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Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop

Linux creator Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 and an Intel laptop for kernel development, as revealed through a bug report involving DSC on his ASUS 5K monitor. His deliberate use of modest, open-friendly hardware subtly pushes back against AI hype and proprietary bloat.

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Samsung reportedly slashes HBM3 prices to woo Nvidia — cuts could put the heat on rivals SK hynix and Micron as company attempts to spur AI turnaround

Samsung is reportedly slashing HBM3E costs to win back Nvidia and challenge rivals SK hynix and Micron. A ZDNet Korea report reveals internal pricing changes and packaging tweaks as Samsung aims to make its AI memory more competitive in a high-stakes battle for dominance in the AI hardware space.

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Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025

End of the line for a wide range of iconic graphics cards

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China raises security concerns over Nvidia's H20 Chips — hardware may expose user data or hidden tracking functions

China has raised security concerns over Nvidia’s H20 GPU shortly after a U.S. export ban was lifted, signaling potential political pushback against American hardware.

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Future Games Show announces hosts for Gamescom showcase — 'Metal Gear Solid' and 'Resident Evil' actors to present

The Future Games Show has picked video game actors David Hayter and Maggie Robertson to host its showcase at Gamescom on August 20.

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RDNA 4's Unreal Engine 4 ray-tracing stutters may not be AMD-specific

A YouTuber has discovered that AMD's RDNA 4 ray-tracing stutter problems in Unreal Engine 4 games goes deeper than expected. Intel Arc GPUs also suffer from the same stuttering problems, suggesting it is an engine issue rather than a driver problem.

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Researchers find automated financial traders will collude with each other through a combination of 'artificial intelligence' and 'artificial stupidity'

Researchers at Wharton and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have a working paper detailing the ways automated tools that rely on reinforcement learning can end up colluding with each other.

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Meta's Zuckerberg outlines vision for 'personal superintelligence' in a letter — says that, unlike rivals, his approach isn't about automating everything

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines his vision for “personal superintelligence” just ahead of the company’s Q2 earnings. With billions poured into AI hires and hardware partnerships, Meta's new direction hints at a future shaped by open-source models and personalized AI infrastructure.

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Chinese CPUs are closing the gap on AMD — next-gen Zhaoxin chips feature 96 cores, 12-channel DDR5 memory, and 128 PCIe 5.0 Lanes

Zhaoxin has announced the new KaiXian KX-7000N and Kaisheng KH-50000 processors at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025.

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HPE gets approval for $14B acquisition of Juniper, to defend AI networking edge against China's Huawei — White House stepped in after agencies flagged national security concerns

U.S. intelligence reportedly pushed the DOJ to approve HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition, viewing it as a strategic move against Huawei. Despite internal DOJ tension, the merger seeks to strengthen US networking capabilities amid rising tech competition with China.

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Micron's industry-first PCI 6.0 SSD promises sequential reads up to 28,000 MB/s — 245 TB SSD also coming for those who need capacity more than cutting-edge speed

Micron launched the 9650 SSD with PCIe 6.0 and 5.5M IOPS for AI workloads, and unveiled the 6600 ION series with up to 245TB for high-density, energy-efficient storage.

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Nvidia's upcoming ARM-based N1X SoC leaks again, this time on FurMark — modest benchmark score indicates early engineering sample but confirms Windows evaluation

NVIDIA’s N1X SoC has surfaced in FurMark, revealing RTX 2060-tier performance despite packing 6,144 CUDA cores—more than an RTX 5070. Running under Windows 11 with new 590.22 drivers, the chip appears to be in validation.

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Power usage in Wyoming AI data center could eclipse consumption of the state's human residents by 5x — tenant of colossal investment remains a mystery

Plans are afoot to create a massive new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with power demands many multiples of the state's population.

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EU fab tool makers get reprieve in EU-U.S. tariffs deal — ASML and others to be exempted from 15% duty

A new U.S.–EU trade deal exempts semiconductor equipment from tariffs, avoiding steep cost hikes for American chipmakers and protecting the competitiveness of U.S. fabs.

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Nvidia-backed startup invents Ethernet memory pool to help power AI — claims it can add up to 18TB of DDR5 capacity for large-scale inference workloads and reduce per-token generation costs by up to 50%

Enfabrica is piloting its Emfasys Ethernet-connected DDR5 memory pool that adds up to 18TB of CXL-attached memory to any AI server to ease memory bottlenecks in large-scale inference workloads.

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FBI seizes $2.4 million in Bitcoin from member of recently ascendant Chaos ransomware group

The FBI in Dallas, Texas, has seized 20 Bitcoins from a member of the Chaos Ransomware gang, amounting to almost $2.4 million in value.

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V-Color announces 2TB RDIMM kits for Threadripper Pro 9000 — 256GB modules promise stability at absurdly high RAM capacities

V-Color has announced its newest line of OC RDIMMs purpose-built for the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Pro line, reaching up to 256GB on a single RDIMM. In some Pro motherboards, these kits are rated for up to 2TB total installed capacity.

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AMD's Zen 5 gets down to business with new Ryzen Pro 9000 CPUs, according to leak — next-gen enterprise chips to predictably feature up to 12 Zen 5 cores, 65W TDPs

A hardware leaker has shared the alleged specifications for AMD's upcoming Ryzen Pro 9000-series processors, designed for business users.

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EU plans $30 billion investment in gigawatt AI data centers — multiple sites to host 100,000 AI GPUs each as bloc plays catch-up to US and China

The European Union is launching a $30 billion initiative to build a network of gigawatt-class AI data centers across 16 member states in a bid to catch up with the U.S. and China, though concerns remain over power supply, unclear specifications, and long-term business viability.

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You can now 3D print your own NAS bay — the N5 Mini supports five drives and even has customizable faceplates

Jack Harvest has designed an NAS enclosure inspired by the Minisforum N5 that you can 3D print at home to create using a mini PC.

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ChatGPT agent casually brushes aside ‘I am not a robot’ captcha — 'so now I’ll click the 'verify you are human' checkbox to complete this verification' it declared without a hint of irony

A Redditor has demonstrated the ability of the recently launched ChatGPT agent to casually swat away a captcha, so that it can complete its assigned task(s).

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Ukraine strikes back at Russia — launches cyberattack on forces in Crimea as independent hackers target airline Aeroflot, grounding dozens of planes

Ukraine's intelligence agency conducted a sustained distributed-denial of service attack on Russian forces in Crimea while independent hacking groups targeted the airline.

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Nvidia seeks extra 300,000 H20 GPUs to meet China's surging AI demand — places order with TSMC to meet unexpectedly strong interest

Nvidia has ordered 300,000 H20 GPUs from TSMC as Chinese demand surges, despite political backlash over national security risks. The U.S. still hasn’t approved export licenses, but Nvidia aims to retain its foothold in China’s AI market, where rivals like Huawei are gaining ground.

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Netgear's Orbi 370 offers affordable dual-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh starting at $249.99 — company brings next-gen router pricing more in line with competition from TP-Link and Amazon

The Orbi 370 is available starting at $249.99 for a router and one satellite

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Quantum machine learning unlocks new efficient chip design pipeline — encoding data in quantum states then analyzing it with machine learning up to 20% more effective than traditional models

Researchers have discovered a new method of designing semi-conductors by modeling the electrical resistance inside a chip using quantum computing pattern recognition, and then machine learning to analyze the output data.

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