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DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware
Tom's Hardware has verified that modders have managed to get DLSS 5 up and running on RTX 4000 series graphics cards, following the leaked release of the DLSS 5 nvngx_dlssnr.dll yesterday, which saw modders flock to integrate it into other titles outside of Remedy Entertainment's
The hardware crisis has hit a new low: We're now using rats for RAM
Good news from the near future: Space travel has apparently advanced enough to allow humanity to establish a hotel on the surface of the moon. Bad news: The RAMpocalypse apparently continues unabated, forcing novel experimentation with alternate forms of computer memory not rende
Bring your ideas to life with epic savings on Flashforge 3D printers — Flashforge joins the AliExpress 828 mega-sale
AliExpress’s annual 828 sale is live, and one of the standout deals is from the Flashforge brand. Whether you are looking for high-quality filaments like HS PLA or a 3D printer like the Adventurer 5M , AD5X , or Adventurer 5M Pro , this is a great opportunity to upgrade your setu
I skipped upgrading to new Fire TV hardware after a quick app download restored my old stick
Your Fire TV Stick isn't broken; it only needs a fix
Predict Antenna Coupling on Electrically Large Platforms Before Building Hardware
Learn how full-wave simulation predicts very low antenna coupling on aircraft-sized platforms, and which three modeling techniques deliver accurate results with fewer computational resources. Download this free whitepaper now!
China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware
China's leading DRAM producer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
Trump Reportedly Flirting With A New Round Of Tariffs On Gaming Hardware
Console prices are already going up due to RAMageddon
Save up to 61% on gaming PCs, laptops, and more in HP's Labor Day 2026 sale — huge discounts on a range of hardware, monitors, and peripherals
Ahead of the Labor Day weekend, HP is hosting its Labor Day sales event with discounts of up to 65% on HP gaming PCs, desktop computers, gaming and productivity laptops, and HyperX peripherals.
New Trump Tariffs Could Have a Devastating Effect on Gaming Hardware
Video game hardware prices may go up even more thanks to a potential new round of Trump tariffs targeting consoles, laptops, and servers.
Hardware modder builds overclocked PS3 ‘Pro’ v3 with 3D-printed cooling mod — dual Noctua fans and server heatsinks provide FPS boost in 'almost every game'
A Sony PlayStation 3 console modder has shared images and details of their ‘PS3 Pro v3’ design.
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so , the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer.
I evaluated dozens of digital measuring tools on Android to see if phone sensors can replace physical hardware
There are some legitimate options
I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo
Article URL: https://blindlock.app/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508206 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490702 Points: 229 # Comments: 100
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468834 Points: 119 # Comments: 47
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software - The Verge
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I've figured out what the Pixel Watch needs; it's not better hardware
In fact, it's the opposite
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software
The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung's most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar.
Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware — Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs
Atari has officially unveiled the Atari x Activision Collection, a compilation featuring 39 classic Activision games on physical cartridges.
Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets
Valve might've just suffered its biggest data leak in history, but it wasn't a hack or a security breach.
DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some
Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 neural rendering tech leaked earlier this week through a pre-release version of the DLL inside NBA 2K27 (which is in early access).
Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 5
Nvidia's current-gen Blackwell family includes some of the best graphics cards on the market with exceptional performance, but pushing silicon to its limit can always unlock more power.
IEEE Engineering Summit Supports Bhutan’s Digital Transformation
In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.
Gaining Leadership Backing for Your Innovations
This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.
IEEE Senior Membership Demystified
For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library , which I underutilized.
Make a Portable Wide-screen Mechanical TV
I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television.
IEEE Student Conference Provides Visibility to Budding Authors
The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November.
Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life With His Simulation Software
While walking to school as a child, Jernej Barbič would marvel at how beautiful his home was.
Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support
It's almost hard to believe that Grand Theft Auto VI is finally almost here after years of waiting.
GTA 6 leaker cashes out in $250,000 crypto rug pull just hours before Rockstar's official reveal — memecoin crashes as Cyberleek's 'anti-corporate' campaign end
The person or group behind nine days of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leaks cashed out of the $CYBERLEEK memecoin on Thursday, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look premiered on Netflix, according to on-chain data reported by CoinDesk .
Micron, the trillion-dollar memory company, refused to replace a crucial drive for current market value until Reddit got mad
With the memory crisis only continuing to get worse, a PC gamer's fear right now is likely their memory, storage or GPU borking, and needing to spend an inflated price to replace it. One such Redditor had an external drive die in just one year, and Crucial only offered a refund o
Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands — says that gameplay leaks have been ‘heartbreaking for our team’
The developer and publisher of the much-awaited game finally released a statement on the leaks of the game that dropped last week . Rockstar Games said on its X account that the gameplay leaks aren’t how it intended for its fans to see the game and also apologized for the massive
The Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection Wraps Gaming Gear in Nostalgic Translucent Green
Xbox is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection, a hardware lineup that leans hard into the see-through green look of the original console. Rather than putting out one commemorative accessory, the brand tapped a roster of partners i
Octo Octa and Eris Drew Ready Collaborative Album as Alchemical Sisters
The creative and life partners call the project “psychedelic chaos, acid rollers, and big beat, channeled through hardware instruments and animated by love”
Listen up Drift fans, one of the best controllers we've tested so far is getting a full Fortnite makeover
The Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded is getting decked out in Drift swag this year, with the new Drift colorway making its debut on the Gamescom showfloor. The mostly-black controller takes its aesthetic cues from the season 5 skin, with flashes of white, gold, and light red completing t
The Ayn Odin 3 is creeping up to old Steam Deck prices, and I can't wrap my head around the $529 Max
The Ayn Odin 3 can't catch a break, as it's facing its third price hike since March this year. Not only will the base handheld now set you back just $30 less than the original Steam Deck, but the Max version now costs over $500. Pricing is what helps contenders like the Ayn Odin
JBL proves Gamescom is for headsets too as it unveils the new Quantum 850 alongside a trio of mid-range pairs
JBL has yet again chosen Gamescom to unleash the latest additions to its Quantum headset line-up, starting with the Quantum 850. The £249.99 multi-platform headset is expected to launch on October 1 later this year, powered by Hi-Res-certified 50mm Carbon Dynamic audio drivers. T
The revived RTX 3060 12GB now costs more than the current-gen RTX 5050, and it makes me feel bad for entry-level PC players
The RTX 3060 12GB, a graphics card from two generations that no one really asked to come back, now costs more than the RTX 5050. Yes, the latter GPU is faster than the old Ampere model, but even the existence of such an option at its current price makes looking for entry-level op
Ikea's new Xbox thumbstick stool isn't quite as absurd as you might think
Ikea has unveiled a collaboration with Xbox at Gamescom this year, dropping a nine-piece collection that should really be headlined with this little thumbstick stool. You'll find everything from TV stands to controller display boxes in this corner of the warehouse, but it's that
Translucent green mouse, keyboard and more revealed for Xbox’s 25th anniversary
Xbox is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new collection of accessories inspired by the translucent hardware designs of its early years.
OLED gaming monitors have finally gotten so good that a Counter-Strike 2 tournament is using one
I've been watching the ascent of OLED with a very keen eye, primarily because as a Counter-Strike 2 gamer, I know just how promising OLEDs will be for competitive gaming. And now it seems we're at the point where they've gotten good enough in specific ways to be the official pane
Apex Legends is getting 'fatal error' crashes with RX 9070 XT GPUs, but there is a workaround
Apex Legends seems to be having trouble working with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT right now. As relayed by the Apex Legends account ApexCommunityJP on X (machine translated), "We have confirmed an issue causing crashes for players using the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, and we are curr
Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone
Perhaps as a result of AI hyperscaler demand soaking up all the cutting-edge flash , external storage makers in recent months have seemed to focus less on speed and more on adding unique and helpful features.
At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets
Several developers and game publishers at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany, have reported equipment theft at the exhibition.
SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator
Electricity supply in the U.S.
Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C — DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code
In the wake of AI vibecoding infiltrating the retro revival scene, human efforts tend to stand out, especially when they're as novel as this project.
Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99
OLED gaming monitors have become increasingly affordable in recent years, as the technology has matured in addition to the growing competition among major brands.
Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dong
An ardent Asus customer who's bought over $30,000 worth of the company's products recently had his brand loyalty put to the test.
Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands
In a strange turn of events under Taiwanese law, both parties in a judicial contest lost against each other .
Key Nvidia and Intel supplier raided over alleged China origin fraud — Unimicron faces probe over PCB origin washing, risk of 40% U.S. tariff penalty
Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world’s largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products, according
xTool F2 Ultra UV dual laser engraver review: So cool it’s hot
The xTool F2 Ultra UV laser is not your ordinary laser.
China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has announced in a social media post that it has started mass production of LPDDR6 memory for a Xiaomi smartphone, Reuters reports .
Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ ine
TIME published its 2026 TIME100 AI list last week, with one notable omission: Jensen Huang, one of eight TIME-designated “Architects of AI,” whose GPUs power the training infrastructure for all frontier AI models and whose company has just reported one of the largest sets of quar
Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240
Newegg is constantly updating its RAM combo deals.
Trump says communities that reject data centers 'want to end up being backwards and poor' — President claims China 'could not be happier' with AI data center ba
Donald Trump doesn't appear to be a fan of the data center backlash that has swept the nation.
Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into
A team of scientists in Germany and Japan has demonstrated a solid-state cooling system that uses heat to generate the mechanical work required for refrigeration, potentially opening a route to processors and data centers that recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.
Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!
Zap Rocks. Add Water. Get Clean Hydrogen
In a tranquil Boston suburb , on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to woods, a crane lowers an enormous electrode into a borehole.
Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job
If you haven’t already seen a job listing for a “product engineer,” you probably will soon.
Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Bede Liu Dies At 91
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May.
IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators
About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization .
From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving.
Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
How do I touch you across the ocean, across cold depths where light travels through glass.
This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India.
Building Technology People Can Trust
This article is brought to you by Emerson .
Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI
About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system.
What It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place.
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot .
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft
Summary NASA and industry engineers propose a synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket (S‑BNR) to dramatically cut transit times to destinations around the solar system, such as Mars, by combining nuclear thermal and electric propulsion.
Noodling on Nuclear Engines
One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a napkin to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC.
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed.
The First Battery Was Inspired By a Dead Frog
In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there’s an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper.
The EU’s AI Drive Undermines Its Own Chip Strategy
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press .
Honor Robot Phone hands-on: A gimbal phone experiment with promising results
Honor crammed a gimbal camera into a phone in a promising hardware experiment.
Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller coolin
Ever since the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 launched (and the RTX 4090 before it), reports of the card burning down have been commonplace in the community.
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856 , exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.
US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and rec
The U.S.
Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and
Asus has been putting liquid metal on mobile dies used in its laptops for a few years at this point.
Corsair RM1000e (2026) ThermalProtect power supply review: Temperature-sensing 12V-2x6 cable shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt
Corsair has been selling power supplies for long enough that most builders have owned one without ever thinking about it.
DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans
Around 2015, a trio of Pakistani friends took it upon themselves to digitize a large number of out-of-print books in Urdu, many of them lithographs — they call it the Ibteda Digital Library .