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- October 8
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- 3D Printer Sales Bonanza during Prime Day 2025 — these are the best deals we found at all five sales
- These are the best CPU cooler deals we found this Prime Day, up to 37% off — deals from Cooler Master, Thermalright, MSI, Corsair, and Thermaltake for every budget
- Samsung's speedy 24-inch 180Hz gaming monitor hits historical all-time $109 low — nearly half-price Odyssey G3 G30D is $90 off on stellar sale for Prime Day
- Keep your PC dust-free with 20% off the Wolfbox MF50 electric air duster during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
- This deal is the cheapest RTX 5070 graphics card on the market right now — save $30 off MSRP and get free games with this Nvidia RTX 5070 gaming GPU for Prime Day
- Nvidia is turning GPUs into capital, but questions exist around sustainability — AI companies are financing hardware like debt, as bank warns of 'sharp market correction'
- The best CPU cooler money can buy is just $89 for Prime Day — get $35 off Arctic's Liquid Freezer III 360mm CPU cooler
- Best Prime Day gaming GPU deals 2025 — deals on cheap Nvidia, AMD, and Intel gaming graphics cards
- We built a Prime Day PC for less than $850, and we didn't even have to use an 8GB GPU
- Save $115 on a killer 4K ROG gaming monitor with this Prime Day deal — have it all with dual refresh rates up to 320Hz at 1080p in one 27" display
- Synology walks back controversial compatibility policy for 2025 NAS units — third-party HDD and SSD support returns with DiskStation Manager 7.3 update
- Spacious 24TB hard drive is at an all-time low of a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB HDD is back on sale for $239
- At 39% off, Samsung's 4TB EVO Plus for $199 might be the best Amazon Prime SSD storage deal going — 5 cents per GB blowout ends in less than 24 hours
- Nvidia reportedly signs another blockbuster AI supply deal, this time with Elon Musk's xAI — investment will support $20 billion Colossus 2 Memphis project
- Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6e or Wi-Fi 7 with these massive Prime Day savings — TP-Link Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 routers get big Prime Day discounts
- Here are the best OLED gaming monitor deals you can snag for Prime Day — monitors up to 41% off
- Western Digital's highest capacity NAS drive hits all-time low pricing — the 26TB WD Red Pro costs just $449 when you buy two
- Dell bets big on an AI infrastructure payoff—new four-year revenue forecast doubles prior guidance
- The prettiest keyboard I've ever used is up to 20% off for Prime Day, and its magnetic switches are great for gaming – Keychron HE gets discounted in multiple sizes
- Qualcomm acquires Arduino to make AI development more accessible — microcontroller maker's hardware becomes the foundation of mobile tech giant's edge AI stack
- WD's monstrous 14TB external hard drive drops back to all-time low pricing on day two of Amazon's Prime Day sales — Elements Desktop HDD on sale for $169.99
- October 7
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- One of our favorite 34-inch QD-OLED Alienware gaming monitors is just $521 for Amazon Prime Day — QHD 165Hz monitor hits all-time low pricing
- Take $230 off the 8TB Lexar NM790 SSD this Prime Day — massive discount lets you grab one of the best PCIe Gen4 SSDs for $499
- The best Prime Day deals on productivity laptops include great Windows PCs and Macs
- Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express cards this Prime Day 2025
- We put together a great 1440p gaming PC completely built with parts on sale at Amazon's Prime Day sale
- Grab a 4TB SSD for 5 cents per gigabyte during Prime Day sales – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB
- GPU mirror lets you watch your RTX 5090 melt in real time without straining your neck — blocks the other PCIe slots on your motherboard, though
- Apple's latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are on sale for Prime Day — deals on computers with the M4 chip
- This five-star Alienware Gaming Monitor is at an all-time low for Prime Day — save $330 on this 27-inch 1440p 360Hz display
- Prime Day discount brings AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D down to $338 — a top-tier gaming CPU for less
- These 15 gadgets under $50 have upgraded my tech life, and you can still get them on sale for Prime Day
- Amazon Prime Day Best PC Peripherals deals 2025 — deals on keyboards, headsets, mice, and more
- OpenAI signs AMD deal for 6GW of AI GPUs with a massive equity kicker, OpenAI to obtain up to 160 million AMD shares at one cent apiece
- Microsoft clamping down on Windows 11 local account setup — latest Insider build removes 'local-only commands,' skipping Microsoft account sign-in will crash setup process
- The best Switch 2 accessories this Amazon Prime Day 2025 — controllers, cameras, cases, screen protectors, and more
- Texas Instruments to cut 183 positions in its North Texas facilities, claims report — about 400 employees in total expected to be laid off due to closure of older plants
- Our best-pick SteelSeries 'HyperMagnetic' Apex Pro TKL Wireless gaming keyboard is half price — reduced to an all-time low of $125 for Prime Day
- Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
- Samsung's top-tier 2TB and 8TB 9100 Pro SSDs plummet to lowest-ever prices — save big on one of the fastest SSDs this Amazon Prime Day
- Samsung's 2TB 990 Pro drops to its lowest price since late 2023 in new Amazon Prime Day deal – speedy PCIe 4.0 drive dips to $133 without heatsink
- Asus reveals how $500,000 ROG Astral RTX 5090D was made — world's most expensive GPU is hewn from 5KG of pure gold
- The cheapest Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop is this $599 Acer Nitro V — squeezing in an Intel Core i5 and RTX 4050, with room to upgrade your RAM
- Cooler Master's compact NR2 Pro Mini ITX small form factor gaming rig comes armed with a 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti, packing raw power and good looks — save $497 in this Prime Day deal
- October 6
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- 3DPrintopia 2025: filament, folding printers, and fun at the East Coast's largest 3D printing event
- ASRock Challenger RX 9070 16GB drops to $549 – get more VRAM than an RTX 5070 for the same amount of green
- Three Steam Deck-ready 2230 SSD upgrades are at record low prices — Crucial P310 2TB at lowest-ever 49% off, WD and Kingston 1TB models dip as low as $65
- MSI gaming bundle lets you snag AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D for $400 when paired with an MSI X870 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard for Prime Day — $639 for the pair, or $738 with a 2TB SSD
- Nintendo asks for $4.5 million default judgment against ex-Reddit mod accused of pirating thousands of games — "Archbox" allegedly asked for donations for faster access to his stolen library
- Amazon Prime Big Deals Day has exceptional soldering iron deals
- Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools for less this Amazon Prime Day — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera
- These are the tools we use to build and maintain our precious tech, and they're on sale for Amazon Prime Day
- Microsoft says Xbox hardware isn't going anywhere — company reaffirms commitment to AMD-powered next-gen console
- One of the best 8TB SSDs is now also the cheapest at just 6 cents per GB — save up to 14% on the 8TB WD Black SN850X and solve your storage needs for good
- Best Prime Day Hard Drive deals 2025 — HDD deals from WD, Seagate, and Toshiba
- Intel's upcoming Panther Lake family will reportedly feature new "Core Ultra X" branding for fully-spec'd iGPU configs — Core Ultra 7 and 9 processors tipped to feature 12 Xe3 GPU cores
- Intel's flagship Core Ultra 9 285K is down to its lowest price ever, at just $475— Intel's fastest current-gen gaming chip is $125 off this Prime Day
- Acer chief says Nvidia’s Intel investment will complicate PC supply chains — says Lutnick's 50/50 proposal could take 50 years to realize
- Developer recreates classic shoot 'em up Zaxxon as a UEFI firmware — isometric arcade game coded in x86 assembly for no-OS represents 'total freedom from big tech'
- Logitech’s new MX Master 4 is already $30 off on Best Buy and cheaper than its predecessor — Prime Day alternative yields unexpected discount just 7 days after launch [Updated]
- Cyberattacks hit 91% of universities and 43% of businesses in last 12 months in the UK — survey suggests more than 600,000 businesses, 61,000 charities affected
- Swiss lab where researchers are working to create computers powered by mini human brains revealed in new report — mini brain organoids revealed, developers say 'we shouldn't be scared of them'
- Best Amazon Prime Day Tech Deals Live Blog — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
- The best cheap tech you can grab this Amazon Prime Day — 13 bargains under $13 to improve your tech life
- OpenAI and AMD announce multibillion-dollar partnership — AMD to supply 6 gigawatts in chips, OpenAI could get up to 10% of AMD shares in return
- Incessant gamer reaches fabled edge of Minecraft map after more than 14 years — has been walking towards mythical 'Far Lands' at the edge of the map since 2011, covering 12,500km in-game
- October 5
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- Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu
- Save over $1,200 on a RTX 4060 gaming laptop during Prime Day — pay less than half the normal price for the MSI Raider GE68HX
- Ukraine’s rotating barbed wire drone barriers discovered by Russians — motorized barriers tear and slice the fiber-optic lines that jam-proof drones leave in their trail
- Nintendo Switch 2 supports two different types of Nvidia DLSS — A second, 'light' version for upscaling beyond 1080p, along with the standard, PC-like CNN model
- Bitcoin rockets to all-time high of over $125,000 — rise fueled by increase in U.S. equities and interest in Bitcoin ETFs
- Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225F is at an all-time low $170, making Arrow Lake more affordable ahead of Amazon's Prime Day sale
- The transistor was patented 75 years ago today — the age of silicon and software began with a three-electrode circuit element using semiconductor materials
- October 4
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- OCuLink outpaces Thunderbolt 5 in Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti tests — latter up to 14% slower on average in gaming benchmarks
- Award-winning gaming keyboard reaches a historic low of $17 just before Prime Day — get 66% off on the Apex 3 TKL for a limited time
- Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading
- Hyper 212 Pro CPU air cooler drops to an all-time low of $18 just before Prime Day — save big with a 49% discount
- UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software
- One of the fastest 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSDs is down to its lowest price ever, 8 cents per gigabyte this Prime Day — Enjoy blazing-fast PCIe 5.0 storage for only $159
- Discord data hacked in latest customer service breach to expose user information — hackers gained access via third-party support systems but didn't steal passwords
- Samsung’s QD-OLED 4K 240 Hz gaming monitors are now at their lowest-ever price for Prime Day — $879 for the 27-inch, $999 for the 32-inch
- Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980
- AOL's dial-up internet service killed with a final modem screech after 34 years — America Online goes offline this week, but other dial-up services still exist
- Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game
- Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware
- Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 — the best cards on the market, benchmarked and ranked
- October 3
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- Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power
- China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling
- Crucial's 20Gb/s X10 Pro 2TB external SSD is only $149 in this early Amazon Prime Day deal — rugged and portable USB-C storage for tech lovers
- AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade
- BlackRock subsidiary buys up 78 data centers totaling 5 gigawatts in $40 billion deal — AI vendor Aligned added to company's portfolio
- Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16
- Samsung's 49-inch OLED gaming monitor drops to lowest-ever price — max out your GPU, not your credit card, for just $879
- Qualcomm's big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures get official confirmation — Latest ISA reference doc details the P-Cores and E-Cores upcoming CPUs will use
- Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang frustrated by UAE AI chip delay, claims report — White House said to be pressing nation to finalize U.S. investments before chip deliveries are authorized
- Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech
- Taiwan proposes strategic tech alliance with the White House — "Taiwan Model" would help companies invest easily in the U.S. to satisfy demands
- GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase
- How Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected alliance
- SiPearl unveils Europe's first dual-use sovereign processor with 80 cores — expected in 2027 for government, aerospace, and defense applications
- October 2
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- Microsoft inks $33 billion in deals with 'neoclouds' like Nebius, CoreWeave — Nebius deal alone secures 100,000 Nvidia GB300 chips for internal use
- Nvidia's 16-pin time bomb could be defused by this $95 gadget — Ampinel offers load balancing that Nvidia forgot to include
- This early Prime Day deal has MSI's gorgeous 34-inch curved ultrawide QD-OLED gaming monitor dropping to $649 at Amazon
- AMD and Intel's unlikely chipmaking partnership isn't without its benefits — how AMD could divest reliance on TSMC
- Grab an Acer Nitro 60 desktop with a Ryzen 9 CPU and RTX 5070 Ti or 5080 graphics cards for 30 to 50% off
- ASRock issues longer warranty amid failing CPU controversy — but only in Japan
- Phison CEO claims NAND shortage could last a staggering 10 years — says memory 'supercycle' imminent and 'severe' 2026 shortages are at hand
- Harvard researchers hail quantum computing breakthrough with machine that can run for two hours — atomic loss quashed by experimental design, systems that can run forever just 3 years away
- Ingenious modder turns Lego Game Boy into an actual Game Boy that can run real cartridges — new Lego set gets outfitted with custom PCB in less than a day, 3D printing required for future button support
- $568 million of GPUs allegedly misused for crypto mining caught in tax evasion and money laundering probe — EU claims 10,000 Nvidia H100 units acquired by Northern Data may not have been used for AI
- Monstrous SSD cooling solution strapped to iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers unparalleled performance — clocks 90% stability in 3D Mark Stress Test, jury still out on hideous aesthetics
- Lenovo Legion Go 2 review: AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme makes gains at 800p
- U.S. Commerce Sec. Lutnick says American AI dominates DeepSeek, thanks Trump for AI Action Plan — OpenAI and Anthropic beat Chinese models across 19 different benchmarks
- Wi-Fi signals can now create accurate images of a room with the help of pre-trained AI — 'LatentCSI' leverages Stable Diffusion 3 to turn Wi-Fi data into a digital paintbrush
- Undersea cable attacks drive sea drone development — Stark's Vanta unmanned vessels could be an affordable solution to protecting vital infrastructure
- AI-generated security camera feed shows Sam Altman getting busted stealing GPUs from Target — ironic video shows OpenAI CEO saying he needs it for Sora inferencing
- October 1
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- AMD in early talks to make chips at Intel Foundry, report says
- TSMC reduces peak power consumption of EUV tools by 44% — company to save 190 million kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2030
- M5-powered iPad Pro breaks cover in GeekBench, scoring 4,133 in single-threaded tests — matches M4 Max and beats every single-core PC chip score
- Microsoft slaps Game Pass Ultimate with a 50% price hike — PC Game Pass is now almost 38% more expensive, with hardly any new benefits
- OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK hynix to the tune of up to 900,000 wafers per month
- Pick up a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for less than a 9800X3D in this Early Prime Day deal bundle from MSI — Tomahawk motherboard deal is cheaper with AMD's flagship than with its top gaming CPU
- OpenAI's Sam Altman had secret TSMC meeting over future chip supply, report claims — AI pioneer in Asia as South Korea confirms 20MW data center deal with ChatGPT maker
- Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit — U.S. court rejects Arm’s lawsuit, confirms Qualcomm’s can use Oryon cores acquired via Nuvia
- Intel affirms commitment to $28 billion Ohio project despite delays — company responds to U.S. Senator's hint of 'a charade or potential fraud'
- Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors
- DJI fervently rejects Chinese Military Company designation following court ruling — drone maker says it 'is not controlled by the government and has no ties to the military'