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Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation

President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a woman alleged by U.S. intelligence to have gathered information for Beijing.

Slashdot Apolitical · Tom's Hardware Apolitical
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Tech · 3 outlets

Starlink Mini 2 Adds a Swappable Battery, Wi-Fi 6

SpaceX has unveiled the Starlink Mini 2, equipping the company's smallest satellite internet terminal with a removable 71Wh battery and Wi-Fi 6. Preorders are opening to select U.S. customers for $999, which also includes a year of Roam Unlimited service.

Slashdot Apolitical · The Verge Left leaning
+1 moreHacker News Apolitical
Tech · 3 outlets

Amazon’s New Ring Security Cameras Can Fly Around Your House or Roam Around Your Business

Ring's new AI-powered security devices include a $250 drone and a $1,000 roving robot.

Gizmodo Left leaning · Wired Left
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Tech · 3 outlets

Pixel phones getting new icon styles, Create My Widget, and more in November Pixel Drop

Spruce up your home screen with expanded custom icons and AI-generated widgets.

Ars Technica Center · HotHardware Apolitical
+1 moreThe Verge Left leaning
Tech · 2 outlets

Vanderbilt Orders Urgent PC Shutdown In Crippling Hack Claiming 1M SSNs

BYOD claims extensive data theft as campus Wi-Fi returns, most systems remain restricted, and classes carry on

The Register Apolitical · HotHardware Apolitical
Tech · 2 outlets

France Accuses Iran of Supermarket Fridge Hacking

France has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind last month's cyberattacks on fridges and freezers across the country.

Slashdot Apolitical · The Register Apolitical
Tech · 2 outlets

FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that GLP-1 drugmakers must add a warning label about a rare eye condition that can cause sudden blindness.

Ars Technica Center · Slashdot Apolitical
Tech · 2 outlets

Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff

Per usual, the basic MacBook Pro lags behind the flagships where it counts.

Ars Technica Center · Gizmodo Left leaning
Tech · 1 outlet

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.

TechCrunch Center
Tech · 2 outlets

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks

As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures.

TechCrunch Center · Hacker News Apolitical
Linux · 5 outlets

KORA Announced As Linux Desktop OS "For The Age of Intelligence"

Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs"...

Phoronix Apolitical · it's FOSS Apolitical
+3 moreWired Left · TechCrunch Center · TechPowerUp Apolitical
Linux · 3 outlets

Blender 5.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Vulkan Default

Blender 5.3 has been released with support for 3D Gaussian Splats, Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction and Vulkan as the default graphics backend on Linux. Phoronix reports: Blender now allows importing Gaussian Splats from PLY, SPZ, and glTF files.

Phoronix Apolitical · Slashdot Apolitical
+1 moreHacker News Apolitical
Linux · 3 outlets

Firefox 160 Available With Speech-To-Text, MKV Files With FLAC / MP3 / PCM Audio

Mozilla has officially released Firefox Browser version 160, which brings with it both a number of under-the-hood and user-facing changes to improve the average browsing experience.

Phoronix Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical
+1 moreit's FOSS Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

Eight More Security Issues Made Public For The X.Org Server / XWayland

With the assistance of AI/LLMs, eight more security vulnerabilities were made public today for the X.Org Server. These issues also end up affecting the XWayland code too...

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores

Back in July AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" series at their Advancing AI event. Today they are announcing EPYC 9006 series Socket SP7 processor availability and with systems beginning to ship today from their OEM/ODM partners.

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

Longtime Linux Developer Steps Down From Some Roles Due To Patch Flood Caused By AI

Linux memory management expert Lorenzo Stoakes at Arm who has been contributing to the kernel since 2014 is stepping away from some reviewership roles within the Linux kernel due to all of the noise from the flood of kernel patches resulting fro AI/LLMs...

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

Mesa 26.3 Released With VK_AMD_anti_lag For RADV, Many Other Vulkan Improvements

Mesa 26.3 is out today as the fourth quarter Mesa3D feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

KDE Plasma 6.8.3 is out today as the newest bug-fix release for last month's major Plasma 6.8 debut...

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

RPM v6 Format Approved For Fedora 46, ThinLTO Flag Rejected

With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the end of next April...

Phoronix Apolitical
Linux · 1 outlet

openSUSE Tumbleweed Transitioning To Agama Installer

With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to make the same transitioning in replacing the YaST Installer...

Phoronix Apolitical
Self-hosting · 1 outlet

Anchor is a Self-Hosted Google Keep Alternative That Works Offline

Anchor is a self-hosted note-taking app with offline editing, mobile apps, note history, and automatic syncing between devices.

Noted.lol Apolitical
Self-hosting · 1 outlet

Tailscale Part 5: Securing Your Homelab with Access Controls

Learn how to secure your Tailscale network with device approval and access controls, giving you more control over who can access your homelab.

Noted.lol Apolitical
Tech hardware · 4 outlets

AMD Zen 6 Architecture Brings A Phenomenal 27% IPC Increase Over Zen 5: Full Architecture Breakdown – Up To 256 Cores, 12.8 GT/s MRDIMMs, A New ISA & More

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the general availability of the 6th Gen AMD EPYC server SP7 processors, based on the new "Zen 6" architecture, extending its historical server CPU performance leadership as AI creates new demands across the data center.

TechPowerUp Apolitical · The Register Apolitical
+2 moreWccftech Apolitical · Tom's Hardware Apolitical
Tech hardware · 4 outlets

Seagate resurrects hybrid storage: Hands-on with the FireCuda Forge – 8 or 20TB external hard drive requires you to bring your own NVMe SSD

Seagate takes on high SSD storage prices with the Firecuda Forge, a 8TB or 20TB hard drive that requires you to bring your own M.2 2280 SSD (ideally 1TB, with DRAM). It's a throwback to the days of hybrid drives, and the experience is pretty seamless once you install your SSD.

Tom's Hardware Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical
+2 moreHotHardware Apolitical · PCWorld Apolitical
Tech hardware · 4 outlets

Steam Store adds average FPS data so you can see game performance before making a purchase

Valve is adding a new feature to the Steam store that tracks performance data and then displays it anonymously to users who match the hardware.

Tom's Hardware Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical
+2 moreHotHardware Apolitical · Ars Technica Center
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

Rockstar Confirms That Grand Theft Auto VI Targets 30 FPS on Every Console, Including PS5 Pro, With No Performance Mode Offered

Rockstar Games has just shared a few key tidbits about next week's massively anticipated launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, starting with the fact that pre-order customers can now preload the game on both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X platforms.

Wccftech Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical
Tech hardware · 3 outlets

AMD confirms bug causing excessive SSD wear

If you’ve noticed your SSD filling up or experiencing heavy background activity lately, an ongoing bug in AMD’s software might be to blame. The fault lies within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition.

PCWorld Apolitical · Wccftech Apolitical
+1 moreHotHardware Apolitical
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

Alice Huang reportedly instrumental in securing over $7.5 billion of Nvidia AI GPU imports during three-year relationship with Jensen Huang

Alice Huang is reportedly connected to a web of Chinese companies, which then leveraged her closeness to Jensen Huang to gain access to billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia GPUs.

Tom's Hardware Apolitical · Wccftech Apolitical
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

ASRock Updates VBIOS Flashing Utility Following Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX Bricking Reports

ASRock has released an updated version of the ASRVBFlash utility, version 1.0.6, which is intended to fix issues caused by the previous version, 1.0.5, for Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX users.

TechPowerUp Apolitical · Wccftech Apolitical
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

The First Nintendo Switch 2 Jailbreak Is Out Of Commission, As Game Dumping and Modding Have Been Rendered Impossible By Firmware 23.5.0

The past few weeks have been exciting for the Nintendo Switch 2 homebrew scene, as the first jailbreak released for the system allowed users to accomplish all sorts of feats from modding, data mining, and dumping games (resulting in Zelda: Ocarina of Time being playable on PC since launch) to…

Wccftech Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

The PlayStation Plus PC app is shutting down next month

Sony is retiring the PlayStation Plus app for PC on December 10th. Sony says it will notify users directly about the shutdown.

The Verge Left leaning · TechPowerUp Apolitical
Tech hardware · 2 outlets

Microsoft VP Creates Open-Source GPU Task Manager That Shows Exactly What’s Using Your VRAM

GPU Taskman provides detailed per-process VRAM monitoring, GPU telemetry, and even insights into local AI model memory consumption. Ever wondered exactly where all your GPU's VRAM is going?

Wccftech Apolitical · TechPowerUp Apolitical