Sunny Grimm

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A man receiving a ransomware attack on both his phone and laptop - a poor day for the stock image actor.

U.S. Places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind — Tymoshchuk allegedly stole $18 billion from large companies over 3 years

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Volodymyr Tymoshchuk is accused of masterminding ransomware that disrupted 250 companies in the United States alone.

Rubin CPX GPU

Nvidia Rubin CPX forms one half of new, "disaggregated" AI inference architecture — approach splits work between compute- and bandwidth-optimized chips for best performance

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Nvidia's "disaggregated" inference strategy will combine HBM-equipped Rubin GPUs with new Rubin CPX chips.

Google building

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

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Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore

Hollow Knight Silksong Press Image

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

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Even Reddit's r/Piracy is recommending that everyone pays $20 for this indie game

An explainer image of d-Matrix Pavehawk, a 3D stacked memory solution.

New 3D-stacked memory tech seeks to dethrone HBM for AI inference — d-Matrix claims 3DIMC will be 10x faster and 10x more efficient

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HBM may soon be edged out in some use cases

China is known for its draconian control over its local Internet

China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities

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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.

Lego iMac G3 digital render

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

The iconic blobject can come home again, if Lego decides to bite the Apple

Nvidia App ad image

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

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Nvidia's consumer software stack moves closer to simplification

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Quantum internet is possible using standard Internet protocol — University engineers send quantum signals over fiber lines without losing entanglement

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Quantum signals sent over IP overcome noise on live, commercial fiber outside of the lab

Normal Computing's rendering image of an ASIC

World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out — Normal Computing's physics-based ASIC changes lanes to train more AI

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Normal Computing announces successful tape-out of the world's first thermodynamic computing chip for AI training.

Huawei

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

Huawei's attempt to free China's tech market from relying on HBM may be a big swing towards Chinese tech independence

GitHub corporate logo

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team

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One of the web's most important programming tools is absorbed

The Arm office in Munich, Germany

How ARM is working its way into PCs and data centers — inside the products and trends behind the hype

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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.

Best Mini-ITX Cases

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

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Premium Is the desktop PC dying? In 2025, things might seem worse than before. But hope yet remains.

An Asus pro motherboard filled with eight V-Color 256GB RDIMMs.

V-Color announces 2TB RDIMM kits for Threadripper Pro 9000 — 256GB modules promise stability at absurdly high RAM capacities

By Sunny Grimm published

Giant memory kits let Threadripper Pro users chew through massive data sets in single workstations

Data center close up

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

AI companies are buying each other up for the server space.

Esports suite onboard UK Royal Navy warship

UK Royal Navy builds 'esports suite' loaded with gaming PCs onboard its newest warship — eight high-powered PC battle stations added to war room

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British military perks now include LAN parties on the high seas.

Silicon Wafer

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

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Researchers are quite literally putting 3D printing in the palm of your hand.

Three GPU models on sale out of nowhere on Newegg

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)

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Blackwell graphics cards plummet towards MSRP as deal season heats up

Synology SNV5420 SSD, a normal NVMe drive

Synology starts selling overpriced 1.6 TB SSDs for $535 — self-branded, archaic PCIe 3.0 SSDs the only option to meet 'certified' criteria

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PCIe 3.0 speeds in a PCIe 5.0 world for PCIe 27.0 prices

ForgeStar-1, seen on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare rocket.

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

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CPUs with parts fabricated in space may be coming soon, assuming the ForgeStar-1 experiment succeeds

Brother printers join the dark side

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

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The password vulnerability cannot be fixed with firmware, so change your dang passwords.

Samsung DDR5 12nm mass production

Insane DDR4 price spikes mean last-gen RAM loses its value luster versus DDR5 — prices have nearly tripled in just two months

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DDR4 approaches its end of life, but plenty of buyers still want the older memory, and its remaining suppliers are raking it in.

Real-world adblocking through Snapchat's Spectacles.

Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life

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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.

Arm vs. Qualcomm legal battle begins

Greek man gets 5 years in prison for running a now-defunct torrenting site 10 years ago — Greece goes tough on torrenting

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A Greek man appealing his judgment in a case involving a 10-plus-year-old torrenting site was handed down an immediate 5-year jail sentence and €11,800 in fines in court this week.