Here's what's new from AMD for COMPUTEX 2026, including two (sort of) new processors, RX 9070 GRE global release, and a few feature announcements.

AMD confirmed it will support its current AM5 socket through 2029, extending the timeline by two years and likely lining up at least two more generations on the socket.

AMD is rereleasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and introducing the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, both eight-core chips with 3DV-Cache targeting midrange gamers whove been under the thumb of rising component prices.

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Dear Craig: Your operating systems need some help, and we all know it. Hopefully, WWDC won't just be a massive AI push. Craig Federighi, during one of the traditional WWDC skits. I know it's a bit weird writing to you, as you'd expect I'd be appealing to Tim Cook . He's in a bit of a transition period right now, probably telling John Ternus where the keys to the executive volleyball court are kept and other important matters. At the same time, you are the most appropriate person to write to ..

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions

Dell has announced the XPS 13, a new budget laptop meant to compete with the MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 for students at launch.

Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple.

It starts at just $599 for students or $699 for everyone else.

Alienware is also releasing an updated 34-inch ultra-wide alongside new affordable 32 and 34-inch displays.

Dell's XPS 13 is going after Apple's MacBook Neo with a $699 starting price, some higher specs, and Intel's new Wildcat Lake processors.

Alienware hits the ground running at Computex with four new gaming monitors covering OLED and VA panel types.

A historian-turned-software engineer warns that "so little is ever written down" by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company: Perhaps there's an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long time ago and others that have been left to molder in the codebase. Somebody might have left a comment in the code itself, but typically it's a ..

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Axios reports: The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S., released a 10-point plan to introduce AI and screen-time guardrails in classrooms. The plan would limit AI use and ban screens for students in prekindergarten through second grade "unless there is a compelling reason," such as supporting students with special needs. The teacher union's president Randi Weingarten warned that young students "are drowning in tech," according to the New York Times, ..

The premium gaming handheld's price is expected to be around $1,500.

London iPhone theft victims have reported threats, AirTag catches a burglar in Pittsburgh, and California prisoners did not receive iPads, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter. Man in cuffs - Image Credit: Pixabay The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu "suffered a catastrophic 70% drop in its second weekend," reports Variety, suggesting the movie isn't finding audiences "beyond an aging group of core fans." "Despite playing on far more screens, The Mandalorian and Grogu landed in third place on weekend charts behind Backrooms and Obsession." (described as "two buzzy horror films.") Suprisingly, both movies were directed by 20-something YouTube stars, "and cost nearly nothing to produce." Analyst ..

The company announced the new Dual Format feature alongside other updates at TwitchCon Europe.

Almost a fifth of the earth's population lives in Africa. And Africa's next generation of power projects "is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage," reports the Associated Press, "as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster reliable electricity." The shift is visible in a $1.5 billion energy agreement between China and Zambia announced in early May that includes three separate 300-megawatt projects ..

Xiaomi unveiled its new 17T series this week and it will probably be pleased to see both members made the podium of out trending chart. The Xiaomi 17T Pro is our new champion, while its vanilla sibling took the bronze medal. Between them, we have the ever-popular Samsung Galaxy A57. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14651, 1#] The Galaxy S26 Ultra missed on the podium spots this week, placing fourth and just ahead of the Galaxy A17 from the other end of the company's portfolio. The Xiaomi 17 Max slipped to ..

Polymarket has started blocking IP addresses associated with VPNs.

The Apple smart glasses with cameras and no heads-up display have been rumored for the end of 2026, but could now come at the end of 2027 instead. Though that's not the whole story. Apple's smart glasses ambitions don't stop at speakers and microphones Rumors about Apple's smart glasses effort have been increasing in frequency since 2024 , but primarily from a single source. One other highly accurate source that has been in play since 2023 has offered a differing timeline, until now. According ..

"In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources," writes The Register. InfoWorld writes that "numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have." The foundation is now inviting contributions to the DNS-AID project, a standard way for AI ..

Here's what to expect in the coming months in various tech spaces we here at Pokde.NET cover, ranging from smartphones, laptops, gadgets, cars, gaming, and everything in between.

Apple is already developing its 2027 updates for iOS 28, iPadOS 28, macOS 28, and its other operating systems. This is entirely unsurprising. The launch of iOS 26 at WWDC 25 - Image Credit: Apple As a major operating system producer and hardware manufacturer, it has to work long in advance to perfect its releases. While it has a lengthy schedule for products like the iPhone and Mac lineups, it can take just as long to get software out the door. In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg , ..

The N1X reportedly comes in two SKUs: a top-end 20-core option with 6,144 CUDA cores matching the desktop RTX 5070, and a cut-down 18-core option with 5,120 CUDA cores. The standard N1 also has two configs, one with a 12-core CPU and 2,560 CUDA cores and a 10-core model with 2,048 CUDA cores.

You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new "virtual museum," according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTSTEP, and was "shocked" by how easy it was to run it, "and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from." Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox then opens to a Debian Linux instance, where you can select from a very long list of ..

Apple's home hardware is about to get a shake-up this fall. While the Apple TV gets a bit of a performance boost, the HomePod mini will get a bunch more Siri functionality. A HomePod mini on a HomePod Apple has long been rumored to be working on a new HomeHub, but other household tech will get updates soon. That includes the Apple TV and the HomePod mini . According to Mark Gurman's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg on Sunday, Apple has sat on new hardware for the two models for months. ..

Wix cofounder and CEO Avishai Abrahami announced on Thursday that it's laying off 20 percent of its staff.

Alongside the many products with sheer number-crunching capabilities - including some that are not even laptops - Acer has one more laptop in the pipeline. Its the Swift Air 14 which, among other things, is made to be simpler while also being portable. While theres no pricing information on it just yet, its components indicate [] The post Acer Swift Air 14 Joins The Brands Computex 2026 Lineup appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Newegg's ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt combines Intel's 20-core Core i7-14700F with Nvidia's RTX 5060, and 32GB of DDR5 memory for less than the cost of building a comparable system

Apple's initial plan for smart glasses is to take on just about every eyewear manufacturer, smart and not, with design and just a little bit of iPhone integration. Apple is gunning for the glasses industry with its smart eyewear - Image Credit: Pexels/Gustavo Fring The whole Apple Glass endeavor has focused mainly on the still-far-off augmented reality smart glasses . However, with a second version without AR expected to arrive in 2026 or 2027, Apple is trying to break into the wider glasses ..

SoftBank carries over $130 billion in debt and took a $40 billion bridge loan in March to fund its latest OpenAI investment.

The state of Ohio one of America's hot regions for data center construction "is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states," reports the Associated Press. The move "comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets," the article points out. But they also note the expanding data center industry "is under pressure to pay the full costs" The size of Ohio's tax break skyrocketed, dwarfing previous ..

Apple is said to be continuing work on a next-generation Apple Vision Pro in parallel with smart glasses, but it won't launch until 2028 or 2029. Apple's current Apple Vision Pro. Rumors of a second generation Apple Vision Pro have been circulating practically since the first model came out. Unsurprisingly, those rumors were a wishlist with the device being lighter, slimmer, and of course also have a reduced price. Now according to Bloomberg , all of these are being worked on . However, to fit ..

Meta's employee tracking tool, Model Capability Initiative, is facing backlash from employees and questions over law compliance.

The MAMA-1000 pellet 3D printer from Modix prints with a whopping 3kg an hour throughput.

The Yoga Slim 7x brings Snapdragon performance, long battery life, and an OLED display provided youre fine with ARM apps and USB-C everything.