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IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026 due to crushing memory shortages — some vendors already selling pre-builts without RAM

Market research firm IDC released updated forecasts for the PC market, saying that it could contract by 8.9%, with prices jumping up to 8%, if the memory shortage continues.

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‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win — beat 256 other spreadsheet whizzes to claim the $60,000 first prize in Las Vegas tournament

The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early.

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Nintendo Switch 2 to reportedly get smaller capacity game cartridges soon, offering an alternative to costly 64GB cards — Storage crisis might delay production, however

The Switch 2's Game-Key Card controversy has a burning new development, and we might finally have a middleground between expensive 64 GB Game Cards and digital-only releases. Smaller capacity cartridges, such as 16 or 32 GB, are reportedly in production but industry-wide shortages might disrupt their adoption and make them…

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Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds

A massive, multi-year project to recover Sega Channel games from the mid 1990s has been a resounding success, with many exclusives saved.

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Over 1,800 North Korean applicants flood Amazon — suspected illicit applicants blocked by the company since April 2024

The Amazon CSO reported that the company has seen over 1,800 applicants that it suspects are North Koreans posing as Americans.

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Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend

Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago.

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Russia has reportedly improved the range of its jam-proof optical drones to over 40 miles — purported Chinese-Russian collaborative production imagery reveals dramatically increased tethered drone range

Imagery of spools carrying 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber, for FPV drone control, have been shared on Russian social media channels.

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

Moore Threads has just revealed its next-gen GPU architecture coming in 2026, dubbed "Huagang," which will bring new gaming and AI GPUs. The "Lushan" gaming GPU is promising up to 15x increase in AAA gaming performance, while the "Huashan" AI GPU is gunning for a spot between Nvidia Hopper and…

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems.

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You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly

AMD's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 4 seemingly works on older hardware but is currently not officially supported.

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LG responds swiftly to user backlash, will allow users to remove Microsoft Copilot link from TVs — clarifies service is not an app, future update will include tile removal option from WebOS

LG has clarified how Microsoft Copilot appears on its webOS smart TVs following recent coverage that described the feature as a non-removable app bundled into the operating system.

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Taiwan considers TSMC export ban that would prevent manufacturing its newest chip nodes in U.S. — limit exports to two generations behind leading-edge nodes, could slow down U.S. expansion

Taiwan's government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC's advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas.

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Prusa Research introduces the Open Community License to protect open source 3D Printing hardware — new rules aimed at addressing industry abuses

Full STEP and Fusion CAD files for the CORE One+ and CORE One L are now available on Printables under the new OCL license.

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OpenAI's Stargate data center gets approval to receive 1.4 gigawatts of power in Michigan — some residents furious as energy company is given go-ahead by regulatory body without hearing opposition

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved the 1.4-gigawatt contract between DTE Energy and a Stargate data center, raising fears that energy prices will spike for residents in the area.

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Intel-certified 256 GB DDR5 stick could cut Xeon memory power by 18%, saving millions of dollars — a 32W-per-socket reduction could save millions per hyperscale data center

SK hynix first to validate 32Gb-based 256GB DDR5 module with Intel: up to 32.4W power savings per server, or millions of dollars per hyperscale data center.

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China convicts 27 people for smuggling 166 tons of critical chipmaking element antimony — heavily-restricted mineral used for semiconductor manufacturing exported without licenses, court decides

A Chinese court sentenced 27 individuals for illegally exporting antimony ingots without licenses, with authorities saying more than 166 metric tons were smuggled earlier this year.

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French authorities arrest man for installing malware on a passenger ferry on behalf of 'a foreign power' — could have enabled external control of systems, including navigation

French authorities have arrested a Latvian national suspected of installing malware aboard an Italian passenger ferry while it was docked in southern France.

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North Korean hackers stole record $2 billion in crypto in 2025, including single heist worth $1.5 billion, report claims — rogue state accounts for 60% of all reported crypto thefts this year, $6.75 billion total since records began

Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis says DPRK has set a record for 2025, with the regime expected to execute more sophisticated attacks in the future.

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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors

Riot Games discovered a vulnerability in several motherboards that potentially allowed cheating DMA devices to run before protections kicked in after boot.

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Windows Server 2025 gains native NVMe support, 14 years after its introduction — groundbreaking I/O stack drops SCSI emulation limitations for massive throughput and CPU efficiency gains

Windows Server 2025 gets native NVMe with massive I/O and CPU gains

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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

As DDR5 memory prices skyrocket, demand for AMD's two-generation-old Ryzen 7 5800X3D has increased, causing second-hand prices to climb as high as $800 on eBay.

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Mini-ITX motherboard launches with four full-sized RAM slots in the middle of a RAM shortage — support for up to 256GB of glorious DDR5 on a tiny PCB

Maxsun launches the MS-PC Farm B860I, a mini-ITX motherboard with four DDR5 memory slots for Intel processors.

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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost

Epic is making strides with Unreal Engine 5's development trajectory, fixing performance issues that've bogged down many new releases. The latest version, UE 5.7, reportedly not only improves CPU and GPU-bound performance but ups the visual fidelity, without any real downsides.

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TSMC brings its most advanced chipmaking node to the US yet, to begin equipment installation for 3mn months ahead of schedule — Arizona fab slated for production in 2027

Fab 21 phase 2 shell is complete, fab is on track for equipment move in in mid-2026 and for volume production in 2027.

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AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally, study claims — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

A study finds that AI has surpassed Bitcoin and the bottled water industry in its use of resources, with other experts saying that the estimate is actually conservative.

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