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International automakers can now apply for licenses to resume chip deliveries from Nexperia China.

U.K. and Chinese authorities must work out a system to return stolen funds converted to Bitcoin, but the process is expected to be complicated.

An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.

Prusa is having a month-long Black Friday sale and there are some great deals on the best of the best 3D printers

SpaceX will reportedly deliver 600 satellites for Trump's Golden Dome missile shield project.

A U.S. startup is developing a compact particle-accelerator-based X-ray lithography system that could surpass ASML's EUV scanners in resolution and cut wafer costs tenfold by the end of the decade, but its plan to build its own fabs rather than sell tools means it must reinvent the entire semiconductor production supply chain from the ground up.

AMD has backtracked on putting RDNA 1 and 2 into a maintenance mode that wouldn't include game optimizations, telling Tom's Hardware new features will be included based on "market needs."

The fallout of the Nexperia ownership scuffle between the Dutch government and Chinese business interests is spilling overseas, with German automotive parts suppliers slowly reducing production due to semiconductor shortages. Meanwhile, Nexperia's Dutch facilities have now blocked exports to its Chinese facilities.

AMD ended mainstream driver support for its RDNA 1 and 2 GPUs in a new update that sought to focus on the RX 7000 and 9000 series for day-one optimizations for new releases. This could mean trouble for handhelds that rely on tuning to achieve their full potential on Windows, and without AMD's driver to back them up, they might be left high and dry.

Minisforum is increasing the prices of its items that come with DDR5 memory and SSDs, although the cost of barebones products remains unchanged.

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very practical release, right now.

Already under intense scrutiny for alleged ties to China, TP-Link, a now-U.S.-based and operated company is on the verge of being banned. In a new proposal concocted by the Department of Commerce, and backed by the Department of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, TP-Link routers might no longer be allowed to be sold in America.

Samsung finally launches the P9 Express microSD Express cards, available in 256GB and 512GB options, for Nintendo's latest Switch 2 handheld gaming console.

Intel's ex-CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia's latest graphics chips are now in full production on American soil. Highlighting how important the silicon supply chain is for national security, he said that he hopes this will allow Nvidia to go harder and faster in its future developments, too.

Intel opens pop-up stores in New York City, London, Munich, Paris, and Seoul to show off some of its latest laptop tech.

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter.

A group of flight sim enthusiasts bought an old Boeing 747 cockpit to convert it into the ultimate flight sim setup.

During Tesla's Q3 2025 earnings call, the firm's CEO, Elon Musk, proposed that the cars take part in 'a giant distributed inference fleet' to tap into their incredible compute power "if they are bored."

President Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed a one-year tariff truce.

Microsoft and OpenAI have finalised the wording of their working relationship for the next five years and beyond. This brings to a close the negotiations which had held up major investments from Softbank, as well as OpenAI's for-profit restructuring.

Australia's police are looking to build an AI tool that would detect and interpret emoji slang online in an effort to curb crime among bad actors in hateful communities, dubbed "crimefluencers." The AI will understand the difference between harmless lingo and coded messages to help police combat violent crime.

Western Digital Blue and Red HDDs from 2020 that use SMR technology are experiencing enough failures to prompt an investigation from WD itself. These same drives, which included SMR without telling customers, resulted in a class action lawsuit against WD in 2021.

A YouTuber's videos telling people how to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and how to install it on unsupported hardware were allegedly violating community guidelines on dangerous and illegal activities.