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Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies — built-to-order systems hamstrung by component shortages and skyrocketing prices

Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.

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Intel's Fab 52 is bigger and better equipped than TSMC's Arizona facilities — Intel's production volume dwarfs TSMC's operations in the U.S.

Intel's Fab 52 in Arizona is currently the most advanced chip production facility in America, but it has yet to reach its full 40,000-wafer capacity due to low 18A yields.

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Legacy AMD GPUs receive 30% performance boost in Linux with new drivers — latest kernel update finally drops obsolete Radeon graphics driver after more than two decades

Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.

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Ten former Samsung employees arrested for industrial espionage charges for giving China chipmaker 10nm tech — executives and researchers allegedly leaked DRAM technology to China-based CXMT, resulting in trillions of losses in Korean Won

10 former Samsung employees are accused of leaking Samsung's 10-nm DRAM technology to CXMT, allegedly allowing the latter to achieve technological breakthroughs on stolen information.

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Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers — Valve's low-latency scheduler perfect for managing Meta's workloads at massive data centers

In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.

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U.S. FCC bans foreign-made drones from DJI, others — DJI to be heavily affected by the announcement, with many American drone pilots up in arms due to lack of viable alternatives

FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S.

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Interpol-led cybercrime crackdown results in 574 arrests in 19 African nations, decrypts six ransomware variants — Operation Sentinel disrupts rings that caused $21 million in losses, recovers $3 million

Conducted between late October and November, Operation Sentinel saw international law enforcement agencies shut down cybercrime infrastructure, decrypt ransomware variants, and prevent large-scale financial losses across the region.

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Intel's upcoming Xeon Granite Rapids workstation lineup leaks, poised to challenge AMD Threadripper with $8,300 86-core flagship — retailer lists prices ahead of CES launch, starts at $540

AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't…

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Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter — DIY retro console is fully functional with working buttons

A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.

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Dev uses ePaper tablet as a secondary display to save his eyes — gives second life to old Onyx Boox Air 2 by mirroring laptop screen

A developer got fed up with the eyestrain brought about by 14 hours of reading software licenses, so he solved it by turning an old ePaper tablet into a secondary monitor.

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.

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US smart home company accused of rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras — Nebraska AG to sue Resideo over selling banned security cameras

Resideo sued by Nebraska AG over rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books…

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Gigabyte removes controversial leaking thermal gel from RTX 5070 Ti Windforce V2 — company opts for traditional thermal pads with updated graphics card

The second iteration of Gigabyte's RTX 5070 Ti triple-fan Windforce graphics card comes with traditional thermal pads.

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1,000 computers taken offline in Romanian water management authority hack — ransomware takes Bitlocker-encrypted systems down

No group has claimed the attack yet, and thankfully, water is still flowing in Romania.

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025.

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Another unreleased Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Founders Edition engineering sample surfaces on the second-hand market — a previous sample sold for $1,999 on eBay earlier this year

An engineering sample of an RTX 3080 Ti has surfaced in the secondhand market, according to a post on the Nvidia subreddit.

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Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 hidden under the heatspreader — RAM sold as new was a switcharoo

Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 in disguise

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You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 — Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 — the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process…

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China's premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development

Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.

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Maker builds tiny $10 secondary 1.14-inch display using an ESP32 — you could play Crysis on it, if you squint

A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.

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Surprising biomedical application found for ASML’s chipmaking EUV lithography machines — they can mass produce nanopores for molecular sensing

IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines.

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Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave…

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IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM

Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues.

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