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Wei-Jen Lo, a longtime TSMC leader who quietly reappeared at Intel only months after retiring, is now reported to have left with extensive N2, A16, A14, and post-A14 process documents, triggering scrutiny over his sudden move and a TSMC investigation into possible stealing of trade secrets.
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China and USMCA trade stand apart as special cases tied to security and policy. Read more ›
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One psychiatrist has already treated 12 patients hospitalized with AI-induced psychosis — and three more in an outpatient clinic, according to the Wall Street Journal. And while AI technology might not introduce the delusion, "the person tells the computer it's their reality and the computer accepts it as truth and reflects it back," says Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, calling the AI chatbots "complicit in cycling... Read more ›
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Louis Gerstner, who took over IBM in 1993 as it stood on the brink of breakup and bankruptcy, died at 83, leaving behind a legacy defined by preserving IBM as an integrated company and changing its direction nearly entirely. Read more ›
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Humanoid robots have come on leaps and bounds in recent times, and much is expected of the advanced machines in the coming year. The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to ... Read more ›
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AI license plate readers have attracted a lot of controversy, but it looks like cities in California are choosing to double down on the technology. Read more ›
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HKC is bringing a 1,080 Hz gaming monitor to CES under its AntGamer brand, showing off a native 1440p 540 Hz panel that can use dual-mode to switch to a blistering 1,080 Hz at 720p. It's a Fast TN panel that is supposed to have DP 2.1 UHBR20 support. Read more ›
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Mega funding rounds create ‘fortress balance sheets’ as investors advise top groups to brace for tougher markets Read more ›
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Many Japanese car brands are generally known for their durability. Here are four iSeeCars ranked as the most likely to get past the quarter-million mile mark. Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S. Read more ›
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Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years. Read more ›
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We might be looking at literally the most cooked RTX 5090 yet, with a burnt power connector that has melted into itself, despite using a native 12V-2x6 cable on an ATX 3.1 certified PSU. The person smelled fire, saw it, and lived to tell the tale, all on Christmas eve. Read more ›
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In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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