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- October 31
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- Prusa has a full month of Black Friday deals on 3D printers and accessories, including $300 free bundle with some models — Get the Rolls-Royce of 3D printers with free shipping
- Lenovo's Black Friday Deal Days sale is live — here are the best deals we've spotted so far
- Apple's MacBook Air M4 is now down to $799 — you're unlikely to find a better laptop deal within this price range
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX will reportedly receive $2 billion for Trump’s Golden Dome project — system to include up to 600 satellites to track fast-moving airborne targets
- American startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUV — X-ray lithography system has potential to surpass ASML's EUV scanners
- AMD clarifies that RDNA 1 and 2 will still get day zero game support and driver updates — discrete GPUs and handhelds will still work with future games
- Blackwell GPU's exclusion from high-level trade talks highlights deepening AI ecosystem rift between nations — China aims to build sovereign hardware and software systems without Nvidia
- Korean fried chicken stocks surge 30% as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dines out on local delicacy — entire industry buoyed by secret ingredient, Jensanity
- Save $440 on the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16-inch 2.5K OLED gaming laptop with RTX 5070
- Nexperia conflict spills overseas as it halts exports to China — German automotive manufacturers slow production due to semiconductor shortages from Dutch chipmaker
- Prusa launches two new 3D printers, open source filament tags, and printable silicone at private event
- HighPoint RocketAIC 7608AW Review: The Fast Gets Even Faster with 56 GB/s of throughput
- AMD clarifies commitment to support for RDNA 1 and 2-based GPUs — company backtracks on RX 7900 series USB-C functionality (Updated)
- Mini PC maker Minisforum to hike prices on all models with SSDs and DRAM, cites 'significant increase in our overall costs' — barebones models not affected, suggesting change caused by memory chip shortages
- Windows insider creates Windows 7 install measuring just 69MB — system boots, but has been pruned so severely ‘virtually nothing can run’ for now
- Bolt Graphics brings its RISC-V graphics cards to Ubuntu Summit — Zeus path tracing GPUs target film and animation industry
- Colorful claims new BIOSes deliver 15% FPS boost in Battlefield 6 through extra-tight memory timings — fresh update also has a new "Moore" UI
- Strix Halo Radeon 8060S iGPU benchmarked in games, delivers butter-smooth 1080p performance —AMD's AI-focused Ryzen AI Max 395+ APU also excels at gaming
- Taiwan increases penalty for damaging undersea cables amid increased suspected sabotage attempts — offenders face up to 7 years in prison and $325,000 in fines
- TP-Link routers face potential U.S. ban over alleged China-related national security concerns — company "vigorously disputes" Department of Commerce's findings
- October 30
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- Samsung unleashes high-speed P9 Express microSD Express cards for the Switch 2 at highly competitive prices — 256GB and 512GB available for $54 and $99
- Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praises cutting-edge Nvidia chip production with TSMC on US soil, despite Intel missing out — hails manufacturing milestone of US-based supply chain
- Intel opens pop-up stores across five cities featuring AI PCs from laptop manufacturers — we stopped by the NYC store, and one visitor in Munich found Panther Lake
- LG's 32-inch, 4K OLED gaming monitor falls to $799 — dual-mode display is $500 off
- Police bust chip counterfeiting outfit in China, fakes may have made it into PC hardware — GPUs, motherboards, and power supplies potentially impacted by fake Infineon and TI power chips
- Asus' first-ever ROG AI gaming router costs as much as a mini PC and has the specs to match — device boasts quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage for $899
- AMD confirms its Radeon RX 5000, 6000 series cards will still get some new features 'as required by market needs' — company also says RX 7900 USB-C change was a mistake (Updated)
- $2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising Phoenix
- Ambitious enthusiasts buy entire Boeing 747 cockpit in race to build flight simulator — three-month project recreates gauges, dials, and other mechanical instruments for X-Plane sim
- Elon Musk says idling Tesla cars could create massive 100-million-vehicle strong computer for AI — 'bored' vehicles could offer 100 gigawatts of distributed compute power
- U.S. and China agree on one-year tariff truce, including semiconductor and rare earth breakthroughs — future of Nvidia AI chip sales to the nation remains murky
- OpenAI's Microsoft contract negotiation is a necessary step toward a future IPO — Altman's goal is to build 30 gigawatts of compute infrastructure, valued at $1.4 trillion
- QNAP's new NAS brings exotic data center 'ruler' SSDs into your house — massive ES.1 form factor SSDs for up to 19.2TB of storage for $4,399
- Australia's police to use AI to decode criminals' emoji slang to curb online crime — "crimefluencers" will be decoded and translated for investigators
- WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives — same drives that got WD sued in 2021 now reporting failure rates due to 'fundamental' flaws
- 3D-printed full-auto bullpup 'ghost guns' can now be made for a couple of hundred dollars — designs have evolved dramatically outside the U.S.
- October 29
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- Huge Microsoft outage hit 365, Xbox, and beyond — deployment of fix for Azure breakdown rolled out
- Windows 11 videos demonstrating account and hardware requirements bypass purged from YouTube creator's channel — platform says content ‘encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death’
- Nvidia's market capitalization hits $5.12 trillion — AI powerhouse is the first company in history to hit seismic milestone
- China deploys wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast — $226 million project could top 24 megawatts, harnessing the cooling power of the sea
- Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations
- NZXT hit with civil RICO suit in California over controversial PC rental biz — class-action lawsuit alleges PC Flex Program is a 'bait-and-switch-scheme' that included used and inferior hardware
- Save $40 on 1TB of Switch 2 storage at Costco — Lexar's Play Pro microSD Express card drops to $179.99
- Lenovo Legion LOQ 15 review: Solid gaming performance, but needs more RAM and storage
- Cops alerted by AI gun detection system arrest high school student holding bag of Doritos — eight cars sent to disarm chip-toting teen
- Nvidia reveals Vera Rubin Superchip for the first time — incredibly compact board features 88-core Vera CPU, two Rubin GPUs, and 8 SOCAMM modules
- Creative Labs revives Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub — Re:Imagine is a tactile Stream Deck competitor, aimed at creators and audiophiles
- New Windows 11 feature aims to diagnose crashes — will check RAM after BSODs to look for problems
- October 28
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- US and Japan move to loosen China’s rare earths grip — nations partner to build alternative pathways to power, resource independence
- Nvidia and partners to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs —combined performance of 2,200 ExaFLOPS of compute
- OpenAI and Microsoft sign agreement to restructure OpenAI into a public benefit corporation with Microsoft retaining 27% stake — non-profit 'Open AI Foundation' to oversee 'Open AI PBC'
- Nvidia announces reference design for colossal gigawatt-scale Omniverse DSX data centers — single data center requires a nuclear reactor's worth of power generation
- Corsair rolls out dynamic duo of chart-topping PCIe 5.0 SSDs — MP700 Pro XT for performance enthusiasts and MP700 Micro for compact systems
- Fake Nvidia GTC stream hosting deepfake Jensen Huang crypto scam garners 100,000 YouTube viewers, AI-generated hoax generates 5x more views than real event
- Musk says Samsung's Texas fab outclasses TSMC's US-based fabs — with AI5 still in development, questions remain over whether Tesla will need advanced tools
- Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins
- Buy the best gaming CPU, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and get a free MSI All-In-One 360mm liquid ARGB cooler worth $109 in this awesome Newegg combo deal
- TMSC-led semiconductor association begs Taiwan government for clean, green energy, warning of unprecedented 'power siege' — as demand skyrockets, fabs are struggling to keep up with power needs
- AMD swoops in to help as John Carmack slams Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark, says it doesn't hit performance claims, overheats, and maxes out at 100W power draw — developer forums inundated with crashing and shutdown reports
- How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote — Jensen Huang shares the latest in AI and beyond
- OpenAI calls on U.S. to build 100 gigawatts of additional power-generating capacity per year, increase equivalent to 100 nuclear reactors yearly — says electricity is a 'strategic asset' in AI race against China
- Korea's cardboard drones address UAV shortages and climate crisis — inspired by the Ukraine war, drone inventor looked for the most easily sourced and repairable materials
- Save up to 43% off a new Bambu Lab 3D printer in their Black Friday sale — massive savings on 3D printers and accessories beginning today
- PNY's speedy PCIe 5.0 SSD with 14.9 GB/s speeds starts at $125 — the first Phison E28-powered drive to reach the retail market
- Server DRAM prices surge up to 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscaler supply — U.S. and Chinese customers only getting 70% order fulfillment
- SanDisk Extreme Pro With USB4 (2TB) review: Bursty speed, but not great for pros
- Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever
- RTX 4090 laptop GPU gets 20% performance boost after shunt mod, beats the mobile RTX 5090, on average — reduced resistance boosts power to 240W
- Unlucky buyer purchases external Seagate HDD, gets an SD card glued inside a plastic shell
- SK hynix unveils AI NAND strategy, including gargantuan petabyte-class QLC SSDs — ultra-fast HBF and 100M IOPS SSDs also in the pipeline
- China builds brain-mimicking AI server the size of a mini-fridge, claims 90% power reduction — BI Explorer 1 packs in 1,152 CPU cores and 4.8TB of memory, runs on a household power outlet
- Intel's revolutionary 54-year-old 4004 chip was the world's first programmable microchip — 2,300-transistor 10,000nm processor exposed
- Scientists claim you can't see the difference between 1440p and 8K at 10 feet in new study on the limits of the human eye — would still be an improvement on the previously-touted upper limit of 60 pixels per degree
- October 27
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- Battlefield 6's long-awaited battle royale mode officially drops October 28 — "RedSec" will be free to play across PC and console
- Routers
- Jet engine shortages threaten AI data center expansion as wait times stretch into 2030 — the rush to power AI buildout continues
- U.S. Department of Energy and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers — pairing has already birthed the two fastest machines on the planet
- Qualcomm unveils AI200 and AI250 AI inference accelerators — Hexagon takes on AMD and Nvidia in the booming data center realm
- AMD rebrands Ryzen 7035, 7020 series mobile processors — Zen 2 and Zen 3+ chips receive new identities
- China's autonomous military combat drone powered by DeepSeek highlights Nvidia reliance — investigation reveals People's Liberation Army, supporting institutions continue to use restricted H100 chips
- Researchers create world's smallest pixel measuring just 300 nanometers across — could be used to create a 1080p display measuring 1mm across
- Generative AI used to create wild new 3D printer design — exotic collaboration brings 5-axis 3D printing to the desktop
- Save a massive $1500 on this powerful pre-built gaming rig with top-notch components, including an RTX 5080 and 9800X3D — Gigabyte's Aorus Supreme 5 gaming desktop is reduced to $2499.99
- Microsoft's OpenAI losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in AI company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiation
- Montech King 45 Pro case review: Stylish and affordable, with an emphasis on GPU temperatures
- Lenovo Legion devices running Linux set to get new 'Extreme' mode that fixes previously-broken power limits — only approved devices will be able to run the maximum performance mode
- M5 MacBook Pro's SSD is 2.5x faster on average than last-gen M4, exceeding Apple's own claims — M5 achieves 6,000+ MB/s across both read and write speeds
- October 26
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- Cooler Master's new PC case with 5.25-inch drive bay launches in Japan as optical drive boom hits due to Windows 10 upgrade cycle — MasterBox CM695 addresses the country's reluctance to ditch physical media
- Shiitake-powered computer demonstrated by researchers — mushroom-infused chips a surprising alternative to using rare earths in memristors
- Gaming-optimized Ryzen 5 7500X3D spotted at UK retailer, new six-core budget CPU apparently readied for launch — AMD might be prepping the cheapest Zen 4-based 3D V-Cache chip to date
- US–China reach trade framework that could avert 100% tariffs and pause rare-earth curbs — development comes as Trump and Xi prepare to meet this week
- China's ByteDance reportedly building a Steam competitor — 'GameTop' for overseas markets will distribute and publish games like any other store, while harboring a social space with AI-assisted creator tools
- On the cutting edge: How SK hynix's history prepared it for the AI revolution
- Intel 8080 bottleneck made classic 47-year-old Space Invaders arcade game run faster as enemies died — expert coder asserts 'hardware accident' to blame
- ChatGPT chief Sam Altman says AI could eliminate jobs that aren’t ‘real work’ — comments come among mounting evidence of jobs being replaced by AI
- Gigabyte drops 2TB SSD to all-time low around $0.10 per GB — Aorus Gen5 14000 SSD now at $208.68
- ‘Never in your life buy a 5090 Founders Edition’ — repair tech slams Nvidia’s flagship GPU design
- Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB SSD Review: The Renegade is Back
- Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
- 8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited — Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today
- Cooler Master apologizes for telling users to pry apart melting-prone 16-pin connectors to fix them, instructs customer support teams to stop recommending modifications — company also discontinues problematic right-angle connector
- Creator makes Wi-Fi sound like dial-up Internet — uses Raspberry Pi and 2-watt speaker to convert digital data into analog signals
- Nexperia's China parent Wingtech declares cash-flow risk despite massive 280% profit surge - car production shutdowns loom as Dutch state tightens grip
- October 25
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- Get nearly $600 off on this RTX 5090 gaming PC blowout sale — a high-end gaming setup featuring a Core Ultra 9 285K CPU, 64GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD
- Over-the-top Warhammer 40K edition gaming chair on sale, flagship gaming chair for under $600
- New stablecoin connects crypto investors to real-world Nvidia AI GPUs that earn money by renting out compute power to AI devs — USD.AI lets crypto investors make bank off AI compute rentals
- This RGB PC in a plastic jug is uncomfortably beguiling — $150 build armed with an Xeon chip is literally bottlenecked
- Skyrocketing costs for memory will jack up smartphone prices — Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi warns of higher prices for new devices
- Asus ROG Strix XG248QSG Ace 610 Hz gaming monitor review: A new frame rate frontier
- AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago — the Am9080 cost 50 cents apiece to make, but sold for $700
- Microsoft for Startups exec says ‘my whole job is begging for GPUs, it's been that way since 2020’ — says that AI bubble doomsters are deluded
- Power up your PC like a fighter jet — enthusiast demos 'an unnecessary complicated way of starting your PC'
- Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
- Ludicrous $6 billion Counter Strike 2 skins market crashes, loses $3 billion overnight — game update destroys inventories, collapses market
- Saying goodbye to Nvidia's retired GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — we benchmark 2017's hottest graphics card against some modern GPUs as it rides into the sunset
- Internet ads firm’s CEO posts wild job description for 'A-players,' draws internet ire
- IBM's boffins run a nifty quantum error-correction algorithm on standard AMD FPGAs, and it is' 10 times faster than what is needed' — research propels IBM's Starling quantum computer project forward
- October 24
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- Three chambers, one cool case — Corsair reimagines PC cooling with the Air 5400
- Enjoy next-level gaming with this Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for under $1,900 — save $400 off the list price
- OCCT version 15 adds coil whine detection that doesn't require a microphone, plays a coil whine melody instead — popular stress tester gets genius new feature to silence your PC
- Apple's Houston-built AI servers are now shipping, according to CEO Tim Cook — custom silicon to power Private Cloud Compute
- CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme review: High style, affordable price, but loud
- Nexperia China snubs Dutch HQ amid spat that threatens automotive production — says order to dismiss executive violates labor laws
- This Amazon Basics Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 docking station is going for just $34 (61% off) — save $55 on speedy expansion
- Intel Core Ultra 5 338H appears in Geekbench listing, confirming new "Arc B370" Xe3 iGPU — No "X" branding in sight as Panther Lake's naming scheme becomes clear
- Elegoo jumps in early with a huge Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale on 3D printers, and it's not even November yet — 12 stunning printer deals you can grab right now
- Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years — more than 20,000 let go in in recent months as Lip-Bu Tan continues drastic recovery journey
- Anthropic signs deal with Google Cloud to expand TPU chip capacity — AI company expects to have over 1GW of processing power in 2026
- Tom's Hardware Premium now offers monthly pricing, unlock access from just $7 a month — don't miss out on expert-level analysis, hardware roadmaps, and our Bench database
- Gigabyte P650G 650W power supply review
- TSMC says China's rare-earth export restrictions will have limited short-term impact on company — concern lies in transitioning away from China supply
- Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with modern HDMI port, 25 classic games — pre-orders and launch date announced
- Intel hamstrung by supply shortages across its business, including production capacity — says it will prioritize data center CPUs over consumer chips, warns of price hikes
- AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan — new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap
- Intrepid modder builds Frame Warp demo from Nvidia Reflex 2 binaries — tech remains mysteriously shelved despite greatly reducing latency
- Intel's pivotal 18A process is making steady progress, but still lags behind — yields only set to reach industry standard levels in 2027
- AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days — automation systems race and crash
- Intel posts return to growth and profitability in Q3 2025, but significant challenges remain — achieves $13.7 billion revenue with $4.1 billion operating profit
- Virtualized Windows 11 test shows Apple's M5 destroying Intel and AMD's best in single-core benchmark — Chinese enthusiast pits Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Core i9 14900KS against Apple's latest SoC
- October 23
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- MSI’s X870 Gaming Plus Wifi Motherboard drops to $210 – save $60 and start your new AMD AM5 PC today
- TP-Link launches budget Archer GE400 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router — Dual-band router hits more affordable price point, includes 2.5 GbE ports and RGB lighting
- Cheaper than DIY: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D gaming PC with RX 9070 XT GPU is $670 off — this pre-built deal is a steal on Newegg
- Elon Musk claims Tesla's new AI5 chip is 40x more performant than previous-gen AI5 — Next-gen custom silicon for vehicle AI to now be built by Samsung & TSMC
- Nexperia fallout threatens automobile production as Japanese carmakers warn of supply disruptions while European companies prep assembly line shut-downs — mature-node chip market in crisis as supply dwindles
- Elon Musk's Starlink reportedly tasks Samsung to build AI-powered modem — space-based 6G service could revolutionize satellite-to-device connectivity
- 20 years of Noctua: How one brand became a leader in the PC cooling business
- China seeks semiconductor and AI self-reliance in ambitious new 5-year plan — Beijing also wants to increase domestic spending and reduce reliance on exports
- Tryx Panorama SE 360 ARGB Review: Elegant and quiet, with impressive software
- European think tank suggests punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls
- Newegg has slashed $1,900 from this AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D PC with RX 9070 XT — score an excellent Windows 11 gaming PC for nearly half the price
- Fujitsu defies convention with optical drives in new AMD Ryzen laptop — Blu-ray disk drive clings onto life in Japanese market
- Trump considering China export ban on items made with or containing U.S. software — sweeping restriction to hit hard in response to Beijing’s rare earth embargo in major trade war escalation
- Trump administration to follow up Intel stake with investment in quantum computing, report claims — tens of millions of CHIPS Act dollars could be paid out to leading companies in exchange for equity
- Google's Quantum Echo algorithm shows world's first practical application of Quantum Computing — Willow 105-qubit chip runs algorithm 13,000x faster than a supercomputer
- China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals
- October 22
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- Secretlab Magnus Evo Hands-on — a trimmed-down version of its popular, premium sit-stand desk
- Cooler Master tells customer to dismantle 12v2x6 connector to fit Asus RTX 5070 Ti — customer service offers dubious advice that might not even fix issue
- ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times
- Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme Motherboard review: Flagship value, with minimal sacrifices
- Nvidia's H100 GPUs are going to space — Crusoe and Starcloud pioneer space-based solar-powered AI compute cloud data centers
- Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh emerges with Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — 24-core chip appears on Geekbench, 10% faster than Core Ultra 7 265K
- China wants US semiconductor companies to submit sensitive data as part of probe — 'anti-dumping' investigation requests sales and profit data
- Asus' 27-inch ROG Strix XG279CNS FHD gaming monitor hits its lowest-ever price of $249 — USB-C connectivity and a blazing fast 380Hz refresh rate
- MSI MAG A850GLS PCIE5 power supply review
- Catastrophic Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to cost UK economy at least $2.5 billion, according to estimates — 5,000 independent organizations decimated by supply chain fallout
- Next-gen Xbox will be 'very premium, high-end experience', says Xbox President — stoking PC-console hybrid speculation
- Nvidia's homegrown memory design is almost standardized and ready for everyone to use — JEDEC says SOCAMM2 compact DRAM module for AI servers boasts higher speeds and broader compatibility
- The Bambu Lab P2S is the best 3D Printer you can’t have — 'logistics delays' leave the printers locked out of the US, at least for now
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas AI browser, LLM can browse the internet for you and even complete tasks — initial release for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android to follow soon after
- China's supercomputer breakthrough uses 37 million processor cores to model complex quantum chemistry at molecular scale — Sunway fuses AI and quantum science
- Chinese companies unveil a swathe of breakthrough chipmaking innovations at tradeshow — chipmaking lithography tools, software design tools, and resists all on display as the nation pursues self-sufficiency
- Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites — cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece
- October 21
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- Western Digital Black SN8100 gets an 8TB capacity boost — fastest consumer SSD now comes with even more space to match its speed
- Apple MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5) review: Raising the performance bar with M5
- New Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H leaks in new benchmark - Geekbench 6 result shows off 12 Xe3 Core iGPU's chops
- AMD planning monstrous dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 with 192MB of game-boosting L3 cache, according to leak
- ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections
- Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows 11 patch after botched update breaks Recovery — restores USB keyboard and mouse input inside WinRE for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2
- Nvidia continues to feed the AI monster with new RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell GPU with 72GB GDDR7 — 50% more VRAM than the regular version
- Telecom group to build new $116m undersea cable in the Black Sea, bypassing Russia — project set to connect Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine
- Hyte X50 Case Review: rounded, colorful style meets excellent build quality
- New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens
- Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6400 C32 2x16GB Review: Performance Through Optimization
- CPU collector stitches 216 micrographs to create high resolution die shot of the legendary i8008 — Intel’s 54-year-old milestone 8-bit CPU seen like never before
- Chinese memory maker reportedly preparing for $42 billion IPO — CXMT plans to go public in early 2026
- Cherry's XTRFY M50 wireless gaming mouse gets 71% price cut to $19.99 all-time low — a great choice for a budget gaming or backup mouse
- Nvidia's China presence hits zero, says CEO Jensen Huang, and companies are already working around it — Alibaba reduces reliance on H20 as U.S. and China division deepens
- Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDPG 27-inch 500 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Amazing speed and glorious color
- Starlink and Muon fuse space lasers and satellites to deliver ‘industry-first’ persistent optical connectivity in orbit — will enable 25 Gbps data transfer at distances up to 4,000km
- Apple MacBook successfully runs an Nvidia GPU through USB4 using an external docking station - Tiny Corp's coding wizardry unlocks Mac+Nvidia magic
- AMD's Krackan Point APUs tipped to arrive for desktop soon as Ryzen 9000G series — New AGESA code adds support for Ryzen AI 300 series in BIOS update
- Zotac's newest mini-PC picks a fight with the Mac Studio, claims to be world's smallest - crams desktop 5060 Ti 16 GB into a mere 2.65 liters
- 'Diamond blanket' transistor cooling method delivers incredible success in testing, drops temps by 70C — micrometer-scale diamond layer grown directly on transistors reduces heat by 90%
- Atari just resurrected its most potent foe in the console wars from 45 years ago, the Intellivision Spirit — $149 console comes with 45 games, was brought into the Atari fold through IP acquisition last year
- Trump says Intel has made a 'fortune' and America has made $40 billion after the US invested in ailing chipmaker — Intel has gained $73 billion in market cap since investment
- ASML launches revolutionary lithography scanner for advanced 3D chip packaging — Twinscan XT:260 machine quadruples throughput
- October 20
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- China says it has foiled a series U.S. cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure — Ministry of State Security says it has 'irrefutable evidence' NSA tried to cause 'international time chaos'
- Microsoft let Asus set the prices for Xbox ROG Ally, confirms Xbox President — work on next-gen console hardware is already underway with AMD
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 3DHP Review: Engineering better heatpipes, improving thermal efficiency
- Lucky Facebook Marketplace shopper finds souped-up prototype GTX 2080 Ti inside a $500 PC — mythical Nvidia project features 12GB of VRAM and higher memory bandwidth
- Microsoft denies Mexico data center linked to water shortages, local illnesses, and power outages — stomach bugs and even hepatitis reported in region as 1.5 Gigawatt AI data center buildout looms
- Razer Iskur V2 X Gaming Chair Review: An affordable, frills-free entry-level gaming chair
- Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192
- Bambu Lab is selling the awesome P1S 3D printer for an all-time low of $449 — clip the coupon for a $100 saving
- Embattled Dutch chipmaker Nexperia blasts ousted CEO over false accusations — claims of unpaid salaries and independent operation in China are 'falsehoods', say company
- Colossal AWS outage breaks the internet — Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom, Snapchat, and beyond all crippled
- Musk challenges legendary AI researcher Karpathy to an AI coding showdown against Grok 5 — gets a polite 'no' to an IBM Deep Blue-like showdown
- October 19
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- TSMC gives an ultra-rare video look inside its fabs — 'Silver Highway' and fab tools revealed in flyby video of company's US Arizona Fab 21
- Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro Review: As good as the DeathAdder V3 Pro
- Enthusiast plays Battlefield 6 on his CPU watercooler's tiny 2.1-inch screen — 480x480 resolution MSI liquid cooler screen good enough for XP farming
- DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core
- Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE after latest bug hits
- Palantir chief takes a jab at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says people decrying ‘China hawks’ are useful idiots — 'The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem'
- The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever
- The $150 external HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is an Apple Magic Trackpad alternative for Windows users with haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity — crowdfunded peripheral ships in Q1 2026
- WeCreat Lumos review: Premium and portable
- OceanGate Titan submersibles' catastrophic implosion crushed its computers into twisted mass of metal and electronics — investigators find signs of thermal damage, too
- BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives
- Stinky thermal paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, 'glues' heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers - SGT-4 TIM is a chemically reactive blend, finds investigation
- October 18
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- Teacher uses cheap laser and solar panel to transmit wireless sound — iPad powers home project that was inspired by solar panel making noise when attached to speaker
- Carry your favorite apps wherever you go with PortableApps
- North Korean state-sponsored hackers slip unremovable malware inside blockchains to steal cryptocurrency — EtherHiding embeds malicious JavaScript payloads in smart contracts on public blockchains
- be quiet! System Power 11 550W power supply review
- Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product
- 'Budget' portable CD player for audiophiles launches at $319 — built-in CD ripping support, high-quality DAC, and amplifier
- Optical drive demand surges amid Windows 10 retirement — Japanese users switching to Windows 11 are buying up Blu-ray drives
- Jensen says Nvidia’s China AI GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero — the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker's data center revenue
- Secret SpaceX satellites are transmitting mysterious signals on the wrong spectrum — a classified network caught sending data on the uplink frequency
- Score a 17-button mouse on the cheap – the Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite is 33% off on Newegg
- Jensen Huang personally delivers DGX Spark Mini PCs to Elon Musk and Sam Altman — separately
- Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 — New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables
- Second-gen Phison SSD controllers hit the market with 14.9 GB/s speeds — TeamGroup Z54E spearheads a new army of PCIe 5.0 drives
- October 17
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- Intel Foundry secures contract to build Microsoft's Maia 2 next-gen AI processor on 18A/18A-P node, claims report — could be first step in ongoing partnership
- AMD's gaming-optimized Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU hits all all-time low price, finally makes sense — now just $50 more than a 9800X3D
- Anthropic targets gigantic $26 billion in revenue by the end of 2026 — eye-watering sum is more than double OpenAI's projected 2025 earnings
- MSI's new AI-powered PC building assistant recommends the 9800X3D as a budget CPU — EZ PC Builder spec'd out over $1,700 of parts for a $1,000 build
- Micron is preparing to exit China’s data center memory market completely, report claims — Beijing banned company's chips from 'critical information infrastructure' in 2023
- Get a 27-inch 180Hz FHD display for just $95 at Newegg — Asrock gaming monitor price slashed by 40%
- TP-Link Deco BE65-Outdoor review: Blanketing your outdoor areas with high-speed Wi-Fi 7 coverage
- Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies — New energy methods are being explored as power demands are set to skyrocket
- Apple M5 chip smashes Snapdragon X2 Elite in early single-thread benchmarks — single core scores rival Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K and beat AMD's 9950X3D, teasing multi-core potential of future variants
- TSMC moves up 2nm production plans in Arizona — CEO also hints at further site expansion beyond $165 billion commitment
- Amazon reveals 960 megawatt nuclear power plans to cope with AI demand — Richland, Washington site tapped for deployment of Xe-100 small modular reactors
- Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device
- New $1 US coins to feature Steve Jobs and Cray-1 supercomputer — US Mint's 2026 American Innovation Program to memorialize computing history
- October 16
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- Razer Phantom White collection launches — translucent gaming peripherals include Basilisk V3 Pro 35K mouse, BlackWidow V4 75% keyboard
- Multiple generations of Intel's modern chips see price hikes up to 20% overseas — foreign markets are feeling the pinch on 12th, 13th, and 14th-gen chips
- Here's where to buy the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X — Microsoft and Asus' new gaming handhelds hit store shelves
- China's latest round of rare-earth export controls gives the country dominion over precious resources — regulations have far-reaching implications for the semiconductor industry
- Two Nvidia DGX Spark systems fused with M3 Ultra Mac Studio to deliver 2.8x gain in AI benchmarks — EXO Labs demonstrates disaggregated AI inference serving
- PC gaming smashes consoles in Battlefield 6 sales, report claims — blockbuster shooter sells 7m units, generating an estimated $350 million in revenue
- TSMC posts record quarter results as skyrocketing AI and HPC demand drives two-thirds of revenue — company pulls in $33.1 billion
- PayPal crypto partner accidentally mints stablecoins worth double the world’s total GDP — Paxos undersells $300 trillion incident as an ‘internal technical error’
- Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site — 12 stills and nine videos have been recovered, but none from the fateful OceanGate implosion
- Nvidia’s RTX 5070 breaks the $500 barrier — MSI RTX 5070 Shadow 2X OC available for $499 on Amazon
- Microsoft wants you to talk to Windows 11 PCs again — Copilot gets 'conversational' input to complement your mouse and keyboard
- Lian Li Lancool 207 Digital review: The best on the market, now with a six-inch screen
- Fanttik T1 Max Soldering Iron Review: Simplicity to the Max
- Microsoft Surface and data center production to be moved out of China by 2026, claims report — components, parts, and assembly of laptops and servers moving to counter trade war uncertainty
- Dutch Nexperia takeover saga partly driven by CEO misappropriating $200 million to rescue failing private interests, court records show — U.S. diplomatic pressure may also have played a role
- Staples Promo Codes in October 2025 | Exclusive 50% OFF
- Tachyum's 'general-purpose' Prodigy chip delayed again — now with 256 cores per chiplet and a $500 million purchase order from EU investor
- October 15
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- Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data
- Apple launches new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 chip — boasts 2x SSD speeds and increased GPU performance for AI over M4
- Apple unveils M5 chip with 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU — company says 3nm chip offers 4x peak GPU performance over M4 for AI, 45% graphics uplift
- ASML is prepared for China's rare-earth export controls — finance head says company has stock thanks to long lead times
- Groups including BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, and xAI join forces to acquire Aligned Data Centers — $40B deal delivers 5GW of operational and planned data center capacity
- SpaceX shows off massive new V3 Starlink satellites — expanded technology will deliver gigabit internet to customers for the first time and enable 60 Tera-bits-per-second downlink capacity
- Asus ROG Xbox Ally X review: Getting a grip on Windows gaming
- MSI fervently denies RTX 5090 sales in China after pallets of illicit GPUs spotted in the country — company says it has identified 'unauthorized distribution unrelated to our sales policy'
- S&P 500 companies totalling $20 trillion in market cap have medium-to-high AI exposure — concerns of an impending bubble collapse extend to almost half of the index
- ESET Coupon Codes in October 2025 | Exclusive 50% OFF
- Samsung M9 M90SF 32-inch OLED Smart Monitor review: A dual-mission monitor for gaming and TV
- Asus' accomplished ROG Azoth is just $155 thanks to this 44% Amazon discount — get your hands on this 'almost perfect' wireless gaming keyboard for less
- Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'
- Samsung joins Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program to produce custom AI chips — additional Spectrum-X platform to be deployed by Meta and Oracle for data center use
- Frore's new LiquidJet coldplates are designed to handle up to 4,400W of power from Nvidia's Feynman AI GPUs — new design uses semiconductor manufacturing techniques to create 3D jet-channel microstructures
- Der8auer rigs up exotic spray cooling for Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but don't get excited just yet — supercomputer cooling method underperforms due to partial IHS coverage
- DoJ seizes $15 billion in Bitcoin from Cambodian fraudster who ran 'pig butchering' scam using forced labor — accused could face 40 years in prison following department's biggest ever crypto confiscation
- Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up hard drives, SSDs, and DRAM alike — insatiable upstream demand could soon lead to consumer shortages
- This 'gaming PC' is actually a Bluetooth speaker — replica pumps out the jams with faux dual GPUs, liquid cooling, and RGB
- October 14
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- Report: Arm developing custom CPU for OpenAI's in-house accelerator — core IP would underpin 10GW of installed AI capacity
- Intel unveils Crescent Island, an inference-only GPU with Xe3P architecture and 160GB of memory
- AMD debuts Helios rack-scale AI hardware platform at OCP Global Summit 2025 — promises easier serviceability and 50% more memory than Nvidia's Vera Rubin
- AMD and Oracle partner to deploy 50,000 MI450 Instinct GPUs in new AI superclusters — massive capacity expansion powered by AMD's Helios rack architecture set for 2026
- Tom's Hardware Premium is now out of beta — access expert-level analysis, hardware roadmaps and unlock the Bench database
- Goodbye, Windows 10 — how a decade of 'progress' eroded users' command over their own machines
- Nvidia's DGX Spark AI mini-PC goes up for sale October 15 — 1 petaFLOP developer platform was originally slated for May
- Get an X3D for less as one of AMD’s best gaming CPUs hits an all-time low price — Ryzen 7 7800X3D drops to $319, $20 below its previous low
- Intel Panther Lake SKUs spotted in HWMonitor update — release notes specify Core Ultra X, H, and U variants
- Bambu Lab P2S review: Refreshing a best seller
- Toshiba touts industry-first 12-disk HDD stacking technology, will pair with microwave-based recording tech — says advance will enable 40TB drives in 2027
- Dell 16 Premium review: High style, low stamina
- AMD and Intel celebrate first anniversary of x86 alliance — new security features coming to x86 CPUs
- Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirms the industry is in an AI bubble, but that a pop could be several years away — 'We’re displacing all of the internet and the service provider industry as we think about it today'
- China retaliates in response to Dutch seizure of Nexperia, blocking chipmaker's exports following takeover — 861,000 square foot assembly site in Guangdong affected as trade war spirals
- Chinese victims of convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' may have trouble getting their $7.3 billion back from UK government — lawyers predict a lengthy cross-border ordeal for 130,000 investment scheme victims
- Drone maker DJI appeals against court ruling over ‘Chinese Military Company’ designation — will return to court to ‘defend the integrity of our company’ as legal battle rages on
- Nvidia 800 VDC power rollout for 1 megawatt server racks to be supported by ABB — company says collaboration will create 'new power solutions for future gigawatt-scale data centers '
- As Windows 10 signs off, ReactOS devs are exploring a long-awaited feature in WDDM support — investigation could pave the way for newer GPU hardware compatibility
- Windows 10 support ends today — here's who's affected and what you need to do
- October 13
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- This Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock is the Swiss Army knife of all docks for $399 — 500W GaN power supply, M.2 slot, 5G Ethernet networking, LCD screen, and wireless charger all in one
- Michigan township sued by AI data center builder and disgruntled residents over opposition to the site — mounting concerns about rising power bills and water usage fuel growing skepticism
- OpenAI and Broadcom to co-develop 10GW of custom AI chips in yet another blockbuster AI partnership — deployments start in 2026
- Next-gen MRAM breakthrough can flip bits at SRAM-rivalling speeds with low power consumption — researchers claim true next-gen breakthrough using Tungsten layer
- RTX 5070 Ti with catastrophic damage brought back to life by RX 580 — AMD VRM graft resurrects card with a huge hole burned into its PCB
- Go big with a 28TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro, now just $479 in Newegg's limited sale — bargain storage priced at just $17 per TB
- Asus ROG Strix B850-I Gaming WiFi Motherboard review: Dual PCIe 5.0 M.2 meets B850 Mini-ITX
- Dutch government seizes local chipmaker from its Chinese owner — Nexperia parent company Wingtech preps response to 'exceptional' steps taken to safeguard 'crucial technological knowledge'
- China probes Qualcomm with antitrust investigation in the latest asymmetric trade negotiation salvo — Autotalks acquisition risks fouling anti-monopoly laws
- Microsoft breaks Media Creation Tool on the eve of Windows 10 end-of-life — company confirms Windows 11 upgrade tool 'might not work as expected', outlines alternatives
- Inside the AI accelerator arms race: AMD, Nvidia, and hyperscalers commit to annual releases through the decade
- TP-Link confirms successful Wi-Fi 8 trials — next-gen wireless standard to usher in advances in reliability and latency
- October 12
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- Applied Materials preps for 'Angstrom Era' in chipmaking — spearheaded by its new Kinex, Xtera, and PROVision 10 systems
- Flashforge AD5X review: An affordable option for fast color 3D printing
- Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to $729 — The best all-around graphics card for enthusiasts hits an all-time low on Amazon
- Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake
- China says it is 'not afraid' of a trade war, in response to US 100% tariffs threat
- Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips
- Taiwan says its chip fabs are safe from China’s rare-earth crackdown
- Apple doubles security bounty to $2 million, with bonuses potentially increasing rewards to $5 million.
- Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 review: A 96-percent magnetic switch keyboard with a semi-customizable LCD screen
- Porsche 911 Turbo S alloy wheel PC powers up with an ignition key — Nvidia Garage goes all-out for bespoke rig with modder JCustom
- New HydroHaptic technology could have you squeezing, pinching, and twisting a pliable mouse or joystick
- October 11
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- Save $80 off this humongous, enterprise-class hard drive — WD Gold 14TB HDD on clearance sale, just 1.7 cents per gigabyte
- Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
- Nintendo allegedly hacked by Crimson Collective hacking group — screenshot shows leaked folders, production assets, developer files, and backups
- Battlefield 6 has an epic launch bug where it fails to recognize that the game is already installed — EA boss suggests one affected player to ‘refund and buy on Steam’
- New 7-Zip high-severity vulnerabilities expose systems to remote attackers — users should update to version 25 ASAP
- UPS reportedly destroying packages due to customs confusion — thousands of parcels per day are seemingly affected by delays due to documentation issues
- AmeraLabs introduces elastic 3D printing resin with long-lasting squish — a full bottle is priced at $140
- Trump strikes back at China with a 100% tariff and critical software ban — major escalation retaliates for China's rare earth restrictions
- How to update to Windows 11 — make your upgrade as painless as possible now windows 10 support has ended
- Bride surprises new husband with an RTX 5090 on wedding day — Chinese number slang reveals surprise gift
- Oklahoma man charged with supplying over one hundred 3D-printed machine gun conversion kits to a person he thought was an al-Qaida operative — suspect allegedly shipped a range of firearms parts intended for terrorist attacks
- Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Review: The Next Generation
- Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum — historic array includes Sinclair (Timex) ZX Spectrum 48K and Commodore 64
- October 10
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- Battlefield 6 peaks at 747,000 concurrent players — newly launched game ranks among the top three most-played on Steam today
- InferenceMax AI benchmark tests software stacks, efficiency, and TCO — vendor-neutral suite runs nightly and tracks performance changes over time
- President Trump warns of massively increased tariffs in wake of China's rare earth mineral 'monopoly position' — Xi Jinping meeting cancelled as Trump promises retaliation for Beijing's expanded export controls
- Intel's 18A production starts before TSMC’s competing N2 tech — here's how the two process nodes compare
- U.S. Senate passes bill that forces AI chipmakers to prioritize sales to American companies — House now set to amend or pass legislation
- SoftBank is seeking $5 billion loan to invest in OpenAI, plans to use Arm shares as collateral — rapid AI expansion continues, investment could top $30 billion
- Microsoft cancels Wisconsin data center after community pushback — 244-acre Caledonia site on hold, but Redmond says it remains committed to the region
- Back to its all-time low price, Alienware's AW3225QF4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is reduced by $350 in Dell's post-Prime Day deal
- China’s new rare-earth curbs target chipmaking industry in retaliation to US restrictions — rare earth curbs reach back to older 14nm process tech and 256-layer memory
- China bans research company that helped unearth Huawei's use of TSMC tech despite U.S. bans — TechInsights added to Unreliable Entity List by state authorities
- Microsoft deploys world's first 'supercomputer-scale' GB300 NVL72 Azure cluster — 4,608 GB300 GPUs linked together to form a single, unified accelerator capable of 92.1 exaFLOPS of FP4 inference
- China issues port crackdown on all Nvidia AI chip imports, says report — enforcement teams deployed to quash smuggling and investigate data center hardware, targeting H20 and RTX 6000D shipments
- Singapore company allegedly helped China smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway
- October 9
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- Spacious 24TB hard drive is a mere 1 cent per GB — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB HDD is back on sale for $249
- Sony and AMD tease likely PlayStation 6 GPU upgrades —Radiance Cores and a new interconnect for boosting AI rendering performance
- Grab vital 3D printer maintenance tools in these prime Day deals you can still get — up to 37% off HOTO, Creality, Wera
- 3D Printer Sales Bonanza is still ongoing after Prime Day — these are the best deals we found at all five sales
- Concerns grow after spate of social media posts showing SpaceX Starlink satellites burning in the sky — we are currently seeing a ‘couple of satellite re-entries a day,’ says respected astrophysicist
- South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke
- AMD will beat Nvidia to launching AI GPUs on the cutting-edge 2nm node — Instinct MI450 is officially the first AMD GPU to launch with TSMC's finest tech
- Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture breaks cover — Panther Lake's 12 Xe Core iGPU promises 50+% better performance than Lunar Lake
- Intel takes the wraps off Panther Lake — first 18A client processor brings the best of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake together in one package
- Best Amazon Prime Day Tech Deals You Can Still Get Live Blog — Best Tech & PC Hardware Deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
- China expands rare-earth export controls, creating risks for PC component supply — Beijing tightens grip on materials for HDDs and more to protect national security
- Washington's ambition for a 50/50 semiconductor deal with Taiwan is missing a key component — lack of a mature homegrown supply chain could be the missing link
- Valve's next-gen 'Deckard' VR headset reportedly enters mass production, company allegedly plans to ship up to 600K units annually — upcoming 'Steam Frame' could launch before the end of the year
- Legendary Microsoft developer reveals the true story behind the most famous product activation key of all time — infamous Windows XP 'FCKGW' licensing key was actually 'a disastrous leak'
- Bank of England, IMF, warn AI bubble risk has shades of 2000 dotcom crash — Goldman Sachs cautions we're not there 'yet'
- U.S. finally grants Nvidia license to ship AI GPUs to UAE: 500,000 Blackwell GPUs coming to the Gulf region
- Discord says only 70,000 government ID photos exposed in third-party service breach, denies 2.1 million figure — says it won't pay $3.5 million ransom and has cut communications with hackers, who are threatening to go public
- AI adoption far outpaces that of the early Internet — report sheds light on worldwide AI penetration and usage patterns
- Lucky PC builder snipes RTX 5090 for just $1,119 — humbles proud shopper who scored one for $1,399 just two days earlier
- RISC-V set to announce 25% market penetration — open-standard ISA is ahead of schedule, securing fast-growing silicon footprint
- October 8
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- Anker’s 25,000 mAh Laptop Power Bank is $89 for Prime Day — this discounted portable charger includes two integrated USB-C cables and 165W max output
- 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 gaming GPU deals 2025 — ongoing 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
- 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
- Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card deals 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 – 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
- 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
- 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 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'
- 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
- Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 — the best cards on the market, benchmarked and ranked
- Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware
- 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'