The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or CME, had to pause trading activities across the globe because of a cooling issue at one of the data centers that serve it. According to CNBC , CME is the largest derivatives exchange operator in the world, so this disruption has been felt in cities as far away as London and Kuala Lumpur. This exchange lets you trade almost everything on the market, including agriculture, energy, equity indices like S&P 500 and Nikkei 22
Data center cooling issue halts world's largest derivatives exchange — CME trading shutdown ripples across Malaysia, UK, and EU markets
DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on moder
Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application, of all places. KiDOOM is a portmanteau of KiCad, the free and open source electronic design automation (EDA) software suite, and DOOM, the influential first-person shooter (FPS) that pioneered and shaped the genre for eternity. In this release, the game world is rendered fast and fluid in KiCAD’s PCB editing viewport. However, the dev makes it clear KiDOOM isn’
China claims domestically-designed 14nm logic chips can rival 4nm Nvidia silicon — architecture leverages 3D hybrid bonding techniques for claimed 120 TFLOPS of power
At the ICC Global CEO Summit in Beijing, China Semiconductor Industry Association vice chairman Wei Shaojun claimed that a new domestically designed AI processor using mature 14nm logic and 18nm DRAM nodes can match the performance of Nvidia’s current 4nm chips. The architecture, which leverages 3D hybrid bonding and software-defined near-memory computing, is intended to counter China’s reliance on the Nvidia CUDA ecosystem.
Wei pitched the design as a potentially
Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback
Playing PC games on inappropriate displays looks like it is becoming a trend in late 2025. Last month, we saw a PC enthusiast playing Battlefield 6 on the tiny circular screen of a CPU liquid cooler. Today, we spotted a YouTuber who had decided any type of conventional monitor or screen had to be snubbed. Instead, Smilly recorded themselves enjoying a bit of Minecraft using a printer as their sole viewport into the famously blocky game’s universe.
playing Minecraft on a printer
This £799.99 Acer Nitro V 15 gaming laptop is a Black Friday beast of a deal — hits 1080p with an RTX 5060, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, along with a 10-core Intel CPU
We've been saying it for weeks, but it really is Black Friday, and there's an awesome sale on an Acer gaming laptop that's more powerful than any of its competition at this price point right now, thanks to this huge Amazon discount.
That's because Amazon has slashed the price of this Acer Nitro V 15 gaming laptop to just £799.99 , down from as high as £
Colossal 28TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drops to $449 in Amazon Black Friday deal — egregiously big HDD costs just $16 per TB, makes recycle bin pointless
It's Black Friday, so that means deals galore, among one of the best we've spotted so far is for Seagate's biggest Ironwolf Pro drive, sporting an enormous 28TB platter, making it suitable for your NAS, home server, or pretty much anything else you can think of. Amazon has discounted the IronWolf Pro to just $449 , which is cheaper than the previous low of $479, seen earlier this year,
One-day Black Friday hard drive deal frenzy kicks off at B&H — 26TB and even 40TB hard drives slashed in price, SSDs, and more
Black Friday is here, and it's a great time to find PC parts of all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, though, you need to buy a massive hard drive. You can never have enough storage, whether you need a massive external drive for backing up your family photos, a nifty SSD for moving around photos and videos, or a colossal HDD for your NAS or personal server.
Right now at B&H Photo, there is a
After nearly fifty years, Voyager 1 spacecraft approaches one light-day milestone — 25.9 billion km distance from Earth ensures one day of latency for commands
Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object from Earth, is about to hit one light-day distance from us, or the distance that light travels in a single day. According to Science Clock , the satellite is going to be 16.1 billion miles or 25.9 billion kilometers away on November 15, 2026 — 49 years, 2 months, and 10 days since it launched. This means that the spacecraft
iBuyPower's Black Friday gaming PC deals start now — save up to $300 extra on already discounted pre-built and custom rigs before increased RAM pricing starts to affect prebuilts
Black Friday is the sales event of the year, and PC building supremos iBuyPower have put together a package of discounts on new gaming PCs for this Black Friday that could help you upgrade from your dusty old rig to something with a bit more oomph. iBuyPower has slashed prices hard for Black Friday, with huge discounts on machines with powerful CPUs and GPUs like the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5
Seagate's gargantuan 24 TB BarraCuda hard drive is on sale for its lowest price ever at just $1 per gigabyte — Get your hands on massive HDD storage for just $240
If you want to get a head start on your local storage ambitions, we've spotted just the deal for that. Seagate's 24 TB BarraCuda hard drive is just $239.99 on Newegg right now, down 20% from its list price and a new all-time low.