Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops — media outlet slams YMTC PCIe 4.0 drive for ‘below average for an SSD in an office laptop’ in review Laptops
Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold Gaming
50-feet-long fiber optic HDMI cable and Steam Controller 2 is enthusiasts’ answer to the Steam Machine — dismisses Valve’s new console for a DIY Bazzite setup with a controller Gaming
DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report — project SYMPHONEE aims to harvest Strontium-90 to power persistent military drones Science
Fill your Steam library without spending a single dime — scratch your shopping itch with the Steam Summer Sale Simulator Gaming
You can now play Half-Life 2 right inside your browser at over 100 FPS with save states & console support — Ingenious port recreates the entire game campaign using WebGL 2 Gaming
PS5 Disc Drive purchase cap predates Sony’s disc cutoff — ‘high demand’ order limit has been on the store page since at least March 2025 Gaming
Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens AI & Bots
Grab this RTX 5070 Ti OLED gaming laptop at $300 off — Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI drops to $1,899.99 Gaming
Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group Computers & IT
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition review: A masterclass in mobility and usability Laptops
Jim Keller’s startup is building a factory to mass-produce small semiconductor fabs —Atomic Semi rebrands as ‘Fab2’ underlining intended role as a ‘fab fab’ Apps
US Navy is flight-testing 3D printed fighter jet parts that cut repair times in half — forward-deployed 3D printers generate composite parts, flight testing to begin on operational F/A-18 Super Hornets Drones
Hannah Montana Linux gets modern remaster after nearly two decades — ‘Sweet niblets,’ new v26 is built on Debian with a re-skin of KDE Plasma Apps
Reviewer tests ‘RTX 4080M’ desktop graphics card powered by salvaged laptop silicon — performs worse than slightly more expensive RX 9070 GRE but draws only 100W in games Gaming
Germany’s massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world’s largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media Gaming
SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth’s atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations Science
Get an RTX 3060 with 12 GB of VRAM for just $329.99 at Newegg — MSI Ventus 2X OC model back in stock with free shipping Gaming
Bigme introduces a color e-ink monitor that could reportedly hit 60 FPS — 25.3-inch display will come with a 3200 x 1800 resolution and support for 4096 colors Computers & IT
Steam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows support Gaming
Score a massive $1,050 saving on this RTX 5090 gaming PC that’s just 16% more than the GPU’s standalone price right now — epic discount secures you a formidable 4K gaming rig with a 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD Gaming
China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with ‘tripled inference performance’ of H20 at one-quarter the cost Phones
Electric drone breaks world air speed record at 434 mph, designed for anti-aircraft interceptor roles — German firm convincingly smashed the official 409 mph record, hopes to get stamp of approval from Guinness soon Drones
Nvidia and Intel tout homegrown American chip supply chain prowess as country bolsters local production, but gaps remain — crucial Blackwell packaging steps remain offshore as projects grow in scope and scale Computers & IT
Nvidia’s Kyber rack for Rubin Ultra reportedly delayed to 2028, stopgap solution also axed due to customer pushback — Analyst firm SemiAnalysis says PCB midplane problems led to the delay Gaming
The portable Samsung T9 SSD is STILL selling for a record-low price after Prime Day — but how much longer can it last? Phones
Prime Day is over, but Samsung’s best cheap phone is STILL selling for a record low price at Amazon Phones
