Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons has completed an acquisition of AOL from Yahoo following a new $2.8 billion debt-financing round. The company did not disclose the purchase price, noting that part of the funding will support future operations. Still, AOL's new owner is positioning itself as the brand's final home....
Nvidia showcases Vera Rubin AI “Superchip” with 88 CPU cores and 100 PetaFLOPS of FP4 compute
The new hardware was unveiled this week at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington by co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The Vera Rubin platform features a single "Vera" CPU with 88 custom Arm cores and 176 threads, alongside two "Rubin" GPUs, delivering up to 100 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute...
Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats
Google announced the end of support for early Nest Thermostats in a support document earlier this year that largely flew under the radar. As of October 25, first and second generation units released in 2011 and 2012, respectively, will be unpaired and removed from the Google Nest or Google Home...
China finally approves TikTok transfer deal, seemingly ending long-running US dispute
Following President Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kuala Lumpur, Bessent told Fox Business Network, "we finalized the TikTok agreement in terms of getting Chinese approval, and I would expect that would go forward in the coming weeks and months, and we'll finally see a resolution to that."...
NZXT accused of running a racketeering scheme with its PC Flex subscription program
NZXT's controversial Flex program is finally headed to court. The Burns v. Fragile, Inc. lawsuit tasks federal prosecutors with investigating both the US-based manufacturer and its business partner, Fragile, after numerous user reports accused Flex of being a fraudulent operation designed to oversell an inferior service and substandard hardware components....
You won’t need a monster PC to run Resident Evil Requiem
Scheduled to launch on February 27, 2026, Resident Evil Requiem's PC requirements have now been confirmed. Minimum specs ask for just an Intel Core i5-8500 or Ryzen 3500 combined with a GTX 1660 or Radeon RX 5500 XT. Read Entire Article
Senate is voting on a Democratic effort to block Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports
The Senate is voting on legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada
Jury convicts activist who took chickens from Purdue plant
Jurors have convicted a California animal rights activist for taking four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant
Media coalition sues Tennessee prison officials to get more access to executions
A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when inmates are put to death
Judge’s order blocking removal of man from US wasn’t received until after he was deported, DHS says
Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after he had been deported to Laos