Samsung Display finally brings V-Stripe subpixel layout to QD-OLED — mass production of new 1,300-nit 34" ultrawide panel also boosts text clarity

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Samsung's QD-OLED technology has gone head-to-head against LG 's WOLED with one distinct advantage: better color volume. By using a blue emitter and quantum dots, the company turns an otherwise reductive filtering process into an additive outcome. As a side effect, they employ unconventional subpixel layouts, which make QD-OLEDs suffer from inferior

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Get a Steelseries Rival 3 Wireless mouse for just $25, or 34% off the regular price — potent rodent is simple and executes flawlessly

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The abundant choice for gaming mice and keyboards is so plentiful that it's actually difficult to pick one among the thousands promising the best input tracking and the lowest latency, and of course nearly all are bedazzled with tons of buttons and endless RGB.

Today we cut through that particular Gordian knot and just present you a deal on a simple

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Forgotten Star Wars Racer Revenge game is key to jailbreaking PlayStation 5, price soars 1,900% overnight amid leaked ROM keys exploit — Physical copies of the PS4 game go from $20 to $400 on eBay

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The PlayStation 5 ROM keys leak has ignited a frenzy, signaling that a firmware 12.00 jailbreak for the PlayStation 5 is imminent. Gezine — a leading developer and security researcher in the jailbreak community — confirmed that a physical disc copy of Star Wars Racer Revenge is now essential for the exploit. The revelation has sent prices rocketing to all-time highs

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Micron secures $318 million Taiwanese subsidy for HBM R&D as AI memory arms race intensifies — three-year project aims to develop leading-edge, high-performance memory

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Ukrainian soldier's M1 MacBook Air takes direct shrapnel hit, still works despite battle damage — screen cracked and letter 'K' missing but laptop remains functional

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A Ukrainian soldier showed off his 2020 M1 MacBook Air after it got hit by shrapnel during the war in Ukraine. X user @lanevychs [machine translated] asked on the social media platform about the ballistic protection that the laptop offered, especially after his device was able to take a hit from a shell fragment and seemingly survived. Despite

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MSI teases new power supplies with 'instant protection' against melting RTX 5090 cables — promises to solve 12V-2x6 connector woes by monitoring individual wires

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It seems like every month we see a new incendiary GPU story with reports of a 12V-2x6 connector being the culprit. The issue is not limited to just Nvidia's RTX 5090 anymore either, as at least five AMD RX 9070 XT variants with this plug have faced the same fiery wrath

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Debian maintainer criticizes email-managed bug tracker as outdated for modern development — there is a web interface for viewing, but email remains the only way to perform critical functions

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A dispute has flared up inside the Debian project after a veteran maintainer criticized the Debian's bug tracking system as outdated and increasingly unworkable for modern software development. The comments, made by Meson build system creator and Debian maintainer Jussi Pakkanen on December 22, argue that Debian’s reliance on email-based bug control is actively discouraging contributors and leaving bugs poorly

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A deeper look at the tightened chipmaking supply chain, and where it may be headed in 2026 — "nobody's scaling up,” says analyst as industry remains conservative on capacity

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From memory shortages to rising GPU prices , 2025 seemed like a year of significant scarcity in the supply chain for all things semiconductors. But what does the future hold for this super-tight market in the years to come?

One school of thought suggests that in a couple of years, the story goes, today’s hyperscaler accelerators will spill out

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How to use Plex and a spare computer to build a streaming movie service

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In this how-to, I will show you how to create a Plex server on a spare computer running Debian Linux, in my case, a Raspberry Pi 4, but you could easily replace it with an old laptop, spare PC, or a dedicated mini PC.

There are a myriad of streaming services available, and all of them want

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Reports of the previously-recalled Bambu Lab 3D printer being a fire hazard resurface, new power board component issue identified as the cause — Bambu says the A1's issue has been addressed, affected

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Concerns are being raised within the 3D printing community regarding the Bambu Lab A1 after a recent video by YouTuber Grant Posner (3D Musketeers) revealed a possible safety issue. Posner has seen an alarming number of A1 printers with charred or melted cases, which suggests that the A1’s AC power distribution board may be operating above normal temperatures,

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