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US startup plans to build data centers inside ocean-based wind turbines, servers water cooled via chilly North Sea — each leg houses a data center, firm set to launch three-legged prototype in Norway’s North Sea this year

Offshore wind turbines could house up to a 12-megawatt data center, drawing power directly from the winds blowing on the sea while using the cold ocean water for cooling.

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California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files — online platforms allegedly violate multiple civil codes regarding unlawful distribution and manufacturing of firearms

California's civil suit alleges that these websites and their operators are willfully distributing 3D printed gun files and instructions that could allow anyone to print a gun from scratch in as little as eight hours.

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Valve changes Steam Machine release date to this 'year,' second change as AI-fueled memory and shortage crisis deepens — official announcements went from "early 2026" to "first half of 2026" to "this year"

Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026.

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China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take 'extraordinary measures' to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance

China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust "response mechanism" to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its "competitive advantages in rare earths."

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Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive

The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.

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Taiwan expects power demand to increase by more than 5GW by 2030, enough to power nearly 4 million homes — rise in electricity consumption driven by semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center deployments

New semiconductor fabs and data centers are fueling Taiwan's growing power demand, with the island expected to require more than 5GW of new electricity sources and power infrastructure to keep up.

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Trump summons tech giants to White House to pledge power payment commitments — ‘ratepayer protection plan’ will make data center operators negotiate discrete payment structure for electricity use

Some of the U.S.'s biggest AI tech companies are expected to go to the White House to sign the "ratepayer protection pledge" that promises they will pay for all of their electricity usage and not pass on the burden of increased rates to the average American.

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South Korean authorities lose over $4.8 million in crypto after posting mnemonic recovery phrase online — stolen PRTG tokens part of funds seized by National Tax Service from high-value tax evaders

South Korea's National Tax Agency added a photo of a hardware wallet in a press release, which also listed its mnemonic seed phrase. This led to an unknown user using the code to recover the wallet and steal over US$4.8 million in crypto seized by the government.

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DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds

Online security firm DataDome just reported that it has stopped a massive scalping effort to buy memory modules and resell them at inflated prices, turning the memory situation from bad to worse.

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390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives

Myrient, which hosts more than 390TB of preserved video games, is set to go offline at the end of March 2026 due to rising storage and memory costs. The founder says they're spending more than $6,000 out of pocket per month to keep the project going.

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Memory vendor under fire for imposing hefty 15% depreciation fee on returns despite skyrocketing RAM value — user expected RMA replacement but gets hit with a loss instead

Silicon Power reportedly charged a 15% depreciation fee while refunding a user their 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 RAM, meaning they'll only receive $46.72, which isn't even enough to buy a single 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM stick at current prices.

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Two suspects arrested over theft of $1.5 million in Bitcoin stolen from police custody in outrageous blunder — Korean cops left virtual assets stored with a third party, who handed over recovery key to hacker

The authorities found out about the theft of 22 BTC from the Gangnam Police Station during the investigation of another case of missing Bitcoin from government custody.

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