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Updated 2025-12-26 22:45
Newegg selling $100 gift cards for $85, with a promo code — get $15 off any PC hardware purchase
Newegg is offering a discount on its $100 online gift card, giving customers $15 off on any Newegg purchase.
Intel jumps to HBM4 with Jaguar Shores, 2nd Gen MRDIMMs with Diamond Rapids
SK hynix revealed that Intel's upcoming Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' CPUs will adopt 2nd Gen MRDIMMs and its next-generation Gaudi AI accelerator 'Jaguar Shores' will feature SK hynix HBM4 memory.
Intel might axe the 18A process node for foundry customers, essentially leaving TSMC with no rival — Intel reportedly to focus on 14A (Updated)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is weighing whether to stop offering the company's 18A technology to external clients and instead focus on the next-generation 14A process, a move that could withdraw Intel from the broad foundry market for several years.
SK hynix's first PCIe 5.0 SSD is finally available in the U.S., sports impressive performance and pricing — Platinum P51 flaunts speeds up to 14,700 MB/s
SK hynix Platinum P51, the successor to the Platinum P41, is available for purchase in the U.S. market.
AMD Krackan Point 2 APU emerges on Geekbench — mid-range chip appears inside an unnamed Acer laptop
An AMD Krackan Point 2 APU Geekbench test result has appeared, featuring a single Zen 5 core and three Zen 5c cores.
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse
It's looking to fortify its coffers with stablecoins.
Microsoft's youngest security researcher started collaboration with the company at just 13 — high school junior filed 20 vulnerability reports last summer, named MSRC Most Valuable Researcher tw
Microsoft has published a blog about one of its youngest and most outstanding security researchers. Dylan started work for MSRC age 13.
German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million
A German hunger-fighting charity is on the hook for some $2 million after being extorted by cybercriminals.
G.Skill pushing new CAMM2 DDR5 memory modules to the overclocking limit — hits DDR5-10000 speeds on modified ASUS motherboard
G.Skill broke DDR5-10000 with a CAMM2 memory module attached to a custom Asus motherboard, showing off its potential for high-performance applications.
Hugo Boss debuts 3D printed loafer — scans your foot for a custom fit
Fashion designer Hugo (Hugo Boss) has debuted a 3D-printed loafer that is custom-fit for your foot using a 3D scanner.
Nvidia's Upcoming 'Double D' gaming GPU becomes the '5090D V2' in latest leak — GPU previously known as the 'RTX 5090DD' remains China-exclusive
The RTX 5090DD, intended for release in China, has been renamed to the RTX 5090D V2 while the specs remain untouched.
Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk
Microsoft Copilot is the latest AI to have been trounced in Atari Chess, despite its pre-game confidence in a victory.
HP unveils 'CarFax for PCs' that could make buying older laptops more viable — telemetry, support requests, and AI will generate a laptop's history to reduce e-waste
HP has unveiled a new system that can help generate a report about a laptop's history before you buy it.
Nvidia's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti reportedly 16x more popular than its 8GB variant — German retailer figures suggest customers are steering clear of lower spec model
The 16GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti reigns supreme against its 8GB peer with a whopping 16x difference in sales figures.
29 North Korean laptop farms busted by U.S. Department of Justice — illicit IT workers across 16 states reportedly obtained employment with more than 100 U.S. companies to help fund regime
The Department of Justice says it searched 29 known or suspected laptop farms in 16 states, leading to a series of arrests and seizures.
Nintendo Switch 2 units allegedly overheating — users report freezing and crashes while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and less power-hungry games
Nintendo Switch 2 users are reporting overheating, leading to freezes and crashes while gaming.
Crucial's X9 Pro 4TB external SSD is now $100 off — fast and portable storage for $198 in this early Prime Day deal
Compact and super portable, Crucial's X9 Pro combines speed with a tiny form factor, and is currently discounted by $100.
Newegg kicks off their 4th of July Sale with included FantasTech price protection — program reimburses you if prices change during Prime Day week
Newegg's price protection program means you can start deal shopping right now and not worry about prices dipping lower next week.
Amazon just deployed its one-millionth robot in its warehouses, and they'll soon outnumber humans — generative AI to help cut robot fleet travel time by 10%
Amazon now has one million robots in its warehouses, and they'll soon overtake the human workforce in size.
The best early Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals for tech heads — GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
Amazon's Prime Day returns for 2025. Here are some of the best early deals.
Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended
A suspended IT worker who caused at least $200,000 of damage in an act of revenge upon his employer has been sentenced.
Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1
Original Switch consoles, games, and membership prices are changing in Canada, but the company hasn't said whether they're going up or down.
Singapore AI chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by AI firm DeepSeek
Prosecutors are asking for more time to study documents and get responses from international third parties.
I tested a new AI model that claims to help solve 3D printing disasters — PrintFix.io can analyze images of your prints to identify issues and fixes
Can AI be your new 3D printing guru? New AI-powered program offers advice to fix your 3D printing problem.
This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own
If you are still computing in a workspace without hardware dials, Ploopy would like you to look at its Knob.
Massive MicroSD card testing database exposes fakes, charts performance and endurance — 200 cards tested, 51 to destruction; 8 machines running 70 card readers wrote 18 petabytes for testing
The Great MicroSD Card Survey is one of the most exhaustive guides to these fingernail sized slivers of storage that we have seen.
Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests
Benchmarks by Inno3D show the RTX 5050 performing nearly on par with the older RTX 4060.
Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards
An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures.
Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria
Synology's new SNV5400 drive family has hit the shelves, and comes with a spit-take inducing price tag of $630 for 1.6 TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. The family goes as low as $175 for 400GB, representing more than 2x the industry standard for a matching NAS drive.
OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS
OneXSugar is a crazy Android handheld that's somehow also a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS at the same time.
Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later
Micron detailed its $200 billion U.S. investment plan to build six DRAM fabs and HBM assembly facilities in the U.S. over the next 20 years.
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Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations
A shareholder asked Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa why there weren't enough Switch 2 consoles to go around.
Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames
Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help.
Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models
Apple is considering using models from OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri and improve its AI competitiveness, according to a Bloomberg report.
RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day
Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up
Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches
AMD AI Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system.
New 3D printing tech fuses hard and soft structures in a single print — novel resin can create both with different light sources
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3D printing technique that lets you print hard and soft materials with the same resin.
Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'
The developers behind Fedora have withdrawn their proposal to drop 32-bit support from the OS. Fedora 44 will maintain 32-bit support, allowing Steam to keep functioning on the Linux distribution.
AI boom drives explosive demand for leading-edge process nodes — 7nm and below nodes set to expand by 69% in three years
Surging adoption of AI, next-generation technologies is driving semiconductor makers to expand 7nm and more advanced production capacity by 69% through 2028.
Windows 95 on a PlayStation 2 kind of works — but this modded PS2 couldn’t play Doom
'Silly tech' channel MetraByte has shared a video of their attempts to get Windows 95 and Doom95 up and running on the PlayStation 2.
Apple reportedly working on a cheaper MacBook with iPhone chip — analyst says to expect A18 Pro in a 13-inch laptop
Apple is working on a MacBook with the A18 Pro chip that powers the iPhone 16 Pro, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Save up to 41% on a new RTX 5080 gaming laptop, HP's Omen Max drops to under $1,500
Get the latest high-end gaming graphics card and laptop combo for an amazing price.
Nvidia is giving away free Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions with access to all software — one month for RTX 30 and 40 series owners, two months for RTX 50 series owners
NVIDIA is giving away GeForce RTX 40/30 owners one month of free Adobe Creative Cloud, while RTX 50 gets two months.
Nintendo reportedly pulled products, including Switch 2, from Amazon U.S. because of alleged sales dispute — both companies deny claims
A new report claims Nintendo began pulling its products from Amazon last year because of a disagreement over unauthorized sales.
Desperate PC DIYer appeals for help after spending $20,000 on a build that doesn't work despite returning multiple parts – misfortune began with a failed BIOS update attempt
A 3D graphics pro has been having great difficulty with a pricey PC build and seems to be running out of options.
China could be the world's top semiconductor foundry hub by 2030 — despite US curbs, nation to hold 30% of global installed capacity, surpassing Taiwan
China is projected to become the biggest manufacturer of semiconductors by 2030, but how advanced will these chips be?
$650 buys lucky eBay shopper two Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs instead of the 3080s they ordered — scoops Dell OEM cards worth thousands for a fraction of the price
This PC builder bought two RTX 3080 GPUs on eBay, but ended up receiving two RTX 3090 cards instead.
Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks
Anthropic and Andon Labs assigned Claude to run a business, and this is what happened.
New portable cassette player comes loaded with modern features like Bluetooth, USB-C, and a rechargeable battery
Maxell Japan has launched a portable Walkman' cassette player, but its retro audio tech is boosted by modern convenience.
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