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Another Ryzen 7 7800X3D reportedly burns out despite AMD's voltage fix
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
According to Redditor Magoth04, a three-month-old Ryzen 7 7800X3D was irreparably damaged while installed in a fully updated MSI PRO X870-P WIFI motherboard. The post claims that the system abruptly shut down while gaming a few days ago and then entered a boot loop before dying for good.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Marvel's Wolverine arrives complete on disc, just as physical gaming fades
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
During a recent interview, Insomniac's Senior Project Director Jess Reiner-Reed confirmed that Marvel's Wolverine will bring a pleasant surprise to fans of physical game releases. The upcoming action game will be fully playable from the disc, meaning user will be able to enjoy the experience straight out of the box...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Anthropic is heading toward the largest IPO ever, at a possible $2 trillion valuation
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
The expectations are driven by Anthropic's rapid revenue growth. Investors expect its annualized revenue to reach $100 billion to $120 billion by the end of 2026. Anthropic said in May that its annualized revenue had surpassed $47 billion.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Audacity remains one of the best free tools for editing audio
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
Audacity remains one of the easiest ways to record, edit, clean up, and export audio without paying for a full production suite. It handles everything from quick trims and format conversions to podcasts, noise reduction, and basic mastering, with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's also one of our Essential Apps for Windows and macOS.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
A recent study by Counterpoint Research highlights the seismic shift the NAND flash industry is undergoing because of generative AI and chatbot services. While AI training workloads are increasingly being replaced by inference tasks, enterprise SSDs are consuming around half of the world's entire NAND supply.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
NASA-tested vest could cut astronauts' radiation exposure by 60% during major solar storms
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
The AstroRad vest flew around the moon in 2022 on Zohar, one of two female manikins aboard NASA's Orion capsule. Researchers compared Zohar's readings with those from Helga, a second manikin that wore no vest. Both contained thousands of radiation sensors.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung's $1,900 Galaxy Z Fold 8 still has a serious problem with dust getting into its hinge
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
iFixit's teardown video notes that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 has an IP48 rating, confirming it is protected against foreign objects 1mm in diameter and larger, and can withstand immersion in up to 1.5 meters of fresh water for 30 minutes.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives when its data center vanished
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
Nine PBS in St. Louis is suing the owner of a Denver-based data center after spending much of this year attempting to regain access to more than 50TB of its archival data. The data center became defunct and changed ownership multiple times under circumstances that remain unclear.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A smart feeder outage left some cats and dogs without scheduled meals
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
The company said the issue involved communication between the Petlibro app, its devices, and online servers. Its status page later said service had been fully restored, but users continued to report offline devices and missed feeding schedules after that update.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Phantom Blade Zero can run on old GPUs, but you'll need way more for ray tracing
Posted on Friday August 14, 2026
Pre-orders are now open for Phantom Blade Zero, a kung fu-themed action-adventure game that aims to follow in the footsteps of prior Chinese hits such as Black Myth: Wukong. Despite featuring highly detailed Unreal Engine 5 graphics, developer S-Game Studio claims that the game can achieve high frame rates on...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »