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Nvidia's sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sits alongside Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck.

Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. However, it seems like a driver conflict more than a deliberate blacklist since another app, Hydra 2.3B Pro, is working just fine.

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world's largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and Amazon, over allegations that it shipped China-made PCBs back to Taiwan and relabeled them as Taiwanese products.

Asus refused to replace a loyal customer's wireless headset receiver because accessories are apparently not covered under warranty. The customer was not happy to see his dedication be put into question like this, brining receipts of past purchases to express their disappointment over this betrayal.

A Taiwanese man sued his wife for having an affair using recordings from a robot vacuum to prove his case. He won, but got sued by the wife for infringing on her personal privacy and was fined the equivalent of 30% of what he earned as compensation previously.

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk wants to bring their manufacturing in-house at SpaceX.

An epic book preservation effort.

A user on Reddit shared their story about how the factory-applied liquid metal on their Asus Zephyrus M16 gaming laptop corroded the heatsink and lid of their CPU. It got so bad that the corrosion was about to eat away and seep onto the silicon itself, but thankfully a simple re-paste job averted catastrophe.

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 - by soldering wires directly to the card's PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they've created perhaps an even bigger fire hazard.

The US military has successfully deployed a laser defense system on the southern border of the country and shot down alleged Mexican cartel drones. These UAVs are suspected of spotting U.S. law enforcement operations and help the criminal organizations traffic humans and goods into the United States.

A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.

The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society and the Free Software Foundation Europe to help address the unfairness of unwanted OS bundling.

The community surrounding the DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, are complaining about the Microsoft-linked project. The company's deployment of several unpermitted gas turbines is just one of the issues that has been hounding the project, with potential water issues also surfacing in recent weeks.

The U.S. Navy successfully tested a sail-powered autonomous drone in live-fire exercises in the Pacific.

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a rule to close a loophole around remote access to advanced AI compute, and it could be shared with trade groups as early as September.

Nvidia establishes its employees federal political action committee (PAC) to fund politicians whose positions are favorable to Nvidia's interests.

Security researchers at Vulncheck discovered intentionally masked surveillance implants embedded in the firmware of numerous devices from Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics.

One modder has reverse-engineered DLSS 5 to function on RTX 4000 series Ada Lovelace-based GPUs, porting incompatible CUDA instructions within the Neural Rendering DLL, enabling them to be read on previous-gen hardware.

Nvidia denies putting AI cloud commitments initiative on hold despite reports that some deals were paused amid partner pushback over customer controls and concerns about potential antitrust scrutiny.

80% of Micron workers in Taiwan have signaled that they're willing to go on strike if the company does not strike a deal over bonuses. The employees want to replace the current bonus system with a profit-sharing scheme, allowing them to take advantage of the AI-driven memory boom.

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The X Safety Team said that at least 200 bot accounts have been making posts to influence public opinion data centers and energy policy. The accounts share links to legitimate news stories and then add their own spin designed to inflame emotions.

I&M, which serves part of Indiana, says that it plans to cut electricity prices for the state, resulting in savings of about $59 million for residential users. This translates to about $100 a year for each home, with the savings coming from increased revenue from larger consumers like data centers.

Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up