The latest sales figures from German online retailer Mindfactory show a noticeable shift within the graphics card market. While AMD’s RDNA 4 models continue to dominate the overall rankings, a new frontrunner has established itself within NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series. The GeForce RTX 5080 is now the best-selling model of the current NVIDIA generation at […]

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Microsoft continues to make major adjustments. In the current preview version 26300.7877 (KB5077232) of Windows 11, another classic feature from the old Control Panel is being moved to the modern Settings app. This time, it’s the option to rename local user accounts. A small switch with symbolic explosive power. Account names in Settings in the […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight, the eleventh expansion of the online role-playing game, is about to be released and marks the second chapter of the overarching Worldsoul saga. Blizzard is positioning Midnight as the content-rich middle part of a planned trilogy that breaks new ground in terms of both narrative and gameplay mechanics. Among other things, […]

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There are moments when you realize that modern update infrastructure is less like a precision clockwork and more like a remote-controlled automaton. This is exactly what happened to users of Windows 11 25H2 in the Release Preview channel. Build 26200.7921 installed, everything clean. A glance at the Insider settings – and suddenly it says: Beta. […]

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The name sounds like a line of defense. The reality is more unpleasant. Security researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Apex One, some of which are critical, that enable precisely what endpoint security is supposed to prevent: code execution and privilege escalation. For companies with on-premises installations, this is not a theoretical problem, […]

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Phil Spencer’s resignation marks the end of an era for Microsoft’s gaming division. After nearly four decades with the company and around ten years at the helm of the Xbox brand, Spencer is handing over responsibility at a time characterized by strategic upheaval, growing service offerings, and declining hardware sales. His successor is Asha Sharma, […]

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In times of DRAM shortages and absurd prices, the industry usually comes to a standstill – manufacturers wait and see, and new products are only released when sufficient purchasing power can be expected. However, today’s test is anything but normal. Origin Code, which until now had been nothing more than a phrase in the wave […]

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We have already tested a number of notebooks from manufacturers that are rather unknown in this category and that you usually associate more with mini PCs. That is also the case today with Geekom, who on paper promise quite a lot with the X14 Pro. Only 6 mm thin, 999 grams light, and a 2.8K […]

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German hosting provider Hetzner will adjust its prices across its entire product portfolio on April 1, 2026. This affects cloud servers as well as dedicated servers, storage offerings, and supplementary services. According to the company, the new terms and conditions will apply to all locations worldwide, including Germany, Finland, the US, and Singapore. The decisive […]

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AMD is going on the offensive, and not with the handbrake on. The US chip manufacturer has signed a multi-year, cross-generational agreement with Meta that, according to reports, could address an infrastructure volume in the range of “several hundred billion US dollars.” The focus is on customized Instinct GPUs from the upcoming MI450 generation and […]

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The competition for technological supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence is reaching a new dimension. AMD has entered into a comprehensive, multi-year partnership with Meta aimed at expanding a powerful, energy-efficient AI infrastructure. The agreement centers on upcoming generations of Instinct GPUs, EPYC server processors, and rack-scale complete systems that will be specifically tailored […]

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While Nvidia and AMD are battling it out in the AI market, Intel, under the new leadership of Lip-Bu Tan, continues to look like a giant in search of a compass. Rumors had been swirling for a long time: a takeover of AI chip specialist SambaNova was supposed to finally give Team Blue the necessary […]

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The loss of long-standing major customer 1&1 has left a significant mark on O2 Telefónica’s balance sheet. The German subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica recorded a 3.8 percent decline in revenue to around €8.2 billion in the past fiscal year. The decline was even more pronounced in adjusted operating income, which fell by 8.8 […]

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AMD is facing increasing headwinds on the subject of FSR 4, and this time not from NVIDIA, but from the community. While the manufacturer officially limits its current upscaling generation to RDNA 4 graphics cards and DirectX 12 titles, the open-source tool OptiScaler has now created facts: With the test build 0.9.0-pre10, FSR 4 is […]

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Apple is apparently planning another strategic adjustment to its premium models in order to further strengthen momentum in key markets. According to reports from Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman’s sources, the company is considering a deep red color variant for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The move would not be purely […]

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Anyone who has ever tried to wake up an electric car with conventional LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cells at a fast charger in winter knows the misery: the charging curve resembles a flatline, and the range melts faster than the ice on the windshield. But while we in the West are still philosophizing about lithium […]

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Sometimes I feel like the software department in Redmond is like a giant ocean liner trying to turn around in a bathtub. While the marketing team tirelessly proclaims the next “AI era,” the engineers at the grassroots level are struggling with what I like to call “digital dry rot”: legacy issues, some of which date […]

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The debate surrounding a legal age limit for social networks is gaining momentum in Germany. After the SPD had been calling for a social media ban for children under the age of 14 for some time, the CDU has now also passed a resolution to this effect at its party conference in Stuttgart. According to […]

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Google has postponed the planned discontinuation of POP3 import for external email accounts and the Gmailify feature in the web version of Gmail, granting users an extended transition period. Originally, the integration of external email accounts via POP3 was supposed to be discontinued in January. Now, new users can still use the feature until the […]

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Let’s forget for a moment the familiar whirring of stepper motors and the sluggish gliding of print heads. While we in the consumer sector are still arguing about Core-XY kinematics and acceleration values, researchers at Tsinghua University in China have opened a door behind which mechanics simply disappear as a limiting factor. We are talking […]

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There are moments in the laboratory when you have to admit that even experience, measurement methods, and a well-stocked shelf of thermal interface materials cannot save the day. Normally, I find the cause, take measurements, optimize, replace pads, vary the contact pressure, or get to the bottom of the problem with a microscope and measurement […]

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With the NUC Ultra 300 Box series, ASRock Industrial is expanding its portfolio of compact industrial and embedded systems with a new generation of powerful mini PCs based on Intel’s latest Core Ultra 300 platform. The models are the successors to the previous NUC Box 200 series and feature processors from the Panther Lake family, […]

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Canadian startup Taalas claims nothing less than to rewrite the economics of AI inference. The HC1 is not just another GPU clone, not a TPU knockoff, not a “me too” accelerator with HBM towers and 700-watt TDP. It is a hardwired model. Specifically: Llama 3.1 8B, physically cast in silicon. 17,000 tokens per second – […]

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The European smartphone market ended 2025 with moderate but stable growth. According to current market data, shipments rose by two percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same period last year. This development was driven primarily by strong demand in the premium segment and increasing momentum in parts of Eastern Europe. Apple benefited particularly […]

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