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G.Skill drops new AMD EXPO ULL RAM for Ryzen CPUs — Flare X5X brings new ULL optimized subtimings, but pricing remains a mystery

G.Skill launches new Flare X5X DDR5 memory kits with AMD EXPO ULL technology for Ryzen processors.

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Trump says communities that reject data centers 'want to end up being backwards and poor' — President claims China 'could not be happier' with AI data center backlash in the US

President Donald Trump claims that communities rejecting AI data center constructions "want to end up being backwards and poor."

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Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration

German and Japanese researchers demonstrate a heat-driven elastocaloric cooler that uses shape-memory alloys to turn waste heat into cooling.

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Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed

Nvidia’s sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sits alongside Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck.

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Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods

Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. However, it seems like a driver conflict more than a deliberate blacklist since another app, Hydra 2.3B Pro, is working just fine.

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Key Nvidia and Intel supplier raided over alleged China origin fraud — Unimicron faces probe over PCB origin washing, risk of 40% U.S. tariff penalty

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world’s largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products.

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China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips

CXMT claims to be the first to mass-produce LPDDR6 memory. Yet, for a niche phone.

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Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dongle, then relents after social media backlash

Asus refused to replace a loyal customer's wireless headset receiver because accessories are apparently not covered under warranty. The customer was not happy to see his dedication be put into question like this, brining receipts of past purchases to express their disappointment over this betrayal.

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Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rights

A Taiwanese man sued his wife for having an affair using recordings from a robot vacuum to prove his case. He won, but got sued by the wife for infringing on her personal privacy and was fined the equivalent of 30% of what he earned as compensation previously.

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DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

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SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk wants to bring their manufacturing in-house at SpaceX.

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Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C — DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code

A team of veteran developers has recompiled Donkey Kong 64 in C, so it runs natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The entire project is free, uses no generative AI, but still includes more features than any vibecoded retro revival slop you can find online. You do need to bring…

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Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

Early builds of Valve games from 2003 to 2013 have been found in a 12TB archive pulled from the company's old servers. These pre-release versions act like time capsules, preserving the state of the game from before it underwent massive changes.

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At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

Several developers, publishers, and studios have had their laptops and handheld consoles stolen at Gamescom 2026. However, the organizers said that it's only responsible for general security, and exhibitors can book individual booth security separately.

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DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans

An epic book preservation effort.

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China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT wants the US Department of Defense to remove it from the list of companies linked to the Chinese military.

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Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard crashes

A user on Reddit shared their story about how the factory-applied liquid metal on their Asus Zephyrus M16 gaming laptop corroded the heatsink and lid of their CPU. It got so bad that the corrosion was about to eat away and seep onto the silicon itself, but thankfully a simple…

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Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 — by soldering wires directly to the card's PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they've created perhaps an even bigger fire hazard.

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US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to support illegal activities

The US military has successfully deployed a laser defense system on the southern border of the country and shot down alleged Mexican cartel drones. These UAVs are suspected of spotting U.S. law enforcement operations and help the criminal organizations traffic humans and goods into the United States.

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

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Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

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Startup raises $7 million to build backpack-portable 8.8-ounce drone interceptors — Mara claims 20x cost advantage over other interceptors, priced one-for-one against attack drones

San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.

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Get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first

The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society and the Free Software Foundation Europe to help address the unfairness of unwanted OS bundling.

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Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support

GTA 6 is currently running at 30 FPS at Rockstar internally with no confirmation on a 60 FPS mode being available at launch, or even later.

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Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution

The community surrounding the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, are complaining about the Microsoft-linked project. The company's deployment of several unpermitted gas turbines is just one of the issues that has been hounding the project, with potential water issues also surfacing in recent weeks.

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