Seagate and Toshiba are reportedly fighting to acquire TDK's HDD magnetic-head technology
The AI boom has given the HDD industry a second wind, and drive makers want to lock in their supply
Paramount now owns Warner Bros, HBO, CBS, and CNN, and Netflix is out
New entity, Skydance, now controls Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Top Gun, and Star Trek, and plans to merge its streaming services
VMware customers want out from under Broadcom's pricing, but few are ready to leave
Higher licensing costs drove 90% of survey respondents to explore alternatives
Qualcomm signs its first 5G patent deal with Huawei, and agrees to buy some of its US patents
The deal needs regulatory approval, since Huawei has been on the US Entity List since 2019
Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest for a data center, and regulators want answers
Finland's regulator says the environmental review came too late, Google says it followed the law
Amazon is spending $1 billion to win over towns fighting its data centers
AWS CEO says the US "can't afford to lose" the AI race, blames "misinformation" for fueling opposition
German utility launches dedicated electricity tariff for gamers with power-hungry PCs
With consumption presets ranging from 2,500 to 5,000 kWh per year, the offer targets everyone from casual players to shared gaming homes.
Sony's new PS5 Pro lottery requires 60 hours of playtime just to apply
Anti-scalper lottery could backfire right as GTA VI drives demand even higher
Europe is building its own payment network to finally compete with Visa and Mastercard
ENP connects payment networks that already exist, covering 130 million users across 13 countries
Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US
Buyers are also being asked to provide photo ID and have their driver's license scanned
AI is getting cheaper faster than almost any technology in history
One AI task went from $0.30 to $0.0004 per question in a year and a half
Bottom line: AI models are getting cheaper to use at a pace that could reshape the advanced software market. A report from research firm Epoch AI finds that the cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has fallen by nearly 50% per quarter, or about 13 times per year. That is a faster rate of decline than the cost curves seen in lithium-ion batteries, DNA sequencing and computing hardware.
Bill Gates says robots should pay FICA taxes when they replace human workers
Gates says taxing robots could help replace lost revenue and fund a stronger safety net
The Pentagon is creating a new command just for autonomous and robotic warfare
AutoWarCom will oversee drones, AI, and command and control systems across the US military
QR Codes Explained: How They Work and Why They're Everywhere
QR codes were built to track car parts, written off as a gimmick, then rescued by phone cameras. Now they're everywhere. Here's how they work, what's changed, and what to watch out for.
The US just approved its first small nuclear reactor built for the AI power crunch
The 300-megawatt small modular reactor delivers round-the-clock power with a simpler design
G.Skill wins customer's lifetime loyalty after replacing a $150 open-box eBay RAM kit now worth $1,199
In a nutshell: There's been a depressing trend recently in which hardware companies refuse warranty claims for questionable reasons – or refund the customer's original purchase amount – as a result of their products' prices skyrocketing. But it seems not every firm is being greedy. One person has praised G.Skill for replacing a 64 GB DDR5 RAM kit bought from eBay for $150 with a brand-new kit worth $1,199.
Apple's new CEO wants to move faster, cut jobs, and squeeze more out of services
Breaking from Cook's playbook, Apple could shift away from the traditional spring and fall release cycle
AMD's new Zen 6 Epyc Venice lineup starts at $700 and scales all the way to 256 cores for $14,900
The Zen 6 Venice family spans 31 processors across SP7 and SP8 sockets
Trump unveils voluntary AI safety pact, backs more data centers, and officially renames AI "Super Intelligence"
The "morally binding" agreement relies largely on tech companies policing themselves
Ex-Nvidia advisor says the company owes him $1 billion in stock, but Nvidia disagrees
A reported 1996 paperwork error miscounted his vesting period as four years instead of four quarters
Control Resonant is Remedy's most successful Steam launch ever
Even pirates are saying they'll pay for Control Resonant, that's how good it is
ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight
ASML is betting bigger EUV mirrors and stacked transistors will keep chips advancing
Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that makes the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world's most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI boom will play out over 10 to 15 years and that we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Meeting that demand will depend on better optics, vertical chip designs and a sprawling supplier network that can't be scaled up quickly. That makes ASML's roadmap a useful gauge of how far AI hardware can go, and how fast.
SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit and puts 26 Starlink satellites into space
The milestone gives SpaceX a way to deploy its much larger Starlink V3 satellites
One of the first Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 PCs costs $7,399 and comes with 192GB of unified memory
Minisforum's AI workstation packs AMD's Gorgon Halo processor into a tiny PC
