Quad 8-pin mod aims to stop RTX 5090 connector meltdowns
A custom power-conversion kit bypasses Nvidia's 16-pin connector to spread the RTX 5090's load across four conventional 8-pin PCIe power cables.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Ransomware gangs target building automation systems for physical disruption
Cybercriminals are increasingly hacking building management systems to cause real-world damage and pressure victims into paying ransoms.
Taiwan to Criminalize AI Server Exports to China With Five-Year Penalty
Taiwan is aligning its export controls with U.S. trade bans by making AI server smuggling to China a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison.
SanDisk 512GB microSD Express Card Drops to $98 for Switch 2
A rare discount on an officially licensed Switch 2 storage card offers relief amid the ongoing memory shortage.
HyperX Cloud Alpha Air Review: Open-Back Gaming Audio on a Budget
Tom's Hardware finds HyperX's first open-back headset delivers comfort and solid sound at $149.99, despite software and cabling quirks.
Agentic AI Compute Buildout Points to a Decade-Plus Hardware Supercycle
A single analysis argues data center AI capex will rise from roughly $1 trillion this year to $3–4 trillion by 2030, and that compute economics make the expansion plausible.
MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke Review: Immersive but Pricey
The MOZA AY210 base and MFY yoke bundle brings high-end force feedback to flight sims, but its premium price and finicky elevator tuning may give some pilots pause.
AI slowdown looms as scaling assumptions crack, argues Register opinion
An opinion piece argues that the AI industry's core assumptions about model scaling, agentic AI, and infrastructure capex are failing, suggesting the sector may be approaching 'peak AI'.
Anthropic's Claude Chat Report Leads to Felony Threat Charge in Florida
The case underscores how AI companies are becoming de facto threat-reporting intermediaries, raising privacy and due-process questions.
Fan Replica of ASML's Employee-Only High-NA EUV Lego Set Hits Rebrickable
A custom 810-piece recreation of ASML's exclusive TWINSCAN EXE:5000 Lego kit is now freely available on Rebrickable.
Union: Capita to miss deadline on 93,000 civil service pension fixes
The PCS union says the outsourcer is still in design phase for McCloud corrections, leaving tens of thousands of pensioners waiting past a legal deadline.
Semgrep Automates Defense Against Open-Source Supply Chain Attacks
A new analysis highlights how Semgrep is being used to automate malware defense as open-source supply chain attacks become a persistent threat.
Gigabyte X870 Aorus Infinity: Extreme Overclocking Board, Premium Price
Gigabyte's limited-edition X870 Aorus Infinity packs dedicated overclocking tools and strong connectivity, but its $799.99 price is steep for an X870 board.
Postgres 19 delayed as LLM code review uncovers long tail of bugs
The open-source database's next release slips to November after AI-assisted reviews find defects that force developers to postpone up to ten features.
Liquid Metal TIM Turns Solid, Not Dry, in Two-Year Test
A two-year electron microscope test reveals liquid metal thermal paste reacts with copper to form a solid compound, changing how enthusiasts should think about TIM longevity.
CiteProof Checks Legal Briefs for AI-Hallucinated Citations
A new deterministic tool aims to catch fabricated case citations before they reach court dockets.
Decision models like Jev remain vulnerable to prompt injection
Security tests show TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model can be manipulated through indirect prompt injection despite claims it never makes type errors.
Data center growth hits a wall: permits, not GPUs, are the bottleneck
NTT's stress test finds that AI data center expansion through 2030 will be constrained more by permitting and power timelines than by hardware availability.