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China suspends ban on rare earth exports to the U.S., but licensing controls remain — vital semiconductor manufacturing materials get one-year reprieve

China has lifted its ban on exports of gallium, germanium, and antimony to the United States, temporarily halting restrictions that had reshaped global materials markets over the past year.

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Phison CEO confirms NAND prices have more than doubled and will continue to rise, all 2026 production already sold out — SSDs facing pricing apocalypse throughout 2027

Khein-Seng Pua, the CEO of Phison, speaking to Digitimes, has painted a damning picture of the storage market to come. With NAND prices already on the rise, the CEO believes there's no alleviation in sight and the landscape will remain rough for the following years. Data centers are rapidly shifting…

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Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world

A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.

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Micron says New York chipmaking fabs still on track according to its latest timelines — accelerates second fab in Idaho and reallocates CHIPS Act funding (Updated)

Micron’s latest Environmental Impact Statement confirms that its New York DRAM fab complex remains on schedule, with Fab 1 construction beginning in late 2026 and production expected around 2030, even as the company reallocates part of its CHIPS Act funding to accelerate its Idaho facilities in a broader U.S. manufacturing…

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Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could 'sit empty for years' due to lack of power — huge installations are idle because Santa Clara can't cope with surging electricity demands

In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world’s most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty.

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang upstaged at TSMC annual Sports Day by TSMC-branded sneakers — CEO's 'Made In Taiwan' footwear is the talk of the town

TSMC-branded sneakers were 'the focus of the audience' at the firm's annual Sports Day event this weekend.

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Microsoft announces first test build for Windows 11 26H1, aimed at 'specific silicon' — Rumor mill suggests first "H1" release in Windows 11's history might be reserved for upcoming Arm PCs

Windows 11 26H1 has just been made official by Microsoft, with its first build released in the Canary channel for Insiders. Unlike what the name might suggest, this is not a feature update, rather a special update meant to roll in support for ARM-based devices, with lots of juicy rumors…

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AMD’s rare PlayStation 5 APU-based BC-250 mining board resurfaces for $120 and can actually run Cyberpunk 2077

An AMD BC-250 mining board powered by the PS5’s custom APU has reappeared in China for around $120.

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The 'Phantom' claims to be world's first transparent computer monitor, touts 5,000 nits of HDR brightness — 24-inch 4K panel from Virtual Instruments launches Q4

The Phantom employs beam-splitting technology similar to what's used in aviation HUDs, or teleprompters, to reflect a screen onto a half-glass, half-mirror surface, giving it that transparent look. It also claims to have adjustable transparency, meaning you can have a completely opaque monitor if you wanted.

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Bank of America sued over not paying workers for PC boot up time in proposed class action lawsuit

Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers.

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Computer tech refurbs GPU clogged with tar and nicotine from 17 years of use by a smoker — 'I am not blowing on that; I’m getting cancer from this' says repair technician

This is what 17 years of smoking could do to your graphics card.

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25 years ago today, Microsoft released DirectX 8 and changed PC graphics forever — How programmable shaders laid the groundwork for the future of modern GPU rendering

The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU’s built-in fixed-function logic.

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Clean-sheet open source 8-bit gaming console surprisingly preparing for launch in 2025 — the GameTank uses twin 6502 processors instead of FPGAs or microcontrollers

There’s a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena.

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The world's ‘tiniest GPU’ heads to production — 200,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 can render gamepad-manipulated 3D images with up to 1K triangles in real-time

The ‘tiniest GPU’ has gotten a big update with the new TinyGPU v2.0 offering interactive 3D rasterization, with transformation & lighting tech.

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Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

Artificial intelligence has taken yet another victim. After GPUs and memory, storage is now facing a shortage as well, at least in the enterprise space. Production capacity for nearline storage, fueled by high-capacity server HDDs, is booked for the next two years. Cloud providers are switching to QLC NAND to…

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No Longer Evil Thermostat hack strips Google from Nest thermostat to heat your home better — open source project revives sunsetted hardware, gives more precise control

Google’s sunsetted Nest Gen 1 and Gen 2 thermostats have been given a new breath of life by a frustrated developer's No Longer Evil Thermostat firmware.

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Laid-off Intel employee allegedly steals 'Top Secret' files, then disappears — ex-engineer downloaded 18,000 files before vanishing

A former Intel software engineer who spent over a decade with the company allegedly stole several thousand documents, including confidential ones, after he was laid off.

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DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later — Magazine instructions had key component spec typos

A three-decade old 'Amiga mystery' has been solved by an intrepid electronics-focused TechTuber.

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500 disposable vapes recycled into a powerwall to power a house and workshop — enough juice for up to eight hours of home usage or three days of work

By salvaging rechargeable batteries from thousands of used disposable vapes, UK-based YouTuber Chris Doel built a 50V power system that can run his workshop and home.

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This week in 1982, Compaq announced the first true IBM PC clone — it was portable, too, as long as you were comfortable lugging 28 pounds

Compaq took the wraps off its first product in November 1982, revealing the computing world's first true IBM PC clone, and an all-in-one portable model at that. It would take a year for IBM to respond.

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Japanese PC shops limit SSD, HDD, and RAM purchases to prevent hoarding as storage and memory shortage takes hold — buying a full PC unlocks higher purchase limits

The impact of the massive AI demand for storage and memory is now hitting retail stores in Japan.

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OpenAI asks U.S. to expand CHIPS Act tax credit to cover AI infrastructure despite firm's denial wanting a government 'backstop' for its massive loans

OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to expand a major CHIPS Act tax credit to support the build-out of AI infrastructure, including servers, data centers, and power systems.

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Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association

A proposal to change the USPTO's fee structure from fixed rates to a percentage basis is facing resistance from the semiconductor industry.

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New DirectX7 emulation tool brings more games to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and other Linux distros through Vulkan, with caveats

An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to Linux through emulation with Vulkan.

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Investigators recover black boxes from UPS plane crash, detail data recovery process — NTSB successfully extracts cockpit audio from charred remains

The NTSB has successfully recovered the cockpit audio from the ill-fated UPS 2967.

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