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Tokyo’s Tech shopper paradise Akihabara Electric Town was just a 'Town' on Friday, due to the first power outage in 30 years – all the RGBs went out

Tokyo’s renowned electronics shopping district was plunged into darkness on Friday due to a very rare power outage.

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Custom Windows 11 builder axes Microsoft's AI features, whack-a-moling Copilot, Outlook, and Teams — new Tiny11 Builder release should be Windows 11 25H2 ready

Windows bloat hater NTDEV has released an updated version of Tiny11 Builder ready for Windows 11 25H2.

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Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance — international cables connecting Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are compromised

Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf.

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Nvidia RTX 5090 reset bug prompts $1,000 reward for a fix — cards become completely unresponsive and require a reboot after virtualization reset bug, also impacts RTX PRO 6000

Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 and PRO 6000 GPUs are reportedly being plagued by a reproducible virtualization reset bug that can leave the cards completely unresponsive until the host system is physically rebooted.

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New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows

The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft’s August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn.

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Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable

Ethical hackers have detailed how they uncovered 'catastrophic' vulnerabilities in various Burger King systems.

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Eight-year-old gaming PC with Nvidia GTX 1080 found in the trash room gets a second life — offered a substantial upgrade to the finder despite age

The old Enermax gaming PC still has a few years left in it.

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Intel APO update boosts gaming performance by up to 14% in select titles — 15 new games added to the support list

Intel has provided its first update for APO in 2025, featuring support for 15 new games and performance improvements of up to 14% recorded on its flagship Core Ultra 9 285K.

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AMD calls AI ‘underhyped’ at IFA Berlin — chipmaker says the ‘perfect PC’ comes first

At IFA 2025, AMD delivered a less dramatic defense of its long-term strategy and outlined its vision for AI and the future of the PC.

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Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college students — eligible users get 50% off the monthly plan after the first year

Microsoft is offering U.S. college students free access to Microsoft 365 for a year.

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Nvidia says 'We never deprive American customers in order to serve the rest of the world' — company says GAIN AI Act addresses a problem that doesn't exist

Nvidia says that the U.S. legislators' attempt to restrict exports unnecessarily is counterproductive, as the U.S. is already its top priority.

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$9 Goodwill PC find earns congratulations from enthusiasts — the machine could be a great eSports or nostalgic gaming powerhouse with the right upgrades

A PC novice has shared details of their stunning $9 desktop DIY bargain and is looking for upgrade suggestions.

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AMD launches Ryzen 5 9500F, claiming up to 24% faster than Ryzen 5 7500F in gaming — Zen 5 chip launches as a China-exclusive for now

AMD has just launched the Ryzen 5 9500F in China, after weeks of leaks spoiled its arrival. The new Zen 5-based CPU features six cores and 12 threads, along with 32MB of L3 cache, all powered by a 65W TDP. AMD says it's at least 7% and up to 24%…

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AMD prototype Radeon AI Pro R9700 found by 'a friend,' posted to Reddit — a real-life reference design model of AMD's artistic render

Someone discovered an engineering sample of the Radeon AI Pro 9700 GPU with 32GB of VRAM and they're asking what to do with it.

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Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of $6,700 — fraudster claimed they needed funds for oxygen supplies

The scammer's pleas that his spaceship was ‘under attack and in need of oxygen’ convinced an elderly woman to send him 1 million Yen (~$6,700).

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Anthropic to pay $1.5B over pirated books in Claude AI training — payouts of roughly $3,000 per infringed work

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models.

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Amazon Echo is reportedly an internet vampire that uses gigabytes of data per day despite being unused, says owner

The user's Amazon Echo speakers used over 4 GB of data in a span of 24 hours, even if they weren't using them.

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Qualcomm CEO says Intel ‘not an option’ for chip production — yet

Amon said that Intel “is not an option today,” but left open the possibility for a future partnership, adding “we would like Intel to be an option.”

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OpenAI widely thought to be Broadcom's mystery $10 billion custom AI processor customer — order could be for millions of AI processors

Broadcom has secured a $10 billion deal to supply custom AI accelerators and rack-scale hardware to an undisclosed customer — widely believed to be OpenAI — signaling that the design has been validated and full-scale deployment is on track for late 2026.

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Anthropic blocks Chinese-controlled firms from Claude AI — cites 'legal, regulatory, and security risks'

Anthropic has updated its terms of service to block access to its Claude AI models for any company that’s majority-owned or controlled by Chinese entities.

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Expansion card lets you insert 512GB of extra DDR5 memory into your PCIe slot — CXL 2.0 AIC designed for TRX50 and W790 workstation motherboards

Gigabyte launches the AI Top CXL R5X4 add-in-card to expand the amount of memory on the brand's TRX50 AI Top and W790 AI Top motherboards.

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Intel’s bitcoin-mining Blockscale chips return from the dead, being given away for free — 256,000 Intel Bonanza Mine ASICs donated by Jack Dorsey’s Block, will be distributed to DIYers and open-hardware projects

On September 2, nonprofit hardware collective 256 Foundation tweeted that it had received a delivery of 260,000 Intel BZM2 ASICs Proto.

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Jaguar Land Rover production stopped for four days and counting due to ransomware attack, company has now officially shut down — teenaged hackers from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters take responsibility

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that has completely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production.

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Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately — signal variations caused by a beating heart enable determining beats per minute

Can this be turned into a heartbeat sensor à la 'Call of Duty?'

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Anker brings beastly 14-port dock, plus new compact chargers and portable batteries to IFA

Anker's latest devices at IFA 2025 include a 14-port dock with a display, a fast-charging battery pack with a display, and a display, and a compact 160W charger with a… you know.

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