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Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — Australian retailer refuses to replace faulty Corsair kit

Australian retailer refused to exchange a RAM kit under warranty and instead told the customer they needed to pay the difference in price.

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Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be powered by custom AMD SoC and feature 'FSR Diamond' — 'Xbox Mode' is also coming to Windows 11

The first official hardware details for Project Helix have been confirmed and Microsoft seems to be heavily leaning toward neural rendering, going as far as to unveil the next-gen FSR "Diamond" stack. Along with the AMD co-developed custom SoC, FSR will enable a significant bump in raytracing performance in the…

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US RAM crisis hits boiling point as AI mania wipes out all 32GB DDR5 kits under $359 — cheaper kits vanish from shelves within seconds of listing

Retailers have started selling 32GB DDR5 memory kits with a starting price of $359.99 in the U.S. market.

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Minisforum's new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed — Strix Halo-powered N5 Max can run a local AI LLM

Minisforum has announced it is readying a new NAS that comes with OpenClaw pre-installed. The NAS will be powered by AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to help accelerate AI workloads that users program OpenClaw to execute.

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Valve details new game verification system for upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine — 30 FPS at 1080p for Steam Frame Verified, same as Steam Deck

The Steam Machine is on track for launch this year despite component shortages setting Valve back. Hardware aside, the company has just provided a major update on the software side of things with new verified programs for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, and they seem to be as straightforward…

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Iran threatens Nvidia, Microsoft, other tech companies with strikes over alleged attack on Tehran bank — says that economic centers and banks are now considered legitimate targets

Iranian media just released a list of potential economic targets, including offices and infrastructure of Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and more in the Middle East.

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IBM and Lam Research team up on High NA EUV dry resist to push chip scaling past 1nm

The two companies have worked together for more than a decade, with IBM unveiling what it described as the world's first 2nm node chip in 2021 as part of the partnership.

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Framework raises RAM prices for the third time in three months, SSD costs up — company warns that it’s running out of stock on some Intel processors as well

Framework increased RAM prices for the third consecutive month, while also announcing that it's hiking the costs of some of its SSDs.

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Phison CEO says that NAND prices hiked by around 50% overnight, highlighting severe shortage in the industry — warns 'our current concern is that both money and inventory are insufficient'

SSD controller manufacturer Phison said that NAND chip prices increased by around 50% overnight, and that it's increasing its inventory to ensure that it will have sufficient supply as it pivots towards enterprise customers.

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Intel announces Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs, claims 15% higher gaming performance and multi-threaded boost — Core Ultra 7 270K and Core Ultra 5 250K come with more cores, faster memory, and a price cut

Intel is introducing two new Arrow Lake CPUs under the Core Ultra 200S Plus banner, while slashing prices and adding more E-cores. The Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus are said to offer 15% better gaming performance than standard Arrow Lake chips at 1080p.

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Asus chief says Macbook Neo's affordable pricing came as a shock to the entire PC market — compares $599 notebook to a tablet and content-consumption device

Asus co-CEO S.Y. Hsu said that the MacBook Neo shook the entire PC market, but also said that it's mostly designed for content consumption because of its limited specifications.

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Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

Intel has revealed an 8192-way SIMD compute engine for fully homomorphic encryption math called Heracles. By operating directly on encrypted data, it has the potential to eliminate entire classes of attacks under some workloads.

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Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

HiSense is forcing some owners of its smart TVs to watch ads when switching channels or inputs or going to the home screen.

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Crafty AI tool caught repurposing its training GPUs for unauthorized crypto mining during testing — experimental agent breached safety, controllability, and trustworthiness barriers

An experimental AI agent called ROME was caught indulging in unauthorized cryptocurrency mining.

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Ambitious semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed — contains a plasma etcher, vacuum furnace, and even custom software-driven lithography machine

A TechTuber called Dr. Semiconductor has successfully created a ‘Class 100 cleanroom’ (ISO 5) in his garden shed.

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Cancelled Blu-Ray recorder production leads to flood of orders for Panasonic after rivals exit market — last supplier standing apologizes for delays as firm inundated with orders

Panasonic is struggling to keep up with orders for its flagship Blu-ray recorder system in Japan.

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Human brain cells set to power two new data centers, thanks to 'body-in-the-box' CL1 — Cortical Labs targets the AI energy crisis with biological computer that reportedly uses less energy than a calculator

Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has partnered with data center firm DayOne to establish two new data centers using its CL1 biological computers.

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Rumored RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon — refreshed entry-level Blackwell card might finally have enough VRAM for DLSS and MFG in demanding games

Trusted hardware leaker kopite7kimi has released fresh rumors regarding Nvidia's purported GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 graphics card.

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Seagate CCO says storage price hikes are ‘the new normal’ — demand enters an unprecedented ‘supercycle’ driven by AI growth

Seagate CCO Ban-Seng Teh said this week that memory price hikes are "the new normal" for the storage industry, describing current market conditions as a supercycle driven by AI data center demand that shows no sign of following historical patterns of recovery.

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Intel shares XeSS 3.0 SDK for game devs with 3x and 4x MFG modes — but it still hasn't followed through on its open-source promise

XeSS 3.0 has been available inside Intel's graphics driver suite for some time now, but the chipmaker has finally released the accompanying SDK for game developers, albeit only in closed-source form.

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How To Optimize Your PC’s Airflow Using Positive vs. Negative Pressure

If your PC runs hot, dusty, or loud, there's a decent chance your airflow is working against you and not for you. We dig into the mechanics of positive and negative pressure, lay out exactly when each configuration wins, and how a few smart tweaks can make a bigger difference…

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Intel Nova Lake CPU teaser lists official support for speedy DDR5-8000 RAM — B960 mini-PC’s upgraded power system signals Nova Lake’s higher power demands

ECS showcases revamped Liva P300 mini-PC for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, revealing some interesting features along the way.

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SK hynix introduces turbocharged LPDDR6, 33% faster and 20% more power efficient than LPDDR5X — 16Gb chips deliver 10.7 Gbps, uses 10nm node

SK Hynix has announced the successful development of its first LPDDR6 memory modules that operate at "over" 10.7Gbps. The new modules take advantage of the manufacturer's bleeding-edge 10nm-class (1c) process node.

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Dynamic MFG comes to RTX 50-series GPUs to push monitor refresh rates to the max — more flexible mode with 5x and 6x multipliers arrives March 31

Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced back at CES, will be arriving March 31, along with extended 5X and 6X modes.

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Nvidia reportedly building its own AI agent to compete with OpenClaw, report claims — ‘NemoClaw’ will supposedly be open source and designed for enterprise use

Nvidia is reportedly planning to launch its own open-source agentic AI with NemoClaw, and it has already been in talks with several enterprise partners like Adobe and CrowdStrike to get them on board with its deployment.

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