Maxsun has another wide "YTX" motherboard for Intel CPUs — Terminator H770YTX D5 arrives with backside connectors and DDR5-8000 support

Maxsun has revealed the Terminator H770YTX D5, a motherboard with non-standard dimensions and connectors on the backside, likeMSI’s Project Zero. The H770 motherboard, spotted byIT Home, supports all of Intel’s LGA1700 processors, including Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh, some of which are among thebest CPUs. The Terminator H770YTX D5 comes in a “YTX” form factor and doesn’t correspond with the dimensions of any of the established motherboard sizes....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Amanda Hopkins

Micron's new PCIe 5.0 SSD promises longer battery life — DDR5 portfolio also gains higher capacity CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs

Micron has unveiled a range of new products atCES2025. The company has broadened its popular Crucial lineup to rival thebest SSDsandbest RAMavailable today. The Crucial P510, a single-sided PCIe 5.0 SSD, leads Micron’s wave of new products. The P510 drive caters to laptop and desktop markets, achieving sequential read speeds of up to 11,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 9,550 MB/s. Micron offers the P510 in 1TB and 2TB options....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · William Evans DDS

Microsoft drags feet on proposed Atlanta campus that would generate 15,000 jobs -- now the city wants answers

Microsoftis under pressure to reaffirm its plans for a sizable new complexin Atlanta. The tech giant is sitting on a 90-acre site after delaying an official groundbreaking that was due to occur last year. The delay has put into question whether Microsoft’s signaled intent to build a major corporate campus, and hence create up to 15,000 jobs, will ever bear fruit. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is unhappy with the impasse and toldBloombergthat he intends to push for a decision from Microsoft and potentially take back the land for other uses or partners....

May 3, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Anthony Lee

Microsoft persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to Outlook — Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31

Microsoftis notifying its Mail and Calendar app users to switch to free web-based Outlook. Many users have reported noticing pop-ups from the app.Microsoftinsists users make the migration by Jun 05, 2025. After that date, the app will only display emails and calendar entries saved until the scheduled date. The company published a support document emphasizing that the Mail and Calendar app will switch to read-only mode for old data after June 01, 2025....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 462 words · Sean Finley

Monitor Going to Sleep Randomly? 9 Ways to Fix it

It’s annoying when our screen goes to sleep in the middle of our work or while playing games. Nonetheless, such issues are temporary, and you do not have to worry about them. Well, our monitors might go to sleep randomly when we haven’t updated the general settings. Also, this could be an issue due to some system failures or outdated drivers. Whatever the reason, they can be solved using simple techniques....

May 3, 2025 · 4 min · 740 words · Zoe Clark

Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks

One lucky buyer had their day yesterday as the U.S. government’sonline auctionfor its Cheyenne supercomputer ended at $480,085. The auction, first covered by Tom’s Hardwareon Wednesday, has closed after 27 bidders contended for a piece of supercomputing history. The Cheyenne supercomputer’s six-figure sale price comes with 8,064 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 processors with 18 cores / 36 threads at 2.3 GHz, which hover around $50 (£40) a piece on eBay. Paired with this armada of processors is 313 TB of RAM split between 4,890 64GB ECC-compliant modules, which command around $65 (£50) per stick online....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 561 words · Stephen Woods

My favorite laptop, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, now starts at $999 ($1600 for 64GB)

I’ve been reviewing laptops for 17 years now and my favorite laptop – the one I buy for myself – is Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon. I just recently replaced my X1 Carbon from 2018 with the current-generation X1 Carbon (12th Gen). This 2.4-pound laptop packs plenty of performance, an industry-leading keyboard, all the ports I could want and an excellent navigation system. Now, today, you can get the base model ThinkPad X1 Carbon (12th Gen) which comes with a Core Ultra 5 125U CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and the base-model, 1920 x 1200 non-touch display forjust $999....

May 3, 2025 · 5 min · 936 words · Stephen Carter

Nvidia inks order for 16,000 AI GPUs worth $500 million — Indian data center company seeks to own 32,000 Nvidia H100 and GH200 GPUs by 2025

According to a report fromReuters, Yotta, a data center and server company based in India, is set to buy 16,000 Nvidia GPUs worth $500 million by March 2025. This deal is coming soon after U.S. sanctions banned the export of many of Nvidia’s top-end GPUs to China, and it seems India is at least partially filling the void where Chinese demand used to be. Reuters talked to Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta, who said the company would order 16,000H100andGH200 GPUsby March 2025....

May 3, 2025 · 2 min · 408 words · William Adams

Nvidia RTX 50 graphics card family TDPs 'leaked' by Seasonic

Seasonic’s PSU wattage calculator has suddenly become surprisingly interesting. Twitter/X’sEveresttoday noticed the online tool has been updated with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 family graphics cards. Specifically, this data may show the TDPs of the upcoming Blackwell architecture gaming cards from the RTX 5090 at the top, all the way down to an RTX 5050. Of course, the data used by Seasonic may or may not be accurate, but let’s have a look....

May 3, 2025 · 2 min · 414 words · Mr. Michael Bush

OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public

A hacker breached OpenAI’s internal messaging systems early last year, stealing details of how OpenAI’s technologies work from employees. Although the hacker did not access the systems housing key AI technologies, the incident raised significantsecurityconcerns within the company. Furthermore, it even raised concerns about the U.S. national security, reports theNew York Times. The breach occurred in an online forum where employees discussed OpenAI’s latest technologies. While OpenAI’s systems, where the company keeps its training data, algorithms, results, and customer data, were not compromised, some sensitive information was exposed....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 464 words · Karen Byrd

ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest supercomputer

Oak Ridge National Laboratoryhas decommissioned its Alpine storage system, a 250-petabyte storage system that held data for the Summit supercomputer and its other support systems. The Summit supercomputer, currently the world’s ninth-fastest supercomputer, will be retired on November 1st, but its aging Alpine storage didn’t survive that long. As ORNL prepares for the Discovery system—a computer set to be the world’s fastest with an estimated 8.5 exaFLOPS of performance—the time has come to decommission its predecessor, Summit....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 562 words · Logan Johnson

Pentium processor turned into a Navajo weaving — Ken Shirriff finds a piece of CPU history

This article’s headline shows two images side-by-side with one another. On the right is an image of Intel’s first-ever Pentium processor die, released in 1993. To its left is an image of the same processor, woven into a rug in the traditional Navajo style. The stunning likeness and intense craftsmanship behind the rugcaught the eye of reverse engineer Ken Shirriff, who dug into the history of the piece and its significance....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 580 words · Brady Drake

Printer Not Printing Black? Here’s How to Fix It

If your printer is not printing in black color, start troubleshooting bychecking the ink levels. Refill the black ink/replace the cartridge—if necessary. In case the ink levels are fine, the problem is more likely on the printhead. A few cycles ofprinthead cleaningwill again bring your printer back to its normal state. If these options are not feasible for you, your printer can stillprint without black ink. Let’s begin with the same....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 484 words · Kathryn Bowers