Logitech's upcoming MX Master 4 leaks online
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Slightly modified design and an extra button

Detailed images of the upcoming Logitech MX Master 4 mouse have been leaked online, showing a slightly modified design and an extra button.

ASRock unveils Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator graphics card
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Dual-slot Creator series Radeon AI PRO

ASRock has announced the launch of its latest graphics card, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 Creator, built to support edge AI acceleration and professional visualization tasks. Featuring a 4 nm Navi 48 silicon, the GPU comes fully enabled with 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors), 128 AI accelerators, and 64 ray tracing units. It also packs 32GB of memory, which should help with larger AI models. 

KIOXIA brings new CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs for AI and HPC workloads
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Based on KIOXIA's 8th gen BiCS Flash TLC 3D flash memory

KIOXIA announced today the development and successful prototype demonstration of its latest solid-state drives, the CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs, designed to meet the growing demands of AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Based on KIOXIA's 8th-generation BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory, built on triple-level cell (TLC) architecture and enhanced with CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, these new SSDs promise significant improvements in storage density, performance, and power efficiency.

France tightens grip on Eutelsat with €1.35bn cash dump
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No surrender as France doubles down on OneWeb 

The French government has decided to lob €717 million into struggling satellite outfit Eutelsat, more than doubling its stake in a bid to prop up OneWeb and stake a bigger claim in the low Earth orbit space race.

Western Digital drops SN7100 4TB Gen 4 SSD pricing
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NVMe drive hits $249 as Gen 5 gear pushes prices down

As PCIe Gen 5 SSDs start to flood the market with faster numbers and eye-watering thermals, Gen 4 gear like the WD_BLACK SN7100 is becoming a proper steal. The 4TB model is now going for just $249.99 on Amazon, slipping under the previous low of $269.99.