Nvidia has significantly increased the official price of its flagship RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation graphics card to $13,250. This adjustment represents a 55% surge compared to the original launch price of $8,565 established just one year ago. The price hike affects the standard Workstation Edition and the power-efficient Max-Q variant, both of which are designed for professional visualization and compute tasks.

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AMD has released the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform, a compact workstation designed for running large language models locally. This $3,999 mini PC competes directly with Nvidia's DGX Spark by offering a more affordable price point and broader software compatibility. Unlike its primary competitor, which is restricted to Linux, AMD’s system supports Windows 11 Pro to provide greater flexibility for various development environments.

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Ten years ago, we revealed Moonraker, Microsoft’s unreleased smartwatch built during the height of the Windows Phone era. It was colorful, Metro‑driven, and surprisingly forward‑thinking, offering a wearable vision that never made it past the prototype stage. A decade later, Moonraker still represents one of Microsoft’s most intriguing “what if” moments — a stylish device that hinted at a wearable strategy that vanished just as the market took off.

The ASUS Vivobook 14 laptop with an Intel Core 5 120U (10 Cores) CPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB of storage is currently on an early Amazon Prime Day discount with a Plusera 8-in-1 Hub bundled in.

A security researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in AMD's auto-updater software that allowed for remote code execution via man-in-the-middle attacks. The flaw stemmed from the application using unencrypted HTTP connections rather than HTTPS to fetch updates. Although the researcher reported the issue through official channels, AMD denied a $10,000 bounty payout by citing policy exclusions for this specific attack vector.

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New findings from Jon Peddie Research indicate that GPU shipments held strong in Q1 2026, but there's more to the story than just a flat market.

Dell is offering a 27% discount on the Alienware 16X Aurora (AC16251), a high-end gaming laptop we rated highly for its strong performance when running games, top-notch thermals to keep it cool, and an attractive yet durable design.

A hardware teardown by iFixit has revealed that the Trump Mobile T1 smartphone is almost identical to the HTC U24 Pro. Internal components including the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor, 12 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage match the HTC model exactly. Comparative CT scans and physical disassembly confirmed that the mainboards are interchangeable between the two devices.

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Meta is shifting its hardware focus toward smart glasses, betting that wearable devices are the natural successor to smartphones for interacting with AI. The primary advantage of glasses over other wearables is their ability to see and hear from the user's perspective, facilitating "agentic" behavior where the AI proactively handles tasks like scheduling or summarizing conversations. Unlike specialized AI pins or clips, smart glasses leverage an existing consumer habit, offering utility as traditional eyewear even when the digital features are inactive.

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This deal drops the Dell XPS 14 to $1,749.99 and gets you a 3.2K OLED touch display, an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage.

UGREEN hosts a 15% discount on its NASync DH2300, a NAS enclosure that's easy to use for beginners while boasting up to 64TB of compatible storage, 4GB of RAM, and 125MB/s transfer speeds.

Microsoft is expanding support for local AI capabilities in Windows 11 to include systems equipped with dedicated Nvidia graphics cards. Previously, these features were exclusive to Copilot+ PCs, which require a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with at least 40 TOPS of performance. This shift allows the Windows 11 local Language Model APIs to leverage the raw processing power of traditional GPUs rather than relying solely on specialized AI chips.

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Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of M9g and M9gd instances powered by the new Graviton5 processor. These instances utilize the sixth generation of the AWS Nitro System and offer up to 25 percent better compute performance than their predecessors. Early testing by production users shows significant improvements in database query speeds and overall throughput for observability workloads.

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AMD has released preliminary performance estimates for its upcoming EPYC Venice processors, which utilize the new Zen 6 architecture. The flagship model features 256 cores and is designed to compete directly with Nvidia's Vera CPU in high-density data center environments. These initial benchmarks focus on rack-scale performance within a fixed 100kW power budget rather than individual socket metrics.

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In an interview with the BBC, TSMC's CFO explained that price hikes for its foundry services seem almost inevitable due to inflation. Add that to shareholder pressure as the company maxes out production, and you have a recipe for almost all tech going up further in price.

The Surface Laptop Ultra shows what Microsoft can achieve at the high end, and several of its features could make the standard Surface Laptop a stronger option for everyday users.

Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a mid-sized open-source AI model designed to run locally on enterprise laptops with 16GB of RAM. This release bridges the gap between the smaller edge-focused models and larger high-performance versions by offering advanced reasoning in a compact footprint. The model is released under an Apache 2.0 license, making it accessible for diverse development environments and local inference pipelines.

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Microsoft has established a dedicated Beta channel for Windows 11 version 26H1 to provide a more stable testing environment. This release is specifically engineered as a platform-focused update to support upcoming silicon, including Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 and NVIDIA RTX Spark processors. The new structure separates the Beta channel into the 28000 build series while moving Experimental devices to the 28100 series.

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Dell's new XPS 13 for 2026, announced at Computex, is the new best competition for the MacBook Neo. But how exactly do the two laptops compare? I break things down to help discover where the XPS fills in the Neo's blind spots.