One thing is for sure, when theRaspberry Picommunity wants a new board, they’ll just make it themselves. That’s exactly what maker and developer Emre has done over atHackster. We’ve been super excited since the launch of theRaspberry Pi Pico 2to see makers and companies will make with the new hardware. As the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 doesn’t come with Wi-Fi, Emre has created their own and calls it the Pico 2W Plus dev board....

It might be the season of peace and joy, but if you’re a fighting game aficionado, then this could be the season of domination and destruction thanks to this amazing holiday deal on the Victrix Pro FS arcade fighting stick controller. This is the lowest price ever recorded for this product on camelcamelcamel.com and a worthy purchase if you take your fighting games seriously. Head to Amazon to find today’s deal, where you can pick up theVictrix Pro FS Fight Stick for $267, an all-time-low price....

Microsoftsaid that a hacking group it’s tracking as Storm-2603 is exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the company’s SharePoint platform to deploy ransomware. SharePoint is “a secure,enterprise-grade content management and collaboration platform,” according to Microsoft’swebsite, which also describes it as a way to “securely collaborate, sync, and share content.” (Essentially: organizations use it to build sites accessed via their intranets.) But those assurances of its security have been undermined by reports of multiple groups exploiting numerous vulnerabilities in the platform....

Microsoftquietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. Cocreator uses your work on the Microsoft Paint canvas, alongside a text prompt, to generate images as you draw, allowing you to see its AI-enhanced output as you doodle on the screen. Microsoft Paint’s Cocreator feature is different from other AI image generation apps as it uses both textual and visual input to create an image....

Intel this week began its new round of layoffs globally, which includes layoffs in Israel, where hundreds of employees are expected to lose their jobs, reportsYnet. Just like elsewhere, Intel’s cuts in Israel include layoffs at the company’s major manufacturing site in Kiryat Gat, marking a shift in the company’s strategy in the country. Furthermore, the company is even considering shutting down its Fab 28 in Israel, which will be a dramatic move....

MSI hasofficially releasedits newest BIOS update with AMD AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1. This update allows users to increase the TDP of theirRyzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700Xprocessors from 65W to 105W. Those with Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X processors and a compatible X670E or B650 MSI motherboard (a complete list is available below) and are interested in the update should go to their motherboard’s downloads page to download the new BIOS....

While we still have a month before theNintendo Switch 2makes its official debut, hardware sleuthGeekerwanmanaged to obtain an engineering board for the device. This allowed him to put the onboard Tegra T239 SoC under a FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope) to examine the chip’s internals, allowing for precise layer-by-layer analysis of the structure, revealing important details such as the core layout and process node. Given Nintendo’s strict legal stance and letigous precedents, it’s quite amazing how Geekerwan managed to get ahold of the board, proceeded to dissect the SoC, and spilled all the juicy details on YouTube....

The addition of plugins allows you to customize your Notepad++ text editor and even extend its functionality. In the older days, you either required Plugin Manager or had to manually install these add-ons. But with the recent introduction toPlugins Admin, installing plugins has become a piece of cake. Yet, several users are still facing different problems during the installation. In most cases, you correctly add the plugin but it will simply not show in the dedicated section of the app....

NvidiareleasedGeForce Game Ready Driver Version 572.60 earlier in the week, but one of the most important bug fixes was ineffectual in some cases, according to various tech forum members. Today, Nvidia has sought to plug its GPU black screen issues more tightly with GeForce Hotfix DriverVersion 572.65. Fingers crossed it works this time. There’s just one bullet point in the GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 572.65 description. “This hotfix addresses the following issue: PC may boot to a black screen when connected via DisplayPort with certain monitors [5131002],” writes Nvidia....

Nvidia on Wednesdaydisclosedits financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2026, posting revenue of $44.062 billion — its best quarter ever. The company’s sales increased almost across the board both in terms of quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year comparisons. As the company ramped up its Blackwell GPUs, it also set revenue records both for gaming and datacenter revenues. But the recent shipments ban of H20 GPUs to China hurt Nvidia’s margins quite significantly....

Prior to the start of the Hot Chips 2024 tradeshow, Nvidia showed off more elements of its Blackwell platform, including servers being installed and configured. It’s a less than subtle way of saying that Blackwell is still coming — never mind the delays. It also talked about its existing Hopper H200 solutions, showed FP4 LLM optimizations using its new Quasar Quantization System, discussed warm water liquid cooling for data centers, and talked about using AI to help build even better chips for AI....

Patriot has brought a plethora of new products toComputex 2025, including high-performance DDR5 memory, bleeding-edge SSDs, and hubs. The Viper Xtreme 5 CKD is a new DDR5 CUDIMM memory module featuring data speeds of up to a whopping 9600MT/s. The star of the show is the module’s integrated client clock driver, or CKD, which makes these speeds possible. CKD is a new memory technology launched alongside Intel’sCore Ultra 200Sseries CPUs, which significantly improves memory clock speed headroom by using an integrated clock driver rather than the CPU’s internal clock for controlling signal timings (this method reduces stress on the CPU’s memory controller)....

Students have already started returning to school in some states, it is time to change the summer holiday mindset back to school days and prepare for a new year of academia. If you don’t already possess a helpful laptop computer for your studies, then you might want to consider one as they can be an essential aid in helping you complete your assignments and revise your subject topics. Today’s deal lets you pick up a compact laptop that’s also able to play some games on mild settings, so you can use it for work and a little play....