AMD challenges Nvidia’s DGX Spark with $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo with Windows 11 support — Strix Halo desktop undercuts Nvidia by $700, packs 128GB of unified memory Computers & IT
More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026 — bipartisan opposition mounts nationwide over fears of soaring power and water AI & Bots
Save $500 on this beastly gaming rig with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Ryzen 7800X3D, and 32GB of RAM — Skytech’s desktop gaming PC now just $1,499 Gaming
Hardcore SpongeBob speedrunners smudged Xbox optical disks with sweat and grease to exploit ‘lag clip’ trick — filthy smeared disks cut gameplay times in ultimate pursuit of speed Gaming
AI cryptomining network’s 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’ — GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, Gaming
US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm ‘refused’ to fix before US implemented export controls — Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak ‘isn’t seriou AI & Bots
AMD taunts Apple’s MacBook Neo for failing to run 75% of top PC games — Only 5 out of the 20 top PC games work on the Neo, while all run on AMD’s budget offerings Laptops
OpenAI hit with sweeping probe from massive coalition of 42 US state attorneys general just days after reported IPO filing — subpoena targets ChatGPT maker’s ads, data practices, handling of minors, m AI & Bots
Microsoft is reportedly testing Copilot+ AI features with discrete GPUs instead of NPUs — a feature available on Windows App SDK with a Windows Insider Experimental Channel build and Developer Mode tu Gaming
New 3D printer tech uses elliptical laser beams to stir molten metal and create ‘alloys-on-demand’ — existing machinery can implement technique in software meaning for more convenient, stronger alloy Apps
Grab this MSI Codex Z2 16-thread gaming Ryzen PC with a 2TB SSD at a $400 discount — system packs a Ryzen 8700F, 16GB DDR5, and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for $1,499 Computers & IT
Snapmaker launches $150,000 Innovation Fund for open source 3D printing — cash rewards target developers backing the U1 toolchanger across Klipper, OrcaSlicer, and Moonraker ecosystems Apps
Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than co Phones
2021 Honda Civic infotainment system can be jailbroken via USB — flaw uses public Android test keys to install unauthorized apps, enables for ‘EvilValet’ attacks Phones
Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 ‘supercomputer’ in 1999, ‘for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon’ — Pentagon banned sales of th AI & Bots
Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb Science
Intel’s upcoming ‘Raptor Lake Next’ will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding — Lineup may include a special 10-core SKU with 24MB of L3 cache Computers & IT
42% slashed off Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD, 2TB now $369 — $270 savings brings one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs to its lowest price in months Computers & IT
FBI dismantles Chinese phishing service that coached buyers to generate scam sites using AI —$88 cybercrime product linked to $1.9 billion in losses, 3.87 million stolen cards Apps
Samsung’s 49-inch ultrawide Odyssey G9 gaming monitor dips to the lowest-ever price of $664 at Amazon — get 240Hz refresh rate and dense 109 PPI for 34% off Gaming
Google Chromebook marks its 15th anniversary — slow feature rollouts and a canceled Steam beta leave it largely stuck in classrooms Laptops
Score 32GB of DDR5 RAM from only $240 in these Newegg hardware bundles for Intel and AMD gaming PC builds — huge savings on premium Gigabyte motherboards coupled with popular Corsair Vengeance memory Computers & IT
Cancelled Xbox 360 version of GoldenEye 007 gets recompiled for PC — ‘No emulator, the game runs as a real native executable,’ insists dev Gaming
China’s supreme court bans Infineon from selling GaN power chips in China — market-leader Innoscience secures major victory in multi-region patent war Gaming
Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometers — new interconnects sampling later this year would allow CSPs to pool resources based on workloa Gaming
AMD takes over MEXT for memory tiering tech that enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications — tech to ‘address growing memory constraints’ in the data center AI & Bots
Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix Gaming
