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Updated 2026-01-03 00:00
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore
Nvidia signs $1.5 billion deal with cloud startup Lambda to rent back its own AI chips — 18,000 GPUs will be leased over 4 years, as Lambda gears up for its IPO
Nvidia, the source of origin for much of the contemporary AI hype, is now looking to rent back its own chips from Lambda. The Green Team is already a heavy investor in the AI startup but will now lease 18,000 GPUs over a 4-year long period, helping Lambda ready up for its upcoming IPO.
Trump warns that he will soon announce ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs — chip companies investing in the US will be spared the brunt of the tariffs
The president said that his administration will 'very shortly' impose a 'fairly substantial' tariff on imported semiconductors from companies that are not making chips in the United States.
AI-powered PromptLocker ransomware is just an NYU research project — the code worked as a typical ransomware, selecting targets, exfiltrating selected data and encrypting volumes
ESET's discovery of the first AI-powered ransomware turned out to be an NYU research project.
Newegg's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, motherboard, RAM, and 240mm liquid AIO cooler combo deal is only $678 — just add an SSD, PSU, GPU, and case for a complete new PC build
You can save hundreds of dollars on your next PC build with this Newegg combo deal
Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam
Hollow Knight: Silksong has become one of the biggest releases in recent video game history. The game crashed digital storefronts worldwide on release, and soon became the #3 most-played game on Steam behind Counter-Strike and Dota 2.
TeamGroup MP44Q 2TB SSD Review: Another Budget Winner
The TeamGroup MP44Q is another budget SSD from the company, this time using QLC flash instead of TLC. It performs well with good power efficiency, but has the expected QLC drawbacks.
DIYer creates the PC gaming handheld of your widest dreams – 32:9 AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme device showcased in driving games
A Chinese electronics wizard had shown off super wide 32:9 screen PC gaming handheld.
Portable 3D-printed device can produce enough drinking water from thin air for a family of four every day - Water from Air project can capture 1.6 gallons of drinking water per day
Portable 3D printed Water from Air device is claimed to be able to capture 1.6 gallons (6 liters) of drinking water per day.
Lenovo shows off ThinkBook VertiFlex laptop and Smart Motion dock concepts at IFA – rotating displays and AI-powered docks that follow your every move
Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex and Smart Motion concepts appear to have a better-than-average chance of reaching production.
Lenovo's IFA launches include 4K 240 Hz OLED gaming monitors — Legion Pro 7 laptops features Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with an RTX 5080
Lenovo goes all-in with OLED panels on its latest Legion gaming monitors and gaming laptop.
Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 packs Ryzen Z2 Extreme and an OLED display — thick gaming handheld starts at $1,049
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is beefier than before, with a more powerful chip and an OLED screen, but it's also quite expensive.
US offers $10M reward for snitching on trio of Russians that hacked critical infrastructure
The U.S. Department of State offered a $10 million bounty via the Rewards for Justice program for information related to a trio of Russian hackers.
Windows 11 August 2025 security update is causing unintended UAC prompts to appear for non-admin users — some apps are crashing
Microsoft's latest Windows update for Windows 11, Windows 10 is causing unintended UAC prompts to appear in certain cases for non-admin users.
Solar-powered Logitech keyboard appears on Amazon Mexico — MX Keys S look-alike promises up to 10 years of power
Logitech will soon launch the company's new Signature Slim Solar+ keyboard, which features a solar panel to charge its battery.
Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released with native fingerprint support – also has a new syncing sticky note system
Linux Mint 22.2 Zara' has been released today, offering native fingerprint biometrics, an updated Sticky Notes app, and improved update management.
Grab this $179 Mini LED gaming monitor before it's gone — Woot puts 4.5-star, 165 Hz, quantum dot Cooler Master screen on clearance for $270 off its 2024 list price
Cooler Master's Tempest GP2711 is discounted 61%. Now, you can get a great Mini LED monitor from a reliable company for just $170 that offers OLED-like image quality without any of the worries.
China injects tens of billions of dollars in chipmaking tools, but it's easily more than a decade behind the market leaders — Here's why
China's chip industry excels at mature nodes but remains at least a decade behind in advanced lithography.
Report says North Korea is also posting fake jobs to steal crypto — because using AI to get fake employees real jobs at US tech firms wasn't enough
North Korea is reportedly posting fake jobs in the cryptocurrency sector as part of a bid to steal applicants' crypto assets.
Intel’s old NAND plant in China is now officially registered as SK hynix after US imposes new sanctions that limit fab upgrades in China
According to Chinese registry filings, the plant's name officially changed to reflect its ownership by SK hynix on September 1.
AMD preps Mega Pod with 256 Instinct MI500 GPUs, Verano CPUs — Leak suggests platform with better scalability than Nvidia will arrive in 2027
First details about AMD's next-generation AI rack solution emerge: three racks, 64 compute racks, 256 Instinct MI500-series GPUs, 64 EPYC 'Verano' CPUs, 18 switch trays.
Bill Gates’ 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 source code is now available on Github, under the MIT license.
Nvidia's next-gen AI chip could double the price of H20 if China export is approved — Chinese firms still consider Nvidia's B30A a good deal
Chinese companies are hungry for more computing power and are willing to pay for it.
Samsung's massive 49-inch ultrawide OLED gaming monitor is back down to its lowest ever price at Amazon
The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 curved ultrawide gaming monitor originally launched at $1,599.
Seagate IronWolf Pro 30TB HDD Review: Seagate Drops the HAMR with the Biggest NAS Drive on the Market
The Seagate IronWolf Pro is a massive drive with a good warranty at an okay price.
Noctua's first AIO liquid cooler delayed to Q2 2026, company reveals new roadmap — cooler was originally slated for a Q1 2026 release
Noctua announced its first-ever mainstream AIO liquid cooler back at Computex earlier this year, where it said it would launch sometime in the first quarter of 2026. Now, thanks to an updated roadmap, we know that it's planned for Q2 2026. Noctua's AIO will be based on Asetek's G8 V2 pump design.
'Doomer science fiction': Nvidia blasts proposed US bill that would force it to give American buyers 'first option' in AI GPU purchases before selling chips to other countries, including allies &mdash
U.S. lawmakers have proposed the GAIN AI Act, a bill that would block exports of cutting-edge AI chips - like Nvidia's H100 and B300 - and require developers to prioritize American buyers before fulfilling foreign orders, even to allied nations.
New 3D-stacked memory tech seeks to dethrone HBM for AI inference — d-Matrix claims 3DIMC will be 10x faster and 10x more efficient
Santa Clara-based startup d-Matrix looks to replace HBM in AI inference with 3DIMC, or 3D digital in-memory-compute. The company's goals for the tech are to create a memory chip that is 10x more efficient and 10x faster than HBM in AI inference tasks.
Acer unveils Project Digits supercomputer featuring Nvidia's GB10 superchip with 128GB of LPDDR5x
Acer announces its own version of Project Digits, named the Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation, that comes with Nvidia's GB10 superchip, 128GB of LPDDR5x memory, and supports up to 4TB of NVMe storage. The system is designed for AI developers who want an AI accelerator that is fast and compact for local use.
Microsoft-backed research team builds hollow-core cable with lowest signal loss recorded in optical fiber
Researchers from Southampton spinout Lumenisity have built a hollow-core cable with what they claim is the lowest signal loss ever in any optical fiber.
New 3D printing process could improve superconductors — scientists use 3D-printed ink and heat to create record-breaking surface area
Scientists at Cornell have created a 3D printing process that can help improve superconductor performance with record-breaking surface area on compound superconductors.
Anycubic Kobra 3 V2 Review: Kobra Gets an Upgrade
Anycubic gives much needed tweaks to its color bedslinger.
Intel Panther Lake breaks cover in Acer Swift 16 AI — company also touts world's largest trackpad with stylus support
The Acer Swift 16 AI debuted at IFA with support for Intel's upcoming Panther Lake processors.
Despite whispers of a bubble, OpenAI is planning a gigawatt-scale data center in India
OpenAI is looking to ink closer ties with its second-largest customer market, India, with rumors that it is courting local officials in a bid to build one of the country's largest data centers for AI development and use.
Nvidia says its H100/H200 GPUs are not sold out, despite Jensen alluding otherwise during earnings call — company clarifies it has plenty of GPU supply
Nvidia has released a statement clarifying that its H100 and H200 GPUs are not sold out, saying that it can meet demand for every order. China-exclusive H20 GPUs also have no impact on existing production lines for Hopper AI accelerators. That's all fine and dandy, but Nvidia's own CEO said otherwise last week.
German motorists facing ‘plague’ of electric car charger cable thefts – 70 charging points a day being gutted to sell for copper scrap
Electric car charging businesses in Germany are scrambling to combat a 'plague' of cable thefts.
After locking out the U.S., China offers rare earth development assistance to Malaysia — country has estimated 16.2 million metric tons of elements worth $175 billion
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to develop Malaysia's rare-earth processing capability, but will only work with state-owned companies.
Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share — 27% surge in shipments likely caused by customers getting ahead of tariffs
Research shows that GPU sales increased by 27% in 2Q25 over the last quarter.
TSMC swats away rumors that Jensen Huang visited to pressure company into revenue-sharing plan with Trump administration
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently visited TSMC where he had dinner with executives, gave an internal speech to the workers, and checked on the progress of his Rubin Vera GPUs. What he was not there for was to deliver a message about profit sharing from President Trump, as TSMC has just clarified.
China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities
China is expanding its small and medium businesses' access to AI compute resources through the use of 'compute power vouchers' that subsidize the cost of training AI models.
Crucial T710 2TB SSD Review: A Subdued Lion
The Crucial T710 is the successor to the flagship T705, offering only minor gains outside of outstanding power efficiency improvements.
Making a 3D-printed custom GPU fan shroud with a DDR5 slot doesn't let you add extra VRAM, but at least it looks cool
Modder builds a completely custom 3D-printed shroud for their RTX GPU, sacrificing one cooling fan for the installation of a single DDR5 RAM slot.
Cloudflare blocks record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack
Cloudflare said it blocked a record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack that appeared to originate from Google Cloud's infrastructure.
ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
SK hynix is the first memory maker to assemble ASML's High-NA EUV lithography system NXE:5200B at its M16 fab in Icheon to use it for R&D of next-generation process technologies before transitioning to full High-NA-based production later this decade.
Acer's new Predator gaming monitor boasts a 720 Hz OLED panel, if you like gaming at 720p — 27-inch panel can also do native 1440p at a swift 540 Hz
Acer's Nitro family hits the mainstream segment with IPS and VA panels, while the new Predator X27U F8 is an OLED that goes after the premium sector.
Acer hedges its hardware bets, puts vPro and ECC memory in new high-end gaming laptop
The Acer Predator Helios 18P AI straddles the line between gaming laptop and AI workstation, with an RTX 5090 and up to 192GB of ECC memory.
YMTC and CXMT team up to accelerate Chinese domestic HBM production — partnership brings hybrid bonding and DRAM expertise together
YMTC is reportedly preparing an entry into DRAM fabrication and exploring a partnership with CXMT to target high-bandwidth memory.
U.S. gov't revokes TSMC's authorization to ship tools to its fabs in China — special export license to be pulled by end of 2025
The U.S. will revoke TSMC's special export license for its Nanjing Fab 16 by the end of 2025, potentially disrupting its 16nm and 28nm-class operations and shifting Chinese customer demand toward rivals like SMIC and HuaHong. However, SMIC vows to ensure uninterrupted operations of its Chinese fabs.
The Asus Prime RTX 5070 12GB is the absolute cheapest RTX 5070 available to buy, now only $523
Now's the time to pick up a new GPU with Asus's Prime RTX 5070 GPU on sale for an all-time low price.
Samsung bulks the 9100 Pro up to 8TB for $999 — heatsink costs an extra $20
Samsung has launched the 9100 Pro 8TB with an eye-watering $999.99 price tag, and the heatsink version is priced at $1,019.99.
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