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Monday, March 31st, 2025, is World Backup Day, a reminder to think about how your precious data is stored and protected. We also look at some of the biggest storage manufacturers' deals on SSDs and other storage products.

After Myanmar's 7.7 quake, Taiwanese tech firms in Thailand checked for damage, found none, and quickly resumed operations.

A Reddit user found 50GB of anime girl pictures in their temp folder that were traced back to XPG Prime, a software intended to customize and synchronize RGB.

The Sandisk 1TB Extreme SSD Is currently available at Amazon for just $59 - one of its best prices since launching.

Spacerower is using a Raspberry Pi Zero to power this custom 3D-printed camera that instantly prints out photos using thermal paper.

Linus Torvalds is back at his explosively scatological best in a recent rant about a Linux 6.15-rc1 pull request.

Asus' flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme motherboard has been pictured thanks to leaker momomo_us and might be announced shortly.

Crucial is one of the first to release a DDR5-6400 CUDIMM memory kit, but can it compete against faster rivals?

UNIS, a Chinese manufacturer, has unveiled its S5 lineup of SSDs. It claims to hit 14.9 GB/s in sequential reads despite its DRAM-less design and old 12nm controller.

Microsoft pushes harder to ensure that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.'

The Acer Nitro XV272U F3bmiiprx is currently available at Amazon for $219, its lowest price.

Hardware leaker HXL suggests that AMD's next-gen APU family on the AM5 platform is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of this year. It will likely be armed with Zen 5 cores and an RDNA 3.5 iGPU.

Warp is an AI enabled terminal that does more than just run commands, it can interpret natural language and generate code, perform OS level tasks and much more.

Russia's ZNTC and Belarus's Planar have completed the development of a 350nm-class lithography system, but despite its symbolic value, the machine lags far behind global standards.

Dell hits all the fundamentals with a colorful IPS paneland integrated stand, but its rivals are more attractively priced.

The only Nvidia-brand product of 2025 that is readily available, sold at the expected price, and affordable, is a Denny's breakfast

German retailer Alternate is selling Zotac branded RTX 5090 GPUs with missing ROPs priced over $3,000.

SK hynix's Solidigm can now work more closely with the parent company now that SK hynix finally obtains Intel's SSD IP and R&D capabilities after making final $1.9 billion payment.

SMIC is reportedly trying to poach engineers to get Taiwanese semiconductor know how.

Corsair's newest flagship headset in its Virtuoso line sounds fantastic in games, delivering detail you didn't even know existed. Unfortunately, the headset is stiff and uncomfortable, and yes, you still have to use iCue.

Nvidia's RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPU launch for laptops has been rocky, with delays and driver issues.

Micro Center has several ROG Astral LC GeForce RTX 5090 for $3,700 that have reportedly sold out.

The Razer Blade 16 is a thin RTX 5090 laptop with a bright screen and tons of ports, but it's extremely pricey and the drivers felt unfinished on our test unit.

The Hollyland Lark M2 Wireless Lavalier Microphone is now cheaper than when I bought it in the last sale!

The Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6400 C38 isn't the shiniest memory kit, but can it shine in the benchmarks?

Intel's board to shrink from 14 to 11 as three directors will not seek re-election later this year.

China's rush to build AI data centers in 2023-2024 has collapsed into underused infrastructure, falling profits, and outdated facilities.

After a slow, five-year build of its first U.S. fab due to labor and logistical hurdles, TSMC now plans to construct future U.S. facilities in two years, but can its timely access to chipmaking equipment remains an uncertainty.

One of the fastest PCIe SSDs is on a big sale.

Although TSMC will build an R&D facility in the U.S., its core R&D will remain in Taiwan, so the U.S. will keep following Taiwan even after TSMC builds out its Fab 21 site with six fab modules and two packaging facilities, says former CEO of Intel.

Microsoft announces several updates to its Xbox gaming ecosystem, including a UI update to the Windows Game Bar and quality of life improvements for switching between games with its Xbox Cloud Gaming platform.

The Power of Two: Are Xtool and Snapmaker challenging Bambu Lab?

The newest insider builds of Windows 11 are allowing users to create and clean install onto freshly formatted NTFS (Default) or ReFS partitions

A YouTuber has procured a modded blower-style RTX 4090 48GB, designed for the Chinese market, with the teardown revealing a rather sturdy and well-built PCB for what is a custom GPU.

Goblinhan Ykan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered fight stick that has extra buttons for throwing random combos while playing fighting games.

Lenovo's updated take on the ThinkPad gets a lot right, despite ditching the traditional keyboard and TrackPoint.

Grab AMD's top-of-the-line 16-core workhorse for its lowest-ever price of $532

A Chinese firm has started to mass produce a 31.2-inch color e-paper display, which it says is a world first at over 30-inches.

Huawei-linked Chinese startup has developed a nearly complete suite of semiconductor manufacturing tools to enable fully domestic chip production amid escalating export controls.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang mulls about next-generation process technologies, suggests that the typical improvement from any process node change worth shifting to is only 20%.

This 6-core, 12-threaded Zen 5 architecture chip is great for mid-range gaming.

A Chinese tech channel uncovered another fake RTX 4090 featuring a GA102 die inside. The card was allegedly bought for a mere $530, but it showed no visible damage or marks outside that would suggest the GPU was modified. Closer inspection reveals how far scammers will go to attempt to dupe people.

Grab Crucial's 2TB T705 (heatsink version) for $259, one of its lowest prices.

The Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro and Neptune 4 Pro are both excellent choices.

Thermal Grizzly has released a 90-degree version of its WireView Pro GPU hardware monitoring tool for optimized cable routing.

U.S. expands trade blacklist with 80 new entities to prevent China's advancements in AI, exascale supercomputing, quantum technology, and hypersonic weapons.

Jaykihn claims that Arrow Lake refresh (possibly named Core Ultra 300) is back in development and is expected to feature only unlocked (K/KF) models.

Lian Li's dual chamber O11 Vision PC case is only $149 at Newegg.

Qualcomm has filed complaints with regulators in the U.S., EU, and South Korea, accusing Arm of restricting technology access and shifting its licensing model to undermine competition.