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Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains — citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security

U.S. lawmakers demand Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ban imports of memory chips from China to the U.S., ask allies to do the same.

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AI data centers must produce as much power as they use, Australia PM says — new national AI framework will also ensure water efficiency and protect intellectual property rights

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the "Australian Standards for A.I.," which will serve as a national framework for data center developments related to AI. The government plans to set this legislative agenda as more AI hyperscalers are setting their sights on the country for its vast land and abundant…

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Intel Nova Lake leak points to Core Ultra Series 400 branding, staggered release next year — hotly anticipated flagship 52-core desktop CPU might not arrive until late 2027

Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop processors continue to gather momentum, with fresh reports hinting at Core Ultra Series 400 branding and a phased launch timeline.

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China's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 beats Claude Fable 5 in Frontend Code Arena benchmark— Moonshot AI delivers largest open-weight AI model ever, as China works around U.S. compute limits

Beijing-based Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model that the company describes in its technical blog as the world's first open 3T-class system.

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ASML looks to increase prices of its Low-NA EUV tools beyond existing productivity-based model — company wants to capture the value of all the advantages its tools offer, not just wafer throughput improvements

ASML's comments point to intentions to increase prices, though the company is expected to maintain its value-based approach to price setting. Yet, TSMC is reportedly unhappy about the potential plan.

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Mario Kart Wii recompiled for PC using AI, with 4K potential and uncapped frame rates — 'first static recompilation of a Wii game' supports over 200 tracks thanks to Retro Rewind compatibility

Mario Kart Wiicompiled, a claimed 'first static recompilation of a Wii game,' is scheduled to be released in August.

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Robot vacuum flaw lets one stolen certificate run root commands on other Shark robovacs in the same AWS region — unpatched flaw exposes live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials

The problem is an over-permissive AWS IoT policy.

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Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' — creator embraces AI as just a tool and 'clearly a useful one'

Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator and kernel manager, has seemingly taken an accepting stance of AI-assisted tooling.

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Lenovo announces world's first laptop with inkjet-printed OLED — the Legion R9000P is equipped with a 240 Hz IJP panel from TCL CSOT

The Lenovo Legion R9000P is the first laptop to be equipped with an IJP OLED from TCL CSOT. This display promises a 240 Hz refresh rate and 99% DCI-P3 coverage for a fraction of the price of traditionally manufactured OLEDs.

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Nvidia and Japan unveil world's first national AI infrastructure — Noetra consortium to build a 140MW Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs

Nvidia today announced that it's working with Japan's Noetra Corp. to build a 140-megawatt AI factory packing 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs.

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Elon Musk spent estimated $1 billion on an energy company to power xAI, filings reveal — APR Energy owns a fleet of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines capable of generating more than 1 gigawatt

An FTC document revealed that Elon Musk purchased APR Energy, a mobile natural gas and diesel turbine generator provider, for an estimated $1 billion. The deal wasn't announced publicly and was only discovered after the FTC filing.

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TSMC commits another $100 billion to Arizona for at least four more 2nm fabs — 2026 capex could hit $64 billion following another record quarterly earnings

TSMC will invest an additional $100 billion in the U.S. to build at least four more chipmaking plants and advanced packaging facilities in Arizona.

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Prusa Research Founder Edition INDX launches — limited 1,000-unit run of revolutionary toolchanger mod now shipping

One thousand Prusa CORE One INDX Founder’s Editions have shipped, giving a lucky few first access to Bondtech’s revolutionary toolchanger mod. The Founders Edition is a special limited run, intended for early adopters and Prusa fanatics.

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OpenAI's first hardware device is an RGB macropod — 'Codex Micro' features 13 low-profile keys and a joystick for controlling AI coding agents

OpenAI has launched the "Codex Micro" marcopad in collaboration with Work Louder. It uses RGB to provide feedback about your coding agents in Codex, and features various customizable inputs to maximize your vibecoding potential.

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Scientists synchronize 105,000 nano-oscillators in just 45 nanoseconds — paving the way for a highly efficient and fast alternative to transistors

Scientists synchronize 105,000 nano-oscillators in just 45 nanoseconds — paving way for highly efficient and fast alternative to transistors

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Ex-Sega engineer creates 'super realistic' CRT monitor emulator — incredible retro offering even includes TV screen tapping to fix picture

A CRT emulation project has implemented percussive maintenance support. Just hit it for a chance to improve the picture.

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75% of all PS3 games reportedly now run on PC via open-source emulator RPCS3 — announcement comes weeks after Sony's plan to shutter the PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita by 2027

The RPCS3 team has successfully ensured that more than 2,600 PS3 titles are now compatible with the emulator. This means that 75.33% of all PS3 games can now be played on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD using either x86 or arm64 processors.

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Nvidia's Huang vows to deliver 'giant amounts' of Vera Rubin — company says that 'our roadmap is intact'

Chief executive of Nvidia says the company is on track to produce 'giant amounts' of Vera Rubin-based machines, but fails to address rumored delays of Kyber NVL144 racks from 2027 to 2028.

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CXMT's DDR5 RAM isn't as performant or as consistent as SK hynix dies, early testing shows — reveals resistance to voltage scaling and inferior manual overclocking capabilities

Early testing hints that CXMT-made DDR5 RAM performs worse than SK Hynix-made DDR5 at the same clock speeds, while being harder to manually overclock as well. It also allegedly doesn't scale with voltage or allow the subtimings to be tuned properly.

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Intel becomes the first company to ship high-volume logic chips made with ASML's High NA EUV — select Panther Lake layers on 18A are now dual-qualified for 0.55 NA scanners

Intel is using ASML’s High-NA EUV tools to pattern select Panther Lake layers, marking the technology’s first use in high-volume logic production

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'PCIe Gen7 development has already started,' says Silicon Motion's Alex Chou — Nvidia's Storage Next initiative is becoming a focal point

Silicon Motion is a relatively new entrant to the data center storage market, which has quickly landed orders from various customers and is now ramping up shipments of its high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers both to CSPs and hyperscalers. Being a new player, the company has a unique view on…

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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in

A PC gamer has created and demonstrated a handy Steam Game Cartridge system.

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Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with 'new' Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap

Nvidia has rebooted its five-year-old RTX 3060 graphics card, as is, for the modern AI era, bringing back the GPU officially at its original $329 price. It still features 12GB of VRAM, which serves as its main selling point during a memory crisis, but don't let the capacity fool you.

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Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4

Starlink just released a new generation of its Starlink terminal, which reduces its weight by more than 50% and is significantly smaller, too. This should make it easier to install, especially for DIY-ers, but comes with a tiny speed penalty.

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Nvidia and Sega team up to deliver RTX Spark support for future games — partnership kicks off next year with upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads

Nvidia and Sega announced today that the upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads will support the RTX Spark platform when the game launches in 2027. Sega is also promising Spark support in its future titles.

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