Minisforum AI X1 Pro 470 review: AMD's Gorgon Point in a sleek mini PC desktop By Mark Tyson published 28 March 26 Minisforum’s AI X1 Pro 470 mini PC is just an incremental update to last year's well-regarded AI X1 Pro 370, but the barebones model isn't much more expensive.
Apple’s Mac OS X turns 25, has prospered across three hardware architecture changes — from PowerPC, through Intel x86, to Apple Silicon By Mark Tyson published 28 March 26 This week Apple’s Mac OS X enjoyed its quarter century anniversary.
Trucker shows off $6,000 PC driving sim rig in passenger seat — driver slides over to RTX 5080-powered setup when stuck in traffic By Mark Tyson published 28 March 26 There’s at least one trucker in the U.S. who looks forward to getting stuck in traffic.
DIYer upcycles an old PC PSU into a flexible bench power supply — 20-year-old relic rescued from dusty neglect By Mark Tyson published 28 March 26 Your old, unwanted, PC PSU could enjoy a new life as a bench power supply, after a bit of DIY.
Class action alleges Nvidia hid more than $1B crypto-GPU income within its gaming revenues — investor lawsuit concerns business spanning 2017 and 2018 By Mark Tyson published 26 March 26 Nvidia is back in court over whether a significant chunk of its revenue through 2017 and 2018 was reliant on the whims of the cryptocurrency market.
Paralyzed army vet can now play World of Warcraft using 'science fiction… magic… brilliant…' Neuralink brain implant — 'I’m now raiding, and exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed' By Mark Tyson published 26 March 26 British Army veteran Jon L. Noble has shared a heartwarming update on his first 100 days with a Neuralink implant.
Russian ‘Starlink Rival’ established with 16 satellites launched, aims for 900 by 2035 — commercial operation to begin next year with 250 sputniks By Mark Tyson published 25 March 26 Russia has began to deliver on its plans to establish a domestic state-funded rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, dubbed Rassvet.
Autonomous mobile drone swarm killer created in trilateral US defense company collab — the new Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) is a high-power microwave platform By Mark Tyson published 24 March 26 A trio of US defense, autonomy, and directed energy industry leaders have created the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) to address the threat of drone swarms.
China laptop vendor eats humble pie, apology says ‘production error’ was behind chip mix-up — full refunds offered to those affected by the fake Ryzen 5 7430U ‘scam’ By Mark Tyson published 24 March 26 Budget portable PCs specialist Chuwi has released an official apology to customers who received devices that didn’t match up to expected specifications.
Imagination Tech working on mainstream PC gaming with ‘ambitious graphics card and SoC design companies’ — shows off progress with DirectX 11 workloads By Mark Tyson published 23 March 26 The UK’s Imagination Technologies is teasing its roadmap to 'bring high‑performance, scalable, PowerVR graphics to desktop, workstation, and cloud environments.'
Crimson Desert devs apologize for ‘confusion’ over Intel GPU FAQ — backtracks over prior dismissive language regarding Arc graphics support By Mark Tyson published 23 March 26 The Crimson Desert devs have apologized for prior dismissive language regarding Intel GPUs and confirmed that a support update is on the way.
Concerns raised over Shahed kamikaze drone listings on Alibaba — they featured AI guidance to lock onto ‘people, building, vehicles, ships, etc’ By Mark Tyson published 23 March 26 Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising 'cruise missiles' and 'suicide attack drones.'
UV resin injection cures ancient, cataract-inflicted CRT monitor — repaired 20-inch Trinitron would have been an enviable display in the mid 1990s By Mark Tyson published 23 March 26 A video documents attempts to fix a vintage 20-inch Trinitron CRT suffering from cataracts by injecting UV resin.
California scientists 'FlyTrap attack' on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash By Mark Tyson published 22 March 26 Researchers at UC Irvine have demonstrated a pattered umbrella-based drone capture and crashing technique.
Intel released its first Pentium chip on this day 33 years ago, came packing 3.1 million transistors — fifth-gen x86 chip built on an 800nm process By Mark Tyson published 22 March 26 33 years ago today, the Pentium lineage began, shaping decades of personal computing to come.
Huawei crowdfunds world’s first ‘Mesh Crystal Antenna’ Wi-Fi 7 router — stunning glowing ornament also has a ‘shark fin’ heat exhaust, but is currently a Japan market exclusive By Mark Tyson published 22 March 26 Chinese tech giant Huawei has lined up a magical looking Wi-Fi 7 router featuring the world’s first 'metal mesh crystal antenna' which looks like a glowing mountain.
'Silicon' is a new five-pound art book charting the semiconductor revolution with full-page die shots and commentary — 384 page tome is $99 to pre-order now By Mark Tyson published 22 March 26 Silicon, Arena’s stylish and premium “coffee table book like no other,” is up for pre-order now priced at $99.
City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era — area was once home to the StorageTek empire By Mark Tyson published 22 March 26 Tape Drive and Disk Drive rods in the Louisville/Broomfield area are a relic of the STK diskmaker's time in the city.
Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives By Mark Tyson published 21 March 26 Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin reveals 51,600 satellite space data center plans — Project Sunrise will operate in sun-synchronous orbits between 500–1,800km in altitude By Mark Tyson published 20 March 26 Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has revealed its plans to launch up to 51,600 satellites for a data center constellation in space.
Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers By Mark Tyson published 20 March 26 Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China.
Bitcoin is so resilient it could survive as much as 90% of the world's undersea cables failing simultaneously — study reveals Bitcoin could still be very vulnerable to targeted attacks, however By Mark Tyson published 18 March 26 Cambridge scientists have completed the first longitudinal study of Bitcoin’s resilience to network infrastructure disruption, with a particular eye on submarine data cables.
South Korean company following ChatGPT management advice forced to backtrack by court — Krafton improperly ousted Subnautica developer bosses to dodge $250m bonus payout By Mark Tyson published 17 March 26 Gaming company forced to backtrack by court after AI-driven plan to dodge $250m bonus payment backfires.
Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004 By Mark Tyson published 17 March 26 Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.
Creative updates its Sound Blaster PCIe sound card line after 5 years — new $79.99 Audigy FX Pro 7.1 pitched as ‘clear upgrade over standard onboard audio’ By Mark Tyson published 16 March 26 Creative updates its roster of PCIe sound cards for PC desktop DIYers with the new Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1,
