Intel Core Ultra 5 225 review: Arrow Lake’s forgotten CPU needs a price cut
Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225 has been swept under the rug, given the disappointing debut of Arrow Lake, but with a slight price adjustment, it could be a compelling CPU.
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Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers
Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.
Save $1,100 on this powerful gaming rig with Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, Intel 14900KF, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage — ABS Stratos Aqua on deep discount
Score the potent ABS Stratos Aqua ready-to-game prebuilt with i9-14900KF and RTX 5070 Ti for just $2,175.
Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement
Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do.
After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT
Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities.
High-capacity HDD roadmap: the race to 100TB and zettabyte-scale storage — Toshiba, Seagate and WD outline three distinct strategies
As data center demand surges toward zettabyte scale, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital are pursuing sharply different technology strategies in their pursuit towards 100TB and beyond.
GameNative unlocks up to 100 fps gameplay for PC games on Android devices by adding multi-frame generation — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance
GameNative's latest update brings Lossless Scaling's multi-frame generation technology to Android devices. Enabling a triple-digit FPS experience from a 30 FPS base frame rate.
College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 layers of protection
College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains
Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion
Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.
Save nearly $300 on AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Asus Prime RTX 5070 bundle, plus an 850W PSU — score the core components to a new gaming rig for only $940
Pick up a 9850X3D, RTX 5070, 850W PSU, and a copy of Capcom's Pragmata game for just $940
3D-printed rocket fuel successfully tested, could enable lighter missiles and faster production rates — new additive manufacturing process tested at 1,800 PSI
Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing.
PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028
PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans
Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.
Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%
Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.
Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don't want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood
According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of last year, almost half of all queried Americans said they would oppose an AI data center being built near their community.
Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device
Valve just released the 3D CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, allowing gamers and enthusiasts to design and 3D print their own accessories for these gadgets. The company even encouraged everyone to share their creations.
New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options
The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays. The startup behind this model is a small team based in rural England and runs out of a barn located some 30 miles southeast of London.
AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs
AMD plans to expand its portfolio of CPUs for data centers that will be targeted at different workloads.
SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 Review: The Bright and Bold
The SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 is a really good mouse, despite being a little sluggish.
Dell XPS 16 (2026) Review: A flagship return to form
Dell’s revived XPS 16 delivers the elite experience the brand is renowned for, though be prepared to pay for the privilege.