinforced by software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who says that Valve is waiting for true next-gen silicon with architectural improvements that will allow the Steam Deck successor to offer both significantly better performance and battery life, likely without incurring extra costs toward the end-user.

Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform may upend the AI-server market by shipping partners fully built L10 compute trays that include all compute, power, and cooling hardware, leaving OEMs and ODMs to handle only rack integration while Nvidia takes over the core server design, much of the value, and margins.

The AI race is exerting a massive toll on our environment.