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Valve opens Steam Machine reservations — details $1,049 starting price, randomized queue to stop scalpers, and limited inventory

In a blog post, Valve explained its new randomized reservation systems, new tactics to stop scalpers, and why it has limited inventory.

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2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production

DDR2 contract prices rose 55% to 60% in the second quarter of the year and are projected to climb another 35% to 40% in the third.

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Quake changed gaming forever 30 years ago today — seminal title established online multiplayer culture and made 3D graphics accelerators essential PC components

On this day in 1996, id Software unleashed Quake on the unsuspecting public. The game’s influence is difficult to overstate, with its pioneering 3D engine inspiring the first wave of 3D accelerator PC expansion card purchases, the establishment of online multiplayer competitive culture, and much more.

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Ludicrous $999 Steam game lasts just 10 minutes — ‘Congratulations On Your Purchase’ is pure conspicuous consumption with its golden ticket Steam Achievement

'Congratulations On Your Purchase' recently appeared on PC digital marketplaces priced at $999. Its main claim to fame is that it is proudly 'the most expensive game on Steam.' Buyers get a golden ticket Steam Achievement.

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Ingenious modder converts countertop ice machine into an RTX 3060 GPU cooler with a beer fridge thermostat — mod reduces temps by up to 62% in games, Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 22°C

Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you're willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks.

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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries

NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support.

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash — French publisher established in 1986 became one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot was killed when his twin-engine private plane crashed enroute to an airshow. Aside from building the French gaming empire, Guillemot was also a licensed and avid pilot.

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Dramatically redesigned GMKtec EVO-X3 shown bearing Lisa Su’s signature of approval — flagship AI mini PC workstation is built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Strix Halo' processor, again

GMKtec's dramatically redesigned EVO-X3 'Strix Halo' Mini PC gets Lisa Su’s signature of approval.

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Samsung and SK hynix bonuses for chip workers flagged as a national inflation risk — Bank of Korea projects full-year inflation significantly above its 2% target

The Bank of Korea has named performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix as a risk to the country's inflationary stability.

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Telehealth doctor treats patients using Razer Naga gaming mouse — 12-button MMO thumb grid simplifies medical workflow, automates medical scripting

Dr. James Ries says that his Razer Naga V2 MMO gaming mouse helps him treat patients by keeping relevant medical responses at his fingertips.

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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness

People seem all-too-ready to anthropomorphize LLMs and AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, reckons a Microsoft AI researcher.

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Acoustic mapping app uses thousands of networked old Android phones to hunt Shahed drones — crowd-sourced microphone network spots small, low-RCS military targets

This app would crowdsource drone detection and help map their location and direction long before they reach their targets.

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China unifies tech sector to build grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX — Beijing's forced chip and satellite alliance announced a week before Musk’s AI1 reveal

Beijing says the Space Computing Industry Innovation Center will bring together rocket and satellite manufacturers, chip manufacturers, and AI labs to develop a space-based data center system.

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Rare ASML Special Edition Monopoly board unearthed in social media trade — enthusiast swaps 2007 employee gift for High-NA EUV Lego kit

We just witnessed a significant semiconductor industry related non-cash trade deal take place on Twitter/X.

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New web app can make Valve's Steam Controller drift across your desk like an RC car — web app drives the gamepad using its rumble motors

A developer has created a Chromium browser-based tool that turns Valve's second-gen Steam Controller into a self-propelled RC car.

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Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient

ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient

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Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam

Another person has fallen victim to Amazon's generous return policy, as they received a disc drive, a mousepad, and an AV receiver instead of the $700 RTX 5070 they ordered.

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Researcher turns wi-fi smart lightbulb into a Banned Book Library — open source project makes digital books available via a server and open Wi-Fi access point hacked into an ESP32-powered bulb

A security researcher has added another dimension to smart lightbulbs by stealthily adding what they call a 'cyberpunk digital dead drop' full of 'banned books.'

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China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds — backpack-sized 2-kilowatt weapon uses AI for targeting, weighs 55 pounds, and can be carried by a single soldier

Chinese defense supplier Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology demo’d two man-portable anti-drone lasers at a Beijing arms expo this week.

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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback'

AMD says it will reinstate firmware memory encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs through a BIOS update in July, following the feature's removal through an earlier firmware update.

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Amazon workers who testified against AI data centers say they were intimidated by the company, monitored at work — employees face possible termination for violating company policy, speaking as representatives

The three Amazon workers claim that they've been intimidated during the Zoom meetings and were being monitored while at work.

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Bernie Sanders files bill proposing 50% public ownership of US AI firms and giving out $1,000 dividends — VP Vance says Trump supports giving the American people a stake in AI companies, prefers ‘pre-distribution’ over giving away cash

U.S. politicians are thinking about how they can ensure that the American people can benefit from AI.

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ASML denies US government report that its EUV chipmaking tool was shipped to China — says 'rumors' are 'inaccurate and damaging to our reputation'

U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick expresses concerns in a conversation with ASML executives that China has an EUV lithography system as ASML denies shipping such scanners to the PRC.

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Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more

Epic Games has just shown off a new year-long roadmap for its launcher, promising to bring community-requested features and a faster overall platform in the next 12 months.

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CEO of Chinese Anthropic rival tells Elon Musk that China will have a Fable 5-class AI model before next year — it ‘won’t take that long’ says Jie Tang in response to Musk's prediction of a Q1 target

Elon Musk estimated that Chinese AI firms would have an LLM with Mythos level capability by the first quarter of 2027. However, the CEO of Beijing-based Z.ai responded to the comment, saying that their company will achieve this soon, but did not give a concrete timeline.

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