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NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip was used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. But now that it's been retired from service, NASA engineers found another use for this relatively powerful chip.

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Asus and Acer back online in Germany after patent dispute took them out — laptops and desktops still not available following injunction (Updated)

Following a temporary injunction on sales, Asus and Acer have restored their German websites for sales and support. However, some products are still unavailable.

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Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude.

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Intel preps CPUs with 'Unified Core' architecture — job listing hints at evolution beyond Intel's hybrid design

Intel's confirms 'Unified Cores' project in a job listing, but actual CPUs with these unified cores could be years away.

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German data center giant hikes prices up to 37% starting April 1 — Hetzner cites rising hardware costs for price increases

German data center operator Hetzner announced today that it’s raising prices across its cloud, dedicated server, storage, and load balancer products starting April 1.

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Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first

A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it'll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 and Intel's Nova Lake.

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Lenovo and Asus handheld owners warned as Ryzen Z1 Extreme driver support reportedly ends — lack of official updates threatens longevity for Legion Go, Go S, and ROG Ally X devices on Windows 11

AMD has reportedly stopped delivering new driver updates to handheld gaming PCs with the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, including Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S.

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MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers

Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000.

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Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.

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Nintendo's Game & Watch hacked and turned into retro emulation beast — Solder job unlocks device from its Zelda-only cage thanks to a custom SD card slot

Macho Nacho Productions has modded an original Zelda-edition Game & Watch to run Retro-Go, a custom firmware that unlocks the hardware's full potential. This hacked Game & Watch can now emulate various consoles, includes support for save states, and even has a microSD card slot. But getting here wasn't easy.

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User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds

An AI strategist used Claude Code to reverse engineer his robot vacuum and control it with a PlayStation controller, but it accidentally gave him control of thousands of similar devices spread all across the world.

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Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs — HDD deal seeker saved more than $2,000 by taking a trip

The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it's more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally.

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55 years ago, the first computer search warrant was issued — in February 1971, a Santa Clara judge authorized police to seize punch cards and a 'computer memory bank'

In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines.

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MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motors cost just 50 cents each

A team of researchers from MIT built a 3D printer that can economically print a fully functioning linear motor, with magnetization of the magnetic parts the only required step after printing.

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Sam Altman fires back at Elon Musk's proposal for space-based data centers, says orbiting data centers 'ridiculous' for now — cites high failure rates and cost as primary limiters

Contrary to what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos say, orbital data centers will not make sense any time soon, believes Sam Altman.

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Akasa launches its latest-generation fanless Mini-ITX case — Euler CMX supports modern Intel Core Ultra processors up to 35W TDP and standard mini-ITX mobos

The Akasa Euler CMX fanless Mini-ITX PC case supports up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285T with up to 35 watts TDP without relying on thin Mini-ITX motherboards.

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AI energy efficiency comparisons ‘unfair’ bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human — one ‘takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart’ he argues

AI energy efficiency comparisons ‘unfair’ bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human

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Colorado law could force surveillance for 3D printers to prevent use for making gun parts — fourth state to propose new bans is expanding firearms laws to regulate digital files

Colorado is joining the growing list of states attempting to crack down on the manufacture of 3D printed “ghost guns,” joining New York, Washington, and California on a quest to expand firearms laws to regulate digital files and potentially ban 3D printers that are not under its surveillance.

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Computer History Museum unveils comically large-scale rendition of the 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus — 'Big Mac' celebrates 50th Apple anniversary towering all-in-one's keyboard looks disproportionately huge today

Museum teases a 'Big Mac' that will be part of its Apple at 50 celebrations next month.

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Dell's new prebuilt PC has special custom power connector for Nvidia GPU — even large OEMs apparently fear the 16-pin power connector meltdowns

Dell's solution to the 16-pin connector overheating issues seems to bea custom connector to lock it into place. At least, that's what the OEM has done in a new prebuilt featuring the RTX 5070 Ti. The 12V-2x6 connector is forcibly fixed using genuine Amphenol brackets.

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Intel shifts customer support to AI-powered assistant after scaling back phone support — “Ask Intel” system built on Microsoft Copilot Studio

Intel has launched what it’s calling “Ask Intel,” a new AI-powered support assistant built with Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games

Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal.

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Retail DDR5 memory prices slowly drop in Europe despite ongoing shortages — overdue pricing correction could be beginning in some regions

Prices of some 32 GB DDR5 memory kits in Europe are dropping.

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Nvidia's Chinese competitor Moore Threads beats it to launching a laptop featuring custom 12-core Arm chip — "MTT AI Book" can run Windows, seems to have adopted Arm before Nvidia's N1X

Moore Threads seems to have done what Nvidia couldn't... well, at least, at first glance. The company's new MTT AI Book laptop is powered by a custom ARM-based SoC that features 12 CPU cores, an unknown GPU based on in-house "MUSA" architecture, and a 50 TOPS-delivering NPU. The device can…

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Steam Deck shortage goes global — Valve's handheld console now out of stock in Europe, Canada, the US, and Japan

The handheld console is still available in Australia, the U.K., Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. But will they run out of stock in the near future, too?

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