Cutting corners: As the memory crisis makes modern graphics cards less affordable each month, users, manufacturers, repair shops, and resellers are finding creative ways to squeeze every gigabyte of VRAM out of a skewed market. One method involves upgrading a nearly decade-old flagship GPU.

Budget users shopping for a path toward mid-range 4K gaming or heavy AI workloads might want to investigate a Hong Kong

First look: Google will launch its first Bluetooth tracker at the upcoming "Made by Google" hardware showcase in New York, where it is also expected to unveil the Pixel 11 series and Pixel Watch 5. Tentatively named "Pixel Tag," the newest addition to Google's hardware lineup will go up against Apple's AirTag 2, Samsung's Galaxy SmartTag 2, Motorola's Moto Tag 2,

What just happened? Meta's defeat in New Mexico's landmark child-safety case is going to cost the company close to one billion dollars. A state judge has ordered Facebook's parent to place $567 million into a fund addressing harm its platforms caused young people. That's on top of the $375 million civil penalty imposed in March, meaning its total bill now stands

In a nutshell: An AI data center developer recently put $26 million on the table for roughly half of a 1,200-acre farm in Mason County, Kentucky – about ten times the local land value. The owners turned it down, worried about paving over good farmland, hurting the area's food supply, and putting more pressure on already limited water.

The anonymous buyer, described as

A worrying trend Meta has become the third company in two weeks to reveal that one of its AI models went rogue, gained unintended access to the internet, and hacked another company's systems. The social media giant follows in the footsteps of OpenAI and Anthropic on the list of companies losing control of their AIs, raising the question: should we start worrying yet?

Meta said that the incident took place during an evaluation

In brief: As doubt lingers over the future of Microsoft's console business, and controversy over the end of physical media clouds Sony's, Nintendo wants investors to know its hardware division is still growing. The company's Q1 fiscal 2027 report points to strong mainstream software sales, a hit tie-in movie, and $300 million in tariff refunds that customers will never see

Gone In A Flash: Generative AI and other LLM-based tools are facing a significant data bandwidth challenge. Computational power continues to grow exponentially, but the massive amounts of data required for AI training and inference still has to pass through interfaces and storage technologies with limited bandwidth capabilities. Kioxia is proposing a

Facepalm: Attackers are targeting hardware that keeps modern servers running, with the weak point being the baseboard management controller (BMC) installed on the motherboard. New research shows that thousands of these controllers, shipped for years by major server manufacturers, remain exposed on the Internet and within corporate networks due to serious, long-standing flaws that are still easy to exploit.

Baseboard management controllers, or BMCs, are small computers built

In a nutshell: Dolby Laboratories and Hisense have announced that Dolby Vision 2 has begun rolling out to customers as a firmware update. The first sets to get the feature all come from Hisense's 2026 lineup, and include the UX, UR9, UR8, and U7 models. Each model must be running either Google TV or VIDAA, Hisense's own television operating system, for the