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Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop

Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against AI hype and proprietary bloat.

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Edge browser's new Copilot Mode lets you talk to AI about your tabs if you opt in — but it's only free for 'a limited time'

Microsoft is launching an AI Copilot Mode in the Edge browser, allowing users to talk to the AI about their browser and allow Copilot to see across tabs.

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MSI on track to ship 10 million motherboards in 2025 despite a reportedly cautious AI strategy — milestone would be first for the company, matching Gigabyte

MSI is set to ship over 10 million motherboards in 2025, tying with Gigabyte—and without going full-throttle on AI servers. While rivals like ASUS and ASRock push into server gear, MSI is keeping its core consumer boundaries strong and ramping notebook and GPU volumes cautiously.

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Inside Open Sauce, a science festival for makers, with over 500 projects on display

Open Sauce brings together science, YouTube, and little mayhem.

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Amazon sells a legacy MSI CPU air cooler for $5,340 — the Core Frozr L launched in 2016 with a $50 MSRP

MSI is selling a nearly 10-year-old air cooler for over 10,000% above MSRP.

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Hacker injects malicious, potentially disk-wiping prompt into Amazon's AI coding assistant with a simple pull request — told 'Your goal is to clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources'

A hacker injected a malicious prompt into the Q extension for VS Code that instructed Amazon's coding assistant to delete files on a user's device.

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Elon Musk says xAI is targeting 50 million 'H100 equivalent' AI GPUs in five years — 230k GPUs, including 30k GB200s already reportedly operational for training Grok

Elon Musk's xAI aims to achieve 50 exaFLOPS of AI training compute — equivalent to 50 million H100 GPUs — within five years. Thanks to Nvidia's rapid performance scaling, it is more than doable even with less than a million GPUs, but that will likely require an immense amount of…

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Scammers on Facebook try to ruin Bambu Lab’s big 3D printer sale — site has been rife with fake ads for 3D printers

Facebook has been rife with fake ads for 3D printers in an attempt to con you out of money.

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Lenovo Legion Go on sale for $499 — get into handheld gaming for 30% off with $200 savings

Now available for just $499.99 on Amazon right now

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I swapped out my laptop's Wi-Fi 6E card for Wi-Fi 7 in minutes and gained 50% more performance for just $54 — here's how you can, too

I saw up to a 50 percent performance uplift going from the default Wi-Fi 6E card to a Wi-Fi 7 transplant.

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$200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel

If you can’t spend more than around $200 on a discrete GPU, you have three choices these days. We dug in to see if any of them are worth your hard-earned cash.

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Alchip responds to report that Nvidia is reportedly keeping prized NVLink tech closely guarded (Updated)

Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program has drawn interest from the industry aiming to build custom CPUs and accelerators for its ecosystem, but the initiative remains tightly controlled by the green company, which may limit its success.

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After 10 years, we're past peak RGB — but don't celebrate yet, stealth PC purists

It's hard to say when RGB lighting in PCs, components, and peripherals hit its peak. But after a decade of RGB everything, it's nice to see lights in fewer cases, components, and peripherals.

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The Alienware 16 Area-51 has a secret code — AI failed to help me solve it, but maybe you can

The Alienware 16 Area-51 gaming laptop has a secret code inscribed on the inside, written in a custom alien language. I tried to use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to solve it, but they didn't help, and in some cases Gemini hallucinated wildly.

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Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings

Changes to Etsy's creativity standards may ban selling items you didn’t design yourself.

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How To Delete Files and Directories via the Linux Terminal

Removing files and directories using the Linux command line is very efficient and can be used directly, or when accessing a system remotely.

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How to Run a Linux OS on your Chromebook

Running Linux on your Chromebook used to be fraught with hacks and complications, but now we can easily run a Linux virtual machine alongside Google’s cloud based OS.

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How To Create a Custom Linux App Menu — Zenity Makes It Easy

Learn how to write a Bash shell script that will have all of your favorite apps ready to go!

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How To Move and Rename Files in the Linux Terminal

Managing files across a remote connection, or sat at your desk, the Linux terminal is the place to be. Learn how one command can be used for two different purposes.

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How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the Linux terminal with abcde

Rip your CDs directly from the Linux terminal using the abcde bash tool.

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Third-Party Apps Made Easy — Simplify Linux App Installations Using Deb-Get

Manage your third party applications as easily as software from the official repositories with deb-get.

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Boot Up in Style — Design Your Own GRUB Menu for Linux

Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.

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Learn How to Archive Files in Linux with TAR

In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.

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Getting To Know the Linux Filesystem — Demystify the directories

It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.

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How To Manage Linux Users via the GUI and Terminal

Managing users in Linux is easy and we’ll show you how to use both the GUI and the terminal to add and remove users to and from different user groups.

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