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UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations — targets 'public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure'

The UK Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre announced that some organizations could be banned from making ransomware payments.

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Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware

Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power.

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Unverified BIOS allegedly pushes RTX 5090D to over 2000 Watts — extreme firmware update designed for Asus ROG Astral 5090D is not for the faint-hearted

This leaked Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090D BIOS removes its power limits and allows it to hit 2001 watts.

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Months after Elon Musk's DOGE crusade to wipe it out, LTO tape storage is bigger than ever — a record 176.5 exabytes shipped in 2024, the fourth consecutive year of growth

Tape storage shipments have enjoyed their fourth consecutive year of growth, increasing 15.4% according to the most recent data.

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China's CXMT reportedly delays mass production of DDR5 chips to late 2025 — state-backed manufacturer could still be disruptive market force

CXMT has reportedly delayed DDR5 mass production to late 2025 to improve quality and yields, but its growing capabilities and state backing are starting to worry global DRAM rivals despite ongoing tool access challenges.

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Crypto wallet Chrome extension is eating SSD storage at an alarming rate — MetaMask owner confirms bug 'has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into [users'] solid-state drives'

A bug in the cryptocurrency tracking browser extension has been causing it to write heaps of data to users' SSDs.

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Mystery AMD Radeon GPU cooler spotted on Chinese forums is larger than RX 7900 XTX, with a massive heatsink and 3x 8-pin connectors — possibly the RX 7950 XTX that never was

A massive triple-slot cooler with space for three 8-pin connectors has surfaced from China, hinting at an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU prototype. Likely meant for a never-launched “7950 XTX,” the design suggests AMD once flirted with an RTX 4090-class card during the RDNA 3 era.

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Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has repeatedly floated the idea of producing a laptop in the U.S. that would cost 20% more than competitive offerings.

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Microsoft finally has a Surface Laptop with 5G — Intel Core Ultra-powered laptop will ship as part of business line

Microsoft has announced its first Surface Laptop with cellular connectivity and designed a custom antenna for it.

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AMD Strix Halo Mini-ITX motherboard flaunts 128GB LPDDR5X — add a CPU cooler, boot drive, and power supply for a slim gaming or AI rig

Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (Strix Halo) processor.

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FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis

An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds.

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OpenAI and Oracle ink deal to build massive Stargate data center, total project will power 2 million AI chips — Stargate partner SoftBank not involved in the project

OpenAI and Oracle plan to add 4.5 GW of U.S. data center power for the Stargate project, boosting total capacity past 5 GW to support millions of AI processors.

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DNS embedded malware technique used to create a hacker-inspired version of the popular Mad Libs word game — built on networking infrastructure to provide distributed version

Malware embedded in the ubiquitous Domain Name System inspired the creation of the world's most cursed take on mad-libs.

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158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum

The 158-year established Knights of Old transportation company has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack, with 700 jobs lost.

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Nvidia's desktop PC chip holdup purportedly tied to Windows delays — ongoing chip revisions and weakening demand also blamed

Nvidia and MediaTek have allegedly delayed the N1X AI PC platform to early 2026, possibly because of Microsoft’s next-gen OS delays, ongoing Nvidia chip revisions, and weakening consumer notebook demand. The launch will now prioritize enterprise PCs, while GB10-based AI workstations are expected to debut much sooner.

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Lenovo Legion Go 2 prototype spotted ahead of launch in China — Ryzen Z2 and OLED display reportedly complemented by 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, and more

With AMD’s latest mobile chip and a new OLED panel, Lenovo’s next-gen handheld looks powerful, but competition is heating up fast.

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Tiny GPD MicroPC 2 smashes crowdfunding goal – sequel to 2019 original improves mobile productivity yet remains under 500g

GPD has launched the MicroPC 2, a refreshed version of its ‘true pocket sized’ productivity powerhouse, to crowdfunding.

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AMD unveils industry-first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model generator tailored for XDNA 2 NPUs — designed to run locally on Ryzen AI laptops

AMD and Stability AI have launched the first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model optimized for BF16 and XDNA 2 NPUs, enabling high-quality, offline image generation on Ryzen AI laptops.

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Kioxia unveils 245TB SSD, the world's highest capacity storage device - can store 12,500 4K movies

Kioxia's LC9 SSD family offers capacities of up to 245.76TB, but its performance is far less impressive.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will own 'well over 1 million GPUs' by the end of the year — ChatGPT maker continues to expand rapidly

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will surpass 1 million GPUs by the end of 2025, but his sights are set on 100 million. Already backed by the world’s largest AI data center in Texas, OpenAI’s infrastructure push highlights the growing clash between AI ambitions and power grid realities.

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Nvidia H20 AI GPU inventory is limited — but Nvidia is making a new B30 model for China to comply with export restrictions

Nvidia has reportedly told Chinese customers it will not resume production of its H20 AI GPUs despite a U.S. policy reversal, and is reportedly preparing a slower but cheaper Blackwell-based B30 GPU to comply with export restrictions and remain competitive in China.

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Microsoft adds telemetry to monitor Windows 11 sluggishness in latest beta, dev builds — logs reportedly only sent when users submit feedback

Microsoft adds additional telemetry to latest beta and dev builds of Windows 11 to monitor and log performance sluggishness within the OS. The logs will reportedly only be shared with Microsoft when users publish performance issues in the Feedback Hub.

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GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU shunt mod increases performance by up to 40% — 175W TGP boosted to 250W to unlock extra performance

GizmoSlipTech applied a shunt mod to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU to benchmark the graphics card's performance and thermals.

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China's YMTC moves to break free of U.S. sanctions by building production line with homegrown tools — aims to capture 15% of NAND market by late 2026

Despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2022 and cut off from advanced foreign fab tools, YMTC is pushing forward with plans to expand production to 150,000 wafers per month and trial a fully localized manufacturing line.

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World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with functional Linux for $159

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, a full Debian-based table was introduced.

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