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TeamGroup hasintroducedits family of clock-unbuffered memory modules (CUDIMMs) that promise to significantly enhance memory performance on Intel’s latestCore Ultra 200S-series platforms. TeamGroup’s flagship T-Force Xtreem CKD DDR5 modules boast a data transfer of DDR5-9000 and overclocking potential up to DDR5-9600. TeamGroup’s initial family of T-Force Xtreem CKD DDR5 offerings will include dual-channel 48GB kits (2x24GB modules) rated for DDR5-8200 – DDR5-9000 data transfer rates (Gear 2) and designed to work with Intel’s Core Ultra 200S-series ‘Arrow Lake-S’ processors on Intel Z890-based motherboards....

TheU.S. Department of Justiceannounces that Callifornia-based teenager Alan W. Filion, currently 18, has pleaded guilty to four counts of ‘making interstate threats to injure the person of another’ as a result of over 375 swatting and threat calls made since August 2022 up to January 2024. Filion will likely face a maximum penalty of up to five years for each count, scheduled for sentencing on June 02, 2025. “This prosecution and today’s guilty plea reaffirm the Justice Department’s commitment to using all tools to hold accountable every individual who endangers our communities through swatting and hoax threats,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco....

Digital Foundry tested the PlayStation 5 Pro’s power consumption and discovered some surprising results. According to its three-way discussion piece onYouTubefeaturing Richard Leadbetter, John Linneman, and Oliver Mackenzie, the PlayStation 5 Pro consumes practically no additional power than the base PS5, despite featuring a significantly more powerful GPU. Digital Foundry tested the PS5 Pro inElden Ring, Spider-Man 2,andF1 24. All three games were compared to the launch model of the PS5, the refreshed variant dubbed thePS5 Slim, and thePro model, with the Pro running the Pro-exclusive version of all three games with enhanced graphical capabilities....

DeepComputing, the maker of the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop, just released an upgrade of its groundbreaking RISC-V-based computer. Dubbed the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II, this revamped PC gets a SpacemiT SoC K1, which features 8 cores that run up to 2.0 GHz. This is a massive improvement overthe previous versionof the laptop, which only had a quad-core CPU limited to 1.5 GHz. The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II also benefits from an AI Fusion Computing Engine and can be specced out to have 16GB of RAM....

Buying any of thebest graphics cardsright now feels like an exercise in futility. For that matter, buying virtuallyanygraphics card at present tends to be a bad idea. We’ve scoured a variety of online markets to see what sort of prices we could find, and MSRPs are effectively non-existent — laughably so. Everything worth buying sells almost immediately, likely more often than not to scalper bots. What you can find “in stock” tends to be from recently established third-party marketplace sellers, with prices that can at times reach to double the official MSRPs....

Storage devices have advanced drastically over the last few decades. From storing megabytes of data on a magnetic disk to storing terabytes of data on a small chip, we can say that storage device are definitely one of the components that have scaled the most. However, due to the several types of storage devices you can find in the market, users are bound to run into a dilemma when choosing a storage device....

Tiny Corp appears to have come to a firm decision about whether it will follow its original plan of using AMD GPUs or switch to Nvidia GPUs to power its Tiny Box server. The muddled answer is thatit will make both. However, the price for this compact AI-accelerating server packing six GPUs will vary hugely depending on your choice: “red for $15k and green for $25k.” A hard to find “umr” repo has turned around the feasibility of the AMD tinybox....

Hong Kong Customs recently stopped a truck containing a mixed load of undeclared electronic components with an estimated market value of $1.8M (HK$14M). The news ofthis discovery, published earlier today, caught our eye because the haul included approximately 670,000 chips and about 80,000 components, including CPUs, RAM chips, and motherboards. This appears to be a massive amount of electronics; however, the overall market value estimate indicates that most items were very cheap bits and pieces....

On April 15, TSMC shared energy from its backup power generators with state-owned power company Taipower to help avoid a power outage crisis, according to Taiwan’sCommercial Times. This news comes in the wake of therecent 7.2-magnitude earthquake, which caused eight power generating units in to fail. TSMC is the world’s largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with a client list that includes AMD, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. The company is based in Taiwan and, as the island’s largest company, has a strong relationship with the government (which is also its largest shareholder)....

For just $59, musicians now have a new option for a purpose-built musical computer with a touchscreen and music synthesizer— meet theTulip Creative Computer, a FOSS (Free and Open Source) project available as a pre-made purchase in free software form for existing PCs and Macs, or even fully buildable at home to those with the resources and know-how to get it done. A simple dual-core powers the Tulip PC, 250 MHz ESP32-S3 with 8....

Ubisoft Connect is a very convenient service for Ubisoft players to connect with each other across all the platforms. You can find and interact with players that play the same game as you. However, there are reports of users not being able to connect to the platform. The issue is more prevalent on Windows 10 or 11, due to which they are not able to update or play the games. Additionally, the error comes with an “A Ubisoft service is not available at the moment” message on their screen....

AMD recently launched theRyzen 7 9800X3D, one of thebest CPUs. However, a benchmark result for the Ryzen 9950X3D, AMD’s not-yet-announced 3D V-Cache flagship, has appeared in a Factorio benchmark database (viaVideoCardz). The database, FactorioBox, contains thousands of community-submitted results for Factoriobenchmarksrun on specific maps, includingone for the 9950X3Drun on the Sla_Flame 10k map, the most popular one with over 11,000 results as of the time of writing. FactorioBox listed a few details about the 9950X3D-equipped PC but noted it had 256 GB of memory running at 6,000 MHz....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is speaking live fromComputexTaipei and the live stream is embedded below! The event takes place at 11 am Taiwan time which is 11 pm ET, 8 pm PT and 4 am BST. We expect Huang to talk a lot about AI and Nvidia’s industry-leading hardware. He’ll likely make some announcements and we can imagine many will have to do with datacenter computing, but perhaps there will be some tidbits for desktop users as well....