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Startup builds first responder drone connected via Starlink that enables eight mile range — UAV can fly for over an hour, swap batteries automatically, and carry various payloads

The BRINC Guardian has a built-in Starlink module, allowing operators to continue operating the drone even if it falls outside the range of its base station, cellular networks, and other terrestrial signals.

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Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system had been stuck in stasis with M2 Ultra since 2023

Apple has discontinued its Mac Pro tower, which hasn't been updated since a version with the M2 Ultra processor arrived in 2023.

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Intel confirms rumored Core Ultra 9 290K Plus has been scrapped — potential Core Ultra 9 285KS Special Edition also off the table as Arrow Lake refresh rolls out

Intel has confirmed it has scrapped the Core Ultra 9 295K Plus, and will not be releasing a Special Edition "KS" part for its Core Ultra 200S series lineup.

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AMD makes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official — first dual-cache X3D CPU arrives in April, with 208MB cache, 200W TDP, promising modest performance gains

The new flagship packs a total of 208MB cache, helping deliver modest gains in gaming, rendering, and content creation.

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Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — 'Core 3 304' is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

Wildcat Lake is the successor to Twin Lake, which itself was a refresh of Alder Lake-N. These are ultra-budget CPUs aimed at embedded devices, cheap laptops, mini-PCs, NAS devices, and more, where efficiency is key. The Core 3 304 is part of the Wildcat Lake family and represents a huge…

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OLED monitor sales surged 92% in 2025 — Asus led with 2.7 million units shipped as gamer-friendly panel tech goes mainstream

Gamers are finally buying OLEDs thanks to bumps in durability and brightness as well as drops in prices.

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Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1B crypto-GPU income within its gaming revenues — investor lawsuit concerns business spanning 2017 and 2018

Nvidia is back in court over whether a significant chunk of its revenue through 2017 and 2018 was reliant on the whims of the cryptocurrency market.

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Super Micro shareholders sue company over securities fraud after AI chip smuggling bust — furious investors claim company concealed dependence on illicit sales to China

Supermicro shareholders argue that the company committed securities fraud because it did not tell them that illegal activities made up a huge portion of its sales and that it had issues with export controls compliance.

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Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explained — how the iBOT translation delivers up to 18% faster gaming performance, 8% on average

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs come with a unique feature: Binary Optimization Tool. We’ve put it to the test in 10 games with the 250K Plus and 270K Plus, and came out with an 8% uplift on average.

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Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips — damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to ‘act as pass through partner for customers in China’

One Chinese and two U.S. citizens have been charged of conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations after they attempted to order servers containing controlled chips for export to Thailand on paper, but with China as the intended final destination.

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Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft using 'science fiction… magic… brilliant…' Neuralink brain implant — 'I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed'

British Army veteran Jon L. Noble has shared a heartwarming update on his first 100 days with a Neuralink implant.

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Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

To build 1 TW of AI silicon per year, Elon Musk's TeraFab would need to process 22.4 million Rubin Ultra GPU wafers, 2.716 million Vera CPU wafers, and 15.824 million HBM4E wafers annually using from 142 to 358 fabs, according to Bernstein.

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CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason — sophisticated attack spreads through npm packages and uses ICP canister as control surface

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason

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Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s — ZX Spectrum home computer with 3.5 MHz CPU and 48KB of memory power Kerbal space flight

YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated using a ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1982 to land a spacecraft on the Kerbal Space Program spaceflight simulator.

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Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking performance from new Core Ultra 200S Plus chips — says Intel's IPC boosting Binary Optimization Tool modifies scores in 'unclear' fashion

The team behind Geekbench 6 has warned users about benchmarking inconsistency with Intel's latest iBOT tool found in the new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus. Geekbench 6 can't identify when iBOT is enabled or disabled during benchmark runs.

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Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastructure the latest AI buildout bottleneck

Micron’s planned $24 billion NAND flash expansion in Singapore will require 400 to 500 power transformers, which is more than double the 100 to 150 units a standard wafer fab typically needs.

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Samsung’s 870 EVO SATA SSD quietly gets 8TB variant despite storage shortage and skyrocketing pricing — new model spotted in Europe for €1,300 with higher cache and endurance

Samsung’s unlisted 870 EVO 8TB model appears at European retailers with pricing starting at €1,300.

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Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB of RAM to AI and pro apps — bigger Battlemage finally arrives, but it's not for gamers

Intel's Arc Pro B70 and B65 GPUs bring options for more raw compute, 32GB of RAM and multi-GPU scalability to the market for local AI explorers looking to run inference workloads for relatively low prices.

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PC makers face shortages of Intel and AMD CPUs that stretch up to six months — lead time for orders jumps from just two weeks in the face of AI demand

Many PC manufacturers are facing challenges in acquiring inventory of Intel and AMD CPUs, saying that there is not enough supply to meet consumer demand.

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Google's TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times — up to 8x performance boost on Nvidia H100 GPUs, compresses KV caches to 3 bits with no accuracy loss

In benchmarks on Nvidia H100 GPUs, 4-bit TurboQuant delivered up to an eight-times performance increase in computing attention logits compared to unquantized 32-bit keys.

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Intel officially releases Xeon 600 chips, announces new vPro Panther Lake CPUs — ‘all-new’ vPro platform goes all-in on AI

Intel has officially released its Xeon 600 workstation CPUs, previously known as Granite Rapids-WS, as well as detailed new features coming to its vPro platform with new Panther Lake CPUs for businesses.

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Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’

A family in Northern Kentucky received a $26 million offer for half their land — a price that's worth more than 7 times the going rate for the area. But despite the massive price, they still refused, saying that they "fed a nation off of it."

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Flipper Zero pen-testing tool gets an AI-powered companion app — natural language interface allows for faster, easier hacking

If controlling the notorious Flipper Zero pen-testing and hacking tool using its native interface is too difficult, a new AI-powered companion app for Android, called V3SP3R, is ready to help you make the most of it.

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HP's new AI workstation can expand horizontally to add 15% more internal volume — alternate side panel also includes more active cooling.

HP's Z8 Fury G6i workstation has an alternate "max" side panel that makes the internal chassis 15% larger and adds more active cooling to the system.

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Russian ‘Starlink Rival’ established with 16 satellites launched, aims for 900 by 2035 — commercial operation to begin next year with 250 sputniks

Russia has began to deliver on its plans to establish a domestic state-funded rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, dubbed Rassvet.

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