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The FCC has extended waivers allowing certain covered foreign-produced drones, drone components, and routers to continue receiving software and firmware updates until at least 2029, citing cybersecurity and consumer protection concerns.

Maryland is complaining to the federal energy regulator about PJM's plan to charge it $2 billion for grid upgrades that will mostly benefit data centers, especially as the state claims that the majority of these developments are being built in neighboring regions.

Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months.

Newegg's latest AM5 combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB DDR5 memory, a Samsung Gen 5 SSD, a free Corsair PSU, and a NordVPN subscription.

The A1200 has been delayed nearly half a year due to 'global chip shortages' and is now scheduled for release on December 4.

A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations.

Intel and Apple have reportedly reached a deal in which the former will manufacture chips for the latter.

The price hikes have come for the last remaining current-gen console, as Nintendo has just announced that it'll make the Switch 2 more expensive in various regions around the world. America is getting a $50 bump this September, while Japan will see similar increases by the end of this month. Even Switch Online subscriptions will become costlier.

Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling overseas access to company laptops via RDP and generating over $1.2 million for the regime.

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

We've tested the top Thunderbolt 5 docks on the market, combining six into one battle for the crown.

Newegg's latest combo deal packs AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an Asus X870E motherboard, RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM into a nearly complete AM5 gaming PC for just $1,494.99 - a massive $444 off

A 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM are highlights of this great value ABS Flux II Aqua prebuilt gaming PC.

Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County data center.

Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are just about keeping up with the rising costs, but individual preservationists have given up for the time being. This is all on top of websites blocking scraping bots because of AI.

Google will leverage data from one of the most complex and multi-layered sci-fi RPGs to train its AI, as DeepMind begins training in Eve Online.

Valve will open Steam Controller reservations on May 8 at 10 AM PT, with a limit of one controller per user.

Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available

AMD launches a new MI350P PCIe AI-accelerator card with half the cores and memory of its flagship Instinct MI355X GPU. The new card provides customers with a drop-in upgrade solution for existing air-cooled servers.

The updated version adds a dark walnut finish while retaining support for dual systems, large GPUs, and extensive cooling setups.

The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs.

Grab 15% off the fantastic Razer Bailisk V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse at Woot in this limited clearance sale.

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.

Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do.

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company's chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.

Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing.

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.

According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of last year, almost half of all queried Americans said they would oppose an AI data center being built near their community.