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- July 6
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- 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
- Best Amazon Prime Day Hard Drive deals 2025 — internal and external HDD deals from WD, Seagate, and Toshiba
- 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 drops Ryzen 9000 CPUs to record lows — 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 — deals on Fractal, Lian Li, Corsair, and other cases
- 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
- The best Fourth of July 2025 deals — explosive deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
- 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