Immersion Cooling for data centers: An exotic inevitability?

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Modern data centers (DCs) use a variety of cooling system types. Most DCs today still use air cooling as the baseline, with chilled air circulated through racks and hot air exhausted out, but this method struggles with modern high-power CPUs and GPUs. Starting with Nvidia's Hopper and expanding with Blackwell, operators are moving toward liquid cooling, specifically cold plate and direct-to-chip solutions, which can be integrated with existing air-cooling infrastructure.

However, while more

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Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser leaves users vulnerable to phishing scams and malicious code injection — Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser

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Brave and Guardio have revealed serious vulnerabilities in the Comet AI browser that Perplexity released in July. Perplexity said that Comet "transforms how businesses interact with the internet" by "combining enterprise -grade security , powerful AI capabilities, and intuitive user experiences."

That alone should have been enough to make users wary about the browser's security. Highlighting "enterprise-grade security" is like bragging about "military-grade encryption" in that it's a red flag

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Elon Musk doubles down on goal of 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs in the next 5 years — Envisions billions of GPUs in the future as Grok 2.5 goes open source

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Artificial intelligence has been the flavor of the month ever since ChatGPT ushered in a new big bang for Silicon Valley. The big players involved in this race now are all gunning for ludicrously dense GPU clusters that can scale AI operations rapidly. One of those players is Elon Musk, who owns X and its namesake xAI, which seems determined to one-up Sam Altman and OpenAI, which Musk, interestingly enough, co-founded. Last month, the titular investor said that xAI will use

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New Jersey prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned

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A prisoner incarcerated at the New Jersey State Prison has written about the trials and tribulations of corresponding with his legal representatives while being shackled by ancient computer technology. Namely, floppy diskettes.

Jorge Luis Alvarado, writing for the PJP (Prison Journalism Project), says it is difficult to keep abreast of developments in his case due to a prison-imposed digital divide. Alvarado’s lawyers send documents on flash drives, which must be decanted to (sometimes multiple) floppy disks on a special

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The 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD drops to 1 cent per gigabyte of storage — $229 gets you tons of storage, not tons of debt

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We've found a great deal on the 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD at Amazon. This beefy HDD usually goes for around $280, but right now it's marked down to just $229. If you're looking for something faster and better suited to gaming, you should definitely look at getting an SSD (check out our list of best SSDs to get an idea of what's out there), but if bulk data storage is

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UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing

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Efforts to commercialize UltraRAM have made significant strides forward. Quinas Technology, the firm behind UltraRAM, has been busy working alongside advanced wafer products maker IQE plc for the last year to scale UltraRAM memory device creation into an industrial process. According to Blocks & Files, the collaboration has been a success, and the memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years is now on the cusp of

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Intel's upcoming Panther Lake-H pops up in official listing — DFI posts ITX motherboard for industrial use featuring 25W Panther Lake chip

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Intel is working on a myriad of processors at the moment, spanning across generations and use cases. While Nova Lake is perhaps the most exciting launch everyone is looking forward to, Panther Lake is the actual upcoming mobile architecture from the company, and it has just been spotted ( by @momomo_us ) in its retail form for the first time. DFI—a popular name in the industrial PC hardware space—has unveiled a new ITX motherboard featuring Panther Lake-H,

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Alienware AW2525HM 25-inch 320 Hz gaming monitor review: Colorful and competition-ready

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Alienware AW2525HM raises the bar for small speedy gaming monitors. With a superb gaming feel and more color than the competition, it delivers a lot for the money.

Pros

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    Sharp, bright and contrasty image

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    Excellent color saturation and accuracy

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    Premium video processing with smooth motion and low input lag

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    Best in class HDR quality

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    Attractive styling with a solid build

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    Excellent value

Cons

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    No internal speakers or headphone jack

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The 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G70B gaming monitor is at an all-time low $399 — features a 144 Hz 4K IPS panel

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When it comes to setting up a good gaming rig, all of your graphics power is wasted if you don't have a quality display. That's why it's good to know what specs to look for when shopping to ensure you get a monitor that meets your needs. Today, we've come across a deal on a monitor that checks off plenty of high quality boxes, making it a great option for casual and expert gamers alike. The 32-inch

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Sam Altman and UK government minister reportedly discussed giving ChatGPT Plus to all Brits for free

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OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, and the UK government Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, have discussed a deal which would see the UK’s entire population given premium access to ChatGPT, according to a Guardian report this weekend. However, the bill, which would have to be covered by the government, may have stymied any chance of the deal going official, with Guardian sources indicating ChatGPT Plus for every Brit would cost as much as £2 billion ($2.7b).

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