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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D hits record low price, remains the go-to gaming CPU
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has dropped to its lowest price yet, now around the $420 mark, making one of the fastest gaming CPUs even more compelling. Built around AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology, it continues to deliver exceptional gaming performance and strong efficiency, standing out in a crowded market.
Microsoft is rethinking Windows 11 after months of complaints
The effort is being led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, who has publicly acknowledged the extent of user frustration with Windows 11. In a recent company blog post, he said the Windows team had spent months analyzing user feedback to identify what he described as “the voice of people who…
Samsung brings AirDrop support to the Galaxy S26 series, more devices to follow
The AirDrop rollout to Samsung’s flagship series starts in Korea today, with US devices set to follow later this week before expanding to more regions, including Europe, Latin America, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
OpenAI plans to double its workforce as it pivots to enterprise AI
The company, valued privately at about $730 billion, is expected to nearly double its headcount to roughly 8,000 employees by year’s end, up from about 4,500 currently, people familiar with the matter told The Financial Times. New hires will be concentrated in engineering, research, sales, and product development. A significant share…
Apple store external SSD prices skyrocket as some SanDisk drives jump 200%
Apple has quietly raised prices on several third-party SSDs sold through its online store, and some of the increases are stunning.
AI startups are filling San Francisco with cryptic billboards aimed at insiders
The ads mark a broader change in how young tech companies present themselves. Instead of courting consumers, they’re advertising to peers who already speak the language of machine learning. “The goal is intentional in a kind of ‘if-you-know-you-know’ type of way,” Mike Bilodeau, head of marketing at the AI infrastructure…
Man who used 1,000 bots to stream AI songs pleads guilty in $8 million fraud case
From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of AI-generated songs across Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube, according to court documents.
Elon Musk outlines Tesla-SpaceX "Terafab" to build advanced chips in Austin
Speaking at an event in downtown Austin, Musk said a new Terafab project will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX and anchored by what he called an “advanced technology fab” in the city that can make and test “chips of any kind.”
Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra made his prediction during the company’s recent earnings call. He said that self-driving cars will represent a new segment that demands huge amounts of memory.
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