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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen shareholders ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings

More than a dozen investors are pressuring Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet's Google to provide detailed data on water and energy consumption at their U.S. data centers.

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Intel's OEM-only Bartlett Lake CPU modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboard beats AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench multi-core test — Core 9 273QPE has 12 cores, 24 threads, and hits 5.4GHz

Bartlett Lake, Intel's P-core only family of CPUs intended for edge and industrial use cases has been modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboards. At the moment, the flagship Core 9 273QPE with 12 Raptor Cove P-cores is posting around 33,000 points in Cinbenech R23, which is around the Core…

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US lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China — bipartisan proposal would ban lithography equipment for Huawei, SMIC, and others

Bipartisan group of U.S. senators propose to impose blanket ban on export of advanced DUV lithography and etching tools to Chinese companies known to have worked with China's military, such as CXMT, Huawei, SMIC, and YMTC.

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Expert maps out more than 80 different Microsoft Copilot products, but there may be more than 100 — 'What happens when you name everything Copilot,' an AI consultant mapped out the myriad products

An AI aficionado has put together a chart of all the Copilot products they could find. At the latest count there are 80.

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Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support

Linux kernel developers appear to have started to dismantle support for the legendary Intel 486 CPU.

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Nvidia's own DLSS 5 announcement video gets taken down by YouTube in Italy due to a copyright strike — local TV channel sent a copyright strike to every YouTube video for using the trailer it used for its own broadcast

YouTube's AI moderator acted on an errant DMCA takedown, affecting nearly every video that contained clips of the DLSS 5 trailer, including Nvidia's own YouTube video.

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK — New flagship dual-cache CPU might demand a hefty premium

Listings for the 9950X3D2 have started to pop up at many different vendors, with some even listing preliminary prices. We found the CPU going for roughly $1,000 at two Canadian retailers, and just a smidge below that at a UK-based website. For context, the standard 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache on…

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UK confirms drone-killing DragonFire laser weapon for Royal Navy destroyers by 2027 —laser downs 400mph high‑speed drones, costs $13 per shot

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the DragonFire high-energy laser weapon will be installed on Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027, five years ahead of the original schedule.

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Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

IRGC spokesperson threatens the “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S. and Israeli facilities. Singles out the $30bn Stargate AI data center.

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Researchers train living rat neurons to perform real-time AI computations — experiments could pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces

Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a real-time machine learning framework.

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Limited edition Atari wristwatches dip under $500 in 20% off sale — classic console inspired rainbow designs available in five colorways

Watchmaker Nubeo has put its Torrent Automatic Atari Rainbow Limited Edition timepieces on sale, all at 20% off.

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Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake low-budget CPUs leak out again — OEM confirms specs for Core 7 350, Core 5 320, & Core 3 305 in first retail product datasheet

Wildcat Lake is Intel's upcoming family of low-budget and low-power CPUs intended for OEMs. We've already seen many leaks surrounding this family, but now a new product from Advantech has listed three SKUs in a datasheet for its MIO-5356 SBC. This confirms the specs from prior leaks and signals that…

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Delisted Xbox 360 games briefly reappear on the Xbox Store — Microsoft prepares backward compatibility revival

This follows Xbox Vice President Jason Ronald's commitment at GDC 2026 in March to revive the company's backward compatibility program.

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Steam starts gathering FPS data with latest client update — company to estimate framerates based on your hardware, Beta feature to focus on SteamOS devices

The latest Steam client update included an FPS data gathering component in Beta, allowing the platform to monitor your framerates and compare it with your hardware.

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Nvidia Pascal GPUs debuted 10 years ago today, best known for the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 Ti — architecture kicked off with the Tesla P100

Nvidia delivered 'five architectural breakthroughs' with the launch of the Tesla P100 accelerator 10 years ago today.

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Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250%

Computer scientist showcases their hardware multiplication ISA card accelerator for Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 PC systems.

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Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake SKU allegedly upgraded to 44 cores — New config frees up 6P+12E tiles that could trickle down as locked bLLC variants

A 42-core SKU from the upcoming Nova Lake-S CPU family has reportedly been upgraded to 44 cores by swapping the 6P+12E tile with an 8P+12E tile, allowing the chip to achieve symmetry across its dual-tile config. Those leftover 6P+12E tiles could now become locked variants with 144 MB of bLLC…

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Sequoia Capital shares founder’s 1977 memo for investing in Apple — initial $600,000 investment is worth $26.4 billion today, firm said it was ‘tough to do this deal’

The VC firm shared its founder's notes on Apple recognizing the company's potential while also doubting its management team.

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PlayStation 3 emulator makes Cell CPU 'breakthrough' that improves performance in all games — 'All CPUs can benefit from this, from low-end to high-end!' says RPCS3 devs

Developers behind the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 claim that they’ve achieved a breakthrough in emulating the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor.

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$1,700 liquid-cooled phone can run GTA V at up to 100 FPS, Red Dead 2 at 50+ FPS via emulation — Redmagic 11 Pro packs 24 GB of RAM and pulls more than 40W at peak load

The Golden Saga Edition of the Redmagic 11 Pro is equipped with 24 GB of RAM and an even more robust liquid cooling system that can pull upwards of 45W while emulating Red Dead 2, delivering 50+ FPS. The phone costs around $1,700, but for that money, you're getting GTA…

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Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Mac — software designed for AI, though, and not built for gaming

The company behind the tiny box AI accelerator says that its macOS driver for Nvidia eGPUs has just been signed by Apple, making it a legitimate software for Macs and no longer needs workarounds to work with the device.

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Player defeats Darks Souls II using only poop — 42 hits of dung pie defeats the final boss

Gamer and YouTuber ymfah spent a lot of time figuring out how to farm dung pies in Dark Souls II to defeat the game using just poop.

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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of VRAM and 970MB

Nvidia has just demoed its Neural Texture Compression technique again at a GTC talk, where it showed VRAM usage dropping from 6.5 GB to just 970 MB in a scene. NTC uses a neural network to decompress textures instead of standard block-based compression, reducing texture size and VRAM usage while…

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LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new 'BrowserGate' security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors' browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data

LinkedIn is understood to inject a JavaScript fingerprinting script on every page load that probes visitors' browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device telemetry.

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McDonald’s debuts one-finger gadget that lets you move your character to 'keep you in the game' while you chow down — Pro Gamer Menu's ‘Archie’ designed to keep you from being kicked for inactivity

McDonald’s Türkiye AFK solution will help keep gamers online during meal breaks without getting kicked from the match.

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