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Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended
A suspended IT worker who caused at least $200,000 of damage in an act of revenge upon his employer has been sentenced.
2025-07-01 15:09
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Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1
Original Switch consoles, games, and membership prices are changing in Canada, but the company hasn't said whether they're going up or down.
2025-07-01 14:31
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Singapore AI chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by AI firm DeepSeek
Prosecutors are asking for more time to study documents and get responses from international third parties.
2025-07-01 13:42
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I tested a new AI model that claims to help solve 3D printing disasters — PrintFix.io can analyze images of your prints to identify issues and fixes
Can AI be your new 3D printing guru? New AI-powered program offers advice to fix your 3D printing problem.
2025-07-01 12:51
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This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own
If you are still computing in a workspace without hardware dials, Ploopy would like you to look at its Knob.
2025-07-01 12:45
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Massive MicroSD card testing database exposes fakes, charts performance and endurance — 200 cards tested, 51 to destruction; 8 machines running 70 card readers wrote 18 petabytes for testing
The Great MicroSD Card Survey is one of the most exhaustive guides to these fingernail sized slivers of storage that we have seen.
2025-07-01 11:40
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Nvidia RTX 5050 benchmarks reveal close contest with RTX 4060 — new budget card even outperforms forebear in some tests
Benchmarks by Inno3D show the RTX 5050 performing nearly on par with the older RTX 4060.
2025-07-01 11:22
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Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support — 580 series drivers will be the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 cards
An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures.
2025-07-01 11:06
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Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria
Synology's new SNV5400 drive family has hit the shelves, and comes with a spit-take inducing price tag of $630 for 1.6 TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. The family goes as low as $175 for 400GB, representing more than 2x the industry standard for a matching NAS ...
2025-07-01 10:48
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OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS
OneXSugar is a crazy Android handheld that's somehow also a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS at the same time.
2025-07-01 10:15
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Micron details new U.S. fab projects: HBM assembly comes to the U.S., Idaho Fab comes online in 2027, New York fabs later
Micron detailed its $200 billion U.S. investment plan to build six DRAM fabs and HBM assembly facilities in the U.S. over the next 20 years.
2025-07-01 10:00
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Live: the latest news from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD
What's going on in the world of computing
2025-07-01 09:56
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Industry news live: the latest news from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD
What's going on in the world of computing
2025-07-01 09:56
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Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations
A shareholder asked Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa why there weren't enough Switch 2 consoles to go around.
2025-07-01 09:46
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Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames
Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help.
2025-07-01 09:29
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Apple considers external AI partners to boost Siri smarts — Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly in early talks to replace in-house models
Apple is considering using models from OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri and improve its AI competitiveness, according to a Bloomberg report.
2025-06-30 21:41
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RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day
Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up
2025-06-30 20:45
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Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches
AMD AI Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system.
2025-06-30 18:20
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New 3D printing tech fuses hard and soft structures in a single print — novel resin can create both with different light sources
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3D printing technique that lets you print hard and soft materials with the same resin.
2025-06-30 16:28
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