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Seagate's 22TB Expansion external hard drive drops to an all-time low of $249.99 — ideal for massive backups and data archives

The Seagate Expansion 22TB external HDD delivers huge storage capacity at a steep discount, making it a compelling choice for users who need dependable, plug-and-play mass storage.

AMD's dual-cache Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 appears in first benchmark leaks — gaming-focused CPU features 192MB of L3 cache stacked across both CCDs

AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and Geekbench, with amicable scores to boot.

LG UltraGear evo gaming monitor lineup announced ahead of CES 2026 — 27-inch 5K Mini LED, 39-inch curved Tandem OLED, and a 52-inch 5K2K large format display

LG is expanding its gaming monitor portfolio with the launch of UltraGear evo, a premium sub-brand that brings a 5K Mini LED monitor with 2,304 dimming zones, a curved 5K2K OLED ultrawide, and the world’s largest 5K2K gaming display

Customer orders two Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs, receives 20 SSDs worth over $5,100 instead — lucky score of two boxes packed with ultra-fast 2 TB PCIe 5.0 drives

In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis.

Onuachu: "En güzel an kupa kazanmak"

Trabzonspor'un 11 golle takımın en skorer ismi Paul Onuachu, kulüp dergisinde kariyer hedeflerini, saha içi karakterini ve özel yaşamına dair samimi değerlendirmelerde bulundu. Nijeryalı forvet, bir futbolcunun zirvesini kupa kazanmak olarak tanımlarken mental gücünün ve mücadele anlayışının kendisini motive eden en önemli unsurlar olduğunu söyledi.

Futbolda bahis soruşturması: Erden Timur dahil 29 şüpheliye gözaltı kararı

MASAK'tan ve yasal bahis sitelerinden temin edilen veriler, açık kaynak araştırmaları, PFDK kararları, HTS analiz çalışmaları ve önceki iki operasyondaki şüphelilerden ele geçen dijital eşyaların incelenmesiyle elde edilen deliller neticesinde hakkında gözaltı kararı verilen 29 şüpheliden 24'ü yakalandı

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Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google support doc — experimental @gmail feature rolling out in India first, no official announcement yet

Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact.

Nvidia buys AI chip startup Groq's assets for $20 billion in the company's biggest deal ever — Transaction includes acquihires of key Groq employees, including CEO

Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made.

Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support — users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers

Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July. Arch is now using the 590 Nvidia Linux driver as its default Nvidia driver, which lacks Pascal support.

Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs

What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB.

LG Display reveals world's first 4K 240Hz OLED gaming monitor with a true RGB "striped" subpixel layout — New panel succeeds WOLED with multi-stack Tandem OLED

OLED screens, while the pinnacle of display tech today, still aren't perfect, and one area where OLED monitors in specific have struggled is text clarity. Either due to the unorthodox subpixel layout of these panels or the addition of a white subpixel, fringing around text has been a persistent issue, but LG has seemingly solved both at one go.

Lucky Brit scores flagship PC worth almost $5,000 for just ~$2,400 at Costco, even comes armed with $700 worth of DDR5 memory — Marked-down build also has an RTX 5090 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist — only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own.

ServiceNow acquires Armis for $7.75 billion

ServiceNow has announced an agreement to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash, marking one of the company’s largest security investments to date. Armis, a global leader in cyber exposure management and cyber‑physical security, provides real‑time visibility and risk intelligence across IT, OT, medical devices, industrial systems, and critical infrastructure. The acquisition will significantly expand ServiceNow’s security workflow portfolio and accelerate its strategy to deliver AI‑native, proactive cybersecurity across the entire technology estate.

As organizations adopt AI at unprecedented speed, security remains the top priority for CEOs. Global spending on information security is projected to rise 12.5% in 2026 to $240 billion, driven by escalating threats and the rapid expansion of AI and generative AI. With attack surfaces growing across connected devices and autonomous systems, enterprises require real‑time intelligence and automated response capabilities to stay ahead of adversaries. The addition of Armis strengthens ServiceNow’s Security, Risk, and OT offerings and is expected to more than triple the company’s market opportunity in security and risk solutions.

Amit Zavery, president, COO, and chief product officer at ServiceNow, said the acquisition positions the company to deliver “an industry‑defining strategic cybersecurity shield” built for the agentic AI era. “Intelligent trust and governance across any cloud, asset, AI system, or device are non‑negotiable,” he said. “Together with Armis, we will provide real‑time, end‑to‑end proactive protection across all technology estates.”

Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov emphasized the urgency of the threat landscape. “AI is transforming the threat environment faster than organizations can adapt. Every connected asset is now a potential vulnerability,” he said. “By joining ServiceNow, we will give customers the intelligence and automation needed to reduce exposure and strengthen security at scale.”

The combined platform will unify Armis’ agentless asset discovery, classification, and risk prioritization with ServiceNow’s workflow automation, CMDB, and AI Control Tower. This will enable organizations to automatically identify exposures, route insights to the right teams, and trigger remediation at scale—eliminating fragmented tools and delivering a single, trusted view of cyber risk.

Armis brings strong market traction, including more than $340 million in ARR, over 50% year‑over‑year growth, and adoption by 35% of the Fortune 100. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals, after which Armis’ team will join ServiceNow.

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Tally Solutions launches TallyPrime 7.0 in the UAE

Tally Solutions today announced the launch of TallyPrime 7.0 in the UAE. As compliance readiness, operational continuity, and automation become essential to SME growth in the region, the latest release brings advanced capabilities that help businesses operate with greater speed, security, and confidence.

SMEs represent more than 94 percent of the businesses operating in the UAE and play a pivotal role in the nation’s digital economy ambitions.  The launch reinforces Tally’s long-standing commitment to enabling the UAE’s SME ecosystem as the country accelerates digital transformation under the UAE Vision 2030, Dubai Economic Agenda D33, and the UAE Digital Economy Strategy.

A significant advancement in TallyPrime 7.0 is the strengthened experience of TallyDrive. While it ensures uninterrupted continuity through automated cloud and local backups, its core has always been data security, a principle that has shaped Tally’s technology for decades. With enhanced encryption, improved integrity checks, and a framework designed to keep data entirely in the business’s control, TallyDrive reinforces the belief that connectivity should never compromise privacy. It enables SMEs to adopt digital workflows with confidence, knowing their financial information remains protected and accessible only to them.

The release also boasts a seamless and fully compliant adoption of the UAE’s new national currency symbol. Designed to respect local norms and adhere to Central Bank guidelines, the feature ensures that businesses transition effortlessly the moment they upgrade. The updated symbol is reflected consistently across all invoices, reports, and statements, fully integrated into Tally’s English and Arabic interfaces, enabling businesses to uphold accuracy, professionalism, and regulatory compliance in every document they issue. The release also introduces Smart Find, an advanced universal search capability that lets users instantly locate entries across multiple companies, even with partial information.

Speaking on the launch, Vikas Panchal, General Manager – MENA, Tally Solutions, said: “With the UAE accelerating its digital and economic transformation, SMEs remain central to driving innovation and sustained growth. At Tally, we are closely aligned with this vision, building technology that reflects local needs and strengthens business resilience. Our support for seamless bilingual workflows and the smooth transition to the new currency symbol are part of this commitment to localisation. With enhanced security in TallyDrive, automated backups, and Smart Find helping teams access information instantly, TallyPrime 7.0 delivers both confidence and efficiency. Our purpose remains simple: to reduce complexity and make it easier for SMEs to run and grow their businesses in a fast-evolving UAE.”

Tally has consistently strengthened TallyPrime with features that support the region’s unique needs, like English and Arabic bilingual availability, VAT and Corporate Tax ready compliance tailored for the UAE, and e-invoicing alignment for KSA. As the UAE prepares for its own e-invoicing framework, Tally is actively enabling businesses to be ready for a smoother transition when the mandate comes into effect. The introduction of connected VAT return upload capabilities further simplifies compliance for UAE businesses, reinforcing Tally’s role as a trusted partner in the region.

TallyPrime 7.0 builds on this foundation by offering a smoother upgrade experience, ensuring businesses stay aligned with evolving regulations and new features without disruption. The release marks yet another milestone in Tally’s commitment to the UAE and broader GCC, supported by a strong partner network and dedicated regional support ecosystem.

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Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies — built-to-order systems hamstrung by component shortages and skyrocketing prices

Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.

Intel's upcoming Xeon Granite Rapids workstation lineup leaks, poised to challenge AMD Threadripper with $8,300 86-core flagship — retailer lists prices ahead of CES launch, starts at $540

AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't be dismissed just yet.

Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter — DIY retro console is fully functional with working buttons

A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.

Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.

NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 family of open models

NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family of open models, data and libraries designed to power transparent, efficient and specialized agentic AI development across industries. The Nemotron 3 models — with Nano, Super and Ultra sizes— introduce a breakthrough hybrid latent mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture that helps developers build and deploy reliable multi-agent systems at scale.

As organizations shift from single-model chatbots to collaborative multi-agent AI systems, developers face mounting challenges, including communication overhead, context drift and high inference costs. In addition, developers require transparency to trust the models that will automate their complex workflows. Nemotron 3 directly addresses these challenges, delivering the performance and openness customers need to build specialized, agentic AI.

“Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With Nemotron, we’re transforming advanced AI into an open platform that gives developers the transparency and efficiency they need to build agentic systems at scale.”

NVIDIA Nemotron supports NVIDIA’s broader sovereign AI efforts, with organizations from Europe to South Korea adopting open, transparent and efficient models that allow them to build AI systems aligned to their own data, regulations and values.

Early adopters, including Accenture, Cadence, CrowdStrike, Cursor, Deloitte, EY, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Palantir, Perplexity, ServiceNow, Siemens, Synopsys and Zoom, are integrating models from the Nemotron family to power AI workflows across manufacturing, cybersecurity, software development, media, communications and other industries.

“NVIDIA and ServiceNow have been shaping the future of AI for years, and the best is yet to come,” Bill McDermott, chairman and CEO of ServiceNow. “Today, we’re taking a major step forward in empowering leaders across all industries to fast-track their agentic AI strategy. ServiceNow’s intelligent workflow automation combined with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 will continue to define the standard with unmatched efficiency, speed and accuracy.”

As multi-agent AI systems expand, developers are increasingly relying on proprietary models for state-of-the-art reasoning while using more efficient and customizable open models to drive down costs. Routing tasks between frontier-level models and Nemotron in a single workflow gives agents the most intelligence while optimizing tokenomics.

The open Nemotron 3 models enable startups to build and iterate faster on AI agents and accelerate innovation from prototype to enterprise deployment. General Catalyst and Mayfield’s portfolio companies are exploring Nemotron 3 to build AI teammates that support human-AI collaboration.

Nemotron 3 Reinvents Multi-Agent AI With Efficiency and Accuracy
The Nemotron 3 family of MoE models includes three sizes:

  • Nemotron 3 Nano, a small, 30-billion-parameter model that activates up to 3 billion parameters at a time for targeted, highly efficient tasks.
  • Nemotron 3 Super, a high-accuracy reasoning model with approximately 100 billion parameters and up to 10 billion active per token, for multi-agent applications.
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra, a large reasoning engine with about 500 billion parameters and up to 50 billion active per token, for complex AI applications.

Available now, Nemotron 3 Nano is the most compute-cost-efficient model, optimized for tasks such as software debugging, content summarization, AI assistant workflows and information retrieval at low inference costs. The model uses a unique hybrid MoE architecture to deliver gains in efficiency and scalability.

This design achieves up to 4x higher token throughput compared with Nemotron 2 Nano and reduces reasoning-token generation by up to 60%, significantly lowering inference costs. With a 1-million-token context window, Nemotron 3 Nano remembers more, making it more accurate and better capable of connecting information over long, multistep tasks.

Artificial Analysis, an independent organization that benchmarks AI, ranked the model as the most open and efficient among models of the same size, with leading accuracy.

Nemotron 3 Super excels at applications that require many collaborating agents to achieve complex tasks with low latency. Nemotron 3 Ultra serves as an advanced reasoning engine for AI workflows that demand deep research and strategic planning.

Nemotron 3 Super and Ultra use NVIDIA’s ultraefficient 4-bit NVFP4 training format on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, significantly cutting memory requirements and speeding up training. This efficiency allows larger models to be trained on existing infrastructure without compromising accuracy relative to higher-precision formats.

With the Nemotron 3 family of models, developers can choose the open model that is right-sized for their specific workloads, scaling from dozens to hundreds of agents while benefiting from faster, more accurate long-horizon reasoning for complex workflows.

New Open Tools and Data for AI Agent Customization
NVIDIA also released a collection of training datasets and state-of-the-art reinforcement learning libraries available to anyone building specialized AI agents.

Three trillion tokens of new Nemotron pretrainingpost-training and reinforcement learning datasets supply the rich reasoning, coding and multistep workflow examples needed to create highly capable, domain-specialized agents. The Nemotron Agentic Safety Dataset provides real-world telemetry to help teams evaluate and strengthen the safety of complex agent systems.

To accelerate development, NVIDIA released the NeMo Gym and NeMo RL open-source libraries, which provide the training environments and post-training foundation for Nemotron models, along with NeMo Evaluator to validate model safety and performance. All tools and datasets are now available on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Nemotron 3 is supported by LM Studio, llama.cpp, SGLang and vLLM. In addition, Prime Intellect and Unsloth are integrating NeMo Gym’s ready-to-use training environments directly into their workflows, giving teams faster, easier access to powerful reinforcement learning training.

Get Started With NVIDIA Open Models
Nemotron 3 Nano is availableon Hugging Face and through inference service providers including Baseten, DeepInfraFireworksFriendliAI, OpenRouter and Together AI.

Nemotron is offered on enterprise AI and data infrastructure platforms, including Couchbase, DataRobot, H2O.ai, JFrog, Lambda and UiPath. For customers on public clouds, Nemotron 3 Nano will be available on AWS via Amazon Bedrock (serverless) as well as supported on Google Cloud, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Microsoft Foundry, Nebius, Nscale and Yotta soon.

Nemotron 3 Nano is available as an NVIDIA NIM microservice for secure, scalable deployment anywhere on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure for maximum privacy and control.

Nemotron 3 Super and Ultra are expected to be available in the first half of 2026.

 

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free.

You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 — Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 — the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project.

IBM to acquire Confluent for $11 Billion

IBM has agreed to buy Confluent for $11 billion. IBM and Confluent will enable end-to-end integration of applications, analytics, data systems and AI agents to drive intelligence and resilience in hybrid cloud environments.

IDC estimates that more than one billion new logical applications will emerge by 2028, reshaping technology architectures across industries. To fuel meaningful outcomes and drive productivity in operations, these applications, as well as AI agents, need access to connected and trusted data – in real time.

“IBM and Confluent together will enable enterprises to deploy generative and agentic AI better and faster by providing trusted communication and data flow between environments, applications and APIs. Data is spread across public and private clouds, datacenters and countless technology providers,” said Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer. “With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.”

“Since its founding, Confluent has helped organizations unlock the full potential of their data, driving innovation in an increasingly complex IT landscape. We are extremely proud of the work we’ve done in providing clients with a real-time data streaming platform for the next era of technology, including generative and agentic AI,” said Jay Kreps, CEO & Co-founder, Confluent. “We are excited by the potential to join IBM and to accelerate our strategy with IBM’s go-to-market expertise, global scale and extensive portfolio. I look forward to the future we will build together as Confluent becomes part of IBM.”

The real-time nature of Confluent’s platform is critical for organizations as they leverage data living across all IT environments. Confluent addresses the challenges of today’s technology and data landscape. Confluent excels at preparing data for AI, keeping it clean and connected across systems and applications, eliminating silos inherent in agentic AI.

In the last four years alone, Confluent’s total addressable market (TAM) has doubled from $50 billion to $100 billion in 2025. Confluent’s real-time data and event streaming capabilities, combined with IBM’s AI infrastructure software and Automation offerings, will better position the companies to capture this opportunity.

 

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