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- July 5
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- Get an RTX 3060 with 12 GB of VRAM for just $329.99 at Newegg — MSI Ventus 2X OC model back in stock with free shipping
- SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations
- RAMpocalyse pricing prompts maker to construct his own memory using ancient Apollo-era tech — USB drive resurrects hand-threaded magnetic core memory using salvaged Russian computer parts
- Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media
- Reviewer tests 'RTX 4080M' desktop graphics card powered by salvaged laptop silicon — performs worse than slightly more expensive RX 9070 GRE but draws only 100W in games
- Hannah Montana Linux gets modern remaster after nearly two decades — ‘Sweet niblets,’ new v26 is built on Debian with a re-skin of KDE Plasma
- US Navy is flight-testing 3D printed fighter jet parts that cut repair times in half — forward-deployed 3D printers generate composite parts, flight testing to begin on operational F/A-18 Super Hornets
- F1 25: 2026 Season Edition GPU benchmarks – From Pole Position to the Back of the Grid
- Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small semiconductor fabs —Atomic Semi rebrands as 'Fab2' underlining intended role as a 'fab fab'
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition review: A masterclass in mobility and usability
- Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group
- Grab this RTX 5070 Ti OLED gaming laptop at $300 off — Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI drops to $1,899.99
- Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens
- Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 Review: A keyboard with a touchscreen and a lot of potential
- PS5 Disc Drive purchase cap predates Sony's disc cutoff — 'high demand' order limit has been on the store page since at least March 2025
- You can now play Half-Life 2 right inside your browser at over 100 FPS with save states & console support — Ingenious port recreates the entire game campaign using WebGL 2
- Fill your Steam library without spending a single dime — scratch your shopping itch with the Steam Summer Sale Simulator
- DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent military drones
- July 4
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- 50-feet-long fiber optic HDMI cable and Steam Controller 2 is enthusiasts' answer to the Steam Machine — dismisses Valve's new console for a DIY Bazzite setup with a controller
- Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold
- Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops — media outlet slams YMTC PCIe 4.0 drive for 'below average for an SSD in an office laptop' in review
- Get a premium 27-inch 1440p 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor for only $349 — OLED for the price of IPS
- Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system
- AOC U27G4XM 27-inch 4K 160 Hz Dual-Refresh Gaming Monitor Review: Speed, Flexibility And Value
- Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026
- The ultimate 4K RTX 5090 gaming titan plummets $2,580 — huge discount makes the Alienware Area-51 with 24-core CPU and 64GB RAM irresistible
- Windows guru uses 19th-century Stirling Engine tech for auxiliary cooling on AMD Threadripper 3970X system — waste heat energy spins the $40 engine's flywheel
- Enthusiast hides gaming PC inside living room fan using 3D-printed parts — disassembled AtomMan G7 cooled by Dreo tower fan that shifts air at 28 feet per second
- Startup unveils 3D-printed nuclear reactor module to power AI data centers —touted as ‘the world’s first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor’
- Companies join hands to collectively dunk on PlayStation's all-digital future — Domino's pizza, KFC, and GameSir all threaten an end to physical production
- Fire hydrant signs with Starlink antennas tested for emergency Wi-Fi in disaster-prone Japan — existing widespread grid of street-level furniture can be used for communications network fallback
- July 3
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- Turtle Beach KP7 Review: The accessory that does everything
- Intel reportedly adding two new 22-core SKUs with game-boosting cache to Nova Lake-S lineup — 125W unlocked and 65W locked part rumored to be part of single-tile Core Ultra 5 tier
- Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand — select Xeon processors now over $1,000 more expensive
- Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits — how HBM allocations could make a difference after two decades of failed cases
- Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360's infamous RROD
- HP OmniBook Ultra 14 review: Potent Snapdragon performance, great endurance, premium pricing
- Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality
- SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead
- Save up to 47% on Dell and Alienware gaming PCs and laptops in this July 4th flash sale — big sale discounts on pricey kit including gaming chairs and monitors for a limited time only
- Save up to 71% on HP gaming desktops and laptops this July 4 — weekend sale could land you a gaming PC for less
- Up to $129 off Secretlab gaming chairs and desks in July 4 sale — save on the Titan Evo, Magnus, and more
- Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims — says production up to 15,000 wafers per month at both sites
- HP has slashed $1,075 off this RTX 5070 gaming PC in its July 4 sale — Omen 35L with 32GB of RAM now just $1,724
- GitHub thumbs nose at Sony's controversial end to physical media with its introduction of Repo CDs — offers limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public GitHub repos for preservation
- This 144-in-1 electric screwdriver set is a must-buy toolkit for PC building and hobbyists, now under $40 — 20% saving on kit with a second precision driver, 120 magnetic bits, and 22 maintenance tools for builds and repairs
- Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours
- Jensen Huang’s iconic signed leather jacket expected to fetch up to $60,000 in charity auction — Sotheby’s says item was worn at a Foxconn Tech Day in 2023 and the signature has been professionally authenticated
- July 2
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- SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers' data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says 'livid' businesses 'are paying for tokens that create no value'
- Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut
- U.S. PC shipments drop 7%, market isn't expected to bounce back until 2029 — price hikes and component shortages take hold as PC market declines, Omdia report suggests
- Save up to 39% on a new 3D printer this weekend, thanks to these July 4th deals — discounted printers, filament, and resin from Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, and more for 3DP beginners and experienced pros alike
- Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets
- Digital archivists rush to save PS3 game data before Sony shuts down the store forever in 2027 — RPCS3 emulator urges users to preserve all content
- Montech NX600 Review: A budget dual tower with jet-engine fans
- Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling — 'Meta Compute' would put company in direct competition with AWS
- Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features
- Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50 — official Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus product pages now recommend prices of up to $349 and $229, respectively
- OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund
- Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water
- Save $521 on this 4K-capable RTX 5070 gaming PC from CyberPowerPC, now just $1,349 — huge price drop for budget-friendly rig with impressive Intel Core Ultra 250KF CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB SSD
- HP has slashed $1,300 off this colossal 5080 gaming laptop for July 4 — 34% discount gets you 32GB of RAM and 24-core Arrow Lake mobile gaming for $2,499
- Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering
- Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs
- The best tech deals this July 4th — save on gaming desktops, laptops, GPUs, gaming chairs, monitors, and more
- Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it
- Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point
- Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you're human — testers beat it with a stock photo
- Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false'
- 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $359 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price in months, thanks to $80 discount
- July 1
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- Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games
- Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A
- Get 16GB DDR5 for less than $260 in this B&H RAM bundle deal for an AMD AM5 build — save $119 on this PC parts kit that includes a Ryzen 5 CPU and an Asus B650E motherboard
- Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028 — shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita systems
- Elon Musk offers Starlink discount to AI data center neighbors following air and noise pollution lawsuits — 50% off plans and free hardware rental
- Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them
- Grab a massive $464 saving on a two-year NordVPN subscription with three extra months free — 69% saving unlocks this privacy-first VPN service with scam protection, password manager, 1TB cloud storage, ad blocking and more
- The bifurcated laptop landscape of Computex 2026 – MacBook Neo competitors with 8GB of RAM, and expensive Nvidia laptops promising an agentic-focused future of Windows on Arm
- Philippine town closes all 'Pisonet' computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed 'for the safety of the youth'
- Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
- New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
- AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — 'CoT Forgery' exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought
- Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee