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AMD's flagship RX 9070 XT GPU hits an all-time low $629 in Amazon lightning sale " Gigabyte's Gaming OC graphics card now $110 off
56+ min ago (392+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Get your hands on AMD's flagship Radeon gaming graphics card whilst it's at its lowest-ever price on Amazon. The Gigabyte Gaming…...
Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard " bespoke "Play Station 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (205+ words) The entire project is open-source and available on Git Hub. The entire assembly is broken down into just two parts: a top half and a bottom half that screw into each other. The cooling is handled by a custom heatsink…...
Japan can't make robot wolves fast enough to counter the rise in bear attacks that have killed 13 humans this year " $4, 000+ animatronic Monster Wolf features intense LEDs and makes loud noises
19+ hour, 3+ min ago (204+ words) Producer has already sold more Monster Wolves this year than it usually does in a whole year. Of course, fatalities are a statistic at the extreme end of the situation. There are also numerous non-fatal incidents where bears have seriously…...
Linked In recruitment spam becomes Olde English prose after user hides AI prompt injection in bio " bots also also manipulated to address user as "My Lord
20+ hour, 41+ min ago (256+ words) This tale is also a warning that your AI agents can be manipulated in wholly unintended ways. Briefly, tmuxvim instructed any AI scanning their profile to address them as "My Lord" and speak only in Old English appropriate for the…...
Russia's Mikron is selling framed test wafers with up to 120, 000 processors as souvenirs " 12 designs, priced around $170 each, sold alongside $2 vials of cleanroom air
22+ hour, 15+ min ago (364+ words) These are 200mm wafers, packing between 30 to 120, 000 chips, depending on the product. Russia's Mikron is earning a bit of cash on the side by selling picture-framed test wafers as souvenirs. There are 12 designs in the product gallery, all priced at 12, 500 rubles…...
Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week " his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later
22+ hour, 40+ min ago (267+ words) The patent sparked the largest settlement in history at the time. 75 years ago this week, on May 11th, 1951, MIT electrical engineer Jay Forrester filed the patent application for coincident-current magnetic core memory, a technology that became the dominant form of random-access…...
Forza Horizon 6 boots up in just 4 seconds instead of 90 with new Advanced Shader Delivery tech and AMD GPUs " Microsoft claims 95% reduction in gaming load times
23+ hour, 10+ min ago (293+ words) Tom's Hardware Premium equips you with world-class coverage and detailed insights into the evolving hardware landscape. Only available with games downloaded via the Xbox PC app. Microsoft announced Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) for Xbox ROG Ally devices last year, bringing…...
China bypasses US GPU bans with 1. 54-exaflops 'Line Shine' supercomputer " CPU-only monster packs 2. 4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores
1+ day, 10+ min ago (306+ words) CPUs can successfully do GPU jobs, but there is one important caveat. The Line Shine supercomputer comprises 20, 480 compute nodes, each node contains two LX2 processors, and each LX2 processor has 304 CPU cores. Therefore, the whole system uses 40, 960 LX2 processors packing 2, 451, 840 CPU cores in…...
US FTC reportedly launches antitrust probe into Arm following its launch of its own AGI CPU " regulators investigate if chip designer is restricting architecture access to rivals
23+ hour, 30+ min ago (317+ words) Tom's Hardware - Get deeper insights with deeper News Analysis posts You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Arm Holdings, the maker of the popular Arm architecture used by Qualcomm, Apple, and several other companies, is facing an antitrust…...
Josef Prusa warns Chinese 3 D printing software poses massive security risks " Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box"
23+ hour, 50+ min ago (848+ words) Bambu Labs continues to draw fire. Prusa recently took to X to explain how the competition has been violating his company's slicer AGPL-3. 0 license since day one, and how that violation is not just an open source issue, but a…...