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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air These are 200mm wafers, packing between 30 to 120,000 chips, depending on the product. Russia’s Mikron is earni

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later The patent sparked the largest settlement in history at the time. 75 years ago this week, on May 11th, 1951, MIT electrical engin

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Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app. Microsoft announced Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) for Xbox

US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals The company's expansion from design to manufacturing has got some of its customers worried. Arm Holdi

Josef Prusa says Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box' — warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks Bambu Labs continues to draw fire. While the internet is up in arms over Bambu Lab threatening legal action agains

At age 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik’s multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry her grandchildren. She had to move to a bigger house to make room for the wheelc

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores CPUs can successfully do GPU jobs, but there is one important caveat. The vast majority of leading supercomputers and AI clusters today use CPU

OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents Peter Steinberger's three-person team runs 100 AI coding agents on OpenAI's tab. Peter Steinberger, the Austrian

Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan independence The president repeated his demand to move chip production to the U.S. Taiwan's foreign ministry declared the island a "so

Jensen Huang slams 'stupid' analogy comparing GPUs to nuclear weapons — Nvidia CEO says government should allow selling GPUs to 'adversarial countries' Are AI GPUs as powerful as nukes? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang served as a guest speaker at Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems course

Maker packs an opinionated, googly-eyed AI chatbot into a mobile suitcase, powered by an Nvidia Jetson — entirely local machine entity runs Gemma 4 E4B and can respond in 200ms This offline Nvidia Jetson Orin NX Super 16GB-based suitcase robot is called Sparky. If you would like

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We purchased the BZIZU Realtek RTL8127 PCIe 10GbE network adapter for $46, and it looks very familiar. This appears to be another brand label on the same basic RTL8127 PCIe Gen4 x1 card we covered in our original RTL8127 review. That matters because the earlier cards often came t

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic operating system f

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one of the main

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ASML Partners With Tata Electronics to Advance India Chip Plans ASML Holding NV entered into a partnership agreement with Tata Electronics Private Limited aimed at ramping up India’s goal to develop domestic chip-manufacturing capabilities. The Dutch company’s technology will hel

Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss. I’ve spent th

After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it’s trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn’t edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at s

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired. This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI dep

The Core Ultra 7 270K was too good, so Intel scrapped the flagship Core Ultra 9 290K Plus — benchmarks of the 290K prototype find slim 2% faster performance in gaming and applications The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus just wouldn't have made sense. Intel canned the Core Ultra 9 290K Plu

Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion. But in 2019, when it was three years old, it

AI Poised to Tilt Job Market Leverage Toward Older Workers When it comes to job cuts, older workers are often disproportionately affected. But a new survey of chief executive officers suggests this won’t be a given as companies adopt artificial intelligence. More than 40% of CEOs

Get an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for around the price of just the GPU — a high-end battle station for under $4,000 The system costs nearly the same as buying an RTX 5090 GPU separately. With a current market price close to $4,000, the only way to get a reasonably priced Nvidia RT

Trump calls $14 billion Taiwan arms deal a 'negotiating chip' with China after Xi said Taiwan issue could lead to 'clashes and even conflicts' — Trump says 'Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit' A $14 billion arms sale includes air defense systems that Taiwan says i

Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans Hill County is the first jurisdiction to pass a temporary ban on data c

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May 16th, 2026 ‘The Oppenheimer’ of the AI Era What drives the tech titans behind the AI arms race? For some, it's the thrill of scientific discovery; for others, it's the pursuit of profit. Through the story of DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and other AI leaders, author Seba

Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models. On May 20, Amazon will end support for the following Kindle devices: - Kindle 1st Generation - Kindle 2nd Generation - Kindle DX - Kindle DX Graphite - Kindle K

60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market Only 25% of you will even try in the next year As AI buildouts continue to consume the global DRAM supply, and prices of SSDs, graphic

Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer's speed by 90%, dropping 3DBenchy print time from 90 minutes to a mere 8 minutes and 41 seconds — enthusiast claims big quality improvements by using jailbroken quad-core console If you have an older printer like the Prusa MK3