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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers Fewer people are buying parts and buildin

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Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you’re the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it through their AI of choice to create audio summaries and personal podcasts, thi

Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much as a clock. Google’s newest wearable jum

It’s a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I’m wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double? Googl

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Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the partisan echo chambers, the concentration of influence among a small group of elite us

FLASH Tiny xMEMS chip aims to keep SSDs from losing their cool xMEMS says that its cooling device can stop SSDs throttling and slowing data access. Passive cooling of SSDs in compact, sealed systems like ultra-thin laptops and handheld devices can be inefficient. SSDs are positio

DATA MANAGEMENT Arctera takes compliance platform down SaaS street Arctera is moving to a subscription business model for its unified platform of communications governance offerings. The Arctera Unified Platform (AUP) combines capture, archiving, classification, surveillance, and

DATA PROTECTION Object First corrals Ootbi backup boxes with Fleet Manager Object First has launched a Fleet Manager to monitor and manage multiple Ootbi backup appliance sites through a single dashboard. The Ootbi appliance is an immutable object storage target system for Veeam

Architecture PCIe 8 draft races ahead, final spec still on track for 2028 The v0.5 eighth generation Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standard document has been released ahead of schedule, but the full spec delivery by 2028 remains on track. PCIe interconnects are

StorageMAP scanning 3.5 billion files at the University of Manchester The UK’s University of Manchester is using Datadobi file mapping software to identify old files and move them into lower-cost archive storage. The university has a stellar early involvement with computing. The

Now 15% off, Razer's fantastic Basilisk V3 Pro wireless mouse with 30K DPI sensor is reduced to clear in this limited deal — 30K DPI sensor, optical switches, and long battery life for only $84 An ergonomic mouse that doesn't forego accuracy Are you looking for a shiny new gaming

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Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI’s founding team, including Sam Altman, to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018, as the AI start-up’s leaders grappled over who should control the company and its direction. Musk, a co-founder of the AI group, proposed bringing Altman, Greg Brockma

AMD this morning is launching a new member of their Instinct MI350 series of AI accelerators with a particularly interesting product: a PCIe card. Marking AMD’s first Instinct PCIe card product in nearly half a decade, the new MI350P sees AMD bring its current generation accelera

Less typing, more tanking. Faster logins mean more time in the gaming action — and this week provides GeForce NOW members with a smoother path straight into the battlefield. Cloud gaming is all about instant access to titles across devices, and the latest GeForce NOW update remov

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Tom's Hardware Verdict The Core Ultra 5 225 is too expensive to justify, falling short on all counts against the Ryzen 5 9600X for the same price. With a slight cut, however, it becomes much more compelling, as recent budget CPUs below $150 have largely dried up. Pros - + Highly

Artificial Intelligence Agents that transact: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe We’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in how software gets built and used. AI agents are moving beyond assistants that wait for instructions. They call

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. If you live in the Sun Belt, you could soon be on the road next to a driverless big rig. Distribution giant McLane is planning to deploy unsupervised, self-driving t

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 Musk hands over massive computing power to xAI

Core Scientific’s Muskogee Bet: Can Crypto-Era Infrastructure Fuel AI? The operator’s data center buildout in Oklahoma, paired with a new 1.5 GW plan in Texas, positions the company to deliver roughly 3 GW of AI and high-density colocation capacity. Core Scientific plans to scale

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 A potent gaming PC with over a $1000 slashed off the list price Here we are, months into the pricing apocalypse, and anyone who trie

Porsche is known for building cars that really are extremely good right out of the box. Yes, they tend to be more expensive than the other German luxury car brands, particularly once the option list comes out. But it doesn’t take very long behind the wheel before the driving expe

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 argues that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing u

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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 At least 19 municipalities have since frozen approvals. After a developer sued a townsh

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