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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt found himself booed and jeered as he gave the commencement address at the University of Arizona, telling the students AI will "shape the world."

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Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages

Adata is the largest single borrower in the group, having completed a NT$2 billion convertible bond issuance and secured NT$12 billion in bank loans.

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China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power

China has begun full operations at a 24 MW underwater AI data center off Shanghai’s coast, using offshore wind power and seawater cooling to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency

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Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers

Samsung has been granted an injunction to limit the scope of planned strike action ahead of an 18-day walkout due to start on Thursday.

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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford'

Internal Samsung wage negotiation transcripts show the company proposed bonuses of 607% of annual salary for its memory chip division in March.

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon

What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn't want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties such as hall-effect joysticks. It can play any PS2 game natively for up…

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen takes a page from Japan's Fugaku supercomputer and Fujitsu's A64FX processor, build LineShine supercomputer based entirely on Armv9-based LineShine LX2 CPUs.

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LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

One LinkedIn user has fought back against recruiter spam in a very unusual way.

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Japan can’t make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year — $4,000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises

With record numbers of bear attacks on humans, Japan has been increasingly turning to high-tech solutions like the Monster Wolf robot. But production can't keep up with demand.

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ASML to equip India’s first commercial chip fab — $11 billion Dholera project targets 50,000 wafers a month

ASML and Tata Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy ASML's equipment at India's first fab.

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Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box' — warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks

While the internet is up in arms over Bambu Lab threatening legal action against an indy OrcaSlicer developer, Josef Prusa once again warns of sheep in wolves' clothing. Prusa, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research and proponent of open source, has often noted that his company is the last…

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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air

Russia’s Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs with 12 designs to choose from, priced around $170.

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Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.

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Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times

Microsoft is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery to Windows 11 PCs at large, after introducing the tech on Xbox ROG Ally handhelds last year. The company says you can expect up to 95% faster load times in Forza Horizon 6, for instance, going from 90 seconds to just 4 seconds on…

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US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals

The U.S. FTC is looking into Arm Holdings to see if it's abusing its market position as a dominant chip designer to gives its new chip manufacturing business an advantage over competitors who build semiconductors based on Arm designs.

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OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents

The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances.

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Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence

The statement came hours after President Donald Trump told Fox News he opposes Taiwan pursuing formal independence.

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Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to 'adversarial countries'

The Nvidia chief said that you cannot compare AI GPUs to nuclear weapons.

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Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms

Sparky is an opinionated googly-eyed AI in a suitcase powered by an Nvidia Jetson Orin NS Super 16GB.

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The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications

The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, which never came out, was only marginally faster than the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, which explains why Intel ultimately chose not to release it. On average across 1080p and 1440p games, it's only about 2% faster, and in synthetic benchmarks and productivity workloads,…

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Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a 'negotiating chip' with China after Xi said Taiwan issue could lead to 'clashes and even conflicts' — Trump says 'Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit'

Trump's remarks came at the close of a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans

Hill County passed a one-year ban on data center projects, as the country authorities study the effects their effects on the community. Still, the County Attorney warned that they could get sued if they pass this moratorium, with a Texas State Senator asking the State Attorney General to investigate counties…

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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

A survey of Tom's Hardware readers has revealed that 60% of PC gamers are not planning to build a new PC in the next two years.

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Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer's speed by 90%, dropping 3DBenchy print time from 90 minutes to a mere 8 minutes and 41 seconds — enthusiast claims big quality improvements by using jailbroken quad-core console

A keen nozzle-head has dramatically sped up their 3D printer using the portable power of a Nintendo Switch and Klipper firmware replacement.

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AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure

Industry watchdog Monitoring Analytics says that PJM Interconnection is not doing enough to prevent power prices from spiking due to massive data center demand.

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