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- February 7
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- Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully
- Nitrogen ransomware programmers lock themselves out of a payment — key management bug encrypts victims' data forever
- Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are "out of scope," ignored bug
- Sandisk's rebranded Optimus SSDs now available at eye-watering $999 for 2TB, $1,799 for 4TB — Optimus brings a 5% MSRP over previous models, but WD Black predecessors can still be found for less
- Intel Panther Lake handheld chips reportedly delayed until Q2 2026 — alleged 'Core G3' series might launch alongside new Arc B360 and Arc B380 iGPUs
- I stuck with the same PC controller brand for four years – here's what to look for in your next gamepad
- Thermalright's LCD software for Windows ported to Linux — enthsuiast's full-fledged port supports a ton of models and enables RGB and LCD customization
- February 6
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- Semiconductor industry on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026, SIA predicts — bumper forecast follows $791.7 billion haul for 2025
- China broadens its crackdown on cryptocurrencies — expands ban to include real-world asset tokenization, crypto ads, and providing network traffic for crypto activities
- Big Tech stocks take a $1 trillion tumble as projected AI spending continues to outweigh revenue — investors are antsy about long-term planning becoming never-ending spending
- Amazon’s European data center projects stalled by grid delays spanning up to seven years — no new connections until after 2030
- CPU scaling with DLSS — investigating CPU performance in the age of upscaling
- Infineon allegedly hikes prices of power switches and ICs amid AI boom — knock-on pricing could impact virtually all electronic devices
- Lucky scavenger finds $1,300 worth of SSDs for just $210 in Walmart's clearance aisle — haul includes two 2TB WD SN770, a 2TB Samsung T5 Evo, and a 1 TB PNY CS2241
- TSMC is on track to have more employees than Intel for the first time in history — TSMC's explosive growth stands in contrast to Intel's rapid contraction
- Intel, AMD server CPUs reportedly suffering from supply shortages in China, leading to increased prices — sources say orders could be delayed by as much as 6 months
- MSI MEG X870E Ace Max Motherboard Review: A second Ace up MSI’s AM5 sleeve?
- The high-speed Bambu Lab P1S is back in stock at its record-low $399 price — save $300 on enclosed Core XY 3D printer with quick assembly for beginners
- PNY CS2342 2TB SSD Review: High-Capacity TLC Performance In M.2 2230
- Noctua celebrates sending out its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit — milestone marks two decades of the free program
- AMD's 96-core beast with watercooling engraved into CPU joins car and industrial parts in a 2,000W direct die cooling setup — $12,000 CPU runs at 5.3 GHz, devours 1,300W, and still runs cooler than your gaming PC
- One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns
- Russian 'Inspector' spacecraft intercepted communications from a dozen European satellites, report claims — fears Moscow could even manipulate trajectories or crash satellites
- Get up to 72% off Razer gaming keyboards, 67% off headsets at Woot — save big thanks to this PC accessories blowout
- Adafruit pushes back against NY state’s sweeping ban on 3D printing guns — suggests amendments to ‘preserve the public safety goal without breaking education, open hardware, or small manufacturers’
- Extend the life of your favorite gaming headset for less than $25 — replace those crusty earpads, and maybe get a headband cover
- February 5
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- Razer Boomslang 20th anniversary edition is as l33t a mouse as they come, for a princely $1,337 — legacy lives on two decades onwards
- Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028
- Yet another Windows update is wreaking havoc on gaming rigs worldwide — Nvidia recommends uninstalling Windows 11 KB5074109 January update to prevent framerate drops and artifacting
- Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims — HP and Dell qualifying CXMT DRAM, Acer and Asus asking Chinese partners to source locally-made memory chips
- Anycubic Kobra X Review: Hidden AMS
- Jim Keller's Tenstorrent is downgrading Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores via firmware update — will ship cards with 120 tensor cores going forward, company claims existing users should expect 1-2% performance drop
- ASRock issues statement concerning yet another round of Ryzen 9000 CPU failures — motherboard vendor says it is 'working in seamless coordination' with AMD to investigate
- Fractal Design's new North and North XL Momentum Edition cases sport stealthy black wood slats, promise quieter fans – XL model also supports back-connector motherboards
- Secure a snappy gaming PC with an RTX 5060 and 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $959 — MSI Codex R2 rig handles 1080p gameplay with a 10-core Intel CPU and 1TB of storage
- Tesla's robotics ambitions rest on the knife-edge of US-China trade relations due to its supply chain — the majority of critical materials and suppliers are located in China
- Asus RT-BE58 Go Wi-Fi 7 travel router review: A versatile, dual-band Wi-Fi 7 travel companion
- Intel clawed back CPU market share from AMD in the Steam Hardware survey for the first time in months — PC component crisis could be pushing builders to value-for-money builds
- Grab this 360Hz 27-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED gaming monitor for its lowest ever price of just $564.99 — save a massive $335 off the retail price of the G60SD in this limited time Woot sale
- Epic knows its launcher 'sucks' and is fully rebuilding it — faster, more stable client is on the way with player profiles and extended social features
- DLSS Ray Reconstruction might be living on borrowed time, DLSS 4.5 can reconstruct ray-traced reflections almost perfectly without any denoisers
- Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
- Valve delays Steam Machine and says it is reconsidering pricing — critical component shortage and costs behind the move
- Modern NVMe SSD meets vintage PCI slot in quirky experiment — M.2 drive shows storage speeds worth dying for back in the '90s
- How to store your headsets and keyboards
- $40 million worth of crypto stolen from Step Finance — hackers compromise executives’ devices to gain illicit access
- Meta promo codes for Feb 2026 | Exclusive 5% OFF
- February 4
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- Save nearly 50% off on this thin-and-light laptop on Best Buy — Snapdragon X-powered Asus Vivobook 14 now on sale for just $379.99
- PC vendor warns of upcoming price hikes due to SSD and memory volatility — PowerGPU to pass costs to customers once existing inventory depletes
- The new Valve Steam Machine is 'on track' to begin shipping early this year, says AMD — CEO suggests new 4K mini gaming PC, powered by semi-custom Zen 4 CPU, to launch soon
- ‘Most of you steal your software’ — Bill Gates complained about software piracy 50 years ago, and was openly irked by community's Altair BASIC ‘theft’
- Cornell research shows that underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place — DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer
- GMKtec Evo X2 AI Mini PC review: Compact Strix Halo Powerhouse
- China’s CXMT and YMTC to increase memory output — two new fabs could close the gap with the ‘big three’
- Grab this 27-inch Acer Nitro gaming monitor for a record-low $199.99 — save $100 on IPS display with an ultra-fast 300Hz refresh rate
- Apple's latest 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 with 24GB of RAM is only $1499 — the lowest price we've seen and $300 cheaper than buying direct from Apple
- Gamer scores Nvidia’s $999 powerhouse RTX 5080 for a jaw-dropping $562 — the Walmart clearance aisle is the secret weapon to beat the AI-driven GPU shortage (Updated)
- HetCCL makes clustered Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nice with each other via RDMA — vendor-agnostic collective communications library removes an obstacle to heterogeneous AI data centers
- These two outstanding Thunderbolt 4 Docks add versatility to my laptop and desktop PC
- Western Digital reveals new software platform to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage — as-yet-unnamed tool gives users powerful management capabilities at the price of lock-in
- Researchers use agentic AI to monitor and correct 3D prints — system catches errors in real time, uses modular design to work on different makes and models
- Corsair Galleon 100 SD Review: A gaming keyboard and Stream Deck collide; combo is good, but is it necessary?
- February 3
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- AMD CEO downplays PC memory crunch, saying 'our focus areas are enterprise' — company wants to focus on growing 'higher-end of the market'
- AMD reveals next-gen Xbox could launch in 2027 — CEO says semi-custom SoC ready to 'support launch in 2027'
- Purported Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs might bring extra performance with no price premium — early retailer listings show practically no price hike for some Core Ultra 200K Plus chips
- China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks
- DDR5 RAM pricing begins to stabilize in Germany, January saw only a 0.1% increase — Some kits even saw price cuts as volatility begins to plateau
- Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent
- Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029
- Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption
- MSI MAG Pro X870E-P Wifi Motherboard review: Designed for productivity, but not a standout
- Snag this 4K-capable gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for less than $2,000 — a 26% saving on a powerhouse of a rig equipped with Intel's 24-core CPU and a 2TB SSD
- Snap up 32GB of Crucial Pro Overclocking RAM for $325.99 — the cheapest available DDR5-6000 kit for hitting AMD's sweetspot
- AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs begin to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at last — RX 9070 arrives with paltry 0.16% market share, less than the GeForce GT 730
- SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity
- ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial — Kerbal Space Program Lunar lander powered by 1980s hardware
- Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill
- Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND
- Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame
- Frankenstein RTX 5070 Ti with an RTX 2080 Ti PCB breaks world record with extreme modding — card was damaged, salvaged with AMD donor parts and lots of soldered wires and tape
- February 2
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- Intel returns to boxed workstation CPUs with Xeon 600 — Granite Rapids WS delivers up to 86 cores, 4TB of memory, and 128 PCIe 5 lanes
- Apple concedes it is constrained by TSMC's supply of advanced chips; storage and memory are also in short supply — firm isn't projecting supply conditions beyond the second quarter
- Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron work to block memory hoarding — prices might rise faster, but it could help encourage increased supply long term
- Trump administration plans $12bn critical minerals stockpile to offset China supply risk — initiative to create 60-day reserve of rare earths for electronics manufacturing
- Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive — counterfeit SSDs proliferate as NAND shortage creates the perfect storm for bogus deals
- Intel mandates at least 7,467 MT/s RAM speed for Panther Lake — Slower memory will relabel the Arc B370 & B390 iGPUs as generic "Intel Graphics" in Task Manager
- Binning results from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3Ds prove that the CPU is purely an overclocked 9800X3D from the factory — 9850X3D looks similar to 9800X3D, just with higher voltages
- AI infrastructure surge begins squeezing Apple’s component costs — company considering supplier other than TSMC for lower-end chips, report claims
- Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 290K Plus appears on Geekbench with chart-topping scores — Arrow Lake refresh beats the 285K by ~10% across single- and multithreaded tests
- AMD adopts FRED together with Intel for Zen 6 architecture — replacement for decades-old IDT can improve performance and stability
- Raspberry Pi 5 price increases drastically as AI shortage bites, 16GB version now $205 — second price increase in three months, over 70% more expensive than original MSRP
- Modder more than doubles Asus ROG Xbox Ally X's memory with massive 64GB RAM upgrade — advanced soldering and BIOS modification unlock more capacity
- Get a 43-inch Samsung 4K Smart UHD display for $299.99 — at $200 off, the M7 M70F is at its lowest price ever
- Developer creates 'conversational AI' that can run in 64kb of RAM on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU-powered system — features a tiny chatbot and a 20-question guessing game
- Lexar Play SE 4TB SSD Review: The oddball of the bunch
- Walmart slices $200 off the price of MSI's RTX 5070-powered Katana 15 HX — get crisp visuals and a 165Hz QHD display for just $1299
- RayNeo Air 3s Pro AR glasses review: A meaningful usability upgrade for already stellar glasses
- Jensen Huang warns TSMC needs to 'work very hard' to meet AI demand — Nvidia CEO says its demand alone may force doubling its capacity over the next decade
- Grab a speedy 256GB Samsung USB-C flash drive for just $24.99 — save 52% on tiny waterproof storage for your important files and photos with speeds of up to 400 MB/s
- Homebrew developer runs real-time ray tracing test on 1994 Sega Saturn — ancient hardware's untapped power revealed, more refinements to come
- Smart ways to help your PC survive through the PC component pricing apocalypse — check temps, replace old AIOs and PSUs, keep an eye on your boot drive's TBW, and more
- February 1
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- Former Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' — tried to raise funding for his own start-up
- Chinese researchers discover new salty cooling solution that can drop temperatures by more than 50 degrees Celsius in seconds — depressurizing saturated fluid triggers massive amounts of heat transfer
- Save 47% on Samsung's 32-inch 1440p 180Hz gaming monitor as it drops to its cheapest price ever — Get your hands on the Odyssey G5 G50D for just $229 on Amazon
- SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor
- Asus ROG Strix GS-BE18000 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router — Good overall performance and a wealth of LAN ports
- Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling
- Starlink uses emergency fix to block Russian drones using its devices to bomb Ukraine — company looking for permanent solutions to stop unauthorized use of its service
- Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD
- Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter
- Intel ties AMD for most reliable CPUs in 2025 system builder report — Nvidia's Founders Edition GPUs dominate with the lowest failure rates
- Malicious OpenClaw ‘skill’ targets crypto users on ClawHub — 14 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub last month
- The Intel 286 CPU was introduced on this day in 1982 — 16-bit x86 chip introduced protected mode memory, and would power the IBM PC/AT and a tidal wave of clones
- Japanese art museum intros $15 bookmarks made from PCBs — the PCB traces form a miniature Tokyo Metro map
- US Marine Corps develops first 3D printed drone with no China-sourced parts, dubbed HANX — modular design makes it quick to adapt from reconnaissance to one-way attack, and other duties