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Updated 2025-08-08 14:30
AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are more expensive, but worth it — costs 'more than 5% but less than 20%' higher than Taiwan-sourced alternative
AMD expects to receive TSMC-made chips by late 2025.
Someone cooled AMD's $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump still can't match liquid nitrogen, though
Geekerwan tested an AMD Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU cooled by a BMW M4 radiator and pump.
President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'
President Trump has admitted he threatened to break up Nvidia, despite not knowing who Jensen Huang was and having never heard of the company before.
Next-gen Wi-Fi 8 focuses on reliability instead of speed — "Ultra High Reliability" initiative boosts performance, lowers latency and packet loss in challenging conditions
Wi-Fi 8 (IEEE 802.11bn) aims to improve wireless reliability by 25% in throughput, latency, and packet loss under difficult conditions.
Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told 'Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete fi
A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.
Hyte rolls back MSRPs on its cases for the first time since tariff announcements — some products return to pre-tariff pricing
Hyte is lowering the prices for the Y40, Y60, and Y70 cases to pre-tariff levels, while the Y70 Touch Infinite gets $40 off its old price.
Trump announces 'AI Action Plan' for the United States government — policy roadmap seeks to accelerate adoption of AI tools and spur infrastructure buildout in the race for global dominance
This is what the White House plans to do to ensure the U.S. retains global AI supremacy.
GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon
GPU-Z, a popular utility for graphics card information, indicates support for an unannounced GeForce RTX 3050 A, apparently the fifth version of the original GeForce RTX 3050.
Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok
Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute - equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs - within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of power.
UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'
The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments.
Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo Review: Color to the Max
Anycubic Kobra 3 Max Combo succeeds where others disappoint.
Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware
Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power.
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 is the current top 96GB memory kit for AMD CPUs — Trident Z5 Neo RGB C26 2x48GB Review
The Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C26 is a new kit from G.Skill that targets AMD systems; however, can it beat the other enthusiast memory kits on the market?
Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted
This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts.
Months after Elon Musk's DOGE crusade to wipe it out, LTO tape storage is bigger than ever — a record 176.5 exabytes shipped in 2024, the fourth consecutive year of growth
Tape storage shipments have enjoyed their fourth consecutive year of growth, increasing 15.4% according to the most recent data.
China's CXMT reportedly delays mass production of DDR5 chips to late 2025 — state-backed manufacturer could still be disruptive market force
CXMT has reportedly delayed DDR5 mass production to late 2025 to improve quality and yields, but its growing capabilities and state backing are starting to worry global DRAM rivals despite ongoing tool access challenges.
Crypto wallet Chrome extension is eating SSD storage at an alarming rate — MetaMask owner confirms bug 'has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into [users'] solid-state drives'
A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs.
Mystery AMD Radeon GPU cooler spotted on Chinese forums is larger than RX 7900 XTX, with a massive heatsink and 3x 8-pin connectors — possibly the RX 7950 XTX that never was
A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched 7950 XTX," the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era.
Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC
Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has repeatedly floated the idea of producing a laptop in the U.S. that would cost 20% more than competitive offerings.
Microsoft finally has a Surface Laptop with 5G — Intel Core Ultra-powered laptop will ship as part of business line
Microsoft has announced its first Surface Laptop with cellular connectivity and designed a custom antenna for it.
AMD Strix Halo Mini-ITX motherboard flaunts 128GB LPDDR5X — add a CPU cooler, boot drive, and power supply for a slim gaming or AI rig
Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (Strix Halo) processor.
Bambu Lab's entire 3D printer lineup is still discounted at anniversary-sale pricing — for how long, we don't know
Start your 3D printing journey while these popular Bambu Lab printers are still heavily discounted.
FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis
An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds.
OpenAI and Oracle ink deal to build massive Stargate data center, total project will power 2 million AI chips — Stargate partner SoftBank not involved in the project
OpenAI and Oracle plan to add 4.5 GW of U.S. data center power for the Stargate project, boosting total capacity past 5 GW to support millions of AI processors.
DNS embedded malware technique used to create a hacker-inspired version of the popular Mad Libs word game — built on networking infrastructure to provide distributed version
Malware embedded in the ubiquitous Domain Name System inspired the creation of the world's most cursed take on mad-libs.
Only £128 for this 27-inch MSI MAG monitor with a blazing 180 Hz refresh rate — that's unbelievable 1440p gaming value
MSI's high-spec 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is only 128 for a limited time.
158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum
The 158-year established Knights of Old transportation company has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack, with 700 jobs lost.
Nvidia's desktop PC chip holdup purportedly tied to Windows delays — ongoing chip revisions and weakening demand also blamed
Nvidia and MediaTek have allegedly delayed the N1X AI PC platform to early 2026, possibly because of Microsoft's next-gen OS delays, ongoing Nvidia chip revisions, and weakening consumer notebook demand. The launch will now prioritize enterprise PCs, while GB10-based AI workstations are expected to debut much sooner.
Lenovo Legion Go 2 prototype spotted ahead of launch in China — Ryzen Z2 and OLED display reportedly complemented by 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, and more
With AMD's latest mobile chip and a new OLED panel, Lenovo's next-gen handheld looks powerful, but competition is heating up fast.
TP-Link Archer BE9700 Wi-Fi 7 router review: Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 at an affordable price
The TP-Link Archer BE9700 comes in at roughly half the price of its closest competition.
Tiny GPD MicroPC 2 smashes crowdfunding goal – sequel to 2019 original improves mobile productivity yet remains under 500g
GPD has launched the MicroPC 2, a refreshed version of its true pocket sized' productivity powerhouse, to crowdfunding.
AMD unveils industry-first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model generator tailored for XDNA 2 NPUs — designed to run locally on Ryzen AI laptops
AMD and Stability AI have launched the first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model optimized for BF16 and XDNA 2 NPUs, enabling high-quality, offline image generation on Ryzen AI laptops.
Kioxia unveils 245TB SSD, the world's highest capacity storage device - can store 12,500 4K movies
Kioxia's LC9 SSD family offers capacities of up to 245.76TB, but its performance is far less impressive.
Nvidia H20 AI GPU inventory is limited — but Nvidia is making a new B30 model for China to comply with export restrictions
Nvidia has reportedly told Chinese customers it will not resume production of its H20 AI GPUs despite a U.S. policy reversal, and is reportedly preparing a slower but cheaper Blackwell-based B30 GPU to comply with export restrictions and remain competitive in China.
Microsoft adds telemetry to monitor Windows 11 sluggishness in latest beta, dev builds — logs reportedly only sent when users submit feedback
Microsoft adds additional telemetry to latest beta and dev builds of Windows 11 to monitor and log performance sluggishness within the OS. The logs will reportedly only be shared with Microsoft when users publish performance issues in the Feedback Hub.
GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU shunt mod increases performance by up to 40% — 175W TGP boosted to 250W to unlock extra performance
GizmoSlipTech applied a shunt mod to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU to benchmark the graphics card's performance and thermals.
China's YMTC moves to break free of U.S. sanctions by building production line with homegrown tools — aims to capture 15% of NAND market by late 2026
Despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2022 and cut off from advanced foreign fab tools, YMTC is pushing forward with plans to expand production to 150,000 wafers per month and trial a fully localized manufacturing line.
Get $150 off the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme Windows gaming handheld — perfect for dorm-room gaming
Play your favorite games anywhere, with $150 off the list price of the Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme handheld.
World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with functional Linux for $159
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, a full Debian-based table was introduced.
Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users
A new key was issued in 2023, but it might not be well-supported ahead of the original key's expiration.
MacBook Pro trackpad can double as a weighing scale, and the source code is free — creator hacks trackpad to weigh items, claims Force Touch system 'pretty accurate',
A new app called TrackWeight uses the Apple laptop Force Touch trackpad pressure sensors for weighing scale duties.
Asus brings Nvidia’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra “desktop superchip” to workstations — plain-looking desktop more powerful than most server racks, features up to 784GB of coherent me
Asus has launched the ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a desktop powered by Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra, offering up to 20 PFLOPS of AI performance and 784 GB of memory. This marks NVIDIA's shift from DGX-only systems to OEM desktops, with GB300 servers entering mass production by Q4 2025.
Sam Altman teases 100 million GPU scale for OpenAI that could cost $3 trillion — ChatGPT maker to cross 'well over 1 million' by end of year
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will surpass 1 million GPUs by the end of 2025, but his sights are set on 100 million. Already backed by the world's largest AI data center in Texas, OpenAI's infrastructure push highlights the growing clash between AI ambitions and power grid realities.
AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all pr
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit is reported to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database.
MSI Katana 17 HX gaming laptop review: 1080p gaming with Nvidia’s RTX 5070
MSI's Katana 17 HX gets the basics right with Raptor Lake and an RTX 5070 for around $1,300.
Abel founder claims Meta offered $1.25 billion over four years to AI hire — 'person still said no' despite equivalent of $312 million yearly salary
Social media chatter suggests that Meta offered a potential AI hire $1.25 billion.
Fax to the Future — How to send and receive a fax in the 21st Century
Send and receive a fax from the comfort of your computer, no fax modem required.
RTX 5070 crashes to lowest-ever UK price — £484 in this fast-moving Lightning Deal
The RTX 5070 is currently 484 at Amazon UK.
Researchers pack a "quantum light factory" into a 1mm² CMOS chip — combines photonics, electronics, and quantum hardware with traditional silicon manufacturing that can achieve mass scale
Researchers have created a 1mm^2 chip that merges quantum photonics, electronics, and self-tuning systems-all on a standard 45nm CMOS process. This breakthrough brings mass-producible quantum hardware closer than ever, much like the Intel 4004 did for microprocessors.
Microsoft to stop using engineers in China to work on U.S. Defense computer systems in wake of investigative report — fears of exploitation by foreign intelligence services spurs immediate chang
Microsoft's China-based engineers will no longer get to work on its U.S. DoD projects.
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