The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon
The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date — $949 instead of its usual $1,999.
New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes plague new version 141.x
Firefox rolled out update 141 last month with AI enhanced tab groups, but an issue simmering under the hood has only now come to a head.
Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt
A lifeless RTX 4090 with 48GB of VRAM landed on a repair bench, showing no display output. What followed was a deep dive into diagnostics, power rail checks, and trace hunting—only to reveal hidden PCB damage so severe that even expert fixes couldn’t bring the GPU back from the dead.
Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week
Microsoft is putting Copilot Gaming (Beta) on the Game Bar for Xbox Insiders, while giving every creator access to its new AI-driven 2D to 3D feature (as long as you have a Microsoft Account).
Heretic + Hexen Fantasy FPS Classics Re-Released In Glorious Retro Pack
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, raised some eyebrows after wearing a graphic t-shirt featuring the box art of the classic video game Hexen during the 2023 Xbox Showcase event. At the time, he played it off as simply wearing a t-shirt of a game loved. For fans of the classic franchise, however, Spencer’s shirt was actually a clue to
China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’
A social media account linked to China state media says that users should avoid Nvidia chips.
Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer ‘garbage’ and that it ‘makes the world actively a worse place to live’ — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as ‘garbage.’
Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — PCB looks stunning when matched with fully transparent shell
Natalie built the schematics and circuit herself, but ordered the clear PCB from a third-party supplier.
AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’
A software engineer, who previously accused AWS of ‘digital execution,’ has shared the good news that his data has now been restored.
Intel’s Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores — Entire lineup is reportedly limited to a single compute tile
Core configs for Intel’s Nova Lake mobile lineup has reportedly leaked, with the top HX variant featuring up to 28 CPU cores and 4 GPU cores. Nova Lake-H and Nova Lake-U families also detailed.