60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

A survey of Tom’s Hardware readers has revealed that 60% of PC gamers are not planning to build a new PC in the next two years.
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AI data centers trigger massive ‘irreversible’ 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure

Industry watchdog Monitoring Analytics says that PJM Interconnection is not doing enough to prevent power prices from spiking due to massive data center demand.
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AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year

Major Chinese optical fiber manufacturers have booked orders stretching into 2027, as AI data center construction drives demand growth that the supply chain can’t match.
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First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

Apple M5 architecture gets its first privilege escalation exploit

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Apache helicopter’s ‘loyal wingmen’ support drones to be used for precision strikes, other duties — British Army’s Project NYX funding money goes to four firms as effort hits new milestone

UK Ministry of Defence shortlists four firms to develop ‘loyal wingmen’ autonomous drones for British Army Apache helicopters.
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Pennsylvania residents complain they are being ‘bulldozed’ over AI data center concerns — lambast Gov. Shapiro in two-hour town hall, say he is losing support base

Pennsylvania residents blame Governor Josh Shapiro for the large number of data center projects in the state, despite his efforts to introduce policies that will balance development with the welfare of the people.
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Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country ‘chose not to’ sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips.

Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters ’emergency management mode,’ daily losses could hit $2 billion

Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun throttling semiconductor output by cutting new wafer input and placing lithography, etching, and cleaning equipment on standby.
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Musk’s Colossus 1 AI supercomputer’s inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn’t be used to train Grok, so Anthropic’s using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO

Anthropic has leased xAI’s entire 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 supercluster from SpaceX to ease Claude’s growing compute bottlenecks, in a deal that may reveal far bigger ambitions around AI infrastructure, orbital data centers,…

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Intel announces McLaren F1 partnership, will battle AMD-powered Mercedes — deal includes chips for aerodynamic analysis, vehicle-dynamics simulation, race strategy analytics, and more

Intel has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with F1’s legendary McLaren Racing team. AMD has been Mercedes-AMG’s partner for six years.
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