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Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload — AI1 satellite compute payload is 120 kW, peaks at 150 kW

Elon Musk laid out the first detailed design of SpaceX's AI1 satellite in a 30-minute video posted to the company's X account.

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HVAC tech finds former AMD CEO Rory Read's PC in a customer's basement, signed by Lisa Su — unused 2014 desktop had Bulldozer-era hardware inside and a wrapped Windows 8.1 CD

Someone on Reddit has stumbled upon former AMD CEO Rory Read's PC that might've been given to him as a parting gift. Read was AMD's CEO between 2011 and 2014. He helped AMD navigate the failure of Bulldozer while securing massive console contracts with Sony and Microsoft, and also began…

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SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers — aims for 1 GW/year of space AI compute by late 2027 from its satellites

SpaceX's new Gigasat factory will mass-produce AI satellites for orbital data centers. Musk says the company is targeting 1 GW of space AI compute by 2027 and 100 GW per year by 2030.

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Startup’s ‘miracle’ solid-state battery actually uses lithium-ion chemistry, according to third-party tests — Donut Lab raised $25M and is valued at $1.25B on what now appear to be debunked claims

A Finnish startup’s startling claims to have a production-ready ‘miracle’ solid-state battery have thoroughly collapsed under independent scrutiny.

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Nashville Zoo pushes back on 1.6-acre data center build near animal habitats — Zoo says it planned to use lot for education and conservation center

The Nashville Zoo is pushing back on a proposed data center build, which would place servers in proximity with animal habitats.

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Linux developers are using AI vibe coding to keep vintage AMD GPUs alive — R600 driver cleaned up with GitHub Copilot gives HD 2000 to HD 6000 series a new lease of life

Linux developer uses AI to help update Linux GPU driver support for vintage HD 2000 - HD 6000 series.

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Levelplay shows off magnetically attached fans that are reversible, connect via pogo pins and USB-C – plus an AIO that trades a screen for a big knob

Levelplay took to Computex with some interesting cooling concepts, like magnetic fans that can be reversed in seconds, and an AIO that puts a big tactile knob for fan control on top of your CPU.

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Chinese startup claims photonic chip production without DUV lithography, says nanoimprint process cuts costs by 90% — 8-inch wafers produced without conventional optical lithography

Chinese startup Prinano claims it produced 8-inch photonic chip wafers without DUV lithography, using nanoimprint technology that cuts costs by 90%.

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Apple demonstrates cross-platform Siri upgrades in macOS 27 Golden Gate at WWDC — update brings Liquid Glass improvements and unifies AI strategy

At WWDC, Apple revealed its upcoming macOS update, macOS 27 Golden Gate, with a more refined Liquid Glass design and cross-platform Siri and Apple Intelligence features.

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Intel expands new game-boosting iBOT software with seven more games, up to a 27% improvement — Team Blue claims 12% average jump in newly-supported titles

Intel is expanding its performance-boosting iBOT feature with seven new games.

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Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages

About two-thirds of the 809 data centers planned across the U.S. are slated for land that has been in drought over the past year.

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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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Disgruntled ASML employees threaten to boycott Elon Musk conference appearance — staff express ire at political involvement and 'Nazi sympathies'

ASML has confirmed that a group of disgruntled workers is pushing back hard against an invitation for Elon Musk to address the equipment maker’s closed annual tech conference.

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Four suspects identified in Finland undersea cable damage investigation — criminal case referred to prosecutors for consideration of charges

Finland's National Bureau of Investigation has concluded its criminal investigation into the damage to two undersea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland on December 31st.

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Nvidia and SK hynix ink multi-year memory co-development and supply agreement — seeks to address extended development cycles

Nvidia and SK hynix have inked a multi-year collaboration agreement under which the companies will co-develop next-generation memory technologies for Nvidia's upcoming platforms and SK hynix will supply them to Nvidia.

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Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a temporary substitute for the delayed iAPX 432 project

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

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Ukraine’s birds adapt to battlefield environment, weaving nests out of drone fiber-optic cables — resourceful wildlife adapts to miles of littered drone fibers

Birds in Donbas have been discovered feathering their nests with optical fiber.

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MSI, Gigabyte debut new 5K 27-inch Mini-LED monitors with 2,304 dimming zones and glossy panel — both models double the native 180 Hz refresh rate to 330 Hz at 1440p

New Mini-LED monitors from MSI and Gigabyte featuring 5K panels with 2,304 dimming zones and glossy coatings have just been announced. These feature dual- and even triple-mode support, along with full-fat DP 2.1 80 Gbps ports and high peak brightness numbers for HDR. They're also color-accurate enough for professional work.

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AMD's RDNA 5 gaming GPUs are coming late next year, according to AIBs at Computex — manufacturers expect new Team Red cards in the second half of 2027 alongside Nvidia

AIB partners for AMD at the Computex 2026 show floor have said they expect next-gen RDNA 5 gaming GPUs to land sometime in the second half of 2027, or maybe even in early 2028. That launch schedule lines up closely with Nvidia's RTX 60 series, which is also expected in…

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ASML becomes Europe's most valuable company ever as analysts bet on higher EUV output — its market cap hit $674 billion this week

ASML closed Wednesday, June 3rd, as the most valuable company in European history, reaching a market cap of $668 billion.

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Google signs $920M monthly compute deal with SpaceX — company’s projected annual data center revenue to exceed its combined proceeds from Starlink, launch services, and AI in 2025

Google's $920-million-a-month deal with SpaceX will let it secure 110,000 Nvidia GPUs starting October 2026. This is the second data center deal that SpaceX has secured in a matter of weeks, especially as it's quickly approaching its IPO on June 12, 2026.

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RetroPad is a ‘full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP’ in just 2,749 bytes — x86 assembly coded apps comes from Windows legend Dave W Plummer

A 'full-feature-parity version of Notepad' has been written in x86 assembly and it weighs in at under 3KB.

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Russia’s new ‘Starlink‑Style’ Rassvet fleet loses its first satellite after weeks — Object 4 drops out of orbit but 15 others remain

Object 4, one of 16 satellites in the first operational batch of Russia's Rassvet broadband network, re-entered Earth's atmosphere on approximately June 6th.

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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs

Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has gotten the original Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95, the Symbian slider phone that launched in 2007.

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Ludicrous overclock slams 1.7 volts into 6700K in an attempt to stop CPU from bottlenecking an RTX 3080 — 5.2 GHz on aging four-core pushes GPU utilization from 60% to 74%

YouTuber challenges himself to alleviate a CPU bottleneck with a Core i7-6700K paired with an RTX 3080 through overclocking.

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