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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... The FCC says that it will no longer certify foreign-made routers, effectively making them illegal to sell in the U.S., unless the manufacturer can secure a "Conditional Approval" from the Department of War or the Department of Homeland Security. **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... : Read more **
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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 Intel's Arc Pro B70 and B65 GPUs bring options for more raw compute, 32GB of RAM and multi-GPU scalability to the market for local AI explorers looking to run inference workloads for relatively low prices. **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 : Read more **
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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... Micron’s planned $24 billion NAND flash expansion in Singapore will require 400 to 500 power transformers, which is more than double the 100 to 150 units a standard wafer fab typically needs. **Micron's $24 billion Singapore fab could need 500 transformers, more than double the output of any single manufacturer — heavy electrical infrastru... : Read more **
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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... Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations. **Microsoft and Nvidia launch AI partnership to speed up nuclear power plant permitting and construction — simulation tools and generative models cou... : Read more **
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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... Samsung’s unlisted 870 EVO 8TB model appears at European retailers with pricing starting at €1,300. **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... : Read more **
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Download/Install speeds are incredibly slow, despite Wifi/Ethernet working perfectly fine ? Hello everyone, I am having a problem with my PC where my download and install speeds are very slow despite having no network problems. In this specific instance i was installing the Silent Hill 2 enhanced edition, both on my PC and Laptop. On my PC the operation was estimated to take three hours whilst my laptop a matter of minutes. I tried again with other downloads with the same results. To my knowledge I have no abnormal network configuration but I also have no idea how to start troubleshooting. I used both the ethernet cable and over the wifi to no avail, when my laptop install was done over wifi. Any help would be incredibly appreciated. Many thanks.
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Multiple networks Hi All, This is my first time reaching out on this forum. To try to make a long story short, they have on IP address they get from their ISP. The gateway leased from the ISP has onboard/built in WIFI. They also have a 3rd party firewall that does all DHCP/NAT/Routing for the internal network. We put the gateway into Bridge Mode to have the interface on the firewall get assigned the Ip from the ISP. After doing that, I found I can still connect to the gateway built in WIFI network and browse the internet, even though the IP has been assigned to the firewall. Can anyone help me here on if I'm missing something? If the gateway is no longer routing or doing DHCP, I'm wondering how the WIFI network is able to connect to the internet, when a completely different network should be the network connecting to the internet? Thanks,
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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... A family in Northern Kentucky received a $26 million offer for half their land — a price that's worth more than 7 times the going rate for the area. But despite the massive price, they still refused, saying that they "fed a nation off of it." **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... : Read more **
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Random crashes ? Hello everyone! It's been a rough few months now when I started getting random crashes on some of my favourite games and even Explorer tabs. The PC is new and I built it myself a few months before the crashes started happening. **PC Specs** Mobo: Z790 Aorus Pro X (white) CPU: i9-14900k GPU: Aorus RX 5080 Master (white) RAM: Dominator Titanium 2 x 32GB 6800mhz SSD: 2TB M.2 PSU: Corsair RM1000x AIO: Thermalright Frozen infinity A few fan controllers + a ton of RGB fans/strips and even a vertical GPU holder from CoolerMaster. OS: Windows 11 Pro 64 bit Now into the details... I have no idea what could have caused the crashes occurring during certain games non stop (Games like Wuthering Waves, Warrock, Heroes might and magic V, Path of Exile 2) that worked fine previously while the other games I play to this day work just fine and have never crashed even once. Especially, when Heroes game is such an oldie and takes no power from the PC. I had an issue with Nvidia drivers before... Read more
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Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials DLSS 5 is coming to make your favorite games look even more realistic **Nvidia debuts DLSS 5 for increased visual fidelity in games — AI-infused tech transforms pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials : Read more**
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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... A tech enthusiast has shared their DVD rewritable durability findings, following six months of testing. **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... : Read more**
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TV and Headphones connectivity issue. I have MI TV and JBL510 headphone connectivity issue after 1+ hours. My TV only supports 2.4 GHz band. Internet is connected via Wifi to this TV. Whenever, I try to connect my JBL510BT headphones, it works find for around 1+ hour (after full charge) then suddenly sound starts lagging and after few minutes it fails to connect (keeps getting connected/diconnected) Been like 2 weeks since this issue started. Also, I am unable to hard reset the headphone suddenly. Some help here, will be great. Thanks
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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’ Creative updates its roster of PCIe sound cards for PC desktop DIYers with the new Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro 7.1, **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’ : Read more**
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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... Nvidia announced more details about its new 88-core Vera data center CPUs, claiming impressive 50% performance gains over standard CPUs, fueled by a 1.5X increase in IPC from its Olympus cores. The firm also unveiled its new Vera CPU Rack architecture, which brings 256 liquid-cooled CPUs into one rack for CPU-centric workloads. **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... : Read more**
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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 At GTC 2026, Nvidia revealed the Groq 3 accelerator and Groq LPX rack as part of the Vera Rubin platform. These SRAM-packed, inference-focused chips deliver large amounts of memory bandwidth to help Rubin deliver low-latency interactions with AI models spanning trillions of parameters and million-token contexts. **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 : Read more **
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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 "This year is the most severe year since the company was founded," MSI told investors. **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 : Read more **
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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 So i recently build a new pc: 9800x3d, Zotac solid core 5080, Gigabyte x870 eagle wifi7, 2x16GB Klevv Crass V, Corsair RM1000x. After a few days i started noticing that once every like 10-20 boots ( or whenever it want to tbh) one of my ram sticks doesn't flash when posting ( normaly both flash white for a few miliseconds) and doesn't ever turn the rgb on, while the other one light up red, and i can't change it. DRAM light turns on for a sec then off which seems normal. GCC App doesn't detect them and I'm not able to change the rgb. Task manager says that both are detected and everything seems to be working fine. The first time it happened i managed to fix it only by reseating the sticks, but now rebooting seems to do it. The main issue here is that i can't recreate the issue when i want to so I don't know if the warranty guys will just return it as is, since they possibly won't be able to recreate it, also in my country RMA can last a month, and I'm not rly able to work when... Read more
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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 Images representing the contents can clearly be seen when studying the surface of a CED ‘LaserDisc’ under a microscope. **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 : Read more**
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System damaging RAM over three months of use. I made the mistake of using PCPartPicker's compatibility tool to determine if my choice of motherboard and memory would work together. I bought the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Rev 1.5 w/ a 5700x3d CPU and paired it with 32 gb of G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GVKC. Fortunately or unfortunately, the system worked together cleanly on first install back in September of 2024. More than a year later, in late November of 2025, I started getting Memory_Management BSODs. At the time, I still wasn't aware that the memory wasn't on the QVL list -- I assumed that my compatibility research had been thorough. Instead, I updated my motherboard's BIOS, and then when that didn't solve the problem, I used memtest86 and found several hundred errors, even with XMP disabled. I RMA'd the RAM and G.Skill sent me two more sticks, which passed another memtest with 0 errors w/ XMP disabled. I assumed my problem was solved and didn't do any further testing. Unfortunately, three months later, I got another set... Read more
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reverse tethering wireless I am looking for a USB device (if any exists), that plugs into a PC and allows other devices to connect to it and use internet from the PC like an access point. I believe there are USB adapters that plug into PC and comes out with a female RJ45 jack that can be used to connect for internet access from PC, but I am looking for something 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... StorageReview evaluated the performance benefits of Microsoft's native NVMe driver on Windows Server 2025 and found substantial performance increases, particularly in random reads. **New Windows-native NVMe driver benchmarks reveal transformative performance gains, up to 64.89% — lightning-fast random reads and breakthrough CPU... : Read more**
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Hard Drive Failure? For clarity - there is next to nothing on this drive. Put a spare HD in a PC a few weeks back. It was 100% health, but over the course of a couple of months, it's now just 6%. HD Sentinal reports: The drive found 988 bad sectors during its self test. There are 1199 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped at any time in the later use of the disk. 5,804 start/stop count, powered on for 1162 days. I've used HD Sentinel's "Short Hard Disk test" which has found what appears to be no errors. Offline Uncorrectable Sector count: 194 Current Pending Sector count: 193 Just doing a read test now. Should I just bin this HD?
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It's a sad day when Rtings.com is now behind a paywall! Have only just seen that this is the case. I've used that site to review answers to many questions over the years, and it's always been a helpful tool for anyone looking at new Home Electronics. Now that it's behind a paywall, it's not worth the cost (at least to me) just to help other forum users. Of course, there are many other places to get specific reviews. Just takes a bit of time to sift through all the again. Bit of a surprise, but that's the way things are going at the moment.
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Memory Access issues / Crashing after replacing the MOBO and CPU with old sticks Hey everyone. TL😀R was forced to buy a new MOBO and CPU due to a string of unfortunate events that had nothing to do with an actual hardware fault (cpu stuck to heatsink when i had to change the cooler), my old DDR4, which never had any problems in my old system, now is showing thousands of errors and im getting all sorts of memory access violations in browsers, games, and BSOD. Ryzen 5500, AM4, in a ROG Strix B450F wifi board I set the ram to its required 16-18-18-18 3200 rate and 3.5 voltage (it was on auto initially till i had problems) I can sometimes go hours playing games and everything working fine, to constant crashes, i have reformatted 3 times to make sure its not a driver issue. I ran memtest last night and not only do i have errors - it only passed 8% of tests lol, which if true, is wild my PC is even posting. Im thinking that there is maybe a CPU memory config issue or some hidden setting somewhere that is making them not talk to each other. It seems really wierd... Read more
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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... A long-term data retention test on unpowered flash drives shows promising results, with multiple drives of the same make showing no signs of corruption after six years. **Unpowered SSD data retention test shows promising results after six years — results show no data corruption on USB sticks, challenging conventional... : Read more**
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Need help I built a PC for a friend. It immediately started randomly rebooting with Kernel 41 errors every 1-30 minutes. No dump log is generated. I have tried replacing the motherboard, CPU, and PSU. I also swapped out the power cable, the HDMI cable, the monitor, the mouse and the keyboard. I ran 4-hour Memtest checks on each stick of RAM individually, and each returned zero errors. The system eventually got so unstable (and somehow Windows activation was lost) that I had to reinstall Windows, but the installation failed multiple times. Clearing the CMOS enabled me to be able to install Windows again. After the fresh Windows 11 install, the system ran fine for a little over an hour, but after I installed all of the drivers from the motherboard support page, Windows Update installed some Intel system drivers and then the system rebooted with a kernel 41 error a few minutes after that. I am running the latest BIOS release. The system is: Windows 11 home, MSI Tomahawk Wifi, Intel Core... Read more
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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 SK Hynix has announced the successful development of its first LPDDR6 memory modules that operate at "over" 10.7Gbps. The new modules take advantage of the manufacturer's bleeding-edge 10nm-class (1c) process node. **SK hynix introduces turbocharged LPDDR6, 33% faster and 20% more power efficient than LPDDR5X — 16Gb chips deliver 10.7 Gbps, uses 10nm node : Read more**
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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... ECS showcases revamped Liva P300 mini-PC for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, revealing some interesting features along the way. **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... : Read more**
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Apple MacBook Neo review: a budget-priced game-changer Apple's MacBook Neo has all the trappings of a premium laptop at a surprising price, with only a few compromises to get there. **Apple MacBook Neo review: a budget-priced game-changer : Read more**
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