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- October 31
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- Microsoft again delays Recall feature, says it will arrive for Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs in December
- Diabatix and Asus hit new overclocking records with LN2-optimized heatsink – Intel Core Ultra 9 285K hits 7.448 GHz
- Nintendo launches Nintendo Music, an Android/iOS streaming app for paid Switch Online members
- Microsoft will charge Windows 10 users $30 per year for security updates
- It’s been 30 years since Intel’s infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head – a math bug caused Intel’s first CPU recall
- Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4 — Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster “bigger than anything that I’ve seen”
- Elon Musk spent roughly $10 billion on AI training hardware in 2024
- Raspberry Pi drives daily Calvin and Hobbes comic fun via E-ink display
- Computer monitors poised for price cuts this year — analyst says falling demand to impact prices until end of 2024
- Shuttle launches barebones 4.7-liter mini-PC with room for dual-slot GPUs — XH610G2 sports Intel LGA1700 with support for 12th Gen and newer CPUs and PCIe 5.0
- New York State to get new $825 million semiconductor R&D facility
- AMD crowns the Ryzen 7 9800X3D a ‘gaming legend’ in a surprise announcement — chipmaker claims $479 Zen 5 3D V-Cache chip is up to an average 20% faster than Intel Core Ultra 9 flagship
- Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K review: You've seen this before
- Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report
- Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot
- Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030
- MSI Cyborg 15 Review: An overly budget gaming laptop
- Steam game listings must now flag any kernel-level anti-cheat software integrations
- SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims major improvements
- AMD's gaming-optimized Ryzen 7 9800X3D rumored to cost $479 — $30 price bump over prior-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- October 30
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- Ubisoft quietly launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K
- UALink Consortium poised to compete with Nvidia's NVLink — AMD and Intel-led group opens doors to contributor members
- Google now uses AI to write 25% of its new code — Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai underlines the company's role in the AI industry amidst strong Q3 24 financials
- Chinese mineral restrictions spur Australia to scavenge waste for new sources of chipmaking materials — country turns to mining waste for rare earths
- Supermicro's stock plummets 35% in one day as accounting firm resigns — storm brews after DOJ probe into manipulated finances
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K cooling testing: How much does it take to keep Arrow Lake cool in MSI's MPG Gungnir 300R Airflow PC Case?
- Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week
- Linux's true BSOD equivalent, DRM Panic, is now supported by the current AMD GPUs
- Apple refreshes MacBook Pros with M4 Pro, M4 Max, and up to 24 hour battery life
- TSMC is in a heated tussle with a golf course to build the most advanced 2nm chip plant on the planet
- OpenAI reportedly builds custom AI chips as it embraces AMD — company also abandons plans to build its own fabs
- Ryzen AI 300 takes big wins over Intel in LLM AI performance — up to 27% faster token generation than Lunar Lake in LM Studio
- Cooler Master's unique Sneaker X gaming PC is on sale - save $690 if the shoe fits
- 'Jensanity' continues in Taiwan, Mini-Jensen Huang cosplayer sports massive Nvidia GPU for Halloween
- Intel rolls out microcode fix for crashing 13th/14th Generation processors through the Linux Kernel
- AMD rakes in cash with best quarterly revenue ever amid datacenter business rise, but gaming business craters
- AMD says RDNA 4 GPUs are coming in early 2025 — RX 8000 will deliver ray tracing improvements, AI capabilities
- October 29
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- AMD research suggests plans to catch up to Nvidia using neural supersampling and denoising for real-time path tracing
- Nvidia's future Blackwell Ultra GPUs reportedly renamed to the B300 series
- Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report
- Build your next PC in the panoramic NZXT H6 Flow PC case — on sale at its lowest-ever price
- Intel Processor N-series CPU specifications leaked — Intel dishes up paltry clock speed improvements
- RISC-V CPU demoed with RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux — AMD flagship GPU paired with Milk-V Megrez board and SiFive P550 cores
- Liquid vs air cooling: Do you need an AIO cooler?
- Apple's redesigned M4, M4 Pro-powered Mac Mini is just 5 x 5 inches, packs up to 14 cores, puts the power button on the bottom
- Russian court reportedly fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels — equates to $20.5 decillion USD, Russian media report
- Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake — Loongson adopts "tock-tock-tick" strategy to close the gap with Intel
- Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet to enable the world's largest AI supercomputer — 200,000 Hopper GPUs
- Elon Musk is doubling the world's largest AI GPU cluster — expanding Colossus GPU cluster to 200,000 'soon,' has floated 300,000 in the past
- DreamHost Review: VPS and Shared Hosting Tested
- You can now build Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Macintosh 128K with this $10 VGA kit
- Intel celebrates significant progress at its Ohio Silicon Heartland fabs — basements completed and four superloads delivered
- Micron expands Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5 lineup with new overclocked kits — DDR5-6400 kits with Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO support
- TI-84 CE calculator used as a display for PC games — Plays Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster with 2FPS display output
- Microsoft Corporate Vice President accuses Google of 'shadow campaigns' — blog claims a Google 'astroturf' group is discrediting Microsoft with competition authorities, policymakers, and the general public
- Indian firms secretly funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia — sanctions reportedly skirted on hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware
- October 28
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- First in-depth look at Elon Musk's 100,000 GPU AI cluster — xAI Colossus reveals its secrets
- Now is a great time to pick up an Nvidia RTX 4070 12GB graphics card — back down to its lowest-ever price
- Lenovo Legion Go now down to just $499 — 8.8-inch behemoth undercuts Asus ROG Ally X and Valve Steam Deck OLED
- Intel preps for PCIe 6.0 inferno with PCIe thottling driver for Linux — mechanism reduces SSD bandwidth when the drive gets too hot
- Pineboards' PoE+ HAT brings power and NVMe to your Raspberry Pi 5
- 10 Raspberry Pi Halloween projects from 2024 that scared our socks off
- China tightens export controls on rare earth metals used for chipmaking — country now requires exporters to detail how they use restricted materials
- Many RTX 50 series laptops may stick with previous-gen CPUs for 2025 — leaker claims affordable CPU product launches are becoming increasingly difficult
- Apple M4 comes to the Mac with new iMac, starts with 16GB RAM
- Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD review: The real EVO drive is here
- Nvidia GPU driver addresses eight major high-severity vulnerabilities — Nvidia GPU owners should update ASAP
- Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’
- Extensive AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs leak details unlocked 120W CPU with 5.2 GHz boost clock
- Raspberry Pi powers impressive Halloween haunted house light show
- Latest Raspberry Pi OS moves the desktop over to Wayland
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the 7800X3D by 26% in leaked Blender benchmarks — outpaces even the current-generation Ryzen 7 9700X by 11%
- October 27
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- Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report
- Electronics boffin creates slot-in MacBook SSD module system — breaks storage limits for every modern MacBook
- Best Laser Cutters and Engravers 2025
- Best Budget 3D Printers 2025: High-Quality Output on the Cheap
- FlexPi Kickstarter promises flexible Raspberry Pi Pico with a few upgrades
- German MPs and their staff fail simple phishing attack test
- This scary Raspberry Pi bat flies around when people are nearby
- Intel Arrow Lake CPUs have more than 1,851 pads under the chip — MSI members painstakingly counted all pads by hand as a 'punishment' and discovered two extra rows
- Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper
- TCL boasts about the 'image quality, power consumption, and lifespan' benefits of its latest inkjet-printed OLED displays
- This AOC Agon Pro Tournament Mini LED gaming monitor is now only $419 at Amazon
- TSMC halts Ascend 910B shipments to firm suspected acting as a Huawei proxy
- iBuyPower AW4 AIO Review: Thermal domination on a budget
- How to install and use the new Raspberry Pi boot menu
- How to deep link to a specific PDF page
- Nvidia RTX 50 mobile Device IDs have been leaked — Flagship RTX 5090 mobile rumored to sport the GB203 GPU
- October 26
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- Best Filaments for 3D Printing 2025
- Best Multicolor 3D Printers of 2025: Print the Rainbow
- Z890 motherboards are having instability issues with Windows 11 24H2 — BIOS updates or disable iGPUd required to update Windows
- Best Resin 3D Printers 2025
- Extreme overclocker recommends heating Arrow Lake CPUs to 165 degrees Celsius before delidding — the CPU has to be hot enough so the indium melts but not too hot to not damage the SMDs
- New RTX 4070 Ti Super features recycled RTX 4090 silicon — Zotac RTX 4070 Ti Super Solid carries AD102 die under the giant cooler
- Asus Z890 motherboards update the BIOS without unzipping the file — EZ Flash 4 comes with support for ZIP files
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D trails Core i9-14900K in leaked PugetBench benchmarks — upcoming Zen 5 3D V-Cache chip shows good performance uplift over Ryzen 9000
- Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn’t good for the U.S.
- AMD Ryzen 9000X3D rumored to reverse the 3D stacking hierarchy — the L3 cache block allegedly sits below the CCDs
- Core Ultra 7 265 specifications exposed in a new benchmark — the unreleased Arrow Lake chip has a 200 MHz lower boost clock than the Core Ultra 7 265K
- Intel Panther Lake will allegedly reintegrate the memory controller into the compute tile — Nova Lake is expected to separate the two again with added optimizations
- Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB SSD has dropped to $89, the SSD's lowest price ever
- India's Reliance builds a Gigawatt data center with Nvidia Blackwell AI GPUs
- Former Intel directors believe Intel must split in two to survive
- Raspberry Pi transforms Halloween lights with special effects
- Raspberry Pi Bumper for Raspberry Pi 5 review: Silicone protection for your silicon
- How to build Raspberry Pi Pico projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Review: Attractive, with lots of M.2 and 5GB Ethernet
- Corsair Xeneon 34WQHD240-C QD-OLED review: Sleek and shiny with stellar performance and imagery
- Beelink is open-sourcing its eGPU docking station — PCIe 4.0 x8 could become more common in docks
- October 25
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- New DNA storage tech aims for 215,000 TB per gram goal — writes to the 'epi-bits' of existing DNA with movable-type-based method
- AMD launches Ryzen 5 5600T and 5600XT processors for AM4 sockets — prices start at $186
- Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year
- OpenAI will reportedly unleash next-gen Orion AI model this December — Orion is expected to be 100X more potent than GPT-4
- Intel CEO is "frustrated" with CHIPS Act payout progress — Intel has received $0 from the $8.5 billion that the US government promised
- CUDIMMs overclocked to DDR5-12108 to set new RAM OC world record — Intel's new Arrow Lake CPUs catapult CUDIMMs past the DDR5-12000 barrier
- Gigabyte X3D turbo mode test falls short of vendor claims — user-provided Forza Horizon 4 benchmark shows a 5% increase in average frame rates
- Modder turns a PlayStation 4 Slim into a handheld console
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 300 "Krackan Point" APU allegedly spotted in a benchmark and shipping manifest — Sports eight Zen 5 cores and LPDDR5X-8000 memory
- AMD rolls out new AGESA update with Ryzen 9000X3D CPU performance optimizations
- WeCreat Vista 10 Watt Review: Small but Mighty
- This Raspberry Pi reaper scares trick-or-treaters using new AI camera
- How to run CMD or PowerShell as administrator, no right clicks required
- Intel names long-term successor to its process technology development chief
- TSMC Arizona fab delivers 4% more yield than comparable facilities in Taiwan
- SK hynix records stellar 94% YoY revenue boost in Q3'24 — Attributes record profits to soaring demand of memory in AI servers
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition review: The display, not Smart Modes, steals the show
- Corsair teases DDR5-10000 CUDIMMs ahead of early November release
- October 24
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- G.Skill launches DDR5-9600 CUDIMM RAM, can hit DDR5-10000 in dual-channel mode on air cooling
- San Francisco will spend $212 million to bid 5.25-inch floppy disks goodbye — Muni Metro light rail upgrade represents a $700 million investment
- Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024
- Linus Torvalds slams supporters of delisted Russian driver maintainers as ‘trolls’
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D reportedly delivers up to 8% higher gaming performance than Ryzen 7 7800X3D — alleged leaked AMD slide also claims up to 15% better multi-threaded performance
- Intel's former CEO reportedly wanted to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005 — Nvidia is worth over $3 trillion today
- Microsoft DirectSR adds support for AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling — Microsoft’s one-stop upscaling API for DX12 games gets an upgrade
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265K cooling testing: How much does it take to keep Arrow Lake cool in MSI's MPG Velox 100R PC Case?
- Ayaneo's futuristic eGPU goes up for preorder at $599 — AG01 Starship Graphics Dock features RX 7600M XT GPU, OCuLink interface, Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 2280 SSD support
- Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage — Microsoft claims up to 45.6% faster installation times and 25% lower CPU utilization
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the King of Denmark plug in the country's first AI supercomputer — Gefion leverages 1,528 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs
- Intel gets off the hook and won't have to pay $1.1 billion EU antitrust fine — chipmaker was previously accused of offering incentives to partners to block AMD
- MSI MEG Z890 Ace motherboard review: Arrow Lake S, with lots of USB and M.2
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core 5 245K Review: Intel Throws a Lateral with Arrow Lake
- Raspberry Pi brings broken NEC TurboExpress handheld back to life for retrogaming fun
- Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000
- Nvidia reports the latest GeForce drivers are causing issues in Corsair iCUE and Bluestacks — Users need to rollback drivers as a temporary fix
- Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement'
- Formlabs Form 4 Review: Fail Proof Business 3D Printing
- Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect
- Building a new family PC? These motherboards bring style and substance
- Raspberry Pi release higher performance AI HAT+ — 13 and 26 TOPS variants
- October 23
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- Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits AI chip design flaw was '100% Nvidia's fault' — TSMC not to blame, now-fixed Blackwell chips are in production
- Chinese SSD brands are in the top five in terms of market share — Kingston retains its spot as the largest SSD manufacturer in the market
- Cryorig launches its largest dual-tower CPU air cooler yet — Monster XX features 300W TDP capacity, ten heat pipes, and dual 120mm fans
- Modern Ryzen 5 7600 and RTX 4060 Ti PC runs MS-DOS 6.22 — modern hardware shines in Doom, Planet X3, and even ChatGPT
- Gigabyte's new AI SSD stays true to the "Ultra Durable" monicker with a 100,000+ TBW endurance rating — AI TOP UD SSD is a budget version of the AI TOP 100E series
- Intel K vs. Non-K Series CPUs: What’s the right processor for you?
- China semiconductor patent applications skyrocket amid US export restrictions — country sees a 42% increase in patent filings
- Apple reportedly slows down Vision Pro production — a more affordable version may be in the works
- Dell's impressive 34-inch OLED gaming monitor is back on sale for just $679
- Raspberry Pi turns Ikea jack-o-lantern lamp into spooky interactive Halloween decor
- Eero's new Outdoor 7 delivers 15,000 sq ft of Wi-Fi 7 coverage outside your home
- Be Quiet MC1 and MC1 Pro Review: Essential cooling compatible with any system
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs Intel Core i9-14900K Faceoff
- Ebay listing sees Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K offered one day before release — but its not exactly a bargain
- Arm to cancel Qualcomm's architecture license as feud intensifies
- Huawei's latest AI processors were allegedly made by TSMC: Report
- Raspberry Pi announce branded range of NVMe SSDs and SSD kit
- October 22
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- AMD Ryzen Z2 lineup leaked — Z2 Extreme rumored to have 12 RDNA 3.5 CUs, Z2 and Z2G using older architectures also in the works
- TSMC reportedly uncovers Huawei's plot to circumvent US export controls — Chinese tech giant may be using a proxy to produce chips at TSMC
- Latest Nvidia GPU driver adds 32 G-Sync-compatible VRR displays — DLSS 3 support added for upcoming remasters of Red Dead Redemption and Horizon: Zero Dawn
- China domestic gaming GPUs receive up to 40% performance uplift — new Moore Threads driver update improves S80 and S70 gaming performance
- Hemlock Semiconductor gets $325 million for a new factory in Michigan — swing state-based company receives CHIPS Act award weeks ahead of the presidential election
- Arkansas might be home to around 19 million tons of lithium — researchers use machine learning to quantify lithium abundance in the Smackover Formation
- This creepy Raspberry Pi jack-o-lantern turns to face anyone who walks by
- Nvidia plans to make major investments in Thailand
- GlobalFoundries helps pay off student loans to retain and attract semiconductor talent — qualified US employees receive up to $28,500 in student debt relief
- Linus Torvalds is "fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks" — Linux kernel creator lashes out ahead of proposed kernel code modifications
- Gamdias launches dual-orientation ‘lifestyle case’ — NESO P1 Pro debuts in black or white livery colors
- ViewSonic TD1656-2K portable monitor review: A touch above the rest
- Former Nvidia engineer discovers 41-million-digit prime — largest prime number known to man was uncovered and verified with the help of GPUs
- Dell's 34-inch S3422DWG gaming monitor is now just $199 — that's a huge 50% discount
- Asus shares official die shots of the Core Ultra 9 285K — In-depth annotations break down Intel's disaggregated approach
- Cooler Master Sneaker X case now on sale for under $1,000 — cheap compared to the $6,999 pre-built PC launch price
- Ukraine finds components from nine western companies in missiles fired by Russia — Analog Devices, Broadcom, NXP parts in the wreckage
- October 21
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- Grab a sweet discount on the award-winning Geekom A7 mini PC with this pre-Black Friday deal
- Mysterious Intel Arc 140T graphics engine significantly outpaces Xe2 Lunar Lake iGPU
- Qualcomm says its Snapdragon Elite benchmarks show Intel didn't tell the whole story in its Lunar Lake marketing
- MIT researchers make progress on 3D-printed electronics, using semiconductor-free logic gates
- Zotac denies recent RTX 5090 GPU boot-up rumor — vendor clarifies that the GPU was an RTX 4070 Ti Super
- Taiwan eyes new nuclear energy plans due to demands of the AI boom
- This Raspberry Pi ghost talks to trick-or-treaters using AI
- Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts
- Samsung and SK hynix double down on HBM4 and CXL technologies to counter Chinese competition
- Asus joins the Thunderbolt 5 add-in-card party — ThunderboltEX 5 boasts twin 120 Gbps bi-directional USB Type-C and triple mini DP ports
- ASRock X870E Taichi Review: Better than X670E, at a lower price
- Two U.S retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs ahead of launch — prices range from $484 to $525.
- AMD teases Ryzen 9000X3D chip coming November 7, cuts pricing on all other Ryzen 9000 chips
- XPG Core Reactor II VE 850W PSU Review
- AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X processor falls to its lowest-ever price
- AMD allegedly readying new Ryzen 5 5600T and 5600XT CPUs — AM4 still stands strong after eight years
- Bitdefender and Trend Micro security software patched after multiple critical vulnerabilities exposed
- October 20
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- Portable 4K OLED monitor boasts magnetic mounting and ‘zero-latency’ wireless connectivity — 15.6-inch panel has a wireless range of 100 feet
- Japanese firm demos tech that makes any object a capacitive touch surface — stuffed cat on display, works with wood, ceramic, and plasterboard, too
- Raspberry Pi Pico drives a custom Simon color sequence memory game
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K beats the 14900K by 13% in leaked Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark — Ryzen 9 9950X still leads the pack by 4%
- Purported Nvidia RTX 5090 powered on in an Indonesian factory — GeForce card booting Windows causes cheers among factory staff
- How to update Ubuntu 24.04 to 24.10
- Montech Air 903 Max Case Review: Maximum thermal performance on a budget
- DJI sues Pentagon over 'Chinese military company' designation — seeking to protect its business and reputation
- Valve confirms the Steam Deck won't have annual releases — Steam Deck 2 on hold until a generational leap in compute performance takes place
- Pimoroni Clipper 4G LTE Breakout Review: Easy IoT
- October 19
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- Western Digital loses over $310 million lawsuit for patent infringement — data security patent used in PCMCIA and Compact Flash cards
- Intel's new GPU driver boosts Lunar Lake iGPU performance by up to 24% — Arc GPUs receive up to 20% better performance
- Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products
- Report claims US probing TSMC over secret Huawei deals — TSMC does not confirm or deny the allegation
- Xbox gaming handheld comes to life using the console's original motherboard — the device features a 9-inch 480p display, Wi-Fi 6, and 100W USB-C fast charge
- Intel Core i7-13700K 16-core CPU can be yours for $249
- Lucky buyer scores ten Nvidia GTX 1070 GPUs for $100 — nine out of 10 are working after a good bath
- Intel Core 200 series CPU specifications reportedly leaked — up to 14 cores, 5.8 GHz, and 45W TDP
- Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 750W PSU Review
- Core Ultra 9 285 65W CPU beats Core i9-14900K in early Geekbench benchmark — Arrow Lake chip shows 15% better multi-threaded performance than predecessor despite lacking Hyper-Threading
- This Raspberry Pi-powered trackpad is totally open-source
- Gigabyte GS32Q 32-inch 170 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Big screen fun at an attractive price
- October 18
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- Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success
- World's highest-capacity SSD sees retail price hikes -- Solidigm 61.44TB SSD pricing nearly doubles
- Gigabyte introduces Thunderbolt 5 PCIe 4 card with up to 120 Gbps of bandwidth, support for 100W power delivery
- Gigabyte X3D Turbo Mode promises up to 35% higher gaming performance on Ryzen 9000X3D — Ryzen 9000 could see up to 20% improvement
- Connecting Your Mobile Gaming Console to a Large Screen HDTV with an HDMI Cable
- India plans import curbs on PC parts and laptops — an initiative to encourage domestic manufacturing and reduce dependency on countries like China
- Trump tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
- AI researcher scrapes usable data from a 35-second screen recording for less than one cent via Google Gemini
- Unreleased Core Ultra 200S CPU has already been delidded — streamer shares beautiful die shots of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake chip
- Samsung reportedly delays purchase of fab tools for fab in Texas — chipmaker allegedly faces challenges with securing clients
- Intel Core 200U CPU spotted with Alder Lake silicon — Core 7 250U shows identical configuration as the Core 7 150U, Core i7-1355U and Core i7-1255U
- This Spooky Raspberry Pi Halloween eye uses AI to stalk you around the room
- Intel CEO displays Panther Lake sample at Lenovo event
- Save $450 off this pre-built MSI Aegis RS2 PC gaming rig
- Turn your monitor into a powerful all-in-one computer with the MSI Cubi NUC 1M mini PC
- Team Group PD20 Mini External SSD (2TB) Review: Pretty, but no standout in performance or price
- AMD Ryzen AI 300 MAX series APU support spotted in latest chipset driver from Asus
- Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,000
- Microsoft Azure CTO claims distribution of AI training is needed as AI datacenters approach power grid limits
- University student builds simple raycaster maze demo with transparency support in Microsoft Excel
- October 17
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- Arm wants to sell directly to Chinese customers, sidestep Arm China
- Qualcomm abruptly cancels Snapdragon X Elite dev kit — refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately
- Asus ROG Thor III PSUs come with magnetic OLED displays — and power ratings up to 1,600W
- AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95% — replaces complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition
- TSMC is not interested in buying Intel's fabs
- Man who lost half-billion dollar Bitcoin HDD sues local authority for $500 million for not letting him dig through landfill
- 6G tests reach a blisteringly quick 938 Gb/s transmission rate, 5000X faster than 5G
- Nintendo 64 gets a 4K VRR-enabled revival in the form of the Analogue 3D — an emulation-less new FPGA console that can play every N64 game ever made
- Award-winning Mini-ITX PC case Cooler Master NR200 falls to $51 — its lowest-ever price
- Billionaire investor regrets dumping Nvidia shares that are now worth $1.19 billion — pulled the trigger before 10-to-1 split, missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars
- Intel responds to China's call for an investigation into chip failures and potential backdoors — chipmaker says it ‘always prioritized product safety and quality’
- Next-gen Lunar Lake ThinkPad laptop will hit the market in February 2025, starting at $2,199 — ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition sports 32GB RAM and up to 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSD
- Amazon jumps on nuclear plant investment bandwagon — taps energy companies to power AI data centers
- Western Digital releases fix for Windows 11 24H2 BSODs — users are strongly advised to update their SSD firmware
- Samsung unveils 24Gb GDDR7 memory — up to 42.5 Gbps modules with 30% higher efficiency
- Asus launches ProArt PA602 Wood Edition chassis with ‘eco-friendly’ wood accents
- Maker brings Disney's Ratatouille 'Remy' to life with some clever coding and 3D printing
- Dell G16 (7630) gaming laptop review: Bargain price with class-leading performance
- Moore Threads MTT S80 gets DX12 support in beta driver, two years after launch — but 3D performance still lags the GTX 1650
- Arducam announces a Raspberry Pi AI Camera-powered Pivistation 5 kit is coming soon
- TSMC, IBM, and Samsung to present their next-gen CFET transistor innovations at an event in December
- Nintendo 3DS runs Windows 95 via DOSBox — but takes hours to boot
- October 16
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- ASML loses $75.7 billion market cap from updated sales projections, likely due to lower demand from China and delayed Intel fab
- Intel Lunar Lake-powered Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 leaked — Core Ultra 7 268V CPU power the laptop alongside 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD
- Hybrid Gain Cell Memory could significantly improve CPU, GPU L2, L3 cache density
- Leaked Intel Core 3 N350 iGPU benchmarks point toward last-gen performance — Geekbench 5 OpenCL score lower than Intel UHD Graphics, GeForce 940M
- Intel releases XTU version 10 exclusively for Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
- Core Ultra 9 285K retail samples benchmarked in CPU-Z and Blender — thermal throttling and limited clock speeds spoil the fun
- Intel Core 200 "Non Ultra" CPUs may be rebranded Raptor Lake/Alder Lake chips — Core 5 210H spotted with slower performance than the Core i5-12450H
- Chinese security officials call for investigation of Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security'
- Winamp owner deletes 'Open Source' repository after a bumpy month on GitHub
- How to stop Chrome from asking for a PIN when autocompleting passwords
- WD Black SN850X 8TB SSD review: The no-compromise 8TB champion
- Be Quiet Dark Base 701 Case Review: Premium craftsmanship, excellent thermals
- ProxTag makes managing virtual Proxmox environments easy with a Raspberry Pi
- Sources claim Qualcomm delaying Intel purchase offer until after U.S. presidential election
- Pick up this amazing Gigabyte 1440p monitor with 165Hz refresh and built-in KVM for only $199
- Intel laying off 1,300 workers from Oregon site as it reduces workforce by 15,000 workers company wide
- Arm's partners develop 2nm AI processor using Arm's Neoverse — Arm's Total Design ecosystem doubles in size on first anniversary
- October 15
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- Intel releases NPU drivers with Arrow Lake support — AI PC users will have yet another component that may require regular updates
- Best Gaming PCs of 2025
- Western Digital launches 32TB hard drive in SATA and SAS flavors — Ultrastar DC HC690 delivers sequential performance up to 257 MiB/s
- Tiny11 now supports Windows 11 24H2 in a compact size that will fit on a standard single-layer DVD
- Projections show that Arm CPUs will power 40% of notebooks sold in 2029
- Nvidia contributes Blackwell platform design to the Open Compute Project — members can build their own custom designs for Blackwell GPUs
- For a limited time, Crucial's T700 4TB SSD is back down to one of its lowest prices
- Intel's Arrow Lake official memory speeds are unchanged with standard memory sticks — pricier CUDIMM memory needed for faster base spec
- Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
- Western Digital NVMe SSD users beware: Windows 11 24H2 is causing BSODs unless you tweak your registry
- SSD prices could drop up to 10% ahead of the New Year – TrendForce predicts an increase in production and weaker demand
- US govt reportedly mulls capping AI GPU exports from Nvidia and AMD to the Middle East
- Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined, yet continues to lag in market cap — Nvidia spends almost 2X more than AMD
- Microsoft says the undeletable 8.63GB cache in Windows 11 24H2 is “a reporting error” — space is freed by Disk Cleanup
- Dude, you're getting a PC! More shoppers than ever buying laptops and desktops as gifts, report predicts
- Quad-core server CPU has been overclocked to 5.65 GHz on a PC motherboard — EPYC 4124P delivers up to 11% better performance than stock and matches the Ryzen 9 7950X in single-core performance
- This Raspberry Pi Pico spider robot spookily wiggles as people approach
- Game dev shows how to do a PC port right, outlines 106 to 314 FPS improvement without frame generation
- Micron launches DDR5-6400 CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs for Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs — DDR5-6400 kits up to 32GB capacity with C52 timings
- Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
- Leaked MSI slide mentions Arrow Lake Refresh — reignites hopes that LGA 1851 will last more than a single-generation
- October 14
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- Elon Musk set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in 19 days - Jensen says process normally takes 4 years
- TSMC could build more fabs in Europe - Chairman of Taiwan's National Science Council
- Arrow Lake non-K CPUs may suffer from lower RAM speed limits — ASRock QVL shows RAM up to DDR5-7200 as opposed to DDR5-9066 for K-series chips
- Ex-Intel CEO Brian Krzanich gets a new job, igniting a massive backlash — new employer Cerence disables social media comments after blistering criticism
- Chinese think tank advises data centers to stick with Nvidia AI GPUs — homegrown Chinese GPUs suffer from 'high costs' and 'complex engineering'
- Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — peak rate equivalent to 81GB of data per hour
- Be Quiet Straight Power 12 750W PSU Review
- RX 7650 GRE reportedly leverages Navi 33 GPU — Radeon GPU rumored to skip CES 2025 but launch shortly afterward in China
- Chinese scientists use quantum computers to crack military-grade encryption — quantum attack poses a "real and substantial threat" to RSA and AES
- Pick up a Lenovo gaming laptop for only $549 — featuring an AMD CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU
- 40 Year-old Apple Mac finally gets online thanks to a Raspberry Pi Pico W and some clever coding
- Internet Archive is back up in a provisional "read-only" state since cyberattack
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi RP2350 powered PyDOS handheld in a BlackBerry form factor
- Leak claims that AMD's Navi 44 GPU package is 31% smaller than Navi 33
- Montech King 65 Pro Case Review: Diffused lighting and dark glass
- Intel Z890 LGA1851 motherboards hit pre-order at Newegg starting from $189
- Change this Windows setting right away -- especially if you have children or pets
- October 13
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- Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study
- ASRock Z890 mobos boast innovations like DDR5-10133+ support and 10x USB-C ports
- Leak indicates AMD Ryzen 9000X3D series CPU gaming performance will disappoint
- Gamepad keyboard input comes to Windows 11 Release Preview, aimed at handheld users and sofa surfers
- The Intel Core i9-13900KF CPU is now only $387 at Amazon
- SilverStone’s $799 Alta D1 chassis hits retail — modular workstation case is flexible and capacious at 79 liters
- Minisforum 790S7 Mini PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX can accommodate a low-profile desktop GPU
- Titan Army P32A2S2 32-inch 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Quick, bold color and a great value
- Asus Z890 motherboard launch lineup lacked a back-connector model, but firm commits to 'design, development, and production of BTF solutions'
- October 12
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- Chinese and Iranian hackers use ChatGPT and LLM tools to create malware and phishing attacks — OpenAI report has recorded over 20 cyberattacks created with ChatGPT
- Steam checkout banner clarifies you don’t own the game you buy — GOG takes a jab at Steam, saying it gives users offline installers that cannot be taken away
- Old-school Nintendo console gets Bluetooth and improved audio features with addon — NES hub utilizes previously unused expansion port
- AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates
- Passive M.2 SSD heatsink features a dual ultra-thin vapor chamber — Cooler Master Kaze cools double-sided M.2 drives
- Arrow Lake CPUs get Intel APO support for improved gaming performance — Intel APO game library also expands with 12 new titles
- Counter-Strike's Dust II runs purely within a neural network on an RTX 3090 — performance is disappointing at only 10 FPS
- MSI CoreLiquid I240 and I360 review: Quiet power
- LG UltraGear 34-inch curved WQHD Nano IPS monitor is on sale for just $349
- Nvidia reportedly mulls socketed design for Blackwell B300 AI GPUs — next-gen Blackwell GPUs may be removable by the user
- Elecfreaks micro:bit Space Science Kit Review: Go for launch
- Dell XPS 13 (9350) review: Lunar Lake on defense
- LGA 1700 contact frames are incompatible with Arrow Lake
- October 11
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- Nvidia GeForce 256 celebrates its 25th birthday — company talks about a quarter century of GPU progression
- Intel LGA1851 socket has a new ILM that helps CPUs run a bit cooler — MSI claims 1ºC to 2ºC lower CPU temperatures
- Quartz mine crucial for making chips reopens ten days after Hurricane Helene's devastation
- Lenovo Legion Go goes on sale for $533, 24% off its regular price
- TeamGroup rolls out CUDIMMs up to DDR5-9600 for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — clock driver enables massive overclocking
- This AMD RX 7800 XT might be the best graphics card value right now: $429, plus two free games
- Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs are sold out for the next 12 months — chipmaker to gain market share in 2025
- This Raspberry Pi Pelican cyberdeck is ready for hack-tion
- Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 review: Decent gaming, but poor productivity
- 'Junk Store' plugin may bring GoG and Epic games to your Steam Deck library
- AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D: Alleged specs and launch timeframe leak
- Lenovo Legion Tower 5i (Gen 8) review: Quintessential 1080p gaming desktop
- New motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs are announced
- October 10
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- AMD unveils industry's first Ultra Ethernet ready network card for AI and HPC
- AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ 9005 Series - we benchmark 192-core Zen 5 chip with 500W TDP
- AMD reveals core specs for Instinct MI355X CDNA4 AI accelerator — slated for shipping in the second half of 2025
- AMD-powered dual-screen OLED laptop launches at $1,270 — flagship Ryzen AI 9 model carries $1,860 price tag
- Intel lays the groundwork for Xe3 Celestial graphics — Panther Lake CPU enablement in Linux has begun
- AMD unveils Ryzen AI Pro 300 CPUs: Zen 5 and Copilot+ PCs for businesses and enterprise
- Undeletable 8.63GB cache emerges in latest Windows 11 24H2 update — checkpoint updates were the culprit, and Microsoft is working on a fix
- Industry considers cutting production of 3D NAND amid dropping prices
- Vietnam to build six semiconductor fabs — country aims to become a major player in the semiconductor industry by 2050
- Intel Launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S — big gains in productivity and power efficiency, but not in gaming
- Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ released, celebrating 20 years of Ubuntu
- Internet Archive hacked and 31 million user accounts leaked — hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' claims responsibility
- Prime Day is over but this 4TB Gen 4 SSD just got cheaper - now only 4 cents per GB
- U.S. DARPA responds to China's gallium export controls: awards Raytheon three-year contract to develop new types of transistors
- October 9
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- Ryzen 5 5600X combo deal for $194 includes RAM, mobo, and SSD — build a 1080p gaming PC on the cheap
- Our favorite budget gaming headset hits its lowest-ever price of $66
- Best RTX 4090 desktop deal: Fully-loaded Alienware PC is $1,000 off
- New Bambu Lab flagship 3D printers delayed until 2025 — model aims to add "previously impossible" features
- OBS cuts the cord on Kepler GPU NVENC support — version 31.0.0 Beta 1 no longer works with GTX 600 and GTX 700 GPU hardware encoders
- SteamOS gets display configuration and VRR support for Asus ROG Ally and ROG Ally X
- Cerebras may postpone IPO as US government investigates potential AI tech transfer to China
- Grab an Xbox Series X for $449 with this October Prime Day deal
- Nvidia RTX 4090 supplies are dwindling, prices skyrocketing as likely RTX 5090 launch approaches
- Intel Itanium gets a new lease on life, sort of — GCC 15 "un-deprecates" Linux compiler support
- Gaming
- EmuDeck retro gaming mini-PC crowd funder ends in tears after ‘nobody bought it’
- Titan Army P2510S 25-inch 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Impressive color, performance and value
- This gorgeous, retro NES-inspired keyboard is only $59 for October Prime Day
- Client PC market grows sequentially, but contracts year-over-year
- Smoke 'em if you got 'em: Hacker gains root access using cigarette lighter
- Jeff Geerling finally unlocks Raspberry Pi external GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!
- AMD's ROCm documentation now includes a dedicated ROCm on Radeon section
- First-ever killscreen-less "Rebirth" achieved in NES version of Tetris, 38 years later
- Get Alienware's Aurora R16 gaming desktop with 14th Gen Core i7 and RTX 4070 Ti Super for $1,399
- Get a CPU, motherboard, RAM, and SSD for $329 — Ryzen 5 7600X combo deal on Newegg saves $180
- October 8
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- This surprising tool saved my PC build and my sanity -- now it's on sale for $16
- Best Raspberry Pi deals 2025
- Best graphics card deals 2025: Cheap Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs
- The best Amazon October Prime Day 2024 deals still available
- ROG Strix G16 2024 falls to $1,099 for October Prime Day — our favorite thin-and-light hits new all-time low price
- Best tech and PC hardware deals
- Microsoft Azure flaunts world's first custom Nvidia Blackwell racks — tests its own 32 GPU server rack and liquid cooling solution
- Best Alienware and Dell deals 2025: Gaming PCs and laptops
- Best PC and laptop deals 2025
- Best CPU deals 2025: Save on AMD and Intel
- Best gaming laptop deals 2025
- This is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon deal I'd buy today -- 64GB of RAM for less than $1,800
- Modder builds RTX 4080 Super-powered Lego Fortnite PC
- Crucial's P310 2TB M.2 2230 SSD hits an all-time low of $176 — one of the best SSDs for the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and other portable devices
- Alienware m16 R2 is up to $500 off with Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
- Nvidia and MediaTek collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU — chip reportedly ready for tape-out this month
- Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2025: Over 50 Compounds Tested and Ranked
- Save up to $40 on Nvidia RTX 4060 and 4070 class GPUs — AMD RX 7000-series also discounted
- AnkerMake's speedy M5C 3D printer now only $199 for Prime Day
- Foxconn builds Mexico plant for Nvidia as Chinese decoupling continues
- Microsoft 365 Word bug deletes your document if you use a specific file name
- Alienware's five-star QD-OLED gaming monitor falls to $699 for October Prime Day -- matches all-time low
- Patriot’s PCIe 5.0 SSD offers lightning-fast speeds up to 14 GB/s — PV573 features a 8,000 RPM fan to stay cool
- Core Ultra 9 285K is slower than Core i9-14900K in gaming, according to leaked Intel slide — Arrow Lake consumes less power, though
- These essential Xbox Series X|S console storage expansion cards are a must-have at October Prime Day prices
- TP-Link's Archer BE800 Wi-Fi 7 router drops to a low $349.99 for Prime Day
- 4TB SSDs drop to 5 cents per GB in October Prime Day storage blowout — here are all the drives on sale
- Apple M4 Macbook Pro leaks become a flood as 200 units reportedly up for sale via social media
- HP OmniBook Ultra review: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 power with few compromises
- Supermicro's datacenter-scale liquid cooling solution sets the stage for Nvidia Blackwell
- Samsung's 4TB 990 Pro drops to a new lowest-ever price — less than 7 cents per GB, heatsink included
- Best Prime Day October 2024 Deals You Can Still Get
- October 7
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- Samsung has no plans to spin off its critical foundry business
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang will be CES 2025's keynote speaker as RTX 50 rumors abound
- Russian government to issue grants enabling companies and researchers to rent supercomputers
- AMD to reportedly become TSMC's next major customer in Arizona — HPC AI chips could start US production in 2025
- AMD has a limited edition 4th Generation EPYC Genoa Lego model kit, complete with die shot
- GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters
- A hurricane hit this gaming PC, but the owner hopes it can be powered up again
- Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming
- Empty RAM slots can harm DRAM performance — Asus NitroPath slots curb electrical interference, gain 400 MT/s, and are 40% shorter
- Radeon RX 7900 XT hits all-time low of $624
- Russian outlet nabs Apple M4 MacBook Pro, posts unprecedented pre-release benchmarks — M4 is reportedly 25% faster than M3
- Core Ultra 5 235 performance is comparable to the Core i5-14500 in early benchmark — Non-K Arrow Lake chip surfaces with 14 cores and 5 GHz boost clock
- Don't overlook this core component when building your next PC
- Akasa’s USB4 enclosure delivers speeds over 3.5 GB/s — heatsink and 8,000 RPM fan keep PCIe 5.0 drives cool
- Best PC Cases 2025: Our Tested Picks for Your Next Build
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14s (Gen 6, Snapdragon) review: 21 hours of battery life
- Intel's Arrow Lake flagship takes single-threaded performance crown over AMD and Apple, now leads PassMark benchmark
- Raspberry Pi release faster, branded class A2 micro SD cards and 'bumper' case for Raspberry Pi 5
- Elecom intros pair of USB 80 Gbps cables, one with 60W PD and another with 240W PD
- October 6
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- Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums
- Ryzen 7 5800X CPU now $128, an all-time low and just $16 per core
- XFX Quicksilver AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Magnetic Air GPU hits record low price
- Chinese company claims breakthrough in developing domestic silicon photonics chip
- Musical ‘GPU organ’ powers its pipes using PC fans and AI models
- Pocket-size AMD Ryzen PC in a folding keyboard hits Kickstarter — Hawk Point portable has up to 10 hours of battery life
- Jensen Huang is now worth more than Intel — personal net worth currently valued at $109B vs. Intel's $96B market cap
- Ineo M9 SSD Heatsink and Cooler Review: Strong performance, interesting design
- October 5
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- Deckintosh has Apple's latest macOS Sequoia running on the Steam Deck
- User scores a Ryzen 7 5700X3D for $130 on AliExpress — lucky buyer gets legit CPU for 38% lower than the street price
- AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake
- Radeon RX 7000 GPUs receive juicy discounts — RX 7900 XTX down to $849
- Ryzen 9000X3D CPU performance allegedly exposed — leak claims double-digit multi-core performance uplift over Ryzen 9000
- Save big on Intel 14th Gen CPUs at Newegg
- How to Get Started with the Raspberry Pi AI Camera
- SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
- How is 3D Printing Filament Made?
- Bambu Lab lawsuit update: It’s not over
- Cougar FV270 Review: Glass galore
- October 4
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- Security experts claim new 'Perfctl' malware could pose a risk to any Linux server
- Lunar Lake allegedly smokes Z1 Extreme handheld gaming champ in early gaming benchmarks
- CUDA-beating ZLUDA breathes new life with financial backing from unknown party — pivots to AI workloads across multiple GPU vendors
- Arctic guarantees its LGA1700 coolers are compatible with Intel's next-gen LGA1851 socket
- 60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years
- AMD has introduced a new driver debugging tool, but it's not for gamers — Driver Experiments for Adrenalin, aimed at developers for troubleshooting buggy code
- Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay — RTX 4070 or RX 7800XT is the minimum
- Intel Lunar Lake CPU gets die annotation — four Skymont E-cores slightly bigger than one Lion Cove P-core
- Amkor and TSMC team up for advanced packaging in the U.S. — CoWoS and InFo to make AI and HPC CPUs
- Nvidia CEO and execs cash in on $1.8 billion worth of Nvidia stock — largest stock sale in chipmaker's recent history
- The Raspberry Pi 500 may be right around the corner
- TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech
- Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,500
- Hands-on with Lian Li's Lancool 207 PC case: Rethinking ATX on a budget
- Chiplet processors leverage light-based communication — new active optical interposers connect multi-chiplets with minimal latency
- BrainChip unveils AI NPU that consumes less than a milliwatt
- We tested Intel's flagship Lunar Lake Ultra 9 and it's slower than an Ultra 7 in multi-threaded work in the only laptop where it's currently for sale [Updated]
- How to Check Your PC's CPU Temperature
- This Raspberry Pi rig is made for streaming movies on long and boring road trips
- October 3
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- RX 7700 XT GPU sells for $349 and even includes two free games
- Fujitsu, Supermicro working on Arm-based liquid cooled servers for 2027
- U.S. enacts law to exempt select fabs from environmental reviews
- Lian Li's beloved Lancool series gets an update — Lancool 207 releases tomorrow
- RTX 4070 Ti Super launches with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl theme — GPU bundle comes with a free copy of the game
- Google Fiber forces the competition to offer faster internet speeds — study shows up to 50% download speed increases in Mesa, Arizona
- Windows 11 2024 update boosts file copying by up to 94% — ReFS and Block Cloning transition from Windows Server to mainstream Windows
- Chipmakers aren’t worried about U.S. quartz mine closures due to Hurricane Helene — many don’t expect significant repercussions
- Optical storage could get ‘ultra-high-density’ reprieve thanks to quantum research
- Samsung's foundry customers reportedly flock to TSMC — three firms move to Taiwanese chipmaker in latest exodus
- ID-Cooling DX360 Max Review: Thick cooling, slim price
- Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 — Granite Rapids sets a new high pricing watermark
- AMD Asus X870(E), X670E, and B650(E) mobo buyers enjoy rebates in Germany — no such offers yet spotted in the U.S.
- Intel doesn't have a tool to detect if a chip is affected by crashing errors yet — Intel Default Settings still recommended after patch is applied, but power limits can be raised
- October 2
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- Arrow Lake hotspot purportedly moves up compared to LGA 1700 — Der8auer preparing water blocks for Core Ultra 200 series
- KVM expansion card utilizes RISC-V CPU architecture for enhanced remote PC management — Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe now available for pre-order starting at $40
- Russia to spend $2.54 billion on its own chipmaking tools industry by 2030
- RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti adoption rates explode among gamers — mid-range Ada GPUs gain ground in latest Steam hardware survey
- Windows 11 24H2 update faces gaming issues — devices with Asphalt 8, older versions of Easy Anti-Cheat on compatibility hold
- Switch emulator Ryujinx taken down after alleged contact with Nintendo
- Intel releases AI Playground app for local AI computing — Lunar Lake support added in the latest version
- Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
- GAMDIAS Kratos M1-750W PSU Review
- If you're looking for a gaming laptop on a small budget, this $449 laptop deal is a winner
- Corning's Extreme ULE glass debuts for next-gen High-NA EUV chipmaking
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 powered DigiPort 'Next-Gen Pocket PC' could be powering your next retro gaming session — may support Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
- Cerebras files for IPO, shows rapid revenue growth and declining losses
- October 1
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- AMD 24.9.1 drivers mark the proper debut of universal Fluid Motion Frames 2 — along with improved geometric downscaling
- Nvidia reportedly cancels development of dual-rack 72 GPU GB200 — analyst says the company intends to focus on single-rack offerings
- AMD's dense Zen 4c cores go embedded — new EPYC Embedded 8004 series CPUs for compact and efficiency focused servers
- Intel Z890 motherboard reveal reportedly set for October 10 — Arrow Lake CPU review embargo seemingly lifts on October 24
- Go big with 128 Gigabytes of DDR5 RAM for its lowest-ever price
- Office 2024 is now available for purchase at $149 — Office Home & Business 2024 will set you back $249
- Enthusiast built a ridable, fully 3D printed AT-AT Walker from Star Wars
- Nvidia App implements G-Sync controls, multi-monitor RTX HDR, and driver rollback — GeForce Experience users will be migrated to the Nvidia App by the end of year
- Taiwan National Science Council believes China is 10 years behind TSMC
- Microsoft KB5043145 update wreaks havoc on Windows 11 with multiple reboots and BSODs — company rolls back optional update
- Microsoft Defender can now detect insecure Wi-Fi hotspots and enable a VPN — you need to pay for Microsoft 365 and live in a supported region
- Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance
- Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation
- Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master Review: Solid performance, fast M.2, ample USB
- State-owned China Telecom has trained domestic AI LLMs using homegrown chips — one model reportedly uses 1 trillion parameters
- Microsoft launches Windows 11 24H2 alongside several new Copilot features
- Western Digital separates WD.com and SanDisk.com websites, split between HDD and SSD product categories
- Westinghouse's eVinci micro nuclear reactor for data centers delivers 5 megawatts of power for eight years without refueling — microreactors could power next-gen AI data centers
- Snapdragon X2 Elite processors spotted in testing — Qualcomm's Project Glymur reportedly incoming
- Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU
- Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing
- Non-K Core Ultra 9 285 spotted in Geekbench — Matches 14900K in single-core, underwhelms in multi-core