A PhD engineering student at UC Berkeley seemed to be extremely unfortunate, with computer after computer failing, racking up repair bills into the thousands of dollars. Their professor “smelled a rat,” reports The Mercury News , so they set up a laptop to record anything that might happen to the unlucky student’s hardware when it was left unattended. According to a cited police report, another PhD student was subsequently caught on video using an implement to vandalize their rival’s

2025 is nearly over, and Bambu Lab is seeing the new year in with one final, massive deal on its range of 3D printers and accessories throughout December. The company's end-of-year sale gives Brits the chance to score a top-range 3D printer or bundle, along with filament spools and accessories, for an epically good price.

This UK-focused sale is live, right now, running from 5th December until

Historically, the best RAM was not necessarily the most expensive; however, in the present market landscape, the two are now synonymous thanks to the global memory shortage. Retailers aren't the only ones capitalizing on the current situation through price gouging; Scalpers are also taking advantage of the situation on platforms like eBay, selling memory kits for up to twice the retail price.

Due to the AI boom, numerous corporations are building enormous data centers, driving up demand for server memory. Consequently

Many of the world's largest AI tech companies are going to start working together on some of their shared problems. Microsoft , Google , Anthropic, OpenAI, and a number of other related companies are going to team up as part of the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation, as reported by The Information . Managed by The Linux Foundation, the group will work on developing key open source tools and standards for AI agents, and will share their findings with each other on solving key

Would you like to run 235B parameter LLMs at home, but your lowly $10,000 budget restricts you to “consumer GPUs that can barely handle 70B parameter models”? This was the situation developer David Noel Ng found himself in, until he stumbled across an “obviously fake” Nvidia Grace-Hopper platform being sold on Reddit, of all places. Ng took the gamble and, according to his blog post , it paid off

There's probably a statistically significant intersection of 3D printing enthusiasts and Noctua cooling users. After all, both groups are into tweaking their machines and DIY in general. Both Prusa and Noctua seem to agree, as the companies have collaborated on bringing out high-end Noctua-colored filament .

The shades for the new filaments are Noctua Beige and Noctua Brown, and they've been color-matched precisely to fit the Austrian company's wares. This should make it

A San Francisco start-up has spent the past six months running one of the more unusual data projects in AI. Conduit says it has collected roughly 10,000 hours of non-invasive neural data from “thousands of unique individuals” in a basement studio, forming what it believes is the largest neuro-language dataset assembled to date. The company is using the recordings to train thought-to-text AI models that attempt to decode semantic content from brain activity in

China has begun to assemble a list of government-approved AI hardware suppliers that is designed to encourage public sector organizations to prioritize locally developed artificial intelligence processors, reports the Financial Times . At present, the list only includes Cambricon and Huawei , but does not list any foreign companies, such as AMD or Nvidia, perhaps highlighting China's government attitude towards President Trump's plans to let Nvidia sell its H200 processors to customers in China.

The new list, which will

Windows 11 has been causing a ruckus for graphics card owners over the past several weeks — particularly for Nvidia GPU owners, to the point where Nvidia was forced to release a hotfix GPU driver to fix gaming performance problems caused by the October update. Now that the December security update for Windows 11 is out, we have new evidence reported by OC3D that AMD GPUs were possibly also having issues caused by Windows 11 cumulative updates. A number of user reports claim that the