US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts
Various U.S.agencies just released a warning claiming that Iranian hackers are targeting Siemens S7-series programmable logic controllers (PLCs).…
According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIS…
They’re also using AI tools, allowing them to identify additional atta…
“The actors leverage Internet scanning services to find Internet-expos…
Desktop CPU shipments crater 20% amid high component costs, but AMD gains record share despite 'ugly' desktop processor market — Intel floods laptop market with millions of CPUs, but AMD still sets al
The second quarter of 2026 was quite favorable for CPU suppliers, as unit growth was 10% sequentially, with data center and laptop processor shipments more than offsetting declining sales of desktop CPUs and lower-end products for embedded and IoT applications, according to a new report by Mercury Research.…
AMD continued to gain market share, so its unit shipments and share re…
Overall, the report describes the desktop X86 CPU market as "ugly.
Storage unit auction winner finds retro Pentium 4 PC with a see-through, UV-reactive PSU — Y2K time capsule discovered among 100 laptops and hundreds of RAM sticks
PC cases today largely focus on subdued, minimal designs in order to appeal to as many people as possible.…
Compare that to the towers you could find back in the old days, and yo…
Such was the reminder that Reddit user u/Witty-Composer-6445 got when …
"I found it in a storage unit auction that I won which I initially tho…
Gamer uncovers factory plastic left on RTX 3070 VRM pads after five years, causing overheating — claims removal and repasting dropped GPU hotspot temperatures by 30°C
In a bizarre quality control issue, a gamer discovered protective film on the VRM thermal pads of their Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC graphics card.…
As per a Reddit post by u/buczi94, the GPU was purchased brand new and…
After using the GPU for almost five years, the owner of the GPU starte…
They also faced frequent black screens during higher loads, waking the…
Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542
Spending on physical game disks has fallen to the lowest recorded level since tracking began in 1995, according to a new report documenting a drastic slump in the console market.…
console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year …
Dollar sales came in at $282 million, down 29% and the lowest July tot…
PlayStation 5 units fell 6%, Xbox Series units fell 18%, and Switch 2 …
GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game
Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas in the Southern District of New York on August 20, demanding that Microsoft and Discord identify the person or persons behind the "CyberLeek" persona responsible for this week's Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay leaks.…
Take-Two wants more than just names and is asking for MachineGuid and …
Both subpoenas, filed by Dale Cendali and Joshua Simmons of Kirkland &…
Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers(Image credit: Microsoft…
SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon — alternative storage solution to Seagate, WD arrives on the market five years after the launch of the consoles
An alternative storage solution for the Xbox Series X|S finally arrived on the market five years after its launch.…
The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 starts at 1TB on Amazon and costs $249.
99, while the 2TB version will set you back $486.
SanDisk initially announced the Optimus SSD lineup in early January 20…
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
Members of the world's largest 'truly open library in human history' have issued a worldwide call to volunteers, begging them to scan and upload books online to prevent AI companies from obtaining and destroying huge quantities of books.…
The Anna's Archive appeal follows multiple reports that large AI compa…
According to the blog post, the problems started when Anthropic was hi…
5 billion penalty as it settled a copyright infringement lawsuit from …
The tech industry faces unprecedented challenges as the continued disruption from AI-driven shortages has driven pricing to record highs and supplies to record lows.…
However, even amidst the damage we've seen in the PC market, the indus…
The continued industry advancements give us several new picks for our …
This year's list includes devices ranging from CPUs from Intel and AMD…
Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo review: A budget-friendly printer made even more budget-friendly
The Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo is a stripped-down version of the Centauri Carbon 2, but we’re left wondering if losing the camera, lights, enclosure, and ventilation is worth the $60 you’re saving.…
This printer is so affordable, one wonders if Elegoo is making any pro…
The math and naming convention are downright puzzling.
The Centauri 2 Combo is currently on sale for $319, while the single-c…
LG enters chip packaging arena with Laser Direct Imaging machine, as TSMC's CoWoS remains constrained — maskless machine is designed to pattern fine interconnects, trading resolution for higher throug
As advanced packaging technologies like EMIB and CoWoS become yet another battlefield in the semiconductor industry, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies are trying new tools in a bid to offer services that others do not.…
This week, LG Electronics Production Technology Institute (PRI) signed…
LG-PRI's Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) system is a maskless lithography m…
While the company has developed various versions of the machine, its h…
LG Display introduces new OLED deposition technique that uses lithography instead of metal masks — "FLiPP" photolithography delivers 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer lifespan
LG Display has just unveiled perhaps the biggest innovation in OLED manufacturing in a while, aptly called "FLiPP" or FMM-less Innovative Pixel Patterning.…
FMM stands for Fine Metal Masks, and they're required as a stencil to …
FLiPP gets rid of these and instead relies on photolithography to vapo…
The main benefit of FLiPP is how it increases the subpixel surface are…
Nvidia denies report it will ship Groq-based LPUs to China by year-end — says there is 'no China-specific LPU product in our roadmap'
Nvidia has rejected a report claiming that it plans to begin small-batch shipments of a language processing unit tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026, with several Chinese orders already placed.…
"The reporting in The Information on NVIDIA's LPU is incorrect.
We have no LPU sales in the China market today, and no China-specific …
The Information's story, which cited two Nvidia employees, said the ch…
Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging
Micron on Thursday announced a plan to establish the Micron Research Lab, which will explore memory, computing, packaging, and semiconductor manufacturing technologies that could be used commercially more than a decade from now.…
The facility will bring together expertise from Micron itself as well …
The company plans to invest $10 billion over the next 10 years in the …
Traditionally, universities, R&D organizations, and internal R&D units…
H200 AI GPUs finally reach China under case-by-case import licenses, but it's already too late for Nvidia — homemade chips corner the China market as country seeks semiconductor independence
ByteDance and Tencent each took delivery of roughly 10,000 Nvidia H200 accelerators in recent weeks, and a handful of other Chinese tech groups may soon receive approvals of similar size.…
The deliveries are the first meaningful movement of the chips into mai…
Most of each company's U.
-licensed allowance, understood to be up to 100,000 units apiece, must…