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An expert from the Taiwan NSTC Hsinchu Science Park Bureau estimates that a single missile strike could disrupt iPhone production for three years, with another suggesting that such an event could result in a 6% to 10% contraction of the global GDP.

Intel stomps down 30 bugs including privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Microsoft has published an out-of-band Windows 10 update that finally addresses all of the glitches surrounding Extended Security Update (ESU) enrollment. Installing this update should finally let you enroll in the ESU program on Windows 10 if you haven't been able to do so.

The Lighthouse Enterprise is a group of Chinese hackers that offers a complete service to scammers, from phishing websites all the way to sending millions of spam messages.

Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract.

China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.

As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.

An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.

An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before.

SanDisk has created a new flash drive designed to be permanently integrated into your device, serving as a secondary storage solution.

A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030.

Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal.

Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.

Chinese researchers have visualized how photoresist polymers cluster during development using cryogenic electron tomography and found that slightly raising post-exposure bake temperature could reduce defect density, but the finding has limited practical impact since this temperature is already typical for DUV processes and unsuitable for EUV lithography, where it would harm resolution and yield.

Popular Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum has just stepped into the ARM market with the MS-R1. It's a 1.7-liter compact system with the CIX CD8180 SoC, consisting of 12-cores clocked at up 2.6 GHz, with a 28W TDP. There's a full-size dedicated GPU slot and support for UEFI built-in, allowing you to easily boot into mainstream operating systems.

T-Mobile's new 5G Home Internet plans go into effect on November 13

Nextorage launches the NX-PFS1PROB external SSD with capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB, featuring added security features.

Khein-Seng Pua, the CEO of Phison, speaking to Digitimes, has painted a damning picture of the storage market to come. With NAND prices already on the rise, the CEO believes there's no alleviation in sight and the landscape will remain rough for the following years. Data centers are rapidly shifting to SSDs to avoid already scarce HDDs, which will only exacerbate the situation.

A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.