Gamer Claims His GeForce RTX 5090 Capped At 500W Still Burned Its 16-Pin Connector

Gamer Claims His GeForce RTX 5090 Capped At 500W Still Burned Its 16-Pin Connector
The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2×6 plug. While this is an improvement, it doesn’t help the fact that most GeForce graphics cards eschew any kind of active load balancing, and neither does the fact

New Android Malware Posing As IPTV Streaming Apps Can Drain Your Bank Account

New Android Malware Posing As IPTV Streaming Apps Can Drain Your Bank Account
Cybersecurity professionals at Threat Fabric have uncovered a campaign utilizing a new piece of malicious software to target Android users. Massiv, a banking trojan, is described by the security researchers as a “new Device Takeover malware family without direct links to other known threats.”

As commonly seen with other malware, attackers

NVIDIA CEO Teases Mystery Chip That Will Surprise The World At GTC 2026

NVIDIA CEO Teases Mystery Chip That Will Surprise The World At GTC 2026
Everyone’s favorite leather jacket enthusiast and AI goldmine architect Jensen Huang gave an exclusive interview to Korea Economic Daily where he made some pretty interesting remarks, and key among them was the statement that NVIDIA has “prepared some new chips that the world has never seen before.” But what was he actually talking about?

When

Arc Raiders Finally Starts Cracking Down On Duplication Exploit Cheaters

Arc Raiders Finally Starts Cracking Down On Duplication Exploit Cheaters
Arc Raiders, one of the biggest hits of 2026, has been fighting cheats and exploits since day one. Recently, however, a particular item duplication exploit was popularized by streamer TheBurntPeanut, whose videos on the matter received over 130K views. Embark Studios previously voiced its displeasure with this issue and patched it out with

Microsoft’s Project Silica Brings 10,000-Year Glass Storage Closer To Reality

Microsoft's Project Silica Brings 10,000-Year Glass Storage Closer To Reality
Microsoft’s Project Silica has achieved a breakthrough in data preservation by developing a higher-density glass storage system capable of archiving digital data for thousands of years without degradation. By utilizing femtosecond lasers to etch data into quartz glass, researchers have created a medium that is virtually indestructible, resisting

Apple iPhone Deals Slash Prices On Grade‑A Refurbs With Full 1‑Year Warranty

Apple iPhone Deals Slash Prices On Grade‑A Refurbs With Full 1‑Year Warranty
Once again, Amazon-owned Woot is hosting a huge sale on Grade-A refurbished Apple iPhone models spanning the iPhone 16 Pro Max all the way down to the iPhone XR, with prices starting at a very low $119.99. In addition, it’s also hawking Grade-A refurbished Apple Watch models, including the Apple Watch Ultra 2nd Gen. If you’ve been wanting

Hubble Captures Rare Image Of A Galaxy Made Almost Entirely Of Invisible Dark Matter

Hubble Captures Rare Image Of A Galaxy Made Almost Entirely Of Invisible Dark Matter
Scientists using a trio of some of the world’s most powerful observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid, and the Subaru Telescope, have pulled back the curtain on a ghost galaxy that is nearly 99% dark matter, detected thanks solely to its four associate globular clusters.

The discovery centers on the object named Candidate

Every Pair Of Headphones In New Study Found To Contain Toxic Chemicals

Every Pair Of Headphones In New Study Found To Contain Toxic Chemicals
A wide-scale investigation has revealed that the headphones millions of people wear daily for work, exercise, and leisure are leaching a cocktail of hazardous forever chemicals and endocrine disruptors (think BPA) directly into their bodies. Conducted by the ToxFree LIFE for All project and spearheaded by the environmental group Arnika, the

Corsair Drops Limited‑Run PC Cases With Striking Color‑Shift Panels

Corsair Drops Limited‑Run PC Cases With Striking Color‑Shift Panels
Corsair is slapping a fresh coat of paint on its popular Frame 4000D chassis for a limited edition run, and what makes the new color schemes so unique in a sea of PC cases is that the color shifts depending on the viewing angle and ambient lighting. There are two options to choose from, both of which are part of a new Frame 4000D Vault Series:

Dell Expands Its 2026 Gaming Monitor Lineup With Two Low-Cost 240Hz Displays

Dell Expands Its 2026 Gaming Monitor Lineup With Two Low-Cost 240Hz Displays
Dell has quietly launched a pair of affordable 27-inch gaming monitors starting at a low $129.99, and despite the budget-friendly price tags, they both feature a reasonably fast 240Hz refresh rate. They’re also both AMD FreeSync Premium models. Dell’s launch is a refreshing change of pace when the cost of gaming on the PC platform continues

Einstein Probe’s Violent X-Ray Flash Points To A Black Hole Devouring A Dead Star

Einstein Probe's Violent X-Ray Flash Points To A Black Hole Devouring A Dead Star
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong are convinced that the Chinese Einstein Probe space telescope has detected an intermediate-mass black hole devouring a white dwarf and expelling a relativistic jet, based on X-ray signals ahead of a series of intense flares also detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope. The image above is

AMD Says Report Of Delayed Instinct MI455X Accelerator Launch Is Total BS

AMD Says Report Of Delayed Instinct MI455X Accelerator Launch Is Total BS
AMD’s Instinct MI400 series is its upcoming family of compute accelerators based on the “CDNA 5” architecture. AMD has made many lofty claims about MI400-series parts; particularly, the company says that the “Helios” rack-scale compute platform based on Instinct MI455X AI accelerators will match or beat NVIDIA’s upcoming Vera Rubin machines

GameSir’s New GameHub App Aims To Turn Your Mac Into A Steam Gaming PC

GameSir's New GameHub App Aims To Turn Your Mac Into A Steam Gaming PC
It’s tough being a gamer entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, as the company has failed to reach its own lofty goals of becoming a legitimate gaming platform. Even releasing the Game Porting Toolkit, which attempts to ease the work flow of porting games over from Windows, hasn’t gotten developers to fully commit to making games readily available

This Android Phone Runs Cyberpunk 2077 Thanks To Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Power

This Android Phone Runs Cyberpunk 2077 Thanks To Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Power
Impressive strides have been happening in efforts to play x86 games on ARM devices, even Windows x86 games on Android mobile platforms—and now, we can confirm that Cyberpunk 2077 is actually playable at 30 FPS and Low settings for owners of Android phones outfitted with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform, albeit with FSR in Balanced

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Switch 2 Patch Delivers A Surprise Performance Fix

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Switch 2 Patch Delivers A Surprise Performance Fix
Upon its launch, the Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition received heavy criticism for its 30 FPS cap, input lag, and various graphical glitches. Despite how much more powerful the Nintendo Switch 2 is compared to the platforms available when Skyrim launched, the improvements over the previous-gen Switch

Pixel 9 Owners Can Now Share Files Seamlessly With iPhone And Mac, Here’s How

Pixel 9 Owners Can Now Share Files Seamlessly With iPhone And Mac, Here's How
After launching Android Quick Share functionality on its flagship Pixel 10 devices earlier this month, Google is now bringing the feature to the Pixel 9 series. Android Quick Share allowsAndroid users to send files to Apple users using AirDrop, which has been a long-running pain point for users with a varied mix of devices among friends, family

Windows 11’s New Preview Build Drops AI Focus For Practical Improvements

Windows 11's New Preview Build Drops AI Focus For Practical Improvements
Windows 11’s latest Release Preview drop, with builds numbered 26100.7918 and 26200.7918, hits with a noticeably different vibe than some of Microsoft’s recent Windows releases. Instead of another dubious Copilot expansion, or an AI-powered reinvention of something that already worked fine, this one leans into practical improvements, system

Pixel 10a Preorders Open At $499 As Google Takes On Apple’s iPhone 17e

Pixel 10a Preorders Open At $499 As Google Takes On Apple’s iPhone 17e
Official pricing is set for Google’s new Pixel 10a smartphone, a midrange handset that will go up against Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17e that is expected to be unveiled during an Apple Experience event on March 4. Google gets the jump on its rival by a solid two weeks, and to entice buyers who may be on the fence, it’s dangling a few promotional

NZXT’s $3499 H2 Mini PC Packs Ryzen 7 9800X3D Or Core Ultra 9 285K And RTX 5080

NZXT's $3499 H2 Mini PC Packs Ryzen 7 9800X3D Or Core Ultra 9 285K And RTX 5080
NZXT has launched a compact prebuilt gaming PC that it’s calling the H2 Mini PC, and you have a choice between an AMD or Intel foundation with both setups carrying the same price tag. Despite it’s name, the system falls more into the small form factor (SFF) category than a traditional mini PC though it’s certainly a smaller setup measuring

NVIDIA And Meta Expand AI Platform Alliance With Millions Of GPUs, CPUs And Networking

NVIDIA And Meta Expand AI Platform Alliance With Millions Of GPUs, CPUs And Networking
NVIDIA and Meta have formed a multi-year partnership that represents a total platform commitment spanning CPU and GPU hardware, networking solutions, and NVIDIA’s Confidential Computing platform for end-to-end encryption of data in a secure enclave. The sheer size of the deal—unconfirmed scuttlebutt puts it north of $100 billion based on Meta’s