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September 12
- Borderlands 4 on PC crushing even the most powerful rigs — RTX 5090 struggles in some scenarios, but day one patch solves plenty of issues
- Seagate's humongous 28TB HDD is a massive deal for a limited time at just $11.75 per TB — Desktop Expansion HDD on sale at Best Buy for $329
- Amazon says bug caused select Echo Show devices to use tons of data — widgets caching large images caused gigabytes of internet usage
- Nintendo Switch 2 mod adds over an hour of playtime with bigger 8,000mAh battery — unofficial replacement battery packs sell for as little as $40
- Netgear Orbi 370 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 hardware finally makes Orbi affordable
- The new frontier: Meet the power players cashing in on the AI gold rush
- Intel Xeon chief architect leaves just 8 months after appointment — Ronak Singhal latest departure in ongoing shakeup
- Nvidia and Kioxia target 100 million IOPS SSD in 2027 — AI server drives aim to deliver 33 times more performance
September 11
- MSI Afterburner developer adding 'triple channel voltage' support for future MSI RTX 50 graphics cards
- Intel's 14nm+++ desktop CPUs are making a comeback — chipmaker inexplicably resurrects Comet Lake from five years ago with 'new' Core i5-110
- Lexar NM1090 Pro 4TB SSD Review: A 'Budget' High-End Drive
- DOOM multiplayer tribute gets coded in 'pure SQL' and runs at 30FPS — made from just 150 lines of code in less than a month
- Top China silicon figure calls on country to stop using Nvidia GPUs for AI — says current AI development model could become 'lethal' if not addressed
- Windows 11 25H2 ISOs released after delays — upgrade switches on some features, now available for insiders
- Taiwan increases defensive patrols around 24 undersea cables — closely monitoring '96 blacklisted China-linked boats' with 24-hour operations
- Researchers develop modified glue gun that can print bone — device 3D prints synthetic grafts directly onto patients’ living tissue during surgery
- OpenAI signs contract to buy $300 billion worth of Oracle computing power over the next five years — company needs 4.5 gigawatts of power, enough to power four million homes
- ASRock X870 Nova WiFi Motherboard Review: Lots of storage, not without sacrifice
- Nano11 compresses Windows 11 install footprint to as little as 2.8GB — 'extreme experimental script' is 3.5 times smaller than Tiny11 and comes with 'none of the fluff'
- DDoS scrubbing service ironic target of massive attack it was built to prevent — hit with 1.5 billion packets per second from more than 11,000 distributed networks
- Apple's A19 Pro beats Ryzen 9 9950X in single-thread Geekbench tests — iPhone 17 Pro chip packs 11-12% CPU performance bump, GPU performance up 37% over predecessor
- Hyte warns Thicc Q80 Trio customers should uninstall AIO cooler immediately — company says it has identified coolant leakage issue caused by 'fragile internal component'
September 10
- China's chip champions ramp up production of AI accelerators at domestic fabs, but HBM and fab production capacity are towering bottlenecks
- U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind — Tymoshchuk allegedly stole $18 billion from large companies over 3 years
- At 4,500 hours, MSI's OLED MPG 321URX is showing noticeable visual artifacts — intentional burn-in test shows the limits of monitor tech after 18 months of non-top use
- $142 upgrade kit and spare modules turn Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB to 48GB AI card — technician explains how Chinese factories turn gaming flagships into highly desirable AI GPUs
- Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB SSD review: Bigger, badder, and better
- Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside
- Halot X-1 review: A solid step forward for serious hobbyists
- Nvidia’s latest RTX Remix update brings path-traced particles to classic games — major overhaul promises 'tens of thousands' of particles without significant performance reduction
- Slot an 8TB WD Black SN850X into your PC now that it's at one of its lowest-ever prices of $539 — Install all your favorite games on one drive
- Nvidia claims software and hardware upgrades allow Blackwell Ultra GB300 to dominate MLPerf benchmarks — touts 45% DeepSeek R-1 inference throughput increase over GB200
- How to make graphical Python apps the EasyGUI way
- Intel confirms Arrow Lake refresh set for 2026, Nova Lake later that year — company admits there are 'holes to fill on the desktop front,' says it is 'confident in the roadmap'
- Nvidia Rubin CPX forms one half of new, "disaggregated" AI inference architecture — approach splits work between compute- and bandwidth-optimized chips for best performance
September 9
- Microsoft key resale fight heads to court in the UK — case potentially puts cheap Windows keys at risk
- 3D Pinball bug allowed the game to run at 5,000 FPS in Windows NT when faster CPUs arrived— former Microsoft programmer didn't add a rev limiter when porting game from Windows 95 to NT
- Apple debuts A19 and A19 Pro processors for iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17 Pro
- Atari Gamestation Go handheld goes up for pre-order — retro deck boasts 200+ classic games and unique physical controls
- Lucky gamer scores Nvidia's RTX 3060 12GB for $4.99 — one of the most popular graphics cards ever found for less than a Big Mac at a thrift shop
- JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were injected with malicious code in world's largest supply chain hack, geared to steal crypto — a phishing email is all it took to undermine npm packages
- Star Wars Outlaws developer explains that Nintendo Switch 2 game cards are too slow for a physical game release — Snowdrop game engine uses disk data streaming to render the game world
- Red Sea undersea cable cuts that slowed internet over the weekend blamed on commercial shipping — sabotage seems unlikely, but repairs could take weeks
- Dell reportedly cutting staff from China operations — affected employees have until October 10 to apply for internal transfer
- The Aero X16 gaming laptop has the Nvidia RTX 5060 and latest AMD hardware plus a lenient price point — Gigabyte's laptop is on sale for just $1049
- World's first laser communication link between a plane and satellite ran at 1 Gbps — 10-watt laser which has a 3,417 mile range and 2.5 Gbps max data rate
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — the battle of AMD's fastest gaming chips
- Intel ousts CEO of Products as part of the latest executive shake-up, ending 30-year career — company also establishes new custom chip design unit
- Corsair HX1500i (2025) ATX 3.1 power supply review
- Alterego demoes ‘world’s first near-telepathic wearable' that enables 'typing at the speed of thought' other abilities — device said to enable silent communication with others, control devices hands-free, and restore speech for impaired
- AMD expands FSR 4 with drop-in support for 85 games with latest Radeon driver update - but you still need an RDNA 4 GPU
- ASML makes $1.5 billion investment in Mistral AI — ASML becomes the largest shareholder for the French AI start-up
- Pro Counter-Strike 2 gamer says game runs like 'a**' on anything other than AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D — custom demo of the game runs at under 200 FPS even on on AMD's best gaming CPUs
September 8
- Intel could sell up to 49% of its foundry business to external investors, but a full IPO or spin-off is unlikely
- Nintendo secures $2 million settlement against Switch modder — Modded Hardware creator agreed to stop selling backup devices, but continued to, prompting lawsuit
- Early Windows 11 25H2 benchmarks confirm the update provides no performance improvements over 24H2
- AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools
- This amazing Logitech deal chucks in a free gear shift and racing gloves along with the TrueForce sim-racing wheel — and that's not even counting the hefty 56% discount on the DE9 shifter and G923 wheel
- Sapphire launches a pair of AMD B850 motherboards for Ryzen CPUs — white offerings for budget builds
- ‘USB 5.0’ connection touted on new slim eGPU with RX 7600M XT — Compact OneXGPU Lite unveiled, likely using USB4 v2
- U.S. government considers annual permits for Samsung and SK hynix to supply equipment to their Chinese fabs
- Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable review: Rolling in screen real estate
- The Decisioninator ‘saved my marriage,’ says software engineer — device automates restaurant, chore, date night, and movie night choices
- Upgraded Nvidia RTX 5090 gets 128GB VRAM and $13,000 price tag — 'super limited' GPU is described as a 'prototype'
- Best of IFA 2025: New laptops, monitors, gaming handhelds, and more
- TSMC increases Arizona internships to feed its Phoenix fabs — CHIPS-fueled supply chain begins to take shape
- Intel CFO confirms that 14A will be more expensive than 18A due to High-NA EUV tool — Intel expects 14A process to offer 15-20% better performance-per-watt or 25-35% lower power consumption than 18A
- Apple MacBooks have a sensor that measures the angle of the screen —Engineer taps into hidden ‘LidAngleSensor’ API to create a creaky door simulator
September 7
- HP's Omen 16 Slim gaming laptop with an RTX 5050 and 2K 165Hz display is $550 off right now — all-time low pricing and a free copy of Battlefield 6
- Used RTX 4090 from eBay shows up with no GPU chip or video memory — stripped Asus TUF RTX 4090 points to increasing number of scams in the used GPU market
- Malware found hidden in image files, can dodge antivirus detection entirely — VirusTotal discovers undetected SVG phishing campaign
- AMD lists mystery Radeon 9060 XL model in ROCm documents, but it is more likely to be a typo than a new SKU
- Tokyo’s Tech shopper paradise Akihabara Electric Town was just a 'Town' on Friday, due to the first power outage in 30 years – all the RGBs went out
- Creality Hi Combo review: Catching up with color
- Custom Windows 11 builder axes Microsoft's AI features, whack-a-moling Copilot, Outlook, and Teams — new Tiny11 Builder release should be Windows 11 25H2 ready
- Nvidia RTX 5090 reset bug prompts $1,000 reward for a fix — cards become completely unresponsive and require a reboot after virtualization reset bug, also impacts RTX PRO 6000
- TP-Link Deco BE68 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Class-leading 6 GHz performance and competitive pricing
- New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows
- Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance — international cables connecting Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are compromised
- Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable
- Eight-year-old gaming PC with Nvidia GTX 1080 found in the trash room gets a second life — offered a substantial upgrade to the finder despite age
September 6
- Intel APO update boosts gaming performance by up to 14% in select titles — 15 new games added to the support list
- AMD calls AI ‘underhyped’ at IFA Berlin — chipmaker says the ‘perfect PC’ comes first
- Score a 4 terabyte PCIe 4.0 SSD for a mere 5 cents per gigabyte — WD's SN7100 is just $210 on Amazon right now
- Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college students — eligible users get 50% off the monthly plan after the first year
- Nvidia says 'We never deprive American customers in order to serve the rest of the world' — company says GAIN AI Act addresses a problem that doesn't exist
- $9 Goodwill PC find earns congratulations from enthusiasts — the machine could be a great eSports or nostalgic gaming powerhouse with the right upgrades
- AMD launches Ryzen 5 9500F, claiming up to 24% faster than Ryzen 5 7500F in gaming — Zen 5 chip launches as a China-exclusive for now
- AMD prototype Radeon AI Pro R9700 found by 'a friend,' posted to Reddit — a real-life reference design model of AMD's artistic render
- Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of $6,700 — fraudster claimed they needed funds for oxygen supplies
- Anthropic to pay $1.5B over pirated books in Claude AI training — payouts of roughly $3,000 per infringed work
- SAMA P1200 Platinum power supply review
- Seagate Exos M 30TB HDD review: laser-powered HAMR recording tech revitalizes the enterprise HDD market
- [Updated] Amazon Echo is reportedly an internet vampire that uses gigabytes of data per day despite being unused, says owner
September 5
- Qualcomm CEO says Intel ‘not an option’ for chip production — yet
- OpenAI widely thought to be Broadcom's mystery $10 billion custom AI processor customer — order could be for millions of AI processors
- Anthropic blocks Chinese-controlled firms from Claude AI — cites 'legal, regulatory, and security risks'
- Ryzen to the top: How AMD innovated in the gaming CPU market
- Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 gaming laptop is $300 off at Best Buy — RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB RAM, and 240Hz OLED screen can be yours for $1,600
- Synopsys adds generative AI for chip development with Synopsys.ai Copilot design software
- Expansion card lets you insert 512GB of extra DDR5 memory into your PCIe slot — CXL 2.0 AIC designed for TRX50 and W790 workstation motherboards
- Intel’s bitcoin-mining Blockscale chips return from the dead, being given away for free — 256,000 Intel Bonanza Mine ASICs donated by Jack Dorsey’s Block, will be distributed to DIYers and open-hardware projects
- Anker brings beastly 14-port dock, plus new compact chargers and portable batteries to IFA
- Jaguar Land Rover production stopped for four days and counting due to ransomware attack, company has now officially shut down — teenaged hackers from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters take responsibility
- Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately — signal variations caused by a beating heart enable determining beats per minute
- Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
- Nvidia signs $1.5 billion deal with cloud startup Lambda to rent back its own AI chips — 18,000 GPUs will be leased over 4 years, as Lambda gears up for its IPO
- Trump warns that he will soon announce ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs — chip companies investing in the US will be spared the brunt of the tariffs
- AI-powered PromptLocker ransomware is just an NYU research project — the code worked as a typical ransomware, selecting targets, exfiltrating selected data and encrypting volumes
- Newegg's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, motherboard, and RAM combo deal is still available for $678 — jump start your next PC build
- Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam
- TeamGroup MP44Q 2TB SSD Review: Another Budget Winner
- DIYer creates the PC gaming handheld of your widest dreams – 32:9 AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme device showcased in driving games
- Portable 3D-printed device claimed to produce enough drinking water from thin air for a family of four every day - Water from Air project says it can capture 1.6 gallons of drinking water per day
- Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 packs Ryzen Z2 Extreme and an OLED display — thick gaming handheld starts at $1,049
- Lenovo's IFA launches include 4K 240 Hz OLED gaming monitors — Legion Pro 7 laptops features Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with an RTX 5080
- Lenovo shows off ThinkBook VertiFlex laptop and Smart Motion dock concepts at IFA – rotating displays and AI-powered docks that follow your every move
September 4
- US offers $10M reward for snitching on trio of Russians that hacked critical infrastructure
- Windows 11 August 2025 security update is causing unintended UAC prompts to appear for non-admin users — some apps are crashing
- Solar-powered Logitech keyboard appears on Amazon Mexico — MX Keys S look-alike promises up to 10 years of power
- Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released with native fingerprint support – also has a new syncing sticky note system
- Grab this $179 Mini LED gaming monitor before it's gone — Woot puts 4.5-star, 165 Hz, quantum dot Cooler Master screen on clearance for $270 off its 2024 list price
- China injects tens of billions of dollars in chipmaking tools, but it's easily more than a decade behind the market leaders — Here's why
- Report says North Korea is also posting fake jobs to steal crypto — because using AI to get fake employees real jobs at US tech firms wasn't enough
- Intel’s old NAND plant in China is now officially registered as SK hynix after US imposes new sanctions that limit fab upgrades in China
- AMD preps Mega Pod with 256 Instinct MI500 AI GPUs, Verano CPUs — Leak suggests platform with better scalability than Nvidia will arrive in 2027
- Bill Gates’ 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source
- Nvidia's next-gen AI chip could double the price of H20 if China export is approved — Chinese firms still consider Nvidia's B30A a good deal
- Samsung's massive 49-inch ultrawide OLED gaming monitor is back down to its lowest ever price at Amazon
- Seagate IronWolf Pro 30TB HDD Review: Seagate Drops the HAMR with the Biggest NAS Drive on the Market
- Noctua's first AIO liquid cooler delayed to Q2 2026, company reveals new roadmap — cooler was originally slated for a Q1 2026 release
- 'Doomer science fiction': Nvidia criticizes proposed US bill designed to give American buyers 'first option' in AI GPU purchases before selling chips to other countries — GAIN AI Act debuts in defense spending bill
- New 3D-stacked memory tech seeks to dethrone HBM for AI inference — d-Matrix claims 3DIMC will be 10x faster and 10x more efficient
September 3
- Acer unveils Project Digits supercomputer featuring Nvidia's GB10 superchip with 128GB of LPDDR5x
- Microsoft-backed research team builds hollow-core cable with lowest signal loss recorded in optical fiber
- New 3D printing process could improve superconductors — scientists use 3D-printed ink and heat to create record-breaking surface area
- Anycubic Kobra 3 V2 Review: Kobra Gets an Upgrade
- Intel Panther Lake breaks cover in Acer Swift 16 AI — company also touts world's largest trackpad with stylus support
- Despite whispers of a bubble, OpenAI is planning a gigawatt-scale data center in India
- Nvidia says its H100/H200 GPUs are not sold out, despite Jensen alluding otherwise during earnings call — company clarifies it has plenty of GPU supply
- German motorists facing ‘plague’ of electric car charger cable thefts – 70 charging points a day being gutted to sell for copper scrap
- After locking out the U.S., China offers rare earth development assistance to Malaysia — country has estimated 16.2 million metric tons of elements worth $175 billion
- Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share — 27% surge in shipments likely caused by customers getting ahead of tariffs
- TSMC swats away rumors that Jensen Huang visited to pressure company into revenue-sharing plan with Trump administration
- China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities
- Crucial T710 2TB SSD Review: A Subdued Lion
- Making a 3D-printed custom GPU fan shroud with a DDR5 slot doesn't let you add extra VRAM, but at least it looks cool
- Cloudflare blocks record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack
- ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
- Acer hedges its hardware bets, puts vPro and ECC memory in new high-end gaming laptop
- Acer's new Predator gaming monitor boasts a 720 Hz OLED panel, if you like gaming at 720p — 27-inch panel can also do native 1440p at a swift 540 Hz
September 2
- YMTC and CXMT team up to accelerate Chinese domestic HBM production — partnership brings hybrid bonding and DRAM expertise together
- U.S. gov't revokes TSMC's authorization to ship tools to its fabs in China — special export license to be pulled by end of 2025
- The Asus Prime RTX 5070 12GB is the absolute cheapest RTX 5070 available to buy, now only $523
- Samsung bulks the 9100 Pro up to 8TB for $999 — heatsink costs an extra $20
- Alienware AW2725D QD-OLED QHD 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Rich color, high performance and excellent value
- TSMC to reportedly raise quotes on advanced process nodes by up to 10% next year to pay for new fabs
- Amkor’s Arizona mega-plant could plug the holes in America’s chip ambitions — advanced packaging plant would reduce need to send US-produced chips to foreign shores for packaging and test
- Planetary Minecraft-inspired demo uses a spherical planet — game has the same blocky mechanics, but converts flat earth surface into a sphere
- 32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers — Steam survey indicates shift could occur before the end of the year
- Remaking a Commodore 64 Datasette from 1982 using 1993 microcassette tech — TechTuber touts 1MB per tape, a 5x improvement over the original
- Chinese social media firms comply with strict AI labelling law, making it clear to users and bots what's real and what's not
September 1
- Hurry! Back-to-school memory and storage deals now at Corsair
- TSMC’s foundry dominance hits new heights as global revenues smash records — 14.6% QoQ jump sees growth for Samsung, but TSMC's market share climbs to 70.2%
- China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz — seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where patients play chess
- Corsair's stylish Frame 4000D RS ARGB falls to $109 for Labor Day — a budget-friendly box to build in at a great price
- Labor Day sale marks down the only mainstream 40 inch ultrawide gaming monitor on the market by $90
- AMD Ryzen 9000 iGPU-less CPUs listed for under $300 — unreleased Pro chips start at $350
- Noctua's 3D printable side panel quiets Framework's Desktop — drop 5-7 decibels using this freely available mod
- Samsung’s 4TB 990 Pro drops to less than 7 cents per GB on Labor Day — enjoy this great 4TB SSD for $270
- Gaming consoles are becoming more expensive as they age for the first time in history — gamers blame tariffs for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch price increases
- 3D printing's tool changer wars heat up as Prusa re-enters the ring
- DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles
- Linux gaming OS Kazeta promises ‘console gaming experience of the 1990s’ for PC users — supports almost any DRM-free game, past or present
- Intel files patent for 'Software Defined Supercore' — increases single-thread performance and IPC by mimicking ultra-wide execution using multiple cores
- Shuttle intros semi-ruggedized barebone Intel Arrow Lake-S mini PC — support for 65W Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs