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South Korean prosecutors have charged several former Samsung employees with leaking advanced memory technology to a Chinese semiconductor firm. A current director at ChangXin Memory Technologies, along with four other individuals now working at the company, were arrested for allegedly violating...

A mobile gamer recently tested the older Tomb Raider reboot from 2013 through an emulator on a high-end Android tablet. Using a OnePlus Pad 3 powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, they ran the game's benchmark at various resolutions through the GameHub emulation app. The results showed the...

The Epic Games Store carved out a big audience by offering developers a much larger revenue cut and giving away free games to users. Despite gaining nearly three hundred million accounts, it has not stopped Valve's Steam platform from also growing massively, regularly hitting tens of millions of...

Scammers are now swapping expensive DDR5 memory kits for cheaper or fake parts inside sealed boxes. A recent example involved a buyer receiving older Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 sticks instead of the DDR5 kit they ordered from Amazon. In a related comment, another user reported finding just a...

Apple faces a chip shortage for its upcoming A20 processors despite locking down a huge part of TSMC's initial 2nm production. The next iPhone 18 series and a rumored foldable model are slated to use these new A20 and A20 Pro chips next year. High demand for TSMC's advanced node is creating...

A reporter with a decent track record on Microsoft rumors says the first Call of Duty game for Nintendo systems is almost finished. Jez Corden stated the initial port will launch within a few months, targeting a 2026 release window. This follows a ten-year agreement Microsoft made with Nintendo...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is still going hard at Apple, calling out new fees the company set up in Japan. Despite recent court wins for Epic, Sweeney says Apple is keeping Fortnite off iPhones there because of what he labels junk fees on payments. He specifically criticized a reported 21...

New leaks hint AMD's next Zen 6 desktop chips might get a huge cache upgrade to fight Intel's future Nova Lake parts. A known source says each compute chiplet in Zen 6 could pack 144 megabytes of last-level cache. That would mean a two-chiplet model has a massive 288 MB total, matching the...

Samsung just announced its next wave of Odyssey gaming monitors for 2026, headlined by their first-ever 6K screen and a wild glasses-free 3D model. The five new displays push resolution and refresh rates way up, with one competitive model even claiming a possible 1040 Hz. The flagship is a...

ASUS is cooking up a future gaming router called the ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI that runs on the next Wi-Fi 7 standard. This beast is slated for a spring 2026 release and is all about cutting lag and managing traffic with its own onboard AI brain, avoiding any cloud dependency. The hardware packs...

MSI just dropped a new curved gaming screen called the MAG 345CQRF E20. This thing is a 34-inch ultrawide built for high refresh rate gaming, featuring a sharp 3440 by 1440 resolution and a super aggressive 1000R curve that supposedly wraps around your face. They are using a Rapid VA panel that...

A pirate archiving group says it just dumped a massive chunk of Spotify's music catalog online through torrents. They claim the whole thing is about three hundred terabytes, packed with both audio tracks and detailed information like song titles and artist data. The group explained they gathered...

A group called the SaveUNISA forum is formally challenging the university council's choice to give Professor Puleng LenkaBula another five years as vice chancellor. The council recently approved her second term, praising her leadership during a time of digital change and calling the review...

GIGABYTE finally admitted it stopped using that weird thermal gel on its newer graphics cards. The material was supposed to work better than standard pads for cooling parts like memory chips, but it had a habit of getting soft and oozing out when hot, especially in vertical mounts. People...

Vince Zampella died in a single-car crash in Southern California. The industry veteran, known for co-founding Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment, was driving on Angeles Crest Highway when his high-performance vehicle hit a concrete barrier after leaving a tunnel. The car then caught fire...

A fifty-million-euro financial guarantee just got finalized, aiming to unlock private money for solar and wind projects in five southern African countries. This deal involves the renewable energy company GreenCo, Impact Fund Denmark, and the European Commission. The target nations are Zimbabwe...

Shattered Glass Audio just put out a free stripped-down plugin called Phoenix LT. This smaller version uses the same complex circuit modeling tech found in their paid products, Phoenix 2 and Eclipse. It is built to sound just as good while being super easy on your computer's processor. The...

EastWest dropped a huge update for its Hollywood Orchestra plugins. The big addition is something called Movie Mixes, which are pre-set mixes designed to make everything sound like a film score right away. These adjust microphone levels, reverb, and equalization for each instrument. The update...

TOURAGE DSP updated its croquesolid drum plugin to version 1.1. The refresh adds a new red color scheme called Graphite Red, while keeping the original dim blue skin from before. They also reworked the whole equalizer section, making the frequency scanning tool tougher and better with quiet...

Vienna Symphonic Library just dropped four new brass instrument packs for composers. The new solo recordings, captured on their famous Stage A, are a Wagner Tuba, a Contrabass Trombone, an Euphonium, and a Contrabass Tuba. They all include a feature called Flow View for easier playing control...