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- September 8
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- Do I need a laptop, or can I go to school or university with just a tablet?
- TSMC to start using High-NA EUV lithography in 2030 — A10 or A11 technology prime candidates for use
- Intel reportedly set to hike CPU prices by 10% ahead of 'major annual product' launch in March 2027 — report says AMD will follow up between June and July
- Behind the tech: How NordVPN's NordLynx protocol achieves incredible speeds
- Benchmarking Qwen 3.8 27B on RTX 5090 and beyond — VRAM capacity alone can't overcome severe software and inference engine bottlenecks
- Super Smash Bros Melee gets fully decompiled after over six years of effort — ambitious and technically impressive project delivers GameCube classic as C code
- Sony threatens to cut off customer support and pursue legal action over harassment as backlash to PlayStation’s physical-disc phaseout intensifies — company to move forward with no disc decision despite several lawsuits
- All-in-one 'DLSS Unlocked' mod brings DLSS 5 and multi-frame gen to RTX 20, 30, and 40 series — hybrid tool taps AMD FSR 3.1 to boost frame rates up to 6X
- NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrialization of quantum technologies
- Vintage Emulator Studio recreates 44 legendary synths down to the chip level — free MAME-powered component-level emulation should offer exceedingly accurate sound
- Hackers drain $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, emptying roughly 95% of federation wallet — attackers claim they’re the ‘good guys’ and will return funds after the vulnerability is fixed
- Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom — AI-powered 3D model of over 166,000 neurons can also play Super Mario 64
- Get a 32GB DDR5 gaming PC for just $1,379 at Newegg — $420 discount includes 20-core Intel CPU and RTX 5060
- This $389 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is the cheapest on sale right now for a gaming PC upgrade — higher-spec RAM for $415 gives PC builders rare choice as the AI boom continues to force memory prices higher
- Thailand asks data center operators to suspend 49 buildouts until legal framework is complete — new legislation is supposed to create 'airtight' requirements for large-scale data centers
- German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless
- One-slot, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work
- Tech enthusiast finds $12,000 stack of RAM in their garage — work let them keep an old server stuffed with 1,920GB of DDR4
- Belgian-Chinese semiconductor researcher arrested over alleged GaN trade-secret theft — prosecutors suspect BelGaN insiders transferred chip IP to China before the company collapsed
- Intel surpasses one million High-NA EUV wafers processed, outpaces the rest of the industry combined — company also trailblazing giant 6×12 photomasks to speed production and lower costs
- Arm debuts next-gen semi-custom Neoverse CSS N4 ‘Ranger’ platform — compute subsystem packs up to 128 cores per die on TSMC N3P
- September 7
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- Save up to 38% on a new gaming PC before the Labor Day sales end and beat the price rises — lock down last-minute savings on new pre-built rigs from Best Buy, Newegg, and Walmart
- xTool reveals its next generation of lasers — modular X1 supports CO2, Diode, UV, Fiber, and MOPA lasers
- OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens
- Astonishing mod runs DLSS 5 on a second GPU to boost neural-rendered FPS up to 127% — game renders on one card, neural post-processing runs on the other, much like dedicated PhysX GPUs
- Montech Century II Gold 850W power supply review: Excellent budget-friendly Gold-tier ATX 3.1 unit with Cybenetics Platinum efficiency
- GTA Vice City and GTA III return to web browsers after a DMCA takedown — Open-source reverse engineering brings the classics to the web with over 100 FPS performance
- Anycubic Photon P1 MAX review: bigger, better, and tech-packed
- This 10-inch 4:3 television hides your retro consoles in a secret rear compartment — Unico's Traveller ULW10 trades composite video for RGB SCART and HDMI
- Start your 3D printing journey for just $169 with these Elegoo printers before Labor Day ends — lock in up to 35% off the easy-to-use Neptune 3 Pro or go large with the Neptune 4 Plus for massive model printing
- RPCS3 emulator can now run PS3 games on PC directly from a disc drive in landmark development — unlocks 20 years of physical titles on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Flea market shopper uncovers $1,500 worth of Samsung SSDs inside a $30 expansion card — Three 2TB 980 Pro drives were hidden beneath an Asus Hyper M.2 heatsink
- This price-hike-busting RTX 5080 gaming PC is cheaper than it was in April — save $500 on a 9800X3D beast with 32GB of DDR5, 2TB SSD
- Enthusiast says DLSS 5 pushed RTX 5090 past 600W and melted the 16-pin connector — Nvidia's neural rendering tech adds up to 50% more power draw in testing
- September 6
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- Single-slot low-profile 75W RTX 3060 with no power connectors disappoints in tests — GPU runs entirely off the PCIe slot, but offers severely crippled performance and frightening thermals
- OpenAI admits to 'wiki incident' after its agents were discovered using a programming hub to communicate — says more transparency is needed regarding misalignments
- FSP Mega GM 1200W power supply review: An in-house FSP platform that quietly overshoots its own Gold label
- Bitcoin mining data center condemned after leaking 3 million gallons of water and forcing school closures — facility operated for years under a city stop-work order
- Samsung 990 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD falls to $339.99 on Amazon — $190 discount makes high-capacity storage more affordable
- MSI MEG CoreLiquid E15 360 AIO Review: Bold and stunning, with market-leading performance
- Sales of CD and vinyl music sees strong resurgence amid physical media backlash — US sales of ‘retro media’ were up 59% and 18%, respectively, in H1 2026
- PS5 emulator can now run the console version of GTA V at up to 60 FPS on PC, but quickly crashes as tweakers continue to optimize — PS5 emulation advancing at an astronomical pace leading up to GTA VI launch
- Former Old School RuneScape dev gets jail time for stealing $400,000 from players — virtual gold stolen and sold on the black market before Jagex caught the culprit using hidden firewall tweaks
- This 246TB SSD media server is built for millionaire cinephiles —Kaleidescape's newest home theater vault supports 25 simultaneous 4K streams, stores up to 2,300 4K cinematic movies
- September 5
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- Save nearly 50% on this awesome 16-inch OLED laptop with a Ryzen AI 5 430 CPU & 16GB RAM — HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip is down to just $699
- Stripped-down Windows 11 for AI developers demands 64GB RAM and insane 250 GB/s bandwidth — Project Zenith will debut on AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Halo platform
- Gamescom apologizes after backlash over callous response to indie dev hardware thefts — pledges security overhaul and invites devs to the roundtable
- Nvidia returns to selling Founder's Edition RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP in person at PAX West — Verified Priority Access has RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 at list price
- AMD reportedly prepping Ryzen 5 7500 (non-F) CPU with integrated graphics at double the price — Six-core Zen 4 chip rumored to share identical specs with its F-moniker cousin
- Best of IFA 2026: MacBook Neo competitors, monitors, and wild laptop concepts
- Modder gets Nvidia's DLSS 5 working on AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs — RX 9070 XT only manages 30 FPS at 1080p right now, but 5070 Ti-level performance is the eventual goal
- Xbox Game Pass imposes monthly cloud gaming limits, just 15 hours per month for Ultimate — subscribers and non-subscribers can buy more hours to keep gaming
- Dodge the RAMpocalypse with 20% discounts on Corsair RAM — hundreds off on 32GB and 64GB DDR5-6400 kits
- ‘World’s first fully transparent video game console’ is on its way to Kickstarter — Arduview handheld’s shell, PCB, and display are all transparent
- We tested DLSS 5 in NBA 2K27 with every RTX 50-series GPU — first official release comes with a big performance hit, but almost every Blackwell card can run it at 1080p
- Taiwan cracks down on tech businesses with illegal Chinese ownership — 166 investigations and at least 36 convictions since 2020
- Trump slaps up to 100% tariffs on imported drones and critical components in latest move against China's proliferation of U.S. drone market, citing national security — products from allied nation face 10-15% rates
- Japan to mass-procure 3D-printed rocket-powered drone interceptor — Terra B1 capable of countering one-way attack platforms
- September 4
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- DLSS 5 officially launches inside NBA 2K27, limited to RTX 50-series GPUs for now — Nvidia promises to bring neutral rendering tech to RTX 40-series soon
- Grab a new 3D printer for as low as $229 right now in Creality's Labor Day flash sale, with up to 50% off — big sale discounts also include resin and filament bundles, along with 3D scanners and toolkits
- Minisforum launches local AI solutions at IFA 2026 — AI Agent NAS N5 and AI Mini Workstation MS-S1 use AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processors designed to run models locally
- Last day to save up to $900 in the Best Buy Labor Day sale on tech, with huge discounts on gaming PCs, laptops and monitors — secure an upgrade fast to beat rising hardware costs
- Frontier AI faces pricing reckoning as token volume explodes 25-fold — mid-tier models deliver 90% of flagship capability at one-sixth the cost
- Nvidia app update fails to block unofficial DLSS multi-frame generation mod on RTX 40 series gaming GPUs — modders restore support across multiple games within hours
- Get this stunning MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G deal at Walmart for $200 less than anywhere else — only $569.99 for the solid mid-range Shadow 2x OC Plus gaming GPU is a steal by anyone's standards
- HyperX Omen 15 review: Strong gaming performance and colorful OLED display, with obvious cost-cutting measures
- Denver data center continuously waters its lawn even after city announced drought restrictions, enraging residents — it’s unclear if site is breaking the law or using its own recycled water
- AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores and dual liquid-cooled MI350P accelerators — 'the most powerful workstation in the world' can run trillion-parameter models, says AMD
- Discrete graphics card sales hit four-year record despite soaring memory prices — AMD gains market share as notebook graphics carry the market
- Fractal Design Refine 2 Review: Slightly refined
- Fake DDR5 memory kits now on sale starting at $43 — V-Color sells 0GB dummy modules and single-stick memory kits with a fake stick for $300
- Grab Hoto's 25-bit electric screwdriver set for under $30 right now, perfect for PC builds and projects — limited-time deal knocks 40% off the usual price for a multi-torque driver with a 1,500 mAh battery and 25 heavy-duty bits for hobbyists
- Get $300 off this next-gen Panther Lake OLED laptop — upgrade to the latest laptop tech for 30% less
- SpaceXAI offers 50% Starlink discount to placate data center's residential neighbors; 2,000 have signed up — goodwill gesture comes amid vociferous community backlash
- This 32GB of Team Group DDR5 RAM is the cheapest DDR5-6400 kit on the market – only $405 with promo code, buy the least expensive DDR5-6400 kit around with environmentally conscious T-Force Vulcan Eco RAM
- Chinese chipmaker CXMT allegedly used a written roadmap to steal Samsung DRAM tech — South Korean court says 'Project Hefei' lifted 620-step recipe to build 10% global market share
- Lexar announces ‘world’s thinnest portable SSD’ in celebration of the brand’s 30th anniversary – Lexar Muse drive achieves 0.15-inch thickness with proprietary pogo-pin cable, magnetic sleeve for phone mounting
- September 3
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- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
- Lenovo ditches fans in favor of solid-state AirJet tech in super-slim, 1.8-pound AeroBlade laptop concept – company also lands at IFA with a 14-inch rollable screen notebook that expands to 17 inches
- Nvidia PAIR utility joins every GPU in your home into a cluster for agentic AI tasks — tool uses spare cycles to keep agent swarms from hammering one GPU
- Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X launches in October for laptops and desktops — 18 or 20 CPU cores, paired with 5,120 or 6,144 CUDA cores, up to 128GB of unified memory
- Lenovo ThinkCentre X Ultra packs Gorgon Halo — AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 shows up in mini workstation
- Lenovo details its RTX Spark laptops — Yoga Pro 9n and Yoga 9n 2-in-1 get full specs, stylus support
- Lenovo’s IdeaPad Vibe laptops stand out with seven colors and swappable keycaps – 14,15-inch models with Snapdragon X and AMD AI 400 CPUs to start at $699
- Intel's Core Ultra 400 'Nova Lake' launch schedule leaks out — mass production in Q4, first Nova Lake CPUs in Q1 2027
- How to install a PS5 SSD in 2026
- Almost 70% of voters in Missouri city vote to recall council member who said yes to AI data center tax breaks — councilor said disagreement over an issue shouldn’t be enough to unseat him
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as the production of one almond — says data centers use no more water than an office building
- Save up to 46% on PC hardware in Amazon's Labor Day 2026 sale, ending tonight — last chance to grab a huge discount on new tech
- Benchmarking 31 different CPUs in Onimusha: Way of the Sword — X3D beats flagships by 10%, 270K Plus falls behind Raptor Lake Refresh
- Intel scraps 44-year-old 'Fellow' title for top scientists, changes 'standard of technical leadership' — technical luminaries must now deliver measurable business results, combine deep expertise with strategic vision and 'measurable tactical progress'
- RPCS3 emulator devs slam Nvidia DLSS 5 as 'AI-slop generator' — says industry pushing 'more upscalers and frame generation to hallucinate games and hide their lack of optimisation'
- Iconic Packard Bell brand rises from the ashes after 13 years with the DotBook 14 at IFA — colorful and affordable Intel Twin Lake laptop is Europe-only, for now
- TSMC fab equipment demand nearly doubles in six months — AI surge pushes 2026 CapEx toward $64B amid tool shortages
- Get a DDR5 gaming PC with RTX 5060 Ti for just $1,399 — save 21% on the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus-powered CyberPower system
- Score a gigabit LAN upgrade for less than $10 with this limited-time TP-Link switch deal — plug-and-play network upgrade for your home or office unlocks 5 ultra-fast Ethernet ports to help you ditch laggy Wi-Fi
- Nexus Mods acquires SteamDB after 13 years of solo dev work — promises no ads, no paywalls, and smarter mod-update tracking
- Steve Wozniak-signed Apple 1 motherboard expected to achieve up to $800,000 at auction — fully working board also comes with a signed letter from Steve Jobs
- Chinese supercomputer manufacturer reveals the 'world's first' 64-thread mobile workstation for AI — homegrown CPU paired with mystery GPU with 16GB of VRAM promises cloud-level performance
- September 2
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- Microsoft will expand Windows 11 Memory Integrity feature to more PCs starting in October — security feature reduces gaming performance on some systems
- The current state of Hybrid Bonding in 2026 — TSMC sits at 6 microns and the HBM delay that nobody expected
- GoPro to expand into AI data centers after $285 million merger with optical-photonics company — move to solve camera maker’s financial woes, move manufacturing back into the US
- Samsung teases new HBM5 with twice the performance of HBM4E —ambitious data transfer rates could hint at 4,096-bit interface
- Russian hacker faces up to 20 years in prison, following extradition and indictment over US phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs — hacker stole victims' data via remote access
- Tape companies ship 160 exabytes of storage in 2025, AI data demands drive 'unprecedented data growth' — capacity shipped in Q1 2026 rose 57% YOY driven by AI, LTO‑9 momentum, and early LTO‑10 uptake
- We explored early DLSS 5 performance with community mods — and the limits of the 12V-2x6 power connector may hold it back on the RTX 5090
- FBI investigating 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses leaked on Russian cybercrime forum, including that of US SecDef Pete Hegseth — data is suspected to have come from an ID-authentication service provider
- $30 buys you a brand-new HyperX gaming headset — save 40% on the CloudX Stinger 2 with massive 50mm drivers
- Fractal Define One case review: Balancing noise and thermals
- Fractal Summit case review: real wood accents scream premium, but it only stands out in white or black
- Researchers build a $7 smartphone clip-on that spots hidden cameras — AI and dynamic LED grid deliver 94% accuracy
- Questionable PC power supply 'explodes,' bursts into flames the moment it's plugged into a socket in viral video — video captures moment repair shop worker avoids disaster
- EFF asks California governor to veto bill that would require online age verification — Electronic Frontier Foundation argues bill would result in privacy-invasive checks and step on First Amendment
- This 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is now the cheapest on sale, dropping back under $400 — 13% discount on an unflashy PNY memory kit for new gaming PC builds or upgrades
- AI data center investment projected to hit $32 trillion by 2050 — infrastructure spending estimated to exceed capital requirements for railways, electrification, or the internet
- Techie creates a database of coil-whining graphics cards, power supplies, and liquid cooler pumps — open-source project wants community reports of affected parts
- Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an 'Airbnb for AI inference,' but profitability remains unproven
- You can now play GTA V natively on a Nintendo Switch thanks to unofficial Homebrew port — game runs at 30 FPS but requires a jailbroken, overclocked Switch
- Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies' AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has become code
- China's DUV technology 'at a similar stage to ASML in 2004,' analyst claims — Beijing's semiconductor industry remains well behind Western rivals
- Oklahoma city tries to charge farmer arrested at data center debate $17,000 for body cam footage of the incident — accused faces trespassing charge for going over allotted speaking time by 30 seconds at a public debate
- Russian Starlink rival flounders after entire batch of satellites fails to reach operational altitude — many of the 16 launched hit less than half their 870km target, and two are already falling back to Earth
- Acer launches seven new gaming monitors across Nitro and Predator families — tri-mode panels, QD-OLEDs, Mini LEDs, 1,000 Hz, and more
- Acer’s wild Project DualPlay Mini is a foldable handheld that doubles as a netbook — concept shown alongside Predator Atlas 7 handheld sporting Intel’s Arc G-series chip
- Acer's Swift Blade 14 weighs just 1.76 pounds and uses Wildcat Lake — company introduces new sub-brand ahead of IFA tradeshow
- Developer uses Claude Code to debloat Android smart TV for 'unbelievable' performance upgrade — TV now smoother than it was new as autonomous agent deactivates apps, shortens animations, all without root access
- Dell's new 14-inch laptops take on the MacBook Neo in a new way — ports and colors
- Alienware's new QD-OLED gaming monitors boast 4K 165 Hz, 1080p 560 Hz panels — Dell’s new OLEDs target gamers who prioritize speed or crave pixel density
- September 1
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- Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators
- Alienware 16X Aurora review: A thoroughly competent gaming laptop
- Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 will launch September 3 with NBA2K27, company shares first benchmarks — available on all RTX 50 series GPUs, laptops, and GeForce NOW
- Nvidia's top-end RTX 5090 gaming GPU now costs at least $5,000 — Blackwell cards continue to endure drastic price hikes
- National telecoms provider could make $2.7 billion selling recycled copper in AI boom — BT to strip 200,000 tons from legacy network
- Chinese court freezes $318 million in Nexperia assets as Wingtech presses to regain control — Dutch chipmaker says seizures won't affect day-to-day operations
- BlindLock hides your password manager and secure vault in a PNG image — also offers secure notes, 2FA, and a crypto address book, with optional hardware security keys
- Save $300 on this 240Hz OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti, now just $1,899 — Acer Predator Helios rig ships with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD
- $899 gets you a fully fledged DDR5 gaming PC in Best Buy's Labor Day sales — save $300 off the iBuypower Slate PC powered by Intel's B570 graphics with 10GB of VRAM
- Hot Chips 2026: Samsung reveals a three-phase HBM roadmap that puts logic and compute inside memory — zHBM ultimately stacks DRAM directly on top of the processor
- CXMT reportedly begins risk production of HBM3E memory in breakthrough for Chinese DRAM production — company could be in mass production in 2027
- Sony argues ‘reasonable consumers would not be misled’ into believing they own digital games in class action motion — PlayStation Store ‘buy’ button lawsuit may never reach a courtroom
- Arm faces potential shareholder revolt over CEO's 'excessive' $800 million pay package — huge stock award would only be fully realised if chip designer hits $2 trillion valuation
- Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code — maintainers say they are 'completely overwhelmed' by CVE finds
- TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 routers — Archer 8 Ultra preorder commences September 30, in select regions