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Today β€” 28 October 2025Main stream

Unlucky buyer purchases external Seagate HDD, gets an SD card glued inside a plastic shell

An unfortunate user on Reddit bought a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive, only to find out that they've been scammed. Inside the enclosure was an SD card for storage, with metal blocks attached to a fake weight.

SK hynix unveils AI NAND strategy, including gargantuan petabyte-class QLC SSDs β€” ultra-fast HBF and 100M IOPS SSDs also in the pipeline

SK hynix introduced its AI NAND lineup β€” AIN D, AIN P, and AIN B β€” at the 2025 Global Summit, outlining a new strategy to deliver high-density, high-performance, and high-bandwidth storage tailored for AI servers and workloads.

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Cooler Master's new PC case with 5.25-inch drive bay launches in Japan as optical drive boom hits due to Windows 10 upgrade cycle β€” MasterBox CM695 addresses the country's reluctance to ditch physical media

Cooler Master is defying convention by launching a new midtower case in Japan that features a 5.25-inch optical drive bay up front. The MasterBox CM695 features a suitably-vintage design that also has space for up to four 3.5-inch hard drives, while still rocking a 20Gbps Type-C port at the top, along with a mesh front, and an option for a glass side panel.

Gaming-optimized Ryzen 5 7500X3D spotted at UK retailer, new six-core budget CPU apparently readied for launch β€” AMD might be prepping the cheapest Zen 4-based 3D V-Cache chip to date

AMD's 3D V-Cache tech is making its way down to the cheapest Raphael processor, with the new Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Found listed at a UK retailer, the 7500X3D will become the cheapest entry point to X3D chips on the AM5 platform, offering six Zen 4 cores and 102 MB of combine cache for maximum gaming performance.

8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited β€” Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today

The Hercules Graphics Card, released in 1982, was revolutionary for its time because it combined two popular video modes used in IBM PCs across the corporate world. It could display both sharp text and graphics quickly, thanks to its 32KB frame buffer, offering the best of both worlds in an era when compromise led the conversation.

Intel Core Ultra 5 338H appears in Geekbench listing, confirming new "Arc B370" Xe3 iGPU β€” No "X" branding in sight as Panther Lake's naming scheme becomes clear

A new Geekbench listing for a midrange Panther Lake CPU, Core Ultra 5 338H, shows a modest bump in performance, but confirms more important details like the exact GPU being utilized under the hood, while clearing up the naming scheme confusion that previously made it part of the flagship "X" branding reserved only for SKUs with 12-core GPUs.

Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years β€” more than 20,000 let go in in recent months as Lip-Bu Tan continues drastic recovery journey

Intel cut 20,500 jobs under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan β€” totaling 35,500 in two years β€” and reduced R&D spending by over $800 million per quarter as it streamlines operations, cancels lower-priority projects, and concentrates investment on strategic projects.

Intel's pivotal 18A process is making steady progress, but still lags behind β€” yields only set to reach industry standard levels in 2027

Intel said that its 18A process is advancing on schedule with usable yields to begin Panther Lake volume production, but low marings will slow the ramp and capacity expansion until yields reach 'industry standard' levels in 2026 – 2027.

Virtualized Windows 11 test shows Apple's M5 destroying Intel and AMD's best in single-core benchmark β€” Chinese enthusiast pits Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Core i9 14900KS against Apple's latest SoC

A Chinese enthusiast’s benchmark suggests Apple’s new M5 chip delivers record-breaking single-thread performance in CPU-Z, outperforming top AMD and Intel CPUs even while running Windows 11 in virtualization mode. But its multi-thread performance should be better.

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