Gamers looking to upgrade their rigs now have a fantastic opportunity to grab the XFX AMDRadeonRX 7900 GRE at a discounted price at Best Buy. Down from its original price of $570, this particular GPU is currently selling for $520, saving buyers $50, which is not the lowest-ever price for a RX 7900 GRE, but it is the lowest-ever price for this model. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a performance powerhouse, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory and AMD’s advanced RDNA 3 architecture, delivering exceptional performance for 1440p gaming....

Thermal Grizzly has updated its WireView Pro GPU with a 90-degree connector design, which effectively transforms this tool into a right-angled adapter. In addition to all the neat monitoring and safety benefits you get, this version alters or, in some cases, simplifies, cable routing, depending on your setup. The WireView Pro GPU wasdevelopedas a collaboration between Elmor Labs and Thermal Grizzly. It’s designed as a neat gadget where you can connect your GPU’s PCIe power cables to measure and monitor its power consumption and other statistics on the attached OLED screen....

TheRaspberry Piis an excellent board for building custom mini PCs. You’ve got a lot of flexibility when it comes to cases, size, and support for external peripherals. That’s why it came as no surprise that the team over at Soulcircuit decided to create the ultimate modular experience with their Raspberry Pi 5-based project,Pilet. This isn’t the first Raspberry Pi-powered modular setup we’ve encountered. In the past, we covered this coolRP2040 modularmacropod that used magnets to snap add-ons into place....

The Thumby Color, the sequel to theThumby keychain-sized gaming console, is nowavailable on Kickstarter. This time the tiny handheld is shaped like a Nintendo Game Boy Advance (previously it was shaped like the original Game Boy) and is now powered by the more capable RP2350, The same SoC that powers the $5Raspberry Pi Pico 2. It also has a 128 x 128 16-bit color display, giving it over five times more resolution than the previous generation....

Donald Trump introduced a sweeping set of import taxes on Wednesday that targeted nearly all U.S. trading partners — but offered a notable exemption for the high-tech industry. The tariffs include a flat 10% fee on all incoming goods beginning April 5, followed by higher, customized rates for about 60 countries starting April 9. However, numerous items, including computer chips, copper, medicine, and lumber, will be excluded from the new import fees....

The Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) in Taichung, Taiwan is pushing forward with its second phase expansion which will house TSMC’s most advanced fab yet. CTSP said that over 95% of the land required for expansion has already been agreed for purchase, including the Hsing Nong Golf Course. But according toUnited Daily News(machine translated), the golf course’s club members are blocking the acquisition because they demand a buyback price for each gold certificate of $1....

TSMC on Wednesday officially started building its third semiconductor facility — Fab 21 phase 3 — near Phoenix, Arizona, according to a report fromBloomberg. The third module of the company’s Fab 21 site will be capable of producing chips using the company’s N2, N2P (2nm-class), and A16 (1.6nm-class) process technologies when it’s completed, between 2028 and 2030.The development coincides with rising political pressure on TSMC, as just last week Taiwan’s parliament passed a law under whichTSMC cannot export its most advanced fabrication process to overseas facilitiesand must get approval from the Taiwanese government to invest in its projects abroad....

TSMC is making significant strides in Phoenix, Arizona, where it is about to start mass production of chips on its 4nm and 5nm-class process technologies at its Fab 21 phase 1 and is set to build to more phases by the end of the decade, which will significantly increase its production capacity and global footprint. However, TSMC’s building of fabs in theU.S.,Japan, andGermanyhas raised domestic concerns about industrial relocation from Taiwan, reportsTaiwan TV News(TTV)....

The U.K. government is concerned about the presence of the Russian spy ship Yantar, and has been closely monitoring it since it entered British waters, reports theU.K. Defence Journal. Europe is currently on heightened alert after thesuspected sabotageof undersea communications cables in the Baltic. The U.K.’s Defence Committee highlighted the strategic importance of undersea infrastructure in its latest session, especially after the suspected sabotage of two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe last week....

British GPU and AI processing company Imagination Technologies has reportedly been put up for sale by its current owner, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. According to aBloombergreport, Canyon Bridge tapped financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard Inc. to find a buyer, and the latter has already received some inquiries about the company. The private equity fund hopes to recoup the GBP 550 million (approximately $690 million today) investment it made to purchase the chipmaker in 2017....

If your computer USB ports stop functioning, you will have a hard time getting your peripheral devices to work. Especially if you are on a desktop PC, everything from navigating the Operating System to launching an application requires a working USB port in order toconnect the peripheral devices. Besides this, something as simple as entering the motherboards BIOS is going to be troublesome. Here’s our compilation of possible causes and fixes you can perform to address the issue of the USB port not working....

VR headsets are meant to bring us closer than ever to the immersive technology promised by sci-fi classics like Neal Stephenson’sSnow Crash(1992)and its actually-cool Metaverse—but now, researchers have demonstrated VR hijacking attacks closer to sci-fi espionage a laInception(2010)[h/tHackster]. However, the naming of these VR cyber attacks as either “immersive hijacking” or “Inception attacks” still shouldn’t inspire confidence. Fortunately, the researchers debuting and disclosing these concepts in their Cornell University paper (“Inception Attacks: Immersive Hijacking in Virtual Reality Systems”) also describe “potential inception defenses”, and for now the attack is at least limited to Meta Quest VR headsets....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The WD Black SN7100 is a competent drive and the successor to the popular SN770, but it’s largely unimpressive aside from its chart-topping power efficiency. Extremely efficient Excellent random read performance Mediocre all-around performance No 4TB option at launch Current pricing higher than SN850X Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....