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Several Users Report MSI's Yellow-Tip 16-pin Connector Pushes Out Itself, Greatly Increasing Melting Risk

Intel’s ‘Unified Core’ Ambitions With Next-Gen CPUs Remain Intact as a New Job Posting Signals Further Progress on the Concept

Samsung’s Memory Comeback Is One to Watch as the Korean Giant Reclaims the Top Spot in the Industry After Losing Ground Just a Few Quarters Ago

GIGABYTE RTX 5090 With A Second Added 12V-2×6 Connector Ends Up Burning Holes In The PCB

Apple Eyeing A "Deep Red" iPhone 18 Pro And Pro Max After The Phenomenal Popularity Of The Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro Duo

Apple Potentially Launching Five Products In March As iPhone 16e, M4 MacBook Air, M4 Pro, M4 Max MacBook Pro Models & More, Are Running Out Of Stock At Retail Outlets

Lenovo Asks Partners To "Place Orders As Soon As Possible" Before Implementing A Price Hike Next Month

DLSS Enabler Guide: How To Install, Enable, and Test It On Modern GPUs

User Snags 32 GB DDR5 Memory For $120 After Seller Mistakes It For DDR4

Say Goodbye to the Idea of Chinese RAM Being Cheap; 32GB DDR5 Modules Now Retail for Over $500 as Local Prices Catch Up Globally

PlayStation 6 - Everything We Know About Sony's Next-Gen Console So Far

Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Battery Runtime Concerns Downplayed By Tipster, Says The 5,000mAh Cell Will Last For Much Longer, But The Comparison Says Otherwise

A lucky buyer picked up a DDR5 RAM kit for just $120 after spotting it listed as DDR4 on Facebook Marketplace. The seller claimed it “wouldn’t work” with their motherboard, which likely scared off most buyers. The seller probably ran into a simple installation issue, as the RAM wasn’t seated properly, and decided to sell it. The buyer, however, installed it correctly on their own system, and it worked.

Samsung's Promo Material For The Galaxy S26 Ultra Puts The Camera Specs And Battery Size Debate To Rest

It's not just frustrating but weird to see a two-year-old gaming handheld getting its driver updates halted. The Legion Go handheld, which launched in Q4 2023, just got its driver updates paused by Lenovo. Lenovo Korea released a statement regarding the Legion Go gaming handheld, which confirms that the handheld won't receive any more driver updates, but the company hasn't stated any reason.

We are seeing a nearly 15% average price increase for the cheapest GPU models globally in the last three months, but a lot of GPUs easily jumped by 40-50% in price. The RAMmageddon has forced a lot of tech giants to increase product prices and reduce production. NVIDIA and AMD, being the major players in the GPU market, have also drastically increased prices for their consumer GPUs and have shifted their focus to prioritizing certain GPU models to gain more profit. Looks like this isn’t going well, at least for AMD at the moment. As reported by GazLog, the price increase for the AMD RX 9000 GPUs has resulted in a drastic drop in demand, at least in the Japanese market. The demand has surely reduced globally but considering the latest price trends for the RDNA 4 GPUs, it appears that gamers are now ditching these GPUs due to insanely high prices.

NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra AI racks were tested with DeepSeek's latest open-source models, delivering a 1.5x lead over GB200 NVL72 in latency-sensitive workloads. 🔗 wccf.tech/1jr3i

With GB300, NVIDIA has focused on delivering optimal long-context performance to capitalize on the agentic AI wave. In a recent post, we highlighted how Blackwell Ultra achieves a 50× increase in throughput per megawatt compared to Hopper GPUs, thanks to its extreme co-design approach. Now, the Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS) has tested the GB300 NVL72 for long-context inference, with results looking extremely promising. These tests include infrastructure-level software routing, which we’ll discuss next. Read more here: https://wccftech.com/heres-how-nvidia-blackwell-ultra-is-dominating-long-context-deepseek-workloads/

ASRock Launches NUC Ultra 300 Box Series With Up To 16-Core Ultra X7 358H And 128 GB Memory

Here's How NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GB300 AI Racks Are Dominating Long-Context DeepSeek Workloads

Akasa Launches "Fanless" Euler CMX Case For Intel Core Ultra-Compatible Mini-ITX Motherboards

Lenovo Reportedly Halts Driver Updates For Two Year Old Lenovo Legion Go With AMD Z1 Extreme

Sam Altman argued that debates around artificial intelligence often focus too narrowly on how much electricity it takes to train a large AI model, while ignoring the far greater biological and historical costs behind human intelligence. He said it’s unfair to compare the energy required to train an AI system with the energy a human uses to answer a single question. In his view, a fairer comparison would consider how much energy it takes to “train” a human being in the first place.

This Homegrown ARM Laptop Chip From Moore Threads Could Be the First Real Alternative to Intel & AMD

iPhone Fold And iPhone 18 Pro Mass Production Timeline Mentioned In Latest Rumor, With Apple Launching Both Flagships Simultaneously To Avoid Launch Hiccups

One of Intel's most anticipated desktop CPU lineups, the Nova Lake series, reportedly won't launch this year as the broader consumer industry gets affected by revised product plans. Read more here: https://wccftech.com/even-cpu-arent-safe-from-delayed-launches-anymore-with-intel-nova-lake-pushed-to-2027/

Even CPUs Aren’t Safe from ‘Delayed Launches’ Anymore, With Intel’s Nova Lake-S Reportedly Pushed to 2027

The amount of effort users have to put in just to keep their GPUs safe from connector melting now feel unsettling. It was never like this with the regular 6-pin or 8-pin PCIe connectors, but the notorious 16-pin connector cannot just run without running into issues, despite numerous mitigation attempts by some manufacturers and users. At this point, it feels as if one should just buy a Wireview II Pro to keep the GPUs safe, but it should never have been the case in the first place. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 remains the number one victim of the connector burning in the RTX 50 series, and users are now trying various methods to mitigate the possibility of the connector melting. A user on Mobil01 forums reported a connector melting on his GIGABYTE RTX 5090 AORUS Master ICE.

If Samsung were looking for additional bragging rights just before the unveiling of the Galaxy S26 series, it certainly got those today, when a Galaxy S26 Ultra smoked the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max in the latest Geekbench 6 tests. Read more here: https://wccftech.com/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-beats-the-apple-iphone-17-pro-max-in-the-latest-geekbench-6-tests/

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Beats The Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max In The Latest Geekbench 6 Tests

BioShock Movie and New Game’s Releases Will Roughly Coincide, Says Movie Producer

Last month, a UK judge ruled that Valve would have to face its day in court over a £656 million class-action lawsuit being led by Parent Zone chief executive officer, Vicki Shotbolt, over the 30% cut that the company takes from all transactions on Steam. It's not a dissimilar case to what Epic Games brought against Apple, as Shotbolt has called Valve's 30% cut "excessive" and that the company "is rigging the market and taking advantage of UK gamers." In a new report, Shotbolt further explained her case against Valve and Steam, adding that Valve is "clearly not" cooperating fairly in the video games market.

Ubisoft CEO confirms two Far Cry games are in development alongside "several" single-player and multiplayer Assassin’s Creed titles. 🔗 wccf.tech/1jqtu

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly experienced a couple of outages tied to problematic AI agents. According to the Financial Times, the most recent incident took place in December, when its Koiro AI coding tool deleted the environment, it was operating in, leading to a 13-hour disruption. “We’ve already seen at least two production outages,” one senior AWS employee told the publication. “The engineers let the AI resolve an issue without intervention. The outages were small but entirely foreseeable.” Amazon told the Financial Times that the involvement of AI tools in these incidents was coincidental, adding that the same issue could have happened with other developer tools or through manual action. “In both instances, this was user error, not AI error,” the company said.

Asha Sharma, previously president of Microsoft’s CoreAI Product division, will take over as Xbox head. In her first memo, she vowed to avoid “AI slop” while emphasizing that artificial intelligence will still play a role in the brand’s future. "As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future [of gaming], we will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," she wrote. "Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us."

A new report from IGN reveals that Microsoft's gaming division and Xbox are going through a major leadership shake-up. Phil Spencer will retire this coming Monday, February 23, 2026, after first joining Microsoft all the way back in 1988 as an intern. He's not the only one departing: Sarah Bond, current president of Xbox at Microsoft, is now the former president of Xbox at Microsoft, as she will resign from her role. Lastly, Microsoft's current president of its CoreAI division, Asha Sharma, will take Spencer's place as the new chief executive officer of Microsoft Gaming.

Valve is "Clearly Not" Cooperating Fairly, Says CEO Leading £656M Lawsuit Against Steam's 30% Cut of Game Sales

Major Shake-Up at Xbox: Phil Spencer Retires, Sarah Bond Resigns, and Asha Sharma to Become the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming

Microsoft's head of gaming, Phil Spencer, is stepping down after 38 years at the company. Asha Sharma, who joined Microsoft in 2024 from Instacart, will succeed him as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.

Qualcomm Aims To Give Its Snapdragon X Chipsets A Massive Adoption Push With The Hiring Of Former AMD Executive Jason Banta

Japan’s biggest toilet maker has the potential to become a major player in the artificial intelligence boom, according to London-based hedge fund Palliser Capital, which is pushing for reforms at the company. Toto Ltd., known for its high-tech Washlet toilets, is drawing attention for its advanced ceramics business. This division makes electrostatic chucks and other precision parts used in manufacturing AI memory chips. Palliser says the unit is undervalued and could deliver much higher profits if better promoted. The stock has risen about 60% after the news as investors see strong potential in the AI chip market.

NieR: Automata Will Continue, Finally Confirms Square Enix as the Game Breaks 10M Units Sold

This new AI chipmaker, Taalas, hard-wires AI models into silicon to make them faster and cheaper; early results crush modern solutions.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Started 2026 as January's Best-Selling Game in the US, While Subscriptions Drove 3% Spending Growth

Low-Cost MacBook’s Vibrant Colors Were Supposed To Debut With The M2 MacBook Air, But Apple Decided Against It

NVIDIA’s revised investment in OpenAI expected to be more than ‘three times lower’ than what the industry originally believed.

Ubisoft CEO Confirms Two Far Cry Games, Single-Player and Multiplayer Assassin's Creed Games in Development

AMD collaborated with the prominent overclocker Splave, who achieved a staggering 4.769 GHz on the Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU at the AMD Markham office. Splave was optimistic about reaching 4.4 or 4.5 GHz, but he wanted to push to 5.0 GHz. Even though 5.0 GHz remains out of reach for now, he managed to push the world record closer to that milestone than ever before.

Apple’s Product Launch Tally For The Coming Weeks Keeps Growing

DICE Has "Heard the Message Very Clear" That Players Want Larger Maps in Battlefield 6

AMD RX 9000 Prices Drop After Gamers Refuse to Buy

Riot Games Allegedly Tried to Buy Ashes of Creation in 2022-2023; Intrepid CEO Steven Sharif Files Counter-Lawsuit

AMD Olympic Ridge "Zen 6" Ryzen Desktop CPUs Reportedly Launching In 2027

Intel’s fix for PC problems is… “agentic AI”; a Microsoft Copilot bot that promises solutions while you cross your fingers.

'One Failed Us. One Rejected Us': Next God of War Egyptian Setting Is Heavily Hinted At By New Datamined Discoveries

Thermal Grizzly starts selling delidded AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $876.

Google Tensor Chip IP Theft Might Land Three People In Prison For A 20-Year Stint As The Iranian Angle Gains Prominence

XCOM's Jake Solomon Closes Midsummer Studios, Which Was Working on a Narrative-Driven Life Sim

Nioh 3 Sells 1M Copies, Is the Fastest-Selling Game in the Series; Franchise Reaches 10M Units Sold

“It’s not the engine’s fault, it’s the state of the industry” – Eternal Darkness creator defends UE5, says Embracer’s $2B failed deal was “extinction level event”

Toilet Company Accidentally Hits AI Gold, Stock Soars 60%

DON’T NOD’s Aphelion Preview Reveals an Alien Isolation-Inspired Sci-Fi Adventure

AMD breaks GPU frequency overclocking world record by pushing Radeon RX 9060 XT to 4.769 GHz.

Slay the Spire 2 Gets an Early Access Release Date, Arrives on PC in Just Two Weeks Time

AOC Launches Q27G4ZD QD-OLED 280Hz Gaming Monitor With 1000 Nits Peak Brightness

Hilltop Studios' Next Project, Curse of Resthaven, is Like "If Twin Peaks and Lost had an Eldritch Baby," Says Director

Intel’s Fix for PC Problems Is… “Agentic AI”; a Microsoft Copilot Bot That Promises Solutions While You Cross Your Fingers

New ARC Raiders Hurricane Map Condition Arrives in Shrouded Sky Update Next Week

Nvidia rtx 5090 gets its top connector row cooked despite a 500w max power ceiling by the user 🔗 wccf.tech/1jqnr

PlayStation Is Shutting Down Demon’s Souls Remake Developers, Bluepoint Games

"It's Not the Engine's Fault, It's the State of the Industry" - Eternal Darkness Creator Defends UE5, Says Embracer's $2B Failed Deal Was "Extinction Level Event"

NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU & DGX spark owners can run openclaw with boosted ai performance.

Ubisoft Toronto the Latest Ubisoft Branch to get hit With Layoffs, Work on the Splinter Cell Remake Continues

Another Reason To Go With Apple: iPhone 17 Lineup Shows The Lowest Performance Variation Between Early Review Units And Production Models

You Can Now Play Warframe on Android Devices Across the Globe, and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is Coming "Soon"

ARC Raiders Players Are Taking Down Matriarchs "Too Early" for Embark Studios' Liking, Says it Made Players "Too Effective"

Memory Makers Rush to Build New Facilities, But Don’t Expect the Extra Capacity to Help Anyone Outside the AI Elite

NVIDIA Adds a Dozen Games to its Expansive 4,500+ Library of GeForce NOW Titles

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Brings Up to 60 FPS, 4K Resolution Gameplay Today