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- 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
- 80 different Microsoft Copilot products have been mapped out by expert, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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