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Banned Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky rolls out new products — basic plan for Linux starts at $59.99 a year

Kaspersky launches antivirus software for Linux, starting at $59.99 per year for one device, with a special first-year price of $38.99 for the basic plan.

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Tape keeps kicking, 'breakthrough' 40TB native spec announced — LTO-10 tapes claim up to 100TB compressed data capacity, hold 2.2X more data than previous spec

LTO-10 40TB carts were enabled by new 'Aramid' material technology.

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Taiwan to up defense spending and develop Iron Dome-inspired missile protection — expert warns one well-placed Chinese missile could make it 'impossible to get a new iPhone for three years'

An expert from the Taiwan NSTC Hsinchu Science Park Bureau estimates that a single missile strike could disrupt iPhone production for three years, with another suggesting that such an event could result in a 6% to 10% contraction of the global GDP.

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'Bitcoin Queen' who laundered $5.6 billion in illicit funds through crypto gets nearly 12 years in prison — UK court hands down sentence

A Chinese scammer who duped almost 130,000 investors out of around $5.6 billion was handed a nearly 12-year prison sentence in a London court.

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Intel software fixes stamp down privilege escalation vulnerabilities, while microcode updates clean up CPU messes — chipmaker has its own Patch Tuesday as it stomps down 30 bugs

Intel stomps down 30 bugs including privilege escalation vulnerabilities

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China officials overseeing allocation of high-end AI chips, prioritizing homegrown options — government's AI chip pivot accelerates as US export restrictions bite

Restrictions on U.S. chip exports are beginning to force visible shifts in China’s AI compute strategy, as a shortage of Nvidia accelerators drives cloud providers toward domestic alternatives.

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Microsoft patches Windows 10 issue that accidentally blocked extended security updates from installing — latest update should finally fix all the issues for ESU-eligible devices

Microsoft has published an out-of-band Windows 10 update that finally addresses all of the glitches surrounding Extended Security Update (ESU) enrollment. Installing this update should finally let you enroll in the ESU program on Windows 10 if you haven't been able to do so.

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Google sues China-based hackers it says stole $1 billion — 'Lighthouse' platform offers phishing services to crooks for a monthly fee, hit over a million victims in 121 countries

The Lighthouse Enterprise is a group of Chinese hackers that offers a complete service to scammers, from phishing websites all the way to sending millions of spam messages.

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Google strikes massive deal to buy 1.5 terawatt hours of Ohio solar capacity — 15-year deal will see most of 50 megawatt solar farm's capacity diverted to data centers

Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract.

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Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC — tiny virtual machine can boot Windows 95 and Linux on ESP32-S3 chip

Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC

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Kyocera develops wireless underwater communications tech that uses lasers to hit 5.2 Gbps — optical approach advances underwater drone comms, boasts blistering speeds at short distances

Kyocera built a custom system instead of using off-the-shelf parts to achieve this high bandwidth.

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China accuses Washington of stealing $13 billion worth of Bitcoin in alleged hack — 127,272 tokens seized from Prince Group after owner Chen Zhi was indicted for wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. alleges

China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.

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First images of exclusive custom Xbox 360 launch console shared ahead of HD-gaming pioneer’s 20th anniversary — project leader Major Nelson admits he has never powered on 'Launch Team 05' console

As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.

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AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025 — update delivers 15-second boot-up times with 256GB memory setups

An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.

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AMD reveals new roadmap for its Ryzen CPUs, teasing Zen 7 as the true "next-generation" leap with 2nm — Lineup confirms 2026 release for Zen 6, coming with expanded AI features

An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the…

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Future of cable-less PC builds revealed — single 50-pin connector supports up to 2,145 watts to power a CPU and GPU with BTF 3.0

DIY-APE has just revealed a next-gen concept for back-connect PCs, using the new BTF 3.0 spec. A single 50-pin connector powers most of the PC, with front panel I/O being simplified into one connector as well. BTF 3.0 is backward compatible with prior BTF standards and even compatible with non-BTF…

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J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber 'in perpetuity'

A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030.

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SoftBank offloads entire $5.83 billion stake in Nvidia — firm sells off stock, cash will fund major investment in OpenAI, also in talks over Stargate

SoftBank has confirmed it sold its entire stake in Nvidia in October, offloading 32.1 million shares for $5.83 billion. The disclosure came Tuesday alongside the Japanese conglomerate’s latest earnings report.

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PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs

PNY tells Tom's Hardware that it is suspending upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions on storage due to rising NAND costs.

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC — affordable gaming CPU seemingly exclusive to retailer for now

This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.

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Intel's CTO and AI chief leaves for OpenAI after just seven months in role — follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack

Intel's Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company's compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-Tan, will take over the role of managing Intel's AI efforts going forward.

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Veteran dev’s newest computer is ‘200,000 times’ faster than his oldest in custom benchmarks — single-thread Dhrystone performance charted across 25 systems released between 1976 and 2023

Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.

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Undersea comms cable investments double to $13 billion in over two years — ever-growing danger of cable cuts looms

$13 billion in two years towards undersea data cables

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The 'worst-selling Microsoft product of all time' sold just 11 times, and eight people returned it — why you've never heard of OS/2 for the Mach 20

A specialized version of the ill-fated OS/2 holds the dubious record, and probably will forever.

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Frankly dangerous hot dog-based LED tester could be a Weiner in the 2025 Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge

An LED testing ‘device’ which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition

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