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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

The law's broad definition of an "operating system provider" pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve's SteamOS.

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AMD’s K6-III ‘Sharptooth’ debuted this week in 1999 with on-die L2 cache to savage the Intel Pentium II — it also held the line against the Pentium III

AMD launched its first processors with on-die L2 cache this week in 1999, heralding the beginning of the Super Socket 7 era.

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US military uses a laser to blast a drone out of the sky on the US-Mexico border — the target belonged to Customs and Border Protection in the friendly fire incident

The U.S. military accidentally shoots down a CBP drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border with a laser system after mistaking it for a cartel drone.

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OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon following Claude blacklisting — Anthropic to challenge supply chain risk designation in court

Altman’s announcement came not long after President Trump “ordered” every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology.

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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

Myrient, which hosts more than 390TB of preserved video games, is set to go offline at the end of March 2026 due to rising storage and memory costs. The founder says they're spending more than $6,000 out of pocket per month to keep the project going.

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Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value — user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

Silicon Power reportedly charged a 15% depreciation fee while refunding a user their 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM, meaning they'll only receive $46.72, which isn't even enough to buy a single 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM stick at current prices.

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OpenAI raises $110 billion in largest-ever private tech funding round, Nvidia throws in $30 billion — AI startup now valued at $730 billion

$50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $30 billion from SoftBank, with additional investors expected to join as the round progresses.

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Developer's 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

A new GitHub project has resurrected the 1994 Linux experience with this Debian clone in your browser, a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Common Desktop Environment that early Unix system users will be familiar with.

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Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform

Reports from around the gaming world are heavily pointing toward the end of Sony's first-party AAA games being available on PC. Single-player PlayStation Studios titles are apparently now going to be assess on a game-by-game basis for launch on PC, with the general strategy pivoting to keeping them on console…

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Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced

An important Windows 9X era video gaming artifact appears to have been deliberately destroyed.

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Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’

Stand-alone device claimed to pull 1,000 liters (about 264 US Gal) of drinkable water a day from air with as little as 20% humidity.

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Two suspects arrested over theft of $1.5 million in Bitcoin stolen from police custody in outrageous blunder — Korean cops left virtual assets stored with a third party, who handed over recovery key to hacker

The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody.

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Trump bans Anthropic AI from federal agencies after firm refuses to unlock capabilities — Anthropic cites risks of autonomous military applications, mass domestic surveillance

"We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again," said Trump.

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Intel mobile CPUs have achieved up to 95x performance uplift over the past two decades — benchmarking the gains from 45nm Penryn to 18A Panther Lake

Leading Linux publication Phoronix has tested 15 Intel mobile processors launched over an 18-year period.

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Claude won't be allowed to engage in mass surveillance or power fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic refuses to lower AI guardrails for the Pentagon

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude. Anthropic takes a concrete stance against mass surveillance and autonomous killing machines, arguing that the former is undemocratic, while frontier AI is not ready for the latter.

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Nvidia DGX Spark gets $700 price hike as memory shortages bite — Founders Edition price jumps 18% to $4,699, up from $3,999

Nvidia has raised the DGX Spark’s MSRP by $700, blaming constrained memory supplies as AI hardware demand continues to strain global availability.

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Rapidus secures $1.7 billion from Japan’s government and private investors for 2nm chip production — company says it is in active discussions with more than 60 potential customers

Under the arrangement, the government will initially hold roughly 10% of Rapidus's voting shares and the majority of its stake in non-voting stock.

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Imec's new post-exposure bake method speeds up EUV chipmaking tools, boosting production for the most advanced chips — 20% gain in photoresist improvement from increased oxygen concentration

Increased oxygen concentration during the EUV lithography post-exposure bake step can increase photoresist performance by 15% - 20%, according to Imec's findings.

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Japanese firm stops production of Blu-ray disc drives — Buffalo says there will be no successors to its current trio of portable USB-attached drives

Further signs that the Blu-ray tide is going out, never to return, come from Japanese peripherals maker Buffalo.

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Razer launches $130 laptop sleeve featuring two wireless charging pads — Base variant with no tech costs $80, supports up to 16-inch devices

Razer has just launched its own lineup of laptop sleeves for devices up to 16 inches. The higher-end variant costs $130 and features two wireless charging pads in its flap. The top pad is capable of charging at up to 15W, while the bottom one's output is limited to 5W.…

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Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

Finance techie tries cloning Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with AI

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Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit

Naga Chandrasekaran promoted to Chief Technology and Operations Officer as well as the general manager of Intel Foundry responsible for development of advanced process technologies and day-to-day operations.

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SK hynix and SanDisk announce new High Bandwidth Flash — speedy HBF standard is targeted at inference AI servers

SK hynix and SanDisk announce speedy HBF flash chip standard

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Nvidia rolls back its latest driver update — Game Ready Driver 595.59 reportedly causes fan issues on RTX 3000, 4000, and 5000-series GPUs

GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 is said to disable one of the fans on Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs, even without third-party apps like MSI Afterburner.

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Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work.

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