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US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for...

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New PC build keeps crashing when I'm gaming ?

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suspecting hardware issue

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I haven't been really paying attention to new or upcoming tech, except some prices rose, what's new and upcoming?

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Windows 11 laptop 25H2 internal SSD writes a little too much?

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Display flashes black screen with thin white lines. Not sure how to troubleshoot further.

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Ethernet connection dropping after reboot, just started today

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Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year dea...

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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

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Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5

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Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney slams Valve over Steam Deck price hikes — mocks founder Gabe Newell over rising costs of megayachts

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Cooler Master is bringing active cooling to DDR5 RAM, promising up to 15-degree temperature drops — 'MasterDIMM' combines G.SKILL memory with a bui...

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The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck . . . . . . . ?

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Hands-on with Corsair's 3200D RS ARGB Mid-tower PC Case: Budget chassis includes three fans and doesn’t empty your wallet

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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

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Worth upgrading GTX 1080Ti - RX 9060XT

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IBM ThinkPad T43 enthusiast installs 'almost' every version of Windows on the single-core laptop without using virtual machine — 26 years of Window...

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Beelink unable to send me CSME BIOS update for my GTi13 - do I just wait for them to make sense?

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Amazon unveils 'Resilient Network Graphs' data center network that cuts hardware by 69% and boosts throughput by 33% — now the default for most AWS...

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Random restart of windows.

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PC posted really weirdly today

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Upgrading old 2017 Desktop PC with DDR4 Ram?

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Bambu Lab teases new A2L 3D printer — June 1 launch confirmed

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What happened to the R5 5500X3D ???

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Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm's hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion...

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Win11 ram bsod problems

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Startup unveils underwater drone designed for protecting undersea cables — small drone dives to 1,640 feet, comes with four-hour battery endurance...

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Prototype of the ‘world’s first fluid circuit board’ can be physically rewired in less than a minute, startup claims — could make hardware iteratio...

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My PC won't save BIOS settings nor will it boot from USB stick ?

May 27·2 min read·209 words

SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us' — firm's risk factors...

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ASUS G15 6800HS With Radeon Graphics, 20W sustained is fine enough for 720p gaming?

May 27·1 min read·129 words

Lenovo says it's digging into allegations that its China-only G10 handheld is being used for piracy — third parties may be including illicit games...

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Super Flower Leadex 2800W ATX 3.1 power supply review: Top-notch build quality, exceptional efficiency

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Drone breaks world speed record with 453 mph in test run — exotic sawtooth carbon fiber propeller blades one of the key advances in the Blackbird d...

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Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vin...

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If the PC uses very little power, is it safe to completely turn off the PSU fan ?

May 27·1 min read·156 words

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — ame...

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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union s...

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Is this PSU worth buying ?

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features wit...

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US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU — regulators investigate if chip designer is restrictin...

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49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as AI data centers inhale electricity supply — power company looking to redirect power to 12 da...

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Multi-use AMD Desktop PC/Server/Workstation/HTPC/gaming system replacement ?

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Will this GPU fit in my PC case ?

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Suddenly everything maxes out my GPU ?

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Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs — Microsoft claims 95% reduction in ga...

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RAID 1 - empty folders after last backup - - how ?

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No display and no GPU detected ?

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Motherboard compatibility and recommendations ?

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EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION ?

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[BSOD] DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE ntoskrnl.exe 0x9f ?

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BugCheck points to ntoskrnl.exe ?

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Multiuse AMD Desktop/Server/Workstation/HTPC/Game system Replacement

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OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests a...

May 18·1 min read·71 words

AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for thei...

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Josef Prusa warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks — Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable networ...

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Russia’s Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120,000 processors as souvenirs — 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 v...

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Which Ryzen is the best for gaming, not best bang for the buck, just the best ?

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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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Taiwan declares itself 'sovereign and independent' after Trump questions US defense commitment — comments come after Trump said he opposes Taiwan i...

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Samsung 990 Pro gets discount of over $200 from recent highs — grab the 2TB model for $429.99

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Dell precision 7740 with golden fingersprint sensor on palm rest

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Odd stuttering across multiple OS's

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Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors fo...

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AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register...

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Xfx Rx 580 8gb 2048sp Lazy Fan Issue

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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe b...

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AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure...

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to...

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Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to p...

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RTX 5080 crossflashed, can i stay with it?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — How far does dual cache take you?

May 11·1 min read·17 words

New cost-effective DDR5 memory 'HUDIMMs' show around 50% reduction in throughput with single subchannel — Two HUDIMMs are as fast as a single stick...

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Elon Musk says TeraFab will use Intel's 14A process technology to make AI chips — SpaceX will be responsible for high-volume chip manufacturing in...

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1 Mouse 1 Keyboard simultaneously to multiple computers

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Back again with my crashing Windows 11 Leader laptop!

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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate,...

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Headset issues – Synapse EQ / THX / Enhancements have zero effect (Generic USB driver) ?

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Friends GIF cripples website discussion platform backup with 377 gigabytes of Rachel's 'happy dance' — 1.6MB animation was replicated 246,173 times...

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Original Task Manager creator explains why it lies to you about CPU usage — former Microsoft engineer shows unique solution to a seemingly simple,...

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AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works — driver-level tweak will let gamers upgrade existing titles to FSR4 ML-ba...

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Making Xeon a perfect workstation

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Wired Keyboard input lag

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Key input lag

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Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague u...

Apr 21·1 min read·26 words

Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong archive.org CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early...

Apr 21·1 min read·23 words

Microsoft announces surprise Xbox Game Pass price cuts, ends day one Call of Duty inclusion — Ultimate down to $22.99 while PC Game Pass drops to...

Apr 21·1 min read·26 words

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 review: More cache, more cash

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Apple CEO Time Cook steps down, company names Ternus as incoming CEO

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How do I know if it's the time for a new router ?

Apr 21·1 min read·13 words

Cs 2 rhythmic 50ms jitter every 2 seconds

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FCC bans import of new consumer routers not made in the US over security threat — agency says foreign-made devices pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to US p...

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Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB of RAM to AI and pro apps — bigger Battlemage finally arrives, but it's not for gaming

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Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastru...

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Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models cou...

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Samsung’s 870 EVO SATA SSD quietly gets 8TB variant despite AI storage struggle — new model spotted in Europe for €1,300 with higher cache and endu...

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Download/Install speeds are incredibly slow, despite Wifi/Ethernet working perfectly fine ?

Mar 25·1 min read·11 words

Multiple networks

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Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hol...

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Random crashes ?

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Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials

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Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured — six month of tests fin...

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TV and Headphones connectivity issue.

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Creative updates its Sound Blaster PCIe line after 5 years — new $79.99 Audigy FX Pro 7.1 pitched as ‘clear upgrade over standard onboard audio’

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Nvidia unveils details of new 88-core Vera CPUs positioned to compete with AMD and Intel – new Vera CPU rack features 256 liquid-cooled chips that...

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Nvidia Groq 3 LPU and Groq LPX racks join Rubin platform at GTC — SRAM-packed accelerator boosts 'every layer of the AI model on every token

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MSI plans 30% gaming product price hike as memory and GPU shortages bite — 'This year is the most severe year since the company was founded

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One ram stuck on red and the other on not lighting up at all. Task manager still says both are detected

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Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a LaserDisc, discovers Techtuber — a 12-inch vinyl-like disc that stores SD analog video

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System damaging RAM over three months of use.

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reverse tethering wireless

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New Windows-native NVMe driver benchmarks reveal transformative performance gains, up to 64.89% — lightning-fast random reads and breakthrough CPU...

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Hard Drive Failure?

Mar 10·1 min read·3 words

It's a sad day when Rtings.com is now behind a paywall!

Mar 10·1 min read·11 words

Memory Access issues / Crashing after replacing the MOBO and CPU with old sticks

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Unpowered SSD data retention test shows promising results after six years — results show no data corruption on USB sticks, challenging conventional...

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Need help

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SK hynix introduces turbocharged LPDDR6, 33% faster and 20% more power efficient than LPDDR5X — 16Gb chips deliver 10.7 Gbps, uses 10nm node

Mar 10·1 min read·23 words

Intel Nova Lake CPU teaser lists official support for speedy DDR5-8000 RAM — B960 mini-PC’s upgraded power system signals Nova Lake’s higher power...

Mar 10·1 min read·23 words

Apple MacBook Neo review: a budget-priced game-changer

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