Month: April 2025

Tariffs Will Make Electronics More Expensive. If You Need a New Gadget, ‘Buy It Now’

A 104 percent tariff on imports from China will likely see rising prices on smartphones and laptops in the coming months. Source

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Razer pauses direct laptop sales in the US as new tariffs loom

Razer’s upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available for preorder or purchase on its US site. The configurator for preordering its new Blade 16 laptop was available as recently as April 1st, according to the Internet Archive — one day before the Trump administration announced sweeping US…

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Intel’s former CEO puts money into a little-known hardware startup that wants to make Nvidia obsolete

UK-based Fractile is backed by NATO and wants to build faster and cheaper in-memory AI compute Nvidia’s bruteforce GPU approach consumes too much power and is held back by memory Fractile’s numbers focused on a cluster of H100 GPU comparison, not the mainstream H200 Nvidia sits comfortably at the top…

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US senators seek answers on Google and Microsoft AI deals which may ‘discourage competition’

Two US Senators have asked tech giants for more information on AI deals Even partial acquisitions could harm competition The FTC also noted potential competition issues Two tech industry titans that have been the subjects of many an anticompetitive investigation are now being questioned over their partnerships with AI companies.…

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CrushFTP vulnerability exploited in the wild, added to CISA KEV database

A critical flaw was discovered in file transfer tool CrushFTP Experts claim the issue was being abused in the wild CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog A critical-severity vulnerability plaguing file transfer software CrushFTP was found being actively exploited in the wild. Earlier this month, it was reported…

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Hades II will launch on Switch 2 and Switch before PlayStation and Xbox

When Hades II moves out of Early Access and into v1.0 later this year, Nintendo will have a prime seat at the table. A “Creator’s Voice” promo video published on Tuesday (via Kotaku) echoed what developer Supergiant Games posted in a FAQ last week: Switch 2 and Switch will be…

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