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Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio will remain in his reelection race, after a key deadline passed for the GOP to replace him as its nominee, despite mounting calls from fellow Republicans for him to drop his reelection bid. Under Ohio law, Republicans have until Monday at 4 p.m.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is not currently in direct talks with the U.S. to end the war with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz, despite Washington's assertions that a deal is near. A brief hiatus in fighting between the U.S. and Iran after a June 17 mem

AMD has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a developer of specialized AI inference silicon. The acquisition is intended to expand AMD’s inference capabilities as AI deployments shift toward real-time and high-volume production workloads, where ef

The WisdPi WP-UT9 USB 10GbE Adapter brings 10Gbase-T networking to laptops and small form factor systems through a USB Type-C connection. Inside the compact aluminum housing sits the Realtek RTL8159 controller, the same chipset we saw in the Xikestor SKN-U310GT adapter earlier th

Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid 'Dobby's grave' - Published Harry Potter fans succeeded in diverting a multimillion-pound power link between the UK and Ireland after they complained it would disturb a "memorial" to Dobby the House Elf. The £430

Over the past two years, end-user computing (EUC) has evolved at a pace that we have never seen before. This is being driven by rapid AI integration, major platform licensing shifts, and massive enterprise migrations to Windows 11. In this rapidly changing environment, independen

Wolfbox MF60 Compressed Air Duster is nearly 40% off in a limited-time deal — powerful rechargeable device's propulsion fan runs at up to 110,000 RPM Such low pricing blows us away. Your beloved PCs deserve a regular clean as part of their maintenance schedule. If you miss a seas

Tom's Hardware Verdict The KB5 is a nice low-profile, full-size keyboard with a touchscreen and extra macro keys. Pros - +Touchscreen - +Full-size - +8K polling Cons - -Firmware update is, as usual, unnecessarily convoluted - -Volume roller is in a weird place - -Wrist rest is fl

The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef. South African journalist Kimon de Greef takes readers to the Sonoran desert in the southwestern US, where a powerful yet obscure drug has attracted evangelists including journalist Michael Pollan and the Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bi

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday she has not "ruled out" a run for president in 2028 as the Democratic Party's left flank surges in midterm primaries across the country. "I haven't ruled out the possibility, and I'm very humbled [by] the tremendous amount of support out

Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases It could be a disaster if the actual space in your PC case i

Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks Custom 3D printed block was glued to the GPU so water went straight to the die. The fearless TrashBench has been testing direct die water coolin

It wasn’t even 30 days after I left Adobe after their acquisition of my last start-up EchoSign / Adobe Sign when … they ripped out the Free edition. It had millions of users over time, was cheap to provide and simple to use, and materially helped with top-of-funnel, at least for

Earnings Watch S&P 500 sales growth is at a nearly 5-year high. Here’s what’s behind the surge. Energy companies in the S&P 500 have put up a 42.5% revenue gain in the second quarter, powering the index’s sales performance While Big Tech companies are driving the S&P 500’s profit

Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint It will form the biggest interior structure on Earth by a massive margin. Mos

x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit Windows. A developer has ported Mi

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests N1X is finally taking shape. Two new Geekbench listings for Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark laptop superchip

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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows Drone maker DJI says the “military-grade” label is a category error, The Federal Commun

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases Company insists it remains committed to 2040 net-zero carbon emission goals

Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing Some people understand the need to go virtual for safety, but ask why public commen

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs Yet another closely fought battle. The mid-range CPU segment has become more competitive than ever, with both Intel and AMD refreshing their lineups and pushing aggressive pricing. In

Investors are closely monitoring earnings releases of artificial intelligence companies amid concerns about the durability of high spending and demand. While quarterly results provide key insights into a company's performance and execution, it is prudent to focus on long-term pro

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Abel puts a big chunk of Berkshire's cash to work In his second quarter as the new CEO of B

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data A trick to break the walls of hidden partitions. From the outside, the Phantom Drive, created by

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique The GIF is both the code and the precise result from running the code. Champion coder Yusuke Endoh has been flexing

Over the past two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their AI models went rogue during routine security testing. In explaining what happened, the companies each mentioned the same small Israeli startup: Irregular. Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Ir

Over the past two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their AI models went rogue during routine security testing. In explaining what happened, the companies each mentioned the same small Israeli startup: Irregular. Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Ir

Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution Micron used to produce some of the best RAM available to mainstream use

Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity. Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands of cubic kilometers of magma in about two weeks, roughly a thousand times

Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore

After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting stor