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SMIC sent chipmaking tools to Iran's military, Trump administration officials say — report claims exchange began a year ago, 'almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology'

SMIC sent chipmaking tools to Iran's military, Tru...

1 week ago 14

US Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t liable for their users’ piracy — top judiciary body unanimously rules that Cox Communications did not commit copyright infringement

US Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t liable for their...

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HP Omen Max 45L review: Flagship desktop gaming PC performance with a price tag to match

HP Omen Max 45L review: Flagship desktop gaming PC...

1 week ago 17

Corsair's Scimitar RGB Elite gaming mouse hits an all-time low of $49 — 17 programmable buttons built for MMO gaming

Corsair's Scimitar RGB Elite gaming mouse hits an ...

1 week ago 19

Grab this beginner-friendly Creality 3D printer for as little as $186 right now — Ender 3 V3 SE drops to record-low Amazon price with direct-drive extruder and auto bed-leveling features

Grab this beginner-friendly Creality 3D printer fo...

1 week ago 20

US judge sides with Anthropic, says company supply chain risk branding over Pentagon disagreement 'Orwellian' — Trump slapped AI company with designation after it refused to lower its guardrails for the military

US judge sides with Anthropic, says company supply...

1 week ago 20

Logitech G522 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset Review

Logitech G522 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset R...

1 week ago 17

Epomaker RT82 Review: Quietly retro

Epomaker RT82 Review: Quietly retro

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MacBook Neo mods include copper and liquid cooling — temps drop and boost performance by up to 18%

MacBook Neo mods include copper and liquid cooling...

1 week ago 20

Exceptional fake SSD clone of Samsung 990 Pro is almost impossible to spot — near-identical performance blurs the line between real and fake as AI crunch drives knock-off market

Exceptional fake SSD clone of Samsung 990 Pro is a...

1 week ago 23

Samsung Display debuts 'QuantumBlack' coating for QD-OLED monitors — screen tech boosts ambient black levels while reducing glare

Samsung Display debuts 'QuantumBlack' coating for ...

1 week ago 23

Startup builds first responder drone connected via Starlink that enables eight mile range — UAV can fly for over an hour, swap batteries automatically, and carry various payloads

Startup builds first responder drone connected via...

1 week ago 23

Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system had been in stuck in stasis with M2 Ultra since 2023

Apple discontinues Mac Pro after 20 years — system...

1 week ago 30

Bluetti Elite 300 portable power station review: A serious step-up in power

Bluetti Elite 300 portable power station review: A...

1 week ago 21

Intel confirms rumored Core Ultra 9 290K Plus has been scrapped — potential Core Ultra 9 285KS Special Edition also off the table as Arrow Lake refresh rolls out

Intel confirms rumored Core Ultra 9 290K Plus has ...

1 week ago 33

My brief, weird time with the Samsung TriFold

My brief, weird time with the Samsung TriFold

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AMD makes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official — first dual-cache X3D CPU arrives in April, with 208MB cache, 200W TDP, promising modest performance gains

AMD makes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 official —...

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Where to buy Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — grab these impressive Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs from these retailers, starting from $219

Where to buy Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Co...

1 week ago 24

Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series breaks cover in Geekbench listing — 'Core 3 304' is twice as fast in single-core performance versus last-gen

Intel's upcoming 'Wildcat Lake' low-power series b...

1 week ago 25

US Senators call for a halt to Nvidia GPU exports in the wake of the Super Micro scandal — looming Chip Security Act may put a wrench into Huang's China ambitions

US Senators call for a halt to Nvidia GPU exports ...

1 week ago 23

OLED monitor sales surged 92% in 2025 — Asus led with 2.7 million units shipped as gamer-friendly panel tech goes mainstream

OLED monitor sales surged 92% in 2025 — Asus led w...

1 week ago 16

Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1B crypto-GPU income within its gaming revenues — investor lawsuit concerns business spanning 2017 and 2018

Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1B cryp...

1 week ago 15

Super Micro shareholders sue company over securities fraud after AI chip smuggling bust — furious investors claim company concealed dependence on illicit sales to China

Super Micro shareholders sue company over securiti...

1 week ago 16

I spent 3 weeks testing the Sonos Play, and I love it — and the sound isn’t even the most important thing

I spent 3 weeks testing the Sonos Play, and I love...

1 week ago 10

Gigabyte Aero X16 Review: Capable hardware, compromised experience

Gigabyte Aero X16 Review: Capable hardware, compro...

1 week ago 20

The versatile Play speaker is a great way into the Sonos world

The versatile Play speaker is a great way into the...

1 week ago 10

Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explained — how the iBOT translation delivers up to 18% faster gaming performance, 8% on average

Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool tested and explai...

1 week ago 21

Save big on Intel's Arrow Lake refresh with almost $300 off on this 3-item bundle — new Core Ultra 270K Plus processor, MSI Z890 Carbon Wifi motherboard, and 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 RAM for $899.99

Save big on Intel's Arrow Lake refresh with almost...

1 week ago 21

Corsair's discounted 32GB Vengeance is the cheapest DDR5 on the market by a big margin — $300 sale price is $60 less than next best option

Corsair's discounted 32GB Vengeance is the cheapes...

1 week ago 21

I had an absolute blast flying the DJI Avata 360 — it’s ‘the 360 drone to beat’

I had an absolute blast flying the DJI Avata 360 —...

1 week ago 10

Arzopa Z3FC 16.1-inch portable monitor review: 1440p resolution and 180 Hz for mobile gamers

Arzopa Z3FC 16.1-inch portable monitor review: 144...

1 week ago 20

Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips — damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to ‘act as pass through partner for customers in China’

Three individuals charged with attempting to break...

1 week ago 14

Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft using 'science fiction… magic… brilliant…' Neuralink brain implant — 'I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed'

Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft ...

1 week ago 26

Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, Bernstein claims — herculean effort would cost more than 70% of the total yearly US government budget

Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could co...

1 week ago 26

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason — sophisticated attack spreads through npm packages and uses ICP canister as control surface

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no...

1 week ago 25

Which iPad Model Should You Get?

Which iPad Model Should You Get?

1 week ago 18

Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s — ZX Spectrum home computer with 3.5 MHz CPU and 48KB of memory power Kerbal space flight

Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from...

1 week ago 20

Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking performance from new Core Ultra 200S Plus chips — says Intel's IPC boosting Binary Optimization Tool modifies scores in 'unclear' fashion

Geekbench 6 warns about inconsistent benchmarking ...

2 weeks ago 31

Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastructure the latest AI buildout bottleneck

Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 ...

2 weeks ago 24

Samsung’s 870 EVO SATA SSD quietly gets 8TB variant despite storage shortage and skyrocketing pricing — new model spotted in Europe for €1,300 with higher cache and endurance

Samsung’s 870 EVO SATA SSD quietly gets 8TB varian...

2 weeks ago 26

Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB of RAM to AI and pro apps — bigger Battlemage finally arrives, but it's not for gamers

Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB ...

2 weeks ago 25

PC makers face shortages of Intel and AMD CPUs that stretch up to six months — lead time for orders jumps from just two weeks in the face of AI demand

PC makers face shortages of Intel and AMD CPUs tha...

2 weeks ago 21

Google's TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times — up to 8x performance boost on Nvidia H100 GPUs, compresses KV caches to 3 bits with no accuracy loss

Google's TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory ca...

2 weeks ago 12

Intel officially releases Xeon 600 chips, announces new vPro Panther Lake CPUs — ‘all-new’ vPro platform goes all-in on AI

Intel officially releases Xeon 600 chips, announce...

2 weeks ago 31

Seagate FireCuda 530R 2TB SSD Review: A stealthy workstation powerhouse

Seagate FireCuda 530R 2TB SSD Review: A stealthy w...

2 weeks ago 22

Start your AM5 build off right with an incredible deal on a Ryzen 9 9900X processor — get $185 off and walk away with the centerpiece of your new or upgraded PC for only $314.99, an all-time low

Start your AM5 build off right with an incredible ...

2 weeks ago 28

Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’

Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for...

2 weeks ago 19

Gigabyte MO27Q28G 27-inch 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Bright, colorful, and quick

Gigabyte MO27Q28G 27-inch 280 Hz OLED gaming monit...

2 weeks ago 19

Grab this $8.98 TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch for lag-free 4K streaming and gaming — save nearly 50% on silent unmanaged 5-port hub to instantly expand your LAN

Grab this $8.98 TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch fo...

2 weeks ago 24

The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal proves how cut-throat the global AI race has become — as global trade evolves, so does export control evasion

The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal p...

2 weeks ago 27