From Tom's Hardware: China has quietly extended its rare-earth export controls into the heart of the semiconductor supply chain. Based on machine translation of a new notice published October 9, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said that exports of Chinese-origin rare earths or products made with...

From Tom's Hardware: A Singaporean company with clear Chinese connections spent roughly $2 billion on Nvidia AI processors — and allegedly made them available for Chinese companies or re-exported them to China, according to a recent New York Times investigation. Companies from Singapore have long...

From Forbes: Last week, OpenAI’s video-generating app, Sora, achieved a milestone: it hit one million downloads in under five days, technically outpacing the launch of its sibling, ChatGPT.

According to data from Appfigures cited by TechCrunch, this surge happened despite Sora being invite-only...

From ExtremeTech: Microsoft has warned its users that they could face cyber attacks if they do not upgrade their Windows 10 PCs to Windows 11. The company will officially end support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, ten years after its debut. Once support ends, hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users...

From Forbes: A new Gmail feature that lets you unsubscribe from email lists with a single click is seemingly being ignored by many companies.

Google announced the new feature to “declutter your inbox” in July – and was part of my recent article on five brilliant Gmail features you should be using...

From Corsair Press Release: Elgato, a CORSAIR brand, today unveiled Prompter XL, a studio-sized teleprompter for content production. With a 15.6" display over 2.5 times larger than the original, Prompter XL keeps text readable up to 15 ft (4.6 m). An expanded build supports the large cameras and...

From ADATA Press Release: TRUSTA, the enterprise storage brand of memory leader ADATA Technology Co., today announced a strategic partnership with FADU Inc. and Giga Computing Technology. The three companies will jointly deliver high-performance enterprise SSD solutions tailored for next-generation...

From ExtremeTech: Intel has cut the prices of its flagship Core Ultra 200 desktop processors as part of its fall and Black Friday sales, knocking up to $200 off in some cases and making these CPUs the cheapest they've ever been. This comes following stiff competition from AMD's Ryzen 9000 range...

From The Verge: Microsoft is getting ready to release a new OneDrive app on Windows next year that will include a photo gallery, people view, AI-powered slideshows, and editing features. It’s part of a number of new features coming to OneDrive in the coming months, including a new Photos Agent and...

From CRN: Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian expects Google’s new Gemini Enterprise agentic AI platform to transform the entire artificial intelligence industry, with Microsoft interoperability and pricing now available.

“What we’re doing is bringing AI to everyone by providing them a single front door...