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The U.S. Department of Commerce didn't renew the validated end-user status of these chipmakers, requiring them to acquire annual licenses to import chipmaking tools containing U.S. tech into their Chinese fabs.
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A new record-high clock speed has been achieved on AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The best gaming CPU in the world doesn't need to be overclocked to achieve exceptional performance, but Chinese overclocker "Hero" has just pushed it to 7,335 MHz using a Colorful iGame X870E Vulcan motherboard, using liquid nitrogen. Read more ›
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As the calendar flips to January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 are entering the US public domain alongside sound recordings from 1925, making them free to copy, share, remix and build upon without permission or licensing fees. The literary haul includes William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Dashiell Hammett's full novel The Maltese Falcon, Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple mystery The Murder at the Vicarage, and the... Read more ›
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Happy New Year! It’s the perfect time for a refresh on what’s been top of mind for The Information’s readers—and the early trends and open questions worth keeping tabs on in 2026. In 2025, our most popular stories revealed growing cracks in the artificial intelligence boom and pinpointed challenges facing the most dominant AI companies. The top story was also one of our most recent, about a “code red” inside... Read more ›
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Chirp wellness, founded by Tate Stock, grew from $450 and a barn to $250 million in sales, pivoting from yoga wheels to pain relief tools. Read more ›
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Jeff Bezos owns more than $200 million of real estate in Miami. A vacant plot next to him just sold for $105 million. Read more ›
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Motorola's next ultra-slim phone could finally prove that thin smartphones don't have to compromise on camera hardware. Read more ›
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The billionaire gifted Tesla shares worth nearly $100 million to charities in connection with "year-end tax planning," according to an SEC filing. Read more ›
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We've picked out the best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and beyond. Read more ›
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Where power, profits and pressure points are likely to lie across five key sectors Read more ›
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On January 1, 1983, ARPANET system architects initiated the cutover from the existing NCP to TCP/IP on all hosts. Read more ›
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Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN's director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended upgrade. The shutdown starts in June to make way for the high-luminosity LHC -- a major overhaul involving powerful new superconducting magnets that will squeeze the collider's... Read more ›
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For a tech writer, being very offline is sort of like being a marathon coach who doesn’t run. So in 2025, I tried to reverse years of studied avoidance towards the most ubiquitous technological phenomenon on earth — I got back on social media. The change was short-lived. My first exodus from the feeds took some work — disabling notifications, removing apps from my homescreen and then deleting accounts entirely.... Read more ›
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As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these laws, alongside rules passed in past years, take effect in 2026 - either right now or in the coming months. […] Read more ›
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The PlayStation 5's ROM keys have allegedly been leaked. This breach could make it easier for hackers to jailbreak the system, but they still have to deal with other security features of the console. Read more ›
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Throughout the 2010s, eating less meat and embracing plant-based food was — to many Americans — aspirational. Large swathes of the public told pollsters they were trying to cut back on meat, lots of schools and hospitals participated in Meatless Monday, A-list celebrities dabbled in veganism, and venture capital investors bet big that plant-based meat […] Read more ›
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A viral TikTok video about retired United captain and USAF veteran Theresa Claiborne comes at a time when diversity in aviation is under threat. Read more ›
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Check out Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in "The Rip," as well as classics like "Wild Things" and "My Girl" this month on Netflix. Read more ›
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By taking international solo trips without my children at least once a year for two weeks, I am able to be a better mom and a more present parent. Read more ›
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Millionaire entrepreneur and podcast host Steven Bartlett said culture fit and character are more important than experience when hiring. Read more ›
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Tom's Hardware
A former Samsung Engineer accused of offering the secrets behind the company's 10nm DRAM data to China's ChangXin Memory Technologies has been accused of making hundreds of handwritten notes on detailed process steps. 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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The invitation to Mayor-elect Mamdani's inauguration lists Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero as prohibited items but does not provide a reason. Read more ›
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Asus has directly shut down a spurious rumor claiming it would enter the memory market within the next six months. Read more ›
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Open-source expansion card brings AMD's B650 chipset expansion capabilities to any system that has a PCIe 4.0 x4 expansion slot. Read more ›
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An electronics technician succeeds in the most intricate gaming laptop motherboard repair we have seen completed. Read more ›
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The decisions to put a 16-pin power connector on a non-Nvidia GPU has started to show its consequences on the RX 9070 XT. Sapphire's Nitro+ variant uses a 12v-2x6 connector, which has burnt down thrice already, making this the fourth case so far, joining the first ASRock Taichi card that broke the dam. Read more ›
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Yesterday, the ground shook off the coast of Taiwan, slamming the country with the strongest earthquake in 27 years. The seismic wave registered 7.0 in Taiwan's scales, or 6.6 to 6.7 according to the USGS standard. Thankfully, according to reports, TSMC's factories are all intact, saving the world from yet another spike in chip prices. Read more ›
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GameStop just released a press release saying that it will help Valve co-founder Gabe Newell learn how to count to three. Read more ›
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