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AYANEO's upcoming Next 2 handheld gaming console shelved due to rising component prices β€” company stops preorders for the $1,999 Strix Halo device

Ayaneo has suspended sales of its next-gen premium gaming handheld as the procurement costs for storage have slipped out of control. When it was first announced, prices were already high, but following the CNY break, vendor quotes had shot up many times, making it unfeasible to build the device. It's a temporary suspension, however, and existing sales will be honored.

Huawei unveils new Atlas 350 AI accelerator with 1.56 PFLOPS of FP4 compute and up to 112GB of HBM β€” claims 2.8x more performance than Nvidia's H20

The Atlas 350 is using the Ascend 950PR chip, but it looks like a cut-down version with less compute. Translation overhead aside, previous reports and announcements have already revealed the full specs of this silicon, such as 128 GB of HBM and up to 2 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, but the Atlas 350 is being reported just a smidge below those numbers.

US senators want to suspend Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and its intermediaries β€” bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept says that Huang’s claims of no chip diversion β€˜were contradicted by reporting available’

U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.

Get an entire RTX 5090 Alienware gaming PC for just 17% more than the GPU's standalone cost β€” 9800X3D beast with 32GB DDR5 and 1TB SSD drops below $4,450 at Dell, saving you a massive $1,200

This Alienware Area-51 gaming PC is one of the most powerful pre-built rigs you can buy. It's on sale with a $1,200 discount, fitted with an RTX 5090, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for only $4,449.99, with an RTX 5080 variant even cheaper.

AWS Bahrain suffers major disruption due to the ongoing US-Iran conflict β€” drone activity blamed for service interruption

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict. It's been said that drone activity is causing the service interruption, and that the company is requesting its clients to migrate their workloads to other regions.

FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat β€” agency says foreign-made devices pose β€˜unacceptable risk’ to US persons

The FCC says that it will no longer certify foreign-made routers, effectively making them illegal to sell in the U.S., unless the manufacturer can secure a "Conditional Approval" from the Department of War or the Department of Homeland Security.

Microsoft says, for once, Windows update isn't to blame for Galaxy Book4 laptops losing access to C: drive β€” the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit, and it's been taken down from Microsoft Store

Microsoft and Samsung investigated a widely reported issue with Galaxy Book 4 devices and said the Galaxy Connect app was the culprit. These laptops were losing access to the C: drive and, initially, people thought it had something to do with Windows Update. Microsoft has posted recovery steps for those that were affected.

Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads β€” 1,200 W/m-K "Vapor-Pad" from Xerendipity designed to replace traditional TIM in a CPU

A thermal pad with a vapor chamber on top might be the TIM your next phone's SoC will use. Xerendipity's new products are meant to keep your phone cooler without sacrificing thickness or cost.

Intel's long-rumored Core Ultra 3 205 CPU finally appears for sale at French retailer β€” priced at $182, early listing confirms previously-known specs for the chip

The Core Ultra 3 205 is an 8-core chip with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, part of the Arrow Lake family, branded as the Core Ultra 200S series. It never officially launched despite being listed at several OEMs as a "tray" chip and even being mentioned in Intel's own documents. Its newest spotting is on a French retailer's website where it's only available on order.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive β€” compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips

The Nvidia chief said that he will be alarmed if his engineers did not use AI tokens amounting to about half their annual salary, saying that AI tools will 10x their productivity.

Micron predicts that cars will need 300GB of RAM β€” memory-laden vehicles could exacerbate shortages but create 'robust long-term growth in automotive memory demand'

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra predicts that self-driving vehicles would require at least 300GB of RAM, meaning increasing demand could drive another memory chip shortage as these cars are essentially AI supercomputers on wheels.

Two brothers convicted of running ghost gun factory that produced untraceable 3D printed firearms β€” used 3D printers to build gun frames while associates purchased other parts on eBay

Brothers Brandon and Justin Nudelman have been convicted of running a ghost gun factory, with the group using 3D printers to print gun frames while purchasing other parts online to build and sell untraceable weapons.

Rogue OpenClaw AI wrote and published 'hit piece' on a Python developer who rejected its code β€” disgruntled bot accuses Matplotlib maintainer of discrimination and hypocrisy, later backtracks with an apology

An OpenClaw autonomous AI agent has hit back at a volunteer maintainer of a Python library who rejected its code by posting a "hit piece" that criticizes the developer and calls them discriminatory against AI.

New Fortnite 'Rivalry' includes chance to win RTX 5080 β€” top five players will be awarded GPU hardware in Chapter 7 Season 2 competition

Fortnite's new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you're good enough at the game and win enough "rivalries" in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the world, Epic will give you a free RTX 5080.

AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RX 9000-series GPUs β€” new update delivers better Ray Regeneration, finer upscaled detail, and higher FPS

AMD has added Ray Regeneration 1.1 and FSR 4.1 upscaling to its RDNA 4 GPUs, bringing it to parity with Sony's PSSR 2 on the PS5 Pro. Games that support these features will have better ray tracing quality with more accurate shadow detail, while also getting a sharper-looking image through ML-based upscaling.

Arctic's $1,400 AMD Strix Point fanless mini-PC hides under your desk β€” Senza AI 370 features Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD

If you've been looking for a mini PC that goes beyond just decluttering your desk β€” one that basically doesn't even remind you of its existence, then Arctic has got just the thing for you. The new Senza AI 370 features a powerful AMD chip with a decent iGPU, 32 GB of fast RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and plenty of ports. It costs almost $1,400, though, but at least it's fanless.

Save $350 on the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop with an OLED display β€” Acer's excellent Predator Helios Neo 16S AI with 32GB of RAM is just $1,549 right now

Powerful laptops with impressive specs are often overpriced and only make sense when on sale. Thankfully, Acer has put its Helios Neo 16S AI with an RTX 5070 Ti, 32 GB of RAM, 240 Hz OLED display, and a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor on a steep discount. It's the best Windows laptop you can likely find at this price.

US trade deficit hits a record $1.2 trillion as AI hardware imports surge under the Trump administration β€” massive demand for chips from Asia outpaces domestic production, fueling a 60% increase in imports in 12 months

AI-related imports across the computing and electronics sector have led to a big increase in the U.S. trade deficit, hitting a record $1.2 trillion in 2025, despite efforts from the Trump administration to reduce the gap.

Researchers reach superconductivity at ambient pressure, record high temperature β€” milestone of -122Β°C reached by using pressure quenching, still 140 degrees off room temperature target

Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at βˆ’122Β°C, they are still 140Β°C away from the target.

Kioxia announces new Super High IOPS SSD that helps accelerate AI workloads on Nvidia GPUs β€” 25.6TB drive provides more GPU-accessible memory for faster data access

Kioxia has developed a new AI SSD that is designed to provide a secondary cache for Nvidia AI GPUs. The new drive comes with the manufacturer's XL-Flash that is SLC based and performs at over 10 million IOPS.

8BitDo launches $40 Nintendo 64-inspired wireless controller with 2.4 GHz connection β€” dedicated wireless receiver even works with the original N64

8BitDo has released the 2.4 GHz version of its popular 8BitDo 64 controller; it ships with a Retro Receiver inside the box that can even be connected to an actual N64 console. The receiver can also be bought separately to work over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection with most 8BitDo first-party controllers, and other third-party ones, too.

Intel's new feature can improve game loading times by up to 3x β€” Precompiled Shader Delivery comes to Arc Xe2 and Xe3 GPUs following DirectX SDK release

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.

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