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Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store

Some Japanese computer stores are limiting GPU purchases because of supply uncertainty, especially for models with 16GB of VRAM and up.

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Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’

Mirari, a Micro-ATX mainboard designed to "breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform," is set to launch mid-2026.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power wire reportedly caught fire despite using the original cable — CPU cooler's tubing was also caught in the blaze

We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, despite using a native 12V-2x6 cable on an ATX 3.1 certified PSU. The person smelled fire, saw it, and lived to tell the tale, all on Christmas eve.

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Old Ryzen AM4 CPUs top US, UK Amazon charts as DDR5 pricing pushes buyers to last-gen platform — DDR4-friendly Ryzen 5 5800X, XT claim spots in the top 5

The five-year-old Ryzen 7 5800X and its 2024 refresh, the 5800XT, are among the best-selling CPUs this holiday season despite being two generations behind Zen 5.

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No, Asus isn't going into memory manufacturing — Taiwanese tech giant issues statement smashing rumor

Asus has directly shut down a spurious rumor claiming it would enter the memory market within the next six months.

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AMD's dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears in first benchmark leaks — gaming-focused CPU features 192MB of L3 cache stacked across both CCDs

AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and…

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LG UltraGear evo gaming monitor lineup announced ahead of CES 2026 — 27-inch 5K Mini LED, 39-inch curved Tandem OLED, and a 52-inch 5K2K large format display

LG is expanding its gaming monitor portfolio with the launch of UltraGear evo, a premium sub-brand that brings a 5K Mini LED monitor with 2,304 dimming zones, a curved 5K2K OLED ultrawide, and the world’s largest 5K2K gaming display

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Intel displays tech to build extreme multi-chiplet packages 12 times the size of the largest AI processors, beating TSMC's biggest — floorplan the size of a cellphone, armed with HBM5, 14A compute tiles and 18A SRAM

Intel Foundry has released a video of a multi-chiplet 2.5D/3D processor with a 10,296 mm^2 silicon footprint, including leading-edge technologies such as 14A and 18A.

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Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA — Take Two says DOS Zone infringed company’s intellectual property rights despite disclaimers and requirement to own original copy of title for full game

Take-Two takes down the online demo of GTA: Vice City found on DOS Zone — says it violates its copyright.

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Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft

Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years.

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Robots fashioned from dead lobster exoskeletons have awesome strength, light weight, and flexibility — necrobotics advance mixes sustainable food waste with synthetic components

Swiss scientists have demonstrated the use of dead lobster tails as robotic appendages.

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Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead — lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives

In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis.

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Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet

Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact.

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Laptop maker Framework announces another immediate memory price hike, says additional increase expected within a month — encourages buyers to bring their own memory and check PCPartPicker for better deals

Framework is increasing the prices of its memory modules in response to market pricing once more. Also encourages its buyers to look for better deal elsewhere as the memory market crunch bites into the PC building industry.

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AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines — firm asks U.S. DOE for a loan guarantee to start the project

A Texas energy startup proposes repurposing retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in AI data centers.

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of…

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Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth

StorageReview takes the Pi crown again with 314 trillion digits calculated

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Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO

Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part…

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Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support — users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers

Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July. Arch is now using the 590 Nvidia Linux driver as its default Nvidia driver, which lacks Pascal support.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions, performs similarly to five-year-old Intel Tiger Lake chips — promising chip continues to be plagued by software support issues

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite's latest Linux benchmarks show significant regressions

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Starlink satellite pictured ‘tumbling’ after recent ‘anomaly’ in space — it will be incinerated when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere in a few weeks

Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

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TSMC’s Christmas Card evokes a retro 8-bit winter wonderland — ‘pixelated’ kids play Breakout with snowballs, carving out a festive scene

TSMC has shared a super-cool digital greetings card with a retro-nostalgic 8-bit style gaming animation.

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Floppy disk pre-paid cash card launched in Taiwan — NFC payment method 'only has a card function' warns supplier, so keep it out of your FDD

Taiwan’s iPass has released a new custom payment card that looks just like a Floppy Disk.

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New $110 Intel Z790 motherboard with DDR4 support is a Christmas gift to the world amid the memory pricing crisis — an affordable home for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs

Chinese manufacturer Onda launches the Z790PRO WiFi B4 motherboard with a sub-$100 price tag.

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AMD EXPO 1.2 could supercharge Ryzen CPUs with CUDIMM support amid global DRAM crunch — full AMD CUDIMM support is on the horizon

AMD prepares EXPO 1.2 revision that could bring CUDIMM support to next-generation Ryzen processors.

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