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AMD is reportedly developing an entry-level RDNA 4 GPU with 8GB of VRAM — RX 9050 rumored to debut with 2048 cores, more than RX 9060 Bizarrely, the RX 9050 will allegedly have more cores than the RX 9060, likely to compete with the RTX 5050 Despite the ongoing memory shortage, A

The ORICO X50 is a Thunderbolt 5 portable SSD line for those who want external storage with much more bandwidth than a standard USB drive. ORICO is offering it in a few different forms, including a diskless version and preconfigured 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models, so it can work

Five-year-old European military drone startup Helsing is reportedly close to raising a new $1.2 billion round at about an $18 billion valuation. The round is expected to be led by Dragoneer and co-led by existing Helsing investor Lightspeed, the Financial Times reported. Helsing

President Donald Trump has invited executives from some of the biggest U.S. companies — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg — to join his trip to China this week, according to a White House official. Also expe

Apple has released version 26.5 of all of its operating systems today: iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and version 26.5 of the HomePod software (whew). None of these are particularly momentous updates, which is pretty normal this late in

About a year ago, I was in my parents’ living room, where a new TV sat in its box, waiting to be set up. My sister-in-law pointed to a woman on the packaging and said, “Oh, that’s Dua Lipa!” I barely know who she is, so I didn’t think it was unusual for the singer to be featured

It’s about time that the microdrama trend has gone mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that it’s launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream on its app. These vertical video series, wit

Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings If you work in aerospace, automotive, or heavy industry manufacturing, your organization likely maintains vast repositories of technical documents. These documents combine written specificat

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Artificial Intelligence How Miro uses Amazon Bedrock to boost software bug routing accuracy and improve time-to-resolution from days to hours This post is co-authored with Philipp Pavlov, Dmytro Romantsov, Evgeny Mironenko, and Gowri Suryanarayana from Miro. Miro is an AI-powered

Digg is back from the dead. Again. Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose’s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it

Cloud Storage Rapid: Turbocharged object storage for AI and analytics Marco Abela Senior Product Manager Luigi Pontes Senior Product Manager At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and

MSP-focussed Virtuozzo goes all-in on AI Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) supplier Virtuozzo has converged its several products into the single Virtuozzo Infrastructure System (V/IS) and focussed it on AI, saying it’s built with AI, by AI, and for AI. The company has a VMware

Dell Technologies has announced two major updates to its Dell AI Platform with AMD, targeting organizations scaling from pilot AI deployments to full production environments. The enhancements focus on high-performance training infrastructure and a modular architecture that balanc

NVIDIA and IREN Limited have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of next-generation AI infrastructure, with plans to support up to 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA DSX-aligned AI infrastructure across IREN’s global data center pipeline over time. The partnership b

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Cluster-level reliability for trillion-parameter models on TPUs Akshay Vasudev Senior Staff Software Engineer Mohan Pichika Group Product Manager Frontier AI models have redefined the unit of compute. At trillion-parameter scale, AI training requires thousands of interconnected c

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Monday shrugged off any negative impact of artificial intelligence on employment, saying the emergent technology isn't costing anyone their jobs right now. "There's no sign in the data that AI is costing anybody thei

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), “prominent cyber crime threat actors” were planning to use the vulnerability for a “mass exploitation event” that w

Compute And Memory Price Hikes Drive IT Spending Way Higher Demand for CPU and GPU compute as well as main memory and flash memory were already so high that IT spending in 2026 was going to set an all-time historical record. And now, with intense shortages of these components, IT

- We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. - Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-protocol that helps messages survive the loss of a devic

Redwood Materials has finally found a new chief financial officer roughly a year and a half after its last one departed. He’s a familiar face to the former Tesla executives running the battery recycling and energy storage company. On Monday, Redwood Materials said it has hired fo

Future-proof your data strategy: AlloyDB adds PostgreSQL 18 and new Extended Support Bjoern Rost Product Manager As you look out at your 2026 infrastructure roadmap, your goal is to balance the need for rapid innovation with operational stability. You shouldn't have to choose bet

Architecting a resilient, scalable and secure foundation for the agentic era Leigh Palmer VP, Technology, Delivery & Operations, Google Public Sector Across the public sector, the conversation has shifted; we are no longer just talking about the potential of AI, we are already se

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Artificial Intelligence Amazon Quick: Accelerating the path from enterprise data to AI-powered decisions Enterprise data with tens of millions of rows, row-level and column-level security, and dozens of datasets spanning multiple business domains need AI-generated answers that ar

Playable copies of Microsoft’s Forza Horizon 6 have appeared on game piracy sites more than a week before the game’s official launch, the apparent result of a mistake in uploading the game’s files to Steam over the weekend. Since the early days of Steam, players have been able to

Formula 1’s on-track racing might look a bit different in 2026 than it did in 2006 or 1986, but it’s reassuring to know that the sport’s off-track action remains as engrossing as ever. Right now, that involves F1’s stakeholders trying to get out of a corner they painted themselve

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Tom's Hardware Verdict The TCL 27R94 is one of the brightest monitors you can buy. To that, it adds high pixel density, saturated color and excellent gaming performance. Oh, and it’s a great value too. Pros - + High contrast and high brightness - + Clear, sharp and colorful image

Micron has become a standout favorite during the ongoing memory chip rally as tech companies scramble to secure supply amid shortages. The stock is up yet again on Monday even as the overall market is sagging on rising energy prices and concerns of renewed fighting between the US

Ten enterprise AI storage systems reviewed and reported The consulting firm Network Storage Advisors has analyzed and reported on nine suppliers’ enterprise AI storage systems and their suitability for AI file workloads running on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs. Network Storage Advi

DRAM and gloom-glut cyclicality The DRAM bubble is getting bigger with talk of large customers willing to underwrite fab expansion costs to guarantee supply. Historically the DRAM market has cycled between boom and bust, shortage and over-supply, up-cycle and down-cycle. Some ana

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The New York Times is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over yet. On Monday, the Times announced that it would be turning the hit mobile word game into a televised game show on NBC. “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, while The Times and “The Tonight Show