GPU Prices Are Spiraling Out of Control: Q4 2026 Update

Graphics card prices have jumped 35% in just three months, with Nvidia's high-end GPUs reaching absurd levels and Radeon ...

"Ghost students" stole millions in federal aid until data patterns gave them away

Unusual patterns in federal student aid data led the Justice Department to charge five people and seize more than $750,000 in ...

Intel's next budget laptop chip may have no performance cores at all

Intel's current entry-level N-series chips also skip performance cores, and Moon Lake would bring that approach to the ...

Europe and Canada team up in AI computing alliance that doesn't depend on Washington

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently confirmed that Canada is joining Europe's network of ...

The solar system may have a sixth dwarf planet, hidden against the Milky Way

For now, the object announced by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory team earlier this week only goes by its provisional ...

Sam Altman says it's "terrible" for RAM to sit inside PCs instead of data centers

In an interview on the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that it's more efficient to direct the world ...

Two cameras were reinstalled despite Minnesota city canceling its contract and ordering to stop

The surveillance giant's latest PR disaster took place in Dayton, Minnesota, reports The Drive. The city's local government posted on Facebook that the Police Department was ...

Intel stock plunges nearly 30%, its worst day in 52 years

Oddly enough, the quarter itself went well. Intel beat Wall Street's earnings estimates. Its data center revenue jumped ...

Microsoft's DirectX update could slash ray tracing memory by up to 90 percent

Microsoft detailed Clustered Geometry and a companion feature called Partitioned TLAS on its DirectX developer blog this week ...

The AI boom is happening at seven companies, the rest of the S&P 500 isn't seeing it

According to Slok's Daily Spark note, AI has so far delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech, ...

The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly titled "Sentinel," and a reveal might come soon

Sources familiar with Bethesda's inner workings have informed The Verge that The Elder Scrolls VI will be subtitled "Sentinel ...

Microsoft spent $6.5 billion less than expected on AI infrastructure, but it wasn't by choice

Microsoft spent $45.2 billion on capital expenditures, including finance leases, in the September quarter, compared with the ...