Articles from July 30, 2026
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South Korea's Chip Lobby Just Hired a Trade Negotiator — Here's Why It Matters for Your Next PC
On July 28, the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) voted to appoint Park Kun-soo as its new standing vice chairman. Park takes office on August 1, serving a three-year term through July...
Intel’s Core i9 Fix Demands BIOS 0x12F—Here’s How to Stop the Damage
Owners of Intel’s 13th- and 14th-generation Core i9 desktop processors face a deadline that’s not on any calendar: update the motherboard BIOS to microcode 0x12F or risk permanent, irreversible...
Intel's Panther Lake Goes Rugged: Five New CPUs Built for Factory Floors and Freezers
Intel has quietly listed five new Core Ultra Series 3 processors—code-named Panther Lake—engineered specifically for embedded and industrial systems that must endure extreme temperatures,...
Shelly 3.0 Rewrites Arch Package Manager in Zig, Sheds .NET for Native Performance
The alternative Arch Linux package manager Shelly has been fully rewritten in Zig, replacing its C# and .NET foundation with ahead-of-time compiled native code in the newly released version 3.0. The...
SideQuest Relaunches AltspaceVR This Fall with Robot Avatars and a Return to Its 2016 Roots
SideQuest, the alternative app library for Quest headsets, is bringing Microsoft's long-shuttered social VR platform AltspaceVR back from the dead. The company announced on July 29, 2026, that it has...
AMD EPYC-Powered AI Spots Wafer Flaws Without GPUs: A Blueprint for Edge Inference
A system running entirely on AMD EPYC server CPUs now guards semiconductor production lines at Samsung facilities, catching wafer defects before they ruin entire batches — and it does so without a...
Microsoft's Private Cloud Partner Badge: What US Signal's Win Means for Windows Shops
US Signal on July 30 earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud, a credential that marks the Grand Rapids–based infrastructure provider as a certified expert in building...
Move this folder before uninstalling Steam, or lose every game you've installed
Uninstalling Steam isn’t a routine Windows uninstall. Hit the remove button and you might kiss your entire game library goodbye — hundreds of gigabytes of downloads, gone. That’s the reality...
CXMT’s $8.6B IPO Puts More DDR5 RAM Within Reach—But Windows PC Buyers Should Wait Before Cheering
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s largest DRAM maker, debuted on the Shanghai STAR Market on July 27. The stock closed at 49 yuan—a 465.82 percent leap from its 8.66 yuan IPO...
Malaysia’s 454 New Chip Designers Are a Quiet Win for Windows on Arm’s Future
Malaysia just added 454 freshly trained integrated-circuit designers to the global semiconductor workforce. They graduated July 28 from nine cohorts of the Advanced Semiconductor Academy Malaysia,...
Your Alternate DNS Isn't a Backup: Why Windows 11 Ignores It When Your Primary Blocks a Site
You set Quad9 as your primary DNS to block malware. For safety, you added Google DNS as the alternate. It feels right—if one fails, the other steps in. But on Windows 11, that alternate server is...
Pandora’s Hidden Reset Button on Windows 11 Fixes Playback Failures Fast
Pandora’s Windows 11 desktop app has a little-known reset feature that can quickly cure playback hiccups without reinstalling the entire application. The trick, highlighted in a new troubleshooting...