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Updated 2024-11-23 09:15
Microsoft recalls Recall: Controversial AI feature won't be in Copilot+ Windows build at launch
This is the second time Microsoft has back-tracked on Recall.
Snapdragon X Elite in the wild is allegedly slower than iPhone 12 — first benchmarks of Samsung Book4 Edge disappoint
A Reddit user who got his hands on the newest Samsung Copilot+ PC early posted benchmarks, and the results are incredibly disappointing. The CPU clock speeds on the unit are locked to 2.5 GHz, much slower than the advertised 4.0 GHz boost.
Raspberry Pi powers creepy one-eyed, head-swiveling stuffed koala assistant with ChatGPT
Spiritual_Aside_7859 uses a Raspberry Pi to power a stuffed koala bear assistant that uses ChatGPT to talk.
Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard simulation
The bank disclosed it fired the employees after finding they were giving the impression of working when they really weren't.
Microsoft dev shares story behind iconic Windows screensavers — 3D Pipes, 3D Maze, and more
Windows NT screensavers, including the most popular, get their origin story explained by Raymond Chen.
Snag Adata's superfast 4TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD for only 5 cents per GB
With ever-soaring SSD prices, it's great to see a low $234 price tag on Adata's superfast 4TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD.
Sanctions-defying chip design tools that work on China chipmakers' Huawei and Phytium processors introduced by China-based firm
Xinhuazhang develops EDA tools compatible with Arm-based Huawei's Kunpeng and SPARCv9-based Phytium's FeiTeng processors.
Intel fires back at AMD's AI benchmarks, shares results claiming current-gen Xeon chips are faster at AI than AMD's next-gen 128-core EPYC Turin
Intel fired back at AMD's recent AI benchmarks that claimed AMD's EPYC Turin is 5.4 times faster than Intel's Xeon chips in AI workloads. Intel counters with claims that its existing chips are faster than AMD's upcoming flagship.
Samsung's new roadmap unveils its 2nm process nodes and outlines backside power delivery plans
Samsung Foundry outlines roadmap for the next three years: 2nm, backside power delivery and more.
US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling products to Russia, fueling its war efforts in Ukraine
A new round of companies sanctioned by the U.S. government for selling goods that could support Russia's war against Ukraine includes a popular PC cooling and power supply manufacturer.
Intel Core i5-14400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Faceoff: AMD Delivers a Value Beatdown
We put Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh Core i5-14400 up against AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X in a six-round fight.
Basemark Breaking Limit benchmark tests ray traced gaming performance across diverse platforms — Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android
Basemark through GPUScore introduces a cross-platform ray tracing benchmark, Breaking Limit.
PC Factory Worker amusement center opens in Japan — kids learn PC DIY with 'real CPU, memory, graphics card'
Kids in Japan are set for a real treat later this month as a PC-building amusement center attraction opens at Kidzania Tokyo. From June 26, lucky children will be able to experience the daily work of a PC Factory Worker,' and assemble a computer, before attempting a first boot.
Disgruntled ex-employee costs company over $600,000 after he deletes all 180 of its test servers — found server deletion scripts on Google
NCS forgot to delete a former employee's access credentials, allowing him to install delete scripts that wiped out all 180 of its testing servers.
WD unveils world's highest-capacity flash memory chip — 2Tb 3D QLC flash chips open the door to bigger and cheaper SSDs
High-capacity SSDs might get cheaper as Western Digital and Kioxia are prepping BiCS8 2Tb 3D QLC NAND devices.
Experts Exchange takes a stand against AI-creep by blocking companies from scraping content and data from its community
Large language models are taking over, scraping human contributors' data and content to chew up and regurgitate back out. These LLMs not only steal content from its original creator, but the responses it spits back out are often rife with misinformation. Some companies have chosen to accept LLMs, but Experts Exchange is dedicated to keeping its community free of content from LLMs and stands against content and data scraping.
The world’s first RISC-V laptop gets a big upgrade — DeepComputing doubled the core count, increased clocks to 2 GHz, and added AI capabilities
The world's first RISC-V laptop gets a better SoC, Ubuntu OS straight out of the box.
Off means off: Splave Edition PSU has no residual power, discharges as soon as you flick the switch
Most power supplies keep juicing your motherboard while they are off, but not this new one from Enermax and World-champion Overclocker Splave.
Rampant speculation of blacklisted Huawei becoming China’s largest beef importer stems from an odd payment method for telecom equipment
In an odd story that hasn't been officially corroborated, Huawei may be accepting so much beef as payment for its goods that it has become China's largest importer of the commodity.
AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor during her time at IBM
Lisa Su reminisces on when she helped design a processor for the PS3 while working at IBM.
ASRock doubles memory on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT — budget gaming GPU has 8GB GDDR6 for $169
ASRock has launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT Phantom Gaming 8GB OC, a custom version of the GPU with twice as much memory as the original.
China's chip exports are booming but may be nearing overcapacity, stoking fears of chip glut — SMIC revenues rise as profits fall
China's semiconductor imports and exports have both grown in the first half of 2024, but growth falls behind competing nations and points to long-term problems.
Elegoo's Neptune 4 Pro is now only $284
At just $284 this is the lowest price the Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro has been.
Japanese researchers testing particle accelerator for chipmaking — researchers claim EUV-like lithography capabilities
Free-electron laser generated by energy recovery linear accelerator could be used for chipmaking, perhaps, in the long-term future. Perhaps.
The US is spending more money on chip manufacturing construction this year than the previous 28 years combined
The United States is on pace to add more investment into electronics manufacturing construction this year as it did from 1996 to 2023. The CHIPS Act is largely to credit for the meteoric growth.
Tiny X-Ray vision chip can peer through nearby objects, like cardboard boxes and even walls — researchers say it is small enough to fit into a smartphone
A Superman-inspired, CMOS-powered X-ray vision imager chip emerges.
Realtek's new SSD controller hits 14 GB/s and 2.5M IOPS — roadmap also reveals its mainstream PCIe Gen5 and Gen4 controllers
Realtek wants to address high-end SSDs with its RTS5783 controller, it just does not know when.
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account
Microsoft Paint gets an AI image generation tool with Cocreator. It uses text and visual prompts to formulate your desired images, but requires a Copilot+ PC. You also have to sign up for a Microsoft Account if you want to use it.
Windows security hole allows attackers to install malware via Wi-Fi — new patch plugs gaping vulnerability
In its June 'Patch Tuesday' release, Microsoft addressed 49 security vulnerabilities in its products, including one that could allow an attacker to deliver malware onto a PC over Wi-Fi.
AMD updates 3D V-Cache optimizer driver ahead of Ryzen 9000X3D launch
AMD appears to have updated its 3D V-Cache driver for Ryzen 9000X3D.
MediaTek reportedly preps Arm processors for Windows laptop — will arrive as Qualcomm's exclusivity deal expires
Three sources have indicated that MediaTek is working on a Windows-on-Arm SoC to compete with Qualcomm.
Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture
Flow Computing, a spinout from Finland's acclaimed VTT Technical Research Center, says its Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) can enable '100X Improved performance for any CPU architecture.'
Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2P 240 Hz 4K OLED gaming monitor review: High style, high performance
Gigabyte's Aorus FO32U2P brings premium style and high performance to the desktop. With an 4K OLED panel running at 240 Hz, it serves up Adaptive-Sync, HDR and wide gamut color. It's stunning in every respect.
The coolest case mods of Computex 2024
From battle robots to beer and coffee servers, these chassis wowed us.
Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman one day after criticizing Apple for using ChatGPT
Elon Musk withdrew his suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman one day before a San Francisco court was due to hear it.
Amazon Web Services introduces record 896-core instance — prices range from $150 to $400 per hour
AWS ups the ante once more.
Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days
Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound cold box from the Ohio River to its new fab near Columbus. This load is one of the largest of Intel's approximately 20 super loads making their way across the state.
White House seeks to restrict China’s access to GAA chip technology and the high bandwidth memory that's critical for AI accelerators
China cannot buy chips using GAA technology because of current sanctions but might be able to produce them with older process nodes. To prevent that, the U.S. government is mulling more restrictions.
You can use a full-sized GPU with ASRock's new Mini PC — DeskMate X600 only for China, priced at roughly $193 USD
The ASRock DeskMate X600 rounds out ASRock's current Mini PC lineup with a top-mounted PCIe slot intended for use with full-speed graphics cards - size doesn't matter when the card's not inside the case.
Inside Micro Center's new North Carolina superstore
My first trip to a Micro Center was like being a kid in a candy shop
Unexpected Intel military chip contract drained $3 billion from CHIPS Act, Senate mulls auction to restore funds
The U.S. Senate is looking for ways to increase CHIPS Act funding after the Pentagon pulled out of its $2.5 billion commitment to the 'Secure Enclave' project for building defense chips.
Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak
Nvidia's Blackwell gaming-oriented GPU architecture will reportedly not boast any additional render output units compared with Ada Lovelace, according to a leaker. Nvidia will be relying on the Blackwell architecture itself to provide performance improvements, which can of course be designed to work around potential ROPS limitations.
Netgear's latest Wi-Fi 7 routers cost less and pack fewer features — but don't call them cheap
The Orbi 770 and Nighthawk RS300 seriously undercut earlier Netgear Wi-Fi 7 offerings in pricing
AMD RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT graphics cards get a new game bundle — get Company of Heroes 3 and Lies of P for 'free' with your new GPU
AMD's latest game bundle for its RX 7800XT and RX 7700XT graphics cards provides two free game codes with your GPU purchase. Pick from Company of Heroes 3, Lies of P, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Starfield - from participating retailers.
Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72%
Intel recently released a one-line code patch for its Meteor Lake CPUs, resulting in huge performance wins in Linux. That single line of code fine-tunes the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
Musk says he'll ban all Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at the OS level — claims it would represent a massive security risk
Elon claims that Apple has no clue what OpenAI will do it users' data after it processes their requests.
AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too
AMD says its new Ryzen 9000 chips won't be faster in gaming than the previous-gen X3D models but says big improvements are coming to its 3D V-Cache tech.
AMD's 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor drops to its lowest-ever price — currently cheaper than the 7800X3D
Today's deal is quite the price drop, bringing one of the best CPUs for gaming, the 7900X3D, to its lowest-ever price. Even cheaper than the 7800X3D.
UpHere C5C and D6Sec Air Coolers Review: Decent performance for less than $20
UpHere's C5C is a budget air cooler costing less than $20 USD, but can it tame Intel's i7-13700K?
Nvidia shipped 3.76M data center GPUs in 2023 — dominates business with 98% revenue share
Nvidia grew its data center GPU sales by over a million units in 2023.
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