Children in Russia have raised their voices, demanding to be heard, saying the government has gone too far. A state representative admitted that 63,000 complaint letters were received in a single week, with half of the irate youngsters threatening to leave Russia. What’s the fuss? Is it something to do with the ongoing war or sanctions? No, it is a backlash against the banning of the Roblox gaming platform, reports The Moscow Times.
53 years later, bus standard launched by HP in 1972 gets stable Linux driver — General Purpose Interface Bus has blistering 8 MB/s of bandwidth
The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB, AKA HP-IB) has finally received stable drivers, and will be merged in the Linux 6.19 kernel release, 53 years after it was launched by HP. Phoronix explains that GPIB support was first added to the mainline Linux kernel last year, but now they have been declared stable.
This driver addition was highlighted by Greg Kroah-Hartman in a staging pull request for Linux 6.19-rc1
Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence
Swedish-German developer Steffen has just shared the source code for a new firmware they created that allowed them to free a new Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud .
Smart home appliances are everywhere these days, and there's a good chance you've got one in your house right now. They make it easy to control your devices, allowing you to manage them wirelessly and set up routines that save you from life's mundanity. Unfortunately,
Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level; rats can now shoot enemies — wraparound AMOLED screen provides virtual environment for neuroengineers' expanded open source project
Back in 2021, the internet briefly lost its collective mind over a very particular headline: rats had been trained to play Doom — specifically, Doom II . Four years later, the project is back with a substantial update , and this time it's less of a novelty and more of something that actually resembles gameplay. Kind of. Especially now that an added trigger mechanism allows the rats, which see their way around the game with new wraparound AMOLED screens
Get a Creality 3D printer at an all-time low pricing until Christmas — up to $300 off K2 series with CFS bundle
Creality has put three of its most popular 3D printer models on sale this holiday season, with the Creality K2 Combo dropping to $549 (its lowest price ever), the Creality K2 Pro Combo on sale for $999 , and the Creality K2 Plus Combo for only $1,199 , a whopping $300 off MSRP. The combos all include the named 3D printer and Creality's 4-bay
Dell preps massive price hikes up to 30% citing memory pricing 'out of our control' — company reminds commercial customers that placing an order today for future delivery will not guarantee current pr
The painful RAM shortages being felt across the computing industry are soon coming to impact the corporate world. Dell is set to increase prices across all of its commercial laptop offerings on December 17, according to an internal report obtained by Business Insider . The price changes are coming exclusively to Dell's commercial business, selling machines to companies and corporate clients, at least for now.
Dell preps significant price hikes up to 30% for corporate products — company warns that ordering today for
New app injects AMD's AI-driven FSR Redstone framegen into unsupported games — pre-alpha OptiScaler build demo shows nice improvements over legacy FSR frame gen
A Reddit user has demonstrated AMD’s new ML-powered FSR Redstone frame generation running in Monster Hunter Wilds . This game was never designed to support it; it used a community OptiScaler pre-alpha build to bypass official integration restrictions. The user, who shared their test on the r/ radeon subreddit, shows side-by-side footage of an older version of FSR Redstone versus the newer Redstone ML frame generation.
AMD began rolling out Redstone ML frame generation
Industry preps new 'cheap' HBM4 memory spec with narrow interface, but it isn't a GDDR killer — JEDEC's new SPHBM4 spec weds HBM4 performance and lower costs to enable higher capacity
JEDEC, the organization responsible for defining the specifications of industry-standard memory types, is close to finalizing SPHBM4, a new memory standard designed to deliver full HBM4-class bandwidth with a 'narrow' 512-bit interface, higher capacities, and lower integration costs by leveraging compatibility with conventional organic substrates. If the technology takes off, it will address many gaps in the markets HBM could serve, but as we'll explain below, it isn't likely
Snag $760 worth of hardware for $469, including 32GB of DDR5 memory worth $407, in this stellar bundle deal — 32GB of DDR5 memory, Intel Z890 motherboard, and 280mm liquid cooler included
It may not be the best time to build a new one or upgrade your current gaming rig, given the historically high memory prices over the past few months. However, if you cannot wait for RAM prices to settle down to an acceptable level and avoid overspending, Newegg is offering a limited-time bundle that includes a 32GB DDR5 memory kit, a Z890 motherboard, and a free 280mm AIO liquid cooler for just $469.
Nvidia details new software that enables location tracking for AI GPUs — opt-in remote data center GPU fleet management includes power usage and thermal monitoring
Following reports that Nvidia has developed a data fleet management software that can track physical locations of its GPUs , Nvidia on Thursday detailed its GPU fleet monitoring software . The software indeed enables data center operators to monitor various aspects of an AI GPU fleet. Among other things, it allows for detecting the physical location of these processors, a possible deterrent against smuggling chips. However, there is a catch: the software is opt-in rather than mandatory, which may limit its effectiveness as a tool