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HP is the latest to announce a MacBook Neo competitor before the holidays. Its OmniBook 5, starting at $699.99, will use Intel’s Wildcat Lake chips and come in a series of colors. What stands out is HP’s choice of OLED screens for every model.
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Unreal Engine 5 isn’t particularly heavy on the CPU, but Gears of War E-Day changes that narrative. If you have a monitoring overlay open when you load into the game, you’ll immediately notice your CPU pinned at between 80% and 90% utilization, which is a far cry from most other UE5 titles. Even stranger is that the scaling between CPUs is clear. For instance, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D netted 42% higher performance than the Ryzen 5 7600X at 1080p with the High graphics preset.
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With RAM, storage, and graphics card prices still stuck in the stratosphere and no relief in sight, we have an opportunity to upgrade other parts of our PC that aren’t affected by the AIpocalypse. Take, for example, this full-size Cherry Xtrfy MX 3.1 wired mechanical gaming keyboard, on sale for only $34 with promo code WOOTCHERRY . That’s an incredible 67% off the original $119.00 list price, 50% off Amazon pricing, and, by far, an all-time low.
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American custom and prebuilt computer seller Maingear has launched a new instant trade-in program in partnership with SELLIT9. The new collab gives customers instant credit on any new Maingear desktop or laptop PC. A broad range of used tech can swiftly be exchanged for Maingear gift cards, including laptops, phones, tablets, smartwatches, headphones, cameras, lenses, and microphones. Instant trade-ins are live today, and until October 14, all those taking advantage of this low-friction old-for-new plan can earn an extra 5% on their traded-in products using the code EXTRA5.
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Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released open-source programming tools developed in partnership with Huawei, for the company’s Ascend AI chips , as part of efforts to reduce reliance on Nvidia’s software and hardware ecosystem. According to a September 30 Reuters report , the release includes open-source libraries for AI computation and chip-to-chip communication, as well as Ascend support for the high-level programming language TileLang.
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Put to work on different tasks, AI can do a good many specialist skills that even just a few months ago wouldn’t have been thought possible. AI is beginning to take on some of the work required to design the chips that power AI, way beyond simple optimisation.
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Nvidia has just launched the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform — an open software platform and reference system design — to govern and secure autonomous AI agents. Announced on September 28, 2026, the platform is designed to establish strict security barriers outside of AI models’ application layer, preventing agents from escaping their sandboxes, executing unauthorized code, gaining unauthorized access to critical infrastructure, or bypassing guardrails.
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Embedded and industrial computing specialist Aaeon has launched a fanless mini PC featuring up to an Intel Core Ultra X7 358H processor. The PC, dubbed the Up Xtreme PTL Edge Air, utilizes Frore’s AirJet ultrasonic membrane technology for active cooling.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill requiring 3D printer manufacturers to include firearm-blocking technology once an industry standard is published by ASTM International. This legislation makes California the second state to enact such restrictions, following New York. Two other states, Colorado and Washington, also have similar bills moving through their legislatures. The law only applies to printers that have not yet been sold, meaning existing devices do not need immediate retrofitting. It regulates the sale and transfer of printers rather than their ownership or use.
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PewDiePie, the popular YouTuber, has unveiled Ajax, his “uncensored AI model” built to run at home, and says in a new video that OpenAI banned him twice while he was making it. According to the OpenAI email he shows, one ban was explicitly for “distillation,” the practice of using one model’s outputs or reasoning to train another. Ajax is built for Odysseus, his self-hosted AI workspace, as an autonomous, always-on agent and assistant.