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September 30
- Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI’s dots agent runs on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs with nearly 10GB of memory — newest runs score about six times Meta Muse in multi-core
- Top AI tech executives promise to ‘self-police’ AI development — Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and more pledge AI labs will take steps ‘to build a positive future’
- Marvel's Wolverine reaches gameplay with KytyPS5 emulator — PS5 exclusive joins Ghost of Yotei in reaching gameplay, performance still in single digits
- Xbox Disc to Digital feature rolls out to all Xbox players to enable playing disc-free, but selling your media revokes access — hybrid physical media plan lands as Sony phases out discs by 2028
- New PS5 Relapse jailbreak enables homebrew and Switch emulation but is hamstrung by rapidly-changing firmware revisions — jailbreak unlocks firmware 13.60, but newer games already demand firmware 14.00
- TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market — US left off launch list as FCC freeze refuses to thaw
- Meta's Muse AI agent accused of accessing sensitive user data on iPhone and Mac without permission — agent shocks reporter by referring to confidential messages it wasn't granted access to
- Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval — OpenAI says it already paused training its most capable models last week
- Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence — President insists that AI is only suffering from a branding problem
- The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 — DEC, Intel, and Xerox defined the standard several years before the internet existed
- Developer trains a small AI on a single RTX 3080 Ti gaming GPU to 'play' Pokémon Red — model discovered what each button does by predicting what happens next
- Nuvacore reveals unconventional Core First CPU IP design strategy — chip startup led by Apple and Nuvia legends plans to delay ISA selection for as long as possible
- ‘This is how AI should be used’ — OpenAI head of hardware breaks down the AI-assisted design of its Jalapeño ASIC
- Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel — stolen info includes Social Security numbers and job-related records
- Former EVGA employee recounts company’s degrading relationship with Nvidia before 2022 blow-up — forced loss-leader Founders Editions, pricing mandates, and forward-looking tech all led to friction
- AMD acquires AI legend Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion — ImageNet pioneer will become AMD chief scientist as the chipmaker brings her lab in-house
September 29
- Zotac denies warranty support to RTX 3060 owner in India after just one year despite offering three years of coverage — company says GPU’s 2023 import date takes precedence over purchase date [Update]
- How NordVPN proves its zero-logs promise
- Anthropic lists ‘existential risks to humanity’ as one of its risk factors in IPO prospectus — 80 pages of risk factors dwarf business description as firm eyes $2 trillion debut
- We tested 13 power banks to help you choose the best one – from 10-25K mAh and 20-220W, see how each behaves when charging and discharging a powerful laptop
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake platforms pass compliance at USB and PCIe standards bodies as launch looms — PCI-SIG and USB-IF give their stamp of approval
- Sony Japan tries an anti-scalper lottery system for PS5 Pro orders, locks systems behind a 60-hour playtime requirement — strict lottery system blocks scalpers and tourists in Japan, requires a domestic account to buy
- AMD drops an EPYC $15,000, 256-core beast — EPYC 9006 Zen 6 'Venice' CPUs get full spec and pricing treatment, from $700 up to $14,904
- Intel patent outlines embedding MicroLEDs directly into CPU package to light up wording or work as an 'extra aesthetic component' — MicroLED is embedded with die in glass substrate
- Early Nvidia advisor says he's owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlement — 480x stock splits amount to around 4.5 million shares after splits
- Anthropic CEO called Jensen Huang 'kind of Trump-like' during heated dinner — Nvidia CEO reportedly called Anthropic executive a 'bean counter' after Google TPU comparison
September 28
- Early AMD 'Gorgon Halo' AI mini-PC packs 192GB RAM for an eye-watering $7,099 — super early bird deal cuts down price of GMKtec Evo-X5 with Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 by $425
- US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027
- Google confirms ChromeOS phase out in 2034 — 10-year support lifetime cut short for some devices, company says it will support transition to Googlebook OS
- Noctua upgrades Thermal Grizzly's 12V-2x6 power monitor — cuts active noise to 21.5dB and runs passively up to a 300W GPU load
- Steam adds low-latency Pyrowave codec to Remote Play — new codec offers better game streaming on local networks but costs '5-10 times' more bandwidth
- OpenAI's custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rollout — firm says it will have its ‘hands full’ with Jalapeño for ‘a good long time’
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- You can now play Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5 — early alpha hits 40 FPS in lighter titles but chokes on Zelda
- Testing two Thunderbolt 5 docks with M.2 storage — VectoTech V-Core vs Orico TB5
- Virginia Tech lab 3D prints a liquid metal composite to guide heat, boost thermal conductivity 40x — the nozzle stretches gallium-indium droplets inside soft silicone, can also create self-healing traces
- UK Games Expo bans games and art made mostly using AI — UKGE enforces booth shutdowns and bans after deleted-comment debacle, says that the ‘central creative process must be conducted by humans’
- Modders bring Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs — latest build delivers 74% performance boost in just 24 hours, new launcher automates install process
- UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots — draft guidance pushes lightweight models and shorter prompts to cut environmental impact
- OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI 'kill switch' fails to stop a rogue agent — report says problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known
- Demon's Souls reaches 40-50 FPS on private PS5 emulator with accurate graphics — KyTyPS5 surges from unplayable 1-2 FPS in just three weeks, new milestone comes only three weeks after the game barely booted
- North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack — investigators identify IP addresses tied to VPN infrastructure previously used by North Korean hacker groups; thieves swapped stablecoins for ETH in minutes to dodge freezes
- Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
- Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands — lawsuit from Irdeto has a chilling effect, but cracking continues as piracy hub purges links
- Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts — custom AI bot and lack of JWT token validation yields a fruitful trove, earns $5,000 bug bounty
- G.Skill wins PC enthusiast as 'customer for life' simply by honoring its warranty replacement policy — enthusiast gets new module for kit that cost $150 but now sells for $1,200
- Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games — publishers must provide offline mode, an independent server patch, or a 25% minimum refund
September 27
- Custom 24-carat gold mini PC costs around $1.7 million, weighs nearly 29 pounds for up to 50% faster heat transfer — copper would have been far cheaper and offers even better thermal conductivity
- Thieves steal Nvidia-labeled trailers expecting massive AI GPU payday, but score 40,000 pounds of sand instead — crooks duped by 20 tons of ballast sand
- PS5 emulator successfully runs six titles at a playable 60 FPS — PS5 emulation continues to gather momentum as developers improve shader translation and Vulkan support
- Linux enthusiasts see 10-second kernel compilation times on the horizon — AI-assisted patches cut build times by nearly a third without a RAMdisk
- Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down — unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide
- Developer says AI decision model Jev beat Pokémon Red in under a week — non-LLM engine succeeds where traditional chatbots stalled for months, but Claude Opus 5 coached the model through its dead ends
- U.S. and UK navies successfully launch 3,700-pound submarine-sinking torpedo from robotic drone sub in historic first — Project Broadsword proves weapon interchangeability in just seven months
- Counterfeit vinyl record maker sentenced to three years in the slammer after making $3.5 million — Police bust largest fake vinyl operation in UK history, raid uncovers four 70-year-old presses and 3,000 metal stampers
- Taiwan's chip talisman snack faces production halt after 94% strike vote — snacks are seen as a good luck charm in the computing industry, but workers demand share of $176 million factory sale to ASE
September 26
- 27-year-old GTA 2 gets full path tracing and 60 FPS frame generation via RTX Remix — custom Direct3D 9 wrapper modernizes classic, unlocks dynamic lighting
- Russia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalation — 100,000 households lose connectivity as firms migrate data abroad, Zelensky says ‘ordinary life is simply a target’
- Microsoft quietly drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops after two years — Surface CVP confirms new devices meet hardware requirements but lack controversial branding
- Open-source AnyPS5 dumps emulation to run PlayStation 5 console games natively on PC — AMD Zen 2 architecture enables Proton-like binary translation for Windows and Linux
- Nvidia patents AI chatbot to streamline PC game optimization — could one day help developers better optimize their games with requests made in plain English
- Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 streams ray-tracing geometry into VRAM on demand — Nanite-inspired design drops detail instead of dropping out
- Novel attack slashes computing power needed to crack textbook RSA cryptography — attacks within state-actor reach, could target Apple and Cloudflare privacy services
- PNY allegedly refuses to cover melted RTX 5090 powered by native power supply cable — company closes user's ticket when questioned on policy
- Enthusiast cooled iPhone 18 Pro with cold can of La Croix sparkling water; benchmarks show 25% higher sustained performance — 'liquid cooling' surprisingly reduced thermal throttling
- Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites — yet fuzzy location rules could trigger heavy-handed bans
- ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 85-year-old 1941 Enigma-coded message in two days — autonomous AI coded its own simulator to crack code that was unsolved since it was shared online back in 2005
September 25
- Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation — firm is building 1.2-gigawatt power plant to bring systems fully online
- Meta Muse runs agents on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with two cores and 8GB of memory — AI agent can pass terminal commands to Ubuntu host system
- Noctua explores 2,000W micro-channel air cooling — partners with Forced Physics to develop vacuum pump-level airflow for desktop PCs
- DDR5 laptop memory prices surge 6X in 12 months — Schenker raises laptop prices and warns shortage will last through 2027, other components also on the rise
- Nintendo wins $4.5 million lawsuit against Switch pirate by default — defendant allegedly moderated r/SwitchPirates and sold pirated Switch games
- Microsoft revamps Copilot with new tools, support for frontier models — available now through Frontier program
- Intel expects 14A to be 'within 5%' the performance of TSMC's A14 — conservative forecast clashes with 18A's frequency lead and promised 20% gains
- Asus confirms eShop data breach exposed customer order records and contact details — payment data safe, but firm warns of targeted phishing scams
- New Jersey hits Microsoft-linked AI data center with record fine for 62 unpermitted power generators, issues 45-day shutdown deadline — site tied to $33 billion deal also built illegal 1.5M-gallon fuel tank
- Nvidia DLSS 5 power draw hits 647W as power connector runs hotter than the GPU die, upscales frame rates and flame temps on 16-pin — AI gaming tech pushes connector to uncomfortable thermal and power limits
- Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power — overheating limits runs to just 15 minutes, but orbital server will handle tasks for one year
September 24
- Australian PM says OpenAI took 84 days to email agency after agent hacked its national health care portal — incident is believed to be the first known case of AI breaching a government site
- Sony patent could turn PlayStation controllers into tap-to-pay credit card terminals — NFC and Bluetooth also support phones and gift cards for instant purchases
- Nvidia CEO says 'we have to shut the labs down' if AI experiments are unsafe — Jensen cites civil and criminal liability over rogue agents, but says frontier AI lab fears are a 'distraction,' not a call for regulation
- Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities
- Logitech refreshes legendary Blue Yeti microphone with 3D voice tracking and AI denoising — $160 Blue Yeti 2 sequel features real-time auto gain and color mascot screen
- Leading semiconductor analyst says AMD should be investigated for 'treason' over availability of restricted chips in China, AMD blames diversion of export-controlled RFSoC — $36,000 radar silicon allegedly quoted at $1,000 for crowdfunding project
- Micron discontinues 2GB GDDR7 chips for gaming GPUs as it pivots toward higher-density memory for AI — chipmaker reportedly pivots to high-margin 3GB silicon for AI GPUs
- ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 — lithography giant calls on EU to help create demand
- Lucky 3D artist scores Jensen Huang-signed RTX 5090 from used marketplace that's worth up to $15,000 — unused Asus ROG Astra White OC sent to Bonhams with $15,000 estimate
- China swiped classified F-35 stealth fighter parts that were diverted through Hong Kong — rerouted UPS cargo triggers military investigation, stealth coating recipe feared compromised despite Pentagon downplaying mishap
- New wireless Wi-Fi 7 external GPU enclosure comes with a built-in 4TB SSD for local AI — $1,999 box leverages WiFi 7 to present a remote card as local
- China’s ultimate gaming GPU hits a performance wall — LX 7G100 barely crawls past AMD’s nine-year-old RX 580; hyped as an RTX 4060 rival, China's LX 7G100 trails RTX 2060 by 35%
- British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for 'aiding and abetting' school shooter — lawsuit says OpenAI identified shooter's ChatGPT account eight months prior but hid it and didn't warn police
- Samsung's disastrous firmware update bricks refrigerators ahead of South Korean holiday — repair visits slip into October, customers complain of food spoilage ahead of three-day celebration
- CyberPowerPC lands rare RTX 50-series Founders Edition cards in discounted Walmart rigs — complete RTX 5090 PC costs $2,400 less than a standalone GPU
September 23
- Microsoft brings Snapdragon X2 Plus to 13-inch Surface Laptop, 12-inch Surface Pro — low-end systems finally get upgrades
- China's YMTC wins utility model battle against Micron in ongoing 3-year legal war over patents — new injunctions could restrict Micron's supply into Germany
- $14,000 gaming PC features 70 handcrafted titanium cherry blossoms which unfurl as temperatures rise — Zotac-designed RTX 5080 system features impressive sculpture and an eye-watering price tag to match
- China's ByteDance gained access to over 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through Norway data center — Singaporean subsidiary Spring contributed 73% of NScale's 2025 revenue
- Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claims it's 'the most powerful AI chip in China' — accelerator supports 500,000 chip supercluster with a 10T-parameter Qwen model on the roadmap
- AMD begins to add GDDR7 support to its Linux GPU drivers — changes could herald use of advanced memory standard with next-gen Radeon GPUs
- Meta's new transoceanic undersea cable boasts a whopping petabit of bandwidth — Petal link between US and France will be twice as fast as the last
- China puts AI compute into orbit with Supercomputing-1 satellite — onboard processing aims to cut Earth-observation data processing from hours to minutes
- Airbus turned the Steam Deck into a controller for a prototype Mars rover — Valve handheld PC gives engineers command of the ExoMars platform during testing
September 22
- Durabook Z14I-DX3 rugged mobile workstation folds three screens into a 9.8 kg chassis — luggable targets military, emergency services, and field professionals
- ‘We’ll be the first to mine Bitcoin in space’ says Nvidia-backed startup —Starcloud will fire up its ASICs after its second spacecraft reaches orbit later this year
- Memory chips are now more expensive than compute chips on a per-area basis — AI demand drives DRAM die value past leading-edge silicon
- Raspberry Pi locks boards to factory RAM capacities in firmware — engineer tells DIY modders 'don't waste your time' trying repairs or upgrades, company cites shady reseller scams
- New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region — trades 6% to 20% of its QLC capacity for more than 7x faster random writes
- China's CXMT hits 12nm-class DRAM milestone — new 5th-gen DRAM tech uses quadruple-patterning to boost die capacity by 50%
- OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag — 20-30 MW facilities to provide capacity as mega structures undergo construction
September 21
- iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes — QLC NAND offers higher capacity but reportedly suffers 38% drop compared to TLC-based Pro
- Local opposition blocked 45 data center projects worth $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026 — data center investments reportedly still on track to hit $32 trillion by 2050 [Updated]
- AMD beats Intel to the trillion-dollar club as stock price soars — firm joins Nvidia, Broadcom, and SK hynix for companies worth over $1 trillion
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 show up at retail with pricing above MSRP — budget CPUs are $20 more expensive than list price, even from first-party sellers
- Huawei shelves global AI chip rollout as China's own demand outstrips supply — 15,488-chip Atlas clusters leverage optical networking to counter Nvidia, scales to 120 EFLOPS
- New RTX 5070 Autumn Limited Edition gaming GPU doubles as an air freshener with built-in 'e-sports aromatherapy' — AX Gaming's white and purple card also features an anime character and floral graphics
- President Trump has announced plans for new 'AI Force' and 'AI Czar' amid growing AI safety concerns — new unit will 'cherish' AI and not 'stifle' it, Trump clarifies, while dismissing safety warnings as hoaxes
- TypeSafe AI's Jev offers an alternative to LLMs that claims to be 193x faster and 445x cheaper — System One type model is bespoke for probabilistic decision-making
- PlayStation 3 emulation devs work around an Nvidia bug for up to 37% faster performance — open-source coders reach out to Nvidia to over uncovered bug
- MediaTek’s next-gen Dimensity CX C10 Max will power new Googlebook initiative alongside Intel and Qualcomm – 3nm SoC has similar specs to Kompanio Ultra in Chromebook Plus devices, despite claims of ‘elevating’ computing portfolio
- Hands-on with Googlebooks — Five models, the new Googlebook OS, and a Mac-style experience for Android users at premium prices
- China crafts working 3nm gate-all-around transistors without EUV — stacked nanosheets target 3nm without EUV, but full node remains distant
- OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge
- Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive
- Cloudflare saves 100 TB of RAM again, this time by slashing server hashes by 90% — cutting 100,000 entries down to 10,000 eliminates massive cache bloat
- Texas jury hits Bambu Lab with $27.6M verdict in Stratasys patent fight — X1, P1, and A1 printers found to infringe prime tower and bed-leveling tech
- AI-controlled robot arms attempted harmful tasks 97% of the time; experiments included stabbing a baby doll, mixing chemicals — OpenAI and Anthropic models try mixing bleach and stabbing dolls without jailbreaks
- Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins — PC prices set to decline by late 2027, cheaper Chinese capacity coming online delivers lower memory prices
- Nvidia's next-gen RTX 60 GPUs might not be released until 2028, prominent leaker claims — gaming takes a back seat as company focuses on delivering data center products
- Techie makes his own motherboard to refurbish 15-year-old HP ProLiant N40L tower server — Raspberry Pi CM5 adds NVMe and USB 3.0
September 20
- Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI development — plaintiffs say plan has been in motion for months before, calls agreement ‘self-serving’
- The PC gaming ray tracing obsession began with the first RTX 20 graphics cards released on this day in 2018 — the GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti led the charge, but games were thin on the ground
- Researchers build a drone that navigates with physical whiskers to operate in dark, dusty or smoky places where cameras or GPS can fail — sub-100 gram drones run 34KB software to enable sub-millimeter precision
- Final Fantasy VII Revelation might use upwards of 200 GB and requires an additional download — latest entry in the series of remakes may set a new record for the size of a base install
- Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits
- Massive 192GB GTA leak reveals early GTA VI map and canceled DLCs — files show liquid nitrogen death for Trevor and scrapped Liberty City expansion
- Noctua fans prevent the CAIM1 ‘Anti-AI’ 4K camera from throttling — unusual camera’s processor gets toasty as it records while performing cryptographic calculations
- North Korea used job interviews to deploy malware on 30,000 devices during coding tests — WaterPlum group loots $10.7 million in crypto and plants persistent RATs
- Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has 'increased by 605%' since he became director — claims that every major tech player is 'embedded' in the agency
- NATO strike designed to use Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently identify targets for attack — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, human verifies target before attack
- Jensen Huang says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030 — 'We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else,' dismisses Anthropic doom warnings and rejects new regulations
- Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC — 'Activate Windows' watermark visible in official Kremlin clip, uses foreign Dell PC despite Russian tech mandate
- Collapse of mainstream optical drive supply kills high-end CD players — PS Audio and Naim halt production as component costs double
- Google's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of concept — FutureBit says real organic neuron miner could have '10x the efficiency of the best silicon 3nm ASICs'
September 19
- ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German code for the first time — radio message sharing enemy movement intelligence had evaded decoding, 1918 Crimean fleet warning verified against HMS Canterbury logs
- Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill
- Researchers create DNA computer that performs 100-bit calculations without electricity — molecular system uses self-assembling strands to perform computing
- This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 19, 2026 — Steam Frame interview, killer AI models, and the DRAM crisis deepens
- Fully custom copper PC features upcycled blowtorch reservoir — antique wooden pedestal complements steampunk design hiding a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT
- Elon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist order — firm files trademark lawsuit, has sold Tera-Fab-branded lithography tools for over a decade
- Intel suspends bug bounty program that paid up to $100,000 per flaw — new Intigriti disclosure program offers no rewards
- Enthusiast digs into CPU substrate for surgery to replace ripped-off data pin — resurrected chip boots and hits 33% overclock
September 18
- AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core
- China's premier memory maker CXMT eyes producing flash for SSDs, report claims — 3D NAND research and development line rumored for its second manufacturing facility near Beijing
- House passes act to make AI data centers pay for grid upgrades to minimize impact on residents — measure directs states to consider adoption of federal standard within two years of passing
- Hackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebase — attackers initiated a 'harmless' pull request as proof of the hack
- AI developer vibe codes DLSS 5 onto Intel CPU's integrated graphics — Intel Arc 140T runs neural rendering in 360p at 10 frames per second
- Control Resonant PC performance tested: 28 GPUs take us back to the Oldest House and a warped Manhattan cityscape
- Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
- Modder gets Nvidia's DLSS 5 working in a web browser using WebGPU — 147MB browser port runs on non-Nvidia GPUs and macOS but takes two seconds per render
- US chip fabs face massive 157,000 worker shortfall, mere 3% of US engineering grads enter chipmaking — despite six-figure salaries, US chip manufacturers are in dire need of engineers and technicians
- Analyst firm says ASML unlikely to back particle accelerator chipmaking tech — 1,000W laser-produced plasma systems for chipmaking tools are showing good progress
- Huawei details AI accelerator roadmap, pulls in next-generation Ascend NPUs by several quarters — FP4 performance of the Ascend 960PR doubles expectations
- Hacker turns 25 cents into 46 billion fake Bitcoins to steal $770,000 — Symbiosis DeFi exchange bit by lack of basic bounds checking in smart contract
- Man arrested for selling $50 3D-printed machine gun conversion kits to undercover cops — ‘Glock switches’ turn pistols into fully-automatic weapons
September 17
- Balatro fan claims they trained Google fruit fly brain simulation to beat the game — reinforcement learning currently has the model at 20% success rate
- New York State recommends demanding AI data centers pay $1 million in community investment per megawatt — framework advises towns to plan for maintenance costs, site abandonment, and other contingencies
- Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device
- Developer uses GPT-6 Astra to get CoD Black Ops 2 Hijacked map running natively inside Minecraft — achieves 45fps performance using Minecraft’s OpenGL context
- Apple eyes Nvidia NVLink to power its new custom M8 Ultra AI servers — historically bitter rivals reportedly team up for 2029 data center push
- Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments'
- Retired Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW Windows XP key — copy protection used 10MB of encrypted Microsoft Bob for validation
- Poland lost $230 million in cryptocurrency trying to buy Venezuelan oil in 2023 — USB drives with crypto handed directly to scammers
- UK research agency backs drone-based internet service experiment with lasers, microwaves, and gravity waves used for wireless power — Britain invests $94 million into Starlink alternative
September 16
- Developer vibe codes a tool to let Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop owners crank up their power limits — can juice RTX 5090 mobile GPU to 225W
- Piecemakers bets edge AI devices will diverge from reliance on HBM — custom-designed memory fuses DRAM stack directly to the processor using hybrid bonding
- Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games
- Micron announces 512GB DDR5-9200 memory modules with 16W power draw — up to 12TB per server, claims 60% less energy-intensive than four 128GB modules
- AI-induced memory shortage is changing how devices are built, Fairphone says memory now 60% of materials cost — smaller laptop and phone makers are redesigning products and have to test for fake chips
- Chinese state media counters Anthropic's call to put brakes on AI development — paper says move is ‘a response to Chinese competition’
- Jensen Huang thinks China will develop its own advanced lithography chipmaking tools by 2030 — Nvidia CEO says achievement of that capability 'is just a matter of time'
- SK hynix reportedly discussing US memory chip manufacturing with Intel — options include leasing Ohio plant or forming joint venture with other AI hyperscalers
- 'Defeated' GPT-6 Astra model spent several hours just farming potatoes after being blown up by a Creeper in Minecraft — OpenAI offering gets further than any other AI system in 141-hour test
- AWS tells clients to quit Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes — Amazon offers no recovery timeline as UAE mulls underground data centers [Updated]
- Nvidia reportedly denies RTX 5090 warranty over faded serial number — $6,500 GPU blemish not an isolated incident, according to customers
- Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years — chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering unlocks MechaCon secrets
- China's open-weight AI models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings, Mozilla report claims — models still lag in some benchmarks but are drastically cheaper to use
- Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion
- AI enthusiast builds GPT-6 Astra-powered bot to take on Balatro's Gold Stake Black Deck — bot leverages Python for numerical tools, beats hardest difficulty repeatedly
September 15
- Intel reportedly cans 12Xe option for Nova Lake-S desktop — gaming APU design said to resurface with Razor Lake
- US AI data centers projected to become the fifth-largest natural gas consumer in the world by 2035 — consumption to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for compute increases
- Bill Gates compares AI to alien intelligence in movies where ‘magically the US and China’ solve the problem together — warns world governments that they’re not ready for AI
- ChatGPT transcripts are reportedly read by humans to improve responses, including those with personal information — 'Project Lilly' has seen OpenAI hire hundreds of contractors to manually review logs
- Microsoft rolls out emergency update for Windows 11's latest patch — recent update causes crashes on AMD graphics, Explorer hang-ups, and broken third-party integrations
- Minecraft Legacy gets rewritten in C++ for PS2 and Wii ports — code is tuned so it works well even on the PS2’s meager 32MB of RAM
- Developer builds viral 3D source code visualizer that consumes 21GB of RAM — flies around 2.5 million lines of code at over 120 frames per second
- Perplexity’s local AI agent comes to Windows, but only for RTX GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM — Portable Computer brings AI for multistep tasks to compatible PCs
September 14
- Nvidia's RTX 5090 vanishes from online retail in the US — third-party sellers now demand as much as $9,500 for Nvidia's fastest GPU
- Gaming takes a backseat as Nvidia overhauls the RTX 5090 for maximum AI margins — RTX Pro 5500 delivers 2.6X VRAM at matching specs
- Valve engineers discuss the duality of the Steam Frame and pricing — Valve's newest VR headset pivots SteamOS to Arm
- Nvidia, Palantir, and others restrict advanced AI model usage over privacy concerns, report claims — 'paranoia' rising over customer intellectual property
- Solo dev enables running CUDA on AMD hardware in Windows, getting multiple CUDA libraries running on a gaming Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU in Windows — CUDA-exclusive workloads on AMD hardware in Windows possible without virtualization or dual-booting
- Need for Speed Underground 2 now runs directly on Nintendo Switch — other Classic Windows titles playable thanks to custom firmware boot
- Micron offers Taiwan employees $31,650 cash bonus as unions threaten strike over AI windfall — workers reject record payout package, demand 15% profit-sharing plan
- Proven 8-pin PCIe plugs aren't immune to melting — Thermal Grizzly WireView adapter burns out on Radeon RX 7900 XTX
- Meta Quest user vibe-codes 3D object throwing to 3D printer — ‘I've never felt more like Tony Stark’ says the software engineer
- Russian freelancers use Claude to program autonomous combat drone swarm — AI-enabled target selection and detonation without a human in the loop
- Maryland data center developers offer residents biggest-ever US community benefits package as big tech seeks to quell fears — $110 million deal includes $30 million elementary school, water reclamation system, and more
- Modders halve FSR 4 render times on AMD’s PS5-derived BC-250 mining APU — portable FidelityFX DLL cuts 1440p upscaling time from 11.51 ms to 5.92 ms
- Dumpster diver builds home lab Proxmox server from weekly landfill runs for SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, and even RAM — weekly e-waste raids net multi-drive Proxmox server and Asus ROG laptop
September 13
- Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons
- Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'
- Intel revives One Mono font after brief retirement during open-source purge — typeface built to fight coder eyestrain gets reprieve
- Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba
- Mexican cartel's crypto farm seized in mountain raid — 300 GPUs, satellite links, and industrial transformers tapped hydroelectric power
- Waymo robotaxi calls cops on riders handling loaded AR-style ghost gun — Waymo alerted San Francisco police, then juvenile riders were stopped and arrested
- Playable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chip
- Ukraine triumphs in 'first-ever' drone-vs-drone boat battle — video shows Russian MBeK destroyed by Sargan 3000's 12.7mm automatic turret
- Transparent wall-mounted CD player raises over $540,000 on Kickstarter — $109 Syitren RM1's visible disc and mechanisms channel 90s B&O nostalgia with Bluetooth and battery power
September 12
- Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems
- US Customs supervisor busted for stealing Core i7 CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from Homeland Security PCs, damage estimated at $105,800 — stolen tech swapped with inferior hardware and cashed out on Newegg
- We tested unofficial DLSS Multi Frame Generation support on RTX 40-series GPUs — new mod brings RTX 50-series exclusive feature to older cards, and it really works
- IKEA releases new Skyrim mod that adds gloriously mundane Kallax shelving unit as your newest companion — free collab provides a drab flatpack answer to your loot woes
- This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs
- Iran could potentially reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone — several Iranian embassies mock US over capture, Navy claims lost Anduril vehicle was defective and unclassified
- Lucky PC scavenger discovers 12 RTX 3070 GPUs from the crypto mining era — cards survived years of basement storage with only minor signs of wear
- Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
- Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses — project is direct assault on Sony's claim in recent ownership lawsuit
- Engineer turns simulated fly brain into a crypto day trader, posts downloadable sim to GitHub — 166,700 virtual neurons read candlestick charts for dopamine hits
September 11
- China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000 — 3x more VRAM at 65% the cost of the original
- Sanctioned Chinese supercomputer maker stripped of IO500 benchmark crown, Intel-powered Aurora retakes the lead — record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage system doesn't meet reproducibility requirements
- GameStop is reopening recently closed stores despite massive retail cuts — select locations return nationwide starting September 11
- Hardware-accurate NeoGeo AES+ delayed to late 2027 due to memory shortage — decision driven by surging demand and AI-driven RAM crunch
- Hands On: Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock with active cooling, 80W passthrough charging, and HDMI 2.1, supporting up to 8TB drives
- Desktop graphics card shipments hit four-year high of 12.5 million despite increasing prices — Nvidia takes 90% share as gamers rush to beat looming price spikes
- Windows 11 can now reinstall itself from the cloud — Cloud Rebuild revives dead systems without secondary boot media, wipes broken installation and downloads a fresh copy of the OS
- Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks
- Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables with 'secret weapon' foiled by NATO — clandestine op uncovers training exercise simulating deployment against infrastructure in Norway
September 10
- Nintendo of America puts tariff refunds towards 'customer appreciation' sale, but no refunds to Switch 2 buyers — offers 30% off games and accessories from September 13 to 26
- Asus routers gain FCC's 'Conditional Approval' for sale in the US as TP-Link remains locked out — Asus's Wi-Fi 8 ambitions remain intact
- AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 for budget PC builders — new budget Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs soften the blow from high RAM prices
- Apple’s new A20 Pro smartphone chip around 25% faster than its predecessor in leaked benchmark — the 2nm CPU in the iPhone Duo and 18 Pro hits nearly 5 GHz clocks
- Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind's role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit
- OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors
- Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — 'agent-first' Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time
- China's AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market
- Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can't break America's monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly
- Modded RTX 5090 ditches 16-pin power for triple 8-pin connectors — draws up to 900W and hits 3,400 MHz
- TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks — 6×12-inch photomask transition may take years despite unified effort
- Developer uses Claude to vibe code a Windows 3.1 shell in an hour — reanimated 12MB retro launcher runs on both Windows 11 and Apple Silicon
- Steam enforces Australian age verification via credit cards — debit card glitches and low credit adoption alienate core gamers, privacy-first mindset leads to dearth of options that may hinder consumers
- Self-taught tinkerer demos working room-sized Cold War-era supercomputer with vacuum tubes — takes 15 minutes to warm up and smells like burning dust, 8-bit design uses 460 recycled 1950s Soviet tubes
September 9
- Apple A20 Pro powers iPhone Duo, 18 Pro — the company's first 2-nanometer smartphone chip
- Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition preorders open on Amazon for $519.99 — here's your last shot to grab the limited-edition console at MSRP
- Intel-backed auto-overclocking tool Hypertune optimizes individual systems, not test profiles — tool claims FPS improvement of up to 60% on Intel-based systems
- Framework cuts 32GB and 64GB memory prices for new Laptop 13 Pro, issues retroactive refunds — modular laptop maker secures 'limited quantity' of LPCAMM2 RAM at lower cost
- Microsoft reportedly gives secret Xbox Game Pass discounts to churned subscribers to reel them back in — targeted offers slash up to 30% off the regular price
- OpenAI says its next-generation processors could be made at Samsung — double-sourcing with TSMC hints at massive volume requirements [Updated]
- LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio
- Nintendo unveils The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 for $520 — First-ever special-edition Switch 2 drops October 19, alongside $100 Pro Controller, pre-orders live
- Nvidia's unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB comes to life thanks to a modder's crazy GDDR6 swap — Frankenstein card combines RTX 3070 PCB and new VRAM with RTX 3070 Ti GPU
- Researcher reverse-engineers infamous Stuxnet malware source code, publishes it on Github for all — attack targeted Iranian nuclear facilities and was the first software of its type to cause physical damage
- Big Tech eyes glacier-strewn Patagonia for building mega AI data centers — region offers 17,300 glaciers, coldness, and cheap energy, but fiber lines are scarce
- More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' in the next 10 years, Anthropic safety researcher says — departing employee says AI companies are 'gambling with our lives'
September 8
- 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
- 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
- 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 ‘Falcon' platform — compute subsystem packs up to 128 cores per die on TSMC N3P
September 7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ‘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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 GPU shipments grow amid high prices — AMD gains market share as notebook graphics carry the market
- 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
- SpaceXAI offers 50% Starlink discount to placate data center's residential neighbors; 2,000 have signed up — goodwill gesture comes amid vociferous community backlash
- 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
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
- 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
- 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
- Intel's Core Ultra 400 'Nova Lake' launch schedule leaks out — mass production in Q4, first Nova Lake CPUs in Q1 2027
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft will expand Windows 11 Memory Integrity feature to more PCs starting in October — security feature reduces gaming performance on some systems
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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's Swift Blade 14 weighs just 1.76 pounds and uses Wildcat Lake — company introduces new sub-brand ahead of IFA tradeshow
- 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
- 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
- Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators
- 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
- 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