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IBM unveiled its Deep Blue chess supercomputer prototype 30 years ago today — two years later in its second attempt, it defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasparov

On November 5, 1995, IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world’s greatest chess players.

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Cloudflare says it has fended off 416 billion AI bot scrape requests in five months — CEO warns of dramatic shift for internet business model

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that blocking AI bots and giving website owners the option to license their content to AI companies could help maintain online publication's viability as a business in the future.

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Senators lobby for SAFE Chips Act, which would curb leading-edge AI chip exports to China — proposed bill would restrict AMD and Nvidia to H20/MI308-class accelerator sales until 2028

The SAFE Chips Act proposed by a bipartisan group aims to lock current export rules into law, preventing AMD and Nvidia from selling any AI accelerators based on the latest architectures to China for the next 30 months and forcing companies to compete with H20 and MI308 against China's latest…

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Intrepid modder builds an M4-powered 4K iMac G3 with 3D-printed parts — guts 90s all-in-one and replaces internals with a Mac mini and an OLED screen

YouTuber Zac Builds used an M4 Mac mini to upgrade an old iMac G3 into a modern all-in-one computer.

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Nvidia replaces entire $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 graphics card of stricken user who broke it in transit — company offers to ship replacement and troubleshoot busted GPU

Nvidia responds to NorthridgeFix and is replacing one of its customers' damaged RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards worth $10,000, even though the damage was not Nvidia's fault and was done accidentally by the customer.

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AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, Logitech CEO says — also details supply chain and pricing strategy

Logitech chief executive Hanneke Faber used an interview with Bloomberg, marking her second anniversary in the role, to question the rush toward standalone AI hardware.

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AI boom forces delays on Transcend SSDs, SD cards and flash drives — SanDisk and Samsung short on supplying NAND chips

Transcend's wares on hold due to AI-induced NAND chip shortage

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Upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D has 120W TDP, leaked shipping manifest states — Zen 5 X3D refresh will maintain the same power draw as 9800X3D

AMD is refreshing its X3D lineup, with new chips part of the Ryzen 9000 family, one of which is the updated Ryzen 7 9850X3D. As the name suggests, it's pretty much the same as the existing 9800X3D, but with 400 MHz higher boost clocks, which have now been confirmed won't…

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Windows 11 update designed to improve dark mode greets users with a flashbang — preview build stuns unsuspecting eyeballs

Windows 11 preview update flashbangs users with bright white

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Intel drops plans to sell networking and communication division — says keeping NEX in-house will strengthen integration and customer offerings

Cash influxes from the U.S. government, Nvidia, and SoftBank stabilized Intel enough to cancel plans to spin out its networking and communications division.

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ASRock releases new Intel motherboard with support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory — The "H610 Combo" features both types of DIMM slots, but you can't mix generations

Amidst the never-ending cycle of DRAM shortage news cursing the industry, ASRock is finally bringing some good news: a motherboard with support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, that too in dual-channel mode. The H610M Combo doesn't have a price yet, but it looks like it can help somewhat mitigate…

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AMD isn't increasing prices on CPUs, at least for now — Ryzen appears to be safe from the AI hysteria

Industry sources have told Tom's Hardware that there has been no communication from AMD about price hikes on Ryzen processors.

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Nvidia reinstates 32-bit PhysX support for RTX 50 series as part of its latest Game Ready driver rollout — 9 titles included in initial release

After discontinuing the feature earlier this year, Nvidia is bringing back GPU-powered PhysX compatibility for the RTX 50 lineup.

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AMD raises Radeon RX 9000 GPU prices, increasing by $10 for every 8GB of VRAM — another price hike is also scheduled for January 2026

An industry source has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that AMD has raised the price of its Radeon gaming graphics card by $10 per 8GB.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unsure if China would buy its H200 chips if restrictions are relaxed as Beijing prioritizes homegrown AI solutions — 'We don’t know. We have no clue.'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits that he has no idea whether Nvidia can sell its H200 chips in China even if Washington allows the company to export them.

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Chinese tech firm Cambricon looks to step into Nvidia void, triple AI chip production next year — seeks to rival Huawei, but production remains a concern

Chinese tech firm Cambricon Technologies has plans to triple its production of domestic AI chips in 2026, targeting the market dominance of national giant Huawei. Primarily set to rely on Semiconductor Manufacturing International for fabrication, it's not entirely clear how Cambricon will get enough wafers to achieve its goals.

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First ARM-supported 3D driver for discrete gaming GPUs emerges from China — Lisuan 7G106 runs 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM machine

Lisuan's 7G105 discrete GPU was spotted running 3DMark in an ARM-based machine, revealing that Lisuan has quite possibly built the first 3D graphics driver that supports ARM machines that works with a dedicated graphics card.

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Ancient 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics card coaxed into working in modern AMD Ryzen 9 9900X-powered Windows 11 system — 12MB relic from 1998 successfully runs Quake 2 but crumbles in SLI configuration

1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024.

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Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act

The U.S. House shelved the GAIN AI Act, blocking a rule that would have forced AMD and Nvidia to put U.S. buyers ahead of China for advanced GPUs, though Beijing's own limits blunt the impact.

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Asus reportedly halts ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments — $4,000 halo card could be dead in its tracks for now due to quality control issue (Updated)

Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipments halted due to QC issue (Updated)

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Micron is killing Crucial SSDs and memory in AI pivot — company refocuses on HBM and enterprise customers

After 29 years, Micron decided to wind down its Crucial consumer business amid switching resources to HBM memory and enterprise-grade hardware.

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Segotep's Titanload 12V-2x6 cables use heavier-duty pins to prevent meltdowns — brute-force approach purportedly drops peak temps by up to 72%

Segotep's Titanload family of 12V-2x6 cables use higher-capacity pins to try and reduce the risk of meltdowns under heavy GPU load.

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IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself.

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GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series

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Customer buys RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but got rocks instead — $1,200 GPU arrived in tampered box with broken seal

A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting…

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