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The NES at 40: Employees reveal there were plans for a woodgrain veneer model to rival the Atari 2600

In 1985, there were designs that envisioned the NES as a wood veneer clad Atari 2600 successor for the US market.

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AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

AMD continued to its CPU market share gains Q3 2025, surpassing one-quarter of all x86 CPU shipments and one-third of desktop shipments as Intel declined in desktops, laptops, and servers.

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Microsoft to appeal ruling in favor of reselling perpetual Windows licenses — UK Competition Court says fineprint holds no ground as judges throw out company's 'creative work' argument

Microsoft has just been dealt a major legal blow as the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has essentially declared that reselling perpetual licenses is perfectly fine. Microsoft's most recent claim argued that its products qualify for copyright infringement (which the licenses protect against) since they can be used to create original…

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Anthropic says it has foiled the first-ever AI-orchestrated cyber attack, originating from China — company alleges attack was run by Chinese state-sponsored group

Anthropic reported that it has detected and mitigated an AI-powered cyberattack that targeted 30 companies and government agencies.

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Tesla targets AI data centers with massive Megapack batteries as grid-strain fears grow — says $50B/GW for a 2-hour system over a 20-year lifetime is 'outsized value'

Tesla has launched a new marketing push for its Megapack battery systems, targeting hyperscale AI data centers grappling with extreme and unpredictable power fluctuations.

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Samsung raised memory chip prices by up to 60% since September, according to reports — AI data center build out strangles supply

Samsung has raised the prices of its individual memory chips by up to 60% since September, adding to concerns that the uptick in pricing for consumer products that use NAND Flash will continue for some time to come, amidst AI data center build-out-induced shortages.

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Broken Promises: Elegoo walks back the planned multicolor system for Centauri Carbon 3D printer, offers coupons for Centauri Carbon 2

Elegoo can no longer guarantee a release date on a promised multicolor upgrade to the Centauri Carbon.

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Chinese AI startup gets access to 2,300 banned Blackwell GPUs by exploiting cloud loophole — rents compute from Indonesian firm with 32 Nvidia GB200 server racks

A Chinese company gains access to Nvidia hardware by renting compute from a Jakarta-based telecommunications company.

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Nintendo says it has 'no intention' of blocking third-party Switch 2 docks following firmware update that stopped them from working — accessory makers scramble to deploy workaround

Multiple users reported on Reddit that the latest 21.0.0 firmware for the Switch 2 blocks some third-party docks. However, vendors have found a workaround.

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AMD's FSR Redstone officially debuts in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — AMD's answer to Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction

FSR Redstone is here and Call of Duty's getting it first. In Black Ops 7, there's a "Ray Regeneration" option that allows users to clean up ray tracing data before it's fed into the upscaler, resulting in higher-quality ray-traced lighting, shadows and reflections. It only works with RX 9000 series…

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New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads - firm reportedly producing 12,000 wafers per year

China has reportedly developed the world's first scalable and industrial-compatible optical quantum chip that allegedly has 1000x the amount of processing power as Nvidia's outgoing AI GPUs.

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Valve is waiting to create the Steam Deck 2 until major silicon and architectural improvements emerge — drastically better performance with the same battery life is not enough

The Steam Deck 2 is not happening anytime soon, a notion that has just been reinforced by software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais, who says that Valve is waiting for true next-gen silicon with architectural improvements that will allow the Steam Deck successor to offer both significantly better performance and battery life,…

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N64 cartridge-playing Analogue 3D finally gets a shipping date – FPGA-powered Nintendo 64 remake with 4K, VRR to roll out starting November 18

Analogue’s 3D console faithfully recreates the Nintendo 64 using FPGA hardware for perfect accuracy, 4K output, and VRR support.

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Centauri Carbon 2 spotted in the wild ahead of Q1 2026 release - multi-material 3D printer's details listed in first official spec page

Multi-material 3D printing finally comes to the Centauri Carbon, but not the one you were thinking of.

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Automotive officials warn of 'devastating' chip storage as Nexperia halts China-bound wafer shipments — companies working 'around the clock' to find alternatives

A growing dispute inside one of Europe’s largest chipmakers is threatening to derail automotive production across the continent.

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JP Morgan says Nvidia is gearing up to sell entire AI servers instead of just AI GPUs and components — Jensen's master plan of vertical integration will boost Nvidia profits, purportedly starting with Vera Rubin

Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform may upend the AI-server market by shipping partners fully built L10 compute trays that include all compute, power, and cooling hardware, leaving OEMs and ODMs to handle only rack integration while Nvidia takes over the core server design, much of the value, and margins.

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Memory makers have no plans to increase RAM production despite crushing memory shortages — 'modest' 2026 increase predicted as DRAM makers hedge their AI bets

Memory makers are hesitant to increase output due to market uncertainties, despite robust demand from AI chip makers.

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AMD users flag heavy SSD write activity tied to chipset driver — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized

AMD chipset driver possibly shortens SSD life, behavior alarms users — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized.

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OpenAI’s colossal AI data center targets would consume as much electricity as entire nation of India — 250GW target would require 30 million GPUs annually to ensure continuous operation, emit twice as much carbon dioxide as ExxonMobil

The AI race is exerting a massive toll on our environment.

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Sony announces 240 Hz PlayStation gaming monitor — QHD monitor features built-in DualSense charging hook and VRR support for PS5

Sony has announced the PlayStation 27” Gaming Monitor for the PlayStation 5 and PC gamers.

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Top Microsoft exec's boast about Windows 'evolving into an agentic OS' provokes furious backlash over AI — users fed up with forced AI and cloud features

Microsoft Windows president faces withering criticism in response to boasts that 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'

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Banned Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky rolls out new products — basic plan for Linux starts at $59.99 a year

Kaspersky launches antivirus software for Linux, starting at $59.99 per year for one device, with a special first-year price of $38.99 for the basic plan.

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Tape keeps kicking, 'breakthrough' 40TB native spec announced — LTO-10 tapes claim up to 100TB compressed data capacity, hold 2.2X more data than previous spec

LTO-10 40TB carts were enabled by new 'Aramid' material technology.

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Taiwan to up defense spending and develop Iron Dome-inspired missile protection — expert warns one well-placed Chinese missile could make it 'impossible to get a new iPhone for three years'

An expert from the Taiwan NSTC Hsinchu Science Park Bureau estimates that a single missile strike could disrupt iPhone production for three years, with another suggesting that such an event could result in a 6% to 10% contraction of the global GDP.

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'Bitcoin Queen' who laundered $5.6 billion in illicit funds through crypto gets nearly 12 years in prison — UK court hands down sentence

A Chinese scammer who duped almost 130,000 investors out of around $5.6 billion was handed a nearly 12-year prison sentence in a London court.

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