Valve to discontinue physical Steam gift cards by the end of 2026 due to scammers — says nefarious actors continue to exploit them despite years of restrictions

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Overenthusiastic GTA 6 fan claims to be monitoring oxygen levels, acoustic noise from the bushes at Rockstar North HQ — promises trailer 3 launch is imminent based on heightened activity

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Analyzing TSMC's fab expansion roadmap — multi-fab N2 ramp, CoWoS, SoIC, and uncorking bottlenecks

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Grab an $800 saving on this RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop from HP with customizable specs and a 20-core CPU — base model costs just $1,999 for 16-inch rig with 16GB DDR5, with OLED costing just $60 extra

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Gigabyte's sensational RTX 5070 Ti Aorus Prime 5 gaming PC has had $500 slashed off the list price at Walmart — 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB of storage for just $1,999

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China drafts $295 billion plan to build national AI data center grid running on 80% homemade silicon — projected 2028 timeline could run into limits of local chip production

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3D-printed nozzles could revolutionize drug and self-healing material manufacturing — MIT-developed triaxial electrospray design makes cleanroom fabrication optional

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Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic's new frontier model is 'state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks'

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Razer Seiren V3 Pro Review: USB, XLR, and 32-bit float

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Anthropic's warning over AI self-improvement has a hidden message — accelerating development requires more compute before companies ever risk losing control of frontier AI models

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Secretlab Atlas review: The one you’ve been waiting for

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Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

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Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload — AI1 satellite compute payload is 120 kW, peaks at 150 kW

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HVAC tech finds former AMD CEO Rory Read's PC in a customer's basement, signed by Lisa Su — unused 2014 desktop had Bulldozer-era hardware inside and a wrapped Windows 8.1 CD

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SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers — aims for 1 GW/year of space AI compute by late 2027 from its satellites

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Startup’s ‘miracle’ solid-state battery actually uses lithium-ion chemistry, according to third-party tests — Donut Lab raised $25M and is valued at $1.25B on what now appear to be debunked claims

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Grab a huge $550 saving on this 4K-ready gaming PC with an RTX 5070 and 7800X3D right now — just $1,449 for this liquid-cooled iBuyPower rig with 16GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card drops to just $649 — Gigabyte's 16GB Gaming OC GPU is $90 cheaper in today's Amazon deal

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Nashville Zoo pushes back on 1.6-acre data center build near animal habitats — Zoo says it planned to use lot for education and conservation center

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Linux developers are using AI vibe coding to keep vintage AMD GPUs alive — R600 driver cleaned up with GitHub Copilot gives HD 2000 to HD 6000 series a new lease of life

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Levelplay shows off magnetically attached fans that are reversible, connect via pogo pins and USB-C – plus an AIO that trades a screen for a big knob

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Chinese startup claims photonic chip production without DUV lithography, says nanoimprint process cuts costs by 90% — 8-inch wafers produced without conventional optical lithography

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Apple demonstrates cross-platform Siri upgrades in macOS 27 Golden Gate at WWDC — update brings Liquid Glass improvements and unifies AI strategy

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Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement — Team Blue claims 12% average jump in newly-supported titles

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Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages

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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade

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Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible – why the CPU to GPU ratio is more important than ever for hyperscalers

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Disgruntled ASML employees threaten to boycott Elon Musk conference appearance — staff express ire at political involvement and 'Nazi sympathies'

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Travlfi JourneyGo 5G mobile hotspot review – Affordably priced, but lacking in performance and features

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Four suspects identified in Finland undersea cable damage investigation — criminal case referred to prosecutors for consideration of charges

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Bag a huge $308 saving on a two-year ExpressVPN Advanced sub and get four bonus months on top for free — 78% discount gets you this fast no-logs VPN service with support for 12 simultaneous connections for just $83

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Nvidia and SK hynix ink multi-year memory co-development and supply agreement — seeks to address extended development cycles

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Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a temporary substitute for the delayed iAPX 432 project

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Executives are cutting jobs for an AI future that hasn't fully arrived yet, even as productivity gains remain difficult to prove — data neither confirms nor refutes an AI unemployment apocalypse

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Amazon is offering a $324 Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU deal in a lightning sale, making it the cheapest model available — 1080p gaming on a budget

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Anycubic Photon Mono 4 dips below $190 saving you 21% off its retail price — Amazon deal saves $50 on this entry-level resin 3D printer

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MSI, Gigabyte debut new 5K 27-inch Mini-LED monitors with 2,304 dimming zones and glossy panel — both models double the native 180 Hz refresh rate to 330 Hz at 1440p

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Ukraine’s birds adapt to battlefield environment, weaving optical fiber nests for warmth — canny feathered friends repurpose scraps of this spun off insulator material

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AMD's RDNA 5 gaming GPUs are coming late next year, according to AIBs at Computex — manufacturers expect new Team Red cards in the second half of 2027 alongside Nvidia

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ASML becomes Europe's most valuable company ever as analysts bet on higher EUV output — its market cap hit $674 billion this week

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Google signs $920M monthly compute deal with SpaceX — company’s projected annual data center revenue to exceed its combined proceeds from Starlink, launch services, and AI in 2025