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Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand β€” reporter covering cases of harassment against his business

Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County data center.

Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom β€” Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are just about keeping up with the rising costs, but individual preservationists have given up for the time being. This is all on top of websites blocking scraping bots because of AI.

Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips β€” Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 β€” workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.

Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license β€” Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device

Valve just released the 3D CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, allowing gamers and enthusiasts to design and 3D print their own accessories for these gadgets. The company even encouraged everyone to share their creations.

Microsoft says 'Transformation Paradox' holding back AI adoption in the workplace β€” 45% of respondents say it's safer to focus on current goals, rather than AI innovation

Microsoft's study says that it's not just enough to give employees access to AI tools for them to make the most of it. Instead, they should revamp their processes and systems to integrate AI use from the top-down.

Apple considering Intel and Samsung for US chip production, report claims β€” consumer electronics giant looks to diversify supply chain amid chip shortages

Apple is reportedly in early talks with Intel and Samsung to secure more production for its advanced chips, as the company is constrained by the limited availability of advanced nodes that its SoCs are produced on.

Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU with 32GB of VRAM gets tested in games β€” Roughly twice as fast as Arc B580 on average, beats RTX 5060 Ti in some titles

In a new review for the Arc Pro B70, the workstation GPU performs rather well across five games tested at 1440p resolution. On average, it loses to the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in traditional raster but beats it in ray tracing. Overall, the B70 was only 2.9% behind the 5060 Ti in all games when you average out both RT and raster.

AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D spotted on Passmark β€” company's first PRO chip with 3D V-Cache also bumps the lineup up to 16 cores

A new Ryzen PRO series processor has appeared on PassMark with just three samples, but a very promising spec sheet. The Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D is a 16-core Zen 5 chip with 3D V-Cache, making it the first of its kind. It performs quite closely to the standard 9950X3D it's based on, but likely has a lower TDP.

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