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Updated 2024-11-21 10:15
Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed
In a YouTube video, Microsoft revealed that only stress-tested the MSFS 2024 database with 200,000 virtual users. This drastic underestimate led to the database being overwhelmed and crashing on launch day.
D-Link has another security flaw with older equipment that won't be repaired — D-Link told users to replace outdated NAS last week
D-Link says it will not fix a security flaw found in routers due to end-of-life concerns and instead suggests users buy new routers. This comes on the heels of the company refusing to fix a security flaw in NAS devices just last week.
Stalker 2 PC performance testing and settings analysis — another demanding game that uses frame generation and upscaling as a crutch
Stalker 2 arrives with steep PC system requirements and an assumption that everyone should be using some form of frame generation, or at least that seems to be the takeaway from the benchmarks we've conducted. The game looks good, but Unreal Engine 5 proves to be very demanding yet again.
Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050
Lenovo's Project Manager at Weibo says that RTX 4050 sales will continue alongside the RTX 5050 - suggesting a higher price tag for the latter.
Nvidia's Blackwell AI GPU overheating issues are seemingly overhyped — semiconductor analysts reveal cooling issues have been mostly addressed
Analysis report that Nvidia's Blackwell overheating problems are over-exaggerated. Overheating issues have been purportedly largely addressed already.
Jaguar Shores is the successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI accelerators — Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs united in a single lineup
Intel has revealed the codename for the successor of its Falcon Shores AI accelerators - termed Jaguar Shores - poised for a 2026 launch.
China's chipmaking champion soars amid country's push for self-reliance — SMIC's stock jumps 120% as semiconductor trade war intensifies
SMIC's stock price have doubled over the past two month over the expectation of increasing local demand.
Cerebras video shows AI writing code 75x faster than world's fastest AI GPU cloud — world's largest chip beats AWS's fastest in head-to-head comparison
Llama 3.1 405B runs at nearly a thousand tokens a second on Cerebras Inference, and took a quarter of a second to get the first token.
Rebootless updates come to Windows 11 Enterprise and 365 for security updates — Microsoft releases hotpatching for Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Windows 365 Preview Editions
Microsoft began rolling out the much-anticipated hotpatch update for security updates in Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Microsoft 365 Preview Builds.
Bjorn is a Raspberry Pi-powered Tamagotchi-like network pen-testing tool
Infinition has created a Tamagotchi-like network pen testing tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi using eink display HATs.
Black Friday Monitor Deals Live 2024: Best Sales on Displays, Updated All Day
The best live deals on gaming and productivity monitors this Black Friday
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips
Qualcomm's Arm-based PC chips will skip the second generation, next-gen Snapdragon X processors will feature Oryon 3.
Netgear Nighthawk RS600 router review: Lowering the price of entry point for tri-band Wi-Fi 7
The Nighthawk RS600 lowers the price of entry for Netgear's tri-band Wi-Fi 7 routers, but performance could be better.
US sanctions freeze Huawei's Ascend AI chips on older 7nm process node that's eight years behind TSMC, stalling progress until at least 2026
US-led export restrictions are taking a toll on Huawei's AI Ascend and Kirin chips - now stuck at 7nm until 2026.
Danish Navy boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the disruption
The Danish Navy is pursuing a ship that is suspected to be involved with the recent cutting of undersea cables between Finland, Sweden, and Central Europe.
AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 memory for Microsoft Azure – CPU with 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 may be repurposed MI300C, four chips hit 7 TB/s
Microsoft's new Azure HBv5 virtual machines use a custom AMD CPU that looks an awful lot like the rumored MI300C that never officially launched.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch gets stranded on the runway (Updated)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 officially launched today, but it's basically been a complete bust trying to play or even get into the game so far. Loading queues and interminable loading screens are all we've seen so far.
Nvidia introduces a new merged CPU and GPU AI processor — GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip has four B200 GPUs, two Grace CPUs
Nvidia has introduced two new products to the enterprise market: the GB200 NVL4 super chip featuring four Blackwell GPUs and two Grace CPUs and a new air-cooled GPU, the H200 NVL, aimed at conventional data centers with air cooling.
Toshiba stuffs an entire PC into a dot matrix printer — Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500 packs a mysterious CPU, 8GB RAM, and two 240GB SSDs
Toshiba Japan releases its latest business-targeted AIO printer PC, the Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500.
Prusa Announces New CORE One Flagship 3D Printer
Prusa launched a surprise Core YX 3D printer at FormNext 2024 in Germany.
Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage
Microsoft introduced the Windows 365 Link, a mini-PC that solely works as a client for its Windows 365 service.
MSI introduces Latency Killer to improve DDR5 latency on AM5 motherboards — feature reportedly reduces latency by up to 8ns
MSI has introduced a "Latency Killer" performance enhancer that purportedly reduces DDR5 latency by up to 8ns. This feature was added to counter latency degradation that was introduced with AGESA 1.2.0.2a
Raspberry Pi 5 RAM-doubling upgrade demoed — going from 4GB to 8GB with the wave of a soldering iron
An electronics upgrade and repair wizard has demonstrated how to boost the Raspberry Pi 5's RAM quota
Black Friday deal: 1TB WD Black C50 SSD Xbox Series X|S expansion card down to $99, its lowest-ever price
Increase your Xbox Series X|S storage with this fantastic deal on the WD Black C50 1TB expansion card.
Google may be forced to sell its Chrome browser due to monopoly complaints — potential $20 billion sale if approved by a judge
Google accuses the Department of Justice of having a radical agenda' in response to a report that claims a forced sell-off of Chrome is on the table.
Two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Europe have been cut — EU leaders suspect sabotage
Two undersea cables miles apart connecting Sweden and Finland to Central Europe have been sabotaged.
Addlink G55 SSD review: More budget PCIe 5.0 love
The Addlink G55 is the second budget" PCIe 5.0 drive we've reviewed, with good marks for performance and power efficiency.
AMD adds LLVM support for the "GFX950" GPU, likely for MI325X or the upcoming MI355X accelerator
Recent commits to the LLVM GitHub from AMD indicate that Team Red is adding preliminary support for the "GFX950" GPU - likely the MI325X/355X.
This Raspberry Pi Pico-powered 'barcode beast' scans your CDs and plays your tunes via Spotify
Bas has created a Raspberry Pi-powered barcode scanner that looks up CD barcodes and queues them up to play on Spotify.
Nvidia sets up new social media channel to showcase AI applications for RTX PCs, intensifying speculation around a looming gaming CPU launch
Nvidia launched a new Twitter profile that focuses on consumer AI use.
Ludicrous LAN Party House detailed — 22 hideaway gaming stations with RTX 4070 GPUs, a monstrous 20-server control room, and extensive networking setup
A high-tech Austin home is stuffed with 22 muscular modern gaming PCs, and oodles of servers and supporting tech for LAN party gaming style fun.
Latest Valve Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation and fixes performance in dozens of games
Valve's latest Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation and applies fixes to dozens of games.
The PS5 Pro is surprisingly efficient — 30% performance uplift while operating at nearly the same power draw as the base PS5
Sony's latest PS5 Pro was tested by Digital Foundry, who discovered the new console draws almost the same power as a base PS5.
Elon Musk's xAI reportedly shifts $6 billion AI server order from troubled Supermicro to its rivals
Dell, Inventec, and Wistron land new orders from xAI as Supermicro faces significant financial challenges.
Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU boxes appear in shipping manifests — Xe2 may be preparing for its desktop debut in December
Intel has been handing out GPU boxes for the Arc B580 to OEMs since September per shipping manifests on NBD.
Gamer receives free RTX 3060 GPU from Temu — user waits for other PC parts to arrive to see if the GPU is real
A Reddit user has purportedly won a free RTX 3060 from Temu. The evidence points toward this card being a real deal, not a fake one.
How to send and receive BlueSky posts with a Raspberry Pi Pico W
Building your first IoT device is a right of passage for many makers, and with BlueSky's easy to use API and the knowledge of a friendly community, we've just made that possible on the Raspberry Pi Pico W.
LG unleashes $999 OLED gaming monitor with lightning 480 Hz refresh rate — LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B features a 27-inch 1440p panel
LG's latest UltraGear monitor is the LG UltraGear 27GX790A, a 27-inch OLED model capable of pushing 480 Hz at 1440p.
WD's massive, speedy 8TB Black SN850X SSD drops $50 below its previous all-time low price ahead of Black Friday
Beating the previous all-time low price by an impressive $50 ahead of Black Friday, grab the 8TB WD Black SN850X now.
AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on Top500 list
AMD and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that the AMD-powered El Capitan has taken the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 list as the fastest-known supercomputer on the planet with 1.7 exaflops of performance.
Arrow Lake non-K CPU pricing surges up to 13% — Core Ultra 9 285 at $600, Core Ultra 7 265 at $416, and Core Ultra 5 225 at $261
Preliminary listings for Intel's budget Arrow Lake 65W processors have surfaced at PC-Canada.
Teen 'swatter for hire' pleads guilty to making more than 375 swattings and fake mass-shooting and bombing calls
Alan Filion conducted more than 375 fake calls since the age of 16 from 2022.
AMD Phoenix CPU brings palm-sized SBC to life for up to $329 — NexT-SBC packs 32GB LPDDR5-6400 and triple M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD slots
A powerful new SBC that puts an AMD Phoenix chip in your hand is on its way to crowdfunding.
Maker creates thumb-sized Raspberry Pi USB-C Ethernet module using the RP2040
Maker Alan has created an incredibly small Ethernet module that also has USB Type-C support in an extra small form factor.
ASRock launches almost 20 ATX 3.1 power supplies — capacities from 750W to 1,650W and 80 Plus certifications from Bronze to Titanium
ASRock releases new generations of power supplies in different wattage and series with varying specifications & features.
Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W Review: The early bird
Beating Raspberry Pi at its own game, Pimoroni has released a seriously powerful RP2350 powered board with Raspberry Pi's own RM2 wireless board.
Chinese memory makers are dumping DDR4 memory on the market for less than reused chips — undercutting South Korean rivals' pricing by 50%
To capture market share, Chinese DRAM makers offer DDR4 memory with a 50% discount.
Intel's Core 200 family poised to mix Arrow, Lunar, Meteor, Alder, and Raptor Lake parts — Arrow Lake-U CPUs rumored to offer Meteor Lake Refresh ported to Intel 3
Intel's Arrow Lake-U or Core Ultra 200U processors are rumored to be a Meteor Lake refresh with a process node jump to Intel 3.
This Raspberry Pi 'Expanso Football' is a cool distributed compute cluster in a briefcase
Sean Tracey with Expanso has created a Raspberry Pi nuclear football known as the Expanso Football that demonstrates the company's Bacalhau platform.
Dell ships first Nvidia Blackwell server racks — PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready
Dell begins shipments of NVL72 machines with GB200 processors: liquid-cooled PowerEdge XE9712 racks coming to CoreWeave.
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