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Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — Iran confirms it targeted Amazon cloud infrastructure

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated it targeted the Bahrain facility specifically because AWS hosts U.S. military workloads there.

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Apple's 18-core M5 Max destroys 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench — GPU performance is much less impressive

Apple's M5 Max processor shows unexpectedly high results in multi-thread workloads: an 18-core CPU beats a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench, but the built-in GPU fails to beat the GeForce RTX 5090.

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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose

Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.

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DDR5 RAM kits skyrocket to an astonishing $4,000 on Newegg with wild price listings on multiple G.Skill and Corsair products — various speeds and capacities all listed at the same eye-watering price

Newegg has raised the price of some Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory kits to $3,980; however, it's unclear whether this is a pricing blunder.

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Apple pulls $4,000 512GB Mac Studio upgrade option as AI RAM squeeze continues, raises 256GB upgrade price — M3 256GB upgrade now costs $2,000

The 512GB option, which was exclusive to the M3 Ultra chip and previously cost $4,000, no longer appears on Apple's configuration page.

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US Commerce Department confirms harsh new AI export rules, shoots down reports over the return of Biden-era AI Diffusion rule — DoC to formalize a new approach to strategic AI accelerator export controls

The U.S. Commerce confirms work on new export regulations for AI accelerators, but implies they will not resemble the ill-fated AI Diffusion Rule.

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FBI arrests crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from seized government wallets — Suspect's father was allegedly contractor for the US Marshals

John Daghita, the lead suspect in a major crypto theft worth $46 million has been arrested by the FBI, together with French authorities. Daghita allegedly siphoned funds from government-controlled wallets to his own, abusing the access his father's firm held because of a federal contract with the U.S. Marshals.

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Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext

A vulnerability in Discord's SDK allowed Arc Raiders to unintentionally log private DMs and user account credentials to the game's log files. Embark Studios has since hotfixed the problem.

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DoJ, Europol, and others bring down LeakBase cybercrime site of 142,000 member, multiple arrests made — seized website reportedly among world's largest hacker forums

United States DoJ, Europol, and friends bring down LeakBase cybercrime forum

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Microsoft confirms next-gen Xbox will play PC games — 'Project Helix' teased as more than just a console

Microsoft CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will be capable of playing both Xbox and PC games.

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US gov't preps sweeping export controls for Nvidia, AMD AI hardware — worldwide licensing system would give Trump admin broad authority to block global sales

The Trump administration is working on sweeping export regulations over AI hardware that will make large AI clusters a topic of intergovernmental talks.

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TCL intros two premium dual-mode gaming monitors — 27-inch 1,040 Hz QHD Mini-LED and 32-inch 4K OLED with striped subpixel layout

The TCL 32X3A is a 31.5-inch 4K OLED monitor with dual-mode support enabling 1080p at 480 Hz for esports gaming. It features a "Matrix-Pure" true RGB subpixel layout for better text clarity, along with speakers integrated into its stand. On the other hand, the TCL 27P2A is a 1440p Mini-LED…

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China's top chip execs claim ASML alternative 'small, fragmented, and weak' — Chinese industry titans call for national effort to invest in advanced chipmaking tools

China's most senior semiconductor executives issued a public call this week for a consolidated national effort to build a domestic alternative to Dutch lithography giant ASML.

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‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI, shortages — Lisa Su says business exceeded expectations while Intel is looking at long-term agreements with potential customers

Both AMD and Intel reports increased demand for CPUs, driven by AI agents' need for general computing power.

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Labubu sues 3D printer maker Bambu Lab for items made by its users — MakerWorld design repository in hot water over IP theft by its users

While Bambu Lab builds tools to protect creators, a Chinese court case over 3D-printed Labubu fakes turns the tables on the 3DP giant.

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AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer [Updated]

A new vibe-coded operating system performed as woefully as expected during a 9-point check process.

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China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."

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Spiralling memory spot prices could trigger 'industry cycle collapse,' report warns — NAND wafer costs surge 25% in a single month

DDR5 16G (2Gx8) chips averaged $39, up 7.4% month-over-month, while 1Tb TLC flash wafers jumped 25% to $25.

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Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.

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OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors

OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.

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Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules — RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned

Nvidia is reportedly working on a new RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 8GB GDDR6 on the existing model. Moving from 20 Gbps chips to 28 Gbps chips, the memory interface is also said to be reduced to 96-bit, from 128-bit on the original. Moreover, an RTX…

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Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets 'inbound interest' — company cites increasing yields

Intel sees 'inbound interest' for 18A-P process technology despite 18A process variability.

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Publication Notebookcheck reports that Chuwi is shipping a different processor in the Chuwi CoreBook X than the one advertised.

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Europe achieves record-breaking gigabit per second data transfer between a geostationary satellite and an aircraft

The European Space Agency has successfully tested a 2.6 Gbps data transmission from a laser satellite orbiting Earth 36,000 km away.

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EA's Javelin anti-cheat is coming to Arm-based systems soon — new job listing for Windows-on-ARM driver anticipates Nvidia N1/N1X debut and pivotal shift in PC gaming

A new job listing for a Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer has revealed that EA is working on bringing its Javelin anti-cheat software to Arm-based devices. The timing aligns nicely with the purported launch of Nvidia's N1/N1X SoCs that are also Arm-based. The role also involves future development for Linux/Proton.

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