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Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter — DIY retro console is fully functional with working buttons

A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.

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Dev uses ePaper tablet as a secondary display to save his eyes — gives second life to old Onyx Boox Air 2 by mirroring laptop screen

A developer got fed up with the eyestrain brought about by 14 hours of reading software licenses, so he solved it by turning an old ePaper tablet into a secondary monitor.

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.

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US smart home company accused of rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras — Nebraska AG to sue Resideo over selling banned security cameras

Resideo sued by Nebraska AG over rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books…

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Gigabyte removes controversial leaking thermal gel from RTX 5070 Ti Windforce V2 — company opts for traditional thermal pads with updated graphics card

The second iteration of Gigabyte's RTX 5070 Ti triple-fan Windforce graphics card comes with traditional thermal pads.

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1,000 computers taken offline in Romanian water management authority hack — ransomware takes Bitlocker-encrypted systems down

No group has claimed the attack yet, and thankfully, water is still flowing in Romania.

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025.

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Another unreleased Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 20GB Founders Edition engineering sample surfaces on the second-hand market — a previous sample sold for $1,999 on eBay earlier this year

An engineering sample of an RTX 3080 Ti has surfaced in the secondhand market, according to a post on the Nvidia subreddit.

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Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 hidden under the heatspreader — RAM sold as new was a switcharoo

Unlucky Amazon shopper orders DDR5 memory but gets DDR4 in disguise

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You can own a piece of the first $124 million Atari Hotel in Phoenix for as little as $500 — Developer launches SEC-backed fundraiser with construction set to begin next year

The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 — the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process…

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China's premier GPU maker Biren kicks off Hong Kong IPO — GPU startups vying for Nvidia's crown race to fund AI chip development

Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.

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Maker builds tiny $10 secondary 1.14-inch display using an ESP32 — you could play Crysis on it, if you squint

A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.

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Surprising biomedical application found for ASML’s chipmaking EUV lithography machines — they can mass produce nanopores for molecular sensing

IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines.

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Turns out, AI can actually build competent Minesweeper clones — Four AI coding agents put to the test reveal OpenAI's Codex as the best, while Google's Gemini CLI as the worst

Ars Technica took four popular coding agents available today and asked them to make a Minesweeper clone, to see which one comes out on top. OpenAI's Codex produced the closest to a ready-to-shop version, while Mistral and Anthropic both performed respectably well. It was Google's Gemini that just completely gave…

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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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