Customs authorities only check the performance specifications of a server’s processors, allowing smugglers to attach high-end memory chips to low-end processors and ship them into China.

The latest Steam Survey appears to show that gamers blessed with systems packing 32GB or more RAM and 1TB or more storage are a dying breed.

The developer’s latest experiment takes Windows 11’s hardware requirements to an extreme, managing to retain basic desktop functionality with just 128MB of memory, although the resulting installation is far too slow for everyday use.

Grab a $1,229 saving on this Alienware Area 51 gaming laptop right now with an RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5.

Nick Saraev says Amazon closed his account after canceling Nvidia DGX Spark orders; Tim Sweeney reports canceled orders after a GPU buy.

OpenAI expects AI to become a major issue in the 2028 presidential election and is preparing a policy and public relations push after the U.S. midterm elections. The company is also promoting the term “AI compute campuses” for its data centers as it seeks to address concerns over electricity demand, water consumption, pollution and rising utility bills

Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.

President Putin has told non-state Russian data centers that they must set aside 10% of their total capacity for use by the country’s own IT infrastructure.

Creality’s four-color tool changer is a good one, but is it too late?

The Raspberry Pi 16GB has gone up in price by $80 to $385. It now costs more than triple its January 2025 launch price.

A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments about data centers in the community across more than 410 local governments, and the consensus is that people don’t like them one bit.

A Redditor was playing Call of Duty when they heard gunfire outside their home. After hitting the deck, they discovered that their monitor had potentially saved their life.

Apple is introducing a touchscreen laptop in the MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR Display. Here’s where it falls in the long timeline of touchscreen laptops.

Nvidia is investigating a security incident involving its Brev cloud development platform after detecting unauthorized activity between October 4 and October 20. The incident may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer virtual machines. Nvidia has rotated the affected keys and updated customer instances, but says it is unaware of any improper use

Qwenputer is an experimental blend of the stock Qwen 3.5 4B LLM with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled and inserted directly into its weights.

Google’s proposed Hermantown data center has cleared a major approval hurdle after the city council unanimously backed the project on October 30.

A 34% price cut at Amazon means you can get the Samsung P9 512GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 for just $99.99 right now.

Russia’s Rosstat admitted that its servers were attacked by hackers but denies data leaks which appear to show as many as 50,000 military deaths per month.

Anthropic employee confirms that Claude Code now has orders not to reproduce game IP — company “iterating to ensure […] the right balance”

SpaceX CEO Musk posted a meme to X mocking Altman’s belief that it’s “

SpaceX loses latest legal fight over xAI’s gas-powered data centers in Mississippi — court rejects arguments that mobile turbines are exempt from air permits

This ABS Stratos II Aqua gaming PC has dropped to $2,549.99 at Newegg right now, giving you a rig with a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, a 2TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

Sony may be preparing to abandon the standalone 4K Blu-ray player market after retailers in Japan reportedly stopped expecting new shipments of its final remaining model, the UBP-X700K. The company has not confirmed a worldwide withdrawal, and the player remains listed in the U.S. However, Sony’s retreat from other physical media products, alongside exits by Oppo, Samsung, LG, and Reavon, raises further questions about the future of dedicated disc players.

The military is looking at leveraging commercial 5G networks to sense and track drone incursions.

A second cyberattack has struck supermarket freezers across Europe.