The Godlike X is an excellent flagship motherboard offering the best of whatβs available. The Xβs limited run and included goodies make it collectible, but the price for exclusivity could be prohibitive.
Commodore International Corporation has initiated legal action against Italian start-up Commodore Industries, claiming that a set of Commodore trademarks registered in Europe in 2017 were improperly granted.
35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.
If the one thing about smart home appliances that deterred you from ever investing in this connected future was how your data was always being routed through servers, you're in for a treat. A skilled developer has hacked his new Xiaomi Humidifier with ESPHome, making the device compatible with Home Assistant.
The project, led by neuroengineer Viktor TΓ³th, has evolved into a second-generation setup that significantly expands what the rats can do inside the Doom engine.
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Get your hands on one of Creality's K2 combo deals across the K2 lineup this Christmas season; the K2, K2 Pro, and K2 Plus combos are all on sale for up to $300 off.
Dell's commercial sales department is set to announce a wave of price hikes affecting RAM, storage, GPU, and monitor upgrades to all corporate clients starting on December 17, according to leaked internal documents.
A Reddit user has demonstrated AMDβs new ML-powered FSR Redstone frame generation running in Monster Hunter Wilds, a game that was never designed to support it.
JEDEC is nearing completion of SPHBM4, a standard that enables full HBM4 bandwidth over a 512-bit interface using a 4:1 serialization, reusing standard HBM DRAM dies and a base die. The tech promises to enable a 2.5D integration on organic substrates to support up to 64 GB per stack and more stacks than HBM4 and HBM4E.
Nvidia's GPU fleet management software can track spikes in power usage, monitor utilization, detect hotspots, spot anomalies, identify software errors, and detect the physical location of processors. However, the software is completely optional for its clients.
Germany has formally summoned Russiaβs ambassador in Berlin after publicly attributing a series of cyber and influence operations to Moscowβs GRU military intelligence agency.
The Creality Falcon2 Pro 60W is a fully enclosed diode laser engraver with multiple safety features, intuitive first-party software, and a pull-out tray for easy clean-up that can be purchased on sale for $1,899 for the Single Unit package. With the included 1.6W laser module, the Falcon2 Pro is capable of cutting through thick material as easily as it can produce detailed engravings.
Five lawsuits were filed in Texas this week, putting some of the biggest names in PC tech under an uncomfortable spotlight, as their components are still being found in Russian weaponry.
Nvidia is evaluating whether to increase production of its H200 data center GPUs after demand from Chinese customers is expected to exceed current supply.
We've gotten our first retail appearance of the Arrow Lake refresh family, listed at an Indian retailer but with barely any information. The specs mentioned seem regurgitated from existing media coverage and leaks, and there's no price, but at least the vendor is promising a 3-year warranty.
TechInsights says Huawei's Kirin 9030 is built on SMICβs N+3 process: an incremental, DUV-based extension of its 7nm-class technology that pushes density without EUV but falls well short of true 5nm nodes amid rising yield challenges.
Researchers from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated what they describe as the first regenerative photonic memory latch.
There's a huge discount on two Acer Nitro V gaming laptops right now with one of Nvidia's latest GeForce RTX GPUs, starting from an impossible-to-beat $549.
China is considering investing up to an additional $70 billion in its domestic chip manufacturers in an effort to better compete with US firms like Nvidia. Although exact figures and investment strategies have yet to be decided, this move would be in line with China's "whole nation" approach to tackling its chip shortages.
The 34-inch ultra-wide genre gets a new member from Acer, the Predator X34 X0 200 Hz Mini LED Gaming Monitor. It sports 3440x1440 resolution, Adaptive-Sync Quantum Dot color, HDR 1000, and a 1500R curve.
PowerShell is a powerful tool and if you want to be a Windows power user, you need to learn it, so here are the top ten PowerShell commands to get you started.
China has called on the Netherlands to move quickly to resolve the dispute surrounding Nexperia after months of supervision measures and a retaliatory export freeze disrupted shipments of components.
Asus is betting on overpriced GPUs in this ultra high-res and high refresh rate pairing, dubbed the "XG27JCG," a new 5K 180 Hz monitor that can only run on Nvidia's RTX 50-series, officially, or AMD's RX 7600 and up. It supports all the gaming features you could ever want, along with solid color accuracy and HDR support.
Procure yourself a gaming PC before the RAM prices push prebuilt rigs beyond reach. CyberPower's Supreme gaming PC with RTX 5080 and 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM is reduced to $2499.
Biwin launches a very special DDR5-6000 192GB memory kit from its OC labs. Can the spacious memory kit outperform the current competition on the market?
The world's leading AI firms are collaborating on a new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation managed by the Linux Foundation to build open standards around AI agents. The move will focus on three key open source tools to begin with, sharing findings on technical problems.
Chinese government began to add government-approved AI suppliers to the Information Technology Innovation List in a bid to accelerate deployment of domestic hardware. But can Chinese semiconductor industry satisfy the needs of domestic AI industry?
A multitude of AMD GPU owners claim the December security update for Windows 11 has fixed GPU hanging and driver crashing, primarily on RX 9000 series GPUs.
Memory prices are rising everywhere, and the latest to be hit in the aftermath of this crisis is modular laptop manufacturer Framework, which just announced its own price hike in a very interesting fashion. The company replied to a tweet showing Dell's allegedly insane markup on RAM upgrades that later turned out to be incorrect.
The U.S. government has formally approved the export of Nvidiaβs high-performance H200 AI chips to China, reinstating access to a class of silicon previously barred under national security rules.
DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a "phantom data center" smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as "farfetched", some proof indicates otherwise.
China convened emergency meetings with its largest technology companies on Wednesday to assess how many of Nvidiaβs H200 accelerators they intend to buy.
Nvidia has quietly developed a software-based location-verification system for its Blackwell-generation GPUs that can approximate where the hardware is operating, which could prevent smuggling of AI GPUs to China.
Microsoft says Windows 11 will receive major gaming-focused enhancements in 2026, including broader support for Xbox Full Screen Experience, Auto Super Resolution for handhelds, expanded Advanced Shader Delivery, and more.
According to a new report, the Trump Administration's U-turn on allowing exports of the Nvidia H200 AI accelerator chip is down to competition from China's native Huawei, which offers comparable power.
Avoid outlandish DDR5 prices in this tremendous deal from Newegg. $649.99 buys an enthusiast-class Gigabyte Z890 motherboard, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 360mm AIO, and free Star Wars Outlaws game
Intel's Panther Lake family is still awaiting release, but the possible flagship chip of the bunch has been spotted on Geekbench. The Core Ultra X9 388H scores 3,057 points in the single-core test and 17,687 points in the multi-core test, racing past its Arrow Lake-H predecessor and AMD's Strix Halo.
Whether you're shopping for a beginner with their first machine or a seasoned hobbyist with a crowded workbench, this list highlights practical, high-impact gifts that every 3D printer owner will appreciate.
Qualcommβs recent acquisition of Arduino has introduced the Arduino Uno Q, a board that combines a Linux SBC powered by Qualcommβs Dragonwing with an STM32 microcontroller. But are two brains better than one?
A growing body of forecasts from AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and major research firms now points toward a semiconductor market that passes the trillion-dollar threshold before the decade closes.
If you've been unhappy with the direction Microsoft has taken Windows, offering no meaningful improvements beyond AI and aesthetics, then, well, not much can be done about that. But, at least you can disable all the AI features that seem to have populated every corner of the OS, with a simple script from GitHub.
HAVNβs BF360 Flow PC case is focused on GPU temperatures, using two large 180mm intake fans, directed by a ramp, to deliver the best performance possible.
Intelβs new partnership with Tata signals a transformative step for Indiaβs chip ecosystem, enabling domestic manufacturing, advanced packaging, and enterprise compute solutions.
The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to βapproved customersβ in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday.
Dutch chip manufacturing design firm, ASML, has been accused of selling chip fabrication hardware to a Chinese defence firm tied to the ruling party. Although it claims the technology was old, it has raised concerns over its potential use in developing new quantum technologies, particularly with military applications.
Marvell has confirmed plans to acquire Celestial AI in a deal worth up to $5.5 billion, a figure that immediately places it among the most aggressive acquisitions in the current AI cycle.
A pawn shop in Portugal clearly didn't know the worth of what they had and ended up selling a high-end PC worth at least $2,500 with current market pricing, for just $600 to a lucky buyer. The PC includes flagship components, including two 32 GB sticks of 6000 MT/s DDR5 memory that alone costs almost $700.
The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to let Nvidia ship its H200 accelerators to China, a move that could restore Nvidiaβs influence in the Chinese AI market and reinforce CUDAβs dominance, but the question is if Beijing agrees to accept this hardware.
The UK government has unveiled the first details of Atlantic Bastion, a new undersea warfare programme designed to detect and counter Russian submarine activity across the North Atlantic.
A Furmark 2 benchmark of Intel's upcoming B370 Xe3 iGPU, has appeared on X with underwhelming results. Intel's outgoing Arc 140V Xe2 iGPU beats the B370 by 14% in this particular benchmark.
OpenAI and Anthropic claim in a pair of reports released today and earlier in the month that the use of enterprise AI tools increase productivity and corporate ROI. These studies may be damage control to counter those released by MIT and Harvard in August claiming the opposite.
AMD is apparently no longer telling vendors to stop B650 production in favor of B850 (and B840) due to the current component crisis. Skyrocketing DDR5 prices have caused a steep decline in new motherboard sales, which has reportedly influenced the Red Team to continute to make and sell B650 boards for now, helping consumers still select the cheaper option.
Even as U.S. and Chinese lawmakers make it harder for Nvidia to sell its chips to Chinese customers, the alternatives aren't able to offer a competitive product. With smuggling and obfuscated shipment routing making it possible to get around blocks and barriers, it may be that Nvidia remains the dominant training hardware provider in the region.
A Slovenian security researcher published an analysis of Sipeedβs NanoKVM in Feburary that raises far-reaching concerns about the β¬30-β¬60 remote management device.
The Arrow Lake refresh is expected to fill in the gap till Nova Lake finally launches. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus has just appeared on Geekbench and it achieved great scores that show a decent improvement over the outgoing 265K Plus it'll replace, despite running on relatively slow memory.
Micronβs plans to shutter its Crucial consumer business next year did not stop the brand from appearing on the show floor at Delhi Comic Con over the weekend.
If you've been looking to upgrade to a more powerful machine but don't want to spend the big bucks on nice-to-haves like an OLED display, the Asus TUF F16 is the perfect pick for you. With its performant hardware combo and plenty of connectivity, along with a sleek design, it's a solid laptop that can do it all: gaming, productivity, and media consumption.
A six-month investigation into AI-assisted development tools has uncovered over thirty security vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration and, in some cases, remote code execution.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated a display technology that renders dynamic graphics that can be both seen and physically felt, according to a new study.
Watch as a crazed modder grinds down the heatpipes of an excellent air cooler, then injects ice-cold water through them with retrofitted tubes, and finally puts the entire apparatus on two GPUs to see how far he can push performance, witnessing massive clock-speed uplifts across the board.
The 32-inch 165Hz 1440p Samsung Odyssey G55C curved gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $199.99, giving buyers 39% off and saving you $130 off its $329.99 MSRP.
A Reddit user has reported that Nvidia declined to replace their brand-new GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and that the company is trying to βburn my house downβ.
TSMC clarifies A14 specifications: Even more performance, but better tools might be needed to extract the full potential of the latest process technologies.
Two new Geekbench listings for the upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip have been uncovered, both from mid-November, that show the CPU posting higher single-core numbers than the existing 9800X3D while being beat in multi-threaded results. The chip boosted up to 5.6 GHz as expected, but was running on slow 4800 MT/s memory.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in a recent Joe Rogan podcast that the inventors behind deep learning ran the world's first machine learning network on a pair of GTX 580s in SLI in 2012.
Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports.
Skirt ridiculous DDR5 prices in this smokin' deal from Newegg. $229 buys a mid-range Asus B850-A Gaming Wifi R2 motherboard and 16GB Team Group DDR5-6000 RAM - $150 off
Huawei has unveiled its Ascend NPU roadmap featuring Ascend 950, 960, 970 processors and massive SuperClusters with over a million of processors and up to 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance in 2028, shifting from chip scaling to system-level scaling, amid U.S. sanctions and manufacturing constraints.
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