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There's almost no reason to buy a Steam Machine if you have a Steam Deck

XDA developers | Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. | Original

The Steam Machine seems like a compelling proposition until you realize your Steam Deck can do the same thing for much less.

GPU market evolves backwards as modded RTX 3080 20GB cards return as cheaper gaming alternatives

VideoCardz | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:54 a.m. | Original

Six-year-old Ampere gets another chance

The graphics card market is moving in an unusual direction. Instead of older high-end GPUs disappearing, Chinese companies are giving them more memory and putting them back on sale. Large numbers of modified GeForce RTX 3080 cards with 20GB of GDDR6X memory are now appearing on the second-hand market for around 3,000 yuan, or about $445/€383.

This is not the first RTX 3

元朗狗咬狗｜議員痛心促加強刑罰倡大狗外出強制戴口罩：狗無知，但人有責

Singtao | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:54 a.m. | Original

元朗YOHO一隻約60公斤重的大狗，失控咬死兩隻細狗，大狗主人事後不知所終。立法會議員何敬康在社交平台發帖，直言自己同樣養狗，對事件極度憤怒兼痛心，批評部份大狗狗主毫無安全意識，直言「狗無知，但人有責」，

Beautiful Tilt-Shift Video of Remote Arctic Region of Norway Inspires Wanderlust

Peta Pixel | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:53 a.m. | Original

Joerg Daiber travels the world creating mesmerizing videos using a tilt-shift perspective and recently traveled to the stunning Norwegian archipelago of Lofoten.

Lofoten is famous for its dramatic Arctic mountains and iconic red fishing villages. But Daiber’s tilt-shift miniature effect makes the jagged peaks look like small plastic models, the fishing boats look like bath toys, and the famous villages look like tiny, intricate playsets.

Amazon makes it harder for customers to sue as new terms block class actions and force arbitration

TechSpot News | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:51 a.m. | Original

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A hot potato: Thinking about taking Amazon to court? That's going to be a lot more difficult from now on for US customers, thanks to the company's updated Conditions of Use, which reinstate mandatory arbitration and prohibit class-action lawsuits.

Amazon notified customers of the changes by email on Friday, the same day they took effect. Continuing to use any Amazon service counts as accepting them. Users received

AIDA64 Quietly Adds AMD Zen 7 Server Support Nearly Two Years Ahead Of EPYC Florence Launch

wccftech | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:48 a.m. | Original

The popular hardware monitoring tool has added AMD's Zen 7 to its database way ahead of the official launhc.

Hardware monitoring tools such as AIDA64, HWMonitor, and HWiNFO usually add support for upcoming hardware before the official launch. This enables correct hardware monitoring for accurate specifications when the hardware launches. As of now, most of these utilities have already added early support for next-gen CPU families such as Intel Nova Lake and AMD Zen 6 , but AIDA64 has moved one step further by adding support

The image shows a 'Download AIDA64 Extreme (beta)' screen with version 8.35.8405 beta release notes, including support for Lenovo ThinkCentre M70t Gen 6 and M75q Gen 5, AMD Radeon RX 9050 (Navi 44), and fixes for GPGPU Benchmark.

Intel "Nova Lake-S" Tested with AVX-512 and APX Enabled

TechPowerUp News | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:46 a.m. | Original

Intel's upcoming "Nova Lake-S" series of desktop processors is set to bring some exciting changes. As previous rumors suggested, the company is incorporating the AVX-512 and APX instruction sets into this new processor lineup. Late last year, Intel published its 60th Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features manual, indicating that ultra-fast vector processing with 512-bit width is returning to desktops after years of absence from this sector. Thanks to @InstLatX64 on X

干預政策、壓制批評，川普政府將美國簽證「武器化」

紐約時報中文網 | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:46 a.m. | Original

由魯比奧領導的國務院已恢復了中美洲一些曾受美國政府制裁的政治人物的簽證，同時也撤銷了另外一些人的簽證。 Kenny Holston/The New York Times

當智利官員正式批准連接該國與香港長達1.9萬公里的海底光纜項目時，他們曾非常興奮。他

Dragon Ball Super Vol. 19 Alternate Cover Sorta Gives Us Our First Canon Glimpse Of Vegeta’s Mother

Kotaku | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:45 a.m. | Original

It's been almost 40 years since Vegeta's first appearance, and we only just got our first, very obscured look at his mom

Belgian wildfire approaches Germany despite rain as Greece probes deadly blaze

CBC News | Aug. 17, 2026, 8:44 a.m. | Original

One of Belgium's biggest-ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.

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