Microsoft released an emergency cumulative update, KB5129195, to fix several problems caused by September's Patch Tuesday release, which had patched nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities but broke Remote Desktop Services, Linux VM support, and some USB audio devices. The fix restores RDP connections, repairs the Host Compute Service used by apps like Claude Cowork to run Linux virtual machines, and partially restores 8-channel and 3D audio modes. However, AMD Radeon GPU crashes and File Explorer failures reported after the same update remain unresolved.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-15
Walmart is offering a $560 discount on CyberPowerPC's all-white Gamer Supreme desktop, bringing it down to $1,859.99. The build pairs AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB SSD, aimed at 1440p gaming.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-15
AMD's Gigabyte Gaming Radeon RX 9070 GRE, a 12GB RDNA 4 graphics card, has dropped to $499 at Newegg through a promotional email code, matching its lowest price ever recorded and undercutting its $569.99 list price by $70. The card uses a cut-down Navi 48 chip with 48 compute units and 220W power draw, delivering strong 1080p and solid 1440p gaming performance in prior benchmarks.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-15
A review of System76's Pangolin Pro laptop highlights its large glass trackpad, a basic 2-MP webcam, and an easily accessible chassis secured by nine visible screws that allows users to upgrade RAM, SSDs, and WiFi cards. The review also notes that AMD Ryzen chips still lack Coreboot support, meaning the laptop doesn't run fully open firmware, and praises the bundled Pop!_OS Linux with its Cosmic Desktop for a smooth daily-use experience.
wired.com
· 2026-09-15
A Reddit user reported months of black screens and system instability on their AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX before discovering burn marks on the card's 8-pin power connector after disassembling their PC. Notably, the connector was routed through a Thermal Grizzly WireView power monitor meant to prevent such damage, and while the monitor took the brunt of the melting, it kept the GPU itself from being harmed.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-15
New cost-per-frame analysis across 10 countries shows Nvidia's GeForce cards have risen in price more sharply than AMD's Radeon or Intel's Arc lineups, eroding Nvidia's value proposition for gamers. At original MSRP, Intel's Arc B580 and AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT offered the best value in the budget segment, while AMD's RX 9070 XT beat Nvidia's RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti on cost per frame in the mid-to-high end.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-15
An independent developer known as Speedstu built a PowerShell-based toolkit that combines ZLUDA with AMD's HIP/ROCm SDK, allowing CUDA-only applications to run on AMD GPUs in Windows without dual-booting or virtual machines. The setup successfully mapped CUDA's driver API and libraries like cuBLAS, cuSPARSE, and cuFFT to AMD equivalents, and was tested by training a small reinforcement-learning model on a Radeon RX 9060 XT using unmodified CUDA code.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter urging a slowdown in AI development over safety concerns, a stance OpenAI's Sam Altman and other industry leaders publicly backed over the weekend. The comments rattled markets Monday, sending shares of AMD, Nvidia, Intel and Sandisk lower in premarket trading and dragging down broader indices.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
Newegg is offering a high-end PC parts bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, an 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, an MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard, and 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6000 memory for $2,999, down from a combined retail price of $4,288. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Onimusha with qualifying AMD purchases. Buyers still need to add a case, power supply, and graphics card to complete the build.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
A community developer has reworked AMD's FSR 4 upscaler to run far more efficiently on the BC-250, a leftover PS5-derived crypto-mining board now being turned into a Linux gaming device. Testing showed 1440p processing time drop from 11.51ms to 5.92ms, with similar roughly 50% gains at 1080p and 4K, while producing output identical to the original shaders. The gains build on earlier Mesa driver work and now shift the optimization into a portable FidelityFX DLL.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Newegg is selling AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, currently the top gaming CPU on the market, for $484, roughly $15 under its original launch price. The deal throws in a 240mm Cooler Master AIO liquid cooler worth $79.99 and a copy of Onimusha: Way of the Sword worth $69.99 at no extra cost. The chip, an upgraded version of the 9800X3D announced at CES 2026, keeps the same 8-core/16-thread design and 3D V-Cache but adds a higher boost clock for a modest gaming performance gain.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-13
Developers behind the ZLUDA project have released a reproducible stack combining ZLUDA v6-preview.69 with AMD's HIP SDK 6.4, allowing CUDA-targeted Windows applications, including LibTorch-based machine learning workloads, to run on AMD hardware. The setup has been validated specifically on the Radeon RX 9060 XT (gfx1200), where core CUDA libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT passed checks and a PPO reinforcement learning network completed training over 65,536 timesteps.
github.com
· 2026-09-13
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