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World of Warcraft: Forever Is Blizzard’s Third Version of WoW, Launching November 4 After Years of Groundwork
Blizzard finally said it out loud at BlizzCon 2026: the thing the WoW Classic community has been arguing about and demanding for years now has a name (World of…
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Forsaken Kingdom Fills a Long-Standing Warcraft III Gap, Adding 30 Hours of Story Between Arthas and World of Warcraft
Blizzard has released Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom, the first new campaign for the classic real-time strategy game in more than two decades…
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A Wild Rumor Says Google Is On The Verge Of Achieving RSI, As Anthropic, OpenAI, And Elon Musk All Call For Pacing AI In What Might Be A Cynical Attempt At Regulatory Capture
Recursive Self-Improvement or RSI is widely considered the holy grail of AI, and a wild rumor now suggests that Google's DeepMind - the unlikeliest of AI labs…
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How To Unlock DLSS Multi Frame Generation on RTX 40, RTX 30 & RTX 20 GPUs
NVIDIA officially reserves DLSS Multi Frame Generation for its GeForce RTX 50 Series “Blackwell” GPUs, but the PC modding community has spent the past few…
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Older Google Pixel Smartphones Can Become Excellent Hubs For On-Device AI, As One Owner Shows A 4-Year-Old Handset Running An Uncensored 3B Model, With A Catch
An aging Pixel smartphone will always have multiple use cases, and while Google’s Tensor might be the most underpowered SoC after Huawei’s Kirin series, it’s…
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Blizzard Reveals a New Open World StarCraft Shooter at BlizzCon 2026, But It’s Much Further Away Than Anticipated
As expected, BlizzCon 2026's first game announcement during the Opening Ceremony was the long-rumored return of StarCraft. Dan Hay, a Blizzard GM/VP and former…
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Diablo V Is Real: Blizzard Shocks with a Sequel Where Sanctuary Has Already Fallen, Launching Spring 2029
At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard Entertainment made a surprise announcement of Diablo V, a new installment in the hack-and-slash action RPG franchise. The new game…
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There’s No Way You Can Skip Out On Newegg’s Ryzen 9850X3D Deal For $484, Not When You’re Getting A Free 240mm AIO CPU Cooler And a Copy Of Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Finding a top-end CPU deal on Newegg isn’t the most difficult of tasks, but if you really want to get your money’s worth and don’t want to go through all of…
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PS5 Emulation Is Moving Faster Than Anyone Expected, and the “No Single-Player PC Ports” Policy Makes That Awkward for Sony
Just a few days ago, we covered PlayStation 5 emulator KyTyPS5 getting Grand Theft Auto V running, and raised the half-joking possibility that Grand Theft Auto…
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Apple Watch Chipsets Faced Years Of Neglect With Subpar Improvements, But The A20 Pro Helped Pave The Way For The S11’s Generational Upgrade This Year
The SiP (System in Package) belonging to the Apple Watch went through a series of mediocre and iterative changes, meaning that these smartwatches had to offer…
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This 9800X3D CPU Bundle On Newegg Gets You A 32GB DDR5 RAM Kit, X870E Motherboard, Free AIO, And Capcom’s AAA Game For $300 Worth Of Savings
The latest bundle is one of those golden opportunities where you can evade the DRAM crisis and grab yourself an excellent gaming PC bundle while also getting…
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An MSI Z790 Motherboard Listed On eBay As “For Parts/Not Working” Became A Lucky Find As Customer Found A 2TB NVMe Gen 4 SSD That Also Booted Into Windows
A customer who considered himself unlucky when it came to PC hardware purchases is not just enjoying a working MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI from eBay that was only…
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AMD Ryzen 5 7500 Officially Costs $189 While Ryzen 5 5500F Brings Fantastic Value to AM4 Platforms at $99
AMD has confirmed the prices of its newly introduced Ryzen 5 7500 "Zen 4" and Ryzen 5 5500F "Zen 3" chips. AMD Continues Its AM5/AM4 Desktop Expansion With…
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Claude Fable 5’s Capabilities In PCB Design Might Be Limited, But One Person Shows It’s Actually Possible By Showing Off A Custom Board Made Entirely By AI, At A Cost
The use of AI has enabled users to obtain feats that were never thought possible, such as vibe-coding a game featuring 27,000 lines of code, or enabling…
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Report: TSMC to Double CoWoS Capacity by 2028 as AI Chip Shortage Spills Over to Rivals
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) might double its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) capacity from 2026 levels in 2028, suggests a report…
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Apple Will Pay Samsung $250 For Each Inner Foldable Panel Within The iPhone Duo, And Another $80 For The Outer Panel
Apple has reportedly inked a 3-year agreement with Samsung to source its cutting-edge display panels for its first foldable, now formally called the iPhone…
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User Witnesses Melting Of 8-pin Connectors For The First Time As Thermal Grizzly Wireview Suffers From Damaged Ports On RX 7900 XTX
It's rare, but it may occur as we see a Redditor describe how his GPU suffered as a result of melted 8-pin connectors. Thermal Grizzly Wireview 8-pin…
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AOOSTAR Joins The Gorgon Halo Rush With 16-Core NEX495S, As Chinese Makers Race To Ship Ryzen AI Max+ 495 Boxes
Another hardware maker has announced its flagship mini PC based on the new 16-core/32-thread Zen 5 Gorgon Halo SoC. AOOSTAR Showcases NEX495S Mini PC…
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A Researcher Buys 6TB Of Anthropic Claude Data Dump From A China-Based LLM Router, Finds Enough Ammo To Hack Xiaomi, Huawei, And Chinese Government Agencies
AI model routers are emerging as one of the biggest threat vectors for data security, as evidenced by a shocking anecdote from a researcher, who was able to…
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What’s Worse That Having Dust Particles Clog Your Laptop’s Vents? A Massive Accumulation Of Food Debris, As One User Shows What Can Happen Due To Extreme Neglect
A common sight for any laptop is hefty amounts of dust accumulation, especially when users ignore the routine maintenance of their machines. Take it one step…
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CXMT And YMTC Reportedly Have No Intention Of Supplying Apple Large Volumes Of Memory Chips, But Would Still Like The Bragging Rights That Come With An Apple Partnership
It seems CXMT and YMTC, China's DRAM and NAND behemoths, respectively, have no desire to enter Apple's labyrinthine supply chain as critical nodes, but…
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One Crucial 4TB SSD Customer Stands Ground And Refuses Lousy $200 Refund Offered By Company; Perseverance Finally Results In A “Direct 1:1 Replacement”
As Micron has made plans to exit the consumer SSD and RAM business, its Crucial brand is expected to fade into oblivion, meaning that customers will be left…
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Cerebras CS-4 Delivers A 30x Uplift In AI This Year, But Next-Gen Racks Already In Works With CS-5 Pumping Out 10K TPS Per User In 2027 & CS-6 Bringing 3D Wafer-Scale SRAM
Cerebras is rolling out its CS-4 AI rack-scale solution this year but is also working on its next-gen CS-5 and CS6 solutions. Cerebras Takes Wafer Scale Engine…
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OpenAI’s ‘Bel’ Has Over 10 Trillion Parameters, And It Might Just Be The World’s First “AGI-Threshold” Base Model
OpenAI is on a seemingly unstoppable streak today: just hours after the AI lab removed the wraps from its secretive ASIC, called Jalapeno, we've now received a…
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M6 To Offer Double The M4’s Gaming Performance In Cyberpunk 2077, Hinting At A Massive Uplift, And With Negligible Compromises On Visual Settings
Apple has finally lifted the veil off the M6 and Mac mini refresh, and for those who are particularly excited about how the company’s first 2nm chipset will…
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Paradox Interactive Announces Afterworld – Post-Apocalyptic Grand Strategy at Gamescom
Paradox Interactive, Grand Strategy game extraordinaire, has announced Afterworld, a brand-new Grand Strategy Game and IP from Paradox Development Studio…
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AMD Radeon 9000 GPUs & Ryzen 9000 CPUs Receive A Free Copy of Onimusha: Way of the Sword In The Latest Game Bundle
AMD has announced its latest game bundle, which packs a free copy of Onimusha: Way of the Sword with its Radeon 9000 & Ryzen 9000 products. AMD's Latest…
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Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros Gets Full Gameplay Reveal Ahead Of 2027 Launch
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros gets its first major gameplay reveal, showing playable factions, iconic heroes and more. PlaySide Studios Shows off Game of…
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Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons Casts Aside the Dice, Betting on an Open World Action/Adventure with a Ton of Player Agency
Publisher Wizards of the Coast and Montréal-based developer Invoke Studios (formerly Tuque Games, known for Livelock and Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance)…
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Mass Effect’s Spiritual Successor Exodus Finally Gets a Release Date, and It’s Bringing an Octopus Mercenary Along
During Geoff Keighley's Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, Austin-based developer Archetype Entertainment announced the release date of its debut title, the…
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Once Human Hits PS5 and Xbox after 30 million PC/Mobile players, and an Ocean Expansion Is Due in October
NetEase has confirmed that its free-to-play survival game Once Human is out now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X. The console release fully supports…
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Qualcomm’s Oryon Becomes The World’s First Mobile-Focused CPU To Hit A Clock Speed Of 5GHz, And Optimizes IPC By Pooling And Dynamically Assigning Cache
Qualcomm is flexing the power of its custom Oryon CPU cores today, as the prime core now hits a whopping 5GHz in clock speed, while the instructions per clock…
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NetEase Bets on Ananta and Sea of Remnants at Gamescom 2026, as the Latter Promises No Pay-to-Win Progression
In NetEase's press briefing ahead of Gamescom 2026, after leading with the already released Once Human, the Chinese publisher also provided fresh details on…
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OpenAI’s First-Gen Jalapeno ASIC Blows Competition Out Of The Park, Performs 1.5x to 1.9x More Work Per Kilowatt Than NVIDIA’s Blackwell Chips, While Threatening The CUDA Moat
OpenAI seems to have used its current spate of models that run on NVIDIA GPUs to design the Jalapeno chip, and then paired it with its own Gluon kernel…
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NVIDIA GeForce Now Comes To Steam Machines With Steam Controller Support, Also Brings New AAA Games To Firefox & Expands Amazon Fire TV Integration
NVIDIA expands GeForce Now support with new AAA games to Steam Machines, Firefox, and better Fire TV integration. GeForce Now Brings New Game & Hardware…
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NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction Tech Brings 2nd Gen Transformer Model, Boosting Ray Tracing & Path Tracing Quality On GeForce RTX GPUs
NVIDIA is officially launching its latest DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction technology that integrates the 2nd Gen transformer model to boost visuals. DLSS 4.5 Ray…
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NVIDIA Launches DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction: Coming To 007 First Light, Control Resonant, & Now Supported In RTX Remix
NVIDIA's DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction technology is now officially available and will be coming to more games and supported in RTX Remix. NVIDIA Unveils New…
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RTX Spark PCs Gain EA & Ubisoft Support, Bringing Games Such As Apex Legends, Arc Raiders, The Finals & Many More To NVIDIA’s First Client PC Platform
NVIDIA's RTX Spark PCs are getting huge support from gaming studios, bringing the latest and greatest titles to the company's first client PC platform…
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NVIDIA Bundles Control Resonant With GeForce RTX 5070 & Above GPUs While Also Bringing New Updates To The NVIDIA App Such as DLSS 4.5 Override & Resizable Bar Controls
NVIDIA has a new GeForce RTX game bundle for its RTX 5070 & above GPU owners, which packs a free copy of Control Resonant, along with NVIDIA App updates…
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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 Boosts Robotics & Edge AI by 2x While Sipping 40% Less Power At The Same Performance
NVIDIA has launched its Jetson Orin Nano 2 for entry-level edge AI, delivering faster performance to robotics applications. NVIDIA's Tiniest Jetson Platform…
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ASRock Challenger 360 Digital 360mm AIO Liquid Cooler Review: Good Cooling at Good Value
The PC cooler industry remains vibrant with several options for users to select from. There are several well-known and go-to brands for cooling enthusiasts…
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US Tech Advisor David Sacks Calls The Biggest Risk To NVIDIA’s $500 Billion AI Financing Plan A ‘Dark GPU’ Glut
After NVIDIA and CEO Jensen Huang announced their latest initiative last week, which now turns the firm's GPU into an asset class similar to financial…
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Halo Studios Reportedly Outsourced Campaign Evolved to 15 Studios, as Microsoft Weighs Involving Activision’s Sledgehammer Games in the Process
A new report from insider RebsGaming claims that Halo Studios is increasingly relying on outsourced development for its future projects, following heavy use of…
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Phison CEO Warns NAND Supply Won’t Meet Demand For Four Years, Locking In Higher SSD Prices Through 2030
NAND shortages are intensifying as Phison warns that it will take years to catch up to demand, signaling a rise in SSD prices. SSD Prices Will Continue To Rise…
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ASUS’ ROG Strix PSU Returning From RMA Was Discovered To Have Bypassed Internal Safety Fuse Instead Of Replacing Faulty Components, Creating A Potential Fire Hazard
The high-quality power supply unit is the first and last line of internal defense to keep your PC from impending harm, as it’s loaded with a bevy of…
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NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin Production Ramp-Up Is Now Squeezing TLC NAND Supply, Driving 512Gb Spot Prices To $21 After The June Slump
Such is the scale of NVIDIA's ongoing production ramp-up for its Vera Rubin platform that it's now manifesting itself in seemingly sparsely related nooks and…
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An Intel-Powered MacBook Pro Owner Reduced the Radeon Pro 5300M’s Idle GPU Power Draw By Nearly 80% By Creating An Open-Source Utility To Make A Custom 48Hz Refresh Rate
Older-generation MacBook Pro models featuring Intel’s power-hungry CPUs are still being used by the masses despite the Apple Silicon revolution, but it’s not…
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GIGABYTE Launches AORUS GeForce RTX 5060 ARI 8G Graphics Card, Featuring A Triple-Fan Design
GIGABYTE just dropped a new GPU, featuring ARI-inspired visuals on a triple-fan design. GIGABYTE Introduces AORUS RTX 5060 ARI Graphics Card, Boasting…
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Competitive Shooters Like Counter-Strike 2 Can Reach New Popularity Heights On Android Smartphones, As Sustained Performance Mod Allows Game To Stay Above 100FPS
It’s a solid claim that high-end Android smartphones pack sufficient compute and graphics horsepower to bulldoze through any tasks, including gaming, and it’s…
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GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Touches $800+ Price Tag On Newegg, A GPU That Launched At $429 Last Year
The GPU apocalypse has officially started, as mid-range offerings are now approaching a $1000 price tag. NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Crosses $800 on Newegg…
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AMD & ARM Have Eaten Intel’s Server Lead, Yet x86 Is Poised To Own The AI CPU Wave Through 2030 As TAM Crosses $200b
The Server CPU segment is estimated to see a big surge in the coming years, with stats showing the TAM surpassing $200 billion by 2030. AMD & ARM Have…
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Square Enix Keeps Fans Waiting Until Late 2027 for Kingdom Hearts IV, but the New Trailer Softens the Blow
During this year's D23 event at the Anaheim Convention Center and Honda Center in Anaheim, California, Square Enix presented a new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer…
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As NVIDIA Adds 100 Dark Fiber Pairs, Some AI Hyperscalers Are Quietly Blocking Fiber Off-Ramps To Rural Towns, Suffocating A Key Benefit
The ongoing massive AI build out was supposed to fiberize the rural America in what was, up until now, an oft-cited salient point in favor of the said build…
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SanDisk Takes ‘Finance Bros’ For A Ride: Cherry-Picks BF16 Quantization And Outdated HBM Specs, While Completely Glossing Over HBF’s Write Endurance Issues
SanDisk held an Investor Day presentation earlier this week. Ordinarily, that would be considered par for the course. However, then some of the presentation…
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Intel Wants To Keep Offering Raptor Lake CPUs Till Memory Prices Return To Normal
Intel will keep on offering older Raptor Lake CPUs to allow PC builders an alternative to higher DDR5 prices. DDR5 Prices Are Not Coming Down Anytime Soon, So…
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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro Benchmark Results In AnTuTu Show A 20% Performance Improvement Over The Fastest Android Smartphone Currently In Existence
One of the first AnTuTu performance results surrounding the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is here, with the score showing a little over 20 percent increase…
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Micro Center Bundles Core Ultra 5 250K Plus With A Motherboard And 32 GB RAM, So You Can Save $270
You either pay hundreds of dollars more by purchasing these components separately, or you can save nearly $300 with this bundle. Grab the Intel Core Ultra 5…
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Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 Matches Fable 5 On Coding Using Only Post-Training, And Stuns Fans By Unearthing A Vulnerability All The Way From 1981
Another day brings yet another impressive model from a China-based AI lab, with Zhipu's GLM-5.3 taking the center stage today after Meta's Muse Glimmer…
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Chinese DDR5 Memory Achieves 9000 MT/s Speeds, Now Offers CL30/CL28 Specs With Ease on 6000 MT/s+ “CXMT” Modules
CXMT-based DDR5 memory continues to be a viable option for domestic Chinese audiences as modules hit 9000 MT/s speeds. CXMT's Memory Was Once Unable To Hit…
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Samsung May Push HBM Base Dies to Cutting-Edge 2nm, Extending Its Own 4nm HBM4 Roadmap
Korean chip giant Samsung might repurpose a production line at an under-construction research and development facility to manufacture base logic dies for its…