AI is fast running out of compute
The AI gold rush is finding that there is not enough compute to go round,…
Altman blames the New Yorker after home attacks
Someone lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s place, and another fired a…
Meta builds a Zuckbot to dodge staff chats
Meta is cooking up an AI Mark Zuckerberg so the real one does not have to interact with humans. The $1.6tn group is developing photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters that users…
Snapdragon X2 Elite looking good
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Apple seems to be backing the Israeli invasion of Lebanon
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has made South Lebanon vanish from Apple Maps, a move…
US wants to pull the DUV plug on China
Washington is eyeing another chokehold on China’s chip ambitions. US lawmakers are moving toward banning…
TurboQuant panic does not end the DRAM squeeze
DDR prices have dipped in recent days, and some tried to pin it all on…
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News
Snapdragon X2 Elite looking good
Qualcomm has the stars to align for Windows on Arm. The chip is strong enough, and the software situation is improving, so this could be the point where ARM Windows…
Apple seems to be backing the Israeli invasion of Lebanon
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has made South Lebanon vanish from Apple Maps, a move…
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Graphics
Intel’s neural texture trick aims to slash VRAM hogging
Intel has been releasing more details about its Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC), which uses…
YouTube’s bots copyright-strike Nvidia’s own DLSS 5 trailer
YouTube’s copyright machine has managed to bonk Nvidia on the head. A local Italian TV…
GPUBreach turns GDDR6 GPUs into a host takeover tool
Nvidia’s GDDR6 GPUs can be weaponised to take over the whole machine, right down to a root shell. According to Hacking Passion, three independent research teams dumped GPU attack work…
Mobiles
Apple seems to be backing the Israeli invasion of Lebanon
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has made South Lebanon vanish from Apple Maps, a move that seems designed to help the Israeli invasion. Apple Maps users have suddenly noticed that…
TSMC’s node magic pushes phones towards 5.00GHz
TSMC is driving flagship phone chips towards 5.00GHz, boosting Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek, while Huawei…
Samsung grabs Apple foldable display exclusivity
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PC Hardware
TurboQuant panic does not end the DRAM squeeze
DDR prices have dipped in recent days, and some tried to pin it all on…
Samsung and SK hynix try to freeze DRAM pricing
Samsung and SK hynix are acting like the DRAM party is nearly done. A South…
Snapdragon X2 Elite looking good
Qualcomm has the stars to align for Windows on Arm. The chip is strong enough, and the software situation is improving, so this could be the point where ARM Windows…
AI
Meta builds a Zuckbot to dodge staff chats
Meta is cooking up an AI Mark Zuckerberg so the real one does not have to interact with humans. The $1.6tn group is developing photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters that users…
AI is fast running out of compute
The AI gold rush is finding that there is not enough compute to go round,…
Altman blames the New Yorker after home attacks
Someone lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s place, and another fired a…
Gaming
Sony slaps another price hike on the PS5
Sony is jacking up the price of the PS5 again and is claiming it is…
AMD announces new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor with dual 3D V-Cache
AMD has now officially unveiled its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, which is…
Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic MFG and new 6x mode
Nvidia has introduced its Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) alongside a new 6x mode through the latest NVIDIA app beta update, effectively completing the rollout of its DLSS 4.5 technology…
Automotive
Fresh worries about who really controls the F-35
The F-35 is meant to be a stealthy terror, not a locked-down gadget you cannot properly own and can be switched off at the whim of the US government. This…
Rivian’s numbers finally look like they belong in the real world
Rivian just gave the electric vehicle doom brigade a nasty surprise with earnings that looked…
Carmakers worried about Chinese code
Modern vehicles are stuffed with internet-connected widgets, plenty of them running Chinese technology, and the…
Data center
Intel shows off ultra-thin GaN chiplet for data centres
Intel is showing off a wafer-thin trick that could shake up power-hungry kit. The chipmaker’s…
Musk ropes Intel into his Terafab fantasy
Elon “every home will have an affordable robot” Musk has suckered interested Intel into getting…
Amazon toys with selling Trainium chips outside AWS
Amazon is eyeing Nvidia’s turf, and it wants to turn its in-house silicon into a proper product. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has started talking about selling the company’s Trainium AI…
Smart devices
Samsung’s fridge adverts are not going down well
Owners of Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridges are seeing promos pop up on the big screen they already paid for, and they are not happy about it. People have learnt…
MediaTek shoves Genio AI into robots and drones
MediaTek is stuffing edge AI into anything with a battery, a camera or a bolt-on…
Apple can’t ship a smart display until Siri sorts itself out
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has delayed its smart home display again because Siri is…
Network
Amazon circles Globalstar for a satellite grab
Amazon is snuffling around Globalstar to bulk up its low Earth orbit ambitions and provide…
FCC declares foreign wi-fi routers are a security threat
The US Federal Communications Commission has added every consumer-grade Wi-Fi router made outside the country…
APT28 caught messing with UK routers
Russian military cyber types have been caught fiddling with the plumbing of the UK internet. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre says an elite unit has been breaking into common…