Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praises cutting-edge Nvidia chip production with TSMC on US soil, despite Intel missing out — hails manufacturing milestone of US-based supply chain
Intel opens pop-up stores across five cities featuring AI PCs from laptop manufacturers — we stopped by the NYC store, and one visitor in Munich found Panther Lake
LG's 32-inch, 4K OLED gaming monitor falls to $799 — dual-mode display is $500 off
Police bust chip counterfeiting outfit in China, fakes may have made it into PC hardware — GPUs, motherboards, and power supplies potentially impacted by fake Infineon and TI power chips
Asus' first-ever ROG AI gaming router costs as much as a mini PC and has the specs to match — device boasts quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage for $899
New AMD driver snubs Radeon RX 5000, 6000 GPUs with latest updates — also disables USB-C functionality on RX 7900 series
$2,000 PC Build Spotlight: Rising Phoenix
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/usd2-000-pc-build-spotlight-rising-phoenix
Ambitious enthusiasts buy entire Boeing 747 cockpit in race to build flight simulator — three-month project recreates gauges, dials, and other mechanical instruments for X-Plane sim
Elon Musk says idling Tesla cars could create massive 100-million-vehicle strong computer for AI — 'bored' vehicles could offer 100 gigawatts of distributed compute power
U.S. and China agree on one-year tariff truce, including semiconductor and rare earth breakthroughs — the future of Nvidia AI chip sales to the nation remains murky
OpenAI's Microsoft contract negotiation is a necessary step toward a future IPO — Altman's goal is to build 30 gigawatts of compute infrastructure, valued at $1.4 trillion
QNAP's new NAS brings exotic data center 'ruler' SSDs into your house — massive ES.1 form factor SSDs for up to 19.2TB of storage for $4,399
Australia's police to use AI to decode criminals' emoji slang to curb online crime — "crimefluencers" will be decoded and translated for investigators
WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives — same drives that got WD sued in 2021 now reporting failure rates due to 'fundamental' flaws
3D-printed full-auto bullpup 'ghost guns' can now be made for a couple of hundred dollars — designs have evolved dramatically outside the U.S.
AWS outage strikes again — colossal internet breakdown for the second time in days, Zoom, Starbucks, and Capital One all affected
Windows 11 videos demonstrating account and hardware requirements bypass purged from YouTube creator's channel — platform says content ‘encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death’
Nvidia's market capitalization hits $5.12 trillion — AI powerhouse is the first company in history to hit seismic milestone
China deploys wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast — $226 million project could top 24 megawatts, harnessing the cooling power of the sea
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cnina-deploys-wind-powered-underwater-data-center
Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations