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Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't'

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Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

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Acer and Asus can’t sell their PCs in Germany until they reach an agreement with Nokia about the use of HEVC.

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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive

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There’s no escaping the memory black hole.

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Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028

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Steam to add hardware specs to reviews — optional feature could help you dodge poorly optimized games

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Samsung's brand-new QD-OLED tech can double the panel's lifespan — durable 'Penta Tandem' displays can reach up to 1,300 nits of peak brightness

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QD-OLED monitors are finally getting brighter.

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Memory hoarding and skyrocketing prices hit entry-level electronics demand, foundry orders — China's top chipmaker points to supply chain pressures squeezing out consumers

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SMIC is banking on its ‘protection’ against such drops.

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Sony will ship its final Blu-ray recorders this month — exit from Japanese market the end of an era for the segment

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Another casualty of streaming, yet Blu-ray PC drives, players, and discs are expected to remain niche but stable markets.

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Ayaneo Next 2 Windows handheld goes official with Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — also features massive 116 Whr battery, and a starting price of $1,799

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G.Skill settles with plaintiffs following $2.4 million class action lawsuit over advertised memory speeds, denies all wrongdoing

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— company will have to change its packaging and be clearer about overclocking and BIOS adjustments if approved

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Memory makers are set to earn $551 billion from the AI boom, twice as much as contract chip manufacturers — forecasts suggest that 2026 revenue will skyrocket thanks to data center demand

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The biggest winners of the AI race?

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM

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Yes, it’s delay-line memory, but with lasers!

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Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of the island's semiconductor capacity to U.S. — production on Taiwan expected to increase in lockstep with increases in U.S.-based production

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The bulk of the island’s fabs and leading-edge process technologies must remain in Taiwan to form the silicon shield.

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Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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Canada-based Windscribe, a VPN provider, just said that one of its European servers has been allegedly seized by Dutch authorities without a warrant.

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Key to ultra-dense next-gen data storage could be a new magnetic state found in twisted 2D materials — German researchers reveal 'super‑moiré' magnetic milestone

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Super-moiré skyrmion states in layered chromium triiodide were seen across multiple moiré cells.

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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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Because nothing says “fun” quite like having to restore a RAID that just saw 140TB fail.

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Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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cross-posted from : https://anarchist.nexus/c/technology/p/436078/dutch-authorities-allegedly-seize-vpn-server-without-a-warrant-company-claims-that-la

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Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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The authorities apparently got tired of asking and just went in themselves.

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Intel Panther Lake handheld chips reportedly delayed until Q2 2026 — alleged 'Core G3' series might launch alongside new Arc B360 and Arc B380 iGPUs

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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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Because nothing says “fun” quite like having to restore a RAID that just saw 140TB fail.

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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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Because nothing says “fun” quite like having to restore a RAID that just saw 140TB fail.

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Thermalright's LCD software for Windows ported to Linux — enthsuiast's full-fledged port supports a ton of models and enables RGB and LCD customization

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Lack of Linux support for internal PC build components, such as RGB lighting and internal LCD screens, is a big headache that Linux users normally have to get around by installing Windows just to install the control software for these devices to make them function. However, a Redditor has decided to fix this problem for his personal Thermalright LCD cooler and has built a full-fledged Linux port of the Thermalright Linux software all by himself. The Redditor’s new Linux build of Thermalright’s control center software can be found on GitHub.

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Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028

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Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims — HP and Dell qualifying CXMT DRAM, Acer and Asus asking Chinese partners to source locally-made memory chips

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PC makers are getting desperate for memory chips.

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China’s CXMT and YMTC to increase memory output — two new fabs could close the gap with the ‘big three’

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CXMT and YMTC are scaling fab capacity as AI demand strains global supply.

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Cornell research shows that underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place — DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer

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Researchers have overcome the challenges of material washout, poor visibility, and the use of seafloor sediment as a principal material.

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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)

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Yesterday, Google announced Project Genie, a new generative AI tool that can apparently create entire games from just prompts. It leverages the Genie 3 and Gemini models to generate a 60-second interactive world rather than a fully playable one. Despite this, many investors were scared out of their wits, imagining this as the future of game development, resulting in a massive stock sell-off that has sent the share prices of various video game companies plummeting.

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Former Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' — tried to raise funding for his own start-up

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Linwei Ding faces up to 10 years in prison for each count of economic espionage.

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Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter

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Intel ties AMD for most reliable CPUs in 2025 system builder report — Nvidia's Founders Edition GPUs dominate with the lowest failure rates

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These parts have the least number of failures in Puget System’s builds.

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Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter

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This Fiber Integrated Circuit (FIC) design was inspired by sushi rolls.

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Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD

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PicoIDE is a convenient alternative to worn out old drives and media priced from $69.

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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

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Russian ship loitering near transatlantic data cables chased off by Royal Navy attack helicopter

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A Russian cargo vessel that spent 14 hours anchored less than a mile from five transatlantic undersea data cables had to be chased out of British waters by a Royal Navy attack helicopter this week, *The Telegraph* reports.

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World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

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The world’s largest particle accelerator now has an important new mission: heating thousands of homes. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has begun to funnel the waste heat from its cooling system to a new residential and commercial area in the nearby French town of Ferney-Voltaire, with the new linkup expected to be able to heat several thousand homes at once.

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Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic time slicing

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‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

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Microsoft's gaming division flounders while the firm makes more money than ever — Xbox consoles sales drop 32%

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Xbox gamers have seen their share of struggles lately.

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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness'

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Creator of the web believes the “battle for [its soul]” can be won.

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Nvidia CEO denies that US wants to shift 40% of Taiwan's chipmaking capacity to America — Jensen Huang says onshoring is all new capacity, will preserve island nation's silicon shield

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Silicon shield will remain with Taiwan.

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Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D review: The world's fastest gaming processor, again

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3% more performance, 30% more power; the Ryzen 7 9850X3D’s victories feel hollow.

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Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic time slicing

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‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

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Clever Brit successfully repurposes telephone wiring for gigabit internet throughout his vintage home — Lad converts "incomprehensible mess of wires" into high-speed ethernet links

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Powered by GIGA Copper modems.

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Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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UK activist hits Valve with a $903 million lawsuit — claims Steam is abusing its market dominance and forcing UK consumers to pay too much for Steam games

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Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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It seems like it should go here somehow. Despite being meme deficient.

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Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China

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Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic time slicing

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‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

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Microsoft introduces newest in-house AI chip — Maia 200 is faster than other bespoke Nvidia competitors, built on TSMC 3nm with 216GB of HBM3e

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30% more performance per dollar than Maia 100, and faster than Amazon or Google.

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China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with oper

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The PLA just introduced a new weapon in the drone arms race.

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Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

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Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention

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China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with operator

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The PLA just introduced a new weapon in the drone arms race.

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China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier

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China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) just demonstrated its latest drone swarm tech on state TV, showing a single soldier controlling 200 units.

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Jensen [Huang] laments buying Mercedes for his parents with Nvidia stock that would be worth $1.33 billion today — founder cashed out some stock after 1999 IPO to buy his parents a $135,000 S-Class

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What is a luxury car’s worth of Nvidia stock in 1999 worth today?

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'We can't completely vacate the client market' says Intel amid wafer supply shortages — Nova Lake still on-track for late 2026 release, 14A in 2028

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Intel wafer supply is shifting toward the data center, however.

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Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul

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Alien fan builds a better Raspberry Pi cyberdeck — The MU/TH/UR of all homages to a classic movie series

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In space, no one can hear you scream how good this cyberdeck is!

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3D-printed fan-less and pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling for data centers — passive design provides reusable heat, exceeds project performance expectations by 50%

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Better watch out, Frore.

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Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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Chinese semiconductor industry gears up for domestic HBM3 production by the end of 2026 — CXMT to produce chips, while Naura, Maxwell, and U-Preseason design tools for assembly

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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027

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Stock up on storage now before prices rise even more.

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DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM

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VHS Combo TVs debut with screen, old and new I/O, and a full videotape recorder in one — ‘Binge-watch like it's 1999’ says RetroBox

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However, the TV part of the product ‘emulates the CRT effect,’ which means it doesn’t use an actual CRT.

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Milk-V Titan Mini-IX board with UR-DP1000 processor shows RISC-V ecosystem taking shape — M.2, DDR4, and PCIe card support form a kit that you can use out of the box

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New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far

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This is part of the massive project that wants to recreate the entire world in Minecraft.

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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments

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Soon enough, you might not even be able to buy a calculator.

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Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations

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The firm’s senior financial strategist is concerned the advancements in the field of quantum computing will break Bitcoin.

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U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits — EPA ruling closes local loophole that allowed Musk to get power from temporary on-site power generators

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The EPA just closed a loophole that allowed hyperscalers to quickly deploy power generators without requiring a permit.

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Gamer builds ‘hardcore’ first-person shooter simulator that actually shoots back — gaming PC also has real weather effects

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Don’t try this at home.

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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments

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Soon enough, you might not even be able to buy a calculator.

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Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors

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Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.

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SK hynix to spend $13 billion on the world's largest HBM memory assembly plant amid the worst shortage on record — South Korea facility to handle packaging and testing for AI memory campus

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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 mobile CPU outperforms most desktop counterparts in new benchmark — Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus nearly matches flagship Core Ultra 9 285K in single-threaded performance

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Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus packs a serious punch.

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Gigabyte CEO explains Nvidia's potential GPU supply strategy amid crushing memory shortages — gross revenue per gigabyte of GDDR7 memory could decide what products thrive

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Cheaper graphics cards with lots of memory are an endangered species

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

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Seagate launches three new 32 TB hard drives across its product lines, all using CMR tech — SkyHawk AI drive starts from $699, flagship Exos at $849

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Aimed at modern AI workloads.

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Steam Machine to have fewer 'Verified' badge constraints — Valve says Verified on Steam Deck titles expected to run smoothly on upcoming PC console

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Milk-V Titan Mini-IX board with UR-DP1000 processor shows RISC-V ecosystem taking shape — M.2, DDR4, and PCIe card support form a kit that you can use out of the box

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RISC-V is coming along quite speedily.

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Cudy WR3600E Wi-Fi 7 router review: Dual-band wireless for less than $70

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It takes more than a low price to compete in the dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router market.

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Milk-V Titan Mini-IX board with UR-DP1000 processor shows RISC-V ecosystem taking shape — M.2, DDR4, and PCIe card support form a kit that you can use out of the box

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Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028

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Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh

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YouTuber ports the classic shooter to a Krups Cook4Me by reflashing its touchscreen computer.

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Modder saves $130 by building 32GB DDR5 desktop DIMMs from scavenged laptop memory — donor modules soldered to bare PCB flashed with custom firmware even run XMP

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$218 cost of parts is about $130 cheaper than buying a similar desktop DIMM retail kit in the US.

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HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced

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The company is reportedly looking for an alternative to Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.

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Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app

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One less bloatware on Windows 11.

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Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh

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YouTuber ports the classic shooter to a Krups Cook4Me by reflashing its touchscreen computer.

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HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced

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Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t

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AI everywhere is starting to feel like it comes at a cost.

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SanDisk to double price of 3D NAND for enterprise SSDs in Q1 2026 — hyperscalers to pay top dollar for storage as AI continues to roll

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Intel is 'going big time into 14A,' says CEO Lip-Bu Tan — 'serve the customer well' remark hints at external client

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Good news about 14A, it seems.

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SanDisk to double price of 3D NAND for enterprise SSDs in Q1 2026 — hyperscalers to pay top dollar for storage as AI continues to roll

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Nvidia is among those to blame, says Nomura Securities.

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Apple-1 ‘Prototype Board #0’ system is expected to fetch $500,000+ at a 50th Anniversary auction — and the firm’s first ever check is valued at the same amount

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The historic Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction sale has kicked-off.

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