The FBI has charged Terry "Jiajia" Liu, a Customs and Border Protection IT supervisor in Calais, Maine, with stealing processors, memory, and hard drives from at least 46 Homeland Security computers across three border facilities. Liu allegedly replaced the components with cheaper, often outdated parts and traded the originals to Newegg's trade-in program for store credit, causing an estimated $105,800 in damage.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-12
At IFA 2026, laptop makers showed a market polarizing into cheap machines under $800 with 8GB of RAM and premium AI-oriented systems costing thousands with up to 192GB of memory, leaving little in the middle tier. Companies including Lenovo, Dell and Acer unveiled colorful budget models like the IdeaPad Vibe, Dell 14S and a 16-inch Swift Air, directly responding to Apple's MacBook Neo with varied chip choices from Qualcomm, AMD and Intel.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-11
Private equity firm Silver Lake is combining two of its portfolio companies, French business software maker Cegid and payroll platform Silae, into a single entity valued at over 10 billion euros. The merged company will unite payroll, accounting, e-invoicing and finance data under one roof, with a 1,400-person developer team dedicated to AI investment. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval, with combined annual revenue projected at 1.9 billion euros.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-09
A study led by Michigan fisheries scientist Ed Baker analyzed over 40 years of catch-and-recapture data on lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes, concluding that some individuals could be as old as 400 years — far beyond previous estimates of around 150 years. Despite their remarkable lifespans, lake sturgeon populations remain endangered in the region, having been decimated by overfishing and habitat destruction over the past century.
cbc.ca
· 2026-09-09
Following President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario, a Canadian seller has created a hat reading 'Canada Is Not for Sale' as a direct response. The design borrows the style of Trump's own campaign caps to turn his signature branding against him, while a rival version supporting the 'Lake America' idea has also appeared for buyers on the other side of the debate.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-09
DigiTimes cites supply chain sources claiming Intel will raise CPU prices by another 10%, following earlier increases in Q1 2026 and July, likely hitting server and mobile chips first. The same report says Intel plans a major product launch in March 2027, with AMD responding with its own releases between June and July that year.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-08
Intel says it has run more than one million 300-mm wafers through its High-NA EUV scanners since assembling its first tool roughly two and a half years ago. The company is currently using these tools, including EXE:5000 and EXE:5200B systems, to produce Panther Lake chips on its 18A process, while also developing larger 6x12-inch photomasks that would let High-NA tools expose full-size chip fields without needing to stitch two half-fields together.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-08
A June fire at the unfinished Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, left local firefighters battling smoke from unidentified chemicals with no working alarms, no suppression system, and three dry hydrants. TeraWulf, which owns and operates the site under a complex arrangement involving Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic, said the required safety documents were destroyed in the blaze. Months later, the fire chief said promised fixes like functioning hydrants still had not been completed.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-07
Vancouver's Penthouse Night Club posted a photo of its marquee mocking Donald Trump's comments about renaming Lake Ontario and referencing the algae-filled reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. Hours after the post went up, the club's Instagram account, @Penthouse47, was taken down, with owner Danny Filippone saying staff noticed the account had vanished around midnight. The account remained offline as of publication, with no clear explanation given for the removal.
vancouverisawesome.com
· 2026-09-06
President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario, presenting the change with props displaying the new name in his administration's designated official font. The typeface, intended to project formality and authority, drew attention for appearing at odds with the gravity the administration sought to convey.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-04
At IFA in Berlin, Lenovo unveiled Project AeroBlade, a 14-inch concept laptop that replaces traditional fans with four of Frore Systems' AirJet Mini solid-state cooling modules, together capable of dissipating 30 watts of heat silently. Paired with Intel Lunar Lake chips, a compact motherboard, and a magnesium-aluminum chassis, the device weighs under 1.83 pounds and measures just 0.39 inches thick, featuring an OLED display, Wi-Fi 7, and three USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo also showed a separate 14-inch rollable-screen notebook that expands to 17 inches.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
A leaked slide reportedly sourced from an OEM or motherboard partner outlines Intel's production and launch plan for its Nova Lake-S desktop chips, showing mass production starting in Q4 2026. Only a 28-core unlocked model would debut in Q1 2027, with the flagship 52-core chip pushed to later in the year, possibly between May and September 2027. Unlike Intel's usual practice of leading with flagship parts, the top-tier 52-core SKU appears positioned above a normal flagship, aimed more at HEDT-style users.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
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