Nvidia RTX 5000 series GPUs are finally getting price drops – but there’s a catch
Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series GPUs are finally seeing price drops, but unfortunately it may not exactly change much for most consumers.
SoftBank to acquire Arm CPUs for datacenter firm Ampere in $6.5 billion cash deal
SoftBank buys Ampere for $6.5 billion in cash, may use them in Stargate datacenters.
Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027
Nvidia had its Kyber rack and infrastructure on display at GTC. These will be the follow-up to the Blackwell Ultra B300 and Rubin racks and infrastructure and will move to even more power and computing-dense solutions with NVL576. It’s still two years away, and it’s going to be a race to deliver enough power for next-generation “AI factory” data centers.
60 Million Android Users Infected By Malicious Vapor App Threat On Google Play
Bitdefender reports that more than 60 million users have recently downloaded applications used in massive ad fraud campaigns from the Play Store. The fraud campaign, code-named “Vapor,” allows attackers to lure users into downloading apps that make them vulnerable to cyberattacks.
The cat-and-mouse game between Google and hackers continues;
Google’s Gemini AI Can Now Help You Code, Generate Podcasts And More New Tricks
Yesterday, Google announced that it has updated its Gemini AI tool with two new additions; a Canvas feature, which allows users to fine-tune documents and code, and an Audio Overview feature that transforms documents into audio files similar to podcasts. These additions were shared in a blog post on Tuesday by Dave Citron, Senior Director
PCI Express 7.0 Draft Finalized, Massive Bandwidth Boost Incoming
Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it’s the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this immense throughput. Alternatively, it could be an x1 design—using PCIe 7.0. That’s right kids: PCIe 7.0 offers per-pin transfer rates of 128 GT/s,
Analogue Delays 4K Nintendo 64 3D Retro Gaming Console Preorders, Offers Refunds
Retro gamers are eating good these days: classic games are getting remakes that make them more accessible to 2025 gamers, and older hardware is being brought back to life with FPGA-based machines. However, the effort by the retro gaming experts at Analogue to create the ultimate Nintendo 64 has hit a snag, with fans having to wait a bit longer
Half-Life 2 running with just 8MB of VRAM is a beautiful wireframe mess
A YouTuber has successfully run Half-Life 2 on the 3D Phantom XP 2800 with just 8MB of memory, sacrificing most if not all textures, lighting, shadows, and other effects.
China’s BYD Claims It Can Fast-Charge A 250-Mile Range EV In Just 5 Minutes
The current understanding (or debate, depending on who you ask) that refueling a car with gas is quicker than charging an EV might be coming to a close. China’s BYD Auto has revealed a new 1000 volt, 1000 ampere EV architecture called “Super E-Platform” that promises not just gobs more power and capacity potential over current architectures,
This AMD Ryzen Gaming Laptop With An RTX 4070 Is $500 Off And More Great Deals
It won’t be long before you’ll be able to purchase a gaming laptop with a newfangled mobile GeForce RTX 50 series GPU inside. Heck, there are already a bunch of listings on Best Buy, though none that are in stock and only one that is up for preorder (HP Omen priced at $2,899.99). If you want to stretch your dollar, though, there are deals