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Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
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CPUs
Intel's Nova Lake lineup to feature a SKU with 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, compete with Ryzen G-series APUs
All other Nova Lake SKUs feature only 2 Xe3 cores.
Graphics Cards
'CopprLink' destroys every eGPU standard in new test, achieves near-native-level performance with an RTX 5090
CopprLink enables full-fat PCIe 5.0 x16 connectivity.
Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%
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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers — RTX 5090 gaming GPU outperforms Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300X
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PC Components
Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump
USB flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards are becoming expensive as the NAND chip shortage takes its bite and expands to other storage options.
Desktops and PC Building
Thermal pads with in-built vapor-chambers claim 50 to 80 times better thermal conductivity than normal thermal pads
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How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam — Camo Studio unlocks new uses for old smartphones in Windows 10 or 11 and OBS software
You don’t need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!
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