John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM

Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors

Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers — German website finds a workaround

Computer History Museum unveils comically large Macintosh Plus

Leaks point to Nvidia's N1/N1X launching sometime in the first half of 2026

Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S

China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

The Intel 286 CPU was introduced on this day in 1982 — 16-bit x86 chip introduced protected mode memory, and would power the IBM PC/AT and a tidal wave of clones

Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month

Linux kernel 7.0 abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset

Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter

Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026

Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

3D-printed fan-less and pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling

How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS

SanDisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes

Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis

American factory worker Robert Williams became the first human to be killed by a robot on this day in 1979

After 34 years, the Linux kernel community finally has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds

New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents

Newegg stock price falls 17.7% after Chinese owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities — company insists it’s operating normally and ‘in accordance with the laws’

Suspicious DJI clones appear on the market after the FCC banned foreign-made drones — Xtra and Skyrover drones look awfully familiar

Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech

Intel shares down 13% as company only manages to shrink losses in latest earnings, demand to outpace 2026 supply — $300 million deficit comes despite more than $20 billion in outside investment from Nvidia and friends

Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027

Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September

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