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- July 11
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- 2TB Samsung portable SSD drops to $114 — get 39% off on the last day of Prime Day 2025 and save $74
- Silicon Motion reportedly prepping SM8466 SSD controller with a PCIe 6.0 x4 — leak claims it will be unveiled at FMS 2025, sporting speeds of up to 28GB/s
- Get this 6TB External Hard Drive for an all-time low price of just $139 — Western Digital offers a massive $45 discount for Amazon Prime Day
- The best Filament and Resin deals for 3D printing this Amazon Prime Day 2025 — from PLA to PETG, here are the best deals we've found
- 4060 Ti graphics card catches fire and melts like an ice cream — user claims they were using it for simple Adobe work and PUBG
- Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years' imprisonment for sharing company secrets with Russia
- The best cheap tech you can still grab before Prime Day ends — 13 bargains under $13 to improve your tech life
- Elgato Stream Deck hits lowest price ever — get $40 off on this customizable studio controller for the last day of Prime Day 2025
- The biggest and best version of our favorite mousepad is now 20% off on Amazon for Prime Day — get the SteelSeries QcK XL for only $39.99 right now
- China plans 39 AI data centers with 115,000 restricted Nvidia Hopper GPUs — move raises alarm over sourcing, effectiveness of bans
- Samsung's sweet spot Odyssey G6 QD-OLED is just $549 right now — That's $250 off this 27-inch QHD 240 Hz gaming monitor before Prime Day ends
- Scammers on Facebook try to ruin Bambu Lab’s big 3D printer sale — site has been rife with fake ads for 3D printers
- Intel CPU free gift bonanza extended to current-gen Ultra series — Get a discounted 285K plus a $674 motherboard, a free AIO cooler, and three free games for less than $1,000
- Corsair's day four discount is one of the cheapest ways to snag 96GB of DDR5 RAM on Amazon Prime Day — last day to score sub-$200 RGB kit
- The fastest SSD we've tested, the 4.5-star WD Black SN8100, just hit its lowest-ever price for Prime Day's finale — grab a 2TB drive for $180, 4TB for just $399
- July 10
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- We put together a great 1440p gaming PC completely built with parts on sale at Amazon Prime Day
- Grab an Alienware 16 Aurora for $400 off — RTX 5060 gaming laptop beams down at Best Buy
- This 32-inch Asus ROG Mini LED gaming monitor is 27% off — steep discount on a 4K panel with DisplayHDR 1000
- These are the five best budget 3D printer deals for Amazon Prime Day — here's a guide to the best 3D printers for beginners
- B&H Photo undercuts Prime Day Pricing, PNY RTX 5090 is the lowest priced RTX 5090 right now
- Amazon offers massive discounts on Samsung gaming monitors up to 45% off — 24-inch, 27-inch, and 32-inch models on sale while supplies last
- Best Amazon Prime Day Hard Drive deals 2025 — final-day HDD deals you can still get from WD, Seagate, and Toshiba
- Lenovo Legion Go on sale for $499 — get into handheld gaming for 30% off with $200 savings
- The best Bambu Lab 3D printers are up to 43% off until July 15
- Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is the cheapest we've seen at $359 — just $10 shy of MSRP in the Prime Day sales
- JEDEC publishes first LPDDR6 standard — new interface promises double the effective bandwidth of current gen
- Newegg offers real deals on RTX 5090s — $200 price cuts complement promo gift card offers
- This pre-built Zotac gaming PC with an RTX 5080 is $950 off and cheaper than buying the parts yourself
- Intel CEO says it's "too late" for them to catch up with AI competition — reportedly claims Intel has fallen out of the "top 10 semiconductor companies" as the firm lays off thousands across the world
- Bitcoin Depot tells 27,000 crypto ATM customers that it leaked their personal information, but waited a year to disclose due to an ongoing investigation
- AI malware can now evade Microsoft Defender — open-source LLM outsmarts tool around 8% of the time after three months of training
- Ukraine to become first European country with Starlink direct to cell service — messaging by year end, with mobile satellite broadband expected mid-2026
- Zombie fabs plague China's chipmaking ambitions, failures burning tens of billions of dollars
- RTX 5080 laptops are starting to actually feel affordable with this $600 off deal on Asus's latest G16, and savings on cheaper models, too
- Add 2TB of storage to your handheld gaming PC for just $149 with this new Prime Day deal — score a massive 40% off WD's SN770M, now at its lowest-ever price
- Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are discounted as low as $190, with up to $178 of free SSDs, coolers, RAM, or games tossed in — Is Intel cleaning out its closets?
- Bambu just gave its Lab A1 3D printer a $60 discount to rival the Amazon Prime Day sale
- July 9
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- Two great Gigabyte gaming monitors paint fast, crisp, and colorful pixels at all-time low prices — your choice of a 1440p 240Hz or a 4K 144Hz model
- Microsoft's Surface Laptop and other Snapdragon notebooks see discounts for Prime Day — up to 36% off four Arm-based laptops with superb battery life
- ASRock’s 27-inch Phantom Gaming monitor is just $104 — 240 Hz at 1080p on the cheap
- Two Asus 27-inch TUF Gaming monitors drop to all-time low pricing below $200 – One is fast, the other is faster
- Samsung's premium Odyssey G8 QD-OLED is just $899 right now — Get 4K 240Hz performance for 31% less, $400 off
- Best Amazon Prime Day PC and laptop deals 2025 — deals from Amazon and others
- Amazon Prime Day Best Gaming PC 2025 — deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, Dell, Lenovo, and others
- Newegg offers $200 back on four RTX 5090s — promo gift cards bring prices as low as $2,699
- These budget gaming monitors are an absolute steal this Prime Day — up to 40 percent off fast refresh rates and big panels
- Grab a 4TB SSD for 5 cents per gigabyte in final-day Amazon deals you can still get before Prime Day ends – 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB
- MSI RTX 5070 Ti limited-time deals now live on Newegg — rebates and gift cards bring prices close to MSRP
- The GeForce RTX 5090 just got an actual discount for Prime Day and is flying off the shelves — $2649 deal still live at B&H
- SilverStone's new Seta H2 PC case can fit up to 15 HDDs — hefty hard drive behemoth clocks in at 70 liters and weighs over 30 lbs empty
- AMD's fastest gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, drops to all-time low pricing for Prime Day — Ryzen 7 7800X3D also at all-time low pricing
- Nvidia briefly crosses $4 trillion market cap — GPU maker and AI bulwark was the first to reach the milestone
- Silicon Power launches new Hypera microSDXC Express Card for the Switch 2 — features PCIe 3.0 and UHS-I for wide compatibility
- Scientists 3D print tumors for cancer research — TissueTinker using 3D bioprinting to create miniature models of healthy and diseased tissue for side-by-side comparison, backed by McGill
- Intuitive modder builds the gaming PC he couldn't buy — stuffs a Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 3060 Ti in an mATX chassis made to look like an SFF Mac Pro, costs less than a PS5 Pro
- This Alienware X16 R2 gaming laptop just hit its lowest-ever price — save nearly $300 and score an Intel Ultra 7 with RTX 4070 in the Amazon Prime Day sale
- These are the tools we use to build and maintain our tech, and they're on sale for Amazon Prime Day
- G.Skill introduces new high-capacity, high-speed kits — now offers 256GB (64GBx4) DDR5-6000 and 128GB (64GBx2) DDR5-6400 modules
- Before it sells out, pick up the best value 256GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 at Prime Day sale
- Asus celebrates 30 years in the graphics card business with 'epic' RTX 50 prizes and a retrospective video
- AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand
- The best DDR5 RAM kits on Amazon Prime Day are as low as $2.17 per GB — grab a bargain upgrade before the impending price apocalypse
- Samsung's blisteringly fast 990 Evo Plus 2TB SSD is on sale for an all-time low price of just $113 — get a 36% discount on this great drive on Amazon Prime Day
- Alienware's award-winning 34-inch QD-OLED hits 165 Hz and all-time low pricing — AW3423DW is now half price for Prime Day
- IBM's new Power11 server chips are focused on two things: AI and ransomware
- Nvidia AI challenger Groq announces European expansion — Helsinki data center targets burgeoning AI market
- Get a 2TB SSD for 5 cents per gigabyte during Prime Day — lowest-ever prices on models from Samsung, WD, and more
- Samsung's speedy 2TB and 4TB 9100 Pro M.2 SSD drops to its lowest-ever price for Prime Day
- More Intel layoffs are hitting, this time in Israel — company is even considering dramatic decision to shut down Fab 28
- July 8
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- Two Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB cards ring in at $269 after aggressive promos this Prime Day
- Crucial's 32GB Pro DDR5 kit at all-time low pricing for Prime Day — 25% off on affordable DDR5-6400 kit that looks good, too
- Our favorite gaming monitor, the 32-inch Dell S3222DGM is on an epic sale for just $263
- Two Nvidia GPUs fall below MSRP for Prime: Triple-fan RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 cards are the Best Prime Day graphics card deals yet
- These are the best Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers from Asus, TP-Link, Eero, and Netgear that I found on Prime Day
- Alienware's massive Area-51 gaming PC battlestation comes armed with an RTX 5080 and is $400 off
- The best Prime Day deals on productivity laptops include great Windows PCs and Macs
- Here are the best OLED gaming monitor deals you can snag before Prime Day ends — monitors up to 41% off
- GlobalFoundries to make RISC-V CPUs — fab acquires MIPS, will integrate RISC-V and AI IP into its portfolio
- Next-gen Intel and AMD CPUs get AIDA64 support — AMD Zen 6 and Intel Wildcat Lake referenced in latest version
- This near-perfect Alienware 360Hz 1440p QD-OLED monitor is on sale for an all-time low price of just $599 — enjoy true HDR gaming with a $300 discount for Amazon Prime Day on this five-star beast
- Grab 5TB for cheap with this WD Elements Portable and more — here are some of the best external storage savings this Prime Day
- The 2TB Xbox expansion card is massive 42% off during Amazon Prime Day — upgrade your Xbox storage for less
- Get nearly 30% off Hoto's snap-together tool kits for Amazon Prime Day, great for small, tidy workspaces
- Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools for less this Amazon Prime Day — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera
- Snapmaker's 3D printer tool changer is real — the Snapmaker U1 is a four-color tool changer coming to Kickstarter this summer
- DRAM prices are about to skyrocket — DDR4 and GDDR6 among formats that could increase in price by up to 45%
- Popular industry security tool repurposed by cybercriminals to deploy infostealer malware — Shellter developer blasts 'reckless and unprofessional' researchers for not disclosing issue for months
- U.S. imposes 25% tariffs on all products from Japan and South Korea — new measures could be a big hit for the memory industry
- Japanese shipping company partners with Turkish outfit to build a 73MW floating data center — data ship expected to be deployed by 2027
- Get this $900 ASUS TUF A14 Gaming Laptop with a Ryzen CPU and RTX 4050 GPU for $300 off for Amazon Prime Day
- WD's monstrous 14TB external hard drive hits all-time low for Amazon Prime Day — Elements Desktop HDD on sale for $169.99, more than 40% off
- The best Switch 2 accessories this Amazon Prime Day 2025 — controllers, cameras, cases, screen protectors, and more
- Cyberpunk co-developer says any 60 FPS Xbox Series can be easily ported to Nintendo Switch 2, despite the console being closer to a PS4 in terms of raw performance
- CyberPowerPC's gaming PC is one of the cheapest ways to get an RTX 5070 — Gamer Xtreme VR Gaming Rig on sale for 15% off, savings of $300
- This is the ultimate SSD deal to beat on Prime Day — grab a 4TB Crucial P310 for $199, the most affordable 4TB SSD on the market
- These must-have soldering tools will upgrade your soldering station, and they're all on sale for Amazon Prime Day
- One of SteelSeries' best gaming headsets is 50% off right now — save big on the quick-swap battery tech I use every day
- Trump says he has struck a trade deal with Hanoi — lowers tariffs to 20% for Vietnamese goods, but adds 40% tax on loophole Chinese companies use to circumvent measures
- These 15 gadgets under $50 have upgraded my tech life, and you can still get them on sale for the finale of Prime Day
- Chipmaking giant TSMC hit with class-action lawsuit in the U.S. for bias, racism, and unsafe conditions — over 30 plaintiffs have accused the company of illegal practices at Arizona fab
- LG Innotek to slim down smartphones by replacing solder balls with copper posts
- Apple's entire AirPods family drops to their lowest prices ever for Prime Day — AirPods Pro 2 just $149
- July 7
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- Cooler Master's beefy 360mm MasterLiquid 360L Core AIO is only $85 for Prime Day
- Hacker 'turf war' unfolding as Russian DragonForce ransomware gang drama could lead to 'double extortions,' making life even worse for potential victims
- Save up to 27% on three of the best PC case deals we've seen on Amazon Prime Day so far
- AI hyperscaler buys its cryptomining partner for its AI GPUs and data center infrastructure — CoreWeave acquires Core Scientific in long-awaited move
- Apple's latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are on sale for Prime Day — deals are on computers with the latest M4 chip
- Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6e or Wi-Fi 7 with these massive savings before Prime Day ends — TP-Link Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 routers get big Prime Day discounts
- Seagate's iconic 24TB BarraCuda HDD is still 18% off in this rival Prime Day sale, just $0.01 per GB — 16TB BarraCuda is also on sale, but not for much longer
- Get a discounted RTX 50-series laptop in Best Buy's answer to Prime Day — save up to $800 on models from Alienware, Asus, and HP
- Just in time for Prime Day, Steam's hardware survey reveals PC gamers have less free storage than ever — most users have only 100-250GB of space, barely enough for a couple of AAA titles
- China state-backed firm is first to 3D print a micro turbojet engine, and not just for show — new design delivers 160 kg of thrust, successfully tested at 13,000 ft altitude
- Where to buy Nintendo's Switch 2 games console during Amazon Prime Day 2025
- Where to buy Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express cards during Amazon Prime Day 2025
- Nvidia's nerfed China-edition RTX 5090D overclocked to 3.6GHz — supercooled HOF edition breaks 3DMark and overclock records
- 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads
- Intel's Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' to reportedly pack 192 cores, 16 memory channels, and 500 watts of power consumption
- Intel prepping Arrow Lake Refresh with minor clock speed bump and new Copilot+ AI-compliant NPU lifted from Core Ultra 200V — reportedly launches in the second half of 2025
- Russia allegedly field-testing deadly next-gen AI drone powered by Nvidia Jetson Orin — Ukrainian military official says Shahed MS001 is a 'digital predator' that identifies targets on its own
- Core Ultra 7 265K CPU hits all-time low $259 and comes with two free games — 97% of the gaming performance of flagship Core Ultra 9 285K, but for $260 less
- New Samsung 32-inch QD-OLED Smart Monitor comes with a $300 Amazon voucher — 165Hz panel comes with free Prime Day gift for one day only when you pre-order
- Best Amazon Prime Day Deals Live — The Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals you can still get before Prime Day ends
- July 6
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- LG's fast gaming monitors up to 40% off — 27-inch 240 Hz for $299, 32-inch 180 Hz at $199 during Prime Day
- AMD slashes Ryzen 7000 series CPU pricing to all-time lows — Ryzen 9 7950X drops to $450, Ryzen 7600X at $162
- Samsung's massive, award-winning 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 monitor has dropped to just $959 at Amazon, an $840 price reduction
- Dead RTX 5090 with a cracked PCB gets urgent surgery from repair wizard — tech casually reballs the core, replaces a memory chip twice, and runs more wires across its traces than the NSA
- The Best SSD for the PS5 gets a massive price cut — WD Black SN850X SSD is $179 for 2TB model, or get 4TB for $383 for Prime Day
- Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category — card hits 2,202 MHz, takes top six Fire Strike scores
- Activision takes Call of Duty: WWII offline after hackers apparently disrupted the game with RCE exploits — malicious code wreaks havoc on PC gamers as bad actors take complete control of your computer
- AMD's record-low Ryzen 9000 CPUs pricing is still available, but Prime Day ends today — Ryzen 9 9950X gets $215 off, Ryzen 5 9600X drops to $165
- FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse
- Nvidia's first desktop PC chip lands this month — Asus leads with Ascend GX10 Grace Blackwell desktop platform
- Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched
- July 5
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- Gigabyte M28U 28-inch 4K gaming monitor gets a $270 discount and drops to an all-time low $329.99, but the sale ends in a few hours
- UK Royal Navy builds 'esports suite' loaded with gaming PCs onboard its newest warship — eight high-powered PC battle stations added to war room
- New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals
- Super fast Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are over 25% off at Amazon — PCIe 5.0 drives with speeds over 14,000 MB/s
- Starlink-powered drone narco-sub intercepted by Colombian Navy — boat was converted into a drone for uncrewed smuggling
- MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics
- Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from dormant Satoshi-era wallet
- Amazon Prime Day Best PC Case Deals 2025 on the final day — deals on Fractal, Lian Li, Corsair, and other cases that you can still get
- US reportedly plans to curb sales of AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China
- TSMC swats down claims it is delaying its Japan chipmaking plant to prioritize Arizona plants to avoid US tariffs — TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions
- Laser-engraved ceramic storage device that stores data for 5,000 years targets astounding 100 petabytes per rack by 2030 — 10X performance boost and 100,000 petabytes per rack also on Cerbayte's roadmap
- July 4
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- Grab a Crucial X10 portable SSD with a 30% discount — savings up to $182, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB models all on sale
- Samsung Odyssey G3 27-inch gaming monitor drops to all-time low $129.99 — $100 discount for a limited time on Amazon
- Save $350 on Apple's MacBook Air M1 13.3-inch laptop — discount lands within $20 of all-time low price
- Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games
- Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing
- Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources
- DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5
- New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance
- Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders
- This device uses a laser to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second — LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix' has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds
- Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, even the steering works
- Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generations and fewer lanes
- Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes
- July 3
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- Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB SSD drops to excellent all-time low $234 — DRAM-less drive gets blowout sale for early Prime Day
- Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave
- Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers'
- Amazon slashes Ryzen 7 7800X3D price, now just $341 — last-gen chip is a stellar deal with 95% of the gaming performance of the newer model
- Dell's own Black Friday in July summer sale strips $350 off price of the Alienware's 4K QD-OLED curved gaming monitor, AW3225QF deal gives Prime Day a run for its money
- A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX support and LLMs, amongst other things
- Nvidia RTX 50 Series appears in Steam Hardware Survey for the first time — represents 3.69% of cards, with the RTX 5070 leading the pack
- Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port — most third-party docks and accessories won't work thanks to proprietary protocols
- Hong Kong scientists 3D printing organs for transplant patients — 3D-printed respiratory tissue combined with lab-grown mini organs in new procedure
- White House lifts chip design export ban on China in exchange for rare earth materials compromise — export licences for EDA software sales no longer required
- After another review-less launch, the first RTX 5050 benchmarks are here — Nvidia's budget card loses to B580 and RTX 4060, with only multi frame generation to give it a boost
- Nvidia's incendiary 12VHPWR connector consumes its latest victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti melts down despite modest power draw after ASUS shipped it with the wrong cable
- Recertified HDD vendor goHardDrive caught leaking thousands of customer details — company pays astonishingly low $20 bug bounty for discovery of inexplicable online database of names, addresses, phone numbers, and more
- Ford CEO latest to claim AI will wipe out half of white collar jobs in the U.S. — 'AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind'
- Nvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI booms — Nvidia's Arm-powered GB200 servers surge as market reaches a record $95 billion in the first quarter
- Nintendo faces government challenge over Switch 2 nuke powers — Brazilian watchdog says end-user license agreement contains 'abusive clauses'
- Hilariously unfortunate Windows user accidentally ejects graphics card like a memory stick — breaks PC for over an hour out of curiosity
- July 2
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- Newegg selling $100 gift cards for $85, with a promo code — get $15 off any PC hardware purchase
- Intel jumps to HBM4 with Jaguar Shores, 2nd Gen MRDIMMs with Diamond Rapids
- Intel might axe the 18A process node for foundry customers, essentially leaving TSMC with no rival — Intel reportedly to focus on 14A (Updated)
- SK hynix's first PCIe 5.0 SSD is finally available in the U.S., sports impressive performance and pricing — Platinum P51 flaunts speeds up to 14,700 MB/s
- AMD Krackan Point 2 APU emerges on Geekbench — mid-range chip appears inside an unnamed Acer laptop
- Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse
- Microsoft's youngest security researcher started collaboration with the company at just 13 — high school junior filed 20 vulnerability reports last summer, named MSRC Most Valuable Researcher twice
- German charity refuses to comply with Bitcoin ransomware demand — hackers attempt to extort hunger-fighting group for over $2 million
- G.Skill pushing new CAMM2 DDR5 memory modules to the overclocking limit — hits DDR5-10000 speeds on modified ASUS motherboard
- Hugo Boss debuts 3D printed loafer — scans your foot for a custom fit
- Nvidia's Upcoming 'Double D' gaming GPU becomes the '5090D V2' in latest leak — GPU previously known as the 'RTX 5090DD' remains China-exclusive
- Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk
- HP unveils 'CarFax for PCs' that could make buying older laptops more viable — telemetry, support requests, and AI will generate a laptop's history to reduce e-waste
- Nvidia's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti reportedly 16x more popular than its 8GB variant — German retailer figures suggest customers are steering clear of lower spec model
- 29 North Korean laptop farms busted by U.S. Department of Justice — illicit IT workers across 16 states reportedly obtained employment with more than 100 U.S. companies to help fund regime
- Nintendo Switch 2 units allegedly overheating — users report freezing and crashes while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and less power-hungry games
- July 1
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- Crucial's X9 Pro 4TB external SSD is now $100 off — fast and portable storage for $198 in this early Prime Day deal
- Newegg kicks off their 4th of July Sale with included FantasTech price protection — program reimburses you if prices change during Prime Day week
- Amazon just deployed its one-millionth robot in its warehouses, and they'll soon outnumber humans — generative AI to help cut robot fleet travel time by 10%
- Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended
- Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1
- Singapore AI chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by AI firm DeepSeek
- I tested a new AI model that claims to help solve 3D printing disasters — PrintFix.io can analyze images of your prints to identify issues and fixes
- This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own
- Massive MicroSD card testing database exposes fakes, charts performance and endurance — 200 cards tested, 51 to destruction; 8 machines running 70 card readers wrote 18 petabytes for testing
- Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests
- Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards
- Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria
- OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS
- Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later
- Industry news live: the latest news from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD
- Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations
- Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames