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China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips

The RTX 5090D V2 GPU Nvidia specifically built for China to comply with U.S. export controls just received the ban hammer from Beijing. Although this GPU is primarily designed for gaming and 3D animation, it's also powerful enough that many AI developers also use it.

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Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin — TeamPCP claims source code theft and attempts $50,000 sale, employee installed malicious VS Code extension

GitHub has confirmed a breach involving roughly 3,800 internal repositories after an employee device was compromised through a malicious VS Code extension. The TeamPCP hacker group claims it stole internal source code and attempted to sell the data for at least $50,000.

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with aggressive new quality standards, says major validation errors can result in termination — 'B0, you keep your job. Anything above that, you are fired'

Lip-Bu Tan wants Intel to radically improve its chip development discipline and achieve production readiness with A0 silicon revision.

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Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

Researchers at the University of Tokyo demonstrated a non-volatile Mn₃Sn magnetic switching device capable of flipping bits in just 40 picoseconds while generating minimal heat, potentially paving the way for lower-power AI hardware and memory systems.

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Lisa Su meets China's vice premier during China visit — AMD CEO pledges deeper investment days after Trump-Xi summit

AMD CEO Lisa Su met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, pledging further investment and expanded operations in what she calls "the world’s most dynamic AI ecosystem."

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Pizza Hut's AI delivery system cooks up $100 million franchisee lawsuit — deliveries allegedly shot from under 30 minutes to over 45 under new system

Pizza Hut's AI delivery system allegedly cost one franchisee $100 million in lost business, resulting in a spicy lawsuit to recover the lost dough.

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New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM — 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299

Microsoft has announced the Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 for Business, both starting at $1,949 and featuring Intel's Panther Lake silicon. There's also a new Surface Laptop 13-inch that comes with as little as 8GB RAM coming later this year and starting at $1,299.

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AMD rumored to ready budget-friendly Ryzen 7 7700X3D for suffering gamers — chipmaker lowers clocks and price with new Zen 4 X3D CPU

A hardware leaker claims AMD is preparing to launch the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, a lower-binned version of the no-longer-available Ryzen 7 7800X3D at a lower price.

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Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025 — 72 confirmed incidents see $41 million lost, real number likely higher

Large cryptocurrency holders are increasingly being targeted by criminals as large wallets are traced back to their owners. Because of this, many firms and individuals are now investing in physical security and bodyguards, with some having details that rival those of high-level executives working at major banks.

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Standard Chartered plans to cut 7,000 jobs in AI push — lender wants to replace ‘lower-value human capital’ and focus on automation

Standard Chartered says that it will trim a huge number of positions from its back offices in a bid to increase automation.

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Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan

Intel has redirected its constrained Intel 7 capacity toward server and industrial customers.

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LG unveils 'world's first' native 1,000 Hz refresh rate at 1080p for serious competitive gaming — UltraGear 25G590B to launch in the second half of 2026

Unlike previous dual-mode displays that lowered resolution to hit extreme refresh rates, LG’s latest monitor supports native 1,000 Hz gaming at full-HD resolution

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Intel's Project Firefly creates sub-$600 laptops to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo — leverages China's smartphone manufacturing blueprint to produce affordable Wildcat Lake systems

Intel China has unveiled Project Firefly, which borrows a page from China's smartphone supply chain to produce budget-friendly laptops that leverage Wildcat Lake processors.

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Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' — flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

ETH Zurich researchers disclosed “Fabricked,” a software-only attack that manipulates AMD Infinity Fabric routing during boot to undermine SEV-SNP protections on EPYC systems, enabling malicious cloud hosts to read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

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Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo as AI crunch drives sophisticated counterfeit market — free open-source software can flag clones by checking firmware, PCI Vendor ID

CrystalDiskInfo's new feature will tell you whether your Samsung SSD is the real deal or not.

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Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggles to keep temperatures down

Innovative London-based PC cooling firm Billet Labs builds and showcases a completely passive, fanless, gaming build.

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Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent — Intense digital archaeology project has taken years, risked player wrath

A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server.

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Jury throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberation — Unanimous vote that Musk filed the lawsuit too late

A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday unanimously rejected every claim in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI.

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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

"AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved."

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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt found himself booed and jeered as he gave the commencement address at the University of Arizona, telling the students AI will "shape the world."

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Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages

Adata is the largest single borrower in the group, having completed a NT$2 billion convertible bond issuance and secured NT$12 billion in bank loans.

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China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power

China has begun full operations at a 24 MW underwater AI data center off Shanghai’s coast, using offshore wind power and seawater cooling to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency

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Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers

Samsung has been granted an injunction to limit the scope of planned strike action ahead of an 18-day walkout due to start on Thursday.

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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford'

Internal Samsung wage negotiation transcripts show the company proposed bonuses of 607% of annual salary for its memory chip division in March.

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon

What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn't want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties such as hall-effect joysticks. It can play any PS2 game natively for up…

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