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Updated 2025-12-24 10:30
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.
AMD's FSR 4 gets a big boost in compatibility as OptiScaler now supports upconverting any modern upscaler to FSR 4 with frame-gen, as long as the game isn't Vulkan-based or has anti-cheat
Thanks to OptiScaler, any game featuring DLSS 2+ or FSR 2+ can now be modded to support FSR 4, as long as it doesn't need Vulkan or an anti-cheat. Also, you need an RX 9000-series GPU and a decent amount of patience to make it all work.
Ghost gun proliferation spurs crackdown at Thingiverse, the world's largest 3D printer model file repository — lawmakers also ask 3D printer vendors to create AI-based systems to detect and bloc
Thingiverse is implementing an automated system to help stop the spread of gun-related uploads on the platform after the NYPD found hundreds of files for 3D-printed weapons.
The Samsung Odyssey G5 34-inch gaming monitor is now $279 at Amazon — 165 Hz monitor just dollars away from an all-time low
The Samsung Odyssey G5 34-inch curved gaming monitor is now $279 at Amazon instead of its recommended $399.
A Bitcoin whale just sold $9.5 billion in crypto that was originally acquired for $54,000 in 2014 — recent 80,000 BTC transaction nets an 18 million percent return
We are in a frisky season for the so-called Bitcoin whales, as another remarkable crypto-cash-in, valued at $9.5 billion, has been spotted.
Keychron K8 HE Special Edition Review: magnetic mid-century aesthetics
Keychron's K8 HE delivers great mid-century looks and modern magnetic switches with an 80% layout that feels comfortable, even if it has some oddities in key spacing.
Cyberpunk 2077 has been tested on several Apple Silicon generations, results range from around 13 to 105fps at 1080p, depending on Mac and game settings tested
This could open the way for more AAA games to land natively on macOS.
A Windows Insider user discovers an undocumented ‘Shared audio’ feature in the latest build — quick setting allows you to play audio through multiple outputs
Windows Insiders are getting a useful new feature for sharing audio.
TeamGroup T-Create Expert DDR5-6000 C34 2x32GB Review: Expertly Designed For Professionals
TeamGroup's T-Create Expert lineup targets the professional market, but can its DDR5-6000 C34 memory kit outperform enthusiast memory kits?
Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm
Nvidia announces support for its CUDA software stack on RISC-V CPUs, positioning the open architecture as a potential host processor for future AI and HPC systems.
Police link ghost guns to specific 3D printers using 'fingerprints' from printers — toolmarks left behind during printing can make ghost guns traceable
Kirk Garrison has identified toolmarks left behind on 3D-printed ghost gun pieces that can suggest what printer was used to print them.
Sending a Steam sticker 'burned through a month of data in five minutes' complains unhappy gamer
A Steam Chat user who burned through a month of mobile data in 5 minutes" blames Valve's animated stickers.
Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions
Microsoft signed a contract with Vaulted Deep to sequester 4.9 million metric tons of waste deep underground, offsetting its carbon emissions.
Human programmer beats OpenAI's custom AI in 10-hour marathon, wins World Coding Championship — Polish programmer might be the last human winner
Przemysaw Psyho" Dbiak, a Polish programmer and former OpenAI engineer, defeated the company's own advanced AI model in the 2025 AtCoder World Tour Finals. In a grueling 10-hour coding contest, he outscored the AI by 9.5%, proving human ingenuity still has an edge, at least for now.
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops to an all-time low price — the world's fastest CPU for gaming goes on ultra-rare sale
You can find the AMD Ryzen7 9800X3D gaming CPU at both Newegg and Amazon for just $451-its lowest price to date.
Boot exploit for software-bricked Wii U consoles discovered by repairing Nintendo factory's destroyed and trashed SD cards — team posts 'paid the beak' exploit to Github
The discarded Nintendo SD cards contained a boot image that Nintendo used for the factory setup of its Wii U consoles.
GTA 5 finally launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE 12 years after its global release — will be age-rated 21+ as part of the new regulatory framework
GTA 5 was released worldwide in 2013. Now, almost 12 years later, gamers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE can finally enjoy the game legally, as it launches in the region under a new 21+ age rating.
We 'built' the Alienware Area-51 out of Lego bricks — limited edition model only available through Alienware rewards
Alienware is giving away models of its Area-51 desktop made from Lego bricks, but the limited edition models are only available through its reward program.
Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately
Intel shuts down Clear Linux OS as part of the broad global cost-cutting strategy, but it is set to continue upstreaming Linux innovations to the Linux kernel.
PCB reference books with pages made from actual USB-C powered PCBs are now available at $37 each
An enthusiast has created some Reference Circuit Books where the pages' are PCBs.
Severance keyboard phase-shifts from sci-fi to sci-fact with launch of a new Kickstarter campaign — MDR Dasher keyboard starts at $599 and is estimated to ship from November
Atomic Keyboards is on the verge of launching its MDR Dasher Keyboard on Kickstarter, featuring three distinct configurations.
U.S. legislators criticize decision to resume Nvidia H20 GPU shipments to China — demand new export rules for AI hardware
Legislators criticize the U.S. government for allowing AMD and Nvidia to sell AI GPUs to China again, but instead of reinstating the ban, they call for new export rules based on what China can build itself.
Titan Army C34A1R 34-inch WQHD 165 Hz gaming monitor review: Ultra-wide, ultra-value
Titan Army delivers tremendous value with its C34A1R. It's a curved 34-inch 21:9 VA panel with WQHD 3440x1440 resolution, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It's also a lot less expensive than you might expect.
AMD's Threadripper 9995WX stuns in Cinebench R23 — new Ryzen flagship reportedly 73% faster than its predecessor
AMD's 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX reportedly scores 73% higher than its predecessor in Cinebench R23, though the result raises doubts about its realism.
Only $114 for the 2TB Platinum P41 from SK hynix in this Newegg low-price deal — one of our favorite PCIe Gen 4 drives
A very low-priced 2TB SSD at Newegg sees the Platinum P41 from SK hynix for only $114.
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