One company’s trash can be another company’s treasure—or at least that’s what HP is hoping to convince its customers with a new “PCFax” service that uses telemetry, support requests, and “AI” to generate reports about a laptop’s history. And if your first thought was “gee, that sounds a lot like CarFax,” you’re on the same wavelength as the folks at HP who designed this service. Congratulations, or I’m sorry. Whichever....

Following recent leaks, likeLunar Lake MXfrom a few weeks ago, Twitter user @miktdthas uncovered the existence of Lunar Lake-based “200-Series” Intel Core Ultra 5 on the Open.Intel platform. There is even a reference to “XE_LUNARLAKE,” which seemingly corresponds to theIntel Iris Xe2 Low Power Graphics(LPG) on this Core Ultra 5 chip. The specific CPU identified in this leak is the Intel Core Ultra 5 234V, although we have no idea what that “V” stands for in this particular application....

CPU frequency world records continue to be set, but not by Intel’s new Core 200S processors. A Chinese user, “wytiwx”, has pushed the Intel i9-14900KF past 9.12 GHz, officially seizing the crown from Elmor. Fun fact:HWBot’sdata shows that, to date, Elmor has been the only person to breach the 9 GHz territory, but not anymore. The test bench that enabled this feat is powered by the i9-14900KF with all E-cores disabled and hyperthreading turned off....

Just a few months after Pat Gelsinger presented Panther Lake Engineering Samples live at theLenovo Tech World event, Intel reports that Panther Lake has now achieved power-on status at eight customers. During the Barclays 22nd Annual Global Technology Conference, the two interim co-CEOs at Intel dispelled rumors regarding 18A and the scheduled Panther Lake for launch in 2025. Panther Lake, dubbed Core Ultra 300, is expected to be the successor to Intel’s Arrow Lake-U/H family of CPUs, the latter of which is rumored to launch next month....

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is partnering with Intel to establish a new research and development center focused on advanced chip production, reportsNikkeiciting sources with knowledge of the matter. This facility is expected to be operational within three to five years and will focus on process technologies that use EUV lithography. The new R&D center will cost hundreds of millions of dollars (as each EUV litho machine costs around $200 million) and will provide an opportunity for various industry players in Japan to collaborate with AIST and Intel by jointly using EUV equipment for prototyping and testing....

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently visited Hokkaido, where Japanese startup Rapidus is building up its advanced 2nm-capable fab. Kishida pledged to secure state-backed funding for the project through new legislation, according to a report fromNikkei. The Japanese government sees the plant as crucially important for the country, as it will enable Japan to make chips on a leading-edge node. Rapidusintends to build an advanced fab in Hokkaido that will offer a2nm-class process technologyand advanced packaging by 2027....

One of the most important parts of any gaming setup is your choice of screen or screens. There is so much variety available for personalizing a setup, whether you prefer a separate screen for each app, or maybe just one display that makes use of a split-screen layout. If it’s the later, then a larger monitor certainly makes it easier to host multiple applications on the one screen. Today’s deal is on an LG screen with a large luscious OLED panel, that is also curved so that is wraps around the peripheral vision to provide more immersion in gaming especially....

There are all sorts of handy tools out there, and a handful of them can be made from scratch with aRaspberry Pi. No one knows this better than maker and developer Arnov Sharma who’s using our favorite SBC to power this custom-builttemperature gun. To save on power, he’s opted to use the latest Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller. According to Sharma, he wanted to create an open source temperature gun that anyone could recreate on their own....

After a dozen years of court hearings in New Zealand, the country’s justice minister has announced Kim Dotcom will be extradited to the United States. Once brought to the U.S., Dotcom faces numerous criminal charges related to the now-defunct file-sharing website Megaupload. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith signed the extradition order on Aug. 15,according to a statementfrom the New Zealand Minister of Justice. Goldsmith said he “considered all the information carefully” before agreeing to the extradition....

It is not a secret that both Apple andMicrosoftuse optical character recognition (OCR) and image recognition for images stored on MacOS and Windows-based PCs to simplify search and enable other features.SecurityexpertBrian Maloney, the author of theMalware Maloneblog,claimsthat Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business does the same for images it stores and then stores data it obtains from them in an unsecured database on the host PC. There are a couple of catches here....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Mode Sixty-Five (2024) is an excellent mechanical keyboard that sacrifices nothing compared to other options. It starts affordable and escalates quickly, and you’ll need to pay to have it built for you, but its customization options and quality are hard to beat. Excellent typing experience Exceptionally rich online customization options Multiple ways to build and customize Pre-build service available so it’s ready to go out of the box...

MSI has opened up laptop manufacturing operations in India to meet increasing market demand.DigiTimes Asiareports that MSI is introducing two entirely local models to India that will not be sold anywhere else, the Modern 14 and Thin 15. MSI announced its first facility will be built in Chennai, where the India-exclusive Modern 14 and Thin 15 will be built. In conjunction with its production facilities, MSI purportedly collaborates with local retailers such as Croma and Reliance Retail to help distribute its products nationwide and introduce its brand-specific notebook stores....

A U.S. grand jury has formally charged 52-year-old Michael Smith with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly buying AI-generated music, posting them on streaming platforms, and then using thousands of bots to stream his posts. This act allowed him to earn millions of dollars in royalties from 2017 through 2024. According to the unsealed indictment from theJustice Department, Mr. Smith claimed in February 2024 that his “existing music has generated at this point over 4 billion streams and $12 million in royalties since 2019....