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October 14
- Elon Musk set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in 19 days - Jensen says process normally takes 4 years
- TSMC could build more fabs in Europe - Chairman of Taiwan's National Science Council
- Arrow Lake non-K CPUs may suffer from lower RAM speed limits — ASRock QVL shows RAM up to DDR5-7200 as opposed to DDR5-9066 for K-series chips
- Ex-Intel CEO Brian Krzanich gets a new job, igniting a massive backlash — new employer Cerence disables social media comments after blistering criticism
- Chinese think tank advises data centers to stick with Nvidia AI GPUs — homegrown Chinese GPUs suffer from 'high costs' and 'complex engineering'
- Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour
- Be Quiet Straight Power 12 750W PSU Review
- RX 7650 GRE reportedly leverages Navi 33 GPU — Radeon GPU rumored to skip CES 2025 but launch shortly afterward in China
- Chinese scientists use quantum computers to crack military-grade encryption — quantum attack poses a "real and substantial threat" to RSA and AES
- Pick up a Lenovo gaming laptop for only $549 — featuring an AMD CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU
- 40 Year-old Apple Mac finally gets online thanks to a Raspberry Pi Pico W and some clever coding
- Internet Archive is back up in a provisional "read-only" state since cyberattack
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi RP2350 powered PyDOS handheld in a BlackBerry form factor
- Leak claims that AMD's Navi 44 GPU package is 31% smaller than Navi 33
- Montech King 65 Pro Case Review: Diffused lighting and dark glass
- Intel Z890 LGA1851 motherboards hit pre-order at Newegg starting from $189
- Change this Windows setting right away -- especially if you have children or pets
October 13
- Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study
- ASRock Z890 mobos boast innovations like DDR5-10133+ support and 10x USB-C ports
- Leak indicates AMD Ryzen 9000X3D series CPU gaming performance will disappoint
- Gamepad keyboard input comes to Windows 11 Release Preview, aimed at handheld users and sofa surfers
- The Intel Core i9-13900KF CPU is now only $387 at Amazon
- SilverStone’s $799 Alta D1 chassis hits retail — modular workstation case is flexible and capacious at 79 liters
- Minisforum 790S7 Mini PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX can accommodate a low-profile desktop GPU
- Titan Army P32A2S2 32-inch 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Quick, bold color and a great value
- Asus Z890 motherboard launch lineup lacked a back-connector model, but firm commits to 'design, development, and production of BTF solutions'
October 12
- Chinese and Iranian hackers use ChatGPT and LLM tools to create malware and phishing attacks — OpenAI report has recorded over 20 cyberattacks created with ChatGPT
- Steam checkout banner clarifies you don’t own the game you buy — GOG takes a jab at Steam, saying it gives users offline installers that cannot be taken away
- Old-school Nintendo console gets Bluetooth and improved audio features with addon — NES hub utilizes previously unused expansion port
- AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates
- Passive M.2 SSD heatsink features a dual ultra-thin vapor chamber — Cooler Master Kaze cools double-sided M.2 drives
- Arrow Lake CPUs get Intel APO support for improved gaming performance — Intel APO game library also expands with 12 new titles
- Counter-Strike's Dust II runs purely within a neural network on an RTX 3090 — performance is disappointing at only 10 FPS
- MSI CoreLiquid I240 and I360 review: Quiet power
- LG UltraGear 34-inch curved WQHD Nano IPS monitor is on sale for just $349
- Nvidia reportedly mulls socketed design for Blackwell B300 AI GPUs — next-gen Blackwell GPUs may be removable by the user
- Elecfreaks micro:bit Space Science Kit Review: Go for launch
- Dell XPS 13 (9350) review: Lunar Lake on defense
- LGA 1700 contact frames are incompatible with Arrow Lake
October 11
- Nvidia GeForce 256 celebrates its 25th birthday — company talks about a quarter century of GPU progression
- Intel LGA1851 socket has a new ILM that helps CPUs run a bit cooler — MSI claims 1ºC to 2ºC lower CPU temperatures
- Quartz mine crucial for making chips reopens ten days after Hurricane Helene's devastation
- Lenovo Legion Go goes on sale for $533, 24% off its regular price
- TeamGroup rolls out CUDIMMs up to DDR5-9600 for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — clock driver enables massive overclocking
- This AMD RX 7800 XT might be the best graphics card value right now: $429, plus two free games
- Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs are sold out for the next 12 months — chipmaker to gain market share in 2025
- This Raspberry Pi Pelican cyberdeck is ready for hack-tion
- Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 review: Decent gaming, but poor productivity
- 'Junk Store' plugin may bring GoG and Epic games to your Steam Deck library
- AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D: Alleged specs and launch timeframe leak
- Lenovo Legion Tower 5i (Gen 8) review: Quintessential 1080p gaming desktop
- New motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs are announced
October 10
- AMD unveils industry's first Ultra Ethernet ready network card for AI and HPC
- Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2024
- AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ 9005 Series - we benchmark 192-core Zen 5 chip with 500W TDP
- AMD reveals core specs for Instinct MI355X CDNA4 AI accelerator — slated for shipping in the second half of 2025
- AMD-powered dual-screen OLED laptop launches at $1,270 — flagship Ryzen AI 9 model carries $1,860 price tag
- Intel lays the groundwork for Xe3 Celestial graphics — Panther Lake CPU enablement in Linux has begun
- AMD unveils Ryzen AI Pro 300 CPUs: Zen 5 and Copilot+ PCs for businesses and enterprise
- Undeletable 8.63GB cache emerges in latest Windows 11 24H2 update — checkpoint updates were the culprit, and Microsoft is working on a fix
- Industry considers cutting production of 3D NAND amid dropping prices
- Vietnam to build six semiconductor fabs — country aims to become a major player in the semiconductor industry by 2050
- Intel Launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S — big gains in productivity and power efficiency, but not in gaming
- Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ released, celebrating 20 years of Ubuntu
- Internet Archive hacked and 31 million user accounts leaked — hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' claims responsibility
- Prime Day is over but this 4TB Gen 4 SSD just got cheaper - now only 4 cents per GB
- U.S. DARPA responds to China's gallium export controls: awards Raytheon three-year contract to develop new types of transistors
- eufyCam S3 Pro: peace of mind without the subscription
October 9
- Our favorite budget gaming headset hits its lowest-ever price of $66
- New Bambu Lab flagship 3D printers delayed until 2025 — model aims to add "previously impossible" features
- OBS cuts the cord on Kepler GPU NVENC support — version 31.0.0 Beta 1 no longer works with GTX 600 and GTX 700 GPU hardware encoders
- SteamOS gets display configuration and VRR support for Asus ROG Ally and ROG Ally X
- Cerebras may postpone IPO as US government investigates potential AI tech transfer to China
- Grab an Xbox Series X for $449 with this October Prime Day deal
- Intel Itanium gets a new lease on life, sort of — GCC 15 "un-deprecates" Linux compiler support
- Gaming
- EmuDeck retro gaming mini-PC crowd funder ends in tears after ‘nobody bought it’
- Titan Army P2510S 25-inch 240 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Impressive color, performance and value
- This gorgeous, retro NES-inspired keyboard is only $59 for October Prime Day
- Client PC market grows sequentially, but contracts year-over-year
- Smoke 'em if you got 'em: Hacker gains root access using cigarette lighter
- Best Ultrabooks and Premium Laptops 2024
- Jeff Geerling finally unlocks Raspberry Pi external GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!
- AMD's ROCm documentation now includes a dedicated ROCm on Radeon section
- First-ever killscreen-less "Rebirth" achieved in NES version of Tetris, 38 years later
October 8
- The best Amazon October Prime Day 2024 deals still available
- Microsoft Azure flaunts world's first custom Nvidia Blackwell racks — tests its own 32 GPU server rack and liquid cooling solution
- Best Alienware and Dell Deals 2024: Gaming PCs and Laptops
- Modder builds RTX 4080 Super-powered Lego Fortnite PC
- Crucial's P310 2TB M.2 2230 SSD hits an all-time low of $176 — one of the best SSDs for the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and other portable devices
- Nvidia and MediaTek collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU — chip reportedly ready for tape-out this month
- Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2024: Over 50 Compounds Tested and Ranked
- Save up to $40 on Nvidia RTX 4060 and 4070 class GPUs — AMD RX 7000-series also discounted
- AnkerMake's speedy M5C 3D printer now only $199 for Prime Day
- Foxconn builds Mexico plant for Nvidia as Chinese decoupling continues
- Microsoft 365 Word bug deletes your document if you use a specific file name
- Patriot’s PCIe 5.0 SSD offers lightning-fast speeds up to 14 GB/s — PV573 features a 8,000 RPM fan to stay cool
- Core Ultra 9 285K is slower than Core i9-14900K in gaming, according to leaked Intel slide — Arrow Lake consumes less power, though
- These essential Xbox Series X|S console storage expansion cards are a must-have at October Prime Day prices
- The Best CPU for Gaming in 2024
- 4TB SSDs drop to 5 cents per GB in October Prime Day storage blowout — here are all the drives on sale
- Apple M4 Macbook Pro leaks become a flood as 200 units reportedly up for sale via social media
- Best 3D Printers 2024: FDM, Resin and Sub-$250 Models
- HP OmniBook Ultra review: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 power with few compromises
- Supermicro's datacenter-scale liquid cooling solution sets the stage for Nvidia Blackwell
October 7
- Samsung has no plans to spin off its critical foundry business
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang will be CES 2025's keynote speaker as RTX 50 rumors abound
- Russian government to issue grants enabling companies and researchers to rent supercomputers
- AMD to reportedly become TSMC's next major customer in Arizona — HPC AI chips could start US production in 2025
- AMD has a limited edition 4th Generation EPYC Genoa Lego model kit, complete with die shot
- GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters
- A hurricane hit this gaming PC, but the owner hopes it can be powered up again
- Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming
- Empty RAM slots can harm DRAM performance — Asus NitroPath slots curb electrical interference, gain 400 MT/s, and are 40% shorter
- Radeon RX 7900 XT hits all-time low of $624
- Russian outlet nabs Apple M4 MacBook Pro, posts unprecedented pre-release benchmarks — M4 is reportedly 25% faster than M3
- Core Ultra 5 235 performance is comparable to the Core i5-14500 in early benchmark — Non-K Arrow Lake chip surfaces with 14 cores and 5 GHz boost clock
- Akasa’s USB4 enclosure delivers speeds over 3.5 GB/s — heatsink and 8,000 RPM fan keep PCIe 5.0 drives cool
- Best PC Cases 2024: Our Tested Picks for Your Next Build
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14s (Gen 6, Snapdragon) review: 21 hours of battery life
- Intel's Arrow Lake flagship takes single-threaded performance crown over AMD and Apple, now leads PassMark benchmark
- Best Soldering Irons and Stations 2024
- Raspberry Pi release faster, branded class A2 micro SD cards and 'bumper' case for Raspberry Pi 5
- Elecom intros pair of USB 80 Gbps cables, one with 60W PD and another with 240W PD
October 6
- Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums
- XFX Quicksilver AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Magnetic Air GPU hits record low price
- Chinese company claims breakthrough in developing domestic silicon photonics chip
- Musical ‘GPU organ’ powers its pipes using PC fans and AI models
- Pocket-size AMD Ryzen PC in a folding keyboard hits Kickstarter — Hawk Point portable has up to 10 hours of battery life
- Jensen Huang is now worth more than Intel — personal net worth currently valued at $109B vs. Intel's $96B market cap
- Ineo M9 SSD Heatsink and Cooler Review: Strong performance, interesting design
October 5
- Deckintosh has Apple's latest macOS Sequoia running on the Steam Deck
- User scores a Ryzen 7 5700X3D for $130 on AliExpress — lucky buyer gets legit CPU for 38% lower than the street price
- AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake
- Radeon RX 7000 GPUs receive juicy discounts — RX 7900 XTX down to $849
- Ryzen 9000X3D CPU performance allegedly exposed — leak claims double-digit multi-core performance uplift over Ryzen 9000
- Save big on Intel 14th Gen CPUs at Newegg
- How to Get Started with the Raspberry Pi AI Camera
- SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
- How is 3D Printing Filament Made?
- Bambu Lab lawsuit update: It’s not over
- Cougar FV270 Review: Glass galore
October 4
- Security experts claim new 'Perfctl' malware could pose a risk to any Linux server
- Lunar Lake allegedly smokes Z1 Extreme handheld gaming champ in early gaming benchmarks
- CUDA-beating ZLUDA breathes new life with financial backing from unknown party — pivots to AI workloads across multiple GPU vendors
- Arctic guarantees its LGA1700 coolers are compatible with Intel's next-gen LGA1851 socket
- 60TB hard drives arriving in 2028 according to industry roadmap — HDD capacity forecast to double in four years
- AMD has introduced a new driver debugging tool, but it's not for gamers — Driver Experiments for Adrenalin, aimed at developers for troubleshooting buggy code
- Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay — RTX 4070 or RX 7800XT is the minimum
- Intel Lunar Lake CPU gets die annotation — four Skymont E-cores slightly bigger than one Lion Cove P-core
- Amkor and TSMC team up for advanced packaging in the U.S. — CoWoS and InFo to make AI and HPC CPUs
- Nvidia CEO and execs cash in on $1.8 billion worth of Nvidia stock — largest stock sale in chipmaker's recent history
- The Raspberry Pi 500 may be right around the corner
- KYY's K3 15.6-inch portable monitor drops to $64 — its lowest price ever
- TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech
- Best Gaming Laptops Under $1,500
- Hands-on with Lian Li's Lancool 207 PC case: Rethinking ATX on a budget
- Chiplet processors leverage light-based communication — new active optical interposers connect multi-chiplets with minimal latency
- BrainChip unveils AI NPU that consumes less than a milliwatt
- We tested Intel's flagship Lunar Lake Ultra 9 and it's slower than an Ultra 7 in multi-threaded work in the only laptop where it's currently for sale [Updated]
- How to Check Your CPU Temperature
- This Raspberry Pi rig is made for streaming movies on long and boring road trips
October 3
- RX 7700 XT GPU sells for $349 and even includes two free games
- Fujitsu, Supermicro working on Arm-based liquid cooled servers for 2027
- U.S. enacts law to exempt select fabs from environmental reviews
- Lian Li's beloved Lancool series gets an update — Lancool 207 releases tomorrow
- RTX 4070 Ti Super launches with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl theme — GPU bundle comes with a free copy of the game
- Google Fiber forces the competition to offer faster internet speeds — study shows up to 50% download speed increases in Mesa, Arizona
- Windows 11 2024 update boosts file copying by up to 94% — ReFS and Block Cloning transition from Windows Server to mainstream Windows
- Chipmakers aren’t worried about U.S. quartz mine closures due to Hurricane Helene — many don’t expect significant repercussions
- Optical storage could get ‘ultra-high-density’ reprieve thanks to quantum research
- Samsung's foundry customers reportedly flock to TSMC — three firms move to Taiwanese chipmaker in latest exodus
- ID-Cooling DX360 Max Review: Thick cooling, slim price
- Intel's latest flagship 128-core Xeon CPU costs $17,800 — Granite Rapids sets a new high pricing watermark
- AMD Asus X870(E), X670E, and B650(E) mobo buyers enjoy rebates in Germany — no such offers yet spotted in the U.S.
- Intel doesn't have a tool to detect if a chip is affected by crashing errors yet — Intel Default Settings still recommended after patch is applied, but power limits can be raised
October 2
- Arrow Lake hotspot purportedly moves up compared to LGA 1700 — Der8auer preparing water blocks for Core Ultra 200 series
- KVM expansion card utilizes RISC-V CPU architecture for enhanced remote PC management — Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe now available for pre-order starting at $40
- Russia to spend $2.54 billion on its own chipmaking tools industry by 2030
- RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti adoption rates explode among gamers — mid-range Ada GPUs gain ground in latest Steam hardware survey
- Windows 11 24H2 update faces gaming issues — devices with Asphalt 8, older versions of Easy Anti-Cheat on compatibility hold
- Switch emulator Ryujinx taken down after alleged contact with Nintendo
- Intel releases AI Playground app for local AI computing — Lunar Lake support added in the latest version
- Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
- GAMDIAS Kratos M1-750W PSU Review
- If you're looking for a gaming laptop on a small budget, this $449 laptop deal is a winner
- Corning's Extreme ULE glass debuts for next-gen High-NA EUV chipmaking
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 powered DigiPort 'Next-Gen Pocket PC' could be powering your next retro gaming session — may support Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
- Cerebras files for IPO, shows rapid revenue growth and declining losses
October 1
- AMD 24.9.1 drivers mark the proper debut of universal Fluid Motion Frames 2 — along with improved geometric downscaling
- Nvidia reportedly cancels development of dual-rack 72 GPU GB200 — analyst says the company intends to focus on single-rack offerings
- AMD's dense Zen 4c cores go embedded — new EPYC Embedded 8004 series CPUs for compact and efficiency focused servers
- Intel Z890 motherboard reveal reportedly set for October 10 — Arrow Lake CPU review embargo seemingly lifts on October 24
- Go big with 128 Gigabytes of DDR5 RAM for its lowest-ever price
- Office 2024 is now available for purchase at $149 — Office Home & Business 2024 will set you back $249
- Enthusiast built a ridable, fully 3D printed AT-AT Walker from Star Wars
- Nvidia App implements G-Sync controls, multi-monitor RTX HDR, and driver rollback — GeForce Experience users will be migrated to the Nvidia App by the end of year
- Taiwan National Science Council believes China is 10 years behind TSMC
- Microsoft KB5043145 update wreaks havoc on Windows 11 with multiple reboots and BSODs — company rolls back optional update
- Microsoft Defender can now detect insecure Wi-Fi hotspots and enable a VPN — you need to pay for Microsoft 365 and live in a supported region
- Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance
- Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation
- Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master Review: Solid performance, fast M.2, ample USB
- Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2024: Expansion Boards for Every Project
- The Best Raspberry Pi Cases 2024
- Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino 2024
- Best RP2040 Boards 2024
- Best Raspberry Pi Accessories of 2024
- State-owned China Telecom has trained domestic AI LLMs using homegrown chips — one model reportedly uses 1 trillion parameters
- Microsoft launches Windows 11 24H2 alongside several new Copilot features
- Western Digital separates WD.com and SanDisk.com websites, split between HDD and SSD product categories
- Westinghouse's eVinci micro nuclear reactor for data centers delivers 5 megawatts of power for eight years without refueling — microreactors could power next-gen AI data centers
- Snapdragon X2 Elite processors spotted in testing — Qualcomm's Project Glymur reportedly incoming
- Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU
- Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing
- Non-K Core Ultra 9 285 spotted in Geekbench — Matches 14900K in single-core, underwhelms in multi-core