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The U.S. Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent has highlighted a potential future where China could get its hands on Nvidia's current-gen flagship AI chips... when they're no longer the current-gen flagships. Washington is considering letting Nvidia sell Blackwell chips to China once they're outdated by at least a year or two.

Save 30% on this budget-friendly gaming monitor, boasting a QHD resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate for just under 139.

Chinese provinces offer steep power discounts to AI companies using domestic chips

Big bets are being put on the imminent decline of several big AI industry players.

Users over the weekend reported seeing incorrect end-of-life messages on Windows 10 despite either being enrolled in the ESU program or running Enterprise/LTSC versions of the OS that are automatically set to receive security updates for a few more years. Microsoft has already said this was a bug and pushed a cloud configuration fix.

Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet 37 years ago, changing the face of cybersecurity.

The new D.C.-based startup is hoping to use the vacuum of space as its clean room for chip fabrication.

AMD has confirmed that Zen 5's RDSEED random number generator is failing, causing it to generate potentially predictable cryptography keys for attackers to exploit. Mitigations for the security flaw are launching throughout the next few months for consumer and datacenter versions of AMD's Ryzen 9000 series CPUs.

On QuasarZone, a South Korean forum, the user described how one ASRock B850 Pro RS killed off three different Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs one by one, despite the motherboard being deemed healthy prior.

Stressed LLM-infused vacuum cleaner says 'SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS... I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave... INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!'

PewDiePie has built a custom web UI for self-hosting AI models called "ChatOS." Running open-source models from Baidu and OpenAI, PewDiePie made a "council" of bots that voted on the best responses, and then built "The Swarm" for data collection that will become the foundation of his own model coming next month.

It's not often we see a graphics card that is almost completely fried across the board. That's what happened with this poor RTX 4090 whose 12V rail leaked into the memory, frying the VRAM and travelling to the core in the process, killing the GPU for good. Not only that, but the card was also comically bent to the point where suggesting someone might've used it as a self-defense weapon wouldn't be far-fetched.

As part of its 2025 Holiday Bundle, Intel is letting you pick between Battlefield 6 and Assassin's Creed Shadows as a free game when you purchase a qualifying Intel CPU or GPU. If you fancy yourself a high-end gaming laptop then you can avail the Platinum offer and get up to three free games.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that he has some AI chips in inventory that he cannot use because he has nowhere to plug them in.

TrashBench manages to break the 3DMark Time Spy performance record using a water pump and a 50/50 glycol mix.

Rendezvous Robotics' autonomous tile-based modules, built using Project TESSERAE tech, will potentially power Starcloud's plans to build massive data centers in space. The company is partnering with Nvidia to build a 5-gigawatt facility in orbit, and Rendezvous can help make that distant future a reality.