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Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill

The power supply unit touches every part of your PC, and that means an older PSU poses a unique risk to your precious components if it fails. If you’re trying to get more life out of an old PC or pulling an older computer off the shelf during today’s RAMpocalypse,…

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Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame

The Notepad++ project yesterday disclosed that its update server was covertly hijacked in a targeted supply chain attack that began in June 2025,

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Frankenstein RTX 5070 Ti with an RTX 2080 Ti PCB breaks world record with extreme modding — card was damaged, salvaged with AMD donor parts and lots of soldered wires and tape

A Brazilian modding team has improved its resurrected RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it by recycling parts from an RTX 2080 Ti and an AMD RX 580 to break a benchmark world record.

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Trump administration plans $12bn critical minerals stockpile to offset China supply risk — initiative to create 60-day reserve of rare earths for electronics manufacturing

The Trump administration will soon launch a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile designed to insulate U.S. manufacturing from supply disruptions tied to China’s dominance of mining and refining.

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Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive — counterfeit SSDs proliferate as NAND shortage creates the perfect storm for bogus deals

A Redditor recounts his experience with a Samsung 990 Pro clone that looks like the real deal.

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Intel mandates at least 7,467 MT/s RAM speed for Panther Lake — Slower memory will relabel the Arc B370 & B390 iGPUs as generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager

Panther Lake chips with Arc B370 and Arc B390 iGPUs will require RAM running at 7,467 MT/s or higher since integrated graphics rely on shared system memory. If the RAM config is any slower, those impressive iGPUs will be relabeled to generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager in an effort…

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Binning results from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3Ds prove that the CPU is purely an overclocked 9800X3D from the factory — 9850X3D looks similar to 9800X3D, just with higher voltages

Binning data from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3D samples was published online, showing the average required voltage the 9850X3D needs to achieve its peak single-core clock speed.

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AI infrastructure surge begins squeezing Apple’s component costs — company considering supplier other than TSMC for lower-end chips, report claims

Apple is beginning to feel the downstream effects of the AI infrastructure boom, as surging demand for data center hardware pushes up component costs and weakens its leverage.

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Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 290K Plus appears on Geekbench with chart-topping scores — Arrow Lake refresh beats the 285K by ~10% across single- and multithreaded tests

As Intel gears to launch its Arrow Lake refresh, leaks for the lineup keep pouring in left and right — the latest one being a Geekbench spotting for the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus. The chip scored 10.5% higher in single-core and 11.29% higher in multi-core tests compared to…

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AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture — replacement for decades-old IDT can improve performance and stability

AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture

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Raspberry Pi 5 price increases drastically as AI shortage bites, 16GB version now $205 — second price increase in three months, over 70% more expensive than original MSRP

Raspberry Pi is increasing its prices again.

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Modder more than doubles Asus ROG Xbox Ally X's memory with massive 64GB RAM upgrade — advanced soldering and BIOS modification unlock more capacity

A professional modder has replaced the ROG Xbox Ally X’s soldered LPDDR5X chips and modified the BIOS to unlock 64GB of memory

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Developer creates 'conversational AI' that can run in 64kb of RAM on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU-powered system — features a tiny chatbot and a 20-question guessing game

The venerable Z80 microprocessor has its own micro language model, and its quite terse in its responses

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Jensen Huang warns TSMC needs to 'work very hard' to meet AI demand — Nvidia CEO says its demand alone may force doubling its capacity over the next decade

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says TSMC needs to work very hard to expand capacity in order to keep up with AI demand.

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Homebrew developer runs real-time ray tracing test on 1994 Sega Saturn — ancient hardware's untapped power revealed, more refinements to come

A recently published video shows real-time raytraced shadows in a game environment running within the improbable confines of a mid-1990s Sega console.

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Smart ways to help your PC survive through the PC component pricing apocalypse — check temps, replace old AIOs and PSUs, keep an eye on your boot drive's TBW, and more

As the cost of RAM, GPUs, and storage climbs, do what you can to help make sure your existing PC keeps working as expected until prices drop.

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Former Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' — tried to raise funding for his own start-up

A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted a former Google engineer of stealing confidential AI infrastructure data and transferring it to benefit Chinese interests.

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Chinese researchers discover new salty cooling solution that can drop temperatures by more than 50 degrees Celsius in seconds — depressurizing saturated fluid triggers massive amounts of heat transfer

Chinese researchers developed a salt solution that absorbs large amounts of heat when depressurized, making it a potential substitute to traditional, power intensive cooling solutions used in data centers.

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SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor

SpaceX said in an FCC filing that it plans to launch a million satellites to serve as AI data centers that would deliver 100 gigawatts of compute capacity.

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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre low-capacity USB drives we have ever seen.

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Starlink uses emergency fix to block Russian drones using its devices to bomb Ukraine — company looking for permanent solutions to stop unauthorized use of its service

The Ukrainian government has successfully blocked unauthorized Starlink terminals from operating within its borders, stopping Russian drones from using the internet service to strike targets deep within the country.

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Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD

PicoIDE is touted as 'an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.'

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Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter

Researchers say they have built a computer chip in a flexible fiber that is thinner than an average human hair.

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Intel ties AMD for most reliable CPUs in 2025 system builder report — Nvidia's Founders Edition GPUs dominate with the lowest failure rates

Puget System just released its annual reliability report for 2025, noting which computer components suffered the least number of failures in testing and deployment.

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Malicious OpenClaw ‘skill’ targets crypto users on ClawHub — 14 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub last month

Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around ‘OpenClaw,’ the self-hosted AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot, has already become a target for malware distribution.

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