The FCC has extended waivers allowing certain covered foreign-produced drones, drone components, and routers to continue receiving software and firmware updates until at least 2029, citing cybersecurity and consumer protection concerns.

Maryland is complaining to the federal energy regulator about PJM's plan to charge it $2 billion for grid upgrades that will mostly benefit data centers, especially as the state claims that the majority of these developments are being built in neighboring regions.

Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill. The company announced it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and has increased its usage of AI sixfold over the past few months.

Newegg’s latest AM5 combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB DDR5 memory, a Samsung Gen 5 SSD, a free Corsair PSU, and a NordVPN subscription.

The Nextorage NEM-PAC is a quiet contender with good performance and a PS5-compliant heatsink. It’s a competent Gen 4 SSD but is otherwise unexciting.

Gaming laptops are expensive, and only getting pricier as AI-driven shortages increase. Here are the best options for budget gaming laptops on the cheap, comprised of laptop models that we have tested throughout our full, stringent gaming test suite that measures performance in demanding graphical conditions.

The paper noted that VPN downloads spiked after enforcement began in the UK and several U.S. states.

We took Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry technology through a series of tests in Alan Wake 2 and the RTX Bonsai Diorama Demo to see how this tech reduces VRAM consumption and eliminates visual artifacts, thus helping pave the way to photorealistic real-time graphics.

The A1200 has been delayed nearly half a year due to 'global chip shortages' and is now scheduled for release on December 4.

A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations.

A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic's Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price.

Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996.

Intel and Apple have reportedly reached a deal in which the former will manufacture chips for the latter.

The price hikes have come for the last remaining current-gen console, as Nintendo has just announced that it'll make the Switch 2 more expensive in various regions around the world. America is getting a $50 bump this September, while Japan will see similar increases by the end of this month. Even Switch Online subscriptions will become costlier.

Two Americans have been sentenced to prison for helping North Korean operatives infiltrate nearly 70 US companies through fraudulent remote IT jobs, enabling overseas access to company laptops via RDP and generating over $1.2 million for the regime.

The Maingear MG-1 offers a super-clean build in case with personalization options, but the front panel could use some more ports.

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

More jurisdictions across the United States have been enacting a data center ban, with the total number of active bans reaching 50 as of April 2026.

We’ve tested the top Thunderbolt 5 docks on the market, combining six into one battle for the crown.

Newegg’s latest combo deal packs AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, an Asus X870E motherboard, RTX 5070 graphics card, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM into a nearly complete AM5 gaming PC for just $1,494.99 - a massive $444 off