Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) review: Big CPU power in a mispriced gaming laptop
An impressively powerful CPU makes the TUF Gaming A14 a strong productivity machine, but underwhelming gaming performance undermines its value as a gaming laptop.
Broadcom to supply Meta with custom silicon through 2029 — Broadom CEO Hock Tan departs Meta’s board
Broadcom inks deal with Meta to supply multi-GW of custom MTIA silicon through 2029, but Hock Tan will leave Meta’s board.
Blizzard finally decided to make boosting much harder in WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade dungeons
The number of World of Warcraft old hands who wanted classic The Burning Crusade to return to WoW Classic and the number who don’t want to actually play the...
Legendary Qualcomm, Apple, and Nuvia alumni form new CPU startup — Nuvacore promises to ‘rewrite the rules of silicon’
Ex-Apple, ex-Nuvia CPU designers Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan establish Nuvacore startup to develop clean-sheet CPUs for always-on compute-intensive AI workloads.
Bambu updates its 3D printers to print unique hues or gradients using two or three filaments — company acknowledges OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum fork as the basis for the color prediction part of the new feature
Bambu Studio V2.5.3 gets a Mixed Filament feature that lets you combine two to three different filament colors to get a new, unique one. It also comes with a gradient feature to allow a smooth transition between different colors on a single plane.
Score 64GB of G.Skill DDR5 and a 1TB 990 Pro for an insane $441 in this Newegg bundle — 9800X3D and X870E motherboard also comes with a free AIO, just $1,299 to start an AM5 gaming build
Newegg’s latest combo bundle lets you pay $1299.99 for 64GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000 RAM, Samsung 1TB 990 Pro SSD, Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, and Asus RoG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi Motherboard.
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about shields in MMOs?
Ah, the noble and forthright shield! The natural companion to a sword, or a one-handed axe, or basically anything you’re holding in one hand. Shields...
Anonymous perps behind 86 million files scraped from Spotify hit with $322 million court judgement — Anna’s Archive case presents intriguing precedent for AI training
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday awarded Spotify and the three major labels $322 million in a default judgment against Anna’s Archive.
Non-functioning counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are circulating in Europe — Despite convincing packaging, blue PCB easily gives away the dupe
In Austria, a buyer has received two Samsung 990 Pro clones that don’t function.
Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to counselors
Darren Blanchard, a farmer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested for going over the time limit during a town hall meeting to discuss residents’ concerns about a potential data center project in the area.