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Iran's forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline — possessing Starlink terminals punishable by death, country using 'military-grade jamming' against service

Iran's nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now the second longest nation-scale shutdown ever measured.

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Lenovo hikes Legion Go 2 handheld gaming PC to almost $3,000 for 2 TB model — Handheld now costs more than AMD's Strix Halo devices despite relatively weaker Z2 Extreme chip

Lenovo has raised the prices of its Legion Go 2 handhelds (with Z2 Extreme) across the board, with the worse offended being the 2 TB model, receiving a 93% hike. It went from $1,480 at launch to a staggering $2,850 in the span of just a few months, while the…

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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.

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Tiny 3-inch cube PCs bring a splash of color to the passive PC market with red, orange, green and blue options — Intel Twin Lake-powered Kubb Mini PCs start at $500

Kubb's colorful and compact 3-inch cube PCs are priced from $500 (€430) with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSDs.

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Veteran Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB so it could run smoothly on 90s computers — original utility used a smart technique to determine whether it was the only running instance

Dave Plummer used several clever techniques to ensure that Windows Task Manager will always run while cutting the performance hit on your hardware when when it's opened.

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Tech enthusiast gets Doom to run on a 40-year-old printer controller — ancient Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS came with a Motorola 68020 onboard for fast processing

A TechTuber with a fondness for older hardware has managed to get Doom to run on a 40-year-old print controller.

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Startup secures $30 million contract to 3D print jet engines for the USAF — company to test and develop small turbojets for drones and long-range weapons

Beehive Industries will test its 3D-printed engines for use by the USAF, which are reportedly cheaper to build, use, and service compared to traditionally manufactured engines.

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Linux 7.0 enables three new AI-specific keys for keyboards, an apparent expansion beyond the Copilot key — Google authors both the HID spec and the kernel patch

The Linux 7.0 kernel has merged support for three new keycodes intended for a coming wave of laptops with dedicated AI agent keys.

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$27 platypus PCIe adapter converts half-height GPUs into full-height while adding two M.2 slots for SSDs — enthusiast demos low-profile RTX 4060 with two SSDs thanks to PCIe bifurcation

A Redditor got his hands on this PCIe adapter that does the job of two different ones at the same time. It converts half-height GPUs into full height while adding M.2 slots for storage expansion. All this is possible thanks to PCIe bifurcation, splitting an x16 slot into x8 for…

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South Korea’s telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet — net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said that the country’s three major carriers will provide more than seven million mobile subscribers with unmetered 400 Kbps data.

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Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs — breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat

Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into system memory, but now it'll be able to correctly prioritize the…

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Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group — 'ShinyHunters' takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or it will release confidential data

The hacker group "Shiny Hunters" has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company's cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn't include any sensitive company or player information, according to a Rockstar spokesperson, but it's still being put up for ransom.

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Clippy, Microsoft’s hapless Office assistant, was retired 25 years ago today — its irritating spirit lives on in 100+ Copilots

Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.

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Two manufacturers commit to keep Blu-ray alive after others quit manufacturing — Verbatim and I-O Data extend Blu-ray supply pledge as manufacturers exit the market

Verbatim Japan and I-O Data have widened their joint commitment to keep recordable Blu-ray products on shelves in Japan, this time covering drive hardware as well as media.

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MacBook user explains why he files the sharp metal edges off his Apple laptops — unibody design facilitates a surprisingly deep roundover

Tech DIYer Kent Walters has used a metalworking file to round over the corners of his MacBook. Apparently, some people freak out about this.

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Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, bypasses become plug-and-play — cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, while HV bypasses become plug-and-play

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Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Ryzen 7 9700X faceoff — a new midrange CPU champ emerges

Intel's new Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is going after the Ryzen 7 9700X with its $300 price point. We put the two head-to-head in a series of rounds based on our own testing to see which comes out on top.

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Chinese Nvidia Cloud Partner procured 300 servers with banned AI GPUs worth $92 million — shares of data center supplier Sharetronic plummet following Super Micro smuggling arrest

Publicly available documents reveal that a Chinese AI data center company sold servers that were designed for Nvidia H100 chips despite the U.S. export ban.

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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, download, and tinker with.

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Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%

We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.

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Garage sale haul finds 2013 'trash can' Mac Pro nestled inside 2010 Mac Pro enclosure — Mac Pro inception still needs some work to get running

A lucky buyer on Reddit found a 2010 Mac Pro in a garage sale and it had a whole 'nother 2013 Mac Pro sitting inside. The tower didn't have any internals, which implies that the owner was likely using it as a sort of DIY enclosure for the trash-can Mac…

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FAA courts gamers to become air traffic controllers — boasts $155k average annual salary after three years as the agency prepares for 8,000 applicants

The FAA's latest YouTube video is encouraging gamers to apply to become an air traffic controller, telling them that they've been training for this challenge. The agency is tapping on the younger demographic to help expand its numbers as the ATC shortage is hampering safety and airport operations.

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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X

A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner.

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Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider program — fewer channels, and switching without wiping your device

Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features.

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HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours

Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.

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