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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.

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.

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.

390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices β€” AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

Myrient, which hosts more than 390TB of preserved video games, is set to go offline at the end of March 2026 due to rising storage and memory costs. The founder says they're spending more than $6,000 out of pocket per month to keep the project going.

Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value β€” user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

Silicon Power reportedly charged a 15% depreciation fee while refunding a user their 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM, meaning they'll only receive $46.72, which isn't even enough to buy a single 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM stick at current prices.

Secretlab has three PokΓ©mon-themed Titan Evo chairs in honor of game's 30th anniversary β€” special edition seats available in Pikachu, Gengar, and Eevee flavors

Secretlab and The PokΓ©mon Company International just collaborated to bring three limited-edition PokΓ©mon-themed gaming chairs, featuring Pikachu, Gengar, or Eevee, in celebration of the popular franchise's 30th anniversary.

Chipmakers still suffering from rare earth shortages, says report β€” US-China trade truce apparently still hasn’t eased pressures despite agreement taking place in October last year

Sources told Reuters that some U.S. chipmaking firms are running low on scandium β€” a crucial rare earth material for making 5G chips β€” as they suffer delays from acquiring export licenses from Beijing.

AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times β€” researcher put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each other using historical scenarios. Out of the total of 21 matches, 20 ended with a tactical nuke detonation while three resulted in a full-on strategic nuclear exchange, essentially ending the world.

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