SUSE Positions Hardware Choice as a Core Part of Sovereign AI

SUSE is positioning architectural choice as a key element of sovereign AI.…

• It argues that enterprises should be able to use Nvidia accelerators t…

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Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration

A team of scientists in Germany and Japan has demonstrated a solid-state cooling system that uses heat to generate the mechanical work required for refrigeration, potentially opening a route to processors and data centers that recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.…

• Developed by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT…
• The prototype combines two ultra-thin metal films that serve as an act…
• A 22-micrometer titanium-nickel (TiNi) shape-memory film contracts whe…

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Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bundle

Newegg is constantly updating its RAM combo deals.Sometimes the deals are good, but that's not always the case.…

• This four-item combo (including the free AIO cooler) is one of the bet…
• That's a savings of $240.
• If you apply the discount to the RAM, it’s only $260, and what many wo…

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xTool F2 Ultra UV dual laser engraver review: So cool it’s hot

The xTool F2 Ultra UV laser is not your ordinary laser.Normally, lasers mark, engrave, and cut by burning the material.…

• Instead, a UV laser uses a shorter wavelength of light (355 nm) that p…
• These are called “cold” lasers, but I still wouldn’t put my hand in th…
• The UV laser generates extremely clean cuts and engravings in wood and…

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Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods

Nvidia's current-gen Blackwell family includes some of the best graphics cards on the market with exceptional performance, but pushing silicon to its limit can always unlock more power.…

• This is where enthusiast software, such as mVolt+, comes in, allowing …
• Unfortunately, it seems like a new driver update has shut down mVolt+ …
• the latest nvidia driver (615.

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Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 ‘Architects of AI’ — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as industry titans inexplicably not listed

TIME published its 2026 TIME100 AI list last week, with one notable omission: Jensen Huang, one of eight TIME-designated “Architects of AI,” whose GPUs power the training infrastructure for all frontier AI models and whose company has just reported one of the largest sets of quarterly earnings in American corporate history.…

• AMD CEO Lisa Su is missing too, while Ben Affleck, Senator Bernie Sand…
• Aside from TIME’s Architect of AI and joint Person of the Year designa…
• This year, however, Nvidia’s sole entry is Josh Parker, the company’s …

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Trust, But Verify

We have to thank the Russians for the expression, ‘trust but verify’ (doveryai, no proveryai).…

• Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reag…
• He then used it to talk about nuclear disarmament discussions with the…
• Since then, it has been used extensively in many geopolitical contexts…

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When Off-The-Shelf Isn’t Enough

Solving High-Current Connectivity Challenges in Data Centre Cooling As data centre power densities increase, cooling equipment must deliver greater performance, reliability and consistency while supporting

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The First Battery Was Inspired By a Dead Frog

In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there’s an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper.…

• It’s not at all obvious that this humble object is the starting point …
• The object’s invention in 1799 grew out of a disagreement that Alessan…
• The Debate Over Animal Electricity Galvani was a well-respected Italia…

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Key Nvidia and Intel supplier raided over alleged China origin fraud — Unimicron faces probe over PCB origin washing, risk of 40% U.S. tariff penalty

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world’s largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products, according to Nikkei Asia.…

• Investigators raided the company’s headquarters in Taoyuan’s Guishan D…
• Prosecutors say that the alleged conduct contravened Articles 216, 210…
• Wang, the person identified as the PCB department general manager, was…

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China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has announced in a social media post that it has started mass production of LPDDR6 memory for a Xiaomi smartphone, Reuters reports.…

• This is not entirely unexpected given the general LPDDR6 mass-producti…
• Yet, there are caveats.
• Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory(Image credit: SK Hynix)AI data cente…

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Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dongle, then relents after social media back

An ardent Asus customer who's bought over $30,000 worth of the company's products recently had his brand loyalty put to the test.…

• Lucas (u/lucaslucaalucas123) wanted a replacement for the 2.
• 4 GHz wireless receiver that came with his ROG Delta II KJP gaming hea…
• He took to Reddit to express his disappointment and was met with a hop…

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Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over pri

In a strange turn of events under Taiwanese law, both parties in a judicial contest lost against each other.…

• A man sued his wife for having an extramarital affair and used footage…
• He ultimately won the lawsuit and was awarded a healthy ~$19,000 USD i…
• The courts ruled in her favor, forcing the man to pay a fine equal to …

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Advanced Cooling Technologies Address the Automotive Heat Challenge

Historically, vehicle cooling architectures were engineered almost exclusively around internal combustion engines (ICE), cabin climate controls, and basic electrical systems.…

• This traditional paradigm is

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Photonics Forces A Chiplet Rethink

Key Takeaways: Photonics changes chiplet design from a placement problem into a multi-physics co-design problem because thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, and optical effects interact bidirectionally.…

• The closer optical chiplets move to compute silicon, the more bandwidt…
• Chip architects should start with traffic patterns, system architectur…
• Optical chiplets promise a way out of the bandwidth, power, and reach …

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Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99

OLED gaming monitors have become increasingly affordable in recent years, as the technology has matured in addition to the growing competition among major brands.…

• If you’ve been saving up to make the jump to an ultrawide OLED monitor…
• With an original listed price of $1,200, it is currently on sale and c…
• 99, resulting in a substantial discount of 50%.

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DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 neural rendering tech leaked earlier this week through a pre-release version of the DLL inside NBA 2K27 (which is in early access).…

• The community quickly got it working on RTX 50-series GPUs, some of th…
• Now, thanks to rapid development in the RenoDX Discord server, the DLL…
• Go deeper with TH Premium: GPUs(Image credit: Noctua)Desktop GPU Roadm…

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Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C — DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code

In the wake of AI vibecoding infiltrating the retro revival scene, human efforts tend to stand out, especially when they're as novel as this project.…

• A bunch of developers have rebuilt Donkey Kong 64 from scratch for PC,…
• You just need to provide a ROM, and "DK64: ReKONGpiled" will play it w…
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SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months

Electricity supply in the U.S.is a limiting factor preventing AI data centers from coming online as quickly as possible.…

• Because of this, many projects are turning to portable natural gas tur…
• This has driven demand for turbines, so Elon Musk said on X that Space…
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DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans

Around 2015, a trio of Pakistani friends took it upon themselves to digitize a large number of out-of-print books in Urdu, many of them lithographs — they call it the Ibteda Digital Library.…

• They did it for the love of the language, with no budget or support, b…
• However, eventually one of the trio came up with a finely-tuned machin…
• The project certainly stands in contrast to the current practice of la…

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At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

Several developers and game publishers at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany, have reported equipment theft at the exhibition.…

• According to Video Games Chronicle (VGC), Mimic developer Ryan Laley, …
• Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory(Image credit: SK Hynix)AI data cente…
• Meanwhile, Tessera Studios had two laptops and a Steam Deck taken from…

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Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

Valve might've just suffered its biggest data leak in history, but it wasn't a hack or a security breach.…

• Instead, the company left an endpoint to its legacy infrastructure acc…
• The files are still being explored, but we know they include both Valv…
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Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone

Perhaps as a result of AI hyperscaler demand soaking up all the cutting-edge flash, external storage makers in recent months have seemed to focus less on speed and more on adding unique and helpful features.…

• We saw this with Sharge's Disk Pro and its built-in hub, Orico's Book …
• Adata seems to be playing a similar game with its latest drive, the Ur…
• The Urban Tapsafe external SSD is quite compact, about the size of a l…

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China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

China's leading DRAM producer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed a lawsuit against the U.…

• Department of Defense in an attempt to overturn its classification as …
• CXMT claims that it has no connection to the Chinese People's Liberati…
• The Pentagon initially classified CXMT as a Chinese military company i…

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