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AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches

By Jowi Morales published 26 February 26

It feels like we've seen this before...

Lucky PC builder orders 32GB Corsair RAM kit for $300, claims they got a box of 10 worth $3,000 instead — plans to sell all the extra units to the community at pre-AI crunch prices

By Jowi Morales published 26 February 26

A Reddit user's order for a pack of 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM turns into a box of 10, totalling 320GB of memory.

Nvidia still hasn’t sold a single H200 to China nearly three months after getting the green light from the White House — U.S. Commerce official says department hasn’t approved any sales during a House hearing

By Jowi Morales published 25 February 26

It's now Beijing's turn to say no to Chinese tech companies.

MacBook Pro with OLED touch screen arriving in the fall, claims leaker — new laptops to feature Dynamic Island and revamped UI optimized for both fingers and cursors

By Jowi Morales published 25 February 26

Get ready for greasy screens.

Optical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latency — Taara Beam uses silicon photonics technology, device about as big as a shoebox

By Jowi Morales published 24 February 26

The Taara Beam offers a fiber-like connection without the hassle of acquiring right-of-way and laying cable. It delivers up 25 Gbps of throughput with ultra-low latency at a range of up to 10 km.

NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches

By Jowi Morales published 24 February 26

The "ancient" Snapdragon 801 chip for mid-range smartphones is still powerful enough to give the rover accurate directions.

MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers

By Jowi Morales published 23 February 26

Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000.

Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers

By Jowi Morales published 23 February 26

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.

User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds

By Jowi Morales published 23 February 26

Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs — HDD deal seeker saved more than $2,000 by taking a trip

By Jowi Morales published 22 February 26

Flying to another continent is apparently cheaper than buying locally.

MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motors cost just 50 cents each

By Jowi Morales published 22 February 26

A team of researchers from MIT built a 3D printer that can economically print a fully functioning linear motor, with magnetization of the magnetic parts the only required step after printing.

Akasa launches its latest-generation fanless Mini-ITX case — Euler CMX supports modern Intel Core Ultra processors up to 35W TDP and standard mini-ITX mobos

By Jowi Morales published 22 February 26

The Akasa Euler CMX fanless Mini-ITX PC case supports up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285T with up to 35 watts TDP without relying on thin Mini-ITX motherboards.

Steam Deck shortage goes global — Valve's handheld console now out of stock in Europe, Canada, the US, and Japan

By Jowi Morales published 21 February 26

The handheld console is still available in Australia, the U.K., Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. But will they run out of stock in the near future, too?

Creator of Window's Task Manager shows off 'probably what Task Manager would look like if I were still around' — Tempest AI's retro-futuristic dashboard code shared to Github

By Jowi Morales published 21 February 26

Dave Plummer created Tempest AI to play the classic Atari game, but he also built a dashboard which imagines what Task Manager should look like if he were still in charge of it.

U.S. Supreme Court shoots down President Trump’s tariffs — Consumer Technology Association hails 'victory for all Americans,' calls for swift refunds to retailers (update)

By Jowi Morales last updated 20 February 26

The Supreme Court told the Trump administration that the term "regulate" in the IEEPA does not give White House authority to impose tariffs on imports.

AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims

By Jowi Morales published 20 February 26

You really shouldn't give AI free rein to do anything it wants on your system.

Zuckerberg cuts Meta employee bonuses by 5%, follows 10% reduction last year, despite AI splurge — $130 billion capex vision and eye-watering AI pay packages force efficiency elsewhere in the business

By Jowi Morales published 20 February 26

Meta reportedly cuts its stock option bonus rates for the second year in a row. 5% reduction follows 10% cut from the year before.

$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators

By Jowi Morales published 20 February 26

The FBI released a public warning, saying that ATM "jackpotting" incidents have exponentially increased in 2025.

AI hyperscalers move to secure long-term uranium supply from mining companies — fuel required for nuclear plants to power future data centers

By Jowi Morales published 18 February 26

This deal will help AI hyperscalers secure the fuel they need for SMRs, avoiding getting hit by a shortage if demand spikes due to the massive power requirements of future data centers.

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Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China — class action lawsuit alleges company uses trackers to expose American behavioral data to ‘foreign adversaries’

By Jowi Morales published 18 February 26

A lawsuit says that Lenovo is tracking Americans visiting its website and exporting all the information to its Chinese servers.

An F-35 Lightning II flying over snow-capped mountains

Dutch Secretary of Defense threatens to 'jailbreak' nation's F-35 jet fighters — says it's just like jailbreaking an iPhone, in response to questions over software independence

By Jowi Morales published 18 February 26

Is Dutch Sec. Gijs Tuinman alluding to a European effort to continue using their F-35 jets even if the U.S. stops supporting them?

A Nintendo Switch 2 console next to its box

Sony considering PlayStation 6 delay to 2029, while Nintendo could hike Switch 2 price, according to report — memory and storage chip shortage now impacting products outside of RAM, storage, and GPUs

By Jowi Morales published 17 February 26

The two gaming giants are reportedly taking widely different approaches to the memory chip shortage as the situation is starting to affect consumer electronics outside of PCs.

Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages — supply of popular gaming handheld in trouble because of massive AI demand

By Jowi Morales published 17 February 26

Valve is blaming memory and chip shortages as Steam Deck availability becomes intermittent in several regions.

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

By Jowi Morales last updated 16 February 26

Western Digital's production for 2026 is completely earmarked for its top seven customers, with a few long-term agreements already in place for the next couple of years.

OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks

By Jowi Morales published 15 February 26

AI is coming for high-end Mac Studios and Mac minis, too.

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