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Cables and pipelines in the Gulf of Finland have been damaged four times in less than 1.5 years.

Target is offering the Logitech G502 Hero for $35.99 with a complimentary $20 gift card-effectively bringing your cost down to just $15.99 for this top-rated gaming mouse.

British startup Space Forge has just successfully turned on its first in-orbit furnace, reaching 1,000 degrees Celsius in space. This is a crucial first step for the company in studying the feasibility of manufacturing chips in space.

Elon Musk has announced that xAI has purchased a third building at its Memphis, Tennessee site to bolster the company's overall compute power to a gargantuan two gigawatts.

Nvidia's CUDA 13.1 introduces CUDA Tile, a new tile-centric programming path that elevates GPU kernel development above SIMT. The innovation aligns CUDA with the tensor-native execution model of Blackwell-class GPUs, and lays the software foundation for future architectures built around increasingly specialized compute and data-movement engines rather than thread-level parallelism.

Chinese memory maker CXMT prepares to file for IPO in Beijing, aiming to raise $4.2 billion USD in order to expand production and fund next-gen DRAM development.

ByteDance is reportedly planning to spend 100 billion yuan, or $14 billion USD, on Nvidia's AI GPUs in 2026. Specifically, Bytedance is eyeing up Nvidia H200 chips, following Washington's announcement that it will allow them to be sold to approved parties in China. Beijing still has to approve these transactions, however.

Beijing says that the Netherlands is not taking steps to resolve the Nexperia issue, thus extending the chip shortage affecting automotive makers across the globe.

Razer's BlackWidow V4 Low Profile TKL gaming keyboard is on sale right now at Woot for just $139.99, a record low for this model from an Amazon company, and with three different switch types to choose from.

Tech companies are spending more on AI-focused employees even as the rest of the industry is laying off hundreds of thousands.

China has quietly mandated that at least 50% of equipment used for new semiconductor capacity be domestically sourced. However, as China's industry cannot produce enough lithography tools, authorities tend to get flexible and allow foreign alternatives in.

This $2,499 Skytech gaming PC is an elite-level rig for gaming at 4K, fitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, along with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD.

When copper is not enough and yet optical interconnections are overkill, waveguide-based cables can do the job.

A maker has shared their take on the Makeyo MK01 3D printed PC case, implementing several worthwhile mods.

D7VK has added experimental Direct3D 6 support, opening up near-native performance for older PC games without emulation.

Asus teases forthcoming Neo AM5 motherboards supporting AMD's Ryzen processors, to be officially announced at CES 2026.

China's first 6nm-class discrete GPUs, the G100 series from Lisuan, has apparently started to ship out to customers, months after their initial announcement. These GPUs, if as performant as claimed, hold the potential to fuel China's self-reliance ambitions in producing homegrown alternatives to Nvidia and AMD.

Rainbow Six Siege has recovered from yesterday's attack, with servers now fully operational once again. The only issues players will experience re-entering the game are a possible wait queue.

EUV lithography era in chipmaking began in 2019 and there are no signs that this is going to stop as process technologies are getting more complex. However, there are fundamental reasons why TSMC's quotes are rising quicker than its costs and its customers are not leaving for other foundries.

Intel has officially sold over 217 million of its common stock to Nvidia in a historic equity investment worth $5 billion. The stake was originally announced in September, after the U.S. government had invested its own $8.9 billion into Intel. Following FTC approvals in early December, the sale has now been completed.

An IDC report revises earlier guidance, warning of a shrink in the PC market that could approach 9%.