A Reddit user has managed to get their hands on a rare prototype of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 2080 Ti GPU. According to photos posted by u/RunRepulsive986 7, the card resembles a Founders Edition model from Nvidia’s Turing generation, featuring a silver finish and dual cooling fans. Interestingly, the prototype is branded “GeForce GTX” instead of “RTX,” suggesting that it may have been an early

Local residents near a Mexico data center built by Microsoft last year have been complaining of a range of negative utility and health effects that they're attributing to the data center itself, according to the New York Times . They've highlighted several incidents of water shortages, power outages , and even stomach bugs, with some local schools forced to close temporarily.

Though causation does not imply causality and the individual incidents are isolated and not necessarily linked, the reports of problems have escalated in the

Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduces the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace. The result, published in a peer-reviewed paper presented at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems (SOSP) in Seoul, suggests that cloud providers may be able to extract significantly more inference capacity from existing silicon, especially in constrained markets like China, where the supply of Nvidia

Bambu Lab has recently added the latest addition to its mid-tier range of printers to its storefront, and with the new addition comes some tasty price cuts to the older models. Bambu Labs' superb P1S 3D printer is making way for the improved P2S ( see our latest review of the Bambu Lab P2S ), and because of this, the older P1S printer has had a hefty chunk of change knocked off the list price, plus the

Dutch chip manufacturer, Nexperia, has accused the recently-ousted Chinese CEO, Zhang Xuezheng, of spreading "factually incorrect and misleading" claims about the company and its intentions, according to Bloomberg . Following reports he had claimed Dutch management was not paying salaries and that Chinese workers could operate independently of the company, Nexperia has denied this and claimed all its facilities were operating normally.

There's been a tug-of-war battle over automotive and machinery-chip manufacturer

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed it is tracking a massive issue that has rendered large parts of the internet unusable.

A not-infrequent occurrence, Amazon confirmed at around 3 AM ET that it was " increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region," adding around 90 minutes later, "We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region."

Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM ’s Deep Blue. Karpathy declined, saying he’d rather collaborate with Grok than compete against it.

The challenge came in response to a clip from Karpathy’s recent interview on the Dwarkesh Podcast, where he argued that AGI is likely still a decade away and described Grok 5 as trailing GPT

TSMC has published a flyby video over its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona. The video shows hundreds of high-tech tools methodically crafting chips for various American companies. The crown jewels of the fab are of course ASML's Twinscan NXE extreme ultraviolet lithography tools that produce the most complex circuitry of such chips as Nvidia's Blackwell B300 processors .