November's sales train is beginning to pick up speed ahead of Black Friday, dropping on us like a ton of cheap televisions, but picking through the plethora of early deals is a daunting task, made easier by stand-out bargains such as this Asus TUF A15 gaming laptop which has a great component selection for a ridiculousy low price - compared to what's currently on off on the gaming laptop market.

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Anycubic has started its Black Friday

Washington and Beijing have been engaged in an escalating trade war ever since the Trump administration took over, with tensions over semiconductors in particular reaching an all-time peak. Despite a year-long trade truce being reached last week, it seems President Trump is still adamant about his position to restrict high-end AI chip access to China. Speaking to CBS last night, Trump made it clear that Nvidia's current-gen, flagship Blackwell AI GPUs will not be allowed

AMD has confirmed the existence of RDSEED failure on CPUs based on its latest Zen 5 architecture, a critical security vulnerability in its hardware-based random number generator. The company has confirmed the fault could lead to the random number generator putting out keys that aren't fully unpredictable, opening up a vulnerability to users.

AMD is labeling the fault "AMD-SB-7055" and classifying it as a high-severity issue. Mitigations for the issues are rolling out now

A man living near Pattison Lake in Washington State has been arrested for manufacturing ghost guns with his 3D printing equipment. KING 5 Seattle News reports that detectives seized 3D printed guns that were “loaded with live ammo and capable of firing.” Furthermore, 3D printed knives and grenades, described as WWII replicas, were found.

ASRock has garnered borderline notoriety status because its motherboards keep killing off Ryzen 9000 processors . Throughout the year, we've seen various reports stemming from the r/ASRock subreddit detailing CPU after CPU hitting permanent sleep mode, with the company performing damage control to the best of its abilities. At least, up until now, the issue was largely reserved for X3D chips ; now, one unlucky user reports that their ASRock motherboard killed off not one, not two,

Hackers are working with organised crime groups to steal physical freight, posing as brokers or carriers, deploying malware, and rerouting real-world shipments, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, as reported by Bloomberg . The attackers are targeting freight brokers and trucking carriers with phishing emails and social engineering tactics. These messages often include credential stealers or remote-access malware, allowing hackers to manipulate shipment details once inside a company’s network.

Proofpoint says it has “high

Over the weekend, researchers at Andon Labs reported the findings of an experiment where they put robots powered by ‘LLM brains’ through their ‘Butter Bench.’ They didn’t just observe the robots and the results, though. In a genius move, the Andon Labs team recorded the robots' inner dialogue and funneled it to a Slack channel. During one of the test runs, a Claude Sonnet 3.5- powered robot experienced a completely hysterical meltdown, as shown in