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Thanks to the AI boom, RAM is worth its weight in gold — actually more if you count the price hikes it's received in the past few months — so even a large retailer like Costco is now guarding it. A customer at their local store spotted that Costco has removed RAM sticks from all PCs on display, with some removing GPUs as well.
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It's nearly impossible for outsiders to understand how a platform works, whether that's TikTok, Google, or anything else. Skepticism makes sense. Read more ›
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NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts. Read more ›
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Following its recent AI makeover of Gmail, Google is bringing more Gemini-powered tools to Chrome. Starting today, a host of new features are rolling out for the browser, with more to come over the next few months. The first of the new features is a sidebar. Available to all Gemini in Chrome users, the interface allows you to chat with Gemini and keep a conversation going across multiple tabs. Google... Read more ›
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Minneapolis residents and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors can claim at least a partial victory after weeks of protest, confrontation, and violence in Minnesota. The Trump administration is scaling back its immigration enforcement surge in the region, after bipartisan outrage and criticism over a second ICE killing of an American citizen last weekend. This scrutiny […] Read more ›
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A blog post by the company’s head of HR hinted that more layoffs could be on the way. Read more ›
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The document describes pay, benefits, severance and other topics for staff who are losing their jobs in this round of layoffs. Read more ›
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Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado's governor has held firm against commuting her sentence—so far. Read more ›
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A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it's been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout's design, featuring a soft padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by some of science fiction's friendlier robots like Baymax and Rosie Jetson, the startup's […] Read more ›
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Apple will try to avoid raising iPhone 18 prices "as much as possible" in the face of a global memory shortage, according to a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to Kuo, Apple plans to "absorb the costs" of rising RAM prices, while at least keeping the iPhone 18's starting price steady. Kuo […] Read more ›
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ASML announced that it's cutting around 1,700 positions — mostly at the leadership level — to streamline its operations. Its Technology and IT & Data organizations will be hardest hit by the planned layoffs. Read more ›
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The latest episode of 'Starfleet Academy' will give its young cadets a lesson in diction from the good Doctor himself. Read more ›
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the coffee giant will continue to expand its wellness offerings during the company's latest earnings call. Read more ›
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Gaming peripheral company Razer has announced the beta release of Synapse Web, a browser-based version of its desktop software. The web app is intended for quick adjustments when away from home, such as LANs or tournaments, where downloading the full desktop version may not be possible or practical. At launch, Synapse Web will only support the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards, though Razer says more devices will be added down... Read more ›
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mspohr shares a report: When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist's creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people -- and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended. Since Berners-Lee's disappointment a decade ago, he's thrown everything at a... Read more ›
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It's like you can't even trust the Facebook page "Man Stuff" for investigative journalism anymore. Read more ›
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UPS said today it plans to eliminate an additional 30,000 operational jobs this year as the shipping giant continues to wind down its partnership with Amazon -- previously its largest customer -- and push forward a broader turnaround strategy under CEO Carol Tome. CFO Brian Dykes said on an earnings call that the cuts will be accomplished through attrition and a voluntary separation program for full-time drivers. The company also... Read more ›
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The fast-growing business of trading U.S. stocks as crypto tokens is enabling overseas investors to buy and sell shares of companies such as Tesla and Nvidia. The $1 billion industry relies on one little-known brokerage. Alpaca, a San Mateo, Calif.–based broker-dealer, maintains custody of nearly three-quarters of the market because few other brokers are willing to do the trades, which can open them to regulatory risks, such as potentially violating... Read more ›
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Tom's Hardware
AI is set to wipe out many routine white-collar jobs while simultaneously fueling a historic infrastructure boom that boosts demand and wages for skilled blue-collar workers, believes Jensen Huang from Nvidia. Read more ›
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Microsoft is said to have cooperated with the FBI and released the backup BitLocker encryption key of one user stored in its servers to the agency after receiving a valid search warrant. Read more ›
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An enthusiast has showcased an open-source Intel 486 motherboard that they claim was 'made from scratch' in under six months. Read more ›
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A Windows security update bug has prevented some Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 users from booting into their PCs, requiring them to go to Windows Recovery Environment to uninstall the offering update just to use their computer. Read more ›
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30% more performance per dollar than Maia 100, and faster than Amazon or Google. Read more ›
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Applied Digital is apparently keeping the location of its new 430 MW secret at the moment to give the town where it's building it time to adjust for "national media attention." Read more ›
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AMD has just reminded us that its X3D CPUs don't require fast memory speeds. In a new marketing slide for the upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D, we see only a 1% difference in average FPS across five games. We've known about this phenomenon since the DDR4-era 5800X3D, but this marks the first time AMD is explicitly marketing it. Read more ›
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A software engineer has developed a fully functional Linux scheduler that takes its cues from the popular pseudoscience of astrology. Read more ›
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ChatGPT has been found to be citing Grok in some of its answers, returning recursive results that risks spreading hallucinated or incorrect information. Read more ›
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Neurophos built a silicon photonics chip that's 10,000 smaller than current tech and could potentially deliver 10x the performance of Nivida's Vera Rubin GPUs using the same amount of power and available chip fab technologies. Read more ›
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