Nintendo Switch 2 game developers are already bumping up against the constraints imposed by the new console’s hardware. In an interview with Spain’s La Vanguardia newspaper (machine translation, h/t WinFuture ), Donkey Kong Bananza director, Kazuya Takahashi, admitted “performance may drop,” due to the extravagant use of 3D voxel technology in the game’s destructible environment. This is quite an admission from a Nintendo exec behind a flagship first-party title. Takahashi explained that
New Rowhammer attack silently corrupts AI models on GDDR6 Nvidia cards — 'GPUHammer' attack drops AI accuracy from 80% to 0.1% on RTX A6000
GPUHammer is a new Rowhammer-based attack targeting NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory. It flips bits in VRAM to silently corrupt AI models, dropping accuracy from 80% to under 1%. NVIDIA urges users to enable ECC, though it slightly reduces performance and available memory.
Leaked ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Ally X prices hint at a similar price range to existing models — 599, 899 euro prices spotted in the EU
Leaked prices for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X hint that Asus may keep its upcoming Xbox-branded handhelds in the same ballpark as existing ROG handheld offerings. Listings spotted by 3D Juegos indicate that the ROG Xbox Ally will launch at €599 (approximately $700), while the higher-end ROG Xbox Ally X could be priced at €899 (around $1,050).
These line up closely with the current
Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Gen 10 Review: Dual-screen productivity powerhouse
Tom's Hardware Verdict
Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i succeeds as a dual-screen laptop because of its smart software and included accessories. Though its battery life is limited, it can be an excellent productivity tool in the right hands.
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Two superb OLED touch screens
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Beautiful design
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Strong performance from H-class Intel CPU
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Excellent audio and webcam
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Keyboard, mouse, pen, and stand included
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Design
Slashed in price by 37%, SanDisk's 512GB microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2 is only $78 while stocks last, and that won't be very long
The maelstrom that is Amazon Prime Day has passed, one of the better sales events I've seen over the last five years, with a lot of actually good deals. Some of the other retailer sales are still winding up, so there are still bargains to be had if you missed out on the main event.. One of the most popular items of interest for shoppers in the sales has been microSD Express cards; these are in demand because of the Nintendo Switch 2 games console
Google Gemini crumbles in the face of Atari Chess challenge — admits it would 'struggle immensely' against 1.19 MHz machine, says canceling the match most sensible course of action
Google Gemini decided to call off a chess match against the ancient 1.19 MHz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot . Citrix Architecture and Delivery specialist Robert Jr. Caruso, now well known for his AI vs Atari Chess challenges, revealed Gemini chickened out, in a chat with The Register .
As was the case with the ChatGPT and Microsoft ’s Copilot chess challenges, Caruso reveals that
Enthusiast builds a fully functional CPU from old memory chips — hand-solders every wire, writes 1800 lines of assembler code, and makes it play The Matrix on a VFD display
At first glance, this mess of wires, onboard components, and manually soldered circuits may seem like some sort of cyberpunk sculpture, but it's actually a project that can only be described as absurdly brilliant. A passionate enthusiast has just built an entire processor—yes, not a development board, not a microcontroller, but a full-on, instruction-capable, memory-addressing CPU using nothing but old memory chips and logic components from the 8
TensorWave just deployed the largest AMD GPU training cluster in North America — features 8,192 MI325X AI accelerators tamed by direct liquid-cooling
TensorWave has built North America's largest AMD AI cluster with 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325X GPUs, delivering 21 exaFLOPS of FP8 throughput. It’s a bold move against NVIDIA’s dominance and marks ROCm’s first major public cloud-scale deployment for general-purpose AI training.
Snot-filtering tech could be the answer to a dust-free PC — Korean scientists turn to nature to improve air filtration
Dust deposits are bad for electronic devices, and particularly bad where good airflow and cooling are required. Despite dust filtration becoming a standard feature of modern PCs and laptops, the simple meshes used aren’t that effective at keeping particulate matter (PM) at bay. Trying to increase dust filtering efficiency using tighter meshes creates tricky trade-offs against airflow. However, a recent research paper that was “inspired by the natural filtration abilities of mucus-coated nasal hairs” might
Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment rumors suggest it would rather sell AI infrastructure than compete with ChatGPT and Gemini
Rumors indicate Amazon is reportedly considering an additional investment in AI firm Anthropic, which would bring its total stake to over $8 billion, according to Reuters . This would cement Amazon as the company’s largest investor and signal that it remains more interested in profiting from the explosive growth of the AI industry than directly competing within it.
Since the launch of several highly capable large language AI models in 2022, Amazon has been positioning itself as the prime resource to power