A massive prototype cooler from AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series has surfaced online, sparking speculation that AMD once considered a true RTX 4090-class GPU during the RDNA 3 era. The leak originated from Korean forum Quasarzone , where a user named FP32 shared images of a mysterious shroud purchased from the Chinese marketplace Xianyu. At first glance, it looks like a standard RX 7900 XTX reference cooler, but a second
Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC
Palmer Luckey might have found his next area of focus: laptops.
Luckey rose to prominence with the founding of Oculus in 2012. He sold the virtual reality company to Facebook in 2014, and after he was reportedly fired in 2017, he co-founded a military tech firm called Anduril Industries that has primarily focused on the development of autonomous systems. (Including surveillance tools as well as both aerial and underwater vehicles.)
Anduril was
Microsoft finally has a Surface Laptop with 5G — Intel Core Ultra-powered laptop will ship as part of business line
While Microsoft has sold Surface Pro and Surface Go tablets with cellular connectivity before, that capability hasn't come to the Surface Laptop yet. But on August 26, Microsoft will launch the Surface Laptop 5G as part of its Surface for Business line.
The 5G laptop is a variant of the existing 13.8-inch Surface Laptop for Business, which utilizes Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors. The fine print in Microsoft's blog post points out that it will
AMD Strix Halo Mini-ITX motherboard flaunts 128GB LPDDR5X — add a CPU cooler, boot drive, and power supply for a slim gaming or AI rig
Chinese ODM Shanghai Sixunited Intelligent Technology Co, Ltd. (via ITHome ) has revealed the company's upcoming STHT1 motherboard. The STHT1 will leverage AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300-series (codenamed Strix Halo) processors.
The STHT1 conforms to the thin Mini-ITX standard, a specification that targets AIO systems. Size-wise, it still conforms to the Mini-ITX specifications, which are 170 x 170mm. However,
Bambu Lab's entire 3D printer lineup is still discounted at anniversary-sale pricing — for how long, we don't know
Through the recent four-day Amazon Prime Day sales event and beyond, Bambu Lab was running its big 3rd-Anniversary sales event across the range of excellent 3D printers on their website, including multicolor AMS printing accessories. We saw some amazing price reductions on several of our favorite 3D printers, including the $399 Bambu Lab P1P 3D printer that had an outstanding 43% knocked off the $699 list price. This was a standout
FCC proposal aims to nix long-term gigabit internet speed goals, pricing analysis
An FCC proposal seeks to undo the Biden administration's efforts to encourage increased availability of gigabit download speeds.
OpenAI and Oracle ink deal to build massive Stargate data center, total project will power 2 million AI chips — Stargate partner SoftBank not involved in the project
Among the concerns raised about the Stargate project, which involves partnerships with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, were scarce details about infrastructure support. Little by little, the companies disclosed their intentions and, on Tuesday, OpenAI and Oracle announced plans to build an additional 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of Stargate data center infrastructure in the U.S., pushing OpenAI’s total planned capacity beyond 5 GW. Interestingly, SoftBank is not involved in financing this buildout, despite being part
DNS embedded malware technique used to create a hacker-inspired version of the popular Mad Libs word game — built on networking infrastructure to provide distributed version
The fun thing about curses is that they propagate. In this case, hackers using the Domain Name System (DNS) to distribute malware inspired Michael "B'ad Samurai" Bunner to create DNS Mad Libs , which uses the same technique as the recently-discovered DNS malware distribution hack to provide a distributed version of the popular word game.
"This project is inspired by previous research on the use of DNS TXT records to store and retrieve data, which can be used for various purposes
Only £128 for this 27-inch MSI MAG monitor with a blazing 180 Hz refresh rate — that's unbelievable 1440p gaming value
I know Amazon Prime Day is over and drifting ever more into the past, but there are still plenty of great deals out in the wild if you keep looking. Today's featured deal is on a 27-inch gaming monitor on a limited-time sale at an incredibly low price. The MSI MAG 27CQ6F is only £128 at Scan.co.uk in their ‘Today Only’ sale.
PC monitors and especially gaming monitors have seen
158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum
A UK-based transportation company with a venerable 158-year history has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack. Around 500 Northamptonshire-based Knights of Old (KNP) trucks are now off the road, and 700 people have lost their jobs, due to money-grasping cyberattackers, named as ‘Akira’ in a BBC report .
The internet-connected criminals are said to have gained access to KNP’s internet