Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro SSD Review: An 8TB unobtanium monster
The Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro is a monster of a drive and a compelling alternative to the 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro.
South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders
South Korea’s National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an unknown user using the code to recover the wallet and steal over US$4.8 million in crypto seized by the government.
New DNA HDD can be ‘erased and overwritten repeatedly’ — University of Missouri researchers aiming for next-gen thumb-drive-sized storage
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) is developing a ‘DNA hard drive,’ which ‘moves the field closer to a practical, rewritable system.’
DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds
Online security firm DataDome just reported that it has stopped a massive scalping effort to buy memory modules and resell them at inflated prices, turning the memory situation from bad to worse.
AMD’s new Ryzen desktop CPUs are all about AI with a powerful NPU for exclusive Copilot+ features — but will anyone care?
Want a Copilot+ desktop PC? What do you mean, no? AMD just revealed Ryzen AI 400 CPUs over at MWC 2026.
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Microsoft adds Shader Execution Reordering (SER) in latest DirectX SDK for more efficient ray tracing — Intel Arc B-series GPUs show 90% performance uplift
Microsoft has officially brought Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and Opacity Micromaps (OMMs) out of preview with the latest DXR 1.2 update, as part of DirectX Agility SDK 1.619. With SER and OMM now standardized, more game developers and GPU makers will be able to adopt it to make ray/path-traced scenes run much faster.
Qualcomm Unveils Wi-Fi 8-Fueled Snapdragon Wear Elite Platform With Native AI For Ultra-Fast Connectivity
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Qualcomm is eagerly showing off its next-gen of “truly personal, always-on, intelligent wearable computing devices” powered by its Snapdragon Wear Elite platform, which includes support for Wi-Fi 8 and a built-in NPU. As Qualcomm notes, Snapdragon Wear Elite is the first NPU-powered wearable platform in the industry,
AMD Unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series For Next-Gen AI PC Power On AM5 Desktops
AMD told us at CES 2026 that it would be bringing its Ryzen AI 400 processors to desktop at some point, and naturally it announced those chips today, because why wouldn’t you announce desktop CPUs at Mobile World Congress? Yes, indeed; AMD’s bringing its latest mobile silicon to the desktop market, and a sentence like that gets integrated