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- July 4
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- 50-feet-long fiber optic HDMI cable and Steam Controller 2 is enthusiasts' answer to the Steam Machine — dismisses Valve's new console for a DIY Bazzite setup with a controller
- Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold
- Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops — media outlet slams YMTC PCIe 4.0 drive for 'below average for an SSD in an office laptop' in review
- Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system
- Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026
- Windows guru uses 19th-century Stirling Engine tech for auxiliary cooling on AMD Threadripper 3970X system — waste heat energy spins the $40 engine's flywheel
- Enthusiast hides gaming PC inside living room fan using 3D-printed parts — disassembled AtomMan G7 cooled by Dreo tower fan that shifts air at 28 feet per second
- Startup unveils 3D-printed nuclear reactor module to power AI data centers —touted as ‘the world’s first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor’
- Companies join hands to collectively dunk on PlayStation's all-digital future — Domino's pizza, KFC, and GameSir all threaten an end to physical production
- Fire hydrant signs with Starlink antennas tested for emergency Wi-Fi in disaster-prone Japan — existing widespread grid of street-level furniture can be used for communications network fallback
- July 3
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- Intel reportedly adding two new 22-core SKUs with game-boosting cache to Nova Lake-S lineup — 125W unlocked and 65W locked part rumored to be part of single-tile Core Ultra 5 tier
- Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand — select Xeon processors now over $1,000 more expensive
- Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360's infamous RROD
- Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality
- SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead
- Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims — says production up to 15,000 wafers per month at both sites
- GitHub thumbs nose at Sony's controversial end to physical media with its introduction of Repo CDs — offers limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public GitHub repos for preservation
- Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours
- Jensen Huang’s iconic signed leather jacket expected to fetch up to $60,000 in charity auction — Sotheby’s says item was worn at a Foxconn Tech Day in 2023 and the signature has been professionally authenticated
- July 2
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- SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers' data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says 'livid' businesses 'are paying for tokens that create no value'
- Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut
- Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets
- Digital archivists rush to save PS3 game data before Sony shuts down the store forever in 2027 — RPCS3 emulator urges users to preserve all content
- Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling — 'Meta Compute' would put company in direct competition with AWS
- Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50 — official Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus product pages now recommend prices of up to $349 and $229, respectively
- OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund
- Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water
- Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering
- Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs
- Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it
- Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point
- Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you're human — testers beat it with a stock photo
- Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false'
- July 1
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- Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games
- Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A
- Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028 — shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita systems
- Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them
- Philippine town closes all 'Pisonet' computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed 'for the safety of the youth'
- Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
- New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
- AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — 'CoT Forgery' exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought
- Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee