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    Thermaltake’s TH360 V3 Ultra rocks square screen, icy glow

    Thermaltake dropped the TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync Snow Edition liquid cooler with a cube-shaped pump block that mounts a floating 4-inch square screen running 720 by 720 pixels. The display rotates through software without physical parts and hooks into TT RGB Plus for system monitoring while ARGB...
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    ENERMAX drops silent 1000W PSU, 13-year warranty flex

    ENERMAX shipped the REVOLUTION III S power supply rated at 1000 watts with ATX 3.1 compliance and a dedicated 12V-2x6 connector that pipes 600 watts straight to modern GPUs. The thing earned Platinum certification from multiple testing outfits and comes in black or white colorways with fully...
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    DRAM crunch hits OEMs, but PC prices hold—for now

    Acer and ASUS both dropped warnings that the DRAM shortage is about to mess with laptop pricing, but retail sticker prices are holding steady for the moment because companies locked in supply contracts that shield them from spot market chaos. Memory used to run about 8 to 10 percent of a PC...
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    Intel installs world's most advanced EUV machine, 14A node on deck

    Intel Foundry got ASML's second-generation High-NA EUV lithography machine running at its fab and became the first outfit to move from Low-NA tech to the new hotness for its 14A process node. The TWINSCAN EXE:5200B can crank out 175 wafers per hour stock, but Intel wants to tune it past 200...
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    AAEON drops fanless AI box, Arrow Lake brains inside

    AAEON rolled out the BOXER-6648-ARS fanless box PC powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips that can pack up to 24 cores and 36 TOPs of AI grunt through the new integrated CPU-GPU-NPU setup. The thing comes in two flavors based on either the H810 or Q870 chipset, and it handles everything from...
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    Intel reshuffles execs, interim CTO steps into the spotlight

    Intel shuffled its executive deck after its CTO bailed a few weeks back, and Pushkar Ranade got bumped up to interim chief technology officer. The dude spent over ten years at the company grinding through chip node development from 65nm down to 7nm stuff, and he is supposed to help CEO Lip-Bu...
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    AORUS PRIME 5 drops, GIGABYTE flexes full-stack power

    GIGABYTE dropped the AORUS PRIME 5 prebuilt that stuffs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 into one box with 32 GB of RGB memory and a 2TB SSD. The whole rig uses their in-house parts from top to bottom, and they are pushing the fact that everything comes from the same brand for...
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    DRAM crisis peaks, Samsung says SATA SSDs aren’t going anywhere

    Samsung shut down rumors about ditching SATA SSDs after people started freaking out over claims the company was converting production lines to handle the massive DRAM shortage hitting the industry. A spokesperson told a tech outlet the whole thing was bogus, and the brand has no plans to bail on...
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    Minisforum slaps Ryzen 9 on mini board, big power shrinks

    Minisforum launched the BD895i SE with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX soldered straight onto a Mini-ITX board that keeps the same tiny footprint as their older model. The chip packs 16 cores running at 5.4 GHz max with Radeon 610M graphics for display duties, and the whole thing targets small form factor...
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    Samsung laughs off SATA SSD exit rumors, keeps churning

    Samsung shot down rumors about killing off their SATA SSD lineup after some tech YouTuber started spreading claims that the company was ditching the older drive format for higher-margin NVMe products. Korean outlet NEWSIS hit up Samsung directly, and the electronics giant confirmed they are...
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    JONSBO D401 Black flexes exoskeleton, airflow on deck

    JONSBO dropped the D401 Black mid-tower case with an external skeleton frame that ditches the usual box look for dark grey metalwork. The thing rocks dual tempered glass panels up front and on the left to show off your RGB nightmare, while perforated top and bottom sections plus side vents keep...
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    Ariana drills deep, gold dreams look less like fool's gold

    Ariana Resources finished more than half the drilling work at their Dokwe Gold Project in Zimbabwe, and the early data is backing up what their geological models predicted about where the gold sits. The company just locked down 5.31 million from Hong Kong Xinhai Mining Services to run...
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    PSP InfiniStrip Earth drops, five new tricks in the box

    PSPaudioware pushed out version 1.4.0 of InfiniStrip, and the Earth Edition brings five modules that handle everything from auto-leveling to transient shaping. The zero-latency channel strip added Levelizer for fader-style control, SnapForger for tweaking attack and decay on drums, TiltEQ for...
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    Omnisphere 3 drops, synth nerds lose their minds

    Spectrasonics dropped Omnisphere 3, and the revamp goes way beyond the usual patch dump. The synth got a complete engine rebuild with analog-style drift, 36 fresh filter types, over 600 morphing wavetables, and a new Quadzone system that lets you treat the four layers like separate modulating...
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    Chinese biz group drops cash, builds sensory classroom

    Chinese investors from the Hunan province operating in Zimbabwe just dropped 50k toward building a specialized classroom block at Chinamano Primary School in Epworth. The facility is aimed at kids with severe disabilities who learn through sensory and physical interaction, and the group's...
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    Farm data drama, insiders cook up big agri-tech vault

    Agricultural Marketing Authority rolled out an inception meeting in Harare, where value chain players are hashing out plans for a new agricultural information repository system. The whole point is getting everyone on the same page about building a data-driven platform that handles regulatory...
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    Roof collapse kills construction worker, two injured in Shamva

    A construction site accident in Shamva killed Brighton Francis from Epworth after scaffolding gave way while he worked on a roof at a private building, and police confirmed two other crew members got hurt when debris came down. The dead guy got hit by a metal pole during the collapse, while his...
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    Warriors get roaring send-off as fans flood airport in green and gold

    Zimbabwe's national soccer supporters group wants fans mobbing the international airport to give the Warriors a massive sendoff before their flight to Morocco for the continental tournament. Association president Joseph Mutawu told people to show up dressed in team colors with flags and...
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    Dynamos slapped with $4500 fine for delaying Super Cup final

    Dynamos got slapped with a 4,500-dollar penalty after their squad caused chaos before the Chibuku Super Cup final against Triangle at Gibbo Stadium, and the league dropped another 300 bucks on each technical staffer for the same mess. Coach Kelvin Kaindu and the rest of the technical crew got...
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    Navaya eyes PSL move, tells clubs to talk to his agent

    Washington Navaya wants out of Zimbabwe's league after bagging the country's player of the year award, and the 27-year-old striker told reporters he's down to move anywhere in South Africa's top flight if someone brings decent money to his agent. The guy banged in 17 goals for TelOne this season...
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