EA has laid off staff across Battlefield-related studios in "alignment" move as the game continues to lose players, despite the most recent Battlefield 6 topping an estimated 20 million copies sold.
StorageReview evaluated the performance benefits of Microsoft's native NVMe driver on Windows Server 2025 and found substantial performance increases, particularly in random reads.
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In a statement posted to X today, Oracle said it and developer Crusoe are βoperating in lockstepβ to deliver one of the worldβs largest AI data centers at the Abilene campus.
A new report from PSprices claims that Sony has been experimenting with cheaper prices on a variety of titles for certain users. Since November 2025, gamers in at least 68 regions have been getting personalized, discounted prices across 150+ games, including Sony's first-party exclusives.
It's time for a new 3D printer, with Creality's Spring Sale offering a discount of up to 40% on its range of printers, with the K1C, K2 Plus, and Ender 3 V3 all on sale at reduced prices.
A Chinese laptop manufacturer has announced the world's first rugged industrial laptop with a solar panel. The device is geared towards professionals who need a device that can work for long periods of time away from a power outlet.
Intelβs heavily-rumored Bartlett Lake 12P CPUs are finally official, with a P-core-only design that is compatible with LGA 1700 motherboards. However, theyβre targeting embedded and edge applications, not a broad consumer release.
A number of third-party sellers are selling laptops with descriptions that claim over 1TB of storage, despite only physically containing a 128GB SSD, despite public disapproval over the practice.
One Japanese company called Nittobo controls roughly 90% of the global supply of specialist glass-fiber cloth (T-glass), which sits inside every advanced AI chip package β and demand is now so high and supply so squeezed that itβs causing issues.
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Processors currently rely on temperature sensors positioned outside the chip die itself, which limits both the speed and precision of thermal monitoring.
Rufus, the AI assistant meant to make shopping on Amazon easier, can actually just answer any question you throw at it as long as it's prompted right. It allegedly runs Claude under the hood, and people have been able to get it to answer complex mathematical questions, and we almost got it to say whether the AI bubble will burst this year.
China's commerce ministry warned on Saturday of a renewed global semiconductor supply chain crisis, after Nexperia's Netherlands disabled IT accounts for all employees at its Chinese operations.
If you've been looking for a keyboard upgrade but didn't want to go with the typical options on the market, the HHKB Professional Hybrid Type-S might just be the top pick for you. Featuring silent Topre switches and wireless Bluetooth connectivity that lasts three months on a single "charge," this flagship HHKB keyboard is one great deal right now.
Financing terms and swinging OpenAI capacity forecast collapse a major expansion of a Stargate data center. Yet, Meta could take the yet-to-be-expanded space.
Palmer Luckey is said to be in talks with investors to raise funds for ModRetro at a $1 billion valuation as the retro gaming company prepares to ship its second product.
Offshore wind turbines could house up to a 12-megawatt data center, drawing power directly from the winds blowing on the sea while using the cold ocean water for cooling.
βCompanies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update,β says the report.
California's civil suit alleges that these websites and their operators are willfully distributing 3D printed gun files and instructions that could allow anyone to print a gun from scratch in as little as eight hours.
If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC. That's what Andy Nguyen, a security engineer, did by porting Linux over to the console and running GTA V on it via Steam. The best part? It actually plays really well, without any issues.
Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026.
Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on March 6 in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking a refund of tariffs it paid under President Donald Trump's executive orders.
A software engineer gets access to 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners while tinkering with an idea to use a gamepad to control his robotic hoover. Gets $30,000 from DJI for an undisclosed discovery.
In a scarce market, clients don't take risks and go with the biggest, most reliable option, which ultimately benefits Nvidia as it sits at the top of the AI boom. Unfortunately, these data center escapades hurt regular human beings, too, but that's not the trillion-dollar corporation's concern.
Apple's M5 Max processor shows unexpectedly high results in multi-thread workloads: an 18-core CPU beats a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench, but the built-in GPU fails to beat the GeForce RTX 5090.
Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.
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The fears over AI job market decimation may be overblown, according to economists working at the European Central Bank. A new report suggests that firms that make the most use of AI in Europe are also the largest job creators, hiring more people as productivity increases.
John Daghita, the lead suspect in a major crypto theft worth $46 million has been arrested by the FBI, together with French authorities. Daghita allegedly siphoned funds from government-controlled wallets to his own, abusing the access his father's firm held because of a federal contract with the U.S. Marshals.
Asusβ GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is built with a single-minded focus on quiet operation. It takes the worldβs second-fastest gaming GPU and reduces its noise levels to the absolute minimum thanks to an enormous heatsink and three cutting-edge Noctua fans. But its size, weight, high price, and polarizing design all make it a product for the Noctua faithful and quiet computing obsessives only.
A vulnerability in Discord's SDK allowed Arc Raiders to unintentionally log private DMs and user account credentials to the game's log files. Embark Studios has since hotfixed the problem.
The Trump administration is working on sweeping export regulations over AI hardware that will make large AI clusters a topic of intergovernmental talks.
The TCL 32X3A is a 31.5-inch 4K OLED monitor with dual-mode support enabling 1080p at 480 Hz for esports gaming. It features a "Matrix-Pure" true RGB subpixel layout for better text clarity, along with speakers integrated into its stand. On the other hand, the TCL 27P2A is a 1440p Mini-LED monitor that can boost to 1,040 Hz at likely 720p resolution.
China's most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.
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China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."
The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.
OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.
Nvidia is reportedly working on a new RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 8GB GDDR6 on the existing model. Moving from 20 Gbps chips to 28 Gbps chips, the memory interface is also said to be reduced to 96-bit, from 128-bit on the original. Moreover, an RTX 5060 with a cut-down GB205 die is also said to be in the works, with otherwise same specs.
A new job listing for a Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer has revealed that EA is working on bringing its Javelin anti-cheat software to Arm-based devices. The timing aligns nicely with the purported launch of Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs that are also Arm-based. The role also involves future development for Linux/Proton.
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike is innovative and excellent for competitive players of every age. Its high price will put it out of reach for many players, but if youβre older or looking for a mechanical advantage, itβs definitely worth considering.
New semiconductor fabs and data centers are fueling Taiwan's growing power demand, with the island expected to require more than 5GW of new electricity sources and power infrastructure to keep up.
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