New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft

Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request — FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution

Intel doubles down on gaming with Panther Lake, claims 76% faster gaming performance — new X-series chips can match discrete RTX 4050

No longer a rumour: Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account

UK company shoots a 1000-degree furnace into space to study off-world chip manufacturing — semiconductors made in space could be 'up to 4,000 times purer' than Earthly equivalents

Ukrainian soldier's M1 MacBook Air takes direct shrapnel hit, saving his life — screen cracked and letter 'K' missing but laptop remains functional

Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming GPUs go through blower-style transformation to fuel AI data centers — RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5060 Ti blower GPUs up for purchase in China

Best of CES 2026: Innovating amidst the RAM and storage apocalypse

Americans lost $333 million to Bitcoin ATM fraud in 2025 — FBI says there is a ‘clear and constant rise’ of this scam, and that it is ‘not slowing down’

Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage