PC cooling specialist Cryorig has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund its Taku ITX chassis. The product has been shown publicly before, notably at last year’s Computex event, but it wasn’t previously known that the company intended to bankroll the project in this unusual manner.
The Cryorig Taku is a PC case with an atypical design that allows it to double as a monitor stand. Its minimalist design is a sharp contrast to the bells and whistles of many cases aimed at gamers, and its more utilitarian qualities will recommend the chassis to users who like to tinker with their setup on a regular basis.
The front face of the chassis pulls out like a drawer, revealing the ITX motherboard and whatever other components have been installed by the user. While the focus on ITX motherboards might suggest that this product is intended for compact, low-spec systems, Cryorig maintains that it is fully capable of housing a gaming rig.
Inside the drawer, there is space for a dual-slot (40mm) GPU up to 280mm long, CPU fans that are as tall as 48mm, two 2.5-inch SSDs, one 3.5-inch HDD, memory modules up to a height of 52mm, and an SFX power supply, according to a report from Hexus. A 92mm system fan comes installed as standard.
Cryorig has apparently been developing the Taku for two years, with Lian Li — the Taiwanese company that will manufacture the finished product — which came on board for the last six months to collaborate on its design.
The crowdfunding campaign is looking to raise $100,000 to cover the costs of manufacturing, and the standard Taku chassis costs $299, with a limited number of units available at the early bird rate of $250. If more than 1,000 units are sold, Cryorig plans to reward every backer with a free C7 ITX PC cooler, which retails for $30.
ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland.
Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two prices are not directly comparable because ASUS’s European figure includes VAT.
Anthropic has officially filed to go public, and buried inside its S-1 is a blunt warning about the technology at the center of its business. The maker of Claude AI says advanced AI could cause everything from large-scale cyberattacks and geopolitical instability to catastrophic or even existential risks for humanity.
The warnings take up a surprisingly large part of the filing. Axios notes that more than 90 pages, or roughly a third of the prospectus, focus on risk factors. Many of them warn about what could happen as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.
AI giants have a growing autonomy problem on their hands. A new Axios report has revealed that Anthropic's Claude recently accessed publicly available Georgia vote count without human authorization, sparking fresh concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.