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- April 8
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- Bain Capital's data center unit removes disgraced tenant suspected of smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China — Megaspeed previously alleged to have spent roughly $2 billion on AI processors for illicit distribution
- British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report — Back refutes investigation, says parallels to Satoshi are just a coincidence
- Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI
- Asus ROG Xbox Ally review: The cheapest Windows handheld gets points for showing up
- A brief history of Denuvo DRM and the new hypervisor bypass — inside the cat-and-mouse game between Denuvo and the piracy scene
- Taiwanese chip makers call on government to stockpile helium, liquid natural gas — TSIA pleads for strategic supplies as US and Iran sign ceasefire in Middle East
- Grab an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for just $8 more than the GPU itself and score a whopping $1,600 off — huge HP discount requires a $39 controller or monitor to secure you a 4K powerhouse with a 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD
- Get $100 off the ROG Xbox Ally handheld — Ryzen Z2 A-powered version with 16GB of RAM is under $500 again
- Snap up 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for just $192 when you pair it with AMD's 9800X3D processor and Asus X870E motherboard for $1,054 — bundle also includes a free 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Crimson Desert
- Russian state hackers are hijacking TP-Link and MicroTik routers to steal Outlook credentials, cybersecurity center warns — APT28 group targets DNS and redirects traffic to attacker-controlled servers
- be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W supply review: Platinum-level efficiency, premium pricing
- China intensifies efforts to poach semiconductor talent from Taiwan, claims report — international restrictions motivate illicit efforts to obtain talent and equipment
- Corsair's new customizer tool lets buyers trick out the Frame 4000D case — configurator lets you explore every possible option for this highly modular enclosure
- Corsair's Strix Halo AI Workstation 300 gets even more expensive amid the RAMpocalypse — Ryzen AI Max 395+ flagship now sits at $3,399
- April 7
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- macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks
- Intel introduces its own Neural Compression technology with a fallback mode that works on GPUs without dedicated AI cores — early performance is on the level of Nvidia NTC
- Anthropic's latest AI model identifies 'thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities' in 'every major operating system and every major web browser' — Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades
- 2TB SanDisk memory card card surfaces for eye-watering $2,000 — top-tier Extreme Pro UHS-II SD promises more than 300 MB/s sequential read and write performance
- Intel joins Elon Musk's TeraFab project — 'Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology'
- GitHub user creates open-source Nvidia GeForce Now client alternative — removes tracking, telemetry, and AFK limitations
- Framework warns of even more rising RAM and SSD prices through 2026 as memory crisis persists — some reprieve as prices plateau in latest monthly update
- Asus Zenbook A16 review: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is a strong chip in a so-so package
- Indianapolis politician's home shot at 13 times over data center dispute — police and FBI investigating 'isolated, targeted incident' after city councilor backed project
- Snag this 1440p iBuyPower gaming PC with a 7800X3D and RTX 5070 for just $2,049 right now — 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD round off powerhouse specs, with an extra $200 off this custom-built AMD rig
- Broadcom to supply Anthropic with 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity from 2027 — Claude pioneer says its annual revenue run rate has passed $30 billion
- Save up to $150 on Apple's brand-new M5-powered MacBook Air 13, now from just $949 — all models receive the biggest discount to date
- Intel reportedly in talks with Google and Amazon over advanced packaging — major customers could take advantage of EMIB-T later this year
- Electronics enthusiast begins breadboard-based Intel 386 system build — a large step up from their previous PC-XT and PC-AT breadboard projects
- April 6
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- Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen shareholders ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings
- Intel's OEM-only Bartlett Lake CPU modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboard beats AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench multi-core test — Core 9 273QPE has 12 cores, 24 threads, and hits 5.4GHz
- US lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China — bipartisan proposal would ban lithography equipment for Huawei, SMIC, and others
- Why TSMC grew four times faster than its foundry rivals in 2025 — price hikes, vertical integration, and commanding technology lead pay dividends
- HP’s flagship Omen Max 45L with an RTX 5090 is on sale for $1,000 off — get a top-shelf 4K gaming PC with 64GB DDR5 and 4TB SSD for $5,499
- MSI MAG A1200PLS PCIE5 1200W power supply review: A competent 1200W unit, but pricey
- Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for less than $200 when bundled with AMD's 9800X3D and X870-E motherboard — free liquid cooler and a copy of Crimson Desert to kickstart a top AM5 gaming build
- Creality Sermoon S1 Review: Accessible 3D Scanning
- Expert maps out more than 80 different Microsoft Copilot products, but there may be more than 100 — 'What happens when you name everything Copilot,' an AI consultant mapped out the myriad products
- Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support
- WD Innovation Day 2026 press Q&A transcript: roadmap plans to reach 60TB with ePMR and 100TB via HAMR by 2029 — 'at some point, the laws of physics will require us to transition to HAMR'
- Nvidia's own DLSS 5 announcement video gets taken down by YouTube in Italy due to a copyright strike — local TV channel sent a copyright strike to every YouTube video for using the trailer it used for its own broadcast
- April 5
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- AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK — New flagship dual-cache CPU might demand a hefty premium
- UK confirms drone-killing DragonFire laser weapon for Royal Navy destroyers by 2027 —laser downs 400mph high‑speed drones, costs $13 per shot
- Get a 27" 1440p OLED monitor with a blazing-fast 240 Hz refresh rate for just $499 — LG's 27GS93QE-B is $400 off right now, features 1,300 nits of peak HDR brightness
- Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center
- Researchers train living rat neurons to perform real-time AI computations — experiments could pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces
- Limited edition Atari wristwatches dip under $500 in 20% off sale — classic console inspired rainbow designs available in five colorways
- Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake low-budget CPUs leak out again — OEM confirms specs for Core 7 350, Core 5 320, & Core 3 305 in first retail product datasheet
- Delisted Xbox 360 games briefly reappear on the Xbox Store — Microsoft prepares backward compatibility revival
- Steam starts gathering FPS data with latest client update — company to estimate framerates based on your hardware, Beta feature to focus on SteamOS devices
- Autonomous ErgoChair Core Review: You get what you pay for
- BenQ DesignVue PD2770U 4K professional monitor review: A blend of flexibility, control, and precision
- Nvidia Pascal GPUs debuted 10 years ago today, best known for the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 Ti — architecture kicked off with the Tesla P100
- Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250%
- Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake SKU allegedly upgraded to 44 cores — New config frees up 6P+12E tiles that could trickle down as locked bLLC variants
- Sequoia Capital shares founder’s 1977 memo for investing in Apple — initial $600,000 investment is worth $26.4 billion today, firm said it was ‘tough to do this deal’
- PlayStation 3 emulator makes Cell CPU 'breakthrough' that improves performance in all games — 'All CPUs can benefit from this, from low-end to high-end!' says RPCS3 devs
- $1,700 liquid-cooled phone can run GTA V at up to 100 FPS, Red Dead 2 at 50+ FPS via emulation — Redmagic 11 Pro packs 24 GB of RAM and pulls more than 40W at peak load
- Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Mac — software designed for AI, though, and not built for gaming
- Player defeats Darks Souls II using only poop — 42 hits of dung pie defeats the final boss
- April 4
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- LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new 'BrowserGate' security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors' browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data
- McDonald’s debuts one-finger gadget that lets you move your character to 'keep you in the game' while you chow down — Pro Gamer Menu's ‘Archie’ designed to keep you from being kicked for inactivity
- Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of VRAM and 970MB
- Unprecedented $450 price slash brings 27-inch 1440p 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor down to $399 — LG UltraGear OLED 27GX700A-B now at an unbeatable Price
- Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones
- Sharge Disk Pro 2TB review: Great sustained writes, active cooling, and a built-in hub
- Hands-on with Modos Tech 13.3-inch e-paper monitors — we tried the current Dev Kit model and the next-gen Modos Flow touch
- Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard
- Enermax Revolution III S 1000W power supply review: Platinum efficiency, limited thermal capability
- Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older Windows 11 OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready
- 'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed — asserts that 'everything' was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s
- Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive, OS from 1992 running on 2025 hardware — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat
- New 'GeForge' and 'GDDRHammer' attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia's GPU memory — Rowhammer attacks in GPUs force bit flips in protected VRAM regions to gain read/write access
- Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going
- April 3
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- Intel's potent 18-core Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus CPU lands at retail for under $200
- Level up your gaming setup with this Core Ultra 5 250K Plus bundle for $299 — save $60 with ASRock's rock-solid B860 motherboard
- Report claims Arm chips will power 90% of AI servers based on custom processors in 2029 — x86 and RISC-V on the outside looking in
- Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases
- Newegg shaves $240 off this well-equipped RTX 5070, 7800X3D gaming PC — at $1,929, this CyberpowerPC is at least $100 less than the current cost of its components
- Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers
- Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months
- Save $240 on Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with 32GB of DDR5-6000 and Z890 motherboard — get Intel's newest, fastest gaming CPU in a bundle that's 23% off
- America’s AI chip rules keep changing — and the rest of the world is paying the price
- Anycubic Photon P1 Review: Dual Color/Dual Material, Tech Loaded
- Memory will consume 30% of hyperscaler AI data center spending this year, a 4X increase over 2023 — Nvidia gets preferential supply terms well below standard market rates, says analyst firm
- Here’s what the FCC ban on foreign-manufactured routers actually means for consumers
- Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
- Asus ZenWiFi BD5 Outdoor Wi-Fi 7 extender review: Great outdoor wireless performance, as long as you use an Ethernet backhaul
- TSMC reportedly plans to build 12 fabs, four packaging facilities in Arizona — plan purportedly part of Taiwan's agreed $500 million investment in the US
- Modder creates hybrid PlayStation, combining the guts of two original PS1 consoles into one custom PCB — system features native microSD card & HDMI support
- Crypto platform Drift suffers from hack suspected to total $270 million — firm goes into damage control mode, suspends deposits and withdrawals
- Supermicro co-founder pleads not guilty to smuggling billions of dollars of Nvidia servers to China — suspected smuggler released on $5 million bond
- Iran says it has struck Oracle data center in Dubai, Amazon data center in Bahrain — country has threatened to attack Nvidia, Intel, and others, too
- The largest programming community on Reddit just banned all content related to AI LLMs — r/programming is prioritizing only high-quality discussions about AI
- $1,299 Asus OLED gaming monitors are arriving with cracked panels for many buyers — cut-down packaging with no protection for the panel gets the blame
- April 2
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- Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’
- Denuvo has been cracked, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass
- China's homegrown silicon suppliers gain traction as Nvidia struggles to get its chips into the market — Huawei, Cambricon and more step up to fill crucial market gap
- IBM spruces up its mainframes with new support for modern Arm workloads — firm teams up with Arm to run Arm workloads on IBM Z mainframes
- Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era
- Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
- 1Hz laptop display reportedly helps deliver outstanding 43-hour battery life on the XPS 14 during web browser use — beats the M5 MacBook Air by more than 28 hours in the same test
- GameStop NVMe SSD 2TB SSD Review: A surprisingly capable budget drive for the PS5
- Save a massive $950 on this epic Alienware Area-51 gaming PC with an RTX 5090 and 9950X3D — grab this liquid-cooled 4K gaming powerhouse with 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD for just $5,299 while you can
- Amazing $490 Newegg combo includes an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, 16GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI Pro B850-S motherboard, and 240mm MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 AIO CPU cooler — all for under $500
- Modders use jumper wires and a custom BIOS to save a damaged RTX 4090 from the trash — resurrected Nvidia gaming GPU loses 4GB of VRAM to overcome terminal PCB sagging
- Intel buys back 49% stake in Ireland Fab Joint Venture — takes full control over Fab 34
- Why Nvidia just poured $2 billion into AI ASIC competitor Marvell — NVLink Fusion turns into soft ecosystem lock-in
- Global semiconductor foundry market hit a record $320 billion in 2025 as TSMC pulled further ahead
- Raspberry Pi flagship 500+ model now costs almost as much as a Mac Mini — firm Pi launches 3GB model to fight increasing DRAM prices
- April 1
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- Nvidia market share in China falls to less than 60% — Chinese chip makers deliver 1.65 million AI GPUs as the government pushes data centers to use domestic chips
- Save $100 on the gaming powerhouse AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D, now $246 on Amazon — budget-friendly X3D processor with 96MB cache, low power draw, and excellent gaming performance
- Nvidia App adds 'Auto Shader Compilation' for faster load times in games — beta feature automatically recompiles shaders in the background after every driver update
- DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight
- Arm to sell its new AGI CPU in China — 'we would expect the demand for this product to be just as strong in China as it is in the rest of the world'
- PC makers report surging prices across different components — increasing costs are going beyond memory chip and processors, now affecting PCBs, plastic materials, and more
- Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme AI Top Motherboard Review: Solid flagship, but the X3D version is what you want today
- Microsoft issues emergency update for Windows 11 — fixes broken March preview update rollout from last week
- Oracle believed to have cut 10,000 positions across multiple divisions as mass layoffs begin to fuel AI investments — company is reportedly reducing headcount to fund data centers
- Pay $611 for 64GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM and Samsung's 2TB PCIe Gen 5 9100 Pro when paired with a Gigabyte X870 Auros Elite motherboard and Corsair Frame 5000D case — matching colors for a pure white build
- Hacker charged for stealing $53 million in crypto, faces up to 30 years in prison — Uranium Finance thief spent $2 million of illicit funds on Magic: The Gathering, $1 million on Pokémon cards
- PC enthusiast finds relic Nvidia 3D Vision 2 glasses for $2.99 — PC gaming artifact from 2011 cost $149 new, was once Nvidia's 'vision' for the future of gaming
- Apple turns 50 — one of the world's biggest tech companies started with hobbyist computers
- Act fast to grab this 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for just $269, the cheapest kit in months — limited-time Woot deal is now $100 cheaper than the next-best rival
- Google research suggests encryption technique used by Bitcoin will be cracked by quantum computers around 2029 — search giant says quantum attacks need to be prepared for now