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Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some games

Given the unprecedented surge in memory prices, we’re looking back on Intel’s LGA 1700 stack of CPUs to see how DDR4 and DDR5 match up with our modern gaming suite in 2026.

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AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.

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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output

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MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way

GPU prices seem to be on the rise once again with official distributor announcements in China hiking up the entire Blackwell lineup overnight. Compared to MSRP, we're witnessing a staggering bump of up to 75% at the top-end.

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach

Industry leading tech companies have formed an "Open Secure AI Alliance" that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach.

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Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run

Moonshot AI has released the weights for its recent Kimi-K3 model, directly going against OpenAI and Anthropic.

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China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT

A state-backed company in Shanghai has begun mass-producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines and is due to deliver the first units this year.

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Why an MMO mouse isn’t just for gaming — make use of the myriad of buttons for enhancing your productivity workflows in popular software applications

MMO mice are designed with many buttons to make it easier to play games with lots of spells and abilities, but MMO mice are also fantastic for automating your productivity workflows.

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Upgrading an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC with a 2TB SSD

I go through the steps of replacing the standard 1TB SSD in an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with a 2TB SSD.

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Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead

Today marks 20 years since the first raft of Intel Core 2 Duo processors, codename Conroe, was launched.

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Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site

OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy's 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.

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AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory

Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.

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Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery

A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.

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'It sounds like someone set up a vacuum, like in your living room': Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents

Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, filed a case against a data center for generating noise pollution 24/7 for over two years. They said that the site has violated city noise ordinances but hasn't made any improvements.

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Chinese memory maker CXMT posts blistering 466% leap in Shanghai IPO — bulk of spending to be focused on DRAM production, no HBM in sight

The prospectus splits 29.5 billion yuan across three projects.

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California's largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s supply — plaintiffs claim project equivalent to 160-acre farm amidst concern about jobs and reallocation of farmland

Buildout of large AI data centers in regions historically specializing in agriculture may have long-lasting consequences.

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Physicists turn particles in chaotic orbits into liquid computers — but this fluid hardware still trails memristor rivals

Each oscillator is a silica sphere of 3μm radius, capped on one side with 80nm of carbon and suspended in a water-lutidine mixture held at 28°C.

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Open-source 3D-printed portable MRI machine built for under $70,000 — DIY medical equipment costs less than 7% of a full-sized MRI machine’s $1.1 million starting price

This open-source project uses 3D printing to build the core of a portable MRI machine, although it still has a lower resolution compared to multi-million-dollar full-sized machines. One tech expert suggested that an AI model be trained on high-field MRI data or the physics of the actual machine to overcome…

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Chinese CXMT DRAM doesn't look like the budget savior many were expecting — new modules enter the market, but prices still track the big three

Chinese retail listings indicate that CXMT-based memory modules are priced similarly to those featuring chips from the big three, despite expectations that they must be cheaper.

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Minecraft system requirements raised for the first time in 17 years — Microsoft now recommends 16GB of RAM and a 2020s or newer CPU to run the Java Edition

Microsoft is increasing the minimum and recommended system requirements for Minecraft for the first time, 17 years after it launched. Although the system upgrade is quite reasonable and the hardware falls squarely within the most popular components in the most recent Steam Hardware Survey, those playing with a bare-minimum PC…

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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor' — CADC’s MP944 chip controls the fighter’s swing-wing system, among other things

An FPGA and embedded systems expert has recreated the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) in an FPGA. It is demonstrated in a scale 3D printed model aircraft

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Zeiss expands German site that caps ASML's EUV scanner output — first new building opens four years after Oberkochen site groundbreaking

Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology is adding around 25,000 square meters of production and production-adjacent space at Oberkochen in southern Germany.

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AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second

A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

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Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does

An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousands of users was found to have zero authentication and security. That means anyone can access its backend and siphon users' data, including names, email addresses, and birthdates. While the issue has since been resolved, it remained open for six months…

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OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community — left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure

OpenAI tests multiple autonomous AI agents at once and has difficulty identifying the threats each of them represents, if a new report from Reuters is accurate.

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