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Softbank reportedly considered buying Intel's foundry division outright before investing $2 billion into the company as equity

SoftBank invested $2 billion into Intel today, but before that they considered buying the company's foundry division outright. Softbank, who already owns ARM, would've likely been blocked over monopolistic concerns, but CEO Masayoshi's relationship with Trump might've easedlocalapproval.

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Buy an RTX 50-series GPU and get Borderlands 4 free — Nvidia promo gets you into the upcoming looter-shooter with a bonus

Nvidia has launched a limited-time promotion where you can get Borderlands 4 and the game's pre-order bonus for free with select RTX 50 series graphics cards, laptops, and desktops.

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Nvidia could be readying B30A accelerator for Chinese market — new Blackwell chip reportedly beats H20 and even H100 while complying with U.S. export controls

Nvidia is reportedly preparing two China-specific Blackwell accelerators — the B30A for AI training and the RTX 6000D for inference — that will outperform the HGX H20 and L20 PCIe while staying within U.S. export limits.

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Intel offers up Battlefield 6 bundle with qualifying CPU or GPU purchase — free game promotion ends September 7

Intel has joined forces with EA to gather conscripts for its new Battlefield 6 bundle.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that export controls alone won’t hold back China's AI ambitions — “My instinct is that doesn’t work”

Sam Altman has cautioned against the use of export controls and has warned that China can probably build inference capacity faster than the U.S..

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Security researcher driven by free nuggets unearths McDonald's security flaw — changing 'login' to 'register' in URL prompted site to issue plain text password for a new account

A security researcher called "BobDaHacker" revealed how they repeatedly gained access to a McDonald's platform that's supposed to be closed off to the public.

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Researcher downloaded the data of all 270,000 Intel employees from an internal business card website — massive data breach dubbed 'Intel Outside' didn't qualify for bug bounty

Security researcher Eaton was inspired to do some gentle prying of Intel websites, after considering the company's hardware security reputation.

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Nvidia has cut some RTX 50-series prices in Europe — RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 reduced by almost 10%, likely prompted by falling U.S. dollar

Nvidia has reduced the price of some of its RTX 50-series cards in Europe.

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Arm hires Amazon's AI chip developer, ostensibly to help create its own processors — Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume

Arm has hired Amazon's director of engineering for Amazon Web Services, who helped develop its homegrown AI hardware. This is part of ARM's drive towards developing its own complete processors, rather than just designing them for third parties.

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SoftBank to buy $2 billion in Intel shares at $23 each — firm still owns majority share of Arm

SoftBank will invest $2 billion in Intel at $23 per share, a move seen as both a vote of confidence in Intel’s U.S. chipmaking comeback and a strategic bet on an undervalued semiconductor maker.

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Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud

Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now service at Gamescom with new RTX 5080-powered instances for Ultimate subscribers, plus a range of other improvements.

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Trump administration reportedly mulling a 10% stake in Intel — CHIPS Act funding could be reworked into the purchase amount

The Trump administration is considering taking a 10% stake in Intel by converting $10.9B in Chips Act grants into equity, a move that would make the U.S. government Intel’s largest shareholder and mark a major shift in how federal chip funding is deployed.

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Nvidia teases imminent major GeForce Now announcement — confirms no new hardware coming at Gamescom 2025

Nvidia confirms it is returning to Gamescom this year but clarifies that it won't be announcing any new hardware at the convention. Instead, the GPU giant will focus on GeForce Now updates, updates to GeForce features, and new game releases.

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AMD to disclose roadmaps in mid-November — The future of Zen 6, RDNA, CDNA, and UDNA expected

AMD to host 2025 Financial Analyst Day this November, where it will reveal its strategic technology and products roadmaps spanning from Zen 6 and CDNA 5 through the end of the decade.

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Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race

The security industry and the hackers they're supposed to defend against have both increased their use of AI as publicly available agents become more capable.

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Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — Phison investigating reports of disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot

Windows users are reporting SSD issues following the latest Windows 11 security patch.

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SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio facility to build Stargate AI servers — $375 million deal says Foxconn will continue to operate the plant

Foxconn has sold its Lordstown, Ohio, factory to SoftBank but will keep operating it as an AI server hub for the $500 billion Stargate project.

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China gets Intel Xeon 6P Granite Rapids CPUs repackaged with added security and surveillance features — Jintide C6P CPUs with up to 86 P-cores

Montage Technology has launched the new Jintide C6P series of server processors in China.

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Hardcore fan celebrates Alien: Earth by building a fully-working M314 Motion Tracker replica — DreamHAT+ Radar module and Raspberry Pi is effective up to 15 meters, complete with sounds and a display

Electronics hobbyist Rob Smith has built a ‘fully working M314 Motion Tracker’.

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China mandates domestic firms source 50% of chips from Chinese producers — Beijing continues to squeeze companies over reliance on foreign semiconductors

A new report says China has started mandating that data centers use 50% homegrown silicon.

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Nvidia’s ungainly prototype 6-legged power adapter shown in new video — fabled RTX Titan Ada was allegedly supposed to come with dual 12VHPWR connectors that needed 6x 8-pin PCIe plugs

Der8auer shows off Nvidia's so-far unreleased dual 12VHPWR to 6x 8-pin adapter that was likely meant for the RTX Titan Ada that never came out. This adapter can supply up to 900W of power theoretically and is built very well for a prototype, with proper injection moulding. But there is…

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Raspberry Pi releases smaller five-inch Touch Display 2 — lower in price, same resolution as larger model

Raspberry Pi releases a smaller model of its updated touch display. This time with $20 off the price but the same display as the larger model.

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Is Wi-Fi bad for the environment? Eye-catching London ad suggests Wi-Fi is ‘damaging the climate’

The University of East London just put out an ad that seemingly says that Wi-Fi is bad for the environment, but it just wants you to look closer.

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UK’s Royal Navy tests 40-foot submarine drone which can be operated from ‘the other side of the world’

A large new submarine drone, dubbed Excalibur, can be controlled while it is 'submerged on the other side of the world.'

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'Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead' — rise of China's government subsidies, country's permissive patent system cited by Prusa CEO

3D printer companies are raiding the Open Source cookie jar, and it’s starting to hurt.

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