Major firms are finding the rising costs of AI hard to manage, as human workers are now often more affordable alternatives to AI within certain contexts. With many platforms switching to per-token billing and rising model costs, we may be reaching an inflection point where human workers are a more efficient way to spend.

Gamers have reported that Windrose is consuming abnormally high disk I/O while playing, with up to 30 MB/s of constant read/write activity to the drive across most areas of the game world.

Bad weather has caused a shipwreck to shift from its original position on the seafloor, severing a crucial undersea link between Dongyin and Beigan islands. These two islands are strategically located near the Chinese coast and the northern mouth of the Taiwan Strait and reportedly have a heavy military presence of Taiwanese troops.

Samsung and SK hynix warn that severe AI-driven memory shortages could persist through 2027 as exploding HBM demand overwhelms supply, tightens the broader DRAM market, and fuels record profits

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The supposed new DRM policy surrounding digital PS4 and PS5 games has been finally debunked by Sony. You don’t need to check-in online every 30 days for your games to still be playable, rather, only one check-in is required right after the game has been downloaded to convert a temporary license into a permanent one.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year’s record $410 billion.

An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue.

Tennessee becomes the second state to ban crypto ATMs after its governor signs a bill into law restricting these machines starting July 1st.

Reports suggest Apple may be shifting focus away from the Vision headset, despite ongoing hiring tied to its Vision Products Group, possibly implying otherwise.

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A PC gaming enthusiast has shared a video demo of the new DS5Dongle which unlocks the full gamut of Sony DualSense controller features for Windows users who prefer wireless.

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The results come as Chinese chipmakers continue to absorb market share from Nvidia.

Housing construction projects in Texas are facing delays of up to two months as contractors are having a harder time finding and keeping electricians. Data center projects are pricing out housing projects from the labor force as they offer 75% higher salaries and more benefits.

Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers.

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OpenAI has reportedly modified its arrangement on several Stargate projects, leaving the direct ownership set up and instead preferring to lease compute from other partners who took on the direct risk of investing in the infrastructure.

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Google joins OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI in granting the Pentagon broad classified AI access.

Lenovo has reportedly stopped using magnesium alloy subframes in the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 to save on weight and thickness. This feature was first introduced on the ThinkPad T60 in 2006 and was added to ensure rigidity for the brand’s workstation laptops.

TSMC adds support for face-to-face stacking, 6.5 µm and 4.5 µm pitches for the next generation of SoIC 3D stacking.

Framework has just launched a new graphics module featuring the RTX 5070 mobile 12GB, and it costs a cool $1,200, representing a 72% raise in pricing over the 8GB variant, that’s $699. Both GPUs are identical apart from the memory capacity (and bandwidth), but Framework says pricing is out of its control.

Applied Materials, KLA, and Lam Research received letters from the U.S. Department of Commerce preventing them from shipping some of Hua Hong’s orders for the latest chipmaking tools. These are reportedly being planned for use on the Chinese company’s planned 7-nm fab in Shanghai.

Galax has moved under the direct control of Palit, owned by the Palit Group, but the brand itself isn’t going anywhere. Official statements from both companies clarify that Galax will continue to design, produce, and release hardware like before, but will be managed by Palit now to streamline the business.