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- April 20
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- Chinese chipmakers made record profit in 2025, despite slipping margins — U.S shipments fall 34% as Beijing shores up local chipmaking efforts
- AI cloud company Vercel breached after employee grants AI tool unrestricted access to Google Workspace — hacker seeking $2 million for stolen data
- Every SK hynix employee could receive $477,000 bonuses this year, almost $900,000 next year — 35,000 workers reportedly set to benefit from share of $169 billion projected operating profit
- Linux 7.1 update includes new in-kernel NTFS driver — delivers storage support upgrade for Linux users
- Latest Intel Core Ultra 7 270K bundle includes a 2TB SSD and 64GB of RAM for just $1,499 — includes Z890 motherboard, case, and AIO cooler, just add a GPU and PSU for a complete PC build
- US gov't blocks China's largest LED chipmaker's $239 million bid to acquire Dutch lighting firm Lumileds — US blocks acquisition attempt of European firm
- This Acer gaming laptop features an RTX 5070 Ti, 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD for under $2,000 — save $650 on the Predator Helios Neo, powered by Intel Core Ultra 9
- Apex Gaming PCs recalls nearly 18,000 power supplies over missing safety labels — the fix is a warning sticker sent by mail, units are entirely safe
- Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong archive.org CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early as 1993
- Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
- Original Task Manager creator explains why it lies to you about CPU usage — former Microsoft engineer shows unique solution to a seemingly simple, but actually complicated, task
- Voyager 1 gets emergency instrument shutdown to solve escalating power crisis and give it ‘about a year of breathing room’ — interstellar spacecraft's nuclear power source is dying, leading to intensifying countermeasures
- Gaming laptop brought to repair shop for overheating problem, decorative stickers found to be the problem — tech fixes problem in under 10 seconds after removing the stickers covering its fans
- April 19
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- Russian-made Shahed drones are ‘disintegrating in the air before reaching their targets’ due to shoddy manufacturing, video shows — commentators call Russian clones of Iran's drones 'flying garbage'
- Experience every detail in vivid OLED with Dell's XPS 14 — save $700 on a stunning laptop
- Bambu Lab overtakes Creality as the world's top-selling budget 3D printer brand — resurgence in 3D printer market fueled by budget options
- Inventor showcases 3D printer filament dryer that mines Bitcoins and dries filament with waste heat, capable of 6 TH/s at 140W — joins Bitcoin-mining 3D printer in hobbyist-focused miner lineup
- 40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time
- Sudokoo SK620V and SK700V Review: Silent, Stylish AM5 cooling, with a built-in display
- Researchers find a way to heat 3D printer filament using microwaves, enabling fusing circuits inside printed objects — tech supports precise heating down to the width of a human hair
- New HUDIMM memory specification debuts with goal of slashing DDR5 prices during RAM shortages — A new, cheaper memory standard with half the bandwidth and half the capacity
- New flat M.2 SSD adapter doesn't stick out from the motherboard, unlocking PCIe slots hidden under massive GPUs — JEYI's new 'ArcherX' AIC lays completely flush and supports PCIe 4.0 speeds
- Xbox Series X|S storage expansion cards can be used on PC with an inexpensive CFexpress adapter — Speeds top out at 1,560 MB/s in Redditor's testing
- Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price
- $20,000 in 32GB RAM sticks saved from the dumpster are now worth a fortune — seventy-two DDR4-2666 ECC RDIMMs were about to turn into e-waste
- April 18
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- Nvidia RTX 3060 comeback in 2026 could alleviate soaring GPU prices and memory shortages — rumored RTX 5050 9GB abruptly shelved amid speculation
- Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is on sale for 19% off — MSI's Vector 16 has a 144 Hz screen, and comes with Pragmata for free
- Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours
- KTC M27T6S 27-inch QHD Mini LED gaming monitor review: Affordable, colorful, and bright
- Snag this Chromebook for $149 before it's gone — HP 14-inch Chromebook slashed to less than half price
- Minisforum's beastly N5 Max NAS comes powered by AMD Strix Halo — $2,899 for 'AI NAS' with pre-installed OpenClaw, supports up to 200TB capacity
- Techie buys fake Ledger Nano S+ hardware crypto wallet and almost falls for phishing — a convincing clone would have caught newbies unaware
- Intel Core Ultra 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X faceoff — battle for the best $200 CPU
- SNK revives the mighty Neo Geo in modern form — new AES+ system plays classic games without emulation
- Microsoft offers $2 million sweepstake for Edge users, but no one noticed for a month — $1 million cash, Mercedes-Benz cars among prizes in desperate push for users
- Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ‘nearly lost his composure’ when pressed on selling chips to China — ‘You’re not talking to someone who woke up a loser’
- April 17
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- Keychron V5 Ultra 8K Review: Budget-friendly 8K
- US lawmakers amend new restrictions on Chinese chipmakers — MATCH Act's blanket restrictions removed from select chipmaking tools
- Analytics group signals possible delays at 40% of AI data center construction sites — companies deny schedule holdups, but satellite imagery indicates otherwise
- Local political revolts threaten to derail US data center projects — mounting delays are already costing AI hyperscalers billions
- Intel hires tenured Samsung exec to lead Foundry Services — signals company focus on winning business from potential Foundry suitors
- Elon Musk pushing forward with Terafab at 'light speed' — staff reaching out to various suppliers and are reportedly willing to pay a premium to gain priority
- Amazon Eero Signal review: 4G LTE internet backup for your Eero mesh network
- Microsoft's April patch puts Windows domain controllers into reboot loops — third known issue from KB5082063 is affecting Windows Server 2016 through 2025
- Build an entire 9800X3D PC with 128GB of RAM for $2,999 — Newegg bundle includes Asus B850 motherboard, 1TB of storage, and RTX 5070 Ti
- TSMC ups revenue guidance and CapEx, buoyed by 'multiyear AI megatrend' — warns Middle East conflict may impact profitability as costs increase
- Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux
- 64GB of DDR5 RAM is a staggering $216 in this latest Newegg deal — Get a 9800X3D, X870-P motherboard, case, and a free AIO for just $939
- Google and Pentagon in talks to run custom AI chips inside classified environments — Google pushes for tight controls for TPUs surrounding use for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons
- Nvidia RTX 5070 spotted at rare MSRP price in Woot flash sale — move fast to secure a bargain, 38% off saves you $340
- Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout
- AMD to resurrect Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 with 10th anniversary edition, leaker claims — return of legendary CPU a sign of bleak PC building landscape
- Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities
- Amazon returns buyer gets scammed out of a Ryzen 9 9950X3D — 'CPU' came with just a 3D-printed base underneath a real heat spreader
- TSMC warns of Intel Foundry's growing prowess during the company's latest earnings call — 'We view Intel as our formidable competitor and do not underestimate them'
- April 16
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- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears on Amazon with $1,000 pre-order price — AMD confirms recommended pricing is still set at $899 [Updated]
- AMD's market cap hits all-time high, Intel hits 25-year high on Agentic AI's insatiable demand for CPUs
- Quantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of light
- Meta raising Quest headset prices due to AI-driven RAM shortage — Quest 3 to cost $600, Quest 3S $350 from April 19
- Elegoo announces the Jupiter 2 resin 3D printer for $949, early bird price of $849 — new model offers massive print volume but is still physically smaller than previous models
- Pragmata PC performance tested: 18 GPUs take us to the Moon
- Chinese fabs import record volumes of US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia — homegrown tool makers booked record 2025 revenues as price competition squeezes margins
- Get an entire Lenovo Legion Pro 7i RTX 5090 gaming laptop with OLED screen for $3,199, less than the price of a desktop RTX 5090 graphics card — save $800 while stocks last on this monster machine
- US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Intel — VLSI case from 2017 returns after court sets aside 2024 decision
- Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms — fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years
- Intel launches Wildcat Lake as Core Series 3 for value laptops and edge systems — six consumer SKUs built on 18A promise 'all-day' battery life
- Legendary Qualcomm, Apple, and Nuvia alumni form new CPU startup — Nuvacore promises to 'rewrite the rules of silicon'
- This code will give you 20% off gaming gear at SteelSeries
- Bambu updates its 3D printers to print unique hues or gradients using two or three filaments — company acknowledges OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum fork as the basis for the color prediction part of the new feature
- Score 64GB of G.Skill DDR5 and a 1TB 990 Pro for an insane $441 in this Newegg bundle — 9800X3D and X870E motherboard also comes with a free AIO, just $1,299 to start an AM5 gaming build
- Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) review: Big CPU power in a mispriced gaming laptop
- Broadcom to supply Meta with custom silicon through 2029 — Broadom CEO Hock Tan departs Meta's board
- Anonymous perps behind 86 million files scraped from Spotify hit with $322 million court judgement — Anna's Archive case presents intriguing precedent for AI training
- Non-functioning counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are circulating in Europe — Despite convincing packaging, blue PCB easily gives away the dupe
- Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to counselors
- Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned
- Struggling shoemaker and apparel brand Albird pivots to AI data centers, stock jumps 580% in a single day — sells core business and leveraging $50 million in financing to become a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider
- IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Google services, matching IPv4 — increased usage eases pressure on the IPv4 address market as 'new' protocol designed in 1998 finally hits its stride
- Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub
- April 15
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- This $1,000 gaming laptop is 42% off, comes armed with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 — MSI Stealth 14 AI Studio lets you work by day and dominate by night
- Elon Musk demonstrates first sample of Tesla AI5 processor, accidentally thanks TSC rather than TSMC — claims 40X performance boost over the predecessor
- YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths
- Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts
- Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities
- Enermax Platimax II 1200DF power supply review: Powerful with Platinum level efficiency
- Netgear secures conditional approval from the FCC following router ban — company can continue importing foreign-made routers through October 2027
- China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters — state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness
- Corsair Vengeance RGB Custom Lab Cherry Blossom DDR5-6000 C36 2x16GB Review: RAM customization made easy
- Get 64GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for an unbelievable $266 in this Newegg bundle deal — Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, MSI X870E Edge Ti Wifi motherboard, and a Corsair 3500X Case for only $1,099
- Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China
- Astonishing bundle makes 64GB of DDR5 RAM just $216, $100 cheaper than 32GB — get a 9800X3D, G.Skill Ripjaws S5 DDR5-6000 RAM, case, motherboard, and CPU cooler for just $999
- Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom's Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping — more video and access to experts make it 'the biggest relaunch in our history'
- Alienware's new OLED monitor disrupts the market at just $350, features a 27-inch 240 Hz panel — The 'AW2726DM' is limited to 200 nits, but comes with a 3-year warranty
- Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding
- April 14
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- Anthropic's Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity, but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows — cross-examination of the frontier model raises questions on uptime and reliability
- Sony launches 720 Hz dual-mode OLED QHD gaming monitor — 27-inch Inzone M10S II is aimed at hardcore eSports gamers
- Intel's promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores — new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the works
- Nvidia quashes rumor it’s planning to purchase a major PC manufacturer — says that it’s ‘not engaged in discussions to acquire any PC maker’
- Grab the ultra-fast Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer for just $285 right now, saving you $128 — limited-time sale price nets you a fully enclosed Core-XY printer built for beginners and enthusiasts
- China's premiere memory-maker YMTC plans two additional Wuhan fabs using homegrown chipmaking tools — Phase 3 crosses 50% domestic tooling threshold
- Bambu Lab X2D review: Improving a fan favorite
- Alienware AW2726DM 27-inch QHD 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: A price breakthrough for desktop OLED
- Our experts review your astonishing PC builds and setups in Rig Rundown — from wall-mounted setups to a system packed inside of a 1:6 scale RC car
- News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models
- Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself — Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf
- Score a massive $700 off this 4K-ready Lenovo gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti, now just $1,899 — epic Legion Tower 5i pre-built ships with a 20-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD
- Pay $1,349.99 for Gigabyte's Aero X16 laptop and save $300 on this 32GB beast with RTX 5070 graphics — outstanding battery life a bonus
- Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language
- Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, with 65% feeling positive about its impact on productivity
- China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade — $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act
- FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’
- Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input
- April 13
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- Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts
- New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running
- Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP
- Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency
- NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership
- Bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel dubbed the ‘Superdome’ lowers temps by 20 degrees — $600 worth of Noctua fans arrayed in 3D-printed structure
- Approvals for Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to China stall under government bottleneck — 20% staff turnover hobbles Bureau of Industry and Security
- Espresso Lite 15 Review: An entry-level portable monitor with a splash of color
- Save a massive $700 on this 4K-ready HP gaming PC with a 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti, now just $2,499 — discounted HP Omen 35L pre-built powerhouse ships with 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD
- 'CopprLink' destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090 — setup requires $2,300 worth of additional hardware
- Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy
- Why we spent 50+ hours retesting Intel’s Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus
- Just $284.99 for 32GB of Team T-Create Classic DDR5-6000 RAM is the cheapest going right now — this double-dipping deal saves $145 off the list price
- April 12
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- Grab MSI’s RTX 5080 gaming laptop for just over $2,000 — offers fast 240 Hz QHD+ display, dual storage slots, and expandable DDR5 memory
- Lenovo hikes Legion Go 2 handheld gaming PC to almost $3,000 for 2 TB model — Handheld now costs more than AMD's Strix Halo devices despite relatively weaker Z2 Extreme chip
- Iran's forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline — possessing Starlink terminals punishable by death, country using 'military-grade jamming' against service
- Tiny 3-inch cube PCs bring a splash of color to the passive PC market with red, orange, green and blue options — Intel Twin Lake-powered Kubb Mini PCs start at $500
- Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement
- Veteran Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB so it could run smoothly on 90s computers — original utility used a smart technique to determine whether it was the only running instance
- Tech enthusiast gets Doom to run on a 40-year-old printer controller — ancient Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS came with a Motorola 68020 onboard for fast processing
- Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K Review: 660 hours of battery life at 8 KHz
- Startup secures $30 million contract to 3D print jet engines for the USAF — company to test and develop small turbojets for drones and long-range weapons
- Linux 7.0 enables three new AI-specific keys for keyboards, an apparent expansion beyond the Copilot key — Google authors both the HID spec and the kernel patch
- $27 platypus PCIe adapter converts half-height GPUs into full-height while adding two M.2 slots for SSDs — enthusiast demos low-profile RTX 4060 with two SSDs thanks to PCIe bifurcation
- South Korea’s telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet — net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out
- Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs — breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat
- April 11
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- Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group — 'ShinyHunters' takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or it will release confidential data
- Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots
- Save $680 instantly on this massive Corsair 96GB DDR5-6000 RAM kit — 57% discount slashes price tag to $499
- Two manufacturers commit to keep Blu-ray alive after others quit manufacturing — Verbatim and I-O Data extend Blu-ray supply pledge as manufacturers exit the market
- MacBook user explains why he files the sharp metal edges off his Apple laptops — unibody design facilitates a surprisingly deep roundover
- Best Laptops 2026: Our benchmarked picks for productivity, portability, and battery life
- Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, bypasses become plug-and-play — cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Ryzen 7 9700X faceoff — a new midrange CPU champ emerges
- HyperX Eve 1800 Review: Not worth $50
- Chinese Nvidia Cloud Partner procured 300 servers with banned AI GPUs worth $92 million — shares of data center supplier Sharetronic plummet following Super Micro smuggling arrest
- Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources
- Garage sale haul finds 2013 'trash can' Mac Pro nestled inside 2010 Mac Pro enclosure — Mac Pro inception still needs some work to get running
- Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%
- FAA courts gamers to become air traffic controllers — boasts $155k average annual salary after three years as the agency prepares for 8,000 applicants
- Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X
- April 10
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- Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider program — fewer channels, and switching without wiping your device
- HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours
- Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’
- French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
- Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
- Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%
- Score the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and an Asus X870E gaming motherboard for under $990 in this epic Newegg bundle — $200 saving brings the RAM cost down to just $196, with an AIO cooler and game thrown in for free
- Get 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for $101 - Newegg combo bundle also contains MSI's flagship X870E Godlike motherboard and AMD Ryzen 9800X3D for only $1,624.98
- 30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future
- Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 230V 650W power supply review: A competent entry-level choice
- Beef up your gaming rig with this 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT for just $419 — save $50 on this 1440p champion
- Embattled streamer goes viral after playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS — ‘i5-8300H and a 1050ti with 4GB’ setup takes 12 hours to play through the first chapter, would make the game 471 hours long
- Silverstone IceMyst Pro 360 Pro Review: Designed for RAM overclocking
- After jumping 2,200% over the last twelve months, DDR4 spot prices fall 5%, the first decline in nearly a year — DDR5 pricing sees some relief in China channel market
- US cybersecurity agency issues an urgent alert as Iranian hackers attack critical infrastructure — CISA guidance warns organizations to immediately shield certain programmable logic controllers from the internet to thwart future attacks
- Newbie overclocker destroys $5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU they used 'to learn how to solder' — practicing newfound hobby goes wrong in the most expensive way imaginable
- Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette
- Ambitious hacker reduces worst-case memory latency by up to 93%, but with severe downsides — 1960s bottleneck overcome by hedging memory accesses to avoid running into DRAM refresh stalls
- April 9
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- Intel Arc GPUs can finally boot up and play 'Crimson Desert' — but you'll probably want to wait for official support
- Fueled by Musk's TeraFab tie-in, Intel's market cap hits highest level in 25 years — tops $300 billion on CPU, AI, and foundry momentum
- Geekbench 6.7 adds Intel BOT detection to spoof out 'unrealistic' CPU scores — Benchmark runs with BOT enabled will be marked as invalid
- Experience elite performance with the Razer Viper V4 Pro for $159 — unleash your inner gamer with the #1 trusted mouse among Esports athletes
- Alleged images of the long-awaited Nvidia N1/N1X SoC surface on laptop motherboard — board features 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory alongside 8+6+2 phase VRM
- Intel and Google announce multi-year chip deal — Google will deploy Intel Xeon with custom IPUs for next-gen AI, cloud infrastructure
- Intel's EMIB-T packaging technology set for fab rollout this year — as TSMC CoWoS capacity remains limited, EMIB-T is preparing for advanced AI accelerator designs
- Bryson DeChambeau to use 3D-printed 5-iron at 2026 Masters in golfing first — club he fabricated himself 'finally ready' to face Augusta
- UK navy tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, damage would 'have serious consequences,' Putin warned — US and allies expand seabed protection efforts
- Build a $5,000 AM5 gaming PC for just $2,771 with this Newegg combo deal — 9800X3D and RTX 5070 also come with 128GB of DDR5 RAM, 4TB SSD, X870E motherboard, and AIO cooler
- Intel developing two-lever retention mechanism for LGA 1954 socket, according to new leak — Premium Nova Lake-S motherboards will feature 2L-ILM sockets
- Acer Predator X27 X1 27-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Blending performance and value
- Under $30, GameSir's Super Nova wireless controller has an unbelievable 40% slashed off the price in this limited-time offer — includes stick drift eliminating Hall Effect thumbsticks and switches
- Korean government to take action over soaring DRAM costs, including monitoring markets and pricing — internet data plans to be restructured and recycled PCs to be distributed to vulnerable groups
- Go maintainer joins collective klaxon about encryption-breaking quantum computers — developer urges immediate switch to post-quantum methods to prevent worldwide disaster
- Steam files suggest Valve is developing internal 'SteamGPT' AI bot — aimed at tackling customer support tickets and CS2 anti-cheat
- $21 billion stolen from more than 1 million Americans due to cybercrime in 2025 — $11 billion come from stolen crypto, $8.6 billion taken from investment scams, while AI-related attacks cost $893 million
- 10 petabytes of sensitive data stolen from China's National Supercomputing Center, hackers claim — daring heist would be largest ever China hack, covering 6,000 clients across science, defense, and beyond
- April 8
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- Intel and SambaNova team up on heterogenous AI inference platform — different hardware performs different workloads
- PCI Express roadmap: The path to 1TB/s with PCI 8.0, the challenges of integration, and beyond
- Mint Mobile’s 5G home internet now starts at $30 per month with new bundle deal — MINTernet offers up to 415 Mbps speeds and free router
- AMD reveals $899 price tag for Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 — first dual-cache X3D CPU is $200 more expensive than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- 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