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Valve delays Steam Machine and says it is reconsidering pricing — critical component shortage and costs behind the move

Valve is reportedly delaying the latest Steam hardware due to uncertainty with memory chip pricing, but it seems to still be on track to arrive during the first half of 2026.

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Modern NVMe SSD meets vintage PCI slot in quirky experiment — M.2 drive shows storage speeds worth dying for back in the '90s

Redditor shows what it would have felt like to use a high-speed NVMe SSD with a PCI slot.

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$40 million worth of crypto stolen from Step Finance — hackers compromise executives’ devices to gain illicit access

DeFi platform Step Finance has been hit with a $40 million breach stemming from compromised devices used by its executive team.

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How to store your headsets and keyboards

Tips and tricks for storing and displaying gaming headsets and keyboards, whether you have one or one hundred.

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PC vendor warns of upcoming price hikes due to SSD and memory volatility — PowerGPU to pass costs to customers once existing inventory depletes

PowerGPU said on X that "SSD and other part prices have gone up again," warning its customers that it will raise prices again by next week.

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The new Valve Steam Machine is 'on track' to begin shipping early this year, says AMD — CEO suggests new 4K mini gaming PC, powered by semi-custom Zen 4 CPU, to launch soon

AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su, during the company's latest Q4 2025 earnings call, seemingly confirmed that the release for the new Valve Steam Machine is "on track" to launch during early 2026.

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Gamer scores Nvidia’s $999 powerhouse RTX 5080 for a jaw-dropping $562 — the Walmart clearance aisle is the secret weapon to beat the AI-driven GPU shortage (Updated)

Shoppers share their best GeForce RTX 50-series purchases in a Reddit thread from Walmart's electronics clearance aisle.

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‘Most of you steal your software’ — Bill Gates complained about software piracy 50 years ago, and was openly irked by community's Altair BASIC ‘theft’

50 years ago ‘An Open Letter to Hobbyists,’ typed by William Henry Gates III, bellyached about software piracy among the hobbyist community.

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Cornell research shows that underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place — DARPA-funded project aims to make underwater construction faster, cheaper, and safer

Researchers based at Cornell University have developed a method for 3D printing concrete structures on the seafloor.

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These two outstanding Thunderbolt 4 Docks add versatility to my laptop and desktop PC

From two ports to 20, how adding a Thunderbolt dock can expand your connectivity options.

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HetCCL makes clustered Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nice with each other via RDMA — vendor-agnostic collective communications library removes an obstacle to heterogeneous AI data centers

HetCCL, a proposed computing library, could make Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators play nicely with one another in the same cluster by bridging the two companies' hardware over RDMA.

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Western Digital reveals new software platform to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage — as-yet-unnamed tool gives users powerful management capabilities at the price of lock-in

Western Digital to give large customers a tool to manage storage fleets of 200+ PB consisting of SSDs, HAMR HDDs, and UltraSMR drives.

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Researchers use agentic AI to monitor and correct 3D prints — system catches errors in real time, uses modular design to work on different makes and models

A group of researchers has built an AI-powered system that uses five agents to monitor 3D printers and correct for errors after each printed layer.

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AMD CEO downplays PC memory crunch, saying 'our focus areas are enterprise' — company wants to focus on growing 'higher-end of the market'

AMD's CEO doesn't seem concerned with current memory prices, suggesting the company is focusing its efforts on the enterprise.

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AMD reveals next-gen Xbox could launch in 2027 — CEO says semi-custom SoC ready to 'support launch in 2027'

AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su let out a hint about the next-gen Xbox, which will sport a semi-custom SoC that should be ready next year.

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Purported Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs might bring extra performance with no price premium — early retailer listings show practically no price hike for some Core Ultra 200K Plus chips

An overseas retailer has listed Intel's forthcoming Core Ultra 200K Plus (codenamed Arrow Lake Refresh) processors along with pricing, suggesting that the refreshed family will carry practically no premium over existing products.

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China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

One of Loongson's 12-core CPUs has been benchmarked by Phoronix. The Linux outlet discovered the chip is three times slower on average than AMD's latest six-core CPU the Ryzen 5 9600X.

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DDR5 RAM pricing begins to stabilize in Germany, January saw only a 0.1% increase — Some kits even saw price cuts as volatility begins to plateau

German retailers' inventory saw DDR5 memory prices stabilizing for the first time in months, with some kits even miraculously seeing price cuts compared to the start of January. This doesn't indicate that the crisis is over, or even that there will be no more price hikes, but rather that the…

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

Western Digital reveals hard disk drives tailored for higher performance and lower power consumption, targeting QLC NAND-based solid-state storage.

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Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029

Western Digital announces HDD roadmap till 2029 at its Innovation Day.

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs begin to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at last — RX 9070 arrives with paltry 0.16% market share, less than the GeForce GT 730

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and a single AMD RDNA4 architecture GPU has charted in the PC Video Card Usage tables.

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SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity

Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to help achieve his dreams of putting AI data centers in orbit, with a goal of hitting 100 gigawatts of compute in space.

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ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial — Kerbal Space Program Lunar lander powered by 1980s hardware

Controlling a lunar lander using a 1980s home computer is not for the faint of heart, and this project shows how one intrepid developer linked the world of BASIC to the simulated world of Kerbal Space Program using Python and Serial.

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Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill

The power supply unit touches every part of your PC, and that means an older PSU poses a unique risk to your precious components if it fails. If you’re trying to get more life out of an old PC or pulling an older computer off the shelf during today’s RAMpocalypse,…

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Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame

The Notepad++ project yesterday disclosed that its update server was covertly hijacked in a targeted supply chain attack that began in June 2025,

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