Colorful unveils iGame RTX 5070 Ti Ultra Z BLACK OC with removable GC-HPWR adapter

Colorful lists iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ultra Z BLACK OC 16GB with 300W TDP

Colorful has added the iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ultra Z BLACK OC 16GB to its official product page. This is the Z variant of the Ultra design, featuring a black shroud, graffiti-style RGB lighting, and the company’s latest styling for the Ultra series.

The card is based on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 8960

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AMD Medusa Point leak shows 10-core Zen 6 APU beating Ryzen AI 9 365 in Geekbench multi-core

AMD Medusa Point Zen 6 APU appears again with higher Geekbench score

AMD’s Medusa Point APU has appeared in Geekbench again, this time with a much higher score than the earlier entry. The new result lists a 10-core, 20-thread Ryzen 9 chip on the Plum-MDS1 platform, which is believed to be an evaluation board for next-generation mobile SoCs in the 28W to 45W range.

The listing shows a 4+6 core layout, which points to a

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PS5 Linux hack leads to first Mesa update for Sony GPU

Mesa 26.1-devel adds PS5 GPU support as AMDGPU patches follow

Andy Nguyen’s PlayStation 5 Linux project is now moving beyond a private modding effort and into upstream graphics code. Phoronix reports that support work for the PS5 GPU has started showing up in both Mesa and the AMDGPU kernel driver stack, following Nguyen’s earlier demonstration of Linux running on Sony’s console. What this means is that parts of the work are now being proposed for general Linux support rather than staying as one-

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Death Stranding 2 PC build reportedly leaked on Steam ahead of launch

Death Stranding 2 Steam preload mistake reportedly led to full game leak

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A pre-release PC build of Death Stranding 2 has reportedly leaked online ahead of its official launch. According to PC Gamer, the issue appears to be tied to the game’s Steam preload, where some users were allegedly able to access unencrypted files instead of the usual locked preload package.

The report says the full 113GB build was available long enough to spread to piracy websites. According to a Reddit post on Piracy,

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AMD preparing Ryzen 9 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X desktop CPUs with 120W TDP

AMD Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X leak with 120W TDP and higher clocks

A new leak points to two more Zen 5 desktop CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X. The listed specs show the Ryzen 7 9750X at 8 cores and 16 threads, 32MB of L3 cache, a 4.2 GHz base clock, up to 5.6 GHz boost, and

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AMD preparing Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X desktop CPUs with 120W TDP

AMD Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X leak with 120W TDP and higher clocks

A new leak points to two more Zen 5 desktop CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X. The listed specs show the Ryzen 7 9750X at 8 cores and 16 threads, 32MB of L3 cache, a 4.2 GHz base clock, up to 5.6 GHz boost, and

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First 16TB M.2 SSD storage appears on Amazon, costs ‘only’ $15,935

Exascend PE4 16TB E1.S SSD arrives with an enterprise price tag

Exascend’s PE4 16TB SSD has appeared on Amazon with a listed price of $15,935, which works out to about $996 per terabyte. The listing presents it as an M.2 NVMe drive with PCIe 4.0 x4, sequential read speeds up to 3,270 MB/s, and write speeds up to 2,980 MB/

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AMD issues a statement on Chuwi Ryzen CPU mislabeling

AMD responds to CHUWI fake Ryzen 5 7430U case, says it had no knowledge

AMD has now responded to the CHUWI Ryzen 5 7430U case. In a statement, the company said it never authorized, confirmed, or tacitly approved the relabeling of Ryzen 5 5500U processors as Ryzen 5 7430U. AMD also said it was not involved in the product labeling or marketing decisions and had no knowledge of the matter.

The case started with the CHUWI CoreBook

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Microsoft Windows 11 Learning Center shows AI generated image with two Start buttons

Too much AI, Microsoft

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Windows Latest often focuses on calling Microsoft out, and in many cases the criticism is justified. The company has clearly shifted its consumer strategy, and recent moves suggest it may already be scaling back some Copilot plans and broader AI use in consumer products. That does not seem to apply to its blogs, where Microsoft is still using AI-generated filler images , even when those visuals contain obvious errors.

As Windows Latest pointed out, this is a company worth trillions of dollars,

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Intel enables Precompiled Shader Delivery on Arc B-series and Core Ultra iGPUs in new driver, up to 3x faster loading times

Intel Arc gets Graphics Shader Distribution Service, 13 games supported at launch

Today, Intel has rolled out its Graphics Shader Distribution Service in the 32.0.101.8626 WHQL Game On driver . Intel says the feature can improve first-load times by up to 2x on Arc B-series graphics cards and on Intel Core Ultra Series 2 and Series 3 processors with integrated Arc graphics. This is the first Intel driver release that names the feature directly in its highlights.

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