Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs — company responds with guidance, removes malicious package
For the most part, you can rest assured that your device will remain uncompromised by malware if you keep to verified, trusted sources for downloading software.…
And yet, software booby traps sometimes find their way onto legitimate…
If you have a Geekom mini-PC from those lines and have installed the L…
Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms
Alibaba has agreed to sell its game development unit, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, according to an internal staff memo sent Monday by Lingxi CEO Zhou Bingshu, per Reuters.…
A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Alibaba stands to …
The sale transfers Alibaba's entire stake in the studio and takes the …
Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under
There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS.We reported last week that the station lost access to 50TB of data representing 70 years of TV history.…
The issue was that its cloud storage provider went out of business and…
In the meantime, a judge has cleared the way for Nine PBS to retrieve …
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
We're officially in dire straits.There's almost no way, if you're reading this site, that you aren't aware that memory prices have become entirely divorced from reality.…
Some are calling it the RAMpocalypse; I prefer "RAMageddon.
" Whatever you want to call it, though, the reality for PC builders ri…
America's largest grid wants to cut power to new data centers first during shortages — 50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs
PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.…
, asked federal regulators on Thursday to approve rules that would cut…
The filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission follows two c…
Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000
The component crisis continues to wreak havoc across the computer industry, and its latest victim is Intel's top-tier workstation GPU, the Arc Pro B70.…
The Battlemage card launched with an MSRP of $949 earlier this year an…
Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation — energy and water consumption, air quality, noise, and cultural resource protection among conce
Cherokee Nation, the largest tribe in the U.S.…
with more than 475,000 citizens, has banned hyperscale data center dev…
found that 64% of 1,593 surveyed citizens opposed construction of the …
AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two
The global data center optical interconnect market is expected to reach $144.4 billion by 2030, up from $13.…
7 billion in 2024 — a 48.
1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) — according to a China Insights …
GoldenEye 007 for N64 has been '100% decompiled' — success of half-decade project opens up possibilities for complex mods and ports
A reverse engineering and retro gaming enthusiast has finally succeeded in their goal of decompiling GoldenEye 007, the monumental James Bond adventure shooter from Rare.…
This half-decade project led by KholdFuzion reached 100% on its GitHub…
The milestone opens the doors to a myriad of possibilities, including …
Japanese repair shop sells GDDR6 VRAM upgrades for $25 per GB during memory crisis — RTX 2080 Ti modded to 22GB for just $282, double the VRAM creates a budget AI powerhouse
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is somewhat of a legend in the modding community when it comes to VRAM upgrades.…
The card's strange 11GB memory config lends itself very well to repair…
We've seen it happen in China and the UAE before, and now, a Japanese …
Save $60 on Corsair's impressive 96% gaming keyboard with Elgato Stream Deck integration — the Vanguard 96 RGB features pre-lubed mechanical switches, sound dampening, a color LCD screen, and a full-s
Desk space is an important commodity, and for some, it's an ongoing battle to keep as much free space as possible.…
Apart from regularly removing clutter, one thing that has popped up ov…
Gamers have gotten used to sporting tiny 60% keyboards in an effort to…
Get an RTX 5090 Alienware PC for less than the price of the GPU alone — $1,550 discount means Area-51 is $20 cheaper than buying the card by itself
The cheapest Nvidia RTX 5090 in stock and available to buy right now costs at least $4,799, and even then, you won't be buying one from a reputable vendor.…
That makes this Dell Alienware desktop discount all the more enticing.
Right now you can save $1,550 off the potent Alienware Area-51 Gaming …
PC Partner warns of rising GPU prices and budget card shortages — analyst suggests makers are hiking prices beyond memory costs
PC Partner, the maker of AMD, Inno3D, Manli, Sapphire, and Zotac-branded graphics cards, expects its costs to rise meaningfully in the second half of the year, which will in turn increase graphics card pricing, particularly for entry-level budget cards.…
The price hike is expected to happen amid dropping shipments of add-in…
Meanwhile, analyst Jon Peddie tells us that he doubts that shipments o…
Air conditioner powered by a 'PC fan' labeled a scam by German consumer organization — there's a reason this lookalike AC unit is far cheaper than its competitors
Germany's leading consumer testing organization, Stiftung Warentest, has warned people to avoid fake air conditioners from Epicooler.…
de reports that this direct-from-China brand also ships to the U.
, and its so-called air conditioner contains “a simple PC fan combined…
Senior PC store staff accused of running secret rival shop with stolen inventory — Hong Kong retailer claims substantial losses over year-long scheme
Future Technology, a PC retailer in Wan Chai's Computer Zone 298 mall in Hong Kong, has accused two of its senior employees of stealing company stock for roughly a year and reselling it through a custom-built web store they secretly ran.…
The retailer says it has referred the case to Hong Kong police, and th…
Point Connect responded the same day with a statement posted to its we…
This portable, external CD/DVD drive comes with a 2.5-inch SATA and an SD Card slot for just $26 — Save 10% on a modern essential for keeping physical media alive
As the AI boom consumes everything tangible around us, it's even more important to keep physical media alive.…
Since our current tech isn't equipped to interface with these relics, …
Alronly makes a great CD/DVD player that also comes with a 2.
Dell CEO unveils new 'Dude, you’re getting a Dell (AI server rack)' video — PC maker recycles famous PC ad campaign to tout its new AI data center products
Dell has created a humorous 2026 update to its iconic early-2000s “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” series of commercials.…
Company CEO Michael Dell shared a brief new 10-second commercial this …
com/TyXlFIR9f1August 15, 2026The revamped AI era ‘Dude, you’re getting…
Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback
A maker known as Makestreme has printed an entire two-minute song onto a sheet of paper, publishing the full build and source code on Hackster.…
The trick is Meta's EnCodec neural audio codec, which crunched a 2.
9MB MP3 down to roughly 21KB of latent tokens, a reduction of about 1,…
Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 $48,000 flying-wing
A drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be a MICH 2000, a reverse-engineered copy of a Chinese aircraft Beijing refused to sell to Ukraine, according to a factory report from defense outlet Oboronka.…
Built by an unnamed manufacturer exclusively for the SBU's 'Alpha' spe…
It’s understood that Ukrainian developers covertly photographed the Ch…
Critical macOS Screen Sharing flaw gives attackers remote root access — CISA bumps bug to 9.8 severity following active Monero cryptojacking attacks
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) reported on August 12 that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-65400, an authentication bypass in macOS Screen Sharing, to compromise Macs with port 5900 exposed to the Internet.…
In every case reported to the agency, attackers obtained root access a…
Apple patched the flaw on August 6 in an out-of-band update covering m…
Intel says it will launch new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in data center — VP Robert Hallock hopes enthusiasts ‘do the math’ compared to AMD
Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in the data center.…
Tom’s Hardware Premium recently sat down with Intel VP and general man…
Hallock opened up about Intel’s enthusiast roadmap and said the compan…
3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights
Privacy concerns and multiple incidents have led many citizens to take it upon themselves to block or disable Flock cameras.…
They often do this either by placing black trash bags over them or by …
Now, the former can be dangerous, especially if you don’t have equipme…
3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers
(Image credit: EPFL/Science Advance)A research team from Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Microbiorobotic Systems Laboratory (MICROBS) has developed a “sound-powered engine” that uses the resonant frequency of a specially shaped 3D-printed cavity to “energize” the air inside it and use it for thrust.…
The researchers then 3D-printed two small drones that were propelled b…
Sound waves at specific frequencies made the air molecules in these ob…
Modern OLEDs are just as vulnerable to burn-in as 2017 panels in 10,000-hour test — twice the brightness and 27% efficiency gains offer crucial headroom
Rtings.com is back with another longevity test for OLED TVs — this time, comparing newer models from 2020 to 2023 against an older model from 2017.…
Results show that units from either era develop similar burn-in after …
But modern TVs are much brighter and use less power, which can mitigat…