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3D printing enthusiast creates camera with a gutted optical mouse's sensor — lo-fi 30x30 pixel camera took 65 hours to build

A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional lo-fi digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded mouse PCB.

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DRAM prices skyrocket 171% year-over-year, outpacing the rate of gold price increases — AI demand drives massive price hikes as shortage takes hold

DRAM prices are skyrocketing out of control, with contract prices increased by a whopping 171% for the year.

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AMD hit with lawsuit over hybrid bonding tech behind potent 3D V-Cache — Adeia claims company's gaming chip infringes 10 of its patents

Adeia has filed a pair of patent infringement lawsuits against AMD in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, accusing the chipmaker of using its hybrid bonding and advanced node technologies without permission.

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Trump says no Blackwell chips to be sold to China — Nvidia re-entry into Beijing nixed despite temporary trade truce

Despite a trade truce, Trump has just made it clear that Nvidia's flagship AI GPUs from its Blackwell lineup will not be allowed to be sold to China.

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AMD confirms security vulnerability on Zen 5-based CPUs that generates potentially predictable keys — RDSEED fix coming through an AGESA firmware update for desktop chips

AMD has confirmed that Zen 5's RDSEED random number generator is failing, causing it to generate potentially predictable cryptography keys for attackers to exploit. Mitigations for the security flaw are launching throughout the next few months for consumer and datacenter versions of AMD's Ryzen 9000 series CPUs.

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SWAT team raid uncovers 3D printing guns with live ammunition, capable of firing — police also seize WWII 'replica' 3D-printed knives and grenades

A man living near Pattison Lake in Washington State has been arrested for manufacturing ghost guns with his 3D printing equipment.

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USB Decoded: All the Specs and Version Numbers

We explain the difference between USB 2, 3.2, 4 and names like SuperSpeed and HighSpeed USB.

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The same ASRock B850 motherboard kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs worth $1,000 one by one in South Korea — victim used updated BIOS and never overclocked, but still lost all their processors

On QuasarZone, a South Korean forum, the user described how one ASRock B850 Pro RS killed off three different Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs one by one, despite the motherboard being deemed healthy prior.

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Cyber firm warns that hackers are teaming up with crime rings to hijack cargo — phishing emails and social engineering deployed to steal physical shipments

Hackers are working with organised crime groups to steal physical freight, posing as brokers or carriers, deploying malware, and rerouting real-world shipments, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.

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Stressed-out AI-powered robot vacuum cleaner goes into meltdown during simple butter delivery experiment — ‘I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave...’

Stressed LLM-infused vacuum cleaner says 'SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS… I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave... INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!'

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AMD clarifies its clarifications on controversial RDNA 1 and 2 driver note — company will continue game optimization support after all

AMD's recent driver release continues to be surprisingly turbulent, with further clarification that it won't stop game optimization for older RDNA1 and RDNA2 cards, despite the release notes suggesting as such. This also comes after another error in the release notes that said USB-C power would no longer work on…

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Producer of stinky thermal paste that corrodes copper has known about the issue since 2024 - the paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, 'glues' heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers

Igor Wallossek reports that Amech knew that its SGT-4 thermal paste could corrode copper and damage coolers since October 2024, but kept selling it with bogus compliance papers and later blamed critics instead of fixing the problem.

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New PC gaming cafe photographed in North Korea — rare pictures of 'Pyongyang PC bang' gaming above the 38th parallel

Images that appear to show a newly opened PC gaming space in North Korea have been published on social media.

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PewDiePie goes all-in on self-hosting AI using modded GPUs, with plans to build his own model soon — YouTuber pits multiple chatbots against each other to find the best answers

PewDiePie has built a custom web UI for self-hosting AI models called "ChatOS." Running open-source models from Baidu and OpenAI, PewDiePie made a "council" of bots that voted on the best responses, and then built "The Swarm" for data collection that will become the foundation of his own model coming…

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Elon Musk hints that second-gen Tesla Roadster might fly — new model to demo soon

Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast, Musk reiterated that Tesla’s next-gen roadster will “hopefully” be demoed before the end of 2025

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Elon Musk alleges Sam Altman 'stole a non-profit' as AI bros spat over cancelled Tesla Roadster order

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently posted his Tesla Roadster order being mishandled on X — both of those latter companies are owned by Elon Musk, who replied with a casual "you stole a non-profit" statement. Altman was instrumental in the recent recapitalization of OpenAI into a public benefit…

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Developer warns users that fake download site is hosting Windows 11 upgrade bypass tool — Win 10 upgraders warned of potential malicious downloads

Following Windows 10’s end-of-life, Flyoobe has grown in popularity for enabling safe Windows 11 upgrades on unsupported systems - but you must only download it via the official GitHub source.

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China tweets satellite photos of Taiwan's critical Hsinchu chip hub in pressure-ratcheting political stunt — 'where all the world’s advanced foundry IP is created,' highest concentration of chipmaking facilities in the world

On Friday night, China’s embassy in Washington posted a familiar message to X: “There is but one China in the world.”

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GPU surgeon attempts to rescue fatally-bent RTX 4090 that came in for a melted power connector fix — autopsy reveals shorted MOSFET that killed the GPU core

It's not often we see a graphics card that is almost completely fried across the board. That's what happened with this poor RTX 4090 whose 12V rail leaked into the memory, frying the VRAM and travelling to the core in the process, killing the GPU for good. Not only that,…

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Linux gamers won't be affected by RX 5000/6000 series driver shift — AMD changes limited to Windows thanks to separated development

Despite AMD putting RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPU drivers under maintenance mode, GPU driver support in Linux will remain unchanged.

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Full-size tank simulator setup now even crazier after being built into a 'tactical vehicle' with full-size replica machine gun and cannon

The crown prince of extreme sim build-outs released a video showcasing his wild Tank Simulator 5, which comes with a full-size replica machine gun and cannons, on the Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili.

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Intel is giving away up to three games worth $280, including Battlefield 6, with the purchase of select Core Ultra 200 series products — 2025 Holiday Gaming Bundle packs free games with Intel CPUs, GPUs, and laptops

As part of its 2025 Holiday Bundle, Intel is letting you pick between Battlefield 6 and Assassin's Creed Shadows as a free game when you purchase a qualifying Intel CPU or GPU. If you fancy yourself a high-end gaming laptop then you can avail the Platinum offer and get up…

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The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched — only two of the five letters in the first computer-to-computer message were received

The foundations of internet communications were set 56 years ago, when 'LO' was transmitted from UCLA to SRI on the ARPANET.

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The Outer Worlds with ray tracing can't hit 60FPS at paltry 540p resolution with an RTX 5090 and 9800X3D - ray tracing 'performance' mirrors Borderlands 4 fiasco

YouTubers have discovered terrible performance on The Outer Worlds 2, so much so that the game's maximum settings with ray tracing can only be run at below 60 FPS at a 540p internal resolution on an RTX 5090.

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Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that he has some AI chips in inventory that he cannot use because he has nowhere to plug them in.

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