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Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem.

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Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them.

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From Chips to Skills, NVIDIA and Korea Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration

NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding their collaboration across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, from AI…

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NVIDIA Dynamo Recipes Bring Korea’s Leading Open Models to Production

NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models: A.X K2 from SK Telecom, K-EXAONE 2.0 from LG AI Research,…

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Law firm files class-action lawsuit against Nvidia after CEO Jensen Huang confirms affair with alleged Chinese spy

Class-action lawsuit and legal investigations against Nvidia over securities fraud start flying

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Firefox 160 Available With Speech-To-Text, MKV Files With FLAC / MP3 / PCM Audio

The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla's web browser...

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Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huang

The leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his…

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TechPowerUp Formula V Line Giveaway: Win Air Power G10 Cases, Ice Nova Coolers, and More!

TechPowerUp partners with Formula V Line to bring our readers from all over the world a chance to win one of dozens of pieces of Formula V One cases,…

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Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem

Nvidia is probing whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO through an affair.

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WoW: Forever is the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history, says Blizzard

World of Warcraft: Forever is the biggest launch in the MMO's history, pulling in more concurrent players than any previous WoW launch.

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Google TPU 8tx Pairs AMD EPYC Turin Hosts with Confidential Computing while TPU 8i Max Doubles Memory Bandwidth

The new Google TPU 8tx pairs AMD EPYC Turin hosts with confidential computing while TPU 8i Max doubles memory bandwidth for inference

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MSI’s refurbished QD-OLED gaming monitor is on sale for under $300

One of the best upgrades you can make to your PC gaming setup is an OLED monitor.

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China builds massive 800-megawatt AI data center campus to rival US Stargate project

Envision has delivered the first 120MW of its Galaxy AI datacenter in less than a year, combining wind farms, battery storage and an unconventional…

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ChaCha AVX-512 Optimization For Linux 7.5 Yields Up To 99% Improvement On AMD Zen 5

The Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of…

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Spoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization

A new GitHub repository dubbed ram-altman features a script to monitor your PC’s RAM usage and report back to the eponymous OpenAI boss.

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Grab AMD's fastest mainstream gaming CPU for a record-low $399.99 right now

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price of $399.95, with the 9850X3D down to $419.99.

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AMD admits GPU driver bug is writing data continuously, wearing out SSDs

AMD is investigating reports that its External Events Utility generates continuous SSD writes of up to 5MB/s, even when Radeon-powered PCs are idle.

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Save $300 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC with 32GB DDR5, now under $2,000

This ABS Flux II Aqua gaming PC deal unlocks 1440p and 4K gameplay for just $1,999.99.

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LG WOLED TVs suffer from 'edge rot' pixel death

LG WOLED TV panels made around 2019 to 2023 may be susceptible to edge rot — almost all of RTings' WOLED test units show clear signs of degradation

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Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor is laying off staff, a month after it started bringing back furloughed devs

The game sold roughly 1 million copies in its first month and a half

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Hundreds arrested after Microsoft data center protest turns violent

It's unclear which group entered the construction site first, but the action led to the arrest of 150 to 200 protesters.

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How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating…

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Two Chinese companies cleared to buy banned Nvidia AI chips have empty offices and unknown addresses

The offices for New Matrix and Maginfra, both approved to receive H200 chips, appear abandoned, and people in the buildings say they're unfamiliar…

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PC's with 64GB of RAM plummet 18% as memory prices soar

CPU-Z data reveals PC memory capacity is dropping for the first time ever. Driven by skyrocketing AI DRAM prices, 64GB RAM adoption plummeted 18% YoY.

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Linux 7.5 To Provide More AMD Ryzen AI NPU AIE4 Enablement

Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux…

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Homelabber uses second-gen Optane memory sticks to run a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model on CPU alone

A Reddit homelab user ran Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 CPU-only on Optane PMem 200 at 0.85 tokens/s with a 1-bit quant.

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Pocket-sized Ukrainian receiver intercepts Russian strike drone video feeds up to six miles away

The D·Vision SDR can intercept signals from 500 MHz to 8.7 GHz, covering the 4.1-4.5 GHz spectrum that Russian Molniya strike drones use to…

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AMD PerfOpt Performance Boosting Code Tweaked For Linux 7.4-rc2

Of the many exciting changes in Linux 7.4, one of the exciting out-of-the-box performance improvements is the new "PerfOpt" functionality for AMD…

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Yunsilicon Working To Upstream Their High Performance Linux Network Driver

Yunsilicon is a Chinese semiconductor startup founded in 2021 that is working on producing high performance networking adapters and DPUs.

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Father Arrested For Leaving 6-Year-Old Daughter Sleeping In Line For Pokémon Cards

NL used Rage. A 35-year-old South Carolina man has been arrested and accused of leaving his 6-year-old daughter asleep while waiting in line for…

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GCC 17 Feature Development Ends Next Week

How time flies with the GCC 17 feature development set to end next week and transitioning over to a bug fixing focus...

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WoW: Forever launch used 70,480 CPU cores and 251 terabytes of RAM

Inside the astonishing hardware behind World of Warcraft: Forever. 251TB of RAM and 70K cores kept millions of players online without a hitch.

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PC air duster motors power 21-inch DIY remote control plane at 130,000 RPM

A remote-control electronics and DIY hobbyist was surprised by a model airplane they built, powered by a pair of PC air duster engines.

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Protesters storm Microsoft AI data center construction site

The protesters stormed over the walls and took over the construction site, with the Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition saying that more actions are…

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(PR) ASUS Announces the XG Core Radeon RX 9060 XT LP 16 GB GDDR6

ASUS today announced the XG Core Radeon RX 9060 XT LP 16 GB GDDR6, a compact external graphics solution that adds discrete graphics to compatible…

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Ubuntu Moving Ahead With Plans For Splitting Up Linux-Firmware, HWE Option

A few months back were discussions of a Linux firmware HWE package for Ubuntu to carry updated firmware blobs under the hardware enablement (HWE)…

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Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy

The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.

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ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX VBIOS Update Bricks Some Cards

When ASRock joined the group of AIBs patching Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX GPUs late last month, everything seemed fine for a few days.

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Newegg’s 24-hour Black Friday sale slashes the Ryzen 7 7800X3D to $299 [Sold Out]

Newegg's latest one-day sale bundle in its ongoing Black November Doorstopper event has dropped massive 30-50% discounts on various components to…

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ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace

ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing…

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The world's first Snapdragon X2 Elite mini PC is now available in Europe

The ASUS Ascent QN10 brings Snapdragon X2 Elite performance, Wi-Fi 7, and AI acceleration to a compact desktop design. It's now available in Europe.

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Nintendo Has No Plans for Another Switch 2 Price Hike

Nintendo isn't considering another price increase for the Switch 2, at least for now.

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(PR) Corsair Launches Dark Cherry Blossom TC500 and TC100 Relaxed Gaming Chairs

Corsair (Nasdaq: CRSR) is delighted to announce that the new Dark Cherry Blossom editions of the TC500 and TC100 RELAXED Gaming Chairs are now…

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(PR) Beelink ME Pro Launches on Kickstarter With an Innovative Swappable Motherboard Design for Easier NAS Upgrades

Beelink today announced the Kickstarter launch of the ME Pro, a modular NAS available in two-bay and four-bay configurations.

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(PR) GameSir Introduces Nova Vision Nioh 3 Edition Controller

Officially licensed with KOEI TECMO, the GameSir Nova Vision Nioh 3 Edition combines dark mythical aesthetics with next-gen performance and a…

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CPUID Readies CPU-Z for Intel Razor Lake, Two Generations Out

CPUID has released CPU-Z 3.02, and the first line of its changelog simply reads "Intel Razor Lake support." Razor Lake is the processor family…

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(PR) Akasa Launches Smart Black SC12 High-Airflow 120 mm PWM Fan

Akasa, a leading provider of thermal solutions, has launched the Smart Black SC12, a 120 x 120 x 25 mm PWM fan with a strong cost-performance ratio…

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Intel Core Ultra 4000 Series "Nova Lake-H" SoC Surfaces

Intel's "Nova Lake-H" SoC, part of the Core Ultra 4000 Series, has reportedly surfaced.

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Cracks Are Fixing Games Now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword Crack Solves Game Bugs, Too

Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword game has been cracked, but interestingly, it also includes a series of bug fixes applied by a popular game…

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Shop faster and save money with built-in tools in Microsoft Edge

It's 11 p.m. Fifteen tabs are open, the reviews don't agree, and you've checked the price three times.

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(PR) JBL Professional Introduces 3 Series MkIII Powered Studio Monitors and Subwoofer

HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, video, control and lighting systems, today announced the JBL Professional 3 Series MkIII…

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TechPowerUp x Chieftec Giveaway: Entries Close Soon, Hurry!

TechPowerUp partners with Chieftec to bring our readers in European Union countries a chance to bag one of six pieces of Chieftec hardware spanning…

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(PR) Thermal Grizzly Releases New PhaseSheet PTM Pro With Improved Thermal Conductivity

With PhaseSheet PTM Pro, Thermal Grizzly introduces a further development of PhaseSheet PTM with increased thermal conductivity.

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(PR) ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces ROG XG Station 3 With Thunderbolt 5

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the ROG XG Station 3 external graphics card dock, featuring a Thunderbolt 5 connection capable of up to…

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Together AI let coding agents rewrite its GPU code. Then it kept humans on the deploy button.

Together AI is putting AI coding agents to work on the GPU code that runs its inference infrastructure, automating performance

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Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas

6 pallets of hardware vanished en route to Texas, with no arrests 2 months later.

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This free tool tells you what is hogging your GPU

A new free utility from a Microsoft engineer shows which apps, AI models, and processes are consuming your GPU resources.

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AMD is now "data center first." Does it still care about gaming?

AMD CEO Lisa Su was recently interviewed by Yahoo Finance, where she said that the company is "data center first" in the face of rising revenue.

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Acer's OLED Swift 16 AI laptop gets a huge discount before Black Friday

Acer's Swift 16 AI offers premium productivity without the premium price, now that Best Buy has slashed 35% off its asking price.

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Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs

We built a vendor-neutral accelerator plugin architecture in lldb-server for debugging applications that span CPUs and GPUs.