The development of neuromorphic hardware provides a compelling approach for tackling the increasingly evident capacity, performance, and energy bottlenecks in classical computing. However, as scientists from Ohio State University indicate in a recent paper , rare-earth metal supplies and costly fabrication processes are stifling the dream of brain-like efficient computers. They have an answer, though, having successfully demonstrated “fungal computing via mycelial networks.” As a bonus, shiitake mycelium memristors are also dehydration and radiation resistant.

Earlier this week, two new processors from AMD's Ryzen 9000 series leaked out , upgraded with the company's special-sauce 3D V-Cache, aimed at upping game performance. The top SKU from that batch was a monstrous dual-chiplet Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 sporting 192MB of L3 cache spread across the two 8-core CCDs (one cache chiplet per CCD). If that sounded overkill to you

US and Chinese trade negotiators say they’ve reached a framework agreement that, if approved by both governments this week, would roll back proposed 100% tariffs on Chinese imports and pause Beijing’s escalating export restrictions on rare-earth materials .

US trade representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, "We are moving forward to the final details of the type of agreement that the leaders can review and decide if they want to conclude together."

The breakthrough, first

There was a time not too long ago when Steam stood as the undisputed guardian of the PC gaming community, where every player would jog to get the latest titles, or eagerly wait for industry-best sales. Those days are largely over now, with the advent of competing marketplaces like Epic Games Store, and GOG. Steam is still the top dog, but it's no longer the only one, and it looks like a new player is now joining the race. Chinese

One of the most charming bug = feature tales is the story behind the thrilling crescendo of pacing gamers experienced when playing the original Space Invaders arcade machine. This weekend, self-proclaimed C/C++ expert Zuhaitz reminded us that the adrenaline-pumping rising intensity of Taito’s arcade classic was not due to genius-level coding. Rather, it was simply the fact that the underlying Intel 8080 could run the game code faster as aliens were wiped from the screen

Sam Altman isn’t known for understatement, but even by his own standards, what he said on stage at OpenAI’s DevDay conference earlier this month was pretty problematic. In a live interview with AI newsletter founder Rowan Cheung, Altman made a sweeping claim that many jobs that vanish in the age of large language models might not have been “real work” in the first place.

Responding to a thought experiment about how a farmer from 50 years ago might view our current

Many people would settle for a 1TB SSD for their PC, but if you’re a gamer and love hoarding titles on your PC (for example), 1TB may not be enough for your needs, or justify taking up one of your precious M.2 slots. If this is your situation, you likely need to upgrade your PC’s SSD, and you’d probably want something quite fast if you’re transferring and storing that much data. Thankfully,

The GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is Nvidia’s own-brand flagship GPU for consumers, but one repair technician says it comes with a hidden flaw that makes it “one of the worst designs in the history of… GPUs,” he’s seen. In a teardown uploaded to the Northridge Fix YouTube channel, the card was declared unrepairable after damage to an internal connector — one that, the technician claims, cannot be replaced or sourced.

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