LG UltraGear G5 25-Inch 200Hz Gaming Monitor Drops to $79 at Walmart
A 200Hz IPS gaming monitor with adaptive sync falls below $80, undercutting typical budget monitor pricing.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Microsoft pulls out of UK AI supercomputer over grid power delays
Microsoft's withdrawal from the Loughton project shows how electricity connection delays are threatening the UK's AI ambitions.
Looters Ransack Team Vitality's Paris HQ, Steal RAM and Trophies
A wave of French unrest hit the esports world as Team Vitality confirmed its V.Hive headquarters was looted, including gaming PCs stripped for components.
Nvidia Vera's System Architecture Prioritizes Bandwidth and Latency Control
Nvidia's Vera server chip uses a second-generation Scalable Coherency Fabric and a 1024-bit LPDDR5X interface to deliver high memory bandwidth while keeping latency stable under load.
Uber's £340M cabbie lawsuit dismissed as claims filed too late
A procedural ruling lets Uber avoid a £340M claim without deciding whether it misled London's transport regulator.
SAP Signavio hit with German injunction in Celonis patent spat
A Munich court barred SAP from offering a specific Signavio process-intelligence feature, but SAP says the ruling is narrow and is appealing.
ArchAgent Uses LLM Agents to Explore Heterogeneous Chip and Interconnect Design
Argonne and UIUC researchers propose ArchAgent, a hierarchical multi-agent framework that uses LLM planners and specialist agents to navigate the vast design space of AI/HPC systems.
Red Hat-backed course finds LLM bans backfire in tech writing
A Red Hat and Masaryk University technical writing course found that banning AI chatbots encouraged cheating, so it shifted to teaching students how to use them.
VBIOS Configurator Lets RTX 30–50 Owners Tweak Cards Without Flashing
A solo developer's tool applies modified VBIOS settings through a driver override, reducing the risk of bricking during GPU tweaking.
AI agents broke into 100+ websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja
A single hacker directed an army of AI agents to breach more than 100 company websites, showing how autonomous tools can run attacks with minimal human input.
EU cloud sovereignty plan could entrench national silos, report warns
A new study says the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act risks making Europe's cloud market more fragmented by steering sovereignty contracts to domestic providers.
Ugreen 10-Port PoE+ Switch Drops to $37.79, a New Low
A budget-friendly unmanaged switch adds eight PoE+ ports with 30W per port, ideal for smart home gear.
7 in 10 enterprises to abandon vendor agentic AI by 2028
A new forecast expects most enterprises to drop vendor-built agentic AI by 2028, driven by heavy dependence on outside expertise.
Ex-NCA officer who stole Bitcoin from Silk Road 2.0 case ordered to repay £1.8M
A former National Crime Agency officer who stole 50 Bitcoin from the Silk Road 2.0 investigation must pay back over £1.8 million.
Data Center Moratoriums Delay Only 2.3 GW of 38 GW Buildout
SemiAnalysis finds that 300-plus local bans have barely moved US data center forecasts, with most projects already permitted or out of reach.
Bloomberg Terminal's History Mirrors Market's Need for Speed
The Bloomberg Terminal's evolution shows how financial information technology has consistently chased ever-faster data delivery.
iBuyPower Slate Review: Strong RTX 5070 Gaming Value, With Caveats
Tom's Hardware finds the iBuyPower Slate delivers excellent gaming performance and extras for $1,999, but productivity and noise hold it back.
Anthropic: Zhipu GLM-5.3 Can Match Unreleased Mythos in Cyberattacks
A new Anthropic report claims Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.3 can produce working exploits at a rate just below Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model, raising fresh questions about open-weight safeguards.