Pricing for upcoming Ryzen 5000 SKUs leaks — Ryzen 5 5500GT at 150 euros and Ryzen 7 5700X3D at 300 euros

Retail listings of AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 CPUs have surfaced in Europe, as hardware sleuth@momomo_ushas revealed. The leaker has found one shop with listings for the Ryzen 5 5500GT, Ryzen 5 5600GT, Ryzen 7 5700X3D, and Ryzen 5 8600G. Per @momomo_us, the 5500GT already has widespread listings across German and Austrian retailers, as seen on Geizhals, which is basically the PCPartPicker of those two countries. @momomo_us didn’t reveal the retailer where all four CPUs were found, but we discovered it was Gesci, located in France....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · Kelly Gonzales

Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Jack Lang dies aged 76

Update 18-06-2025 02:10 PDT We have updated this story with a message from Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Pete Lomas. Updated Story Anews poston the Emmanuel College, Cambridge website brings the sad news that Jack Lang, one of the original co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, passed away on April 23 after a long illness. RIP Jack Lang. https://t.co/jpV15ogcQp A lovely bloke who helped found Raspberry Pi.Jul 07, 2025 Born in January 1948, Lang matriculated into Emmanuel College in 1966....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 587 words · Mark Moore

Raspberry Pi powers impressive Halloween haunted house light show

We’ve seen some impressive Christmas lights displays over the years but this is hands down the coolestHalloween light showwe’ve ever seen. This project is incredible and shared to us by a user known as G8HCB over at YouTube. In a recently uploaded video, they put on a show with their huge display of Halloween lights operated by none other than our favorite SBC—theRaspberry Pi. According to the video, this display is set up over at their friend’s house in Manchester, United Kingdom....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Theresa Meyers

Republican senators show little interest in scrapping CHIPS Act, despite Trump's call

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump publiclycalled for repeal of the CHIPS Actduring a televised speech before Congress, criticizing it for delivering wasteful corporate subsidies. While House Speaker Mike Johnson applauded Trump’s remarks, many Republican lawmakers, Johnson included, were caught off guard and showed little interest in undoing the legislation, reportsNBC. “Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” Trump said. “We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it does not mean a thing....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 542 words · Anna Morrow

Robert Dennard, father of DRAM, is deceased — also known for his foundational Dennard scaling theory

Robert Heath Dennard, a pioneer in electrical and computer engineering whoinvented DRAM, passed away on June 12, 2025. That single invention helped make possible billions of smartphones, computers, and other consumer electronics. He will also be remembered for Dennard Scaling theory, based onMoore’s law.Dennard was born on Sept. 5, 1932, in Terrell, Texas. He grew up on a farm with no electricity and went to school in a one-room schoolhouse. His talent as a French horn player earned him a scholarship atSouthern Methodist University, where he studied the nascent field of electrical engineering....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 548 words · Diana Gomez

RTX 4060 Ti transformed into a 65W GPU with a passive mod — a downclocked GPU and VRAM reduces power consumption from 160W to 65W

A small form factor PC enthusiast has shared details about how they modified anNvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Tifor absolutely silent running. Mysteriously named Redditor a0910115172shared plenty of imagesof the fanless modded Asus TUF RTX 4060 Ti and somebenchmarkinginsights (h/tFanlessTech). In brief, even when massively downclocked to operate within a 65W power envelope, this card was superior to commercial alternatives like the KalmX series from Palit. As our hat-tipped friends at FanlessTech would confirm, there are lots of reasons why a person might want to go fanless....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 529 words · John Potts

Russia-based Kaspersky antivirus shuts down its US business due to sanctions — offices to close by July 20

Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity and antivirus software company,announcedit will start shutting down all of its operations in the U.S. on July 20. The departure was inevitable after 12 of the company’s executives were hit with sanctions, and the company’sproducts were bannedfrom sale in the U.S. Kaspersky Lab told BleepingComputer of the pending closure and confirmed it would lay off all of its U.S.-based employees. Reportedly, the shutdown affects less than 50 employees in the U....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Julie Torres

Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets NVMe SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard

Firmware updates for motherboards aim to fix bugs and occasionally introduce new features. However,Chinese netizenWhiteCamellia (viaUniko’s Hardware) found that manufacturers often fail to promote these new features. Notably, Gigabyte has seemingly updated the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard to support booting from NVMe SSDs, like M.2 SSDs, a previously unavailable functionality. Introduced in 2012, the B75M-D3H is a motherboard featuring the B75 chipset, designed to support Intel’s 2nd Generation (Sandy Bridge) and 3rd Generation (Ivy Bridge) Core processors....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 515 words · Kelly Eaton

Save $300 on Asus' 2024 ROG Zephyrus G14 with OLED display and RTX 4060

It’s a new month, the start of the week, and the time for new deals. Kicking off this Monday is a nice saving on a 2024 model gaming laptop from Asus. Packing the latest hardware and even a crisp OLED screen, you may save $300 off this gaming laptop’s MSRP and grab a laptop bargain. You can pick up theAsus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) for $1,299at Best Buy, reduced by $300 from its original $1,599 MSRP....

July 3, 2025 · 3 min · 434 words · Brittany Le

Scammers on Facebook try to ruin Bambu Lab’s big 3D printer sale — site has been rife with fake ads for 3D printers

Buyer beware: you’re not the only one attracted to Bambu Lab’s current3rd Anniversary sale. The deep discounts are enticing Facebook scammers as well. These con artists plan to trick Facebook users out of their hard-earned money by posing as Bambu Lab with fake Facebook pages offering links to artificially sweet deals. The fake pages usually misspell or truncate Bambu Lab’s name and can lead to copycat websites that look incredibly real....

July 3, 2025 · 4 min · 676 words · Theodore Johnson

Should You Defrag an SSD?

Defragment is a popular utility used to boost the performance of our computers. It is widely known that defragging hard drives works well to make our devices faster. But do they work on the SSDs? SSDs are a great find in the storage device segment, with features such as highread/write speeds, low power consumption, and much more. A common notion is that defragging SSDs can amplify these features. Contrary to what is believed, defragging the SSD won’t give you the expected results and can even severely affect the drive’s performance in the long run....

July 3, 2025 · 5 min · 882 words · Jeffrey Kirby

State-owned China Telecom has trained domestic AI LLMs using homegrown chips — one model reportedly uses 1 trillion parameters

China Telecom, one of the largest wireless carriers in mainland China, says that it has developed two large language models (LLMs) relying solely on domestically manufactured AI chips. The state-owned company did not disclose the chips that it used for training the LLMs, but theSouth China Morning Postsaid that China Telecom has previously announced that it will be using Huawei Ascend AI chips for LLM training. So, it makes sense for the telecom giant to use Huawei’s processors for its groundbreaking AI....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Crystal Douglas

Steam Deck, ROG Ally docking station has enough ports to turn your handheld into a part-time battlestation

Handheld gaming PCs are great for gaming on the go, but for anything else, those portables don’t have a ton of ports, even for hooking up something as simple as a TV. Jsaux has a new6-in-1 multifunctional docking stationdesigned for theSteam Deck,Asus ROG Ally,Ally X, LenovoLegion Go, and other handhelds addresses this, boasting a plethora of ports and a stand to put your handheld device on. The docking station is a multifunctional device that simultaneously serves as a stand and connectivity device....

July 3, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Jordan Jenkins