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AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines

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This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

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Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth

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At this rate, finding the last digit is probably just a few years down the road.

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

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DIY DDR5.

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Researchers discover that some biodegradable electronics produce microplastics as they degrade — the investigated material is commonly used in medical research

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That biodegradable chip might not be so biodegradable after all.

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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

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Intel's Fab 52 is bigger and better equipped than TSMC's Arizona facilities — Intel's production volume dwarfs TSMC's operations in the U.S.

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Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies — built-to-order systems hamstrung by component shortages and skyrocketing prices

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So far, three stores have implemented measures

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Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con — As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in advance to event

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

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Chinese silicon is gunning for the crown.

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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

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AMD publishes first Zen 6 document detailing ground-up redesign on 2nm process node — brand-new 8-wide CPU core with strong vector capabilities

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But there are a few catches.

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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

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The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

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You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly

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This mod proving that FSR4 Redstone works with RDNA 3 has got some gamers up in arms with AMD’s limitation.

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China's new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country

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State-backed experimental network spans 40 cities and targets AI and deterministic networking.

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Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested

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Price and reliability don’t scale.

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Valve discontinues the most affordable Steam Deck — $399 LCD version on the way out as new starting point is $549

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A shame imo

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China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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Honda to temporarily shut down factories in China and Japan because of chip shortage — disruption caused by fallout from on-going conflict within Nexperia

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Honda to temporarily shut down factories in China and Japan because of chip shortage — disruption caused by fallout from on-going conflict within Nexperia

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LG responds swiftly to user backlash, will allow users to remove Microsoft Copilot link from TVs — clarifies service is not an app, future update will include tile removal option from WebOS

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The company says users will be able to delete the Copilot tile after confusion over recent software updates.

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Taiwan considers TSMC export ban that would prevent manufacturing its newest chip nodes in U.S. — limit exports to two generations behind leading-edge nodes, could slow down U.S. expansion

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Largely maintained for now, it is set to go in the future.

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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors

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Micron outlines grim outlook for DRAM supply in first earnings call since killing Crucial memory and SSD brand — CEO says it can only meet half to two-thirds of demand

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Even with the death of Crucial, Micron says it won’t be able to meet demand.

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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https://archive.is/sfYWG

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote worker’s computer would send keystroke data within tens of milliseconds. This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg.

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AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

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How much of a resource hog is AI?

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TSMC brings its most advanced chipmaking node to the US yet, to begin equipment installation for 3mn months ahead of schedule — Arizona fab slated for production in 2027

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Much earlier than expected

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Honda to temporarily shut down factories in China and Japan because of chip shortage — disruption caused by fallout from on-going conflict within Nexperia

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The tug-of-war between the Netherlands and China is now spilling over into Japan.

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Sales of chip production equipment to reach $156 billion by 2027 — China, Taiwan, and Korea lead intense demand

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The semiconductor industry is poised to grow in the coming years.

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Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty

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GPUs have so far remained safe.

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Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective

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I hope I look this good in 30 years time.

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HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

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Hard drives, often treated as a legacy technology, are once again being pulled into the spotlight.

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Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective

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I hope I look this good in 30 years time.

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5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc

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HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

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5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc

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Commodore International challenges Italian rival’s trademarks in escalating brand dispute — firm says clarity needed to clear the path for new licensed products

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Amazon unveils 192-core Graviton5 CPU with massive 180 MB L3 cache in tow — ambitious server silicon challenges high-end AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon in the cloud

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Amazon’s most powerful CPU to date.

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Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph

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Chinese satellite came within 200m of Starlink-6079, travelling at ~17,400mph.

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

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5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience & crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser.

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First truly 3D chip fabbed at US foundry, features carbon nanotube transistors and RAM on a single die — future devices could have up to 1000x improvement in energy-delay product

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A collaborative research team has demonstrated what it says is the first monolithic 3D integrated circuit manufactured at a commercial U.S. foundry.

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

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AMD, Intel, and TI are ‘merchants of death’ says lawyer representing Ukrainian civilians — five new suits complain that Russian drones and missiles continue to use high-tech components from these brands

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Five lawsuits were filed in Texas this week, putting some of the biggest names in PC tech under an uncomfortable spotlight, as their components are still being found in Russian weaponry.

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Huawei's latest mobile is armed with China's most advanced process node to date despite using blacklisted chipmaker — Huawei Kirin 9030 mobile SoC made on SMIC N+3 process, but can't compete with 5nm node

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TechInsights says Huawei’s Kirin 9030 is built on SMIC’s N+3 process: an incremental, DUV-based extension of its 7nm-class technology that pushes density without EUV but falls well short of true 5nm nodes amid rising yield challenges.

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Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million

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Intel lost its challenge to overturn an EU antitrust ruling on Wednesday, meaning it now faces a fine of $278 million.

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ASML under fire for selling DUV equipment to Chinese firm with military ties, says the machines are not subject to export controls — fears grow that 'old technology' will bolster Beijing's quantum effort

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Dutch chip manufacturing design firm, ASML, has been accused of selling chip fabrication hardware to a Chinese defence firm tied to the ruling party. Although it claims the technology was old, it has raised concerns over its potential use in developing new quantum technologies, particularly with military applications.

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Intel's upcoming Core Ultra X9 388H is up to 8.7% faster for 1T perf than Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — Panther Lake gains significant ground on Strix Halo in early Geekbench leak

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Intel’s Panther Lake family is still awaiting release, but the possible flagship chip of the bunch has been spotted on Geekbench. The Core Ultra X9 388H scores 3,057 points in the single-core test and 17,687 points in the multi-core test, racing past its Arrow Lake-H predecessor and AMD’s Strix Halo.

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Semiconductor industry enters unprecedented ‘giga cycle’, says report — scale of artificial intelligence is rewriting compute, memory, networking, and storage economics all at once

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New industry analysis argues the AI era is reshaping every part of the chip market at once.

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Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains

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Two heads are better than one?

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Nvidia reportedly wins H200 exports to China

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The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to let Nvidia ship its H200 accelerators to China, a move that could restore Nvidia’s influence in the Chinese AI market and reinforce CUDA’s dominance, but the question is if Beijing agrees to accept this hardware.

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UK unveils AI-driven undersea surveillance network to counter Russian submarine activity

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The UK government has unveiled the first details of Atlantic Bastion, a new undersea warfare programme designed to detect and counter Russian submarine activity across the North Atlantic.

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New computing platform is ‘Made for Making’ — Caligra c100 Developer Terminal targets creators with distraction-free ‘computer for experts’

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TSMC claims 4.2X efficiency gain over a decade from N7 to A14 fabrication process

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Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn’t consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers’ IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

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It is great to see legendary old hardware that is still able to work in the latest PC systems.

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MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk MAX Wifi PZ Review: Project Zero cleans up the cables

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The MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wi-Fi PZ mainboard is designed to offer a sleek, clutter-free setup by positioning all its connections on the board’s backside, providing a solid base to build your system around.

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Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works.

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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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The RAM pricing crisis has only just started, Team Group GM warns — says problem will get worse in 2026 as DRAM and NAND prices double in one month

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Micron plans $9.6 billion HBM fab in Japan as AI memory race accelerates

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U.S. chipmaker set to expand Hiroshima site with heavy support from Tokyo.

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Chinese vendor showcases first mass-produced Imagination DXD GPU with ray tracing — sports modern features like super resolution, too

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The company claims to have doubled rendering performance and had demos running at ICCAD 2025.

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Iconic mechanical keyboard switch maker Cherry is in deep financial trouble — the company is considering selling its peripherals division to stay afloat

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The beloved Cherry MX switches will stay safe with the company, though.

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Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature

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A Reddit user says their new memory kit vanished somewhere between dispatch and delivery.

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Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature

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Embattled Dutch chipmaker Nexperia gets into public spat with Chinese owners — accused of deception and obstruction, suspending wafer shipments

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Chinese startup founded by Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU chip for AI — custom ASIC reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020, 42% more efficient

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It’s allegedly 1.5 times the speed of Nvidia’s A100 GPU from 2020.

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China's hybrid-bonded AI accelerators could rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs — top semiconductor expert hints at 'fully controllable domestic solution'

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Near memory computing could do wonders.

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Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback

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The biggest problem is the harsh image thresholding done by the superfast receipt printer.

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DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts

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It kinda looks like DOOM ported to the Atari Battlezone wireframe arcade games era.

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Data center cooling issue halts world's largest derivatives exchange — CME trading shutdown ripples across Malaysia, UK, and EU markets

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One of the largest derivative exchanges in the world gets taken down by a broken refrigerator.

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Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own

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The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services

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On this day in 1996, a freshly inked U.S. patent quietly laid the cornerstone of the digital music revolution. In addition to facilitating this now vast internet-based entertainment business, the humble MP3 file format would propel broadband proliferation, usher in the iPod era, and arguably precipitate the iPhone and all the other touchscreen-slabs that remain indispensable gadgets to this day.

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Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle

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A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

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Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle

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A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.

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RAM prices have increased '500%,' PC builder claims — CyberPowerPC announces price hikes in U.S. and UK starting December 7

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Billion-dollar AI chip deal between Google and Meta could be on the cards — would involve renting Google Cloud TPUs next year, outright purchases in 2027

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Amazon unveils Starlink rival capable of up to 1 Gbps satellite internet — Leo Ultra is an enterprise-grade terminal with 400 Mbps upload speeds

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An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026

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An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026

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A tiny 0.5MB SmartMedia card wins the Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) — 2KB Casio battery-backed RAM card lost due to a technicality

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An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026

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An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026

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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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[US] Congressional report details China's new deep-sea cable cutter that can sever armored cables in [4,000 m] of water — report warns of rising Chinese undersea cable cutting capabilities

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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month

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Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.

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ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being 'Washington’s eyes and ears in China' after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country, says new book

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ASML is reportedly willing to spy on its customers to make it right with the U.S.

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Retro computing enthusiast creates perforated tape reader designed 'from scratch' — reads data at about 50 bytes per second

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The punched card computer era finally shuttered in 1984, when IBM discontinued card manufacturing, but some people miss it.

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Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing

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512 GB, 1TB, and 2TB models affected.

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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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Valve’s unique approach to corporate governance is probably the reason why it’s such an efficient company.

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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month

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A tiny 0.5MB SmartMedia card wins the Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) — 2KB Casio battery-backed RAM card lost due to a technicality

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Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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