Another Ryzen 7 7800X3D reportedly burns out despite AMD's voltage fix

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What we know so far: AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs were once notorious for self-destructing on AM5 motherboards with older BIOS versions, but Team Red rolled out a firmware update to fix the problem in 2023. While there's no indication that the issue has returned, a Redditor is now reporting that their friend's Ryzen 7 780

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I trusted Antigravity and a local LLM with the same office tasks, and only one respected my files

Agentic AI tools can do the work - but whether they respect the work already there is a different question

Let These Avengers Radicalize You

When a radical leftist gets their hands on the Avengers, incredible things happen

GEEKOM M16 review finds nearly 30% CPU uplift after replacing thermal paste

GEEKOM makes the same mistake with poor quality thermal paste

I found KitGuru’s review interesting because they discovered that the GEEKOM M16’s factory thermal paste was poor enough that simply replacing it improved CPU performance by almost 30%. What’s more, the same issue also affected the company’s smaller laptop launched a few months earlier.

The laptop uses a Core Ultra 9 185H configured with a 45W power limit. At stock settings, the M16 scored around 6

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World Of Warcraft Players Claim Their Characters Keep Fighting Bosses On Their Own After Disconnecting

'Suuuper weird'

A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'

As a wise tree guy once said, "We must not be hasty."

Epomaker Launches RT75 Retro Wireless Mechanical Keyboard With Hot-Swap TFT Screen

Epomaker has officially announced the latest keyboard in its retro-inspired RT series, the RT75. As the name suggests, the RT75 is a 75% keyboard with retro design intentions. The new pre-built keyboard targets the upper entry-level price range, coming in at $91.79 with Epomaker's Creamy Jade linear switches and $93.49 with Epomaker's Crystal Tactile Silent switches from Epomaker's online store.

The RT75 features an
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SanDisk Takes ‘Finance Bros’ For A Ride: Cherry-Picks BF16 Quantization And Outdated HBM Specs, While Completely Glossing Over HBF’s Write Endurance Issues

SanDisk held an Investor Day presentation earlier this week. Ordinarily, that would be considered par for the course. However, then some of the presentation slides - laden with supposed inaccuracies and key omissions - started doing the rounds on the social media, leading to a backlash from the tech-savvy community.

An AI model basically consists of a series of transformer blocks that are made up of two key elements:

  1. The Attention Layer looks at how words in a sentence connect with each other. For instance, if you give the

《Apex 英雄》英靈獵宴活動將於 8 月 18 日至 9 月 8 日登場

EA 與 Respawn 今日正式公開《Apex 英雄》「英靈獵宴」活動預告片,活動將於 8 月 18 日至 9 月 8 日登場。獲得來自邊疆之外的力量後,英雄們將為證明誰才是獵食者、誰又是獵物而戰。玩家可藉由進化外卡增強實力,賺取烙印以解鎖活

「Qwen3.8-27B」ついに公開!3.6を大きく上回る性能でローカルAIの定番になるか

ローカルAIに最適な新モデル「Qwen3.8-27B」がオープンウェイトとしてついに公開された。Qwen3.5のアーキテクチャ基盤を継承しつつ、コーディング、専門業務、研究、ならびに長期的なエージェントタスク全般で