MAXSUN shows W890-80L workstation motherboard with Xeon 600 & Arc Pro B70 support

MS-WorkStation W890-80L developed for Arc Pro workstations

MAXSUN has unveiled a new workstation motherboard called the MS-WorkStation W890-80L . The board was shown during the 2026 Intel China ODM & OEM Customer Summit , held from April 8 to 10. The product supports Intel Xeon 600 series processors and targets multi-GPU workstation and server builds.

The W890-80L features four PCIe Gen5 x16

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GIGABYTE launches Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE with 10400 MT/s DDR5 support

GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE launched, but no price yet

GIGABYTE has officially listed the Z890 AORUS TACHYON DUO X ICE motherboard on its website. The new model is based on Intel’s Z890 platform and supports Core Ultra 200S series processors. It is designed with an overclocking in mind.

The board uses a 2-DIMM DDR5 layout and adds support for GIGABYTE’s D5 DUO X memory design. GIGABYTE says the board supports memory overclocking

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GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games confirms data breach, says there is no impact on operations

Rockstar confirms limited data breach linked to third-party service

Rockstar Games has confirmed a data breach following claims by the hacking group ShinyHunters. The group alleged it accessed Rockstar’s cloud infrastructure and threatened to leak data if a ransom is not paid by April 14.

The company stated that the incident involved a limited amount of non-material internal data. Rockstar said the breach is tied to a third-party service and does not affect its operations or player data . No further details on the scope of the accessed

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Honor WIN gaming laptop teased with 250W+ power, Ultra 200HX, RTX 50 and 6-fan design

Honor WIN gaming laptop reportedly launches April 23, leak points to up to RTX 5070 Ti and unusual multi-fan cooling

Honor is preparing to launch its WIN gaming laptop series in China on April 23, according to recent teasers and a new Weibo leak. Honor has already confirmed the launch date and has been promoting the system’s cooling design as a key feature ahead of the announcement.

The latest leak covers several CPU and GPU configurations. The Win laptop would apparently stick to Intel HX series

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Amazon Luna disables EA, Ubisoft and GOG libraries for cloud streaming

Amazon Luna removes third-party game purchases and subscriptions, support ends June 10

Amazon has updated its cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, removing support for third-party game stores and subscriptions. The change took effect on April 10, according to a notice sent to users.

The service no longer supports purchases or subscriptions from external platforms including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and GOG. This also ends the “Bring Your Own Library” feature, which previously allowed users to stream games they owned on those platforms.

Users

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PCIe adapter adds dual M.2 expansion card to low-profile GPUs

Reddit project shows flexible PCIe bifurcation riser design

A Redditor “thepromiseman” from homelab has showcased a PCIe adapter designed for low-profile GPUs that also adds two M.2 slots. The card works as a riser that converts a half-height PCIe device into a full-height form factor, while using unused PCIe lanes to provide additional NVMe storage.

The concept relies on PCIe bifurcation, which allows a single x16 slot to split into multiple lane groups such as x8 plus x4 plus x4.

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Micro Center now sells 128GB DDR5 memory for $4,200 while shelves remain full

Full shelves, high price tags

Not much of a shortage is seen.

We all remember empty shelves during cryptomining. There was a real shortage of graphics cards, widespread scalping, and the situation for gamers was bad, to say the least. For reasons beyond consumers’ control, the PC market is now facing another alleged hardware shortage, this time affecting memory and storage. At least that is how ‘analysts’ are presenting it.

In reality, photos from Micro Center shared by Redditor Hell-Diver7 suggest something

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Someone just put real HTML pages inside DOOM

HTML-in-Canvas lets web content run inside DOOM

We have seen Doom run on lawn mowers , pregnancy tests, vapes and even inside a PDF file. Now someone has tried something different, putting web elements inside Doom. That is not exactly the goal of the project, but X user Robin is showing a Chrome preview feature called HTML-in-Canvas.

A new browser demo shows HTML content rendered directly inside a running copy of Doom. It uses a WebAssembly version of the original game engine to turn live

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Valve developer improves Linux VRAM handling for 8GB GPUs with new kernel patches

Preparing for Steam machine: new Linux patches reduce VRAM spillover in games on low-end GPUs

A developer working on Linux graphics, identified as part of the Valve ecosystem, has introduced a set of kernel patches and user-space tools aimed at improving VRAM management on low-memory GPUs. The work targets systems with 8GB or less VRAM, where modern games often struggle due to inefficient memory allocation between foreground applications and background tasks.

When other software needs VRAM

The issue emerges from how the Linux kernel currently handles GPU

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Crimson Desert adds Intel Arc/XeSS 3 compatibility after launch controversy

Crimson Desert adds official Intel Arc GPU support and XeSS 3 latest patch

Crimson Desert launched on March 19 without working support for Intel Arc GPUs, and Pearl Abyss initially told affected users that Arc systems were not supported. The wording quickly turned into a bigger story after Intel pushed back , saying it had tried to help the studio with support efforts well before launch. Pearl Abyss later revised its FAQ, apologized for the confusion, and said Arc compatibility and optimization were being worked on.

Since then, Intel has not released

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