Elon Musk's Grok AI to be used by US government at a price of 42 cents per agency — Trump admin joining Meta, OpenAI in recent trend of AI govt contracts By Sunny Grimm published 25 September 25 The chatbot will be one of several available to workers in any opting-in federal agency.
U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind — Tymoshchuk allegedly stole $18 billion from large companies over 3 years By Sunny Grimm published 10 September 25 Volodymyr Tymoshchuk is accused of masterminding ransomware that disrupted 250 companies in the United States alone.
Nvidia Rubin CPX forms one half of new, "disaggregated" AI inference architecture — approach splits work between compute- and bandwidth-optimized chips for best performance By Sunny Grimm published 10 September 25 Nvidia's "disaggregated" inference strategy will combine HBM-equipped Rubin GPUs with new Rubin CPX chips.
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis By Sunny Grimm published 5 September 25 Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore
Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam By Sunny Grimm published 5 September 25 Even Reddit's r/Piracy is recommending that everyone pays $20 for this indie game
New 3D-stacked memory tech seeks to dethrone HBM for AI inference — d-Matrix claims 3DIMC will be 10x faster and 10x more efficient By Sunny Grimm published 4 September 25 HBM may soon be edged out in some use cases
China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities By Sunny Grimm published 3 September 25 China is expanding its small and medium businesses' access to AI compute resources through the use of 'compute power vouchers' that subsidize the cost of training AI models.
Apple iMac G3 made from Lego has a chance to become an official retail set — a fan-designed model needs 4,000 more signatures to be considered by Lego By Sunny Grimm published 31 August 25 The iconic blobject can come home again, if Lego decides to bite the Apple
Nvidia App update furthers transition away from the 20-year-old Control Panel — multi-monitor and 3D settings among those migrated from classic Nvidia Control Panel By Sunny Grimm published 30 August 25 Nvidia's consumer software stack moves closer to simplification
Quantum internet is possible using standard Internet protocol — University engineers send quantum signals over fiber lines without losing entanglement By Sunny Grimm published 29 August 25 Quantum signals sent over IP overcome noise on live, commercial fiber outside of the lab
World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out — Normal Computing's physics-based ASIC changes lanes to train more AI By Sunny Grimm published 13 August 25 Normal Computing announces successful tape-out of the world's first thermodynamic computing chip for AI training.
Huawei releases new tool to get Chinese firms around crushing HBM export blacklist — new UCM software claims up to 22x throughput gain and 90% latency reduction for traditional cache hierarchies in AI workloads By Sunny Grimm published 13 August 25 Huawei's attempt to free China's tech market from relying on HBM may be a big swing towards Chinese tech independence
GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team By Sunny Grimm published 11 August 25 One of the web's most important programming tools is absorbed
How ARM is working its way into PCs and data centers — inside the products and trends behind the hype By Sunny Grimm published 6 August 25 Premium Arm is already the king of smarphones, but if it wants to conquer the PC and data center, it needs to stick the landing.
50 years after its inception, desktop PCs are less popular than ever — a rise in PC gaming interest means it's in no danger of disappearing By Sunny Grimm published 6 August 25 Premium Is the desktop PC dying? In 2025, things might seem worse than before. But hope yet remains.
V-Color announces 2TB RDIMM kits for Threadripper Pro 9000 — 256GB modules promise stability at absurdly high RAM capacities By Sunny Grimm published 29 July 25 Giant memory kits let Threadripper Pro users chew through massive data sets in single workstations
AI hyperscaler buys its cryptomining partner for its AI GPUs and data center infrastructure — CoreWeave acquires Core Scientific in long-awaited move By Sunny Grimm published 7 July 25 AI companies are buying each other up for the server space.
UK Royal Navy builds 'esports suite' loaded with gaming PCs onboard its newest warship — eight high-powered PC battle stations added to war room By Sunny Grimm published 5 July 25 British military perks now include LAN parties on the high seas.
MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics By Sunny Grimm published 5 July 25 Researchers are quite literally putting 3D printing in the palm of your hand.
RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg — RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all fall to low prices ahead of Prime Day (Updated) By Sunny Grimm last updated 3 July 25 Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up
Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria By Sunny Grimm published 1 July 25 PCIe 3.0 speeds in a PCIe 5.0 world for PCIe 27.0 prices
SpaceX launches UK satellite to create semiconductors in low Earth orbit — sub-zero temps and vacuum of space could advance AI data centers and quantum computing By Sunny Grimm published 28 June 25 CPUs with parts fabricated in space may be coming soon, assuming the ForgeStar-1 experiment succeeds
689 different Brother printer models all use the serial number to create default password — ridiculous security flaw baked in from manufacturing, can't be fully remediated with firmware By Sunny Grimm published 27 June 25 The password vulnerability cannot be fixed with firmware, so change your dang passwords.
Insane DDR4 price spikes mean last-gen RAM loses its value luster versus DDR5 — prices have nearly tripled in just two months By Sunny Grimm published 26 June 25 DDR4 approaches its end of life, but plenty of buyers still want the older memory, and its remaining suppliers are raking it in.
Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life By Sunny Grimm published 22 June 25 A software engineer on X has built an augmented reality app for Snap's Spectacles, using Google's Gemini AI to identify advertisements and brands in the real world.
