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The Evo-X2's successor got a big makeover and a $3,799 starting price.

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Meta Muse runs agents on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with two cores and 8GB of memory

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Meta's new Muse AI agent is powered by AMD EPYC Turin hosts, with each user getting a private sandbox with two vCPUs and 8GB of memory.

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 show up at retail with pricing above MSRP

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Nearly two weeks after they were announced, AMD's Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 (non-F) are available for sale, though prices are slightly above MSRP.

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MediaTek's next-gen Dimensity CX C10 Max will arrive inside Googlebook devices, featuring similar specs as the Kompanio Ultra 910 currently available.

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Surprise, it's sand!

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Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 streams ray-tracing geometry into VRAM on demand

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Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 SDK arrives alongside RTX Kit 2026.3 with on-demand ray-tracing geometry streaming.

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A user's GeForce RTX 5090 died when his 12V-2x6 connector melted, and then PNY denied his warranty claim based on technicalities that aren't even present in the warranty policy.

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A chrysophile has ordered a special edition mini PC with a pure 24-carat gold passive chassis which will cost around $1.7 million.

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