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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Marvel's Wolverine arrives complete on disc, just as physical gaming fades

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In a nutshell: Marvel's Wolverine is scheduled for release in a month's time, and X-Men fans are eager to play Insomniac Games' new title on their PlayStation 5 consoles. According to the project's director, Wolverine will also be one of the last PS5 games designed as a complete experience that works out of the box.

During a recent interview, Insomniac's Senior Project Director


Anthropic is heading toward the largest IPO ever, at a possible $2 trillion valuation

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Bottom line: Anthropic is heading toward a possible October IPO, with many investors telling the Financial Times that they expect the company to reach a valuation of $2 trillion or more. That figure would make it the largest public offering on record and put the company at the top of a market that is becoming increasingly cautious about AI spending and valuations.

The expectations are driven by Anthropic's rapid revenue growth. Investors expect

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Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply

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NAND May Cry: AI data centers and hyperscale operations are coming for everyone's NAND chips – and then some. In fact, the manufacturing industry is already realigning much of its production capacity around the needs of Big Tech and AI startups looking to sell chatbot-like experiences to subscribers.

A recent study by Counterpoint Research highlights the seismic shift the NAND flash industry is undergoing because of generative AI and chatbot services. While

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NASA-tested vest could cut astronauts' radiation exposure by 60% during major solar storms

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Why it matters: A vest tested during NASA's Artemis I mission could reduce astronauts' radiation exposure during major solar storms, according to a new study. The findings show how targeted shielding could support crew safety as NASA prepares for longer missions around and eventually on the moon.

The AstroRad vest flew around the moon in 2022 on Zohar, one of two female manikins aboard NASA's Orion capsule.

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Samsung's $1,900 Galaxy Z Fold 8 still has a serious problem with dust getting into its hinge

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Facepalm: Remember all the problems the original Galaxy Fold had with its folding display back in 2019? Seven years later, and with the device now in its eighth generation, debris getting inside through the hinge remains a problem – as iFixit has demonstrated.

iFixit's teardown video notes that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 has an IP48 rating, confirming it is protected against foreign objects 1mm in diameter

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Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives when its data center vanished

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Facepalm: Entrusting critical systems to external tech companies can be dangerous because they might suddenly shut down or come under new management. Nine PBS is currently learning this lesson, along with the importance of maintaining additional backups, amid court proceedings against a data center with a murky ownership history.

Nine PBS in St. Louis is suing the owner of a Denver-based data center after spending much of this year attempting to regain access

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Petlibro outage left some smart feeders offline and pets missing scheduled meals

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A hot potato: Petlibro users reported that pet feeders, fountains, and litter boxes stopped working properly during a service outage that began on Tuesday. For some owners, the problem went beyond losing app access: they said scheduled feedings did not happen.

The company said the issue involved communication between the Petlibro app, its devices, and online servers. Its status page later said service had been fully restored, but users continued


Phantom Blade Zero can run on old GPUs, but you'll need way more for ray tracing

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Something to look forward to: Phantom Blade Zero has been one of TechSpot's most anticipated games since developer S-Game Studio unveiled the Wuxia-themed adventure last December. A lengthy recent presentation outlined the game's combat, characters, and system requirements. Although the spec sheet relies upon upscaling, Phantom Blade Zero supports older mainstream GPUs while also offering high-end ray tracing options for those with more robust hardware

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Elon Musk earned over 2.5 million times more than Tesla workers as CEO pay surged again

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Winners & losers: Everything is more expensive these days, and most people's wages haven't risen at the same rate. Unless they're a CEO, that is. Company bosses now get more than ever, pushing their pay packages astronomically higher than the average person working for them. But nowhere is this gap more evident than at Tesla, where Elon Musk's compensation was 2,522

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