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Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU 'works better than before' now

A Russian family has just saved the house $120 in GPU repairs after the father fixed it with a salvaged capacitor from an old radio.

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Intel preps 28-core Nova Lake-S CPUs for Dunlow workstation platform — Entry-level Xeon chip features LGA1954 socket

Intel readies Xeon 'Dunlow' platform with 28 cores in LGA1954 packaging for entry-level servers and workstations.

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Nvidia shows off GeForce Trading Cards Series 1 — collectible cards show off games, GPUs, and tech demos, and will be available for free at upcoming events

Nvidia is creating a set of collectible trading cards that will be given away for free during live events and giveaways this summer.

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Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score

A Brown University professor suspected that almost his entire class cheated on take-home mid-term exams using AI tools after they scored unusually high. In-person final exams showed that only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score, with just one getting a higher grade compared to their midterms.

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Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more

Nvidia and Sega have scheduled an event next week to celebrate their history and longstanding friendship.

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395

A new 10-core engineering sample from AMD has surfaced on Geekbench, being identified as part of the Medusa Point family. It's likely the Ryzen AI 9 565 and its scores easily beat the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and even the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in certain benchmarks.

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New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code — 'HalluSquatting' attack exploits a fundamental weakness in every available model

Attackers can exploit how AI bots hallucinate software URLs to create massive botnets. The vulnerability is endemic to every model.

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists

Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head, the Future Nostalgia Project is asking retro hoarders to Copy That Floppy!

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AMD EXPO ULL shows middling performance gains in initial tests despite eye-watering price increase — first benchmarks show up to a 4% improvement with DDR5-6000 CL36

The first independent benchmarks for AMD's EXPO ULL memory are available, showing just up to a 4% improvement despite an increase in price.

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AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027 — global data center electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year, Gartner forecasts

Global data center electricity consumption will grow 26% in 2026 to reach 565 TWh, up from 447 TWh in 2025.

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Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers — multiple cases spanning years establish precedent for digital ownership of games, in-game items, and microtransactions

A Reddit user named u/Slawrfp shared on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit that Chinese courts have allowed heirs to inherit games and other digital assets after the original user has since passed on. While Chinese inheritance law hasn't explicitly covered digital properties, multiple rulings have already set precedent.

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China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism 'a serious threat' — Gov't claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent

China is warning against the use of Claude Code versions released between April and June 2026 after it's revealed that hidden code is sending sensitive user information to remote servers. The government told users to uninstall the app or use its latest version, despite the fact that the AI tool…

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Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company's firmware allows admin access without a password

CERT/CC has disclosed a critical authentication backdoor affecting multiple Tenda router firmware versions. Tracked as CVE-2026-11405, the flaw grants full administrator access without valid credentials, and no vendor patch is currently available after CERT failed to reach Tenda.

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Budget smartphone market collapses under the weight of memory shortages, sales expected to drop 22% — memory alone now comprises up to 64% of the total cost of lower-tier smartphones

The global AI memory squeeze is pricing cheap phones out of existence and forcing mid-range devices to compromise on hardware.

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JEDEC releases new SPHBM4 standard to slash AI memory costs — Narrow 512-bit interface enables dropping expensive interposers for organic substrates

SPHBM4 promises HBM4-class bandwidth without usage of silicon interposer and CoWoS-like packaging.

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Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments fell 6% in Q1 2026, down 34% from 2021 peak — mesh systems and gaming routers still prove popular

Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments have declined 34 percent from their peak in 2021

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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share

Oregon approves the 29.7% price hike that Portland General Electric (PGE), the state's largest power provider, will impose on users that consume 20MW or more. This move is backed by Oregon's POWER Act, which helps ensure that data centers in PGE's coverage area pay their fair share.

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'Slopfix' software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

A software house known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work.

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Fi Ultra becomes first dog tracker powered by Starlink satellites – the Fi Ultra Dog Tracker makes Fido trackable via satellite, onboard GPS, and LTE connectivity

Smart pet technology firm Fi has launched the Fi Ultra Dog Tracker today, the first such device with Starlink connectivity.

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Cracked version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced leaked days prior to official release despite Denuvo DRM protection — Denuvo unable to stop crackers, with some finding ways to completely remove it from other titles

Ubisoft's remake of the 2013 game has been circulating online more than a month before its official release date, despite Denuvo DRM protection. Incident questions the effectivity of anti-piracy app, which causes performance hits and requires intrusive online check-ins.

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Modding tool 'DLSS Swapper' might infect your PC with malware if you download the wrong files — App creator warns against using random, user-submitted DLLs

The creator of DLSS Swapper is warning against using random DLLs that claim to fix issues pertaining to DLSS, FSR, or XeSS, even if said file is available on the app's GitHub repo.

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Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it — tells users it doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

These drivers will make it easier for your Steam Deck or Steam Machine to play nicely with Windows 11. However, Valve says it does not offer customer support for 'Windows on Steam Hardware,' and instead points stuck users to the SteamOS recovery instructions.

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Nvidia touts Vera CPU's single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen 'Rigel' Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a 'max single-threaded CPU at scale,' not a parallel monster

Nvidia lifts the veil a little bit more on its Vera CPU and reveals a single-thread performance monster — company claims a 1.8x uplift versus x86 competition in agentic workloads and 1.5x in coding.

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Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them

While the use of Windows' GDID to catch Scattered Spider hacking group member Peter Stokes is unusual, that device identifier is only one bit of telemetry that can be used to fingerprint a user across the wider Internet these days.

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Space Force gets first mobile high-powered electromagnetic beam weapon to cripple enemy satellites — plans to deploy 32 ‘Meadowlands’ units to detect, deny, disrupt, and degrade hostile space assets

Space Force has announced that the first high-energy 'Meadowlands' electronic warfare system has been delivered for operational duty.

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