Researchers at Layer3 Intel and Synthient found that a device on the White House network has been running residential proxy software, letting outside parties route internet traffic through it for a small fee. Layer3 says 28 residential proxy services used the network between October 5 and November 3, mostly in the evening hours, suggesting an infected personal device rather than guest Wi-Fi. Synthient links the likely source to proxy SDKs bundled into the watch-party app Rave.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-06
Leaks indicate Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs, expected to enter mass production in Q4 2026 and launch in Q1 2027, will require a new LGA 1954 socket rather than the current LGA 1851. Reports point to an initial unlocked 28-core mainstream chip followed later by flagship models using two compute tiles with up to 52 cores, alongside new motherboard chipsets including Z990, Z970 and B960.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-06
Cybersecurity firm Layer3 Intel detected residential proxy activity on AS2650, the network block registered to the Executive Office of the President. Investigators also traced software tied to the proxy provider Infatica, a company owned by a Russian entrepreneur whose prior server-rental business was linked to 2016 election-system hacking attempts in Arizona and Illinois. No evidence has emerged that the proxy access was used to launch an attack on the White House itself.
cnet.com
· 2026-11-06
AMD posted third-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.09 per share on revenue of $13.38 billion, both ahead of analyst expectations, with revenue up 45% from $9.25 billion a year earlier. Data center sales nearly doubled and now make up 64% of total revenue, up from 47% a year ago. Shares rose about 8% in after-hours trading following the report.
cnbc.com
· 2026-11-03
Nvidia is implementing another round of price increases across its RTX 50 series graphics cards this week, with the RTX 5090 rising by nearly $500 on top of its roughly $6,000 price tag. Lower-end cards like the RTX 5050 and 5060 will see smaller increases of $30-60. Earlier RTX 40 and 30 series cards are not directly affected by this change.
zdnet.com
· 2026-11-03
Intel Foundry has released version 0.9 of its process design kit for the upcoming 14A manufacturing node, based on actual silicon measurements rather than simulations. The company says this allows chipmakers to begin design work with greater confidence ahead of risk production, and plans to follow with PDK 1.0 in the first quarter of 2027 to confirm readiness for high-volume manufacturing.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-03
Woot is selling an 18-inch Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop for $2,449.99, a 33% discount off its original price. The configuration includes an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, an Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile GPU with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD, paired with a 300Hz 2,560x1,600 display rated at 500 nits.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-03
Intel stock dropped roughly 9% on Monday, extending losses after its worst trading day since 1974 last week, leaving the chipmaker worth less than half its late-September value. Memory and storage names including Micron, Sandisk, Seagate and Western Digital fell 6-8%, while Marvell dropped sharply even as it announced a $115 billion deal to acquire Lumentum. Chip and memory stocks have collectively lost about $3.7 trillion in market value since October 6, according to Yahoo Finance calculations, though Nvidia has held up comparatively well.
finance.yahoo.com
· 2026-11-03
Intel's stock suffered its worst monthly drop on record in October, down 45%, after the company warned quarterly revenue could fall $1 billion to $2 billion short of analyst estimates. CEO Lip-Bu Tan cited a weakening PC market, with rising memory and component costs discouraging consumer upgrades, while Intel's foundry business still lacks a marquee external customer for its most advanced chips. The stock fell another 8% on Monday following a 29% single-day drop, its worst since the 1970s.
cnbc.com
· 2026-11-02
Intel stock suffered its worst one-day drop since 1974 on Friday, falling nearly 30 percent after the company's fourth-quarter revenue outlook missed Wall Street expectations despite beating Q3 earnings estimates. The slide shrank the value of the US government's 9.9 percent equity stake, acquired in August for $8.9 billion as part of a $100 billion semiconductor initiative, from almost $40 billion to under $30 billion.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-02
Newegg is discounting its own ABS Stratos II Aqua gaming PC by $450, bringing the price to $2,549.99. The machine includes a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 16GB GDDR7 VRAM, 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, and a 2TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD. The deal is covered by Newegg's Black Friday price protection policy, meaning buyers get refunded the difference if the price falls further during the sale period.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-02
A Reddit user who bought a storage unit's contents found an Intel development PC containing a working Larrabee GPU prototype along with USB drives holding Intel's original graphics drivers and documentation. The owner backed up the software and published it on the Internet Archive, letting surviving Larrabee cards run properly for the first time. Tests showed the card running Crysis at 1280x720 with medium settings, hitting roughly 17 FPS on one driver build and about 36 FPS on another.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-02
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