A court in China has convicted 27 people for illegal shipment of antimony ingots out of the country without mandatory export licenses. The ruling was delivered by the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court, which sentenced the main defendant, Wang Wubin, to 12 years in prison and a fine of 1 million Yuan ($141,899)
French authorities arrest man for installing malware on a passenger ferry on behalf of 'a foreign power' — could have enabled external control of systems, including navigation
French authorities have arrested a Latvian national suspected of installing malware aboard an Italian passenger ferry while it was docked in southern France, after investigators determined that infected onboard systems could potentially have been accessed remotely. The case, reported by Le Monde , is now being handled by an investigating judge in Paris and has drawn attention to how closely
North Korean hackers stole record $2 billion in crypto in 2025, including single heist worth $1.5 billion, report claims — rogue state accounts for 60% of all reported crypto thefts this year, $6.75 b
North Korean hackers have hit an infernal milestone of stealing $2.02 billion of crypto in 2025, which is nearly 60% of the total $3.4 billion reported crypto thefts this year. According to Chainalysis , the rogue state has stolen a total of $6.75 billion in cryptocurrency since records began — at
Grab this £138 2TB Acer Predator SSD before flash prices soar further — fast Gen 4 speeds make this an essential upgrade for your gaming PC
Flash prices are skyrocketing. With the price of memory and storage now heading into the stratosphere, it’s important to lock in on a great storage deal like this one when it appears. Luckily, Amazon have dropped the price of this 2TB Acer Predator SSD to less than £140, making it a great price for a branded TLC
Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors
Riot Games, the developer of several popular esports titles such as Valorant and League of Legends , just discovered a security vulnerability affecting several motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock that cheaters can use to bypass hardware security checks and make it impossible for the game’s anti-cheat software to detect them.
According to the company , the Input-Output
Windows Server 2025 gains native NVMe support, 14 years after its introduction — groundbreaking I/O stack drops SCSI emulation limitations for massive throughput and CPU efficiency gains
There's pretty big news for Windows Server administrators. After some delays, starting with Windows Server 2025 and its latest October Cumulative update, the operating system will finally support native NVMe I/O , marking the end of an era where requests were translated to SCSI bus commands, even with the highest-powered drives.
The feature has now
Score the Meta Quest 3S at its lowest-ever price before Christmas, now just £229 — save 21% on this standalone VR headset with 128GB of storage
Meta might be more familiar as the owner of Facebook, but it also produces one of the best VR headsets out there. Luckily, Amazon has slashed the cost of its entry-level Meta Quest S3 headset back down to its lowest ever price, letting you enjoy VR experiences without requiring a PC for less than £230.
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory
The DDR5 memory pricing crisis has sent the whole PC market into utter chaos, including pricing on AMD's flagship AM4 gaming chip. eBay prices for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D have skyrocketed to the point where these chips are being sold regularly for more money than a brand-new Ryzen 7 9800
Huawei's AI chip capabilities still pale in comparison to American silicon — report from U.S. council details that despite fears, Nvidia continues to lead by a wide margin
For much of the past few years, U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips have been justified publicly as a matter of urgency. Policymakers warned that Chinese chipmakers, backed by massive state support and forced into self-reliance, were on the verge of closing the gap with Nvidia in AI hardware. That fear has shaped decisions in
Mini-ITX motherboard launches with four full-sized RAM slots in the middle of a RAM shortage — support for up to 256GB of glorious DDR5 on a tiny PCB
Maxsun has proudly announced its new MS-PC Farm B860I. The mini-ITX motherboard features Intel's B860I chipset and includes four DDR5 memory slots, enabling the best RAM performance and supporting up to 256GB of memory.
One limitation of mini-ITX motherboards is the constrained space available to manufacturers.