Ahead of the official start of Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day, Newegg's Fantastech sales events, and just in time for the Steam sales, you can pick up a blazing-fast PCIe 5.0 SSD for its lowest ever price. With a large 4TB capacity, this drive will be able to store all the new Steam games that you'll never get around to playing. I personally own the 2TB variant and have been impressed with its performance thus far

Building a PC can be a pain in the butt, especially if you're not an experienced builder, and doubly so if you want a personalized machine. That's exactly why boutiques like Falcon Northwest and Maingear exist; they'll build you a machine tuned for high performance out of the box and personalized in all kinds of ways. There are a lot of smaller boutique builders, too, but standards and practices vary a lot. Take the case of this Redditor, New

Tower Research Capital, a New York-based high-frequency trading (HFT) firm, is under fire by Chinese authorities for allegedly smuggling high-tech hardware into the country for the purpose of using it in the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE). The report comes by way of Financial Times , which notes the Chinese customs authorities are determining whether Tower installed illicit "customized processors and networking hardware" that didn't match its customs declaration.

Tower allegedly brought in

OpenAI's long-rumored $10 billion partnership with Broadcom is already showing cracks. The company is widely understood to be developing a custom chip designed specifically for OpenAI's inference workloads, but according to individuals familiar with the matter, the project has "hit snags": OpenAI wanted more power, sooner, than Broadcom could deliver, and an internal push to roll the chip out in Q2 2026 has already slipped to Q3 at

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated what they describe as a “next-generation 3D printing system.” The key innovation here is a multiplexed nozzle, which can deliver scalable 3D printing to industry while minimizing the typical tradeoffs in output size, weight, and complexity. Crucially, the tech also enables printing with different materials at the same time.

Orange Pi has introduced a powerful mini-PC designed for those interested in experimenting with artificial intelligence development and applications. At its core is a 64-bit ARM-based Huawei Ascend 310 AI octa-core processor, which is claimed to deliver up to 176 TOPS of AI performance. That’s more than double what the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite can achieve, though the latter is aimed specifically at laptops.

There are two versions of the

Following rumblings that Microsoft was considering adding Grok 4 to its Azure AI Foundry, the company has confirmed that the model is now available to use for its customers, following a private preview. It comes following a period of testing, which may be related to previous instances of erratic behaviour on Grok's part. Now, Microsoft has just announced that the model is available to everyone.

Grok 4 is, as described by its constituents, a "frontier intelligence" model, which means it

Popular PC vendor Maingear has today debuted a brand new line-up of extremely potent performance PCs with an eye-watering price tag to match. New this week are the Apex Force and Apex Rush models, starting at a cool $7,469/$6,259 respectively.

First up is the new Apex Force, a full-tower chassis housed inside the Phanteks NV9 case. Maingear touts a dual-loop hardline cooling system with offset tubing, upgradable

It has been a busy few weeks for semiconductors. Apple debuted its next-generation silicon, Nvidia launched an unprecedented partnership, and TSMC denied rumors of a major tie-up with Intel. But across all these developments, one name has remained conspicuously absent: Intel Foundry Services.

Take the biggest stories of the month. Apple’s new A19 and A19 Pro chips launched on TSMC’s 3nm N3P node. No mention of Intel