AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system — EPYC 'Venice' and Instinct MI430X powered system breaks the ExaFLOP barrier

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AMD and Eviden, an Atos Group-controller maker of supercomputers, have announced their first project — the Alice Recoque supercomputer — that will use AMD's next-generation EPYC 'Venice' CPUs and Instinct MI430X accelerators to achieve performance beyond 1 ExaFLOPS. The machine will cost over half a billion euros and will be accessible to researchers working on demanding AI and scientific projects.

The Alice Recoque supercomputer will be based on AMD's upcoming EPYC 'Venice' processors with

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Bitcoin price plunges, wipes $1 trillion from value weeks after it hit all-time high — prices now near lowest level for the year, erasing 2025 gains

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Bitcoin just dropped to around $90,000, marking its lowest level since late March and early April when it traded for around $80,000. According to Financial Times , this has wiped out $1.2 trillion in value from the crypto since it peaked at over $125,000 in October 5 . Although BTC slowly dropped in value after it hit its record high, the biggest drop happened on October 1

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Bambu Lab launches beastly seven-nozzle 3D printer at FormNext — H2C model launches everywhere but the US due to tarrifs

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Bambu Lab announced the long-awaited seven-nozzle H2C this week at FormNext, the world’s largest additive manufacturing expo. The printer was recently sent to us for review and is currently undergoing testing.

The price revealed to Tom’s Hardware starts at $2399 US for a basic H2C with an AMS 2 Pro. This is the model we are reviewing. You can also pick up an Ultimate combo that comes with an additional

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Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet

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Microsoft 's Azure has mitigated the largest botnet attack in history, with over 500,000 devices used to send up to 15.72 terabits per second to a single cloud endpoint in Australia, which is roughly equivalent to 3.5 million Netflix movies streamed simultaneously per-second.

In a blog post , Microsoft claims the Azure DDoS protection was able to detect the attack and filter the traffic so customers remained unaffected, but urged organizations to

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Microsoft's vision of "AI-native" Windows is becoming real, update introduces agents that pilfer through your files — Latest Windows 11 Insider build includes experimental AI agents toggle that can pe

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A few days ago, a high-ranking Microsoft executive characteristically gushed about how Windows is becoming an agentic OS with a focus on AI features, a sentiment that was met with intense scrutiny on social media. Today, we have our first look at what that eventuality could look like, with AI agents working by your side in the background in Windows 11 Insider Build 26220.7262, as detailed by the Windows Insider Blog .

This latest update adds

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Dell's 34-inch Alienware AW3425DW QD-OLED gaming monitor hits an all-time $649 low — glorious color accuracy out of the box, along with blistering 240 Hz refresh rate

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The Alienware AW3425DW5 34-inch curved QD-OLED is the successor to one of our favorite QD-OLED gaming monitors, the AW3423DWF. Several upgrades and enhancements have been made to this next-generation screen, including hardware spec upgrades and changes to the chassis and stand design. According to price-checking tools, this gaming monitor is currently available at its lowest price ever. The Dell Alienware AW3425DW

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This superb AOC QD-OLED gaming monitor is an absolute bargain for just £379 — upgrade to 1440p with a super-fast 240Hz refresh rate

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There’s an OLED gaming monitor upgrade in your future, and it’s all down to Amazon. This AOC display features some seriously impressive specs, including a 27-inch QD-OLED panel and a 240Hz refresh rate, and all for less than £400 at Amazon .

Price is the key point here, because you’ll be spending just £378.94 to secure this AOC

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GlobalFoundries buys silicon photonics firm Advanced Micro Foundry for undisclosed amount — move makes chipmaker one of the largest silicon photonics manufacturers

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GlobalFoundries just announced its acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics maker, a purchase the company says makes it the largest manufacturer of the technology, as reported by Reuters . Silicon photonics uses light instead of electrical pulses to transmit data, and it can be used for communication within chips, between components, and even across servers.

Nvidia is already planning to implement silicon photonics for its next-generation AI servers, which would reduce power consumption while simultaneously increasing data transfer

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Vulkan-to-DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve's Proton now supports AMD's FSR4 and Anti-Lag, while Nvidia's DLSS4 remains unsupported — FSR4 now also works on older GPUs, VKD3D-Proton v3.0 bring

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The Vulkan -to- DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve 's Proton has reached version 3.0, marking one of the tool's largest updates yet. The VKD3D-Proton project's GitHub page highlights a plethora of upgrades for version 3.0, including FSR 4 support, Anti-lag support, and a rewrite to the DXBC shader backend. Linux users can expect future iterations of Proton to come with VKD3D-Proton version 3.

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