Maxsun's Terminator board goes rogue with rear PCIe
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BTF-style tricks without the cable Zen

Maxsun’s new Terminator B850BKB WIFI board is doing something funky with PCIe slots.

Chipzilla suffers security fails across CPUs, GPUs, and gaming gear
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Intel’s Core Ultra, Arc graphics, and gaming software infected with fresh bugs

Troubled Chipzilla just added another chapter to its ever-growing “How Not to Secure Your Silicon” anthology. This time it’s not just the CPUs taking the heat, its Arc GPUs and even its gaming software have joined the bug bonanza.

Microsoft buries Surface Laptop Studio
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No successor in sight

Software King of the World, Microsoft has quietly killed off the Surface Laptop Studio 2, ending production without so much as a farewell tweet and offering no sign of a Surface Laptop Studio 3 to follow.

Kingston releases FURY Renegade G5 M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 5 SSD
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Hitting 14,800MB/s

Kingston has officially released its new FURY Renegade G5 PCIe Gen 5 SSD, coming in capacities of up to 4TB and reaching sequential read and write speeds of up to 14,800 and 14,000MB/s.

Trump tightens noose on Huawei’s AI chips
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US crackdown targets global users of Chinese tech

Donald Trump’s administration has warned that using artificial intelligence chips from Huawei could land companies worldwide with criminal penalties for violating US export controls.