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- February 13
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- Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector
- Nvidia confirms RTX 5070 Ti release date for February 20, starting at $749
- US gov't pushing TSMC and Intel to create joint venture in the US: Report
- Increased Linux kernel timer frequency delivers big boost in AI workloads
- RX 9070 XT leaked specs point to 4,096 shaders and 16GB VRAM — 3.1 GHz boost clocks and PCIe 5.0 support
- Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites
- AMD's beastly 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ matches the RTX 4060 laptop in leaked 3DMark tests
- Musk claims Grok 3 is 'outperforming' rivals, with full release imminent
- AMD gained consumer desktop and laptop CPU market share in 2024, server passes 25 percent
- Intel's 18A and TSMC's N2 process nodes compared: Intel is faster, but TSMC is denser
- RTX 5080 power cable allegedly melts at PSU — Redditor reports another 50-series failure
- SanDisk's new High Bandwidth Flash memory enables 4TB of VRAM on GPUs, matches HBM bandwidth at higher capacity
- February 12
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- Emojis can be hacked to hide data or messages, unicode Characters also susceptible
- Intel Xeon Granite Rapids-W CPU specs allegedly leaked — up to 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and eight-channel memory support
- Cable maker advises against using old 12VHPWR cables with RTX 50-series GPUs
- RTX 5070 allegedly delayed until early March to counter AMD RX 9070 launch
- Third Ryzen 7 9800X3D burnout case appears, kills the CPU, and damages the motherboard socket
- RTX 5090 cable melting issues haven't been replicated — testers assess various power supplies and cable types
- China will likely reduce purchase of chipmaking tools this year as homegrown toolmakers ramp up
- This Raspberry Pi AI pizza clock tells the time one slice at a time
- Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America
- February 11
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- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors
- AMD kills 'Golden Rabbit Edition' GRE branding, renames it 'Great Radeon Edition'
- PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results
- Nvidia confirms RTX 50-series laptops will be available for pre-order starting February 25
- Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, claiming AMD has vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs [Updated]
- OpenAI and Broadcom to finalize custom AI processor in the coming months say industry sources
- RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit
- Elon Musk-led group of investors makes nearly $100 billion bid for OpenAI
- Intel's head of datacenter and AI unit leaves to lead Nokia
- February 10
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- Trump tariffs reportedly spark display panel stockpiling from monitor manufacturers
- Vendor puts an on-and-off switch on a AMD X870 motherboard to enable easy GPU removal
- AMD CEO Lisa Su joins board of Arabian AI university
- Custom RTX 5090 water block drops GPU temps by 30C
- Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site
- Valve clarifies ban on in-game advertising on Steam
- Core Ultra 9 275HX beats AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 mobile chip by 7% in PassMark — 34% faster than the i9-14900HX
- French retailer suggests Nvidia will launch the RTX 5070 Ti on February 20
- This Raspberry Pi ADS-B plane tracker features a weather station with tons of cool features
- February 9
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- First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears — third-party cable likely cause
- Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
- Meta develops 'hat' for typing text by thinking — uses AI to read brain signals for keypresses
- RTX 4090 liquid cooled with 12,000 BTU air conditioner, RTX 5090 up next — GPU runs at 20C
- Lenovo hybrid 2D/3D curved monitor and nine new laptops have leaked — MWC 2025 lineup exposed
- Nvidia RTX 5060 claimed to feature just 8GB of VRAM — the 5060 Ti may get 8GB and 16GB flavors
- Russian drone operators reportedly received explosive headsets — plans dashed by packaging
- February 8
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- Fraudulent hard drive scandal deepens at Seagate: Clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
- Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive
- Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc
- Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D listed at $699 and $599, same prices as last-gen
- Maker builds cool Raspberry Pi Home dashboard with an old touchscreen monitor
- Newegg blames tariffs for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 price hikes, but then walks it back
- Nvidia is investigating RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 instability issues
- TSMC bans more chip sales to China due to stricter U.S. export sanctions
- MediaTek is conducting impact simulations to prepare for U.S. tariffs
- Zotac is selling RTX 50-series GPUs directly to customers to thwart scalpers
- February 7
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- RTX 5090D tested with nine-years-old Xeon CPU that cost $7 — it does surprisingly well in some games, if you enable MFG
- Threadripper 7000 is the most reliable CPU as per Puget Systems stats — Nvidia RTX Ada Generation GPUs have the lowest failure rates
- Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake CPU specs break cover — leak suggests up to 16 CPU cores and 180 total AI TOPS
- Arm to let Qualcomm keep its architecture license but may ask for a retrial on the Nuvia issue
- ASRock feels the heat as it moves manufacturing out of China to counter U.S. tariffs
- Leaked RTX 5080 laptop GPU benchmarks show a 20% performance gain in Time Spy
- This Raspberry Pi slim cyberdeck uses two Raspberry Pis
- Intel's Nova Lake CPU reportedly has up to 52 cores — Coyote Cove P-cores and Arctic Wolf E-cores onboard
- Asus and MSI hike RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPU prices by up to 18%
- AMD's China-specific RX 7650 GRE slots in between RX 7600 and 7600 XT
- Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator
- Intel's vacant CEO spot rumored to be filled by Tom Caulfield — abrupt GlobalFoundries shakeup sparks speculation
- February 6
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- Asus China compensates and assists owners with damaged GPUs due to PCIe Q-Release Slim mechanism — confirms revision on the way
- EVGA closes its official forums and transitions to Reddit
- Valve shoots down rumors of RDNA4-based Steam Console — it routinely tests new hardware that isn't put into its own devices
- This Raspberry Pi portable cyberdeck is straight out of a sci fi movie
- Doom runs on an Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle — SoC inside adapter has enough power for smooth gameplay
- Asus rolls out golden RTX 5090 for buyers with deep pockets — ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition for the Middle Eastern market
- Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all
- Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP
- Qualcomm claims it owns 10% of U.S. Windows PC retail market for devices priced $800 and up
- Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, hints that 'brave' Pat Gelsinger exited too soon
- Intel data center CPU sales hit the lowest point in 13 years
- February 5
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- Apple rumored to kick off M5 chip production using TSMC performance-enhanced 3nm node
- Huawei manages to pull $118 billion in revenue despite strict U.S. sanctions and restrictions
- USPS had ceased accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong late Tuesday, potentially affecting numerous PC parts — service was restored by early Wednesday
- Hardware leaker claims RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs will use 8-pin power connectors
- Raspberry Pi Pico Spacewar controller brings vintage space combat to the 21st century
- Moore Threads GPUs allegedly show 'excellent' inference performance with DeepSeek models
- AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming
- Adafruit's Fruit Jam is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 powered, credit card sized computer
- AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
- February 4
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- G.Skill intros 96GB DDR5-6800 CL32 and 32GB DDR5-6400 CL28 memory kits for Intel-based machines
- China reopens antitrust probe into Google, Nvidia, and Intel may be next
- AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
- AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
- From toilets to chips — Toto's electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs
- Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
- Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined
- U.S. RTX 50 laptop pricing starts from $1,899 for an RTX 5070 Ti toting Asus ROG Strix G16
- DeepSeek research suggests Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance
- February 3
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- Intel receives $536 million payment from EU following antitrust fine reversal
- RTX 5090 gaming laptops listed overseas starting at $3,780
- Japan tightens chipmaking export controls amid US-China tech tensions
- Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
- Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn't use at home
- Tech enthusiasts brace for Trump tariff price hikes on new components
- Modern Discord hacked into Windows 95 and 98, slimmed down version keeps core functionality intact
- Japanese RTX 50 retailer apologizes for lottery-fueled mayhem — unruly crowd caused injuries, damaged nearby kindergarten
- RTX 5090 cable melting claim debunked — Investigation points at prior RTX 4090 FE cabling usage
- Nvidia counters AMD DeepSeek AI benchmarks, claims RTX 4090 is nearly 50% faster than 7900 XTX
- February 2
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- DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
- Intel heralds XeSS passing the 150 games milestone, but only two titles support XeSS 2.0
- RTX 5090 orders could take up to 16 weeks to fulfill at major UK retailer, shop stops taking pre-orders
- Nvidia RTX 3090 sent in to repairer was missing the GPU and all its memory chips
- Verbatim pledges 'stable supply of optical disks' after Sony Japan's recordable Blu-ray exit
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H lands 32% faster than the 155H in PassMark's single-core benchmark
- February 1
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- RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 may arrive in March to steal AMD's spotlight — Chaintech hints at higher Average Selling Prices
- RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
- Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors — Contec CMS8000 raises questions about healthcare device security
- Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
- Incredibly tiny pressure-sensitive mouse can be latched onto a keychain like a sleek car remote
- AMD rumored to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D alongside RDNA 4 GPUs in late March
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and President Trump met to discuss AI policy, DeepSeek, and hardware export controls