Crew members of the Eagle S oil tanker have been charged with “aggravated sabotage and aggravated interference with telecommunications” by Finnish authorities, reports The Guardian . Specifically, the captain, first, and second officers of the Eagle S are now in trouble with the long arm of Finnish law, over allegations they intentionally damaged five undersea cables by dragging their ship's anchor across the sea floor for over 50 miles.
Late last year, this oil tanker, thought
After a revival last year, support for Intel's Itanium IA-64 architecture is back on the chopping block for the Linux GNU Compiler Collection version 16 (GCC 16). Phoronix reports that Linux developers are discussing the deprecation of all remaining Itanium IA-64 compiler code in the next iteration of GCC in a mailing list thread.
Itanium IA-64 support is a mess in the Linux compiler right now. The GCC test suite has reportedly not been
Finding a dependable power bank can be a game-changer for your travels around campus, and the Anker Laptop Power Bank delivers serious muscle at a great price for back-to-school shoppers. Right now on Amazon, Prime members can grab it for $110 down from its original price of $135, while non-Prime customers pay $120, still a solid deal for anyone looking for a dependable, multi-device fast charging solution.
Nvidia has discreetly introduced the GeForce RTX 5090D V2 to compete against the best graphics cards in China. The latest Blackwell-based gaming graphics card is a downgrade of the original GeForce RTX 5090D , featuring a 25% reduction in memory capacity and bandwidth to comply with the U.S. export restrictions to China.
The difference between the GeForce RTX 5090 and the GeForce RTX 5090D was relatively marginal. Both
The UK government has instructed citizens to delete old emails and pictures to help conserve water, following the announcement of a "nationally significant" water shortage. However, the advice isn't up to snuff, as deleting emails and pictures should have no significant effect on water consumption, and might even make it worse for data centers that use certain types of evaporative cooling.
Guidance published Tuesday states "the current water shortfall situation in England is now defined as a 'nationally significant incident
A China-based computing enthusiast and modder has created a gaming handheld that pushes the envelope for the form factor. Qingchen DIY on Bilibili put together a massive 12.5-inch handheld, sporting a 4K screen (h/t VideoCardz ). To power those abundant pixels, a beefy Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU was commandeered into action. However, the cherry on top of this delicious portable tech confection is undoubtedly the Nvidia
It's getting closer and closer to heading off to, or back to, school or college. You no doubt have a checklist of essential items to procure before then, but is a flash drive one of them? Easily overlooked, a flash drive can be an essential device for backing up, storing, or transporting your schoolwork and other valuable data around campus. Cloud backup and local machine backups are standard requirements, too, but when it comes to your most important data, the
If you’re a Mac user, you’re probably familiar with Time Machine, which is Apple’s automated backup solution. Time Machine automatically backs up everyone on your system, including user accounts, system settings, apps, music, photos, emails, and documents. Depending on available resources and network speed, Time Machine usually creates a backup once an hour.
Typically, most users back up their Mac via an external storage device like a USB hard drive.
AMD’s new Radeon RX 9060 8GB non-XT is the fifth card in the RDNA 4 family, arriving quietly and without a retail shelf debut. Like the RX 9070 GRE before it, this one is meant for OEM systems—prebuilt rigs you can actually buy in places like South Korea, but not yet in most other markets.
That didn’t stop South Korean YouTuber Technosaurus from cracking open a newly purchased desktop, pulling out
Tech companies are selling a vision of a world in which you can ask their AI for advice on what to cook, wear, and do with your free time. The quality of that advice is often dubious at best—do you like putting glue on your pizza?—but we're meant to believe this is the future of computing. As for who's paying for the massive amounts of electricity used in the course of answering those questions, well, the answer is "