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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite reference mini PC looks like a coaster — some designs are cooled by Frore AirJets

Qualcomm has just unveiled its new X2 lineup of mobile SoCs, but they seem to be ready for the desktop as well, with mini PC reference designs. There's a frisbee-like circular design and a square device that can dock into an all-in-one base; both are thin and cooled by Frore's…

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CoreWeave deal with OpenAI now worth $22.4 billion — another $6.4 billion of AI data center capacity added

CoreWeave expands partnership to provide OpenAI with compute capacity.

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SlimeMoldCrypt relies on gloopy living organism’s ever-changing network of tendrils for its dynamic, biological, encryption engine — inventor claims concept is resistant to decryption 'even by quantum machines'

A new device hopes to harden cryptography by leveraging icky-sounding organisms called slime molds.

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Sony unveils first-ever wireless desktop speakers for PC gamers with planar magnetic drivers — sleek design features microphone and battery, also work with Mac and PS5

Sony took the wraps off its new Pulse Elevate wireless speakers during its State of Play event a few hours ago.

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Intel reportedly raising prices on ever-popular Raptor Lake chips — 'outdated' CPUs to get over 10% price hike due to disinterest in AI processors

Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh processors are expected to become more expensive because of increasing demand, despite being one generation behind the company's latest chips.

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How to Bypass Windows 11's TPM, CPU and RAM Requirements

Use simple utilities to install or upgrade Windows 11 on any PC, regardless of its TPM status or hardware.

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Intel taps Apple for potential investment, says report — companies said to be discussing ways to work together more closely

Intel is reportedly in early talks with Apple about a potential investment and closer collaboration.

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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite chips for PCs stretch up to a record 5 GHz — 3nm Arm chips sport new Oryon Prime cores

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and X2 Elite SoCs, and is making big claims about improvements over last gen.

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Alibaba announces partnership with Nvidia despite Beijing’s bans — Chinese e-commerce giant is prioritizing AI with plans for global expansion

Alibaba is partnering with Nvidia for its Physical AI software stack, while also announcing plans to expand the global footprint of its data centers.

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OpenAI may lease Nvidia GPUs instead of buying them — financial engineering deal could cut hardware costs in pursuit of 10GW buildout

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease high-performance GPUs from Nvidia, rather than purchase them outright, as part of its plan to build out custom AI data centers over the next several years.

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Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build

It is notoriously easy to own more games than you have time to play on Steam, but one user has taken this phenomenon to the extreme.

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AMD keeps AM4 platform on life support with 2020-era Zen 3 CPU — Ryzen 3 5100 surfaces, nine years after AM4 launch

Hardware leaker momomo_us has shared a photograph of the Ryzen 3 5100, a Zen 3 processor from the Cezanne days.

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Check that you're ready for invasive DRM with new feature built right into Steam — Secure Boot and TPM status now listed right in the app

Valve has just added the ability to check your Secure Boot and TPM status in the latest Steam beta update. Secure Boot and TPM are required for most modern online games, and pretty much every anti-cheat software relies on them. Now, all you need to do is open Steam to…

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Microsoft develops breakthrough chip cooling method — microfluidic channels can cut peak temps by up to 65%, outperform conventional cold plates by up to 3x

Microsoft has proposed a breakthrough cooling method using microfluidic channels etched directly into the silicon die, which cuts peak chip temperatures by up to 65% and outperforms cold plates by up to 3 times.

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Solidigm touts industry's first liquid-cooled enterprise SSD — D7-PS1010 is an E.1 PCIe 5.0 drive with a wrap-around cold plate

Solidigm's D7-PS1010 is the industry's first dual-sided liquid-cooled enterprise SSD.

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How to Check SSD Health in Windows 10 and Windows 11

Here are some tools that access SMART functionality on your SSD to determine its health

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AI slop infects PC watercooling with Thermaltake's 'AI Forge' feature — adds generative AI to its MagFloe Ultra AIO screens for custom backgrounds

Thermaltake has just unveiled a new feature coming to its MagFloe Ultra lineup of AIO liquid coolers, called "AI Forge." This will allow you to whip up custom backgrounds for the screen on these coolers with just a prompt, right from within the TT Plus ARGB 3.0 software, without the…

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Find My Parking Cops uses data scraped from City website to track parking fines in real time — entire website dedicated to helping San Francisco motorists avoid parking tickets goes live

This web app tracks the locations of issued parking tickets in real time using the City of San Francisco's own parking ticket payment portal.

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Intel could be working on its own multi-frame generation tech — XeSS MFG name and logo found in Arc graphics driver files

Intel might be working on its own multi-frame generation to combat Nvidia and AMD. Buried within the latest Arc graphics fiver, someone on Reddit found mentions of "Multi-Frame Generation (XeSS)" along with a potential logo — all hinting at Intel's own multi-frame gen tech.

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GPD Win 5 handheld soars with AMD's Strix Halo — gaming deck is almost twice as fast as Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 competitors at same power

More content creators have benchmarked GPD's bleeding-edge Win 5 handheld sporting AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU. The high-end SoC produces twice the frame rate of Ryzen AI 9 HX 370-powered handhelds, even at the same power levels.

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China's latest GPU arrives with claims of CUDA compatibility and RT support — Fenghua No.3 also boasts 112GB+ of HBM memory for AI

Innosilicon has announced its latest flagship GPU on board the Fenghua No.3 graphics card.

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Nvidia's $100 billion investment in OpenAI raises big antitrust concerns — legal experts and policymakers raise eyebrows over potential for market imbalance

Nvidia's planned $100 billion investment in OpenAI represents a historic alliance between the dominant AI GPU developer and a leading AI model developer, but it raises serious antitrust concerns over potential market favoritism, supply chain imbalances, and regulatory scrutiny.

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The end of EU-imposed cookie consent pop-ups could be nigh — consent fatigue and clickspamageddon to be addressed by European Commission amendments to its 2009 e-Privacy Directive

The plague of cookie consent alerts, banners, and pop-ups that have added a sliver of sandpaper to web surfing since 2009 might be eradicated in December.

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AI buildouts need $2 trillion in annual revenue to sustain growth, but massive cash shortfall looms — even generous forecasts highlight $800 billion black hole, says report

A new report by Bain & Company says AI’s compute appetite will require more than $500 billion per year in global data center investment by 2030.

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Intel drops day zero game driver support for chips released last year — last-gen iGPUs on 14th-gen Core and older CPUs already put on the backburner of legacy software support

Intel essentially said that the integrated GPUs on its 11th- to 14th-generation Intel Core CPUs are obsolete.

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