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With the limitations of copper looming, the industry is transitioning to photonic interconnects to scale data center capabilities. We spoke to experts such as Lightmatter chief executive Nick Harris about the new scale-out paradigm and the battle for control over emerging standards.

Data center projects are facing increasing opposition from surrounding communities, making consent even far scarcer than the chips and power needed to run these facilities. Any developer planning to construct one must now consider the people living around the proposed site and take account for the months or years needed to approve it, if it even gets the green light.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raised several points against the rising sentiment in Washington that U.S. firms should be prevented from accessing Chinese AI models. He also advocates for open models, which he says makes AI more secure.

The company is making adjustments to some existing pre-orders.

Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC will let gamers play classic Xbox games on PC and handheld.

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A modder by the name of Dryxio has built perhaps the most impressive mod in the history of Grand Theft Auto by combining three different GTA games into one, connected through real-time, fully functional portals.

Intel will design, package, and fabricate Fortinet's sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6) on its Intel 4 node.

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The USB ecosystem is entering another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade.

The bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers companies earning at least $500 million in annual revenue from a model trained with compute costing more than $100 million.

The Arctic Senza AI 370 is a fanless mini PC designed to mount under your desk. Everyday performance isn’t held back by the lack of active cooling, and its soldered dual-channel 32GB LPDDR5X-8000 is appreciated during the RAM shortages. The meager front panel I/O is the only major drawback to the design.

Some customers have discussed commitments running two years or longer, one source told Reuters.

Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.

The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems.

BNEF's December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025.

A new Bloomberg report is claiming that Apple is working on a leasing program called "Apple Upgrade" that will allow customers to finance hardware over the course of 2 or 3 years. At the end of the term, they can keep the device or hand it back, or even upgrade to a newer model if payments are completed early.

Five tech giants have $1.65 trillion in data center obligations that are listed off their balance sheets. These liabilities are added as footnotes in their quarterly statements but will become due and payable once these data centers start operating.

Borrowing a driver from the upcoming RTX Spark, VoidTech managed to get x86 Windows games running on a Huawei Arm workstation.

Meta will reportedly use a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400-series accelerators with a memory system cut to 144GB of HBM4, allegedly for select workloads only.

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Electricity, particularly green power, and memory will be the world's two scarcest resources over the next decade, Chen said.

The developers of the RPCS3 have announced that their PlayStation 3 emulator’s minimum system requirements have been adjusted to include a crop of even older Radeon graphics cards. Now gamers still cradling ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPUs can join in the fun.

What started as a routine Costco grocery run ended with a heavily discounted display gaming PC, complete with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its gang escape from their cage and hack into HuggingFace's production servers — unprecedented incident raises eyebrows and pulses

DLSS 5 gets a second showing with Nvidia opening up the upscaler to object-level tweaking for developers with three different models.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services.

The Amazon site has suffered multiple hits since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran. The IRGC claims to have 'destroyed' AWB Bahrain, but the company has moved operations off the facility since early April.

Nvidia gave Tom’s Hardware an exclusive look inside its previously undisclosed Engineering SuperLab near Nvidia HQ, where we saw Vera Rubin NVL72 in action.

Nvidia has detailed new features of its Rubin architecture.

Nvidia reveals all of the details about its Vera data center CPU, including an architectural breakdown of the Olympus core and the first (unofficial) SPEC CPU 2026 results.

As Nvidia continues to roll out Vera, its first custom CPU for agentic AI, it revealed that its last-gen Grace design has seen mass deployments, even as a standalone CPU for non-agentic workloads.

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China's new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it's just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it's cheaper. But it's not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control.

We paired up and tested a pair of Dell's Pro Max with GB10, to see what a small cluster of Nvidia's Spark silicon can do. At $6332 each, as of writing, it's still an expensive prospect, but far cheaper and more desk-friendly than a big server box full of GPUs and the other necessary high-end hardware.

The settlement was finally approved by a U.S. federal judge, with a majority of the plaintiffs accepting the amount. A few members of the group refused, citing the small amount compared to the number of infringed titles, and are pursuing a separate lawsuit of their own.

SP6 will draw on what the companies described as Intel's expertise in disaggregated semiconductor design and advanced packaging.

Chinese AI developer Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) has finished building a 1GW data center stocked exclusively with domestically made chips and has switched part of it on.

TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.

Intel plans to cut the employee numbers of its Data Center group, months after announcing record growth since its disastrous announcement in 2024.

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Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line 'welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.' This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year.