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AOC's 15-inch 1080p portable monitor dips below $50 — budget offering includes speakers, HDMI connectivity, and a smart cover

It's hard to beat the AOC 16T20's bargain-basement price of $49.99 during the lead-up to Black Friday

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AMD to allegedly raise graphics card prices by at least 10% in 2026 — price surge attributed to ongoing AI-related DRAM supply crisis

AMD has informed its board partners that it will have to raise prices on its graphics cards for 2026 following the recent sky-rocketing memory prices put a supply squeeze on a range of electronics industries.

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Lenovo stockpiles RAM as prices skyrocket, reportedly has enough inventory to last through 2026 — memory stock claimed to be 50% higher than usual to fight pricing shock

Lenovo is preparing for the RAM pricing apocalypse and has already stockpiled loads of DRAM memory for its products. The company has so much inventory, in fact, that it has enough memory to last all through 2026.

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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

The Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build, most of which came from Windows users.

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Congressional report details China's new deep-sea cable cutter that can sever armored cables in 13,000 feet of water — report warns of rising Chinese undersea cable cutting capabilities

A new annual report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission delivered to Congress states that China is actively developing technologies to sever undersea cables.

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Hobbyist solo miner scores a full Bitcoin block worth $270,000 despite 1 in 180 million odds — 3.146 Bitcoins mined by a single low-powered 6 TH/s ASIC with about 0.0000007% of the network’s hashrate

A solo miner running just 6 terahashes per second of computing power has overcome odds of about one‑in‑180 million to mine a full Bitcoin block via the CKpool pool.

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The upcoming Steam Machine won't be 'subsidized' like consoles to hit a more attractive price target, suggesting high relative pricing — Valve engineer confirms the device competes with only the PC market

Leaving out the price for the Steam Machine at Valve's 2026 hardware lineup reveal has turned the internet into rumor mill vultures, but now Valve itself has given us a big hint at what the device would cost. The company has confirmed the Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles,…

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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025.

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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month

A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub.

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Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing

MicroSD cards are now being swept up in Japan at alarming rates, thanks to the ongoing memory shortage wiping out most large-capacity hard drives from store shelves. Customers are buying models ranging from 512 GB - 2 TB to fulfil their storage needs, especially now that the microSD Express standard…

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Retro computing enthusiast creates perforated tape reader designed 'from scratch' — reads data at about 50 bytes per second

An electronics enthusiast has demonstrated a compact new perforated tape reader design.

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DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs $13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high‑power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650 km/h during recent trials in Scotland.

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ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being 'Washington’s eyes and ears in China' after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country, says new book

ASML allegedly offered to spy on its customers for the U.S. after it was caught breaking a gentleman's agreement that limited the number of DUV lithography machines it could sell to China.

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40 years ago an enthusiast biked 17,000 miles over 17 months with mobile computer to complete the pioneering Computing Across America expedition — solar and 1980s portable gadgets powered the 'Winnebiko' across America

In 1983, writer and computer whizz Steven K. Roberts began his multi-year Computing Across America quest, pioneering the digital nomad lifestyle.

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The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history — a data streaming experiment rendered unnecessary by broadband

The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.

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Supersized chip family gathers for the 54th anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU — 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, and 4003 shift registers feature in a reconstructed Busicom calculator build

A sneak preview of a complete MCS-4 computer, built from discrete transistors, has been shown off to mark the recent Intel 4004 anniversary.

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Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060 — intern refused to hand in GPU won on an all-expense-paid business trip

An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned…

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AMD ditches 'FidelityFX' in favor of apparently-meaningless 'FSR' branding, Fluid Motion Frames also renamed to FMF

AMD has set the full release date for FSR Redstone and also revealed that the full name is now simply 'FSR'.

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Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

Tuxedo Computers, which builds Linux-powered desktops and laptops, has stopped work on Linux for the Snapdragon X1E, saying that the chip is less suitable for the open-source OS than expected.

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Steam Machine can transform into Portal Companion Cube with custom skin — dot matrix and E Ink faceplates will also be available

Dbrand and Jsaux Gaming teased custom covers and cases for the upcoming Steam Machine.

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Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPUs tested ahead of launch — alleged Core Ultra 3 SKU with 10 cores and 16GB RAM surfaces in leaks

Leakers are selling engineering samples for Panther Lake weeks before its official launch, with at least two different SKUs floating online. The first is an alleged 10-core Core Ultra 3 SKU from a well-known tipster, while the second sample appears to be an accurate pre-production model, as it lacks LP-E…

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Homeland Security thinks Chinese firm's Bitcoin mining chips could be used for espionage or to sabotage the power grid — Bitmain probed by U.S. gov't over national security concerns

The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security.

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Gamers celebrate 50% performance gains following Nvidia hotfix driver — patch fixes October Windows 11 cumulative update that broke performance in some games

Users on X have benchmarked Nvidia's latest 581.94 hotfix driver that fixes performance issues stemming from Microsoft's October cumulative update for Windows 11.

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Asus tempts fate, unleashes 800W "XOC" vBIOS for its $4,000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090 — Overclockers and high-end GPU junkies now have their hands on the hottest, most power-hungry 5090 around

You can make your RTX 5090 just a teeny bit more powerful and less efficient, thanks to a new 800W BIOS stripped from Asus' $4000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090. As long as you have a compatible 5090 that'll play nicely with the custom firmware, you, too, can enjoy higher clocks…

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A 34-year-old Apple Mac crash bug ‘would have gone undiscovered for all eternity,’ but the accuracy of the MAME emulator shone a light on it

A computing enthusiast unearthed a 34-year-old Apple Mac bug that should have crippled the system at startup, but it never did, thanks to an undocumented feature in the Motorola CPU that quietly neutralized the flaw.

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