Hardware
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Elon Musk confirms discussions with TSMC about Terafab chipmaking collaboration — Intel is the only other named partner, Terafab to exclusively supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI
Musk confirms the talks, TSMC remains silent.
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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages
OpenRouter has agents at 7.3 trillion tokens versus 1.4 trillion for humans.
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Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers — company’s patch also fixes a bug that lets a logged-in attacker switch on Telnet with root access
Asus rates the VPN-file flaw as critical, scoring at 9.4 out of 10 on CVSS 4.0.
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Amazon promises to spend $1 billion on communities close to its data centers, but critics push back — planned spend is just 0.1% of its 2026 AI infrastructure investments
Some critics say this is nothing but a 'bribe' so that communities would say yes to data centers.
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ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft 'blind' and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths — AI agent navigates by parsing raw server network packets and SQL files
OpenAI's model used the open-source agent-wow client to play on a private World of Warcraft server.
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California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks — DOJ seeks to establish developer liability, targets containment failures and rogue kill-switch bypasses
The California DOJ has got its eyes on OpenAI.
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AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day — canceled Ryzen 9 5900X3D breaks free from the chipmaker's vault
The 12-core Zen 3 gaming and productivity monster that never was
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CPUs
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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BiWin's CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming — tiny drive is only 15 x 17 mm in size, but up to 2TB in capacity
It's destined for BiWin's gaming portables, but can probably be made to fit other gear.
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Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits — client business is Micron's only unit that shipped less memory this quarter
Micron's consumer business is also its most profitable one by margin.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts — Hardware VP says Nvidia’s Vera standalone is ‘a little bit behind… on that maturity level’
Hardware VP Robert Ho says the choice to use Turin was “pragmatic.”
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Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline amid the RAMpocalypse — new GB10 config starts at $4999 for those who can work with less
Less memory, lower price, otherwise identical
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Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap for 2030 and beyond
Toshiba reiterates plans to release 30TB-class HDDs, double HDD production capacity in Philippines in in 2027.
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Flock drones with cameras deployed as first responders in some US cities amid privacy concerns — UAVs connect to wider emergency services system and streams video to dispatchers, officers
These drones could cut emergency response times to under two minutes, but at what cost?
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CPUs
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Gears of War: E-Day PC graphics performance tested: 43 GPUs take us back to the start of an iconic saga
The first game with UE5's MegaLights feels distinctly next-gen
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First Intel Panther Lake mini PC cooled with solid-state AirJet tech operates at less than 21 dBA — Aaeon claims its fanless Up Xtreme PTL Edge Air is also slimmer, lighter than actively-cooled rivals
An enterprise specialty system with up to a Core Ultra X7 358H processor.
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Micron projects tightening RAM shortages through 2028 as it generates record profit — record 86.25% gross margin drives over $53 billion in quarterly profit
“We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.”
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Gears of War E-Day is an uncharacteristically CPU-heavy Unreal Engine 5 game — benchmarking 25 CPUs from Intel and AMD and investigating ‘low core mode’
Unreal Engine 5 doesn’t normally stress your CPU, but Gears of War E-Day will.
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DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source Ascend AI programming tools to reduce reliance on Nvidia CUDA ecosystem — tools include compute and communication libraries, as well as Ascend support for TileLang
The tools build on Huawei's existing CANN software platform.
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Maingear’s new program offers instant trade-ins for gaming PC buyers — delivers quotes for old laptops, phones, tablets, smartwatches, headphones, cameras, lenses, and microphones in ‘minutes’
And the firm is kicking off the new scheme with 5% trade-in boosts for those using the code EXTRA5.
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HP boards the MacBook Neo competitor train — OmniBook 5 comes in four colors with Wildcat Lake and starts at $699.99
Every model has an OLED display
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Micron lawsuit claims sanctioned Chinese memory maker YMTC poached its engineers, then sued it using its own stolen tech — ex-employees hid roles on LinkedIn, patented Micron tech, and won a German injunction
Some of YMTC's patents can actually belong to Micron, the company alleges.
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Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim — $13,200 monthly GPU rental doubles Claude bill while security flaws keep code offline
The custom setup couldn't beat DeepSeek's own list price.
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Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites — Russo-Ukrainian war temporarily achieves what lawmakers can't, world's second-biggest torrent tracker suffers 'Direct Destruction of Server' downtime before rebounding
As one commenter put it, "DDoS now means Direct Destruction of Servers."
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PS3 emulator devs warn of fake Blu-ray drives on Newegg and AliExpress — ‘Beware of fake Blu-ray drives’ devs warn retrogamers. scammers use spoofed firmware to disguise older mechanisms in high-end shells
Only order from reputable outlets with buyer protections.
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Sony released the first CD audio player on this day in 1982 — player cost $3,700 when adjusted for inflation, but it would be another decade before the CD-ROM-driven multimedia PC era began
The Sony CDP-101 cost around $1,060 at today’s exchange rate, or around $3,700 adjusted for inflation.
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OpenAI says actors linked to China-based Moonshot AI spearheaded a campaign to extract its models’ hidden reasoning — logged 16,000 extraction requests across 4,000 accounts before cutoff
OpenAI disrupted the campaign from July and has tightened its protections.
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AI agents inadvertently leak 13,000+ internal screenshots from 300 organizations — list of companies includes Fortune 500 and a frontier AI lab
When agents are too clever for their own good.
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Semiconductors
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Console Gaming
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CPUs
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Gaming PCs
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GPUs
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Storage
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Cybersecurity
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Geekbench 7 results suggest OpenAI’s dots agent runs on nine-core AMD EPYC VMs with nearly 10GB of memory — newest runs score about six times Meta Muse in multi-core
The 9,435 multi-core score posted on X was uploaded four days before the launch.
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Xbox Disc to Digital feature rolls out to all Xbox players to enable playing disc-free, but selling your media revokes access — hybrid physical media plan lands as Sony phases out discs by 2028
This is a quality-of-life feature and not designed for game preservation, though.
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New PS5 Relapse jailbreak enables homebrew and Switch emulation but is hamstrung by rapidly-changing firmware revisions — jailbreak unlocks firmware 13.60, but newer games already demand firmware 14.00
Some games may require an unsupported version of the PS5 firmware, including the new Wolverine title.
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TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market — US left off launch list as FCC freeze refuses to thaw
The Archer 8 Ultra is launching across Europe and Australia, but the U.S. has given TP-Link the cold shoulder
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Trump tells federal agencies to use the term 'Super Intelligence ' instead of artificial intelligence — President insists that AI is only suffering from a branding problem
Will changing what we call the technology address the underlying issues?
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Routers
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