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AI creates jobs, data from bank survey shows β€” companies with wide AI deployments and investments are more likely to be hiring than those that don't

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.

FBI arrests crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from seized government wallets β€” Suspect's father was allegedly contractor for the US Marshals

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.

Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition review: Silent running

Asus’ GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition is built with a single-minded focus on quiet operation. It takes the world’s 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.

TCL intros two premium dual-mode gaming monitors β€” 27-inch 1,040 Hz QHD Mini-LED and 32-inch 4K OLED with striped subpixel layout

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 seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs β€” new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

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."

Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims β€” game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

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.

Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules β€” RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned

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.

EA's Javelin anti-cheat is coming to Arm-based systems soon β€” new job listing for Windows-on-ARM driver anticipates Nvidia N1/N1X debut and pivotal shift in PC gaming

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.

Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes β€” rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments

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.

Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments β€” β€˜ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use

Some of the U.S.'s biggest AI tech companies are expected to go to the White House to sign the "ratepayer protection pledge" that promises they will pay for all of their electricity usage and not pass on the burden of increased rates to the average American.

Nvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chains β€” Lumentum and Coherent investment to fund U.S. R&D and manufacturing facilities, supports capacity rights and future access

Nvidia has invested a combined $4 billion USD in photonics and networking companies Lumentum and Coherent in a deal that will see both building U.S. facilities, while locking down access rights and capacity for future technologies.

South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online β€” stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

South Korea's National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an unknown user using the code to recover the wallet and steal over US$4.8 million in crypto seized by the government.

Microsoft adds Shader Execution Reordering (SER) in latest DirectX SDK for more efficient ray tracing β€” Intel Arc B-series GPUs show 90% performance uplift

Microsoft has officially brought Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and Opacity Micromaps (OMMs) out of preview with the latest DXR 1.2 update, as part of DirectX Agility SDK 1.619. With SER and OMM now standardized, more game developers and GPU makers will be able to adopt it to make ray/path-traced scenes run much faster.

ISSCC 2026: Rebellions details industry's first quad-chiplet AI solution with UCIe interconnects β€” claims Rebel100 AI accelerator equals the power of Nvidia H200 with lower power envelope

Rebellions details how it developed one of the world's first quad-chiplet AI accelerator with UCIe interconnects and how it did not use all of the technologies that the UCIe 1.0 specifications includes.

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