Rainbow Six Siege X servers are back online after a hack completely shut down the game — Ubisoft rolling back free ultra-rare skins and billions of credits

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Rainbow Six Siege X servers and primary services are back up and running after the game experienced a massive hack yesterday, forcing the game's developers to shut down the game completely. The devs posted on X that players are now safe to return to the game.

The devs clarified that those returning to the game right now might experience a wait queue as Rainbow Six

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TSMC's average wafer prices increased by over 15% each year since 2019, report suggests — gross profit margins increase by 3.3x in 2025 alone, facing no real challengers

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TSMC's average selling prices (ASPs) for its wafers have increased 15.9% annually from 2019 to 2025. Additionally, gross profit margins per wafer rose rapidly to 3.3x throughout 2025, according to SemiAnalysis . This increased margin reflects TSMC fully leveraging its market-leading position and broad ecosystem

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Nvidia gives Intel a lifeline with $5 billion common stock deal — September deal gets FTC approval for more than 217.4 million Intel shares at $23.28 per share

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Back in September, Nvidia announced a historic equity investment into Intel worth $5 billion, joining the U.S. government in lending a lifeline to the floundering American chipmaker. Today, Intel has officially sold 214.7 million shares to Nvidia at $23.28 per share, reports Reuters . At the time of the original

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Former Samsung engineer accused of giving 10nm DRAM data to China's CXMT, handwritten notes detailed over 600 process steps — gas flow ratios, photoresist settings and more critical stages detailed

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Last week, South Korean prosecutors indicted multiple individuals in a case alleging that a former Samsung engineer leaked advanced DRAM manufacturing process data to China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), shedding light on how leaked trade secrets may have accelerated China’s push into 10nm-class memory. Now, it has come to light (via SemiAnalysis ) that the

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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement

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Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property. While it's not the company itself, Nvidia will absorb key members of its engineering team, including its ex- Google engineer founder, Jonathan Ross, and Groq president Sunny Madra, marking the company’s largest AI-related transaction since the

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IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market

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The International Data Corporation (IDC) has published a new update to its device market outlook, and the message is blunt: things are getting worse. Under newly-reported pessimistic scenarios, shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% in 2026, with a more moderate scenario showing a 5% shrinkage in the market. These figures have been

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Corsair MP700 Micro 4TB SSD Review: A monster in the tiny M.2 2242 form factor

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Corsair MP700 Micro is everything you want from a drive – performance, power efficiency, and capacity – in a small form factor.

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    Up to a massive 4TB in 2242

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    High performance

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    Excellent power efficiency

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    Limited market

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Fujifilm to begin shipping 40TB Ultrium tape cartridges in January 2026 — updated LTO Ultrium 10 archival storage can hold 100TB of compressed data in 0.8-inch thick cartridge

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Fujifilm has confirmed that its new LTO Ultrium 10 data cartridges with 40TB native capacity will begin shipping in January 2026, turning the highest-capacity tier of the LTO-10 generation into a commercially available product. The cartridges offer up to 100TB of capacity with compression and are designed to operate in the same

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Grab this RTX 4050 HP Victus gaming laptop for just $599.99 — save $300 on budget-friendly 15.6-inch laptop featuring AMD Ryzen CPU and 16GB of RAM

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You won't find many cheaper gaming laptops capable of running games at 1080p than this discounted HP Victus model over at Best Buy right now. Ahead of the new year, you could score yourself this capable gaming rig with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor and 16GB of RAM for less than $600.

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FBI issues wanted notice for alleged North Korean remote IT workers accused of $900,000 crypto theft — $5 million reward up for grabs for information on DPRK-linked suspects

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The FBI has published a public wanted notice naming four individuals accused of operating as fraudulent remote IT workers on behalf of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), tying the group to identity theft, wire fraud, and the alleged theft of more than $900,000 in virtual currency from U.S. companies

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