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Lunar Lake laptop seemingly has 5 hours longer battery life than Apple M3 MacBook — Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i reaches almost 24 hours of video playback

Lenovo has provided battery life numbers for its upcoming Lunar Lake-powered Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. This laptop features nearly 24 hours of video playback, 5 hours more than Apple's M2 and M3 laptops.

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ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest supercomputer

The Alpine storage system, a high-performance storage array for the world's 9th fastest supercomputer, has shredded all of its drives by ORNL in preparation for its replacement, Alpine2, which will power Summit until November.

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PS5 firmware update renders several games unplayable with severe graphics issues — this week, the best way to play PlayStation titles is on PC

A PS5 firmware update has rendered several major titles unplayable with crashing or graphics glitches...the same week as two major AAA PS5-to-PC ports.

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Ryzen 9000 CPUs drop 10% frequency executing AVX-512 instructions — Intel CPUs typically suffer from more substantial clock speed drops

Unlike Intel's CPUs, AMD's Ryzen 9000 processors do not drop clocks significantly when executing AVX-512.

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Intel's Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs reportedly support DDR5-10000 RAM — Arrow Lake-S takes advantage of CUDIMMs with clock drivers

Intel's next-generation Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPUs will reportedly support up to DDR5-10000 CUDIMMs.

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Final Fantasy XVI and God of War Ragnarok drop for PC this week — AMD has preview drivers, Nvidia shows benchmarks

AMD and Nvidia dropped drivers and benchmarks, respectively, ahead of two major PS5-to-PC ports. There's also a Dead Rising Remaster and a Souls-like to keep you busy.

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Intel outlines a plan to get back in the game: Pause fab projects in Europe, make the foundry unit an independent subsidiary, and streamline the x86 portfolio

Intel reviews its projects and product plans as part of the turnaround plan introduced in August.

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Crucial brings P310 NVMe SSD to standard form factor — the 2TB QLC M.2-2230 king gets 2280 variant

Crucial's P310 NVMe SSD is getting a new variant. It is now available in the M.2 2280 form factor.

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AMD microcode improves cross-CCD latency on Ryzen 9000 CPUs — Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X cross-CCD latency cut in half to match previous-gen models

AMD has released a new AGESA microcode update for Zen 5 that cuts the cross-CCD latency of the Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X in half, matching the previous gen Ryzen 9 7950X and 7900X.

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Windows Media Player and Silverlight are losing legacy DRM services on Windows 7 and 8

Microsoft deprecates legacy DRM services, crippling Windows Media Player and Silverlight.

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AOC releases a quartet of curved gaming monitors — new additions offer up to 280 Hz at 1440p for $399

The newest G4-series monitors from Agon by AOC offer curved gaming experiences in 1080p or 1440p and 180 Hz or 280 Hz refresh rates. The wave is available for retail now, except for the highest-end model.

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Alibaba cloud servers being 'carefully dried' after firefighter drenching last week

In a status update on Monday, Alibaba Cloud services said it was still gradually restoring access to servers and data affected by a fire last week. Specifically, servers were being 'carefully dried' after sprinklers, and firefighters drenched them to save them from a fire.

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Chinese scientists use Starlink signals to detect stealth aircraft and drones

Chinese scientists have successfully used Starlink satellite signals to detect a moving stealth target during a radar experiment in the South China Sea.

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Intel confirms $3 billion award for Secure Enclave: 18A chips coming to U.S. military

Intel is set to receive up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for the Secure Enclave program from the U.S. government.

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6.3 GHz Ryzen 9 9700X beats 7.1 GHz Core i9-14900KF in liquid nitrogen AVX showdown

AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X broke the OCCT AVX benchmarking world record with liquid nitrogen, setting a score that outpaced a liquid nitrogen-cooled i9-14900KF operating at 800MHz higher clock speeds.

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Microsoft promises major performance improvements for modern Windows 11 apps

Microsoft's Native Ahead-Of-Time compilation promises to reduce load times, while changes to Edge WebView2 SDK can reduce app sizes.

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Intel preps Royal Core and Cobra Core microarchitectures for next-gen CPUs

Intel is reportedly working on two new CPU core architectures, Royal Core and Cobra Core.

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China proposes mandatory red flags placed on all AI-generated content posted online

China pushes for mandatory red flagging for AI content.

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Chinese company develops 65nm-capable lithography machine for domestic chipmaking — system still trails behind ASML and Nikon, though

The Chinese government says domestic companies have developed litho tools capable of 65nm and 110nm resolution.

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Twelve people sentenced for cryptocurrency heists and laundering — perpetrators stole up to $3.5 million

A group of twelve criminals have been awarded multi-year prison sentences and restitution for committing violent crimes, including abduction and cryptocurrency theft via SIM swap.

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Intel reportedly lost PlayStation 6 chip design contract to AMD in 2022 — the $30 billion deal was up for grabs

Intel lost out to AMD in its bid to design and fabricate processors for the upcoming Sony PlayStation 6. According to three insiders, Intel and AMD were the two final contenders in the PS6 chip design and fabrication tender.

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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

Linux users are complaining that the AMD graphics driver for their OS of choice is getting so big that it is causing issues. Red Hat Linux desktop engineer Hans de Goede highlighted this issue at the weekend. Graphical boot menus are timing out before AMDGPU can load.

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Battery chemistry advance promises to deliver 'smaller, lighter, and cheaper' Li-ion cells

Researchers finally identify the primary cause of lithium battery degradation, and fixing it should allow for cheaper and longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries.

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Advanced Nvidia AI GPUs get UAE G42 green light from U.S. authorities, says new report

G42 gets a serious boost with an Nvidia export license for high-end AI GPUs.

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HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best

Morse Micro returns with yet another promising HaLow demonstration, now achieving 9.9 miles range in a rural national park.

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