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Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn
A rising tide of speculators are arguing that Nvidia's 16-pin 12VHPWR standard is designed with no safety factor, causing melting cables.
Nvidia's new WHQL driver squashes some game-crashing bugs, adds support for Avowed and Civ VII
Nvidia has released the GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.42 WHQL, which includes day-one support for Avowed and Civilization VII and Frame Generation updates for several other titles.
Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later
Nvidia is kicking it old-school with Molex-to-SATA levels of fire hazard.
Nvidia confirms RTX 5070 Ti release date for February 20, starting at $749
No Founders Edition, the RTX 5070 Ti will be sold exclusively by AIB partners.
US gov't pushing TSMC and Intel to create joint venture in the US: Report
TSMC has made no official announcements about expanding in the U.S. at the board meetings this week, but the rumor mill points to quicker expansion in Arizona and a joint venture with Intel.
Increased Linux kernel timer frequency delivers big boost in AI workloads
Linux kernel timer frequency boosted to 1,000 Hz, test suite compares performance to current default 250 Hz timer.
RX 9070 XT leaked specs point to 4,096 shaders and 16GB VRAM
Specs of AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT have allegedly been pictured in GPU-Z, revealing 4,096 shaders, 16GB of 20 Gbps memory, and PCIe 5.0 support.
Data hoarders race to preserve data disappearing U.S. gov websites
Data hoarders are working overtime to save federal websites that are in danger of being wiped.
