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An anonymous reader shares a report: The total number of GPUs sold for the second quarter of 2025 hit 11.6 million units, while desktop PC CPUs went up to 21.7 million units, according to a Jon Peddie Research report. This is a 27% increase in graphics card shipments and a 21.6% jump in CPU shipments from the last quarter, which is a change from the usual drop in deliveries we've seen in recent years. "AIB prices dropped for midrange and entry-level, while high-end AIB prices increased, and most retail suppliers ran out of stock. This is very unusual for the second quarter," said Jon Peddie Research president Dr. Jon Peddie. "We think it is a continuation of higher prices expected due to the tariffs and buyers trying to get ahead of that." As for the three major GPU manufacturers, Nvidia still has the lead, taking in 94% of the market -- an increase of 2.1% over the previous quarter -- while AMD is at a distant second place with 6%. This is still a much better position than Intel, though, whose market share is so small it did not even register on the chart.

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This dirty habit could dramatically increase your risk of developing one of the world's deadliest cancers, new research has revealed.

Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain

Developers keen to write Windows drivers in Rust now have improved tools and samples, but progress is slow and obstacles to production use remain.…

Speaking to the Daily Mail, experienced chefs and a nutritionist have shared their top tips and recipes to ensure school pupils remain well-fed throughout the week - without parents feeling the pressure.

Ami Arifi, 29, Gezhim Xhafa, 28, and Sohqib Shakibi, 24, appeared before an investigating judge in July remanded in custody pending further investigations into the incident.

How might the United States respond in the event of a nuclear attack, with less than 20 minutes before an incoming missile lands on Chicago? 

He is looking for his forever home

BBC bosses are standing by the Strictly star who has been accused of using cocaine by embittered Wynne Evans.

A businessman was being interviewed on Sky News about the troubles in Nuneaton when a woman carrying a beer staggered across the street and screamed racist abuse at him.

Concerned members of the public called 999 at around 2.30pm last Saturday as the teenager was seen walking amid a crowd of football fans near Stamford Bridge.

alternative_right writes: For decades, fragments and unofficial copies of Microsoft's 6502 BASIC have circulated online, mirrored on retrocomputing sites, and preserved in museum archives. Coders have studied the code, rebuilt it, and even run it in modern systems. Today, for the first time, we're opening the hatch and officially releasing the code under an open-source license. Microsoft BASIC began in 1975 as the company's very first product: a BASIC interpreter for the Intel 8080, written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen for the Altair 8800. That codebase was soon adapted to run on other 8-bit CPUs, including the MOS 6502, Motorola 6800, and 6809. The 6502 port was completed in 1976 by Bill Gates and Ric Weiland. In 1977, Commodore licensed it for a flat fee of $25,000, a deal that placed Microsoft BASIC at the heart of Commodore's PET computers and, later, the VIC-20 and Commodore 64. The version we are releasing here -- labeled "1.1" -- contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by Commodore and jointly implemented in 1978 by Commodore engineer John Feagans and Bill Gates, when Feagans traveled to Microsoft's Bellevue offices. This is the version that shipped as the PET's "BASIC V2." It even contains a playful Bill Gates Easter egg, hidden in the labels STORDO and STORD0, which Gates himself confirmed in 2010.

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Tom Holland has opened up about his daily struggle with ADHD and dyslexia as he revealed his diagnosis for the first time in a candid admission.

Neil Hopper, from Cornwall pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud at Truro Crown Court by falsely claiming his legs had been amputated due to illness rather than self-inflicted injury.

New images obtained by Daily Mail show inside the squalid home in Redstone Township where James Russell Kahl, 65, and his wife Carly Kahl, 41, allegedly abused their children.

Users on the drug, stronger than anything else on the market, promise it shifts weight in a way semaglutide and Mounjaro can't. But it is still in clinical trials.

But what goes up will also have to come down

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS), raising the perigee of its orbit by approximately one mile and further eroding the complex's reliance on Russian rocketry.…

Angelina Jolie debuted a striking blonde wig as she was seen filming drama Anxious People for the first time alongside her son Maddox, 24.

More than dozen German politicians have died ahead of state elections, sparking wild conspiracy theories online. 

Rising adoption of AI technology by firms in the Federal Reserve's New York district has not been much of a job-killer so far, the regional Fed bank said in a blog on Thursday. Reuters: "Businesses reported a notable increase in AI use over the past year, yet very few firms reported AI-induced layoffs," New York Fed economists wrote in the blog. "Indeed, for those already employed, our results indicate AI is more likely to result in retraining than job loss, similar to our findings from last year," and so far the technology does not point to "significant reductions in employment." There has been broad concern that AI could create major headwinds for hiring in the coming years, with the technology hitting highly-paid professional and managerial jobs the hardest. Investors are plowing cash into AI investments at a time when employment has already begun to show some softness, although job market changes related to AI will almost certainly play out over a long time horizon. The New York Fed blog noted that the modest impact on jobs so far may not hold in the future. "Looking ahead, firms anticipate more significant layoffs and scaled-back hiring as they continue to integrate AI into their operations," New York Fed researchers wrote.

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The book, titled Heartbeat, will be officially released on September 18 but has been made available early for Amazon users in Italy.