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- April 30
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- Nvidia asks US government to ease AI GPU export rules, but Trump administration plans tighter controls
 - Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower
 - Windows 11 update failure stops machines from updating to version 24H2 using WSUS
 - Software dev fortifies his blog with 'zip bombs' — attacking bots meet their end with explosive data package
 - TSMC starts construction its 1.6nm and 2nm-capable U.S. fab: Fab 21 phase 3
 - Intel driver update for Lunar Lake chips reportedly improves iGPU FPS by 10%, 1% lows by 25%
 - AMD is reportedly readying Ryzen 9000G (Gorgon Point) and EPYC 4005 (Grado) CPUs for AM5
 - Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs - package-level approach maximizes performance, reduces size and complexity
 - Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI
 - Montech HS02 Pro Case Review: GPU thermals take center stage
 - Intel details 14A performance and new 'Turbo Cells' that unlock maximum CPU and GPU frequency
 - Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' would still be crashing hard drives without this audio processing filter
 
 - April 29
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- Huawei Ascend AI 910D processor designed to take on Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin GPUs
 - Elon Musk says Grok 3.5 will provide answers that aren't from internet sources
 - Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2025: Surprise and Delight
 - ReactOS now supports 3dfx's Voodoo5 GPUs — open-source Windows alternative offers near-native performance for retro gamers
 - Silverstone's new PSU can power four RTX 5080 GPUs, or three RTX 5090 cards
 - Intel Foundry Roadmap Update - New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement
 - Trump administration brands Amazon's tariff transparency plan a 'hostile and political act'
 - Alienware's 34-inch AW3425DW QD-OLED beams down to Earth with 240 Hz refresh rate and new design language
 - Windows 7 users with a solid background color faced delayed login process — it took four months for Microsoft to fix
 - MSI's 'secure' yellow-tipped RTX 5090 12V-2x6 cable is still vulnerable to melting, user report suggests
 - Cooler Master revives Hyper 612 cooler with 30% smaller Apex design, dual fans, and stealthy design
 - Amazon's Starlink rival sees the first 27 satellites successfully reach low-earth orbit — Project Kuiper satellites 'operating as expected'
 - Grab the best CPU for gaming at its lowest price — only £445 for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, plus free delivery
 
 - April 28
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- Taiwan's government strengthens 'silicon shield,' restricts exports of TSMC's most advanced process technologies
 - Asus partners with Bethesda to make even pricier Doom Edition RTX 5080 ROG Astral video card
 - Intel Cougar Cove (P), Darkmont (E) core architectures revealed in Panther Lake perfmon commit
 - PC cooling company Scythe is shutting down its European division amid financial troubles
 - Doom slithers and dithers its way with a 16-color Atari ST port
 - Over 250 billion Arm chips have shipped since the first ARM1 processor launched 40 years ago
 - RX 9070 GRE pre-orders go live in China — May 8 retail, $575 MSRP, and 6% faster than the RX 7900 GRE
 - Dough Spectrum Black 32 Ultra HD OLED Gaming Monitor Review: Tremendous Performance And Tweakability
 - Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 and 5070 Super with boosted memory configurations according to leaker
 
 - April 27
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- SK hynix GDDR7 modules hit 34 Gbps on the RTX 5070 Ti — similar OC performance to Samsung
 - First 3D-printed Starbucks coffee shop opens tomorrow in Texas
 - Commodore OS Vision 3.0 Linux-based OS arrives to spruce up retro builds
 - GPU's built-in gyro & accelerometer tell you if the card isn't level — ROG Astral GPU battles card sag with software-monitored feature
 - Intel's Core Ultra 5 processor 245K drops to $269 at Amazon
 - Legendary Voodoo4 GPU modded into laptop, benchmarks work with Windows XP
 - Game controller exports to Russia banned by UK gov — hopes to reduce options for enemy drone pilots
 - USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world
 - Wobkey Crush 80 Reboot Pro Review: Sounds even better than the Rainy75 Pro
 - Core i9 14900KS heatspreader transformed into CPU water block - clever machining yields a functioning water block
 
 - April 26
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- Tests indicate Intel's '200S Boost' feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux
 - Windows will now let you swear at it — introduces toggle to disable profanity filter for voice typing
 - PC case and components maker Hyte pauses shipments to U.S. customers amid tariff pressures
 - Ryzen 5 9600X CPU at an all-time low, comes with a free 500GB PCIe 4.0 SSD
 - Elon Musk’s Nvidia-powered Colossus supercomputer faces pollution allegations from under‐reported power generators
 - Montech XR Wood Case Review: Low cost, wood accents
 - AMD's Ryzen 5 7533HS APU makes its debut with Lenovo's budget lineup
 
 - April 25
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- TSMC discloses N2 defect density — lower than N3 at the same stage of development
 - Microsoft launches Recall to Windows 11 general availability — Click to Do and Improved Search also coming
 - MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: The Pro is better in nearly every way, but the Air might be the better choice
 - Linux developers want to remove i486 and i586 Pentium CPU support to unburden kernel developers
 - AMD patches critical Zen 5 microcode bug — partners deliver new BIOS with AGESA 1.2.0.3C
 - TP-Link under DOJ investigation for alleged predatory pricing practices and national security concerns
 - Gigabyte addresses RTX 50-series thermal gel leak, blames over-application in early production units
 - Intel redefines AI strategy — Jaguar Shores to be rack-level design with focus on silicon photonics
 - Intel posts flat year-over-year earnings and bleak outlook, warns about macroeconomic pressures
 - Nvidia's budget RTX 5060 GPUs rumored to launch on May 19 (a day before Computex kicks off)
 - China reportedly waives tariffs on some US chip imports — duties paid are eligible for refunds
 - Startup aims to 3D print chips and cut production costs by 90% — nanoprinter operates at wafer scale
 - Cooler Master V 850 SFX Gold ATX 3.0 power supply review
 
 - April 24
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- Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom
 - Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate
 - AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at GPU virtualization, support for mainstream Radeon GPUs coming later
 - Kingston's Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 SSD with 14.8 GB/s speeds now available starting at $200 for 1TB
 - TSMC mulls massive 1000W-class multi-chiplet processors with 40X the performance of standard models
 - AMD RX 9070 GRE allegedly ready for launch — Navi 48 GPU trimmed down to 12GB VRAM and 48 compute units
 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Blackwell GB206 takes on Ada AD106
 - Newegg has RTX 5090 bundles starting at $3,139 — the fastest GPU paired with a lackluster Z890 motherboard
 - Researchers develop new metamaterials that pave the way to bendy, stretchable computer chips
 - Panther Lake and Nova Lake reportedly power Intel's next-gen automotive SoCs, Intel releases new roadmap
 - TSMC's 2nm N2 process node enters production this year, A16 and N2P arriving next year
 - Nvidia introduces G-Assist plug-in builder, allowing its AI to integrate with LLMs and software
 - Windows 11 24H2 triggers a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas related to the Skimmer seaplane
 - MSI Titan 18 HX AI Review: the ultimate 18-inch gaming laptop
 - Seasonic CORE ATX 3 GX-850 power supply review
 
 - April 23
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- PC shipments up 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025, likely caused by buyers worried about tariffs
 - TSMC's 3nm update: N3P in production, N3X on track
 - TSMC unveils 1.4nm technology: 2nd Gen GAA transistors, full node advantages, coming in 2028
 - Top PC OEMs reportedly planning Saudi Arabia plants to avoid US tariffs — Lenovo, HP, Dell exploring options as panic continues
 - Chinese companies stockpiled billions of dollars worth of Nvidia H20 GPUs prior to recent ban
 - Colorful announces a white, quad-fan variant of the iGame Vulcan RTX 5080
 - Russia on track to manufacture 28nm chips in domestic fabs by 2030, 19 years after tech first debuted
 - Custom keyboard maker stopping US sales entirely due to tariffs — Keyboardio cites tariffs, axed de minimis rule
 - American 3D Printer filament companies raise the flag, not the price
 - Elon says Tesla humanoid robots impacted by China's export ban on rare earth minerals — Optimus production is delayed due to a 'magnet issue'
 - AMD RX 9060 XT GPUs reportedly target a May 18 launch — RX 9070 GRE tipped for a Q4 release
 - Gigabyte RTX 50-series GPUs reportedly prone to melting thermal gel issues
 - Treat yourself to a fresh XL SteelSeries mouse pad at 50% off — now only $12, its lowest-ever price
 - Alienware Area-51 review: large and in charge
 - Chinese data centers refurbing and selling Nvidia RTX 4090D GPUs due to overcapacity — 48GB models sell for up to $5,500
 - Nvidia aims to solve AI's water consumption problems with direct-to-chip cooling — claims 300X improvement with closed-loop systems
 - Save £30 on Logitech's MX Master 3S productivity mouse — the perfect work-horse
 - Intel to announce a 20% workforce cut this week: Report
 
 - April 22
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- Scythe faces uncertain future in Europe as insolvency proceedings begin
 - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance sees 6% improvement on Linux — Arrow Lake boosts even without new '200S Boost' BIOS
 - Igor's Lab uncovers 'hotspot issue' affecting all RTX 50-series GPUs — says it could compromise graphics card longevity
 - TSMC's N2 process reportedly lands orders from Intel — Nova Lake is the likely application
 - You can save $300 on this prebuilt ABS gaming system with the best gaming CPU and GPU combo — AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
 - M.2 HDMI capture card provides dual 2K video input — works in any PCIe 2.0 or later slot
 - Nvidia's DLSS tech now in over 760 games and apps — native and override DLSS 4 support has broad reach
 - AOC CQ27G4ZH Gaming Monitor Review: 300 Hz For Less Than You’d Expect
 - 2006 Nintendo Wii hacked to run Infected Systems' blog — uses open-source NetBSD
 - Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB struggles due to lack of VRAM — and not just at 4K ultra
 - Samsung discontinuing DDR4 production in late 2025 — company to focus on DDR5, LPDDR5, and HBMs
 - Speculation mounts that Musk will raise tens of billions for AI supercomputer with 1 million GPUs: Report
 - Toshiba launches 24TB hard drives priced up to $649 for NAS systems
 
 - April 21
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- Unreleased AMD RX 6500 surfaces: a 2022-era budget chip for our 2025 GPU woes
 - TSMC says it cannot guarantee that its chips don't end up in China
 - Microsoft, get your Game Pass out of my face! I'm turning off your notifications. Here’s how
 - We tested Intel's new '200S Boost' feature: 7% higher gaming performance thanks to memory overclocking, now covered by the warranty
 - AMD 16-core Zen 5c die shots show long, narrow CCX, all 16 cores sharing a single L3 cache
 - G.Skill debuts world's first 256GB (64GBx4) DDR5-6000 CL32 UDIMM memory kit with EXPO support
 - Logitech prices are increasing by as much as 25%, and they're not alone
 - Rumors swirl about a 24GB Intel Arc B580 — but OEM swiftly strikes down claims
 - Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 (2025) RTX 5080 gaming laptop review: Flashy lights, huge price, strong performance
 - Intel details next-gen 18A fab tech: significantly more performance, lower power, higher density
 - 3D printing is about to get more expensive, if you can get it at all
 - Nvidia RTX 5070 vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — less VRAM but much better performance
 
 - April 20
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- First SD Express 8.0 memory card from Adata hits 1.6 GB/s read speeds — 512GB capacity, and U3/V30 compliant
 - ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns
 - Pick up this MSI Creator A16 AI+ RTX 4060 laptop for just $1,499 at Amazon
 - Steelcase Karman High Back Review: Adaptable frame, now with a headrest
 - World's first drone system for fighting lightning protects cities and infrastructure
 - Radeon PRO W9000 GPUs said to use the Navi 48 XTW die, 32GB VRAM — Computex reveal suggested
 
 - April 19
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- AI-generated videos now possible with gaming GPUs with just 6GB of VRAM
 - New chip cooling technique is 7X more more effective than standard approaches
 - Huawei introduces the Ascend 920 AI chip to fill the void left by Nvidia's H20
 - Grab this 240 Hz 1080p gaming monitor for just $179 on Amazon
 - Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will seemingly use a new LGA1954 socket
 - Chilkey ND75 LP Review: Impressive performance for $100
 - How to run FreeDOS, an open-source version of DOS, on any PC
 
 - April 18
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- CEO reorganizes Intel with new CTO and AI lead
 - World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds
 - OpenAI spends millions to process polite phrases such as "Thank You" and "Please" with ChatGPT
 - 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests — 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted
 - Huawei's new AI CloudMatrix cluster beats Nvidia's GB200 by brute force, uses 4X the power
 - Blower-style RTX 5090D leaked on Bilibili — two-slot GPU design built for AI rigs
 - Nvidia vows to continue making products for Chinese market
 - Latest Nvidia drivers boost synthetics by 6-8% on RTX 50 GPUs — Users still report stability woes
 - Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will start April 24 — the system still costs $449.99
 - WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China
 - Intel is looking into CPU overhead associated with Arc GPUs on older chips
 - QIDI Plus4 Review: Bigger is Better
 - Ubuntu 25.04 launches with host of new features
 
 - April 17
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- Lawmakers demand answers from Nvidia over suspected GPU diversions to China, company denies any wrongdoing
 - Microsoft researchers build 1-bit AI LLM with 2B parameters — model small enough to run on some CPUs
 - Seagate claims hard drives are more environmentally friendly than SSDs
 - Chinese brain computer interface user reportedly plays 'Black Myth: Wukong,' other games
 - The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked
 - Massive 366% chip shipment surge to Malaysia amid increased Nvidia AI GPU smuggling curbs, ahead of looming sectoral tariffs
 - AMD RX 9070 GRE rumored to have 48 CUs, 12GB VRAM, 2.79 GHz clocks — about 15% slower than the vanilla RX 9070
 - Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series) review: Increased performance at the expense of battery life
 - Reviews show the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB matches the 16GB model in most tests, falls behind in DLSS 4
 - AMD-optimized Stable Diffusion models achieve up to 3.3x performance boost on Ryzen and Radeon
 - Save a whopping $70 on this MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi AM5 motherboard deal
 - microSD Express cards sell out after Switch 2 announcement — more than 337 units sold per hour
 - TSMC to build 30% of its 2nm and more advanced chips in the U.S., to speed up Fab 21 build out
 - Old hard drive modded into a variable speed disc sander, spinning rust sands things nicely
 - Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro Review: The best AIO for Ryzen 9950X3D, and Intel too
 - JEDEC finalizes HBM4 memory standard with major bandwidth and efficiency upgrades
 
 - April 16
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- New PCIe adapters turn your x16 slot into a clown car of GPU and SSD connectivity
 - Pick up an Inspiron 16 Plus laptop on clearance sale for just $599 from Dell — perfect for school or work
 - Galax confirms monstrous dual 16-pin RTX 5090D extreme overclocking GPU for the Chinese market
 - Gigabyte chops PCIe finger in half on its dual-fan RTX 5060 Ti cards
 - Intel has championed High-NA EUV chipmaking tools, but costs and other limitations could delay industry-wide adoption: Report
 - Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
 - AMD takes $800M haircut as US gov't cuts off China's AI GPU supply
 - Budget-friendly RX 9060 XT GPUs tipped for Computex unveil next month — on-shelf inventory expected by early June
 - Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues
 - Nvidia addresses 40 black screen, monitor, and crashing issues with new RTX 5060 Ti game-ready driver
 - RTX 4090 returned to eBay seller with GPU and VRAM chips missing
 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: More VRAM and a price 'paper cut' could make for a compelling GPU
 - Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti graphics card as 16GB and 8GB flavors hit the shelves
 - Eindhoven researchers achieve 5.7 Tb/s data transfer speeds using highly focused infrared light
 - Nvidia writes off $5.5 billion in GPUs as US gov't chokes off supply of H20s to China
 - Made in the USA: Inside Nvidia's $500 billion server gambit
 
 - April 15
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- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 graphics card roundup: Every announced card from every AIB partner
 - Experience amazing VR gaming with Meta’s Quest 3S VR headset deal - now at an all-time-low price
 - Microsoft warns of Outlook Classic bug that can crank CPU use up to 50% when typing
 - Limited-edition Severance keyboard features a built-in trackball, but aptly, there’s no Escape
 - Second-gen Snapdragon X PC chips may boost performance up to 22%
 - A peek into the future of 3D printing: Rapid + TCT 2025 in Detroit
 - DUG Nomad is a mobile, immersion-cooled data center cube for edge AI
 - Intel's P-Core only Bartlett Lake chip inches closer to reality with new Linux patch
 - World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface'
 - Buried Steam tool shows how much you've spent on your account in your lifetime
 - Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060, starting at $379 and $299 — reviews coming tomorrow, April 16
 - Gigabyte GS27U 27-inch Ultra HD 160 Hz Gaming Monitor Review: Raising The Value Standard
 - Atomic-scale chip alignment: Laser holograms could set new standard for 3D semiconductor overlay accuracy
 
 - April 14
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- AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node — also announces USA production of current-gen chips
 - Seagate's 28TB Expansion portable HDD drops to $329 — Massive storage for your desktop
 - Intel sells 51% of Altera FPGA business to Silver Lake for $4.46 billion
 - Government-funded AI tool developed to help monitor and manage nuclear reactors
 - AMD splits ROCm toolkit into two parts – ROCm AMDGPU drivers get their own branch under Instinct datacenter GPU moniker
 - Nvidia aims to build $500 billion worth of AI servers in the USA by 2029
 - AMD RX 9060 XT specs leak: Navi 44 takes on Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti with 8 and 16GB flavors, 3.2 GHz boost clocks
 - Should you buy a used graphics card?
 - Trump says new chip tariffs will be announced next week
 - be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 650W power supply review
 - China's Moore Threads polishes homegrown CUDA alternative — MUSA supports porting CUDA code using Musify toolkit
 - Ocypus Iota A62 Digital CPU Cooler Review: A stylish debut, effective debut
 - New high-fidelity brain-computer interface is so small it can fit between hair follicles
 
 - April 13
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- Leaked RTX 5060 Ti 16GB benchmarks show a 20% uplift over the 4060 Ti 16GB
 - Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes
 - Samsung 49-inch dual-QHD curved business monitor drops to $749 at Amazon
 - Charred RTX 4070 fell victim to a PSU without protection feature
 - AMD's latest ROCm 6.4 release continues to lack RDNA 4 support
 - Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed
 - Asus launches the flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, starting at $1,400
 - 12 Horrifying Windows Self-Destruct Keys You Can Hit By Accident
 - LaserPecker LP5 Review: More Laser, Less Screen
 - Pat Gelsinger turns to particle accelerators for a new way to make chips, joins xLight
 
 - April 12
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- Trump exempts computers, smartphones, and more from tariffs
 - This $666 box can play Doom — Limited Run Games unveils the ultimate collector's edition set for Doom fans
 - This Core i7, RTX 4060 gaming laptop is at an all-time low
 - TV-signal based BPS tested as fallback for GPS — digital TV infrastructure could come to the rescue if satellites are compromised
 - Cooler Master X Silent Edge Platinum 850W power supply review
 - RayNeo Air 3s AR glasses review: Cheaper and better in every way
 - Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions
 - 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update
 - Best Linux distros for reviving an old PC
 
 - April 11
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- Razer's PC Remote Play app lets you stream PC games to your mobile devices
 - China fires back at Trump’s tariff increases with 125% levies on U.S. goods
 - RTX 5070 dips below MSRP at UK retailer — £518.99 marks a rare low in this unpredictable market
 - Microsoft's Windows 95 startup sound has been immortalized in the Library of Congress
 - China's new semiconductor rule spares Taiwan fabs, punishes Intel, GlobalFoundries & Texas Instruments
 - Intel's performance-enhancing IPO program debuts in gaming PCs across China — overclocked performance with full warranty
 - Pick up 32GB of Patriot Viper Venom RAM for just $79 — these sticks hit the 6000MHz sweet spot for AM5 Ryzen gaming
 - Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: Mobile RTX 5080 gets the job done
 - Custom MSI RTX 5060 Ti models surface with 16-pin power connectors and PCIe 5.0 x8
 - Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility
 - Researchers make breakthrough in cleaning up the 'forever chemicals' used in chip manufacturing
 - Cooling chips with lasers: Innovative cooling method removes heat precisely from hot spots, recycles heat into energy
 
 - April 10
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- Chinese project aims to run RISC-V code on AMD Zen processors
 - Rare Steam Deck prototype sold for $2,000 on eBay — Features a 6-year-old AMD Picasso APU with Zen+ and Vega
 - Nvidia RTX 5090 apparently handles DirectStorage GPU decompression better than RTX 4090
 - Arctic's Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 All-In-One liquid CPU cooler is now only $89 — its lowest-ever price on Amazon
 - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has invested in 600 Chinese firms, some linked to the Chinese military
 - PC manufacturers race ahead of tariffs with rush shipments, Q1 market share booms as a result
 - Windows Update drops empty 'intepub' folder in system, leaves users scratching heads after April update
 - Onkyo Creator Series GX-10DB, GX-30ARC speakers review: Pretty connectivity
 - Leaked Geekbench results show RTX 5060 Ti 14% faster than Nvidia's previous gen — Matches aging 3070 Ti
 - RTX 50 series GPUs selling below market price at Walmart returns aisle, multiple customers score great deals
 - Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang
 - U.S. tariffs to heavily impact HDD and SSD manufacturers, increasing costs
 
 - April 9
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- AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD's top laptop CPUs
 - Trump pauses most global tariffs for 90 days but increases China tariffs to 125%
 - Are gaming GPUs subject to new U.S. tariffs? It isn't entirely clear yet
 - Trump tariffs will hit consoles, monitors, and laptops hardest — U.S. imports 66% or more from China
 - AI costs drop 280-fold, but harmful incidents rise 56% in last year — Stanford 2025 AI report highlights China-US competition
 - China retaliates with 84% tariff on US imports in response to Trump's 104% tariff
 - AMD Zen 5 CPUs also affected by microcode vulnerability — Granite Ridge, Turin, Ryzen AI 300, and Fire Range at risk
 - Corsair confirms the slight wiggle room in its 16-pin connectors for Nvidia GPUs is by design
 - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan loses $5 million on his $25 million Intel investment as stock tumbles
 - President Trump threatens TSMC with 100% tariff if it doesn't build in the U.S.
 - Intel enforces strict tariff compliance for steel and aluminum shipments amid new U.S. tariffs
 - Nvidia reportedly sources GDDR7 chips from SK hynix for RTX 50-series GPUs
 - Intel's market cap plummets to 16-year low as stock rout continues
 
 - April 8
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- TSMC faces $1 billion US fine for making chips for blacklisted Huawei
 - Razer halts laptop sales to US consumers — this response to US tariffs could become commonplace
 - AMD Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs confirmed via early retail listing — Ryzen 9 8940HX sees 100 MHz increase
 - Windows 11
 - My go-to budget Bluetooth SoundPeats headphones have been reduced to a staggeringly cheap $29 — these cans have amazing battery life for the price
 - UALink has Nvidia's NVLink in the crosshairs — final specs support up to 1,024 GPUs with 200 GT/s bandwidth
 - Kioxia optical-based PCIe 5.0 SSDs support cable lengths up to 40 meters — now they just need optical-ready data centers
 - Shopify CEO: teams must prove AI can’t do a task before asking for new hires, resources
 - FreeDOS 1.4 released with updated FreeCOM, Install program, and HTML Help
 - AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' CPUs see 14% higher performance on average with Ubuntu 25.04 beta release
 - Nintendo VP confirms Switch 2 Joy-Cons won't feature Hall effect sticks
 - Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student
 - Google accused of paying employees to do nothing for up to a year to stifle AI talent migration
 - Corsair Frame 4000D Case Review: Lightweight, effective, and right-priced
 - IBM boosts mainframes with 50% more AI performance: z17 features Telum II chip with AI accelerators
 - China-exclusive RTX 5090D dominates in 3DMark benchmark records - Galax HOF edition eclipses RTX 5090 challengers
 - Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements
 - New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech
 - Nvidia may avoid recent tariffs on its AI servers — 60% of Nvidia servers pass through Mexico, may be exempt from Trump tariff flurry
 - Apple aims to beat the tariff cutoff, reportedly shipped five extra planeloads of goods from India to the U.S. in March
 
 - April 7
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- Nvidia RTX 5090D GPU features a magnetic shroud and fans for easy maintenance
 - Asus ProArt PA32UCDM 4K 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Precision, performance and elegance
 - HPE's unnamed 1,152-core system pushes Turbostat to support 8,192 cores in Linux 6.15
 - TSMC and Foxconn hit hard in Taiwan following Trump's tariffs announcement
 - Git turns 20 as we celebrate decades of open-source software distribution
 - U.S. Gov't eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn't dead yet
 - Beef up your Steam Deck storage with this 2TB WD Black SN770M SSD deal - only $177 at Amazon
 - AMD RX 9070 vBIOS flash offers up-to 20% performance boost — modders claim OC beats 9070 XT
 - China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains
 
 - April 6
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- WinRAR security flaw ignores Windows Mark of the Web security warnings
 - Nvidia engineer breaks and then quickly fixes AMD GPU performance in Linux
 - Sovol Zero Review: Good Things Come in Small Packages
 - China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery
 - Samsung Galaxy AI Book4 Edge laptop with Snapdragon X CPU drops to $695 in limited time Amazon deal
 - Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler
 - Lian Li EDGE EG1000 ATX 3.1 power supply review
 - Nvidia's PhysX and Flow go open source — Running legacy PhysX on RTX 50 may be possible using wrappers
 - Another RTX 5090 connector melts down, reportedly taking a PSU with it
 - AMD sets new supercomputer record, runs CFD simulation over 25x faster on Instinct MI250X GPUs
 
 - April 5
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- Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition power supply review
 - You can now play a real-time AI-rendered Quake II in your browser — Microsoft's WHAMM offers generative AI for games
 - The Best OctoPrint Plugins
 - Vaio touts 'tariff free' inventory for sale — Intel-powered laptops on sale while supplies last
 - Compact RTX 4070 with an aluminum CNC-machined shroud is perfect for SFF builds
 - 3D Gloop! Wants to Stick Customers to the Floor
 - Record-low $759 price for award-winning 32-inch 4K 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor
 - WOLED vs QD-OLED Monitors – which panel technology is better?
 
 - April 4
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- SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2025: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.
 - Pre-built PCs with unreleased RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 GPUs crop up at online retailers
 - Chinese chipmaker Loongson's new laptop and industrial chips have higher core counts, better GPU
 - Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary by letting Copilot see what you see
 - Grab a budget HP gaming laptop for just $449
 - Best SSDs 2025: From blazing-fast M.2 NVMe down to budget SATA
 - Nintendo's Switch 2 pre-orders delayed by Trump tariffs — June 5 launch date still on schedule
 - China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans some rare earth exports to the U.S.
 - Microsoft Copilot is now fully integrated with Windows 11 and Windows 10
 - Asus ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi Review: Copious USB Ports and 5.0 M.2
 - RTX 4060 is now the top GPU on Newegg despite ludicrous $500 price tag
 - Trump says that chip tariffs are starting 'very soon'
 - G.Skill unveils first 128GB DDR5-8000 memory kit and ultra-fast DDR5-9000 64GB options
 - Trump's tariffs on chipmaking tools could make U.S.-made processors more expensive
 - Intel discontinues Unison app for connecting PCs and smartphones
 
 - April 3
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- Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture: Report
 - The Best PS5 SSDs in 2025: Speedy NVMe storage for your console
 - PC prices up at least 20%: Trump Tariffs may hurt U.S. system integrators most
 - Dell's $35 AlienFX cable kit makes Alienware Area-51 desktop compatible with third-party motherboards
 - Windows 11 Enterprise machines can now get updates while you work—no reboot required
 - Asus' budget AM5 motherboard, Prime B650-Plus WiFi, is now only $124
 - Windows 11 local account workaround discovered just as Microsoft closes previous loophole in Insider Build
 - Nvidia confirms Nintendo Switch 2 SoC's AI, ray tracing features, keeps real specs to itself for now
 - Seven RTX 5090 GPUs power AI server worth over $30,000 — over 4000W of power and 224GB of memory in a single frame
 - China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU
 - Bitcoin miners front-running tariffs by scrambling to ship thousands of machines before penalties hit
 - Trump administration exempts computer chips and copper from sweeping tariffs, but only for now — report says chip tariffs coming later
 - RX 9070 GRE is reportedly in development to provide an affordable entry point into RDNA 4
 - Nintendo Switch 2's support for MicroSD Express standard will hurt your wallet: Here's why
 - Nintendo Switch 2 developers confirm DLSS, hardware ray tracing, and more
 - Nintendo Switch 2 Hands-on: Bigger, faster, and with mouse controls
 - Thermalright Hyper Vision 360 Review: Confusing SKU Spam
 - Trump creates U.S. Investment Accelerator to manage CHIPS Act and 'negotiate much better deals'
 - Intel refreshes iconic brand with 'That's the power of Intel Inside' campaign
 
 - April 2
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- Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1
 - Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs
 - Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident
 - WD's Blue SN5000 4TB SSD is only $209 while supplies last
 - AMD pins Ryzen 9000 'failures' on compatibility issues — BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems
 - RTX 5080 laptop GPU beats RTX 4090 counterpart — delivers 10% less performance than RTX 5090
 - President Trump's 25% tariff on aluminum sparks concerns over rising PC enclosure and GPU costs
 - Amazon reserves RTX 5070, RX 9070 XT GPUs as Amazon Prime exclusives, to the dismay of scalpers
 - Chinese DRAM maker reportedly mulls DDR4 hike prices
 - Nintendo Switch 2 will release June 5 priced at $449 with 4K support in docked mode, mouse functionality, and a Chat button
 - Puget Systems says it will absorb PC tariff costs for now, but will increase prices when it becomes inevitable
 - Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip', claims world's fastest AI interconnect
 
 - April 1
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- Arm aims to capture 50% of data center CPU market in 2025
 - Lip-Bu Tan's first speech as Intel CEO focuses on innovation and working with foundry customers
 - Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours
 - Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips
 - Rapidus to begin trial production of its 2nm process this month — Japan gets closer to cutting-edge silicon manufacturing
 - Crucial's recently released P310 M.2 2280 1TB SSD with heatsink is on sale at its lowest-ever price of $74
 - Retailer clarifies RTX 5090 'B-stock' listing with missing ROPs was a system error
 - Asus drops teaser for Xbox 'Kennan' handheld — reveals sneak peek days before Switch 2 launch
 - Snapdragon X exclusive Copilot+ features begin trickling through to modern x86 Windows 11 PCs
 - PNY CS2150 2TB SSD review: More 'budget' PCIe 5.0 SSD goodness
 - GlobalFoundries mulls UMC takeover in effort dubbed 'Project Ultron'