Hacker Cyberleek leaked gameplay clips and the entire map of GTA VI in protest of Rockstar's decision to launch pre-orders of a digital game. They claim that pre-orders were created because physical discs could run out at retailers, meaning gamers will pay more to ensure they have a copy on launc...
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To reduce reliance on China, Google plans to relocate production of Pixel smartphones, smartwatches, and headsets from China to India and Vietnam.
To appease concerns about privacy, Wi-Fi Motion is opt-in
Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung's fab roadmap runs from the Korean bases at Pyeongtaek, Hwaseong, and Giheung to the new U.S. site at Taylor.
Two indie brands join together in a viral ad campaign asking people to pee on computers. Taylor Swift's brother-in-law, Jason Kelce, who co-owns one of the brands, stars in this humorous ad where he pees in a bottle and carries it to a post office to send to his AI data center of choice.
An AI-themed bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.
Newegg's combo deal pairs the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard, and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $609.99, plus a free 240mm AIO—an affordable way into AM5 amid the RAMpocalypse.
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
The ASRock X870E Taichi White updates the original with a cleaner all-white design and 10 GbE, and is the first ASRock board to feature all-white components. But pricing could scare away some users.
Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island's residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.
Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.
id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.
Get an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 PC with an RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU for just $1,849.
A developer has revealed that they used Claude Code to create a macOS laser printer driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a machine designed for Windows users.
Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks' available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.
Appendix A of the 24-page document rewrites the federal Critical and Emerging Technologies list for the first time since February 2024.
A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
The DC Circuit reversed one of four findings, ruling that a lower court upheld a fully redacted justification without reading the classified record behind it.
Step into 3D printing with Bambu Lab's P1S and AMS combo bundle for $499. Back on sale at its lowest-ever price point.