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Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — Phison investigating reports of disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot

Windows users are reporting SSD issues following the latest Windows 11 security patch.

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SoftBank acquires Foxconn's Ohio facility to build Stargate AI servers — $375 million deal says Foxconn will continue to operate the plant

Foxconn has sold its Lordstown, Ohio, factory to SoftBank but will keep operating it as an AI server hub for the $500 billion Stargate project.

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China gets Intel Xeon 6P Granite Rapids CPUs repackaged with added security and surveillance features — Jintide C6P CPUs with up to 86 P-cores

Montage Technology has launched the new Jintide C6P series of server processors in China.

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Hardcore fan celebrates Alien: Earth by building a fully-working M314 Motion Tracker replica — DreamHAT+ Radar module and Raspberry Pi is effective up to 15 meters, complete with sounds and a display

Electronics hobbyist Rob Smith has built a ‘fully working M314 Motion Tracker’.

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China mandates domestic firms source 50% of chips from Chinese producers — Beijing continues to squeeze companies over reliance on foreign semiconductors

A new report says China has started mandating that data centers use 50% homegrown silicon.

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Nvidia’s ungainly prototype 6-legged power adapter shown in new video — fabled RTX Titan Ada was allegedly supposed to come with dual 12VHPWR connectors that needed 6x 8-pin PCIe plugs

Der8auer shows off Nvidia's so-far unreleased dual 12VHPWR to 6x 8-pin adapter that was likely meant for the RTX Titan Ada that never came out. This adapter can supply up to 900W of power theoretically and is built very well for a prototype, with proper injection moulding. But there is…

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Raspberry Pi releases smaller five-inch Touch Display 2 — lower in price, same resolution as larger model

Raspberry Pi releases a smaller model of its updated touch display. This time with $20 off the price but the same display as the larger model.

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Is Wi-Fi bad for the environment? Eye-catching London ad suggests Wi-Fi is ‘damaging the climate’

The University of East London just put out an ad that seemingly says that Wi-Fi is bad for the environment, but it just wants you to look closer.

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UK’s Royal Navy tests 40-foot submarine drone which can be operated from ‘the other side of the world’

A large new submarine drone, dubbed Excalibur, can be controlled while it is 'submerged on the other side of the world.'

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'Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead' — rise of China's government subsidies, country's permissive patent system cited by Prusa CEO

3D printer companies are raiding the Open Source cookie jar, and it’s starting to hurt.

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CobraJet Nvidia AI-powered drone killer takes out 'overwhelming enemy drone incursions' at up to 300mph

This autonomous drone uses an Nvidia AI chip to process what it sees and make decisions.

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Microsoft Store change removes the ability to stop App updates — pausing automatic updates now limited to a 5-week duration

Microsoft wants to keep you safe by ensuring that you always update your apps.

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The first commercial Compact Disc was created 43 years ago, today — nearly one billion CDs were shipped per year in early 2000's

Today marks 43 years since the first commercial compact disc (CD) pressing. Polygram in Germany is credited with pressing the first copies of Abba's The Visitors on this date, back in 1982.

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Steam's new Performance Overlay is more accurate than Task Manager, says Valve — GPU utilization monitoring comes directly to Steam in latest client beta

Valve’s Steam Beta is testing an overlay that tracks GPU usage more accurately than Windows Task Manager, including multi-process games. Early rollout is inconsistent, but once stable, it could give gamers real-time, reliable performance stats without extra apps, rivaling tools like MSI Afterburner.

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Nvidia's midrange GPUs through the years revisited — pitting the RTX 5070 versus the 4070, 3070 and 2070 in an all-encompassing gaming showdown

From the RTX 2070 to the 5070, Nvidia’s midrange GPUs show impressive leaps: 1080p ray tracing climbs from 56 to 130 FPS, while 4K performance grows from 36 to 107 FPS. The 4070 strikes the best balance of speed and efficiency, while the 5070 delivers raw power—though at a higher…

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Asus ROG’s lavish RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition surfaces at a UAE retailer which offers worldwide shipping — currently discounted 11%, to $9,205

Asus’ gold-plated ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab Edition has surfaced on UAE retailer Microless for $9,205 with global shipping, alongside the $2,589 RTX 5080 Dhahab Core. Both feature lavish Middle Eastern-themed designs, real 24K gold, and identical specs to their standard counterparts.

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DIYer creates ‘RTX 5090 countermeasures’ with cabling spaghetti to mitigate 16-pin meltdowns — system automatically shuts down when the overcurrent protection is triggered

A DIY “RTX 5090 Countermeasures” system to prevent connector thermal damage implements a lot of wiring.

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Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 7 254V Lunar Lake chip leaks out in new benchmarks — scores worse than entry-level Core Ultra 5 228V in early multi-core tests, but on par in single-core

A new Lunar Lake chips has leaked, the Core Ultra 7 254V, showing up on PassMark with middling multi-core benchmark scores that place it even below the base Core Ultra 5 228V. Single-core scores are on par with other Core Ultra 7 chips but we don't get any specs revelation.

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Nvidia says H20 export controls didn’t stop China’s AI progress — claims 'they only stifled U.S. economic and technology leadership'

Nvidia shared an opinion piece by Aaron Ginn, co-founder of AI company Hydra Host, stating that despite the U.S.’s export controls on Nvidia’s H20 chips, China continued to achieve AI breakthroughs.

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You can now buy replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet colors — compatible with Logitech, Kensington, Elecom, and ProtoArc mice

Replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet are now available for sale.

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Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans

Seagate's security team from Singapore and Malaysia and local Malaysian authorities have raided a counterfeiting hard drive warehouse located outside Kuala Lumpur.

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Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips — levies coming within two weeks as Section 232 investigation nears completion

Trump’s floated plan for semiconductor tariffs as high as 300% has rattled the tech industry.

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Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky

A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

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Early RTX 5090D V2 benchmarks suggest that maybe 384-bit memory is just fine after all — 'nerfed' China-market GPU runs within 2.2% of 5090D in some tests

Early benchmarks of Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 in games reveal that the GPU's neutered 384-bit interface and 24GB of GDDR7 memory don't downgrade its gaming capabilities at all. The RTX 5090D V2 performs on par with the RTX 5090D.

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China-based firm delivers its first chipmaking tool that stamps nanoscale processor designs onto wafers — Prinano's nanoimprint lithography tool uses quartz molds engraved with circuits

China's Prinano Technology has shipped its first domestically developed semiconductor-grade step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography system that offers sub-10 nm single-step patterning for applications like memory, photonics, and advanced packaging.

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