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20 years ago today Steve Jobs took to the Apple WWDC stage to unveil the first-ever Mac Pro desktop computer. This is when Mac workstations transitioned from PowerPC to Intel Xeon chips.

A redesigned Bench tool, inside China's domestic Chipmaking efforts, breaking, and we offer a free technical breakdown of Samsung's latest memory-related announcements.

We’re pleased to introduce Bench 2.0, a ground-up rethink of our benchmarking tool that makes it the most powerful, most intuitive benchmark browser in the business. Bench 2.0 has tons of new features designed to make the data easier to understand, easier to sort through, and more usable.

Some protesters brought a guillotine to public consultation for a potential data center in Salem, Oregon. Even though this was displayed outside the venue, it was a confrontation between the data center's representatives and some of the community members that led the latter to leave early.

SpaceX and Tesla officially begin to build the massive Terafab facility that will be three times bigger than Samsung's Pyeongtaek campus.

Apple reportedly as $1 billion worth of iPhone 18 processor wafers awaiting packaging, which hasn't been completed due to DRAM shortages.

The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor's plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.

Virginia's public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the 'ratepayer protection pledge' into an actionable policy.

Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

Save $130 on this gorgeous 32-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor from MSI and experience crisp visuals in 4K.

Save $300 on this Newegg-made ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD for $1,399.99 right now.

Samsung uses FMS to unveil three next-generation memory technologies — zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND — that target different markets, but all rely on advanced wafer-bonding techniques.

Pick up an entire Alienware RTX 5090 gaming PC for just $380 more than the RTX 5090 GPU bought separately.

An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user's entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it "the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had."

The Nvidia booth at QuakeCon 2026 is offering Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 GPUs at MSRP. Supplies are limited, though, so you should head out ASAP if you want to snag one right now.

Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its compute buildout and allow it to make its AI models specifically more efficient for its designs.

The Omen Max 16 definitely looks like a desktop replacement gaming laptop, but its gaming performance meows instead of roars.

Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.

The per GB price of memory modules have gone back to 2007 levels because of AI demand. This is the first time that prices have shot up in the realm of tech, Lemire says.

The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.

The Sandisk Optimus GX 7100M is the pinnacle of M.2 2230 SSD goodness. High performance, great power efficiency, and a well-supported drive up to 2TB.

Two of the world's largest companies are heading to court over claims of trade secret theft. Apple alleges ex-employees took key Apple secrets and technologies to OpenAI. In responding, OpenAI claims this is based on false truths and misinformation, but even if it wasn't, it doesn't want Apple's trade secrets anyway.

Beelink’s SER10 Max Mini PC comes ready to dual-boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu with OpenClaw pre-installed.

You can save $1,400 right now on this Omen Max gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 64GB RAM, and 2TB SSD storage, and on sale for $5,599.99.

Save $200 on this gorgeous 27-inch WOLED gaming monitor from Gigabyte, and upgrade your gaming experience for less.

You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident" recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company's $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.

Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.

A modder has figured out how to send an audio stream to the Steam Controller's haptic motors in order to make them play pretty much anything. While the wireless connection over the puck is limited, audio quality over a USB cable is genuinely impressive for a device with no speakers.

NASA ensured that all laptops destined for use in the International Space Station had the same 'cannon' power connector by implementing a modification.

Researchers used Evo AI models trained on trillions of DNA building blocks to design entirely new viral genomes, 16 of which became viable bacteriophages capable of infecting and reproducing inside E. coli.

One hardware researcher, Christopher Domas (@xoreaxeaxeax on GitHub), is taking a different approach with the CPU Deoptimization leaderboard, which looks not to make Assembly instructions run as fast as possible, but as slow as possible to find the single instruction with the highest latency.

Intel’s orbital data center architecture uses powerful higher-orbit satellites to manage LEO constellations, reducing reliance on terrestrial control centers.

We tested gaming performance with both NVMe and SATA SSDs across 11 games to determine if upgrading to a faster drive is worth it.

An extensive Atari ST floppy disk database can now easily be accessed by all netizens.

Colorful shows off the overclocking potential on new memory kits equipped with CXMT integrated circuits.

The Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition is a lightweight gaming mouse with a built-in fan for keeping your palm cool.

Residents of Gilroy, California, were caught by surprise when an Amazon data center started construction in their city. Negotiations for the project started in 2020, with public comments open until 2024, but it flew under the radar.

Newegg is offering a big discount on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D bundle that includes an MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard and an MSI MAG Coreliquid A13 240 AIO liquid cooler.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began considering building its sixth DRAM fab in China to boost memory output in the coming years. If all announced projects proceed as planned, the company's production capacity could more than double in the mid-term future.

Microsoft once recommended 32GB of RAM as a future-proof "no worries" upgrade for gamers, but it seems that it wants you to forget that it ever gave that suggestion. That's because laptop manufacturers, including Microsoft itself, has once again started selling models with a base configuration of 8GB of RAM as companies memory prices skyrocket out of control.