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Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get Intel Core i7 → | tags: core, core ultra, hardware

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Aaron Klotz | get Nvidia RTX 5080 → | tags: gpus, hardware, likely

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Build Software. Build Users (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Eclipse → | tags: code, quality, software

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Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government spyware (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-27 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Spyware → | tags: cases, device, helpline

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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal looks a lot like an acquisition in disguise (techspot.com)

2025-12-27 | get Graphics Processing Unit → | tags: acquisition, acquisition company, agreement

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Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’ (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | by Mark Tyson | get Amiga → | tags: amiga, hardware, mirari

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After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features (futurism.com)

2025-12-27 | by Victor Tangermann | get Kill Switch → | tags: browser, firefox, open

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Naware’s chemical-free weed killer tech could change how we treat lawns (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-26 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: boysen, boysen said, disrupt

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Nvidia reportedly backs away from its effort to make its own public cloud, team reorg eases friction with customers — chipmaker shifts unit's focus to internal R&D (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-26 | by Luke James | get GPU → | tags: cloud, dgx cloud, engineering

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AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion (techspot.com)

2025-12-26 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: according forbes, ai billionaires, ai software

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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | by Bradley M. Kühn | get Glucose Monitor → | tags: abbott, device, glucose

792.

How to Stay Ahead of AI as an Early-Career Engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-25 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Machine Learning → | tags: employers, jobs, software

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This AMD-powered iBuyPower prebuilt has 32GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an RX 9060 XT GPU for just $1000 — $250 off provides pricing relief during RAM pricing crisis (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Kunal Khullar | get iGPU → | tags: best, deals, gaming

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The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025 (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-25 | by Dina Genkina | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: computing, energy, research

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Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

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Russian enthusiasts are planning to build their own DDR5 RAM amidst the worldwide shortage — do-it-yourself RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 Memory → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

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Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by E. Fylladitakis | get Power Supply → | tags: cell, credit tom, hardware

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Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get Windows Storage → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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After forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, Microsoft will nearly double storage performance with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — will improve battery life also, but feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-24 | by Michael Demler | get Open-source database → | tags: engineers, hspice, meta

801.

Waymo explains why its robotaxis got stuck during the SF blackout (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-24 | by Sean O'Kane | get Autonomous taxi → | tags: driving, robotaxis, self

802.

Your TV's USB port has a forgotten feature that can revitalize an old system for free (zdnet.com)

2025-12-24 | by Chris Bayer | get Smart TV → | tags: drive, file, firmware

803.

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-24 | get Windows → | tags: cosmali, cosmali loader, loader

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Unix → | tags: actual, operating, recovery

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That’s not fair: Fairphone 4 owners report new update bricks their phone (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-24 | get Fairphone 5 → | tags: bricked, fairphone, issues

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The great software pricing shakeout of 2026: What every IT leader needs to know (zdnet.com)

2025-12-24 | by Joe Mckendrick | get Open-source → | tags: outcome, pricing, software

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In a world of AI, the smartest leaders lead with heart (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-23 | get Heartbeat → | tags: achieve, alliance, awareness

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Zoox issues software recall over lane crossings (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-23 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Autonomous driving system → | tags: filing, lane, nhtsa