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AI chip smugglers exploit trade control loophole to bring banned HBM from South Korea into China — expensive memory chips packaged with cheap, unsanctioned processors to become legal exports

By Jowi Morales Published

Customs authorities only check the performance specifications of a server's processors, allowing smugglers to attach high-end memory chips to low-end processors and ship them into China.

Semiconductors
Steam Survey shockwaves felt as proportion of 32GB RAM systems drops by more than 5% — the percentage of PC gamers with 1TB+ total storage also shrunk by nearly 5%

By Mark Tyson Published

The latest Steam Survey appears to show that gamers blessed with systems packing 32GB or more RAM and 1TB or more storage are a dying breed.

RAM
Developer manages to run Windows 11 26H2 with just 128MB of RAM, just 3.1% of recommended minimum — stripped-down installation can access Desktop, File Explorer, and Notepad

By Kunal Khullar Published

Just 128MB of RAM is enough to boot Windows 11.

Windows
Creator says Amazon closed his account after he tried to buy seven Nvidia DGX Sparks

By Shane Downing Published

Nick Saraev says Amazon closed his account after canceling Nvidia DGX Spark orders; Tim Sweeney reports canceled orders after a GPU buy.

Mini PCs
Tachyum, developer of heavily-delayed universal Prodigy processor, voluntarily files for bankruptcy

By Anton Shilov last updated

Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.

CPUs
OpenAI considers rebranding data centers to 'AI compute campuses" as data center backlash intensifies

By Newton Gitonga Published

OpenAI plans community agreements and infrastructure commitments as it prepares to rebrand data centers amid growing public opposition

Data Centers
Putin demands Russian data centers supply capacity to the state in wake of Ukraine drone attacks

By Oliver Haslam Published

President Putin has told non-state Russian data centers that they must set aside 10% of their total capacity for use by the country's own IT infrastructure.

Data Centers
16GB Raspberry Pi 5 hiked to $385, more than triple its launch price

By Mark Tyson Published

The Raspberry Pi 16GB has gone up in price by $80 to $385. It now costs more than triple its January 2025 launch price.

Raspberry Pi
'America hates data centers' — New data highlights public sentiment

By Oliver Haslam Published

A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments about data centers in the community across more than 410 local governments, and the consensus is that people don't like them one bit.

Data Centers
A photograph showing the back of a monitor, covered in drywall dust, with a clear bullet hole to one side.
Gamer's Asus TUF monitor blocks bullet fired through wall during Call of Duty session

By Zak Killian Published

A Redditor was playing Call of Duty when they heard gunfire outside their home. After hitting the deck, they discovered that their monitor had potentially saved their life.

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