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Samsung has raised the prices of its individual memory chips by up to 60% since September, adding to concerns that the uptick in pricing for consumer products that use NAND Flash will continue for some time to come, amidst AI data center build-out-induced shortages.
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Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led the startup's latest financing round in September. From a report: Davis, whose firm has invested more than half a billion dollars in Groq since the company was founded in 2016, said the deal came together quickly. Groq raised $750 million... Read more ›
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What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB. Read more ›
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A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before. Read more ›
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The Trump administration has announced it would replace the lottery programme used to grant H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers with a system that prioritises higher-paid individuals. From a report: The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a "weighted" selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website. Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services... Read more ›
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The US military has some strange rules for its troops unlikely to be found anywhere else Read more ›
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AMD prepares EXPO 1.2 revision that could bring CUDIMM support to next-generation Ryzen processors. Read more ›
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Taiwan’s iPass has released a new custom payment card that looks just like a Floppy Disk. Read more ›
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Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere. Read more ›
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The Midwest hasn't yet overthrown the Sun Belt as the next best region to move to. The 10 states that attracted more movers than they lost were largely in the Sun Belt. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook bought $3 million in Nike shares, nearly doubling his stake in the company. Read more ›
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When your kid starts showing a preference for one of their stuffed animals, you're supposed to buy a backup in case it goes missing. I've heard this advice again and again, but never got around to buying a second plush deer once "Buddy" became my son's obvious favorite. Neither, apparently, did the parents in Google's […] Read more ›
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After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things up, support President Donald Trump at all costs, and post whatever he wanted online. But what does Vance — the former “never Trump” conservative who has maneuvered, at least for now, into the position of MAGA heir […] Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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As DDR5 memory prices skyrocket, demand for AMD's two-generation-old Ryzen 7 5800X3D has increased, causing second-hand prices to climb as high as $800 on eBay. Read more ›
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Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S. Read more ›
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NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›
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In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›
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