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Chinese Nvidia Cloud Partner procured 300 servers with banned AI GPUs worth $92 million — shares of data center supplier Sharetronic plummet following Super Micro smuggling arrest

Publicly available documents reveal that a Chinese AI data center company sold servers that were designed for Nvidia H100 chips despite the U.S. export ban.

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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, download, and tinker with.

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Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%

We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.

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Garage sale haul finds 2013 'trash can' Mac Pro nestled inside 2010 Mac Pro enclosure — Mac Pro inception still needs some work to get running

A lucky buyer on Reddit found a 2010 Mac Pro in a garage sale and it had a whole 'nother 2013 Mac Pro sitting inside. The tower didn't have any internals, which implies that the owner was likely using it as a sort of DIY enclosure for the trash-can Mac…

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FAA courts gamers to become air traffic controllers — boasts $155k average annual salary after three years as the agency prepares for 8,000 applicants

The FAA's latest YouTube video is encouraging gamers to apply to become an air traffic controller, telling them that they've been training for this challenge. The agency is tapping on the younger demographic to help expand its numbers as the ATC shortage is hampering safety and airport operations.

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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X

A research team at Specops benchmarked an RTX 5090, against two AI datacenter GPUs with Hashcat to see which GPU is the better password cracker. Spoiler alert, the RTX 5090 was the winner.

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Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider program — fewer channels, and switching without wiping your device

Microsoft is simplifying the Windows Insider program with fewer channels, making it easier to switch between them and enable the latest features.

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HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours

Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.

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Framework founder says that ‘personal computing as we know it is dead’ — vows to keep building ‘computers that you can own at the deepest level’

Framework founder Nirav Patel said that the personal computing industry is facing a massive change as big companies are forcing it to move towards a subscription-based model. Still, he vows to continue making hardware that will enable the personal ownership of computation.

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French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country’s DINUM announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system.”

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Vdura hikes its enterprise SSD pricing, now costs 22.6x more than hard drives — the price of a 30TB SSD has climbed 472%

Vdura has materially revised the enterprise SSD pricing figures in its Flash Volatility Index, telling customers in an April 8 update that the cost of a 30TB TLC enterprise drive climbed 472%.

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30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future

Lexar toured us around its R&D labs and production facilities to see how it's building storage solutions for today and tomorrow.

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Embattled streamer goes viral after playing Red Dead Redemption 2 at 4 FPS — ‘i5-8300H and a 1050ti with 4GB’ setup takes 12 hours to play through the first chapter, would make the game 471 hours long

Prolific Danish YouTuber Mongo TV recently went viral, with his video series showing him ‘enjoying’ RDR2 at a glacial 4 FPS.

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After jumping 2,200% over the last twelve months, DDR4 spot prices fall 5%, the first decline in nearly a year — DDR5 pricing sees some relief in China channel market

DDR4 16Gb spot prices fell about 5% over the past month to roughly $74.10, ending nearly a year of consecutive monthly gains.

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US cybersecurity agency issues an urgent alert as Iranian hackers attack critical infrastructure — CISA guidance warns organizations to immediately shield certain programmable logic controllers from the internet to thwart future attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in conjunction with the FBI and NSA, have issued an alert that Iranian-affiliated cyber attacks are threatening critical infrastructure, exploiting programmable logic controllers made by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley to gain access.

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Newbie overclocker destroys $5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPU they used 'to learn how to solder' — practicing newfound hobby goes wrong in the most expensive way imaginable

An MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z owner sent their $5,000 GPU for repair after damaging it while "practicing" soldering a resistor on the board.

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Engineer installs 3.5-inch floppy drive in a Tesla — modern EV recognizes and runs ancient storage device, even plays an MP3 file from diskette

An engineer and software developer was able to make a 3.5-inch floppy drive work seamlessly with the Tesla with just a USB-to-FDD converter.

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Ambitious hacker reduces worst-case memory latency by up to 93%, but with severe downsides — 1960s bottleneck overcome by hedging memory accesses to avoid running into DRAM refresh stalls

The clever software trick works on both x86 and Arm to radically reduce worst-case memory latency, but it has severe limitations, too.

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Intel Arc GPUs can finally boot up and play 'Crimson Desert' — but you'll probably want to wait for official support

Intel's latest GPU driver is capable of booting Crimson Desert and can reportedly run at nearly 60 FPS at ultra settings on an Arc B580. But the game suffers from occasional crashing and visual artifacts.

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Fueled by Musk's TeraFab tie-in, Intel's market cap hits highest level in 25 years — tops $300 billion on CPU, AI, and foundry momentum

Intel tops $300 billion, its highest market capitalization in 25 years on AI, CPU, and foundry announcements momentum.

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Geekbench 6.7 adds Intel BOT detection to spoof out 'unrealistic' CPU scores — Benchmark runs with BOT enabled will be marked as invalid

Geekbench 6.7 comes with Intel BOT detection to ensure any runs using it are flagged. The developer argues BOT gives unrealistic performance bumps to select workloads that don't represent real-world performance.

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Alleged images of the long-awaited Nvidia N1/N1X SoC surface on laptop motherboard — board features 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory alongside 8+6+2 phase VRM

Nvidia's N1 SoC leaks yet again, but this time in the flesh, with potentially a laptop motherboard featuring the long-rumored chip. It was spotted on sale on a Chinese marketplace for roughly $1,400. The pictures show the PCB rocking 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, robust power delivery, and a decent…

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Intel and Google announce multi-year chip deal — Google will deploy Intel Xeon with custom IPUs for next-gen AI, cloud infrastructure

Although Google now has its own Arm-based Axion CPUs, Intel's Xeon processors with custom IPUs will continue to be used for AI and other demanding workloads in Google's data centers for years.

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Bryson DeChambeau to use 3D-printed 5-iron at 2026 Masters in golfing first — club he fabricated himself 'finally ready' to face Augusta

Bryson DeChambeau will use a 3D-printed 5-iron at the Masters this weekend.

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UK navy tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, damage would 'have serious consequences,' Putin warned — US and allies expand seabed protection efforts

A Royal Navy warship and P8 maritime patrol aircraft have tracked three Russian submarines, including two Gugi-class deep-sea vessels, attempting to survey undersea cables and pipelines.

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