npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Harvard team built a CMOS chip to map 70,000 synaptic connections between 2,000 rat neurons

Tom

Harvard team built a CMOS chip to map 70,000 synaptic connections between 2,000 rat neurons

Research aims to understand large-scale neural networks via a leap in neuronal recording.

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

AMD's Ryzen 5 5600T CPU is now $99 at Amazon — its lowest ever price

Tom

AMD

This is a great sub-$100 processor.

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Samsung's impressive 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor drops by $400 for Presidents' Day

Tom

Samsung

Pure gaming decadence

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America

Tom

Trump administration declares

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Seagate Ultra-Compact SSD Review: Premium flash drive looks, mid-range speed

Tom

Seagate Ultra-Compact SSD Review: Premium flash drive looks, mid-range speed

More performance, please

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

ASRock Steel Legend SL-1000G PSU Review

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ASRock Steel Legend SL-1000G Power Supply Review

A dependable 1000W PSU with modern features and reasonable pricing, but struggles to stand out.

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

Tom

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

Did they think they could get away with it?

npub1n3ws...treh 10 months ago

Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator

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Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator

DoomPDF dev returns with a new GitHub project.

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Verbatim pledges 'stable supply of optical disks' after Sony Japan's recordable Blu-ray exit

Tom

Verbatim pledges

Says it will continue to supply recordable Blu-ray, DVD, and CDs to the Japan market.

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs

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AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs

DeepSeek R1 can now be run on AMD

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

Tom

Facebook flags Linux topics as

DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal

Tom

Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal

Personal plans now cost $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr, up from $6.99/mo or $69.99/yr

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Doom ported to run directly from a PDF file — DoomPDF port runs at approximately 12.5 FPS

Tom

Doom ported to run directly from a PDF file — DoomPDF port runs at approximately 12.5 FPS

The recent release of Pdftris inspired the developer of DoomPDF.

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Take home this Ryzen 7, RTX 4050 gaming laptop for only $784

Tom

Take home this Ryzen 7, RTX 4050 gaming laptop for only $784

This gaming laptop is available for its lowest price to date.

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

HPE lands $1 billion AI server order from Elon Musk

Tom

HPE lands $1 billion AI server order from Elon Musk

That

npub1n3ws...treh 11 months ago

Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won't be viable for another 20 years — stocks fell more than 40% for a total market value loss of over $8 billion

Tom

Quantum computing stocks dropped over 40% after Nvidia CEO prediction

Quantum computing stocks tanked by over 40% after Huang

npub1n3ws...treh 1 year ago

AI data centers reportedly cause power problems in residential areas — decreased power quality in homes near data centers causes reduced lifespan for electrical appliances

Tom

AI data centers reportedly cause power problems in residential areas

The average American consumer is starting to pay for the additional power consumed by new data centers.

npub1n3ws...treh 1 year ago

China's 504-qubit quantum computer chip marks a new domestic record — will be globally available via the cloud

Tom

China

504-qubit Xiaohong chip will power the new Tianyan-504 superconducting quantum computer