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Nikon weaponizes lower prices to break ASML's lithography monopoly — tech giant leverages in-house manufacturing to slash prices to lure back American chipmakers

Nikon will try to claw back lithography customers by selling argon fluoride (ArF) tools for less than the market leader, ASML.

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Kevin O'Leary claims Chinese propaganda is to blame for anti-datacenter backlash, 'hundreds of millions of dollars' being spent to kill US dominance in AI — industry proponents and Trump administration reinforce claims of foreign interference

Kevin O'Leary claims Chinese propaganda to blame for anti-datacenter sentiment.

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Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech

Huawei's current Rotating Chairman thanked the United States for its export bans, which boosted the progress of China's semiconductor industry. He made the comment after unveiling the groundbreaking LogicFolding chip architecture, when reporters asked him how the company came up with the idea.

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Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts — $41 gray-market G02 units pop up on Alibaba following initial storefront purge, systems were pulled from sale amid copyright drama and regional restrictions

Lenovo has pulled the G02 from sale on different Chinese e-commerce platforms after the company discovered that it was being sold outside of China.

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Lucky PC builder snipes $2,000 ROG Astral RTX 5080 on Facebook Marketplace for $500 — gets a nearly 75% discount card that 'works perfectly'

A Redditor scored an RTX 5080 for $500 after they found it on Facebook Marketplace while browsing for deals. Another buyer even offered $800 for the GPU as the OP was on the way to pick up the item, but the seller stuck with the original deal.

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Pentagon eyes 3D-printed military boats made from volcanic fiber — non-conductive hulls add stealth capabilities while replacing a 6,545-mile supply chain, could scale to 25,000 vessels a year at forward bases

Voltage Vessels hopes to allow the U.S. Navy to build boats where they're needed and reduce reliance on an overly long supply chain. The company claims that it can forward deploy its 3D printers in-theater and also increase output up to 15,000 metric tons annually.

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Nvidia and Microsoft tease "a new era of PC" ahead of Computex 2026 — coordinated social media posts could indicate that rumored N1X laptops will be Windows on Arm systems

An Nvidia-powered Arm PC running Windows could inspire new local AI experiences beyond Copilot+.

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TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

TikTok owner Bytedance reportedly developing its own custom CPUs in a bid to reduce costs and dependence from US chipmakers

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Bambu Lab teases new A2L 3D printer — June 1 launch hints at a massive, budget-friendly bed slinger

Without much to go on, fans speculate what the newest Bambu Lab 3D printer could be.

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Cooler Master is bringing active cooling to DDR5 RAM, promising up to 15-degree temperature drops — 'MasterDIMM' combines G.SKILL memory with a built-in fan, kits run up to 128GB

Cooler Master and G.Skill are launching "MasterDIMM" — a new line of DDR5 memory sticks that comes enveloped in a stylishly-thick black and gold heatsink that features a blower fan. Two RGB stripes run along the top to add even more flare to a product that can't be anything other…

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Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney slams Valve over Steam Deck price hikes — mocks founder Gabe Newell over rising costs of megayachts

The Epic Games chief took potshots at Valve CEO Gabe Newell's expensive megayacht collection after sharing the Steam Deck's massive price hikes on X. The post compared the $240 to $300 increase on the Valve hardware to the $50 to $100 jumps on the Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 family.

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Amazon unveils 'Resilient Network Graphs' data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS workloads

AWS has revealed RNG, a new random-graph-based data center network that delivers 33% higher throughput, cuts network power consumption by 40%, uses 69% fewer devices, and is already the default architecture for most AWS workloads.

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Acer cranks its latest Predator gaming monitor up to 1,000 Hz — Model joins lineup with QD-OLED panels and an immersive 3D display

Acer is bringing five new gaming monitors to Computex.

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Acer unveils its first Ryzen 9 9955X3D gaming laptop — refreshed Nitro 16 joins new Predator Helios 18 AI and streaming-only Nitro Blaze Link handheld

Acer has two new gaming laptops for Computex, including its first laptop with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D CPU, and a device that sports triple PCIe 5.0 storage.

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Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption

Linux developers are discussing removing x32 ABI from the Linux kernel; a hybrid x32/64-bit mode that was never widely adopted by software developers.

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New Silicon Motion SM2524XT chip brings 14 GB/s to mainstream SSDs — 6nm DRAMless controller boasts heavy AI PC optimization and slashes KV cache latency

Silicon Motion announces its SM2524XT mainstream SSD controller that promises 14 GB/s read speed, up to 2.5 million random IOPS, and sustained random performance.

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Ambernic's retro gaming handhelds are quietly losing RAM capacity and being downgraded to older LPDDR3 memory — company says 1GB capacity is still the standard, 512MB models 'an unexpected error'

Anbernic silently ships some retro gaming handhelds with less memory than initially advertised, without notifying customers.

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Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm's hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion legal battle

DJI has published the results of an independent security assessment by U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend.

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IBM ThinkPad T43 enthusiast installs 'almost' every version of Windows on the single-core laptop without using virtual machine — 26 years of Windows running bare metal, from 1996 Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 10 22H2 working on legendary hardware

An IBM ThinkPad user boasts that they can install '(almost) all versions of Windows from NT 4 to 10 22H2' with driver support, without resorting to virtual machine (VM) technology.

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Startup unveils underwater drone designed for protecting undersea cables — small drone dives to 1,640 feet, comes with four-hour battery endurance or unlimited range when tethered to surface power source

A British-New Zealand startup revealed an AI-powered undersea drone designed to for patrolling undersea infrastructure. It's powered by an autonomous software stack that allows a single operator to coordinate multiple drones from the air, land, and the surface of the sea with the undersea drone.

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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

A new report cites an AI consultant claiming a client accidentally spent $500,000,000 on Claude in a single month.

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Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots — cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities

Microsoft has uncovered a GPU-focused cryptojacking campaign that used SEO poisoning and, in some cases, AI chatbot software recommendations to spread malware disguised as popular PC utilities like HWMonitor and CrystalDiskInfo

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Supermicro says it assisted Taiwanese authorities in server smuggling bust that led to three arrests — company issues statement on working with US, Taiwan to block illicit diversion of servers to China

Supermicro says it worked directly with Taiwanese authorities on a server smuggling bust that led to the seizure of 50 servers and three arrests.

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'Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4' developer promises PC focus — Infinity Ward promises extensive optimization and is dropping older consoles

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 drops older consoles and promises extensive optimization and PC-specific options

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TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 roadmap — Archer 8 routers scheduled to arrive in October 2026, pending FCC approval

TP-Link announced today the roadmap for its next-generation platform of Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) products.

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