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New EU packaging regulations spark misplaced fear of CPUs ditching stock coolers

New EU regulations spark concerns about CPU packaging, foregoing CPU coolers entirely.

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An 'unfortunate incident' hits latest Ubuntu 24.04 point release

The Noble Numbat has been besieged with delays

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Anti-Lag 2 removed from Spider-Man 2 PC port due to game crashes on Radeon GPUs

Spider-Man 2 developers temporarily removed Anti-Lag 2 from the game to stop the game from crashing on some Radeon GPUs. The latency-enhancing tech will be reintroduced once AMD fixes the issue with an upcoming driver update.

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AMD announces RX 9070 event on February 28, shoots down rumors of 32GB model

AMD says that it will not launch a 32GB version of the RX 9070 XT GPU, but that it will have an RX 9070 event on February 28. It sounds as though both the vanilla and XT cards will launch concurrently.

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Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn

A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing melting cables.

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Nvidia's new WHQL driver squashes some game-crashing bugs, adds support for Avowed and Civ VII

Nvidia has released the GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.42 WHQL, which includes day-one support for Avowed and Civilization VII and Frame Generation updates for several other titles.

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Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector

The gaming/tech review site Dark Side of Gaming looked at its test rig RTX 4090 and 12VHPWR cable. Despite not removing the cable from the RTX 4090 over two years of use, the connector has become melted and exposed.

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Nvidia confirms RTX 5070 Ti release date for February 20, starting at $749

Nvidia officially confirms the RTX 5070 Ti will be released on February 20th at 6 AM Pacific Time. The new GPU will be available from AIB partners and system integrators. No Founders Edition model will be provided.

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US gov't pushing TSMC and Intel to create joint venture in the US: Report

TSMC has made no official announcements about expanding in the U.S. at the board meetings this week, but the rumor mill points to quicker expansion in Arizona and a joint venture with Intel.

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Maker creates Raspberry Pi-powered thermal fusion night vision goggles

Angus Logue is using a Raspberry Pi 4 to power his cool thermal fusion night vision goggles that seriously step up the night vision game.

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Increased Linux kernel timer frequency delivers big boost in AI workloads

Linux kernel timer frequency boosted to 1,000 Hz, test suite compares performance to current default 250 Hz timer.

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RX 9070 XT leaked specs point to 4,096 shaders and 16GB VRAM — 3.1 GHz boost clocks and PCIe 5.0 support

Specs of AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT have allegedly been pictured in GPU-Z, revealing 4,096 shaders, 16GB of 20 Gbps memory, and PCIe 5.0 support.

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Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites

Data hoarders are working overtime to save federal websites that are in danger of being wiped.

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AMD's beastly 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ matches the RTX 4060 laptop in leaked 3DMark tests

An early sample of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" reportedly keeps pace with Nvidia's dedicated RTX 4060 laptop in synthetic GPU benchmarks.

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Musk claims Grok 3 is 'outperforming' rivals, with full release imminent

Elon Musk said at the World Government Summit in Dubai that xAI's Grok 3 will arrive in two to three weeks and will be more powerful than any other LLM currently out there.

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AMD gained consumer desktop and laptop CPU market share in 2024, server passes 25 percent

AMD gains substantial chunks of desktop and laptop markets in 2024, according to Mercury Research.

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Intel's 18A and TSMC's N2 process nodes compared: Intel is faster, but TSMC is denser

TSMC will continue to have an advantage over rivals with N2, but Intel has secret sauce.

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RTX 5080 power cable allegedly melts at PSU — Redditor reports another 50-series failure

A Redditor posted that their RTX 5080 GPU suffered from a melted power cable while under regular use.

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SanDisk's new High Bandwidth Flash memory enables 4TB of VRAM on GPUs, matches HBM bandwidth at higher capacity

SanDisk talks high bandwidth flash memory that promises to wed HBM bandwidth with 3D NAND capacity.

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Emojis can be hacked to hide data or messages, unicode Characters also susceptible

Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

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Intel Xeon Granite Rapids-W CPU specs allegedly leaked — up to 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and eight-channel memory support

Intel reportedly preps two Xeon W 'Granite Rapids-W' platforms for mainstream and expert HEDT workstations.

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Cable maker advises against using old 12VHPWR cables with RTX 50-series GPUs

Moddiy has warned users against using its older 12VHPWR-rated power cables with RTX 50-series products. It recommends only using its cables manufactured in 2025.

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RTX 5070 allegedly delayed until early March to counter AMD RX 9070 launch

Leaker MEGAsizeGPU claims that Nvidia's mid-range $549 RTX 5070 has been pushed back to early next month.

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Third Ryzen 7 9800X3D burnout case appears, kills the CPU, and damages the motherboard socket

Three weeks after building, a Redditor's Ryzen 7 9800X3D has seemingly burned out.

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RTX 5090 cable melting issues haven't been replicated — testers assess various power supplies and cable types

Falcon Northwest has been unable to recreate YouTuber Der8auer's findings about the melting 16-pin power connectors on the RTX 5090 FE.

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