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DIYer creates ‘RTX 5090 countermeasures’ with cabling spaghetti to mitigate 16-pin meltdowns
A DIY “RTX 5090 Countermeasures” system to prevent connector thermal damage implements a lot of wiring.
Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 7 254V Lunar Lake chip leaks out in new benchmarks
A cut-down 256V?
Nvidia says H20 export controls didn’t stop China’s AI progress
Nvidia shared an opinion piece by Aaron Ginn, co-founder of AI company Hydra Host, stating that despite the U.S.’s export controls on Nvidia’s H20 chips, China continued to achieve AI breakthroughs.
You can now buy replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet colors
Replacement trackball balls in red, blue, black, and violet are now available for sale.
Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop — authorities read criminals' writes while they spill the beans
Seagate's security team from Singapore and Malaysia and local Malaysian authorities have raided a counterfeiting hard drive warehouse located outside Kuala Lumpur.
Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips — levies coming within two weeks as Section 232 investigation nears completion
Trump’s floated plan for semiconductor tariffs as high as 300% has rattled the tech industry.
Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky
A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.
Early RTX 5090D V2 benchmarks suggest that maybe 384-bit memory is just fine after all
There's barely any difference in performance between the RTX 5090D and its 512-bit interface compared to the 5090D V2 and its skinnier 384-bit interface in games.
