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Intel’s Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

March 11, 2026

Intel has revealed an 8192-way SIMD compute engine for fully homomorphic encryption math called Heracles. By operating directly on encrypted data, it has the potential to eliminate entire classes of attacks under some workloads.

Tech News

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

Eulis

March 11, 2026

HiSense is forcing some owners of its smart TVs to watch ads when switching channels or inputs or going to the home screen.

Tech News

Ambitious semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY ‘class 100 cleanroom’ in his garden shed — contains a plasma etcher, vacuum furnace, and even custom software-driven lithography machine

Eulis

March 11, 2026

A TechTuber called Dr. Semiconductor has successfully created a ‘Class 100 cleanroom’ (ISO 5) in his garden shed.

Tech News

Cancelled Blu-Ray recorder production leads to flood of orders for Panasonic after rivals exit market — last supplier standing apologizes for delays as firm inundated with orders

Eulis

March 11, 2026

Panasonic is struggling to keep up with orders for its flagship Blu-ray recorder system in Japan.

Tech News

Intel shares XeSS 3.0 SDK for game devs with 3x and 4x MFG modes — but it still hasn’t followed through on its open-source promise

Eulis

March 11, 2026

XeSS 3.0 has been available inside Intel’s graphics driver suite for some time now, but the chipmaker has finally released the accompanying SDK for game developers, albeit only in closed-source form.

Tech News

Human brain cells set to power two new data centers, thanks to ‘body-in-the-box’ CL1 — Cortical Labs targets the AI energy crisis with biological computer that reportedly uses less energy than a calculator

Eulis

March 11, 2026

Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has partnered with data center firm DayOne to establish two new data centers using its CL1 biological computers.

Tech News

Rumored RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon — refreshed entry-level Blackwell card might finally have enough VRAM for DLSS and MFG in demanding games

Eulis

March 11, 2026

Trusted hardware leaker kopite7kimi has released fresh rumors regarding Nvidia’s purported GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 graphics card.

Tech News

Seagate CCO says storage price hikes are ‘the new normal’ — demand enters an unprecedented ‘supercycle’ driven by AI growth

Eulis

March 11, 2026

Seagate CCO Ban-Seng Teh said this week that memory price hikes are “the new normal” for the storage industry, describing current market conditions as a supercycle driven by AI data center demand that shows no sign of following historical patterns of recovery.

Gaming

Crema Announces Next Game, Temtem: Project Downbelow, With a Kickstarter Campaign

Eulis

March 11, 2026

Crema is moving forward with another game in the Temtem franchise, now that Temtem: Swarm! is headed towards 1.0 launch early next month. The team...

Gaming

The Stream Team: Long Live the Lich in Guild Wars 2

Eulis

March 10, 2026

After a successful flight with Guild Wars 2’s Sayida to raid Rata Primus, Massively OP’s MJ discovered a scarab plague was created that Joko wants...

Breaking News

Black Desert details the Arena of Solare’s next season on PC and tests more transcendent classes on mobile

New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O’Leary’s 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved

Fan Favorite Anker Is Phasing Out Its Soundcore Brand

Warframe’s next Jade Shadows chapter brings more story, new protoframes, and new railjack missions in June

Microsoft Confirms Memory Costs Impact Next-Gen Xbox Pricing

Scientists Ask Public to Help Identify Distant, Light-Bending Galaxies

Oops, Steam may have accidentally leaked the release date for Star Wars Galactic Racer

Niantic is already sunsetting its 2023 mobile MMOARG Peridot

How to Fix an iPhone That Will Not Turn On after the Battery Dies

‘Be gentle’: Throwback MMORPG Hollowed Oath debuts its very first pre-alpha gameplay video

Intel’s Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

Ambitious semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY ‘class 100 cleanroom’ in his garden shed — contains a plasma etcher, vacuum furnace, and even custom software-driven lithography machine

Cancelled Blu-Ray recorder production leads to flood of orders for Panasonic after rivals exit market — last supplier standing apologizes for delays as firm inundated with orders

Intel shares XeSS 3.0 SDK for game devs with 3x and 4x MFG modes — but it still hasn’t followed through on its open-source promise

Human brain cells set to power two new data centers, thanks to ‘body-in-the-box’ CL1 — Cortical Labs targets the AI energy crisis with biological computer that reportedly uses less energy than a calculator

Rumored RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7 could make hay from recycled RTX 5060 silicon — refreshed entry-level Blackwell card might finally have enough VRAM for DLSS and MFG in demanding games

Seagate CCO says storage price hikes are ‘the new normal’ — demand enters an unprecedented ‘supercycle’ driven by AI growth

Crema Announces Next Game, Temtem: Project Downbelow, With a Kickstarter Campaign

The Stream Team: Long Live the Lich in Guild Wars 2