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End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro
By Ben Stockton published
An extra 10% trade-in credit is being granted for these old-timers until March 21

Microsoft expects to commercialize MicroLED datacenter cables by late 2027
By Luke James published
The technology, called MOSAIC, replaces lasers with inexpensive MicroLEDs and uses a fundamentally different architecture to transmit data inside datacenters.

Meta's new MTIA lineup joins hyperscalers' unified push for dedicated inferencing chips
By Luke James published
Premium Google, AWS, Microsoft, and Meta have all independently reached the same conclusion.

Microsoft and Samsung scramble to fix a major C: drive lockout bug on Galaxy devices
By Ben Stockton published
This crippling bug affects some Samsung Galaxy Book 4 and Samsung Desktop devices

Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
By Mark Tyson published
A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference.

ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to get Auto Super Resolution boost in April
By Kunal Khullar published
Auto Super Resolution, an OS-level AI upscaling feature for Windows 11, is heading to the ROG Xbox Ally X and could deliver noticeable frame-rate improvements.

Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL
By Zak Killian published
DirectStorage 1.4 brings along key upgrades to the API, including support for Zstandard compression as well as CreatorID for improved GPU scheduling.

AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia join hyperscalers to define optical scale-up interconnect of the future for AI clusters
By Anton Shilov published
AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia team up with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI to develop protocol-agnostic optical scale-up interconnects for AI clusters.
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