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Trump says Intel has made a 'fortune' and America has made $40 billion after the US invested in ailing chipmaker — Intel has gained $73 billion in market cap since investment

The U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel, acquired in August, transformed a struggling chipmaker's fortunes into a $73 billion market share uptick while reinforcing America's national security and industrial sovereignty.

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Atari just resurrected its most potent foe in the console wars from 45 years ago, the Intellivision Spirit — $149 console comes with 45 games, was brought into the Atari fold through IP acquisition last year

Atari has taken retro gamers by surprise with its announcement of the Intellivision Sprint- a console celebrating 45 years of its old foe.

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China says it has foiled a series U.S. cyberattacks on its critical infrastructure — Ministry of State Security says it has 'irrefutable evidence' NSA tried to cause 'international time chaos'

China’s Ministry of State Security has taken to social media to boast about foiling a series of cyberattacks it says were directed by the U.S. National Security Agency.

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Microsoft let Asus set the prices for Xbox ROG Ally, confirms Xbox President — work on next-gen console hardware is already underway with AMD

Xbox President Sarah Bond has just confirmed that Microsoft relied on Asus' experience in handhelds to help determine the price of the Xbox Ally. The team at Xbox is confident and proud of the device, with sold-out preorders. Sarah also talks about how the next-gen Xbox console is also in…

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Lucky Facebook Marketplace shopper finds souped-up prototype GTX 2080 Ti inside a $500 PC — mythical Nvidia project features 12GB of VRAM and higher memory bandwidth

Specifications suggest Nvidia once considered a more powerful TU102 design for the RTX 2080 Ti GPU

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Microsoft denies Mexico data center linked to water shortages, local illnesses, and power outages — stomach bugs and even hepatitis reported in region as 1.5 Gigawatt AI data center buildout looms

Microsoft has denied claims that its data center in central Mexico is tied to a recent spate of power outages, water shortages, and health concerns, claiming it always prioritizes the needs of local communities in any actions it takes.

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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192

Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduced the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace.

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Embattled Dutch chipmaker Nexperia blasts ousted CEO over false accusations — claims of unpaid salaries and independent operation in China are 'falsehoods', say company

The ousted ex-CEO of Dutch chip firm, Nexperia, has reportedly been claiming that Chinese workers can defy Dutch administrators and that staff haven't been paid. Dutch management denies these claims, calling them "factually incorrect and misleading."

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Colossal AWS outage breaks the internet — Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom, Snapchat, and beyond all crippled

Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet.

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Musk challenges legendary AI researcher Karpathy to an AI coding showdown against Grok 5 — gets a polite 'no' to an IBM Deep Blue-like showdown

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue.

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TSMC gives an ultra-rare video look inside its fabs — 'Silver Highway' and fab tools revealed in flyby video of company's US Arizona Fab 21

TSMC's new flyby video of its Fab 21 in Arizona offers a rare glimpse inside the fully operational N4/N5 cleanroom, highlighting ASML's EUV scanners producing chips for Apple, AMD, and Nvidia.

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Enthusiast plays Battlefield 6 on his CPU watercooler's tiny 2.1-inch screen — 480x480 resolution MSI liquid cooler screen good enough for XP farming

Battlefield 6 is an intense game with gorgeous visuals that demands the best screen possible. But what if you're at work and your literal job is to test displays? That's when a bit of ingenuity kicks in and you switch to the tiny screen on your CPU's liquid cooler to…

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DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core

The first public release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a new version of the DOS emulator by Psyraven, was made available on Saturday evening

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Windows 11's October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE after latest bug hits

Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a…

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Palantir chief takes a jab at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says people decrying ‘China hawks’ are useful idiots — 'The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem'

The Palantir CTO called out Jensen Huang's 'China hawk' comments.

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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA-32 instruction set, and the architectural turning point that transformed personal computing.

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The $150 external HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is an Apple Magic Trackpad alternative for Windows users with haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity — crowdfunded peripheral ships in Q1 2026

The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro packs premium build quality, zero-latency performance, and app-specific customization, all aimed at bringing macOS-style trackpad precision to Windows setups.

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OceanGate Titan submersibles' catastrophic implosion crushed its computers into twisted mass of metal and electronics — investigators find signs of thermal damage, too

Investigators reveal the twisted metal and electronics found at the OceanGate Titan implosion site. However, data recovery efforts have been fruitless.

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BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives

An unfortunate Reddit user lost access to 3 terabytes of data stored across two drives when BitLocker automatically encrypted them without the user's knowledge, within Windows 11. With no keys to unlock the drives, the data is now permanently gone with no hopes for conventional recovery.

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Stinky thermal paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, 'glues' heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers - SGT-4 TIM is a chemically reactive blend, finds investigation

An investigation revealed that the popular low-cost Amech SGT-4 thermal paste is a chemically reactive PDMS-based compound containing that releases acetic acid, produces a vinegar odor, corrodes copper surfaces, and even creates ant holes on surfaces.

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North Korean state-sponsored hackers slip unremovable malware inside blockchains to steal cryptocurrency — EtherHiding embeds malicious JavaScript payloads in smart contracts on public blockchains

Google says DPRK group UNC5342 is using EtherHiding to deliver backdoors and steal crypto, marking the first nation-state adoption of a tactic built for takedown-resistant attacks.

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Teacher uses cheap laser and solar panel to transmit wireless sound — iPad powers home project that was inspired by solar panel making noise when attached to speaker

YouTube creator and high school teacher ChemTeacherPhil demonstrated how to use light to transmit sound wirelessly to a solar panel and utilize it to play music.

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Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product

Nvidia and TSMC have produced the first Blackwell wafer at TSMC’s Arizona fab, marking a historic step in bringing advanced AI chip manufacturing to the U.S.. However, the chip still relies on Taiwan for final CoWoS-L packaging, which leaves the achievement largely symbolic for now.

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'Budget' portable CD player for audiophiles launches at $319 — built-in CD ripping support, high-quality DAC, and amplifier

Hi-Fi audio company Shanling just released a "budget" portable CD player for audiophiles.

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Optical drive demand surges amid Windows 10 retirement — Japanese users switching to Windows 11 are buying up Blu-ray drives

Windows 10 reaching end-of-life has apparently breathed new life into optical disc drives, which have seen a sudden rise in demand in shops across Tokyo. People upgrading to Windows 11 want internal Blu-Ray (BD-R) disc drives to continue using their physical media, even if they're being forced to upgrade systems.

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