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In Brazil, a dead RTX 5070 Ti fell victim to a lightning surge so abhorrent, it burned a hole through the PCB. Thankfully, it was saved by a donor RX 580 by carefully siphoning power from its VRMs to resuscitate the Nvidia GPU. The repair job is temporary at best, but the technicians behind it tease refinement to make the Frankenstein GPU eventually benchmark.
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OpenAI has been catching more heat for alleged copyright infringement, and now companies like Square Enix and Ghibli have put their foot down. Read more ›
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Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft are trying to prevent ‘indirect prompt injection attacks’ by hackers Read more ›
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YouTubers have discovered terrible performance on The Outer Worlds 2, so much so that the game's maximum settings with ray tracing can only be run at below 60 FPS at a 540p internal resolution on an RTX 5090. Read more ›
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Travelers hoping to fly out for Newark are facing hourslongs delays as the government shutdown continues. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's tariffs under the IEEPA were legal, a ruling that could expand or limit presidential trade authority. Read more ›
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OpenAI "hasn't yet turned a profit," notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. "Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com's sales. "Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform work and life as we know it. Still, it is brimming with hope and excitement. "But what if OpenAI fails?" There's real concern that through many complicated... Read more ›
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Zombies have a tendency to come back from the dead, but that's not the case with Shaun...of the dead. Read more ›
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Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats and dogs — the point being that these distinctions between animals that are equally sentient are arbitrary, hypocritical, and pointlessly cruel. The comparison makes an important point, but it also conceals a grimmer […] Read more ›
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San Francisco's local newscast ABC7 runs a consumer advocacy segment called "7 on Your Side". They received a disturbing call for help from Dave Dornlas, treasurer of a nonprofit supporting a local library: GoFundMe has taken upon itself to create "nonprofit pages" for 1.4 million 501C-3 organizations using public IRS data along with information from trusted partners like the PayPal Giving Fund. "The fact that they would just on their... Read more ›
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"It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists," writes MIT Technology Review. " Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing." New York... Read more ›
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Teachers on military bases across the pond are working without pay amid the shutdown, Their landlords are confused why they suddenly can't pay rent. Read more ›
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It's not often we see a graphics card that is almost completely fried across the board. That's what happened with this poor RTX 4090 whose 12V rail leaked into the memory, frying the VRAM and travelling to the core in the process, killing the GPU for good. Not only that, but the card was also comically bent to the point where suggesting someone might've used it as a self-defense weapon... Read more ›
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"People are creating 'dumb homes,'" the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger "analog wellness" movement... The return to analog hobbies and spacesis about more than nostalgia for pre-internet times, researchers say. A home where "technology is always in the background,... Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 876 for Monday, Nov. 3. Read more ›
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently posted his Tesla Roadster order being mishandled on X — both of those latter companies are owned by Elon Musk, who replied with a casual "you stole a non-profit" statement. Altman was instrumental in the recent recapitalization of OpenAI into a public benefit corporation, which cemented the for-profit model the firm has adopted. Read more ›
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We're a married couple who channeled our mutual obsession with true crime into a full-time podcasting business that eventually replaced our careers. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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A YouTuber's videos telling people how to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and how to install it on unsupported hardware were allegedly violating community guidelines on dangerous and illegal activities. Read more ›
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Already under intense scrutiny for alleged ties to China, TP-Link, a now-U.S.-based and operated company is on the verge of being banned. In a new proposal concocted by the Department of Commerce, and backed by the Department of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, TP-Link routers might no longer be allowed to be sold in America. Read more ›
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An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data. Read more ›
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During Tesla’s Q3 2025 earnings call, the firm’s CEO, Elon Musk, proposed that the cars take part in 'a giant distributed inference fleet' to tap into their incredible compute power "if they are bored." Read more ›
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A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very practical release, right now. Read more ›
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs have conducted a new study on just how many pixels the human eye can take in at certain distances, and determined it's fewer than we might think. They claim in their results that it means most humans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 1440p and 4K on a 50-inch screen at 10 feet distance. Read more ›
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The latest AMD Radeon graphics driver skips older GPUs for feature updates and drops functionality from last-gen flagships. Read more ›
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