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158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum

The 158-year established Knights of Old transportation company has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack, with 700 jobs lost.

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Nvidia's desktop PC chip holdup purportedly tied to Windows delays — ongoing chip revisions and weakening demand also blamed

Nvidia and MediaTek have allegedly delayed the N1X AI PC platform to early 2026, possibly because of Microsoft’s next-gen OS delays, ongoing Nvidia chip revisions, and weakening consumer notebook demand. The launch will now prioritize enterprise PCs, while GB10-based AI workstations are expected to debut much sooner.

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Lenovo Legion Go 2 prototype spotted ahead of launch in China — Ryzen Z2 and OLED display reportedly complemented by 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, and more

With AMD’s latest mobile chip and a new OLED panel, Lenovo’s next-gen handheld looks powerful, but competition is heating up fast.

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Tiny GPD MicroPC 2 smashes crowdfunding goal – sequel to 2019 original improves mobile productivity yet remains under 500g

GPD has launched the MicroPC 2, a refreshed version of its ‘true pocket sized’ productivity powerhouse, to crowdfunding.

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AMD unveils industry-first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model generator tailored for XDNA 2 NPUs — designed to run locally on Ryzen AI laptops

AMD and Stability AI have launched the first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium model optimized for BF16 and XDNA 2 NPUs, enabling high-quality, offline image generation on Ryzen AI laptops.

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Kioxia unveils 245TB SSD, the world's highest capacity storage device - can store 12,500 4K movies

Kioxia's LC9 SSD family offers capacities of up to 245.76TB, but its performance is far less impressive.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will own 'well over 1 million GPUs' by the end of the year — ChatGPT maker continues to expand rapidly

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will surpass 1 million GPUs by the end of 2025, but his sights are set on 100 million. Already backed by the world’s largest AI data center in Texas, OpenAI’s infrastructure push highlights the growing clash between AI ambitions and power grid realities.

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Nvidia H20 AI GPU inventory is limited — but Nvidia is making a new B30 model for China to comply with export restrictions

Nvidia has reportedly told Chinese customers it will not resume production of its H20 AI GPUs despite a U.S. policy reversal, and is reportedly preparing a slower but cheaper Blackwell-based B30 GPU to comply with export restrictions and remain competitive in China.

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Microsoft adds telemetry to monitor Windows 11 sluggishness in latest beta, dev builds — logs reportedly only sent when users submit feedback

Microsoft adds additional telemetry to latest beta and dev builds of Windows 11 to monitor and log performance sluggishness within the OS. The logs will reportedly only be shared with Microsoft when users publish performance issues in the Feedback Hub.

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GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU shunt mod increases performance by up to 40% — 175W TGP boosted to 250W to unlock extra performance

GizmoSlipTech applied a shunt mod to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU to benchmark the graphics card's performance and thermals.

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China's YMTC moves to break free of U.S. sanctions by building production line with homegrown tools — aims to capture 15% of NAND market by late 2026

Despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2022 and cut off from advanced foreign fab tools, YMTC is pushing forward with plans to expand production to 150,000 wafers per month and trial a fully localized manufacturing line.

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World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with functional Linux for $159

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, a full Debian-based table was introduced.

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Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

A new key was issued in 2023, but it might not be well-supported ahead of the original key's expiration.

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MacBook Pro trackpad can double as a weighing scale, and the source code is free — creator hacks trackpad to weigh items, claims Force Touch system 'pretty accurate',

A new app called TrackWeight uses the Apple laptop Force Touch trackpad pressure sensors for weighing scale duties.

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Asus brings Nvidia’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra “desktop superchip” to workstations — plain-looking desktop more powerful than most server racks, features up to 784GB of coherent memory, 20 PFLOPS AI performance

Asus has launched the ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a desktop powered by Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra, offering up to 20 PFLOPS of AI performance and 784 GB of memory. This marks NVIDIA’s shift from DGX-only systems to OEM desktops, with GB300 servers entering mass production by Q4 2025.

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AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit is reported to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database.

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Abel founder claims Meta offered $1.25 billion over four years to AI hire — 'person still said no' despite equivalent of $312 million yearly salary

Social media chatter suggests that Meta offered a potential AI hire $1.25 billion.

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Researchers pack a "quantum light factory" into a 1mm² CMOS chip — combines photonics, electronics, and quantum hardware with traditional silicon manufacturing that can achieve mass scale

Researchers have created a 1 mm² chip that merges quantum photonics, electronics, and self-tuning systems—all on a standard 45 nm CMOS process. This breakthrough brings mass-producible quantum hardware closer than ever, much like the Intel 4004 did for microprocessors.

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Microsoft to stop using engineers in China to work on U.S. Defense computer systems in wake of investigative report — fears of exploitation by foreign intelligence services spurs immediate change

Microsoft's China-based engineers will no longer get to work on its U.S. DoD projects.

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AMD's FSR 4 gets a big boost in compatibility as OptiScaler now supports upconverting any modern upscaler to FSR 4 with frame-gen, as long as the game isn't Vulkan-based or has anti-cheat

Thanks to OptiScaler, any game featuring DLSS 2+ or FSR 2+ can now be modded to support FSR 4, as long as it doesn't need Vulkan or an anti-cheat. Also, you need an RX 9000-series GPU and a decent amount of patience to make it all work.

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Ghost gun proliferation spurs crackdown at Thingiverse, the world's largest 3D printer model file repository — lawmakers also ask 3D printer vendors to create AI-based systems to detect and block gun prints

Thingiverse is implementing an automated system to help stop the spread of gun-related uploads on the platform after the NYPD found hundreds of files for 3D-printed weapons.

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A Bitcoin whale just sold $9.5 billion in crypto that was originally acquired for $54,000 in 2014 — recent 80,000 BTC transaction nets an 18 million percent return

We are in a frisky season for the so-called Bitcoin whales, as another remarkable crypto-cash-in, valued at $9.5 billion, has been spotted.

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Cyberpunk 2077 has been tested on several Apple Silicon generations, results range from around 13 to 105fps at 1080p, depending on Mac and game settings tested

This could open the way for more AAA games to land natively on macOS.

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A Windows Insider user discovers an undocumented ‘Shared audio’ feature in the latest build — quick setting allows you to play audio through multiple outputs

Windows Insiders are getting a useful new feature for sharing audio.

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Police link ghost guns to specific 3D printers using 'fingerprints' from printers — toolmarks left behind during printing can make ghost guns traceable

Kirk Garrison has identified toolmarks left behind on 3D-printed ghost gun pieces that can suggest what printer was used to print them.

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