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SoftBank has recorded a $3.7 billion loss after canceling excess gas turbine reservations intended to support its expanding artificial intelligence data center infrastructure in the United States. The Japanese investment company had reportedly secured more than 13 gigawatts of power generation capacity through advance turbine orders, anticipating severe equipment shortages as AI development accelerated. However, changes to its infrastructure plans have left the company

Nintendo has expanded its efforts against Nintendo Switch modification tools, successfully requesting the removal of 144 GitHub repositories containing firmware for popular console modchips. The latest action targets software associated with Picofly, HWFLY, SX Core and SX Lite, which can be used to bypass security protections on the original Nintendo Switch family. GitHub disabled the repositories following a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown

SpaceX is reportedly developing a custom AI computing system called Kessel that combines 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs with an unusual circuit board design intended for both conventional and space based data centers. The project is based on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 architecture but replaces the company's standard NVLink cable connections with a large printed circuit board containing 84 layers. According to industry reports, SpaceX

ASRock has released a replacement VBIOS update for its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards after an earlier firmware version reportedly caused some GPUs to stop working. The new firmware package, ASRVBFlash 1.0.6, replaces version 1.0.5, which was linked to failed updates affecting certain Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX cards. Although the latest package is dated November 6, 2026, it reportedly

ASRock has released a replacement VBIOS update for its Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards after an earlier firmware version reportedly caused some GPUs to stop working. The new firmware package, ASRVBFlash 1.0.6, replaces version 1.0.5, which was linked to failed updates affecting certain Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX cards. Although the latest package is dated November 6, 2026, it reportedly

Microsoft is reportedly urging the Trump administration to reconsider a proposed ban on Chinese optical transceivers, warning that restrictions could disrupt the expansion of AI data centers across the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering restrictions on importing new Chinese optical transceivers over concerns about national security and potential foreign interference. However, Microsoft and several technology industry groups argue that American

An independent developer has released an open source utility designed to fix a Radeon driver bug that repeatedly writes unnecessary data to SSDs, potentially increasing storage wear over time. The utility, called Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fix, was developed by necanditool and targets a problem involving AMD's External Events Utility. The issue causes the atieclxx.exe process to repeatedly copy files in the background, even when the computer is

NVIDIA has reportedly canceled plans to introduce a 24GB version of the GeForce RTX 5080 because of rising GDDR7 memory prices and difficulties securing higher capacity memory chips. The company was previously rumored to be preparing the RTX 5080 24GB as a replacement for the existing 16GB model. However, a new report from the graphics card supply chain suggests that NVIDIA has reversed those

A PNY GeForce RTX 5070 owner has reported an unresolved warranty dispute after the graphics card manufacturer declined another replacement request despite repeated crashes, black screens and severe graphical artifacts. The owner claims the problems have continued for approximately two months, affecting the graphics card during normal desktop activities and relatively light workloads. However, when the card was returned to PNY for inspection, the