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Bitcoin network has its first quarterly hashrate drop since 2020 — Iran conflict spurs Bitcoin mining operators to accelerate pivot to AI infrastructure

Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI infrastructure amidst the conflict in Iran. The BTC network has seen its first quarterly hashrate drop in nearly six years.

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AMD Zen 6 'Venice' ES chips break cover with up to 192 cores, 32 per CCD, in early stress test — Kenya, Congo, Nigeria platforms leaked

Several Venice Zen 6 engineering samples were discovered on OpenBenchmark.org, featuring core counts of up to 192 cores.

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Revolut Bank ordered to hand over details of more than 300 Sky TV subscribers connected to piracy operation — TV provider expected to pursue subscribers who paid for illicit 'IPTV is Easy' service in unprecedented move

Ireland's High Court granted Sky a Norwich Pharmacal order compelling Revolut Bank UAB to hand over the names, addresses, and banking details of 304 subscribers

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TSMC industrial espionage saga heading to verdict next month in unprecedented Taiwan National Security Act case — former engineer accused of stealing 2nm technical info, faces a total of up to 20 years in prison if found guilty

One of the three landmark cases involving the theft of trade secrets from TSMC has run through investigative and court proceedings, and a verdict is scheduled for April 27.

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Latest Windows 11 update is broken, refuses to install — Microsoft pulls latest update over missing files error

Another month, another broken Windows update — what's new? Well, this update was supposed to bring "production-quality" improvements, which means it's part of Microsoft's efforts to fix its AI enshittification. Ironically, the update won't even install for most users and has since been pulled with no workaround ready so far.

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Chinese chip industry leaders admit the country lags five to ten years behind in AI data center chips — AI demand is straining equipment and talent supply

Senior Chinese semiconductor executives said AI-driven demand is creating bottlenecks across equipment, passive components, and workforce capacity.

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Bambu Lab Settles with Pop Mart over Labubu IP Theft, publicly apologizes — 'problematic content' fully removed from MakerWorld 3D printing platform

Bambu Lab struck a deal with toymaker Pop Mart over the intellectual property dispute of Labubu fan art on its file-sharing site MakerWorld.

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Dev showcases ‘seamless, massive world with zero loading screens on N64 hardware’ — 30-year-old Nintendo retro console coaxed into draw distances matching the scale of Skyrim

A developer has demonstrated an open-world engine in a Nintendo 64 game, which offers a 'seamless, massive world with zero loading screens' on original hardware.

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Xbox 360 devkit bought for $5 at car boot sale came with 2007 beta build of GTA IV with unreleased assets — Version includes cut ferry system, zombies, and more

A pre-release build of GTA IV has been discovered on an Xbox 360 devkit dating back to 2007, just a few months before the game's official release next year. The build includes various unused assets that were altered or removed for the final release, such as the iconic ferry system.…

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AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 launched 15 years ago — power, heat, and noise monster was crowned the fastest graphics card in the world

15 years ago, AMD released its powerful Radeon HD 6990 graphics card, and even Nvidia's reply couldn't usurp it.

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New Cambridge human brain-inspired chip could slash AI energy use — new type of memristor has roughly a million times lower switching current than conventional devices

Cambridge researchers have published a paper describing a new type of hafnium oxide memristor that operates at switching currents roughly a million times lower than conventional oxide-based devices.

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12-Nozzle 3D printer unveiled — MOVA AtomForm Unveils Palette 300

MOVA AtomForm officially unveiled its fledgling 3D printer at a Silicon Valley media event that felt more like a crash course on 3D printing for lifestyle content creators than a deep dive into the machine’s capabilities for those of us familiar with 3D printing.

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Chinese military reveals drone wolf pack capable of swarm operations — robot dogs can be equipped with grenade launchers and machine guns for urban combat

The Chinese PLA is showing off its latest drone technologies, including armed robotic dogs that work together as a pack and with other drones, designed to be deployed in modern battlefields.

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Tokyo consortium tests placing data centers under railway overpasses — passing trains introduce severe thermal and vibration challenges

The modular unit packages servers, cooling, and power supply equipment into a container-sized enclosure that can be deployed without constructing a full building.

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Museum opens doors to ‘World’s largest collection of Apple products’ on April 1 to celebrate Apple’s 50th anniversary — 2,000 artifacts spread across 20,000 sq ft in Roswell, GA

Mimms Museum in Roswell will open the doors to its iNSPIRE: 50 Years of Innovation from Apple exhibition on Wednesday, April 1

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Japanese firm develops optical fiber with 4x traffic capacity, could be used for undersea cables — MCF retains the same diameter and works with existing infrastructure

NTT's multicore optical fiber (MCF) can quadruple capacity while maintaining the diameter of existing single-core cables, allowing it to work with existing infrastructure.

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Comparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money — scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality

Those upgraded audio cables probably won't take your music listening pleasure up to the next level. All you need are the basics, literally.

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Researchers develop ground-penetrating 'Wi-Fi' tech with 100m range — magnetic induction method could help reach those trapped or lost underground

South Korean researchers have developed a new underground communication technology that uses magnetic induction to achieve a 100-meter range. The tech could help rescuers reach those trapped or lost underground.

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Open source laser engraver sells for just $64 fully assembled — it is small and low power but may be enough for your needs

A tech tinkerer has shared the full plans and resources necessary to build a compact, low-power desktop laser engraver.

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$500 fiber optic HDMI cable delivers flawless 48 Gbps performance across a staggering 990 feet — crushes 8K at 60 Hz and 4K at 120 Hz over long distances

The HDMI standard can often be unclear, with the same version number referring to completely different capabilities across products. You can technically pay your way out of this confusion by going with an expensive fiber-optic HDMI cable that maintains its full bandwidth over much longer distances. That's what this Twitter…

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Samsung preps PCIe 5.0 QLC SSD with a controller based on open-source RISC-V architecture — BM9K1 delivers speeds up to 11.4 GB/s for 'personal AI workloads'

The BM9K1 reportedly delivers sequential read speeds of up to 11.4 GB/s, which Samsung said is 1.6 times faster than its predecessor, the PCIe 4.0 BM9C1.

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Microsoft's new gaming boss axed 'This is an Xbox' campaign because 'it didn't feel like Xbox' — Xbox brand undergoes transformation to redefine its identity

The "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign was met with severe backlash from pretty much everyone outside Microsoft's top brass. Now, it seems like the brand is course-correcting with new Xbox chief Asha Sharma leading the charge for a rejuvenated Xbox, and personally killing the controversial campaign.

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Sony freezes memory card orders in Japan amid growing storage crisis — the company attributes the cause to ‘shortage of semiconductors’

Sony Japan has announced that it will no longer accept orders for almost its entire lineup of CFexpress and SD memory cards as of March 27.

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Meta to fund seven new natural gas power plants to fuel AI data centers — Entergy partnership to deliver 7 gigawatts of power for Louisiana AI facility

Meta is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas plants to supply its largest data center, massively expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure underpinning its AI buildout.

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Chinese universities performing military research acquired Super Micro servers with sanctioned Nvidia AI chips — public documents reveal purchases were completed in 2025 and 2026 despite US export controls

Public documents revealed that four Chinese universities, including two that worked on military research for the PLA, were able to acquire servers with Nvidia A100 AI chips despite the U.S.'s export controls.

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