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Asus just launched the NUC 14 Pro AI (codenamed Lunar Canyon), its latest addition to the NUC mini-PC lineup that it took over from Intel. As the name suggests, this tiny PC from Asus will feature AI technology, especially as it sports an Intel Core Ultra 200V chip, which sports at least 40 TOPS — the minimum requirement for Copilot+ PCs. Aside from that, the tiny little device also sports a dedicated Copilot button up front, indicating its focus on AI features....

Xikii Industries has been showcasing its custom 9.8 liter PC chassis, made solely for Asus ProArt graphics card users, at trade shows likeComputexand Bilibili Word over recent months. Now the ProArt FF04 chassis has gone up for pre-order at jd.com for an astounding 3,799 Chinese yuan, roughly US$522 using today’s exchange rate. Despite its compact size, the FF04 can fit some of the most powerful components, such as the Asus ProArt 4080 Super graphics card....

LinuxbenchmarkingwebsitePhoronixhas taken Intel’s5th Generation Xeon Emerald Rapidsscalable CPU out for a spin to see how much faster it runs with AVX-512 instructions, and the result was a doubling in average performance. Some workloads even saw performance boosts over ten times without substantially increasing power consumption. Phoronix performed its tests using a server with two of Intel’s top-end Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64-core CPUs, 1TB of DDR5 memory, a 3TB SSD, and running on the Intel Eagle Stream with the Ubuntu Linux distro....

Today, I’ve spotted a deal on some fantastic audio equipment that can really up the game on any Podcast, PC, or streaming setup. One of the reasons for being so excited about this deal is that I’ve personally been able to test out the products on offer and was highly impressed with the performance of the Rode Rodecaster Duo and only had concerns about the high price; but with this deal, the price of the Rodecaster Duo is reduced and a free pair of$189 Rode NTH-100M headphoneshave been thrown into the deal, making this an unbelievable offer....

Typically, the more charges a NAND flash cell can hold, the less durable it is in terms of program/erase cycles. But 3D NAND material innovations, advancements of NAND controllers, and error correction algorithms can significantly increase the number of P/E cycle a NAND flash cell can sustain. This is what happened with Yangtze Memory Technologies Co.‘sX3-6070 3D QLC devicethat boasts the endurance of 3D TLC ICs,ITHomereports. YMTC’s X3-6070 3D QLC NAND device belongs to the company’s fourth Generation products and features 128 active layers as well as Xtacking 3....

Whether you create a partition in the existing disk or install a secondary storage drive, you expect it to show up as D Drive in File Explorer. All external HDDs/SSDs are plug-and-play and should be detected automatically. But internal storage drives work differently andneed to be initializedfirst. While D drive not showing up is a common issue during new hard drive installation, it can even happen due toconnectivity, letter assignment, and other system-relatedissues....

Securityresearcher Netsecfish discovered a critical flaw in several popular D-Link NAS models that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute a command injection attack via an HTTP GET request. According toNetsecfish’s Notion site(h/tBleepingComputer), the vulnerability is in the account_mgr.cgi script, where they could add the malicious input in the name parameter to execute the exploit. This issue is tracked in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) as CVE-2024-10914 and declared a critical flaw with a severity score 9....

AtComputex 2025,Elgato has unveiled “Stream Deck Everywhere.” This new initiative includes a handful of new projects—some minor, with others shaking up our expectations a bit. Perhaps the most exciting development is for the Virtual Stream Deck (VSD) application, which aims to bring Elgato’s Stream Deck interface to a new range of devices. A variant of the Stream Deck MK.2 is releasing with a new key switch option. This edition will be fitted with Scissor-Switch keys and is promised to provide a faster response time than regular membrane keys....

An ex-ASML employee has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for sharing company secrets with a contact in Russia. According to a post on the Netherlands' judiciary website,De Rechtspraak(machine translation), the defendant copied information from ASML and NXP computer systems for his contact and accessed information specifically for this purpose. However, the sentence was reduced in length, from the four years sought by the prosecution, as there was no proof that the man acted for financial gain....

Germany’s Federal Foreign Office in Berlin has summoned the Chinese ambassador over a cyberattack that targeted the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) in 2021. A spokesperson for the Foreign Office bluntly declared, “Today, we know that state-controlled Chinese cyber actors have infiltrated the BKG’s network for espionage purposes,” reports Germany’sZeitnewspaper. The BKG is Germany’s agency that deals with mapping and geodata for the entire country. Aside from producing original data, it also works with other government and private sources to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date geographical map of Germany....

GlobalFoundriesannouncedon Tuesday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP. The deal will enable GlobalFoundries to offer its own processors and other products based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), which will make the company a rival to some of its foundry clients. Yet, the companies stress that MIPS will operate as a standalone business. The takeover enhances GlobalFoundries' IP portfolio with MIPS' technologies, including the company’s general-purpose CPU IP, AI inference acceleration IP, and various sensors....

Unlike desktops, Laptops are more compact devices. As such, they don’t have many upgradable components and are more prone to overheating and other hardware issues. So, you’ll likely need to keep replacing your laptops sooner than your desktop computers. But if you want to know the exact time when you’ll need to change your laptop, you need to look at the specific situations. In fact, how long a laptop lasts depends on many factors—how you use it and for what purpose, as well as its current situation....

The right brightness level is ideal while watching or playing a video game on your TV. So, it can be annoying if your TV screen is dark or too bright to see. So, let’s get into our guide below on how you can adjust the brightness on Samsung, and LG TVs. How to Adjust Brightness on Samsung TV Similar to the LG TV, Samsung also has theAmbient Light Detectionfeature that auto-detects light from the real world and adjusts the brightness accordingly....