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Nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 data centers are built in the wrong climate, analysis find — vast majority located outside optimal temperature range for cooling, 600 in locations considered too hot

Nearly 7,000 of the world’s operational data centers are located in climates that fall outside the temperature range recommended for efficient operation, according to a new analysis.

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Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works

A Redditor found a "pre-gutted" Commodore PET 2001 that they repurposed as a fully-fledged gaming PC, while keeping the Commodore's keyboard intact and functional. The internals are relatively modest, but they can still play most modern games on the retrofitted screen, which is a Retina LCD from an iPad.

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New calculator helps evaluate the economics of datacenters in space — running the numbers on orbital computing reveals a brutal reality

Orbital data centers have been proposed as a way around the power, cooling, and regulatory requirements of building on Earth, but new analysis reveals that the costs of deploying such installations would be astronomical.

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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

A buyer in Spain has reported receiving a sealed DDR5 memory kit that contained counterfeit parts, raising fresh concerns about return fraud affecting high-value PC components.

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Goodram's massive DC25F enterprise SSDs are ready for the immersion-cooled future — 123TB QLC drive boasts compatibility with multiple coolants

Polish company Goodram's 123TB QLC enterprise SSD has been thoroughly tested for use in servers submerged in coolant.

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Trump secures deal with Korea Zinc to build rare earths processing facility in Tennessee — facility expected to have annual output of 540,000 tons of gallium, germanium, indium, and other resources

U.S. President Donald Trump secures an investment from a South Korean firm to build a rare earth refinery in Tennessee.

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Elizabeth Warren, other U.S. senators concerned about big tech pushing up electricity costs — demands explanation from Amazon, Google, Meta as AI data centers drive up residential energy bills

Three Democratic Senators are investigating the impact of the massive AI data center build out on the electricity bill of the average American.

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Boy breaks 50 of his father's Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs worth nearly $4,000 — 25,600 GB of storage ruined by ten-year-old oblivious to global NAND crisis

Tragic images showing 50 mangled M.2 SSDs has been shared on social media. It looks like a naughty boy was the culprit.

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Don't wait if you're planning to upgrade your RAM or SSD, Kingston rep warns — says 'prices will continue to go up,' NAND costs up 246%

Kingston Datacenter SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall said in an interview that NAND prices for RAM and SSD are expected to rise throughout 2026.

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Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty

Amidst the economic uncertainty ushered in by this AI boom, some folks still have conviction and are offering hope to the community. Edward Crisler, the PR manager for GPU maker Sapphire, has just said that he believes DRAM prices will start to plateau in the next few months, so don't…

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Intel appoints Trump economic advisor as head of government affairs — announces broader leadership shakeup, new interim CTO

Intel has tightened its ties with the current US administration, appointing an economic advisor to President Trump as its new head of government affairs.

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AI-designed Linux computer with 843 components boots on first attempt — dual-PCB Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work

LA-based startup Quilter has outlined Project Speedrun, which marks a milestone in computer design by AI.

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Roomba maker iRobot announces bankruptcy — brand will live on under ownership of former supplier

Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea

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HKC announces world's first RGB Mini LED monitor — M10 Ultra will have 4,788 addressable full-color backlight zones

HKC has announced its M10 Ultra, a new monitor from China that will be the world's first RGB Mini LED panel in a monitor. RGB Mini LED screens put a sea of addressable RGB backlights behind their panels, reaching the best color accuracy that any screen has ever seen.

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Sapphire PR manager wishes AMD and Nvidia would let partners run wild with design — wants freedom to bring back Toxic line more often

PR manager at Sapphire, Edward Crisler told Hardware Unboxed in a podcast that he wishes chip makers (like AMD and Nvidia) would let AIB partners roam free and build creative graphics card designs without restrictions.

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Asus swaps out the PCIe x16 connector for x8 on new RTX 5060 Ti GPUs — Gigabyte does the opposite with x16 upgrade to its WindForce Max card

Asus and Gigabyte have released revised versions of the companies' GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards, powered by Nvidia's Blackwell architecture.

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The 'ExtrudeX' machine wants to turn your 3D printing waste into reusable filament, all at home — this Kickstarter project is itself 3D-printable with minimal hardware costs

Your 3D printing costs are about to go way down with the ExtrudeX, an extrusion machine claiming to recycle 3D printing waste into new filament. The project is live on Kickstarter, and should you choose to pledge it, you'll get STL files to 3D print the machine at home yourself,…

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HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

Despite continual predictions that SSDs will fully displace HDDs, demand for spinning rust is on the rise.

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LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen (Updated)

LG smart TV owners are reporting that a recent webOS software update has added Microsoft Copilot to their TVs, with no apparent way to remove it.

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Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph

There was a notably 'dangerously close' approach between a newly launched Chinese satellite and Starlink-6079 a few days ago.

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2,800 RGB drones turned into the world's largest-ever game of Tetris — Red Bull Tetris world final lights up Dubai night sky

Thousands of RGB drones lit up the Dubai Frame to create the largest ever playable Tetris game.

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5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience, which is roughly the age of the universe — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser

SPhotonix says it has moved its so-called 5D Memory Crystal technology out of the lab and closer to real-world deployment.

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.

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Unreleased RTX Titan Ada prototype gets taken apart to reveal complex internal design and assembly — Nvidia's mythical GPU is engineered to the max with dual 12VHPWR connectors

Following prior benchmarks, the man himself, der8auer, has disassembled the RTX Titan Ada prototype he's had for months. Inside, the card is a maze of wires, connections, and side-plate wizardry, holding together a beastly quad-slot design that had not one but two 12VHPWR (600W) connectors and a side-mounted PCB.

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First truly 3D chip fabbed at US foundry, features carbon nanotube transistors and RAM on a single die — future devices could have up to 1000x improvement in energy-delay product

A collaborative research team has demonstrated what it says is the first monolithic 3D integrated circuit manufactured at a commercial U.S. foundry.

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