Hardware

But they could not legally get these tools anyway.

You know we've hit rock-bottom with memory affordability when ASRock innovates a new memory standard to lower prices. The new "HUDIMM," or half unbuffered DIMM, is an ASRock-innovated standard. It calls for UDIMMs with half a rank of memory, populating just one of the two 40-bit sub-channels. Such a DIMM would only offer half its bandwidth even at its rated memory clock, and of course half the density. The HUDIMM standard is targeted at entry-level builds and business desktops that just want a modern platform for everyday tasks, and something to tide over the DDR5 memory crunch. ASRock partnered with Team Group to manufacture the first HUDIMM memory modules, which it tested to work on its Intel 600-series, 700-series, and 800-series chipset motherboards. HUDIMM support probably requires some UEFI firmware-level awareness of the standard, and ASRock is expected to release firmware updates for the same.

If you can't develop your own semiconductor prowess, maybe stealing is an option

I've repaired this worthless older generation Logitech G Hero mouse 5 times in two years, but after its most recent cleaning the 5 pin cable molex snapped and I feel absolutely no desire to keep this creature alive for another moment.

I had a similar cable failure on a Logitech keyboard awhile back, which admittedly I did fix and do plan to keep around because it's hard to find a mechanical keyboard with an aluminium body and also NOT completely covered to the teeth with rainbow LEDs.

Can anybody recommend me a good durable mouse, preferably not aimed at gamers?

U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.

TSMC grew 36% while most of the foundry market managed 8%.

You can also buy it as a DIY kit, or simply reference the components list and instructions, and use the firmware, drivers, and software shared.

'Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric' doesn't help.

There are levels to SSD clones.

A $25 IPS panel gives this old Lenovo laptop a decisive visual upgrade

Amazon introduced ads into their line of smart displays. Luckily, hackers have found a way to liberate a few of them.

RVA23 profile of RISC-V marks a turning point in how mainstream CPUs are expected to scale performance. By making the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) mandatory, it elevates structured, explicit parallelism to the same architectural status as scalar execution. Vectors are no longer optional accelerators bolted onto speculation-heavy cores. They are baseline capabilities that software can rely on.

RVA23 doesn’t force scalar execution to become deterministic. It simply makes determinism viable because the scalar side is no longer responsible for throughput. The vector unit handles the parallel work explicitly, and the scalar core becomes a coordinator that can be simple, predictable, and low‑power without sacrificing performance.

To understand why this shift matters, it helps to recall how thoroughly speculative execution came to dominate high-performance CPU design. It delivered speed, but at increasing cost—in power, complexity, verification burden, and security exposure. RVA23 does not reject speculation. Instead, it restores balance. It acknowledges that predictable, vector-driven parallelism is now a credible, mainstream path for performance growth.

Worse than Biden's AI Diffusion Rule?

Hard drives hit an important 44TB capacity milestone.

LILYGO has released two new ESP32-based products: the T-Halow P4, a compact development board built around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 RISC-V SoC with integrated Wi-Fi HaLow support, and the T5 E-Paper S3 Pro Lite, a 4.7-inch ESP32-S3 e-paper device positioned as a simplified version of the Pro model introduced in 2024.

The T-Halow P4 is built around the ESP32-P4, which features a dual-core 32-bit RISC-V processor running at up to 360 MHz alongside a 40 MHz low-power RISC-V coprocessor. The board includes 16MB of external NOR flash and 8MB of PSRAM.