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AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 to save budget PC building — new budget Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs to soften the blow from high RAM prices
By Zhiye Liu Published
AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 processors with six Zen 4 and Zen 3 cores, respectively.

Apple’s new A20 Pro smartphone SoC is around 25% faster than its predecessor in leaked benchmark scores
By Mark Tyson Published
The first Apple A20 Geekbench 6 benchmark results are starting to pop up online and the single-core score is very impressive.

Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist
By Mark Tyson Published
The ringleader of a cybercrime gang, which reportedly formed after meetups in Minecraft online, has plead guilty to a racketeering charge and now faces up to 20 years in jail.

OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors
By Anton Shilov Published
Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers
By Mark Tyson Published
Using an 'age of agents' Linux distro a 'MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.'

China's AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market
By Anton Shilov Published
Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).

SSD price tracking 2026
By Ben Stockton Last updated
Updated daily, this list shows the lowest US prices on major SSD models.

Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, breaking the US's stranglehold
By Anton Shilov Published
Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.

Modded RTX 5090 ditches 16-pin power for triple 8-pin connectors — draws up to 900W and hits 3,400 MHz
By Kunal Khullar Published
TecLab’s experiment puts the humble 8-pin connector to an extreme test, with the modified RTX 5090 pulling more than 120A while avoiding the newer 12V-2x6 design altogether.
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