Videos and images purportedly showing spools carrying as much as 65km (~40.4 miles) of optical fiber have been shared on Russian social media channels. Previously, we reported on Ukraine-based prototypes being tested at up to 50km (~31 miles). Tethered FPV drones are hardened against electronic warfare and allow
Russia has reportedly improved the range of its jam-proof optical drones to over 40 miles — purported Chinese-Russian collaborative production imagery reveals dramatically increased tethered drone ran

Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads just held its MUSA Developer Conference, where it unveiled "Huagang," its next-gen architecture set to debut next year. Huagang will span gaming and AI, with significant performance gains promised for both. The event was light on details, so we don't actually have any specs; just claims of what to expect,
Logitech’s top-selling G502 Hero gaming mouse is half price at just $38 on Amazon — save up to 53% on this fan favorite

The Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse is nearly seven years old, yet it remains a crowd favorite. One of the best-selling gaming mice on Amazon, it has received more than 69,000 customer reviews with an average rating of 4.6 stars, including 81% five-star ratings. Its continued popularity stems from
Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. As of this week, the Steam client on Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 is now itself a 64-bit application, while users
You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly

AMD released FSR4 Redstone a couple of weeks back, finally giving Team Red a frame generation technology that could go toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s DLSS . However, much like its rival, AMD decided to limit it to RDNA 4, so only gamers with RX 9000-series GPUs can take advantage of the new features that arrive
Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested

RTINGS is back with an update on its ongoing longevity test, where they torture—test 102 TVs to see which lasts the longest. This tradition started three years ago, and the good news is that most TVs are fine for the first 10,000 hours of use, but 20 still died during the test, while 24
Valve discontinues the most affordable Steam Deck — $399 LCD version on the way out as new starting point is $549

Valve just announced that it will discontinue the $399 256GB LCD Steam Deck , making the most affordable option the $549 512GB OLED model . You can see the announcement when you visit the Steam Deck page on Steam, with the company adding a simple note underneath the Choose Your Steam Deck section.
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China's new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country

China has brought online a national experimental research network designed to support experimentation on future network designs and to improve data transmission quality, with early demonstrations centered on extreme data movement and tightly controlled traffic behavior. The China Environment for Network Innovation, or CENI, was formally switched on this week, according to Chinese state media , transferring 72TB over 1,00
Registry hack enables new performance-boosting native NVMe support on Windows 11 — Windows Server 2025 feature can be unlocked for consumer PCs, but at your own risk

Microsoft has just announced that Windows Server 2025 will natively support NVMe drives , some 14 years after the technology launched. Given that Windows 11 shares the same architecture as Windows 10, it stands to reason that enterprising users can also enable native NVMe support using the same procedure. Computer Base [machine translated] reports that some
The USB Power Delivery (PD) Specification — everything you need to know about USB-PD

USB PD (Power Delivery) is an advanced, fast-charging standard that supports various power requirements over a USB connection. Its predecessor, USB (Universal Serial Bus), was a wondrous invention in the late 1990s and revolutionized how we connected devices to our computers. Before that, we had various serial and parallel connections along with