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UNCOVERED: 4 - The Untold Story

Unofficial 7-zip.com website served up malware-laden downloads for over a week — infected PCs forced into a proxy botnet

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Intel Nova Lake die sizes leak, signaling higher cost — smaller compute tile still demands higher price on TSMC N2

The compute tile of Intel's Nova Lake CPU will be slightly smaller than compute tile of Arrow Lake CPU, but will likely be more expensive to make at TSMC.

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A monitor light bar is the most underrated upgrade you can make to your setup — but not all of them are born equal, so here’s how to choose one that fits you

The best upgrade that I’ve made to my setup in recent years is the addition of a monitor light bar, but there’s a lot to consider before you purchase one.

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3D printing legend Josef Prusa takes emergency command of Printed Solid after CEO exit — Prusa holds the fort as successor hunt begins

David Randolph announced his resignation on X.

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Fractal Design's new North and North XL Momentum Edition cases sport stealthy black wood slats, promise quieter fans – XL model also supports back-connector motherboards

Fractal Design's North cases kicked off the wood accent trend, and it's been one of our favorite cases since 2022. Now the company is updating the line, with an all-black North Momentum Edition that includes the company's new and improved fans, while the larger XL model now supports rear-connector motherboards.

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Epic knows its launcher 'sucks' and is fully rebuilding it — faster, more stable client is on the way with player profiles and extended social features

The upgraded launcher will be released as a mid-year update, featuring upgrades such as private DMs, player avatars and profiles, and even independent live chat. Beyond the social features, EGS will be made lighter and quicker, less reliant on Epic's backend to do everything, which should result in a better…

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Walmart shopper reportedly buys Nvidia RTX 5080 at almost half-price — clearance aisle could be a way to beat GPU price hikes

With graphics cards getting more expensive – particularly high-end Nvidia models – these bargains are even more eye-opening.

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The new Valve Steam Machine is 'on track' to begin shipping early this year, says AMD — CEO suggests new 4K mini gaming PC, powered by semi-custom Zen 4 CPU, to launch soon

AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su, during the company's latest Q4 2025 earnings call, seemingly confirmed that the release for the new Valve Steam Machine is "on track" to launch during early 2026.

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These two outstanding Thunderbolt 4 Docks add versatility to my laptop and desktop PC

From two ports to 20, how adding a Thunderbolt dock can expand your connectivity options.

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

Western Digital reveals hard disk drives tailored for higher performance and lower power consumption, targeting QLC NAND-based solid-state storage.

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Developer creates 'conversational AI' that can run in 64kb of RAM on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU-powered system — features a tiny chatbot and a 20-question guessing game

The venerable Z80 microprocessor has its own micro language model, and its quite terse in its responses

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Smart ways to help your PC survive through the PC component pricing apocalypse — check temps, replace old AIOs and PSUs, keep an eye on your boot drive's TBW, and more

As the cost of RAM, GPUs, and storage climbs, do what you can to help make sure your existing PC keeps working as expected until prices drop.

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Ryzen 7 9800X3D drops within dollars of all-time low price in wake of 9850X3D launch — previous gaming champ now down to $443 from $479

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D hits retail for $499, while the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's price has gone down to $443.

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The 'days of cheap 1TB SSDs' are over — I've picked the top 3 SSDs you should buy now to avoid price rises

High-end SSDs have already shot up in price, and more affordable models are likely to follow, so the time to buy is now.

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Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression

The Ming Dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia is quietly seething.

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Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors

Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.

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Phison demos 10X faster AI inference on consumer PCs with software and hardware combo that enables 3x larger AI models — Nvidia, AMD, MSI, and Acer systems demoed with aiDAPTIV+

Phison's aiDAPTIV+ stack enables large Mixture of Experts AI models and agentic AI workloads to run on client systems with limited memory capacity.

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Retro Apple emulator ported to $60 ESP32 microcontroller-powered touchscreen tablet — supports Mac OS8.1 and a virtual MC68040 CPU in major emulation leap

A new emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit.

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Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed — you’ll have to find other software for playing and ripping CDs with relevant track information

Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11.

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Asus adds 64MB ROM to Strix Neo AM5 motherboards, following Gigabyte — capacity large enough to fit pre-installed Wi-Fi drivers

Asus has incorporated a 64MB ROM into its all-new Strix Neo AM5 motherboards to support future Ryzen releases. For now, though, Asus is using the extra capacity to hold an integrated Wi-Fi driver, handy for new Windows 11 installs.

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This $2,000 Bitcoin mining water heater can pay for itself by slashing your energy bills, company claims — can rake in $1,000 a year in BTC, offset 80% of electricity and water costs

Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.

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Audeze launches Maxwell 2 headset, with better spatial immersion and bass — plus, of course, improved AI noise-canceling mic tech

Audeze launched its new Maxwell 2 planar magnetic gaming headset at CES 2026, with improved audio and mic technology, and swappable side plates.

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Senior AMD executive suggests consumers buy cheap CPUs to combat memory pricing squeeze — says ‘consumers have a wide assortment of choice available for all kinds of price points’

An AMD executive says that they're not too concerned about the memory shortage, points out that AMD has a wide range of CPUs available "for all kinds of price points."

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Frore Systems' LiquidJet and AirJet Pak cooling systems in the flesh — live demo with production hardware display impressive cooling capacity

Frore Systems' LiquidJet and AirJet Pak cooling system live demos at CES 2026

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Nvidia's CEO says bringing new AI tech to older generation GPUs is 'within the realm of possibility'

But admits it would require "a fair amount of engineering".

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