WTF?! In a perfect illustration of the state of the RTX 5000 launch, AIB partner Colorful has teamed up with an Indian retailer for an RTX 5080 competition. But the three winners don’t actually receive a free card; they get […]
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In a nutshell: The FTC wants a judge to delay the agency’s trial against Amazon over allegations it used deceptive marketing practices for its Prime subscription program. The reason for the request is that Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s
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A hot potato: Mark Zuckerberg is a vocal proponent of free speech, especially since Donald Trump was re-elected, but it seems the Meta CEO hasn’t always been so anti-censorship. There have long been reports that Facebook developed a content suppression
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WTF?! It appears that Amazon still sells the occasional CPU that turns out to be a fake. The latest incident involved a Ryzen 7 9800X3D ordered by a reviewer for a test system that was actually an AMD FX-4100 CPU
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In brief: In what could have been the latest piece of disastrous news for Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series, there have been reports that the missing ROPs issue affecting some desktop cards was also present in laptop GPUs. However, Nvidia has
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In brief: If you’re going to visit websites that host pirated video streams, you’d better be willing to accept the risks. That’s something owners of the one million devices affected by a malware campaign originating from these sites might not
Rumor mill: Can Nvidia redeem itself and the Blackwell consumer line with the RTX 5060? Probably not, but it might not be too long before we find out. According to new reports, the RTX 5060 series, consisting of three cards,
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In a nutshell: Meta reportedly keeps a secret list of former employees who, for unknown reasons, the company will not rehire. Even if an ex-member of staff was a top performer during their stint at Meta, being on the list
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Why it matters: Donald Trump wants to kill off the Chips Act, the 2022 bipartisan law that is handing out $52.7 billion in subsidies to help bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US. The President wants to use the money
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What just happened? TSMC and President Trump have announced that the semiconductor giant will invest an extra $100 billion in the United States’ chip manufacturing industry, adding to a previous $65 billion commitment. The money will go toward building new
