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Developer's 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

A new GitHub project has resurrected the 1994 Linux experience with this Debian clone in your browser, a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Common Desktop Environment that early Unix system users will be familiar with.

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Industry murmurs suggest Sony will no longer release PS5 exclusives on PC — New leadership might be willing to forgo PC revenue to fortify console platform

Reports from around the gaming world are heavily pointing toward the end of Sony's first-party AAA games being available on PC. Single-player PlayStation Studios titles are apparently now going to be assess on a game-by-game basis for launch on PC, with the general strategy pivoting to keeping them on console…

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Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced

An important Windows 9X era video gaming artifact appears to have been deliberately destroyed.

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Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’

Stand-alone device claimed to pull 1,000 liters (about 264 US Gal) of drinkable water a day from air with as little as 20% humidity.

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Two suspects arrested over theft of $1.5 million in Bitcoin stolen from police custody in outrageous blunder — Korean cops left virtual assets stored with a third party, who handed over recovery key to hacker

The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody.

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Trump bans Anthropic AI from federal agencies after firm refuses to unlock capabilities — Anthropic cites risks of autonomous military applications, mass domestic surveillance

"We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again," said Trump.

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Intel mobile CPUs have achieved up to 95x performance uplift over the past two decades — benchmarking the gains from 45nm Penryn to 18A Panther Lake

Leading Linux publication Phoronix has tested 15 Intel mobile processors launched over an 18-year period.

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Claude won't be allowed to engage in mass surveillance or power fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic refuses to lower AI guardrails for the Pentagon

Anthropic CEO has pushed back strongly against the Pentagon's requests to remove AI guardrails from Claude. Anthropic takes a concrete stance against mass surveillance and autonomous killing machines, arguing that the former is undemocratic, while frontier AI is not ready for the latter.

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Nvidia DGX Spark gets $700 price hike as memory shortages bite — Founders Edition price jumps 18% to $4,699, up from $3,999

Nvidia has raised the DGX Spark’s MSRP by $700, blaming constrained memory supplies as AI hardware demand continues to strain global availability.

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Rapidus secures $1.7 billion from Japan’s government and private investors for 2nm chip production — company says it is in active discussions with more than 60 potential customers

Under the arrangement, the government will initially hold roughly 10% of Rapidus's voting shares and the majority of its stake in non-voting stock.

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Imec's new post-exposure bake method speeds up EUV chipmaking tools, boosting production for the most advanced chips — 20% gain in photoresist improvement from increased oxygen concentration

Increased oxygen concentration during the EUV lithography post-exposure bake step can increase photoresist performance by 15% - 20%, according to Imec's findings.

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Japanese firm stops production of Blu-ray disc drives — Buffalo says there will be no successors to its current trio of portable USB-attached drives

Further signs that the Blu-ray tide is going out, never to return, come from Japanese peripherals maker Buffalo.

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Razer launches $130 laptop sleeve featuring two wireless charging pads — Base variant with no tech costs $80, supports up to 16-inch devices

Razer has just launched its own lineup of laptop sleeves for devices up to 16 inches. The higher-end variant costs $130 and features two wireless charging pads in its flap. The top pad is capable of charging at up to 15W, while the bottom one's output is limited to 5W.…

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Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

Finance techie tries cloning Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with AI

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Intel Foundry boss leaves for Qualcomm — Naga Chandrasekaran takes charge of the unit

Naga Chandrasekaran promoted to Chief Technology and Operations Officer as well as the general manager of Intel Foundry responsible for development of advanced process technologies and day-to-day operations.

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SK hynix and SanDisk announce new High Bandwidth Flash — speedy HBF standard is targeted at inference AI servers

SK hynix and SanDisk announce speedy HBF flash chip standard

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Nvidia rolls back its latest driver update — Game Ready Driver 595.59 reportedly causes fan issues on RTX 3000, 4000, and 5000-series GPUs

GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.59 is said to disable one of the fans on Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs, even without third-party apps like MSI Afterburner.

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Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work.

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Asus ROG Ally receives timely GPU driver update despite rumors of AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme deprecation — new release follows recent speculation that driver support for some Windows 11 handhelds had ended

A new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU update for the Asus ROG Ally has alleviated some concern about its deprecation, although some questions remain about its longevity.

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Nvidia warns of constrained supply of gaming GPUs, potentially signaling higher prices and shortages to come — 'we do believe for a couple of quarters it is going to be very tight'

Jensen Huang expects the supply of gaming hardware to be insufficient in the next two quarters and has limited visibility beyond that.

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Chipmakers still suffering from rare earth shortages, says report — US-China trade truce apparently still hasn’t eased pressures despite agreement taking place in October last year

Sources told Reuters that some U.S. chipmaking firms are running low on scandium — a crucial rare earth material for making 5G chips — as they suffer delays from acquiring export licenses from Beijing.

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Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new 'ratepayer protection pledge' to curb rising electricity prices in the US

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices to rise across the board — for the average household. The "ratepayer protection pledge"…

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HP says memory costs doubled in one quarter, now account for 35% of PC build materials

Interim CEO Bruce Broussard told investors the company has responded by securing long-term supply agreements for the year and has "qualified new suppliers".

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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis — AM4 emerges as the unexpected hero with RAM prices skyrocketing

MSI launches the Pro B550M-B and B550M-A Pro motherboards for previous-generation Ryzen processors that reside on the AM4 socket.

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LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke detonation while three resulted in a full-on strategic nuclear exchange, essentially ending…

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