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Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 pairs a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5080 GPU capable of drawing up to 175W, 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, a 2TB Gen 5 SSD, and a nearly 100Wh battery. The reviewer calls it the best laptop they've tested, noting it performs almost identically to a desktop PC despite weighing 7.7 pounds and requiring a bulky 400W charger.
Elegoo is holding an Elegoo Day sale throughout September, offering its Centauri Carbon 2 Combo printer for $399, which includes 1KG of PLA filament. The Core XY printer supports a four-color Canvas system, auto bed leveling, 31 sensors, and a 256mm cubed build volume, with print temperatures reaching 350C for materials like PETG and ABS.
Walmart is offering the MSI Cyborg 15 gaming laptop for $1,049, a $250 discount from its regular price. The machine pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM and DLSS multi-frame generation with an eight-core Intel Core 5 210H processor, 16GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 512GB Gen 4 SSD. It also features a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate.
Hugo Vergnes built a config-driven training framework called little-lm and used it to train a 3.8-billion-parameter language model from scratch on 65 billion tokens, taking 43 hours on eight rented B200 GPUs at a total cost of $998. The model scored 0.384 on the CORE benchmark, outperforming Andrej Karpathy's nanochat d32 model, which cost about the same to train but scored 0.310.
Framework has reduced pricing on 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules for its Laptop 13 Pro after securing a limited supply of Micron chips at a lower cost. The company is applying the price cut retroactively to orders that already shipped as well as to pending pre-orders through Batch 10, following a price hike it made back in July.
A personal blog entry recounts the author's discovery that entire apples, including cores and stems, can be safely eaten, along with strawberry stems and kiwi skins. The post frames this as a gradual personal realization rather than scientific reporting, noting the writer's initial hesitation before eating a stem.
Bandai Namco let press try an hour-long preview of Gundam: Rogue Orbit, its upcoming giant robot game set for release on March 5, 2027. The demo included two missions and three premade mobile suits, each wielding a different melee weapon, with customization features left out of the preview build.
Lenovo has redesigned its flagship ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an all-new metal 'Space Frame' case that trims weight to 2.2 pounds while keeping the carbon fiber top's soft-touch feel. A smaller, double-sided system board freed up room for a fan 70% larger than before, enabling support for more powerful 30-watt CPUs alongside a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display at 120Hz.
Copperhead is a new tool positioned as bringing software-like speed to hardware development, released as open core. Its command-line interface is free to use and performs the core functionality independently, while paid tiers cover hosting, team collaboration, and audit-ready features.
Newegg is discounting an ABS Cyclone prebuilt gaming desktop by $420, bringing it to $1,379. The system pairs an Intel Core i7-14700F 20-core CPU with an RTX 5060 8GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a 1TB Gen 4 SSD on an ASRock B760M-CX motherboard.
Supply-chain sources cited by DigiTimes say Intel is preparing to raise CPU prices by roughly 10% starting October 5, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan reviews pricing, manufacturing costs and the product lineup. The report also points to possible layoffs of 5-10% of Intel's global workforce and the discontinuation of lower-margin, lower-core chips used in industrial PCs, IoT and embedded systems.
According to Digitimes, Intel is preparing to raise prices on its PC processors by about 10 percent starting in October, following earlier increases this year. The outlet also reports Intel may cut 5 to 10 percent of its workforce while still hiring in some areas, and could phase out its Small Core line, which mainly affects industrial and IoT devices rather than consumer PCs.