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Updated 2025-08-13 11:00
Nvidia power meltdowns hit 8-pin adaptors — old power supplies are the common factor
A Reddit user's RTX 5080 narrowly avoided connector damage, with the 8-pin to 16-pin adapter absorbing the brunt of a meltdown.
Crucial's superfast 2TB T705 Gen 5 SSD is back down to its lowest-ever price — Grab one of these drives for the ultimate gaming PC build
Save big on one of the fastest SSDs on the planet, with Crucial's 2TB T705 now only $239.
Nvidia unveils DGX Station workstation PCs with GB300 Blackwell Ultra inside
Nvidia reveals GB300 Blackwell Ultra workstation: Asus, Boxx, Dell, HP, Lambda, Lenovo, and Supermicro to carry actual machines.
ViewSonic XG2736-2K 27-inch QHD 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Getting faster all the time
ViewSonic's XG2736-2K delivers super low input lag and fast response for gaming with a 240 Hz refresh rate, QHD resolution, an IPS panel, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color, all for a reasonable price.
Nvidia CEO stops by Denny's food truck to eat and serve Nvidia Breakfast Bytes before GTC 2025
Denny's just introduced a limited-time menu item called Nvidia Breakfast Bytes to honor Jensen Huang and his time working at the food chain.
Micron and SK hynix unveil new LPDDR5X SOCAMM memory up to 128GB, debuts on Nvidia GB300 systems
Micron to offer LPDDR5X-based SOCAMM modules for AI and low-power servers.
Nvidia announces Rubin GPUs in 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, Feynman also added to roadmap
Nvidia provided its latest data center GPU roadmap update, showing the Rubin platform slated for release in the second half of 2026, with Rubin Ultra planned for the second half of 2027. The next generation architecture after Rubin will be named after Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist.
Nvidia’s new silicon photonics-based 400 Tb/s switch platforms enable clusters with millions of GPUs
Nvidia teams up with TSMC for its first silicon photonics networking gear platforms that will open doors to datacenters with millions of GPUs.
Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra B300 —1.5X faster than B200 with 288GB HBM3e and 15 PFLOPS dense FP4
Nvidia officially revealed its Blackwell Ultra B300 data center GPU, which packs up to 288GB of HBM3e memory and offers 1.5X the compute potential of the existing B200 solution.
Best Buy shaves $50 Off Seagate's 26TB Expansion HDD — now just $11.50 per TB
26TB backup storage for just $299 with this Seagate Expansion HDD deal from Best Buy.
AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver
Thanks to Linux RT emulation, ray tracing is playable on pre-RDNA2-based AMD graphics cards. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has been recorded running at well over 30 FPS on multiple older AMD graphics cards that don't natively support ray tracing.
Nvidia earned nearly as much as its next 9 fabless rivals combined last year
Nvidia led the semiconductor industry in 2024 with $124.3 billion in revenue, driving AI-fueled growth that pushed the top 10 fabless chipmakers' earnings to $249.8 billion, up 49% year-over-year.
Asus' mini supercomputer taps Nvidia Grace Blackwell chip for 1,000 AI TOPS
Asus announces the Ascent GX10, which leverages Nvidia's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
HP updates its OmniBook X line with a lattice-free keyboard, processors from AMD and Intel
HP is updating its OmniBook X line with new chips from Intel and AMD across its clamshell and convertible designs. Some of them also have Nvidia GPUs.
HP's new Omen 16 Slim goes up to an RTX 5070 and is 16% slimmer than its predecessor
HP introduced its new Omen 16 Slim laptop with Intel's Arrow Lake and up to an RTX 5070 Laptop GPU inside. The company says it's 16% slimmer than the regular Omen 16 at its thinnest point.
Watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote here — Blackwell 300 AI GPUs expected
Nvidia GTC 2025 will start in a few hours, and its CEO, Jensen Huang, will give the keynote address where he's expected to reveal some new AI GPUs.
Samsung 9100 Pro SSD Review: Samsung’s Capable Answer to Phison’s Storage Gauntlet
The Samsung 9100 Pro is Samsung's answer for the high-end PCIe 5.0 storage market. It's a good drive, but falls short of being truly impressive.
GPU meets PCIe-based hard drives: Seagate and Nvidia demo NVMe HDDs
Seagate and Nvidia demonstrate a proof-of-concept NVMe HDD system at GTC, showcasing how PCIe-based hard drives, combined with DPUs, can enhance AI datacenter storage by reducing latency, improving scalability, and offering a cost-effective alternative to all-flash solutions.
AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max+ 395 comes to a new GMKTec mini-PC, and AMD's Lisa Su appears to approve
China's GMKTec has announced the EVO-X2 mini PC with Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor at the AMD Greater China Channel Summit today.
Intel finally releases the XeSS 2.0 SDK for developers — Technology still gated by closed-source barriers
The XeSS SDK 2.0.1 is now available, bringing support for XeSS-SR, XeSS-FG, and XeLL, though the technology itself remains closed-source.
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series GPU supply to stabilize after April claims AIB partner Yeston
As AMD's Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards remain nearly impossible to find at MSRP, Yeston confirms unstable supply until April is over.
New undersea cable tech listens for sabotage — can be retrofitted to existing fiber optic lines
AP Sensing developed a technology that monitors photons reflected back in a fiber optic cable to detect nearby vessels and movement.
Qualcomm debuts new Snapdragon G handheld gaming PC chips to compete with Intel and AMD
Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 for handheld gaming devices.
China to spend $55 billion on R&D in 2025 — Semiconductor, AI and quantum computing fields to benefit
China set to inject $55 billion in research and development of fundamental technologies and innovating enterprises.
Bambu Lab Announces New Printer: H2D
Bambu Lab's new printer will go on sale on March 25th, 2025.
Finally, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is readily available again, and at MSRP
Finally, back in stock at multiple retailers, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is available at its $479 launch MSRP.
Motherboard dies after marathon 100-hour BIOS update process, vigil attended by thousands online
A marathon BIOS update process ended as the monitor lost signal,' then the system became completely unresponsive' with 100+ hours down the drain.
AMD boasts its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is up to 12.2x faster than Lunar Lake in AI workloads
AMD benchmarked its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 flagship against Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in a plethora of AI benchmarks. The AMD chip was up to 12x faster than the Intel counterpart.
Freeware image editor GIMP 3.0 arrives after seven years of incubation
A major update to GNU's image manipulation program has arrived today, as GIMP 3.0 relieves version 2.10 from its duty as the premier free and open-source image editing software across multiple platforms.
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash is reportedly capable of removing watermarks — Also found to generate AI celebrity photos
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model has been found capable of removing watermarks from copyrighted material and depicting copyrighted characters in its generated images.
Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT bring AI conversations to your retro rotary phone
Pollux Labs is using a Raspberry Pi to power this rotary phone project that integrates Chat GPT and remembers previous conversations.
Keydous NJ98-CP V2 HE Review: Dedicated calculators
The Keydous NJ98-CP V2 HE is a magnetic switch gaming keyboard with a compact 96-percent layout, a hot-swap PCB that supports both magnetic and mechanical switches, and a built-in calculator.
MSI Afterburner update enables RTX 50 series owners to push their GDDR7 VRAM up to 36 GT/s
An unofficial MSI Afterburner update by Unwinder unlocks memory overclocking for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards.
AMD manager reports 45% GPU retail market share in Japan — Eyes 70% as the next target
AMD marketing manager Yoshiaki Sato reported that Radeon GPUs have accounted for 45% of GPU sales in Japan, presumably since RDNA 4 launched.
ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost
Baidu claims its ERNIE 4.5 model offers advanced multimodal understanding with enhanced language, reasoning, generation, and memory capabilities.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350 SoC goes on general sale
Raspberry Pi has announced the general availability of the RP2350 A and B, the SoC that powers the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 which features both an Arm and RISC-V CPU
Keller and Koduri headline the Beyond CUDA Summit today — AI leaders rally to challenge Nvidia's dominance
The Beyond CUDA Summit commences tomorrow, bringing together key leaders and engineers in the industry to explore the future of AI with alternative platforms.
China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September
The Cyberspace Administration of China just released regulations that requires the explicit marking of AI-generated content - both visually and in its metadata.
Five Best Photoshop Alternatives Tested: Image Editing for Free
We tested five free Adobe Photoshop alternatives to help you find the right one for your needs.
You can snag this 24-inch Asus TUF gaming monitor for $99 at Amazon – its lowest price to date
The Asus TUF gaming VG247Q1A monitor is currently available at Amazon for only $99-its lowest price to date.
Micron 4600 2TB SSD Review: The New Baseline in SSDs
The new Micron 4600 is an all-around excellent SSD with great performance, good power efficiency, and no real weak spots.
Elon Musk and OpenAI to fast-track trial to December — suit aims to stop OpenAI's transition to a for-profit company
OpenAI and Elon Musk are set for a December trial over OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model, but they disagree whether the case will be resolved by a judge or jury.
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, has spent $100K+ designing new parts — last original Atari hardware launched 32 years ago
Atari parts and accessories store Best Electronics stands bravely defiant against the march of time and technology, continuing to serve this increasingly niche retro hardware market 41 years after it was set up.
New Huawei Kirin X90 chip revealed in state report — possible server and PC chip set to replace the aging Kunpeng 920 design
A Chinese state report sheds light on what's believed to be Huawei's upcoming SoC for servers and PCs, namely the Kirin X90.
CoolIT unleashes 4kW single-phase DLC Cold Plate — Seemingly timed for Nvidia Blackwell Ultra chips
CoolIT has launched a single-phase direct liquid cooling cold plate, capable of dissipating 4kW of heat, designed to cool high-performance data-center racks.
Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Dex Review: A very close second
The Pro X Superlight 2 Dex is Logitech's asymmetrical, right-handed alternative to its ambidextrous Pro X Superlight 2 - this mouse features an ergonomic (ish) shape and has otherwise identical specs to the Pro X Superlight 2.
Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption
Tinyhack publishes a full how-to guide on brute-forcing past the Akira ransomware's encryption attack and freeing captive files.
Super Flower’s beastly 2800W power supply lands at $899 — enough juice to power a couple of RTX 5090 GPUs
The PSU comes with 80 Plus Platinum certification and four 12V-2x6 power connectors.
Huawei's Microsoft Windows license for PCs expires this month, company launching PCs with Harmony OS: Report
Huawei's licenses to install Windows expired this month, so the company will no longer be able to produce and sell PCs with Windows.
RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090
In a recent video explaining high RTX 5090 prices, the PowerGPU CEO revealed distribution-level scalping, which also impacts system integrators.
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