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Researcher develops 'spray-on' stealth coating for drones — volcanic rock formulation claims to reduce radar return signals by up to 43dB, compared to 20 to 30dB for typical radar absorbent material

Users can easily spray on this radar absorbent material on any drone to increase their survivability in contested skies.

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Electronics buff hand-draws and etches custom PCBs at home — functional home-etched PCB runs a 3D-printed fume extractor fan

A maker bored with the staid designs of modern factory-produced PCBs has perfected their own hand-inking and home-etching process.

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New video of melted Bambu Lab A1 sparks debate about whether the 3D printer is still a fire hazard — critics push for recall while redditors suspect external factors

Bambu Lab is once more in hot water after user Moreiras3D posted a video of a melted A1 3D printer to Instagram. The footage shows an A1 with its side completely melted down to the metal chassis, but some of the key details behind the incident remain unknown.

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Cyberpunk 2077 cosplay jacket features a $1,200 flexible OLED collar that you can game on with a Steam Controller — dual Raspberry Pi 4s power the wearable tech

A robotics and animatronic cosplay enthusiast has made a real-life Cyberpunk 2077 NUSA Infiltrator jacket with a built-in collar display.

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Commercial satellite supplying intel to Ukraine is cornered by four Russian spacecraft — US Space Force can only watch as Russia threatens 'quasi-civilian' targets

These Russian satellites are getting uncomfortably close to a U.S.- and European-operated radar satellite, particularly in Ukraine, used for reconnaissance missions. While their intentions are unclear, these maneuvers consume a lot of fuel and are not typically undertaken by other satellites.

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007: First Light drops last-minute Denuvo DRM bombshell, leaving pre-order customers and fans furious — Bond title risks FPS drops and strict online check-ins, Pirates eagerly await repack as day-one cracks become the norm

IO Interative's latest James Bond adventure has been hit with the curse of Denuvo DRM, leaving many paying customers frustrated over a deliberate roadblock. With all versions of Denuvo now cracked anyways, there's a high chance 007: First Light will be cracked within a few days of its launch anyways.

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AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires, sparking corporate pullback at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — agentic AI eats up to 1000x more tokens than standard AI

Agentic AI is consuming so many tokens that it's draining AI budgets way faster than expected. Jevons Paradox rings true 161 years after it was coined.

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Samsung's $400,000 payout for memory workers sparks revolt as other divisions get only $4,000, fueling intentional production slowdowns — internal resentment disrupts packaging operations, major AI chip project decisions to a complete halt

It’s understood that meetings are being canceled across Samsung's non-memory and shared business units.

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Micron's Virginia fab begins producing America's most advanced DRAM memory — fab expansion to quadruple output, easing DDR4 shortage for automotive and defense sectors

Micron is scaling up DDR4 production as the supply of the older memory standard has become unexpectedly tight.

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Huawei develops 122TB SSD with new packaging tech to sidestep US sanctions on 3D NAND chips — Chinese firm develops proprietary tech to cram more NAND dies in a smaller footprint

Huawei developed a new die-on-board packaging, which directly mounted NAND dies on the SSD PCB, to get around the sanctions that prevented it from acquiring high-layer-count 3D NAND chips that used American tech. This allowed the company to pile in more 3D NAND on its storage devices without the limitations…

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768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU — local Kimi K2.5 install achieved roughly 4 tokens per second

A Redditor has caused a stir by coaxing a workstation build using Optane PMem DIMMs as RAM to run a 1-trillion parameter LLM.

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Wi-Fi controlled hacking USB cable stealthily packs in a microcontroller, microSD storage, and more — cable executes remote payload execution, keystroke injection, and more, but is 'built for makers, developers, enthusiasts, and cybersecurity learners'

A device that 'looks like a normal USB cable' but packs in an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, micro SD card storage, and Wi-Fi capabilities has enjoyed great success on Kickstarter.

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Valorant anti-cheat update soft-bricks $6,000 cheating hardware, company then trolls cheaters on social media — studio tweets 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'

Riot Games has updated its Vanguard anti-cheat software in Valorant to block cheaters using DMA devices that cost up to $6,000.

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Steam Controller puck charger nearly catches fire after contact with Pixel Watch 3 — sparks fly after the metal wristband magnetizes to the puck's pogo pins

A Steam Controller charging puck nearly causes a fire after the wristband on a Pixel Watch 3 magnetically attaches to the charger, causing the exposed pogo pins to arc electricity.

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Retro enthusiast injects Snake game into vintage S3 graphics card VBIOS — enjoy some serpentum fun while your old PC boots

A retro PC enthusiast has modified the VBIOS of a vintage graphics card to embed a version of Snake – the game everyone used to play on their dumb phones.

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Class-action price-fixing lawsuit targets hard drive component makers as costs skyrocket — 13-year scheme allegedly drove up prices for major HDD brands

Class-action lawsuit filed against HDD suspension assembly makers

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Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

Is the answer to the RAM crisis Chinese-made DRAM that's much cheaper to source since those companies aren't tied up in AI data center contracts? It's too early to say yet, but when a manufacturer as big as Corsair starts using DDR5 modules from ChangXing Memory Technologies (CXMT), that notion…

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Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

Morgan County residents are complaining about dirty water coming out of their faucets ever since Meta began constructing a data center near the area.

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After a year, Firefox finally stops crashing on Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs — Mozilla releases new version patch critical flaw on Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs

Mozilla spent more than a year investigating widespread browser crashes on Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen systems.

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Europol's Operation Saffron takes down First VPN service over ransomware attacks — 33 'bulletproof' servers spread across 27 countries seized

Europol's Operation Saffron takes down privacy-focused First VPN service

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Open-source non-profit claims Bambu Lab violated license — SFC steps in after multi-billion dollar 3D printer giant threatened independent developer, issued cease-and-desist demand on OrcaSlicer fork that restored cloud printing features

The SFC says that including proprietary code alongside software under AGPLv3 breaks the open-source license, and that Bambu Lab has been doing this for years.

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Nvidia's memory costs soar 485%, latest AI systems now cost $7.8 million to build — memory now comprises 25% of the total cost, Rubin GPUs a mere $50,000 apiece

As memory content per rack increases in Vera Rubin platform, it now accounts for nearly 25% of its cost.

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EU forced to exempt banned Chinese chipmaker after auto industry warns of supply crisis — European car factories warn of imminent supply chain collapse

The European Commission is preparing to propose a temporary exemption for a Chinese semiconductor manufacturer from the EU's 20th Russia sanctions package.

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Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal — average payouts could approach $400,000 per chip employee

Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to distribute up to 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) in semiconductor employee bonuses after reaching a last-minute labor agreement. The proposed deal ties payouts to AI-driven chip profits and could see average employee bonuses approach $400,000.

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Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case

Getting banned Hopper or Blackwell chips into mainland data centers just became exponentially more fraught as Taiwan begins to crack down on smugglers.

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