Zak Killian
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If you're among the horde of companies looking to integrate AI services into your workflows yet unwilling to pay OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Anthropic exorbitant API fees for their advanced models, why not host it yourself? That's...
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One of the strangest parts of AMD's stagnation in the early 2010s was that it simply stopped releasing new desktop CPUs for a while. It's true that there wasn't much point in continuing the lineage of the inefficient (and unpopular)...
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A new wave of state-level proposals targeting virtual private networks has stirred up an unusual amount of alarm from digital-rights groups, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't pulling punches. In a detailed critique published...
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DDR5 memory runs objectively high transfer rates; JEDEC specs go as high as 6.4 Gbps, and overclockers have taken DDR5 beyond the fastest LPDDR5X: all the way to over 13 Gbps. At these speeds, signal integrity becomes a first-order...
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Back when AMD announced its next-generation FSR Redstone technology, the company promised to have the updated upscaling and frame generation techniques out by the end of the year. Many expected that this would mean a late-December source...
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Tachyum is back with another round of astonishing promises. The startup, which was founded in 2016 and still yet to ship a single chip, has unveiled the latest revision of its Prodigy processor design, now targeted at 2nm, which it says...
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NVIDIA may garner the lion's share of AI news, but AMD has its own selection of extremely potent AI processors, and it has been making rapid progress on both the hardware and software fronts in recent years. It was just a few months ago...
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That's right: another Windows feature update is coming, but don't worry, because you probably won't get this one. Windows 11 26H1 is actually already available to Windows 11 Insiders on the "Canary" channel, which is the most bleeding-edge...
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Possibly the most absurd truth of modern computing is that, as far as the technology has evolved, we're fundamentally still doing the exact same thing we were doing decades ago: twiddling bits. The question, of course, has always been how...
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The idea that AMD's Zen 6 would support AVX-512 in some fashion has never really been in question, to tell the truth. With native 512-bit vector datapaths and a nearly-complete AVX-512 implementation, AMD's Zen 5 already has the strongest...
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Have you seen the ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 card? Yes you have; it's right above this text. The new high-end graphics card from the halo-tier Matrix series has a striking design that we'd assume was a Radeon GPU if not for the...
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Motherboards are definitely getting more sophisticated but this new entrant from Gigabyte may take the cake, at least currently. Gigabyte's new X870E Aorus Xtreme X3D AI TOP is a refined and revised version of its extant X870E Aorus Xtreme...
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It's kind of this simple. If you have someone else do work for you, your skills will worsen over time with respect to doing that work yourself. Seems obvious when stated that way, right? Nevertheless, it's important to confirm our...
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NVIDIA's DGX Spark is a micro-desktop system designed to accelerate development of software that will be deployed on NVL72 and NVL144 rack systems featuring hundreds or thousands of NVIDIA GPUs. In essence, it's a tiny computer that...
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The Steam Deck just got a smart quality-of-life update that allows it to stretch further into the realm of proper dedicated gaming devices. Valve has added a new display-off, low-power mode that lets the handheld finish downloading games...
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When AMD revealed the Ryzen AI Max 300 series, also known by its codename "Strix Halo", there were only three models: the eight-core 385, the twelve-core 390, and the 16-core "Max+ 395". That plus sign on the "Max" in the product name is...
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Have you ever heard of a company called Adeia? We haven't either. Founded in 2022, Adeia was originally the IP licensing arm of Xperi, which was formerly known as Tessera. What IP, you might ask? Well, a large portfolio of patents...
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Most PC users have experienced this problem first-hand: Windows performs updates, and your "Restart" and "Shut down" options get replaced by "Update and restart" and "Update and shut down." Only, in reality, these are actually the same...
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Microsoft is testing a feature in its Insider Preview builds that allows audio to be shared between two separate Bluetooth LE audio devices. This means that two Bluetooth audio accessories can play back the exact same audio stream...
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If you pay attention to gaming news at all, you've almost assuredly heard by now that Epic Games won its case against Google last year. Google still wants to take the case to the Supreme Court, but for now, it has to abide by the US...
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AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library. The move to openSIL will improve security and scalability while...
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The U.S. Department of Energy is teaming up with NVIDIA and Oracle to build what's NVIDIA calls the DOE's largest AI supercomputer, part of a new public–private partnership meant to supercharge federally funded research. Announced at...
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