ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM3 buyers report cracked panels on arrival, cheap cardboard packaging blamed

Multiple ASUS PG32UCDM3 monitors arrive cracked, buyers cite weak box protection

Multiple buyers of ASUS’s new ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM3 are reporting that the monitor arrived with a cracked panel, with several posts pointing to the same likely cause, the retail packaging. The affected display is ASUS’s new 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED model, currently listed at US$1,299 on the company’s US store.

The complaints surfaced

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Sapphire expands RX 9000 lineup with RX 9070 GRE PULSE PRO and RX 9060 XT PULSE S

Sapphire intros two RDNA4 models in China

Sapphire appears to be adding two more Radeon RX 9000 cards in China, the RX 9070 GRE PULSE PRO 12GB and RX 9060 XT 8GB PULSE S. Both surfaced through Chinese launch coverage and JD retail listings before Sapphire added them to its own Chinese product pages.

The RX 9070 GRE PULSE PRO looks closer to a black PURE-class card than a standard reference-clock PULSE model. Chinese launch details

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Intel Wildcat Lake specs of Core 7 350, Core 5 320 and Core 3 305 confirmed by OEM

Advantech MIO-5356 confirms Intel Wildcat Lake Core 7 350, Core 5 320 and Core 3 305

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We have already covered Intel Wildcat Lake several times , first as a low-end Core 300 series design with up to 6 CPU cores in a 2P+4LPE layout. Then through separate benchmark sightings for Core 5 320, Core 3 310 and Core 3 304 , and most recently through a broader SKU leak that

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GPUBreach is the third GPU Rowhammer attack, and it can bypass IOMMU

GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach

After our earlier coverage of GDDRHammer and GeForge , we were contacted by Gururaj Saileshwar, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, who pointed us to a third paper in the same area. The new work, called GPUBreach , also targets NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory through Rowhammer, but it is a bit more sophisticated. According to the researchers, the attack can escalate all the way to a root shell on the host system even with IOMMU enabled, a protection the other recent works were either

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Intel adds Wildcat Lake support to Linux NPU Driver

Wildcat Lake coming soon?

Intel has released Linux NPU Driver v1.32.0 , adding support for the upcoming Wildcat Lake platform. This is the user-space side of Intel’s Linux NPU stack, which works with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver used for Intel NPUs on Core Ultra systems.

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Titan Army teases U275M 1060Hz dual-mode esports monitor

Titan Army has the first 1000Hz monitor in development

Titan Army appears to be preparing a new esports monitor called U275M . The teaser image you shared lists a 27-inch QHD panel with 565Hz , plus a dual-mode HD setting at 1060Hz . After digging into this, it seems that the company initially communicated a 560Hz/1000Hz mode for this monitor, but they pushed the frequency a bit higher.

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Intel Arc Pro B70 is now Newegg’s No. 1 best seller in workstation graphics cards

Intel’s Arc Pro B70 reaches Newegg retail

Newegg is now listing Intel’s Arc Pro B70 at $949.99, which matches Intel’s official suggested starting price for the Intel-branded card. The listing currently shows the card as a “ #1 Best Seller” in workstation graphics cards, which is a fast start for a product that only recently moved from placeholder listing to live retail availability.

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Intel Nova Lake-S dual-compute-tile SKU reportedly upgraded from 42 to 44 cores

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel Nova Lake-S rumor now points to 44-core dual-tile desktop CPU

Intel’s rumored Nova Lake-S desktop lineup may have gained two more cores on one of its high-end parts. A new leak from Jaykihn claims the previously rumored 42-core dual-compute-tile variant has been updated to a 44-core configuration with 16 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and 4 LP-

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RPCS3 claims PS3 Cell emulation breakthrough, reports 5 to 7% uplift in Twisted Metal

RPCS3 announces FPS boosts in Twisted Metal, one of the most SPU-intensive games, original developer approves

New Cell CPU optimization that all games should benefit from.

RPCS3 says it has reached a new step in PlayStation 3 CPU emulation. In the post, the team said it achieved “ a new breakthrough” in emulating the PS3’s Cell CPU, with the work centered on new SPU usage patterns discovered by contributor Elad. According to RPCS3, those findings allowed the emulator to generate more optimized PC

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H.264 streaming license fees were raised to as much as $4.5 million, open standards now look even more attractive

Via LA raises H.264 streaming fees for new licensees, existing deals stay unchanged

Via Licensing Alliance has updated its H.264, also known as AVC, streaming fee schedule for 2026. The old $100,000 ceiling is still there for small and nascent services, but the new public table now scales up to $4.5 million per year for the largest OTT, FAST, social media, and cloud gaming platforms.

According to Streaming Media,

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