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New US restrictions could prevent leading chip manufacturers from installing chipmaking tools in their China fabs
The U.S. government may cancel a program for multinational chipmakers, with impacts to firms like Samsung, SK hynix, and TSMC which operate in China.
Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner
Photo shows the first meeting between two legends of the tech world, Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, standing together after a dinner.
Unreal Engine 5.6 up to 30% faster than the infamously bad version it succeeds
Unreal Engine 5.6 has been benchmarked, revealing up to a 30% performance improvement over version 5.4 of the same engine while boasting improved visual fidelity.
Authorities saw open Bitcoin ATM to recover scammed money
A Jasper County citizen was scammed out of $25,000, and the authorities used a power saw to seize the money from a Bitcoin ATM.
User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times
Complains that Redmond only responds with boilerplate emails.
Nvidia GPU owners may be losing performance because of a simple setting that's disabled by default
YouTuber JayzTwoCents discovered that manually enabling ReBAR in 3DMark can provide a 10% boost in performance, particularly on Intel Raptor Lake-based machines.
Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses
A software engineer on X has built an augmented reality app for Snap's Spectacles, using Google's Gemini AI to identify advertisements and brands in the real world.
China's first 6nm gaming GPU matches 13-year-old GTX 660 Ti in first Geekbench tests
The Lisuan G100 has been spotted on Geekbench (OpenCL), where it outputs performance similar to the GTX 660 Ti. That's largely due to early drivers and silicon.
