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RTX 5060 in a house fire suffers melted shroud and fans, but survives with PCB intact — scorched GPU just needed a cleanup and a new cooler for full restoration

This RTX 4060 survived with flames all around it.

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Micron predicts that cars will need 300GB of RAM — memory-laden vehicles could exacerbate shortages but create 'robust long-term growth in automotive memory demand'

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra predicts that self-driving vehicles would require at least 300GB of RAM, meaning increasing demand could drive another memory chip shortage as these cars are essentially AI supercomputers on wheels.

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Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture.

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GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup.

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California scientists 'FlyTrap attack' on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash

Researchers at UC Irvine have demonstrated a pattered umbrella-based drone capture and crashing technique.

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Two brothers convicted of running ghost gun factory that produced untraceable 3D printed firearms — used 3D printers to build gun frames while associates purchased other parts on eBay

Brothers Brandon and Justin Nudelman have been convicted of running a ghost gun factory, with the group using 3D printers to print gun frames while purchasing other parts online to build and sell untraceable weapons.

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Intel released its first Pentium chip on this day 33 years ago, came packing 3.1 million transistors — fifth-gen x86 chip built on an 800nm process

33 years ago today, the Pentium lineage began, shaping decades of personal computing to come.

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Huawei crowdfunds world’s first ‘Mesh Crystal Antenna’ Wi-Fi 7 router — stunning glowing ornament also has a ‘shark fin’ heat exhaust, but is currently a Japan market exclusive

Chinese tech giant Huawei has lined up a magical looking Wi-Fi 7 router featuring the world’s first 'metal mesh crystal antenna' which looks like a glowing mountain.

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'Silicon' is a new five-pound art book charting the semiconductor revolution with full-page die shots and commentary — 384 page tome is $99 to pre-order now

Silicon, Arena’s stylish and premium “coffee table book like no other,” is up for pre-order now priced at $99.

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City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era — area was once home to the StorageTek empire

Tape Drive and Disk Drive rods in the Louisville/Broomfield area are a relic of the STK diskmaker's time in the city.

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Sony will bring ML-based frame generation to PlayStation consoles — the performance-boosting feature is unlikely to arrive this year, though

PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny said in an interview that Sony will add frame-generation technology to the console in the future, but didn't specify which console will get it or when.

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Nintendo Switch 2 overhaul could bring a removable battery — new revision aims to comply with the EU's Right to Repair regulations

Nintendo is reportedly set to launch a revised Switch 2 with a removable battery in Europe, in line with regulations requiring easier battery replacement by February 2027.

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Tim Cook says Apple had its best launch week for first-time Mac customers with the MacBook Neo — entry-level device now out of stock, with orders taking two to three weeks to ship

The MacBook Neo is breaking Apple sales records for first-time Mac buyers, with the cheap laptop now out of stock in several markets as demand surges.

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Xbox Series X transformed into a gaming PC with 3D printed components, low-profile RTX 5060, and NUC 12 Extreme

A YouTuber has modded an Xbox Series X with PC parts, featuring a NUC 12 Extreme with a Core i7-12700, low-profile Gigabyte RTX 5060, and PSU while keeping the console's DVD drive intact.

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Rogue OpenClaw AI wrote and published 'hit piece' on a Python developer who rejected its code — disgruntled bot accuses Matplotlib maintainer of discrimination and hypocrisy, later backtracks with an apology

An OpenClaw autonomous AI agent has hit back at a volunteer maintainer of a Python library who rejected its code by posting a "hit piece" that criticizes the developer and calls them discriminatory against AI.

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US Departments of Justice and Defense crush four massive botnets totaling 3,000,000 devices — botnets responsible for a combined 316,000 DDoS attacks globally

U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense take out four gigantic botnets with 3 million devices

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Microsoft promises major improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates — lower RAM usage, fewer Copilot interactions, and enhanced File Explorer incoming

Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates

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Cyberpunk 2077 runs on MacBook Neo at over 30 FPS — PC gaming is possible with A18 Pro iPhone chip

YouTuber runs several PC games on the MacBook Neo, including Cyberpunk 2077 at around 40 FPS. Testing proves that Apple's iPhone SoCs can emulate PC games at playable frame rates.

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Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives

Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.

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Lucky shopper snags gaming PC for just $1,000 — iBuyPower prebuilt running on 9800X3D and RTX 5070 discounted by $900

Discounted as a last display unit, the Costco deal highlights how timing and luck can land premium gaming hardware for less.

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Intel suggests it was snubbed by Crimson Desert dev after reaching out "many times" about Arc GPUs – company says it provided "early hardware, drivers, and engineering resources" to studio

Intel has shifted the blame for a lack of Arc GPU in Crimson Desert back on developer Pearl Abyss, saying it's reached out to the studio "many times" over the past several years.

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New Fortnite 'Rivalry' includes chance to win RTX 5080 — top five players will be awarded GPU hardware in Chapter 7 Season 2 competition

Fortnite's new season not only brings new content for the players but also gives them a chance to earn real-life rewards, such as an RTX 5080. If you're good enough at the game and win enough "rivalries" in matches every week and rank among the top five players in the…

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Crimson Desert offers no support for Intel GPUs — developer Pearl Abyss says 'please refer to the refund policy'

Crimson Desert doesn't support Intel GPUs, and the game's developers is telling customers to simply ask for a refund.

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AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RX 9000-series GPUs — new update delivers better Ray Regeneration, finer upscaled detail, and higher FPS

AMD has added Ray Regeneration 1.1 and FSR 4.1 upscaling to its RDNA 4 GPUs, bringing it to parity with Sony's PSSR 2 on the PS5 Pro. Games that support these features will have better ray tracing quality with more accurate shadow detail, while also getting a sharper-looking image through…

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Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors

SoftBank is looking forward to building a $60 billion - $70 billion AI data center spanning multiple phases in Ohio.

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