GMKtec has launched its flagship Mini Workstation, the EVO-X5 PRO, which rocks AMD’s fastest Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 chip.
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The EVO-X5 Pro builds upon GMKtec’s past EVO releases such as the EVO-X2 and the more recent EVO-X3. The EVO-X5 Pro is decked out, featuring lots of computing capabilities that can be used by professionals and AI users.
Packing the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 “Gorgon Halo” SoC, the GMKtec EVO-X5 PRO comes with 16 cores and 32 threads based on the Zen 5 architecture. The chip operates at up to 5.2 GHz and packs 64 MB of cache. The chip is rated to operate between 45-120W, and GMKtec’s EVO-X5 Pro offers three power modes that users can switch between with ease depending on their AI tasks.
AMD’s flagship Gorgon Halo chip also comes with a tuned Radeon 8065S iGPU, which operates at up to 3000 MHz and offers 40 compute units, while the XDNA 2 NPU provides up to 55 TOPS of AI compute performance. All combined, the chip offers 131 TOPS.
In terms of memory, the GMKtec EVO-X5 PRO comes equipped with 192 GB of unified memory, which operates at 8533 MT/s speeds. The PC can dedicate up to 160 GB of memory to the GPU, making sure that users can run large AI models (300B+) locally. For storage, you can get up to 24 TB on the EVO-X5 PRO thanks to its triple M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 array, each supporting up to 8 TB capacity.
As for the design, GMKtec’s EVO-X5 PRO comes with a CNC All-Metal chassis and an All-In-One Smart Function key. IO includes dual front USB4 ports, dual USB4 V2 ports on the rear (support for eGPU), 8K video output, dual USB 3.2, dual 10GbE Ethernet LAN ports, and an HDMI port. The Mini PC can be used in clusters using the onboard USB4 V2 ports.
The company has also made use of its latest Vapor Chamber heat spreader and a triple-fan cooling solution that adopts smart thermal control technology.
For software, GMKtec packs the EVO-X5 PRO with its own GMKtec Claw AI agent solution, and supports AMD Dash Remote Management technology through the RJ45 Dash network adapter, and a dedicated dTPM 2.0 security chip. The company hasn’t announced the pricing yet, but the PC will be launching next month in October.

The graphics benchmarks were conducted by enthusiasts using NVIDIA’s DLSS5 neural network rendering at 1440p. Testers were primarily interested in evaluating the nighttime ambience, street neon, and dynamic lighting of Palm City. Project was ran at 60 FPS target frame rate, which allowed for detailed analysis of geometry, contact shadows and artificial headlights scattering on wet surfaces.
The testing was performed on a computer that had the most recent hardware configuration. This system consisted of a 14-core Intel Core i5-13600KF, a GeForce RTX-4070 SUPER discrete graphics card, with 12GB video memory and 32GB DDR5 DDR5 RAM running at 6000MHz. It also included an ASRock Pro RS motherboard as well as a 2TB Crucial P5 PLUS solid-state drive. Gigabyte UD850GM power supply with 850W. This image was displayed on a Lenovo Legion 27″ OLED monitor, with a refresh of 240Hz.
Implementing DLSS 5 algorithms removed the defects in the TAA antialiasing. They also eliminated pixel flickering and restored the clarity of texture on the road surface. The neural network filters reworked reflection structures in paints and puddles to make light and shadow transitions physical correct. Hardware handled the tensor blocks calculations without input or frame rate lag.

US negotiators Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and others have arrived in Kyiv to continue discussions on ending the conflict in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s President, met with the two in Sophia Square in Kyiv, right in front of Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral. Zelenskyy hugged Witkoff and said: “It is good to see Steve.”
It is located a few hundred meters from Ukraine’s SBU Intelligence Agency, the site of a drone attack by Russia on Friday. This marks an intensification in a war that has lasted for over four years.
Witkoff & Kushner meet Zelenskyy a day after meeting Vladimir Putin, the Russian president for three hours in Moscow.
It is the first time that US envoys are visiting Ukraine. They have been to Russia before. This trip represents a new level of effort to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine. However, details about any possible peace plan remain unclear.
According to reports, British national security advisors as well as French and German ones were in Kyiv Sunday morning before Witkoff’s and Kushner’s arrival.
The talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war focused on Washington’s and Kyiv’s 20-point plan, which was presented in December. The two sides are unable to find common ground in several key issues, such as control of the east Ukraine territory.
An official from the White House said that on Saturday, the discussions with Moscow “discussed substantial plans for the next steps” to end the war. He said that an announcement will be made in the upcoming weeks.
Yuri Ushakov, a senior Kremlin aide, described the discussions as “extremely frank”. He said that there was an acknowledgment of the necessity to deal with “the roots of the conflict”.
Moscow and Kyiv agreed to abstain from striking each other’s capitals for three days in order to facilitate the negotiations. Zelenskyy stated on Sunday the Russian attacks on Kyiv’s main airports Friday night had thrown the US delegation’s plans to travel into Moscow out of whack.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, Ukrainian airspace is closed. Some visiting dignitaries travelled by land from neighboring countries.
Kyiv, and its surrounding area have been bombarded by daily drone attacks for over a week. This is the longest sustained assault on Ukraine’s Capital in recent months.
Capital now enjoys a respite from the strikes and alerts for air raids which had been a regular occurrence. However, other parts of country continue to be hit. Ukrainian authorities announced on Sunday at least 8 people had been killed in Ukraine and 69 others injured during the last day.
Ukraine faces a severe shortage of Patriot missiles made in the US that are capable of shooting down any incoming threats. Recent Russian attacks have involved new jet-powered drones capable of speeds up to 250mph. This makes them difficult to intercept.
The war has been going on for five years and many Ukrainians worry about what the winter will bring. Serhii Bekskrestnov is Zelenskyy’s adviser on defence technology. He told The Guardian this week that the government could consider evacuating older people from Kyiv because Putin has ordered Russian forces to “prepare for and execute mass strikes” against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
In recent weeks, Russia and Ukraine increased the use of missiles with long ranges to undermine morale within their respective countries.
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A political earthquake has erupted in Germany’s East as young and working class voters are expected to give the extreme right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), a historic victory in the state elections held in Saxony Anhalt on Sunday.
AfD – which Elon Musk famously supported in the national elections last year – has been accused by Germany’s intelligence service of being pro-Russian and a right-wing extremist effort. It has a chance to be the first non-mainstream party to gain an absolute majority in the German Landtag since World War II.
Daniel Schatz is a foreign policy author and expert with a PhD in Political Science from Berlin’s Humboldt University. He told Fox News Digital that Saxony Anhalt was important because the AfD no longer only knocks on the power door. The AfD may even be on the verge of opening it.
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Since 1949, no other minor party has led a governing coalition in Germany.
Janek Treiber is a political scientist at Dresden University of Technology. He told Fox News Digital, “you cannot underestimate the symbolism this will give.” It is a symbol of the loss of control by these right-wing parties that have ruled Germany or its East since 1989. Now they lose power. This is much more powerful than saying that the AfD would change something or other in their local university or school system.
Schatz called the AfD a “nationalist, antiimmigration far-right party that is a powerful tool for voters’ anger against Germany’s political establishment – especially in former East Germany.” The AfD campaigns to tighten immigration and place a greater emphasis on German identity. It also rejects much of the environmental agenda, as well as taking a more lenient stance toward Russia.
Even in Germany’s 6th smallest state an outright victory for the AfD would be enough to break the “Brandmauer” or “firewall” of the political establishment. Other parties are unwilling to cooperate with AfD. The AfD is the official opposition party and the second largest party in Germany’s Bundestag. It won 20,8% of votes in the federal elections in February 2025.
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Alice Weidel of the AfD, national co-chair for Germany, spoke out in an interview with German television ZDF. She said, “Illegal immigration, open, unchecked borders, anyone could get into.” Our internal security suffers. “People are truly fed up of this situation.”
Weidel continued, “The reason that caused their exodus no longer exists. All Syrian refugees’ protected status must be revoked.” They must go back to their home country. “If they do not leave on their own, they will be forced to go. We must stop naturalizing the people that should be leaving Germany. “We have Islamization.”
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The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, classified the AfD in May 2025 as an “extremist right-wing group” citing its “anti-migrant stances and ancestry based definition of German Identity.” According to Deutsche Welle in February of this year, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) put the AfD’s classification on hold after “Judges determined that although there were evidence of potentially constitutionally unconstitutional policies and statements within the AfD… there was not enough evidence to classify the party as an extremist”.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told the state broadcaster ARD that he could not imagine foreign investors participating in a groundbreaking ceremony in Saxony-Anhalt with an AfD minister-president in order to establish new factories and businesses. However, this is a matter for the voters of Saxony-Anhalt. If things go as we fear, the state could suffer significant damage.
Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD candidate for Saxony Anhalt in the lead position has not been affected by this. He has over 700,000 TikTok followers in a state with just under 2 million residents.
A report by the Center for Strategic & International Studies said Siegmund’s “polished appearance, professional tone, and radical requests blend together with footage of a politician who is community-oriented responding to questions from the audience… the AfD’s physical presence on the street and omnipresence within the media help to push the populist us versus them’ narrative: the AfD will be there for you and the other parties won’t.
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The independent and non-partisan German site Wahlrecht.de tracks polls for federal and state elections. Ahead of the vote on Sunday in Saxony Anhalt, AfD has a lead of 41%-23% over CDU. Three left-wing parties are also ahead. To control the parliament and appoint a State Minister-President (basically a Governor), a party or coalition must have at least 50% of seats. How can a 43% party win a general election? This is due to Germany’s special election system.
Schatz affirms that “German voters vote twice,” “one for the local candidate, like choosing your Congressman and another for their party. This second vote is what counts. This vote determines the number of seats that each party will have in Parliament. There is one caveat, however: “Any parties that fall below 5% get nothing — zero seat — and these votes are effectively thrown away. Several smaller parties hover right on that line. If they don’t make it, 42 or 43 percent of votes can be translated into over half the seats. In Saxony Anhalt, the AfD could be in power even though a majority of voters did not vote for them. This would be the first time in Germany since World War II.”
CSIS said that voters were drawn to AfD because of its extreme ideology. More than 60.5% AfD supporters hold an extremist right-wing worldview… At same time, over two-thirds of AfD members believe that the party is not far enough away from extremist right-wing positions. AfD has also tripled their results in the last three years among those aged 18-25.
Treiber stated that economics are pushing young voters towards the AfD due to increasing expenses and unemployment. The younger voters, he said, are also “sort of polarized” because some of them vote for Die Linke (the left-wing party in Germany).
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Saxony Anhalt could be just the beginning of the rise of the anti-establishment movements. In two weeks, voters in Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania will be voting. This is where Angela Merkel, the former chancellor, grew up, and started her political career. According to polling data by Wahlrecht.de, the AfD leads the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 35%-32%.
In Berlin, voters will also be voting in just two weeks. According to recent polls, Die Linke, a far-left party, is tied with the CDU on 20%. The AfD comes in second at 18%. Both the SPD and Greens are around 15%. The AfD is a party that has a majority in former East Germany. However, it also holds 15 out of 96 German seats at the European Parliament.

Huawei Mate XT 2 privacy screen will use a brand new technology that maintains content quality, unlike Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Tipster DigitalChatStation stated that the Mate XT 2 privacy screen is independent RGB pixel driver with no impact on content. The tipster also said that Samsung’s privacy screens are different, and can affect the display when enabled.
Privacy screens are hardware upgrades to OLED panels. They reduce the visibility of content when seen from the side. The privacy screen is intended to safeguard users’ personal information. The percentage reduction in visibility will be dependent on distance. Still, it’s quite effective technology.
Samsung introduced the first privacy screen on its Galaxy S26 Ultra. Reviewers gave it full marks but some users were concerned. Low brightness and low contrast caused eye fatigue and strain.
Huawei Mate XT 2 uses a dual-pixel system with independent pixel settings for normal and privacy screen modes to resolve the issue. The brightness and contrast will be maintained in both modes.
The Mate XT 2 also uses the high precision hinges of the latest generation and will fold inward. The first-generation Mate XT was folded into a Z shape, with a single screen.
The new model will fold inward and have an additional display for interaction on the front cover. Huawei’s previous teaser suggested that this tri-fold has been subjected to rigorous tests in order to guarantee durability.
Huawei Mate XT 2, which will be available in three different storage sizes: 512GB (1TB), 2TB (2TB), and 16GB RAM, comes with 16GB of RAM. The Mate XT 2 will come in black, white and purple, with an interesting back panel design.