A retailer has seemingly leaked the prices for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series scheduled to launch later this month, and it appears the latest generation of Ryzen processors will be cheaper than its predecessors.

The retailer listed several SKUs of the Ryzen 9000 series, with the listing appearing on the Slovenian website Funtech. It should be noted these prices aren't the official MSRPs for AMD's upcoming line of processors, but should instead be viewed as an approximation. According to the listings, the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9 9950X was listed at €659.90 ($708 USD), but its "regular price" is €824.88 ($886).

Notably, the flagship CPU from the red team, the 9950X, appears to be priced around its Zen 4 counterpart, the 7950X3D, which was priced at $699. The Ryzen 9 9900X was priced €499.90 ($537), which is very low compared to its Zen 4 counterpart - the Ryzen 7 7900X's €669 ($716.16). Another cheaper 9000-series processor is the Ryzen 7 9700X €399.90 ($429), which is cheaper than the Ryzen 7 7700X at launch with its €479 ($512) price tag.

A man has been charged with stealing the credentials of people's social media and email services while on a commercial airline.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) charged a man who was carrying a "portable wireless access device, a laptop, and a mobile phone" in his luggage. The AFP claims the man was attempting to scrape sign-in information from passengers aboard a flight by running a fake Wi-Fi network on a plane. The alleged man was reportedly creating fake Wi-Fi hotspots with SSIDs that were very similar to the network names found on flights, or an "evil twin".

When a user joined the network, they were prompted to input their credentials, which included email addresses and passwords that were then saved to the man's device. At the moment, authorities charged the man with unauthorized access to devices, along with "possession or control of data with the intent to commit a serious offense," which alludes to the man having the intention of using the data nefariously.

Microsoft confirmed it was breached on January 12, 2024, by hackers that gained access to Microsoft's corporate email accounts, leading to the theft of federal government email accounts.

While the hack was considered extremely bad at the time, and it still is, it appears the breach may be worse than initially anticipated as more Microsoft customers are receiving emails their email account has become compromised, meaning it wasn't just federal email account data stolen, but also customer data.

Microsoft blamed the attack on a Russian government-sponsored hacking organization called Midnight Blizzard, and according to the software giant, they are providing notifications to customers who were exposed to the hack through email correspondence with compromised Microsoft corporate email accounts.

Lego and the European Space Agency (ESA) have partnered to create the first Lego pieces made with meteorite dust. While the creation may appear to be just for a few laughs, it actually has practical implications for the future of space exploration.

The Lego pieces will be on display at select Lego store locations until September 20. Check out the locations below. As for the practicality of the meteorite-infused Lego pieces, the project was a proof-of-concept to demonstrate that structures can be built using moondust or its equivalent. The value of being able to make structures out of dust like lunar regolith will be an absolute game-changer when it comes to constructing colonies on different moons or planets.

Having a consistent and reliable means of making structures out of dust would mean we won't have to transport materials from Earth, saving on expensive rocket launches. So, how did researchers make this meteorite-infused Lego piece? The team first took meteorite dust and ground it up into a mixture that was then placed into a 3D printer. The printer then spat out a lunar Lego piece that works exactly the same as a normal Lego piece.

A new report from an industry analyst and renowned Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo states Apple is preparing to add infrared cameras to its AirPods line-up.

Kuo's report cites a supply chain survey that points to Apple using these upgraded AirPods with Vision Pro goggles will enable a more lifelike experience in spatial computing environments (Apple's virtual/augmented reality). Kuo wrote the new AirPods would feature infrared sensors similar to those present on current-gen iPhones, which are used for the facial recognition feature, FaceID.

In addition to improving the Vision Pro experience, the next-gen AirPods could enable in-air hand gestures. A February report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman stated that Apple began an investigation into cameras being implemented into AirPods under the codename B798 and that investigation started in 2023. A team was tasked with fitting low-resolution camera sensors into earbuds about the size of today's AirPods.

After years of delays, Boeing's Starliner capsule achieved liftoff and transported two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), where they were meant to stay for 10 days. However, that didn't go to plan after it was discovered Starliner was leaking helium, its fuel source.

One of the leaks was discovered prior to launch, and the remaining four were discovered after Starliner arrived at the ISS on June 6. Since then, NASA and Boeing have been working together to evaluate the issues and outline a plan to get the two NASA astronauts back to Earth. However, concerns sprung up after NASA and Boeing announced they aren't ready to set a return flight date, and will instead be waiting for ground tests and further analysis to be completed.

These comments led many to believe the two NASA astronauts were stranded aboard the ISS and, further, in space. But NASA says that isn't the case, and the astronauts aren't in any hurry to leave the ISS, as the floating laboratory has plenty of food and provisions. In a recent press conference, officials insisted the NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are not "stranded" and, "We're not in a rush to come home," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Reusable rockets aren't easy to design, which is why they didn't exist until Elon Musk's SpaceX came along and sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into research and development of the technology. Now, SpaceX is pioneering the reusable rocket industry, achieving reusability with two now-workhorse rockets, the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.

Now that the crown jewel of rocket technology has been shown to the rest of the world other space agencies are looking to figure it out for themselves, with China being one of those nations. Private Chinese company Space Pioneer is working on this technology, and recently attempted a static fire test, which is an engineering test that evaluates the design of the engine by firing thrusters while the rocket is attached to the launch pad.

Static fire tests are one of the many ways engineers make sure a rocket is working as intended before a real launch attempt is made. Space Pioneer's Tianlong-3 rocket was undergoing this test when it broke free from the launchpad, and with its nine TH-12 engines that together generate 1.7 million pounds of thrust, the Tianlong-3 rocket burst into the clouds only to run out of the little fuel it had stored. With no engines firing, the rocket began falling back to the ground, causing a huge fiery explosion on impact.

Elden Ring gamers have been enjoying the main game with co-op for quite some time, and now the recently released Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has received support.

Modder LukeYui, the creator behind the Elden Ring Seamless Co-op mod, has updated the popular mod, implementing compatibility for the latest version of Elden Ring, version 1.12, which was released alongside the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion on July 20. The modder explained that while the co-op isn't "perfect," it has reached a state where the co-op in Shadow of the Erdtree is playable. LukeYui wrote that they are aware of some bugs and that, over the next few days, they will be ironed out.

The updated mod has added enemy scaling options, player death count is now a player banner option, the ability to view the current session password, compatibility with ModEngine 2, matchmaking verification (players must have the same mods to be able to connect to each other), invasions, and more. The Seamless Co-op mod has grown in such popularity that even Elden Ring's creator and FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki recognized it and said it could be natively built into future FromSoftware games.

Rain AI has just hired an Apple chip executive to lead its hardware engineering, marking the second high-profile hire the Sam Altman-backed AI startup has made.

The Sam Altman-led Rain AI startup is attempting to design a new type of semiconductor for artificial intelligence (AI), securing Jean-Didier Allegrucci, a former Apple chip executive who also helped oversee the development of processors for Apple that helped the company replace the Intel CPUs inside of its Mac systems, and the A-series processors inside of the iPhone.

The former Apple chip executive will help Rain AI to develop more energy-efficient chip, where he'll work with Rain AI's new lead architect Amin Firoozshahian, who moved to AI startup after 5 years of working with Meta.

Huawei has just released its first consumer-focused Gen4 SSD which it calls the Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200, in up to 4TB capacities, and up to 7.4GB/sec read speeds.

The Chinese company has now re-entered the SSD market with its new Gen4 SSD, as the new Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 is the first consumer SSD. The new Huawei Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 uses the Gen4 interface, so we don't have the bleeding-edge Gen5 interface, but we have up to 7400MB/sec (7.4GB/sec) reads, and up to 6700MB/sec (6.7GB/sec) writes.

Random IOPS on the Kunling SSD eKitStor Xtreme 200 is up to 1.1 million, and with no on-board DRAM, the Huawei Gen4 SSD has HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology, which Wccftech reports is "sort of a compensation for being DRAM-less" which makes sense.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has discussed the future of the Assassin's Creed franchise. He said, "The goal is to have Assassin's Creed games come out more regularly, but not for it to be the same experience every year." One way the publisher will do that is by making different styles of Creed games and remaking classic games in the franchise.

It also sounds like Ubisoft plans to remake several Assassin's Creed games, with Yves Guillemot adding, "There are worlds in some of our older Assassin's Creed games that are still extremely rich," and that the remakes will "modernize them." As for what that could mean - more RPG-like elements, as seen in the modern Creed releases.

Rumors point to the popular Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) getting the remake treatment first, where Ubisoft will use the latest Assassin's Creed engine technology to recreate the game. The word remake is important because we're not talking about a simple remaster; think more about what Capcom has done with classic games in the Resident Evil franchise: new visuals, new gameplay, and a new take on a classic game.

Apple is reportedly upgrading the minimum RAM inside the next-generation iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro smartphones so that they can better run OpenAI ChatGPT 4o, which is built-in to run new AI features that fall under the new Apple Intelligence banner.

The new Apple iPhone 16 family of smartphones will have a new A18 processor built on TSMC's new N3E process node, more RAM, camera upgrades, and more. Apple is expecting iPhone users to have more reasons to upgrade this generation because there are RAM upgrades (finally) and upgrades across the board this time around.

In a new report from Ctee, the new trend of increasing memory capacity will help memory manufacturers like Nanya, Winbond, ADATA, TEAMGROUP, and Transcend to enjoy healthier revenues and profits. The entire fleet of iPhone 16 smartphones -- iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max -- will have 8GB of RAM, marking the first time since the iPhone X back in 2017 that Apple has increased RAM across the entire fleet of iPhones.

Auctioning off historical pieces of Apple technology can be big business - earlier this year, we reported on a first-generation iPhone with 4GB of storage selling for over $130,000 at an auction. However, if you think it stops at vintage Apple silicon, think again - anything related to Steve Jobs and Apple is worth a lot of money.

Even the clothing he wore to work, out on the town, and to photo shoots. Julien's Auctions in California is currently listing several clothing items worn by Steve Jobs, including this 'navy blue pin-striped Brioni for Wilkes Bashford suit' that he wore for an ad or photo shoot commemorating the release of the original Macintosh in 1984. It includes the original wooden hanger and a 'vintage Apple Macintosh pin' found in one of the pockets

Bidding is now open for the item, and the estimate is that this old and possibly musty-smelling suit from the 1980s will sell for between $20,000 and $30,000.

Jon Peddie Research provides informative quarterly data and industry analysis - covering shipments and quarterly trends. This year, we've shared some of the firm's data on 2024 GPU shipments and the overall market share for the big players in the space: NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.

However, as an internet platform, Jon Peddie Research also posts news about the CPU and GPU industry and PC gaming technology. A recent post by the firm is worth checking out, mainly because of how funny and strange it is. Leading those who have spotted it to believe it's an attempt at AI-generated content.

And a failed one at that. The article, titled 'Leaked information reveals Intel GPU,' discusses a new graphics card from Team Blue that is in development - citing an 'unconfirmed source.' The nonsense tech the article mentions makes it sound like poorly generated AI content.

AMD is about to launch its next-generation Zen 5 CPU architecture inside of Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs and Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" desktop CPUs... while we've got some juicy new details on the future-gen Zen 6 "Medusa" CPUs.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing new rumors about Zen 6 "Medusa" CPUs and it looks like it's possible they'll tape out by Q2 2025, which isn't far away at all now, with production to follow "before the end of the year" according to MLID's first source. This source added that if things go well, production would begin by the end of 2025, but "it could slip" into 2026.

This source also teased that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 "Medusa" products could use the same packaging technology as AMD's next-gen Instinct MI450 AI accelerator, which we have been hearing rumors about lately. Another source told MLID that "Medusa" is a Zen 6 product that will launch on desktop AM5, and that it could be a family that launches on laptops as well.

Intel's next-generation Arc Battlemage "X2" and "X3" graphics cards have been spotted, featuring up to 56 Xe2-GPU cores on a 256-bit memory bus.

We're hearing new information on Intel's next-gen Battlemage X2 and X3 GPUs from nbd.ltd and Volza, who have spotted the log in customs and shipping data on their respective online databases. Intel's new Arc Battlemage "X2" and "X3" could be codenames for next-gen Arc GPUs, or just internal codenames for the cards themselves.

There's another card that was listed as "Churchill Falls" and is reportedly a canceled SKU that's based on the Intel BMG-G10 GPU die. First off, we've got the Intel Arc Battlemage "X3," which uses the BMG-G10 GPU die, the flagship SKU from Intel that appears to be canceled, with the new BMG-G21 and BMG-G31 GPU dies taking its place.

KLEVV has just announced its brand-new FIT V DDR5 gaming memory, which rocks a sleek, ultra-low-profile design. Check it out:

The new KLEVV FIT V DDR5 gaming memory modules are available in 16GB (1 x 16GB stick) and 32GB kit (2 x 16GB sticks) with clock speeds of 5600MT/s, 6000MT/s, and 6400MT/s. KLEVV says its new FIT V DDR5 memory has been meticulously crafted for gamers, content creators, and casual users on a budget.

KLEVV's new FIT V DDR5 memory offers cutting-edge features alongside top-tier performance, all at an attractive price. The new DDR5 memory offers a streamlined, ultra-low-profile 33mm form factor, made possible by KLEVV using an innovative aluminum heat spreader with a "contemporary minimalist aesthetic," which is finished in an "eye-catching white hue," adds KLEVV.

SK hynix has announced plans to invest $74.6 billion over the next 3 years to strengthen its dominance of the memory market, which the South Korean memory giant commands 35% of the DRAM market already.

SK hynix has started construction of its massive $90 billion "mega fab complex" in Gyeonggi Province, with Reuters reporting that SK hynix's parent company, SK Group, will spend another $58 billion on top of its $74.6 billion investment, into AI and semiconductors so that it can "improve its competitiveness by focusing on its AI value chain".

The gigantic new investment streams were outlined during a two-day strategy meeting, aiming to revive the group after SK hynix -- its main money maker -- and SK Group's electric vehicle (EV) battery arm after it "suffered heavy losses" reports Reuters.

AMD's upcoming next-generation Ryzen 9000X3D series processors will support full overclocking at launch, which will be a first for the company's excellent 3D V-Cache CPUs.

AMD has been teasing some "really cool differentiators" for its upcoming Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with our friends at Wccftech reporting that one of those features is "full support for OC". This isn't just regular PBO or CO tuning, but full overclocking support for AMD's next-gen Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D chips.

This means that AMD has possibly tweaked the 3D V-Cache design for its chips, which will let users and gamers overclock them as they want.

AMD has "silently moved" the launch of its new Zen 5-based Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs to just a few days before its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" desktop CPUs.

In a new post by leaker Golden Pig Upgrade and Hoang Anh Phu, we're learning that AMD and its OEM partners had originally decided to launch laptops based on AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs on July 15, but it has moved this up to July 28... just days before the new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs will be launching.

Golden Pig Upgrade reported that the initial July 15 launch of Strix Point APUs was moved to July 28, with Hoang saying both sales and review embargoes will be lifted on July 28. This means that if you were waiting to read reviews of Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs will have to wait around two more weeks, but for AMD, it means it can strike while the iron is hot... launching Zen 5-based mobile and desktop CPUs within days of one another.