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- February 9
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- First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears — third-party cable likely cause
- Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
- Meta develops 'hat' for typing text by thinking — uses AI to read brain signals for keypresses
- RTX 4090 liquid cooled with 12,000 BTU air conditioner, RTX 5090 up next — GPU runs at 20C
- Lenovo hybrid 2D/3D curved monitor and nine new laptops have leaked — MWC 2025 lineup exposed
- Nvidia RTX 5060 claimed to feature just 8GB of VRAM — the 5060 Ti may get 8GB and 16GB flavors
- Russian drone operators reportedly received explosive headsets — plans dashed by packaging
- February 8
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- Fraudulent hard drive scandal deepens at Seagate: Clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
- Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive
- Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc
- Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D listed at $699 and $599, same prices as last-gen
- Maker builds cool Raspberry Pi Home dashboard with an old touchscreen monitor
- Newegg blames tariffs for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 price hikes, but then walks it back
- Nvidia is investigating RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 instability issues
- TSMC bans more chip sales to China due to stricter U.S. export sanctions
- MediaTek is conducting impact simulations to prepare for U.S. tariffs
- Zotac is selling RTX 50-series GPUs directly to customers to thwart scalpers
- February 7
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- RTX 5090D tested with nine-years-old Xeon CPU that cost $7 — it does surprisingly well in some games, if you enable MFG
- Threadripper 7000 is the most reliable CPU as per Puget Systems stats — Nvidia RTX Ada Generation GPUs have the lowest failure rates
- Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake CPU specs break cover — leak suggests up to 16 CPU cores and 180 total AI TOPS
- Arm to let Qualcomm keep its architecture license but may ask for a retrial on the Nuvia issue
- ASRock feels the heat as it moves manufacturing out of China to counter U.S. tariffs
- Leaked RTX 5080 laptop GPU benchmarks show a 20% performance gain in Time Spy
- This Raspberry Pi slim cyberdeck uses two Raspberry Pis
- Intel's Nova Lake CPU reportedly has up to 52 cores — Coyote Cove P-cores and Arctic Wolf E-cores onboard
- Asus and MSI hike RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPU prices by up to 18%
- AMD's China-specific RX 7650 GRE slots in between RX 7600 and 7600 XT
- Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator
- Intel's vacant CEO spot rumored to be filled by Tom Caulfield — abrupt GlobalFoundries shakeup sparks speculation
- February 6
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- Asus China compensates and assists owners with damaged GPUs due to PCIe Q-Release Slim mechanism — confirms revision on the way
- EVGA closes its official forums and transitions to Reddit
- Valve shoots down rumors of RDNA4-based Steam Console — it routinely tests new hardware that isn't put into its own devices
- This Raspberry Pi portable cyberdeck is straight out of a sci fi movie
- Doom runs on an Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle — SoC inside adapter has enough power for smooth gameplay
- Asus rolls out golden RTX 5090 for buyers with deep pockets — ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition for the Middle Eastern market
- Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all
- Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP
- Qualcomm claims it owns 10% of U.S. Windows PC retail market for devices priced $800 and up
- Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, hints that 'brave' Pat Gelsinger exited too soon
- Intel data center CPU sales hit the lowest point in 13 years
- February 5
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- Apple rumored to kick off M5 chip production using TSMC performance-enhanced 3nm node
- Huawei manages to pull $118 billion in revenue despite strict U.S. sanctions and restrictions
- USPS had ceased accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong late Tuesday, potentially affecting numerous PC parts — service was restored by early Wednesday
- Hardware leaker claims RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs will use 8-pin power connectors
- Raspberry Pi Pico Spacewar controller brings vintage space combat to the 21st century
- Moore Threads GPUs allegedly show 'excellent' inference performance with DeepSeek models
- AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming
- Adafruit's Fruit Jam is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 powered, credit card sized computer
- AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
- February 4
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- G.Skill intros 96GB DDR5-6800 CL32 and 32GB DDR5-6400 CL28 memory kits for Intel-based machines
- China reopens antitrust probe into Google, Nvidia, and Intel may be next
- AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
- AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
- From toilets to chips — Toto's electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs
- Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
- Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined
- U.S. RTX 50 laptop pricing starts from $1,899 for an RTX 5070 Ti toting Asus ROG Strix G16
- DeepSeek research suggests Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance
- February 3
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- Intel receives $536 million payment from EU following antitrust fine reversal
- RTX 5090 gaming laptops listed overseas starting at $3,780
- Japan tightens chipmaking export controls amid US-China tech tensions
- Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
- Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn't use at home
- Tech enthusiasts brace for Trump tariff price hikes on new components
- Modern Discord hacked into Windows 95 and 98, slimmed down version keeps core functionality intact
- Japanese RTX 50 retailer apologizes for lottery-fueled mayhem — unruly crowd caused injuries, damaged nearby kindergarten
- RTX 5090 cable melting claim debunked — Investigation points at prior RTX 4090 FE cabling usage
- Nvidia counters AMD DeepSeek AI benchmarks, claims RTX 4090 is nearly 50% faster than 7900 XTX
- February 2
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- DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
- Intel heralds XeSS passing the 150 games milestone, but only two titles support XeSS 2.0
- RTX 5090 orders could take up to 16 weeks to fulfill at major UK retailer, shop stops taking pre-orders
- Nvidia RTX 3090 sent in to repairer was missing the GPU and all its memory chips
- Verbatim pledges 'stable supply of optical disks' after Sony Japan's recordable Blu-ray exit
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H lands 32% faster than the 155H in PassMark's single-core benchmark
- February 1
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- RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 may arrive in March to steal AMD's spotlight — Chaintech hints at higher Average Selling Prices
- RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
- Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors — Contec CMS8000 raises questions about healthcare device security
- Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
- Incredibly tiny pressure-sensitive mouse can be latched onto a keychain like a sleek car remote
- AMD rumored to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D alongside RDNA 4 GPUs in late March
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and President Trump met to discuss AI policy, DeepSeek, and hardware export controls