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Qualcomm abruptly cancels Snapdragon X Elite dev kit — refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately

Published: October 17, 2024 19:32

Qualcomm announced in a letter to its customers (via retailer Arrow) that the Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit will be discontinued immediately and indefinitely, with customers set to receive refunds for their orders.

AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95% — replaces complex floating-point multiplication with integer addition

Published: October 17, 2024 18:45

AI engineers develop an algorithm that will replace floating-point multiplication with integer addition to make AI processing more efficient.

Man who lost half-billion dollar Bitcoin HDD sues local authority for $500 million for not letting him dig through landfill

Published: October 17, 2024 18:01

A Welsh man whose partner accidentally threw out an HDD containing 8,000 Bitcoins has become increasingly desperate to recoup the lost treasure. Now, he is suing the council.

Nintendo 64 gets a 4K VRR-enabled revival in the form of the Analogue 3D — an emulation-less new FGPA console that can play every N64 game ever made

Published: October 17, 2024 17:48

Analogue of Analogue Pocket fame released another FGPA-based emulation-free game console, now based on the Nintendo 64.

Billionaire investor regrets dumping Nvidia shares that are now worth $1.19 billion — pulled the trigger before 10-to-1 split, missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars

Published: October 17, 2024 16:27

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller regrets selling Nvidia shares cheaply but is looking forward to reinvesting in the company.

Intel responds to China's call for an investigation into chip failures and potential backdoors — chipmaker says it ‘always prioritized product safety and quality’

Published: October 17, 2024 16:25

Intel says it has always prioritized product safety and quality in response to allegations from a major Chinese cyber security group.

Next-gen Lunar Lake ThinkPad laptop will hit the market in February 2025, starting at $2,199 — ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition sports 32GB RAM and up to 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSD

Published: October 17, 2024 15:22

Lenovo showcases the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition at Tech World 2024 in Seattle.

Core Ultra 9 285K retail samples benchmarked in CPU-Z and Blender — thermal throttling and limited clock speeds spoil the fun

Published: October 16, 2024 16:37

The Core Ultra 9 285K has been spotted in CPU-Z and Blender, with performance around 10% higher than the last generation, even while experiencing thermal throttling.

Chinese security officials call for investigation of Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security'

Published: October 16, 2024 15:06

The Cyber Security Association of China called out Intel because its chips had several cybersecurity vulnerabilities and its products had a high failure rate. It further accused the company of enabling backdoors for digital espionage.

Intel releases NPU drivers with Arrow Lake support — AI PC users will have yet another component that may require regular updates

Published: October 15, 2024 20:41

Intel NPUs join the list of driver updates to stay on top of, with nearly a dozen updates since Meteor Lake laptops began shipping last year. The latest release adds support for the upcoming Arrow Lake processors' NPU, along with addressing some potential…

Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"

Published: October 15, 2024 17:03

In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two fierce rivals, Intel and AMD jointly announced the formation of a new x86 advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) moving forward, an important consideration given…

Chinese and Iranian hackers use ChatGPT and LLM tools to create malware and phishing attacks — OpenAI report has recorded over 20 cyberattacks created with ChatGPT

Published: October 12, 2024 19:19

Since last year, threat actors from China and Iran have utilized ChatGPT and LLM tools to launch a series of malware attacks.

AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates

Published: October 12, 2024 17:19

Asahi Linux is now the first and only distro capable of running x86 Windows games on Apple Silicon devices through a Linux OS.

Counter-Strike's Dust II runs purely within a neural network on an RTX 3090 — performance is disappointing at only 10 FPS

Published: October 12, 2024 15:14

A "world model" based on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's rendition of Dust II is now fully playable on a single RTX 3090, albeit not in a form ready for truly competitive experiences.

AMD reveals core specs for Instinct MI355X CDNA4 AI accelerator — slated for shipping in the second half of 2025

Published: October 10, 2024 18:21

AMD officially previewed its Instinct MI355X AI accelerator, slated to go into production in the second half of 2025. It also formally launched MI325X, with production starting this quarter.

Undeletable 8.63GB cache emerges in latest Windows 11 24H2 update — checkpoint updates were the culprit, and Microsoft is working on a fix

Published: October 10, 2024 17:08

Users who upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 found that it created a cache that cannot be deleted. Disk Clean-up identified it as an 8.63GB Windows Update cache.

Intel Launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S — big gains in productivity and power efficiency, but not in gaming

Published: October 10, 2024 15:01

Intel announced the first five models of its Arrow Lake desktop processors, otherwise known as the Core Ultra 200S series, with prices ranging from the $294 14-core Core Ultra 5 245KF to the flagship $589 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K.

Internet Archive hacked and 31 million user accounts leaked — hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' claims responsibility

Published: October 10, 2024 13:56

Hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' hacked The Internet Archive and leaked 31 Million user account data which includes emails and hashed passwords in an SQL file and defaced the website with a pop-up message.