If you’re looking for a last-minute Halloween wearable to impress your friends, you’ve got to check out this awesomeRemy, from the movie “Ratatouille”, created by engineer, maker, and developerChristina Ernst aka shebuildsrobotsover on Instagram. Using anAdafruit Metro Mini, this little robotic rat can be worn on your head and appears to control your every movement by tugging at your hair. That said, we think it could be easily recreated using aRaspberry Pi Picowith a little tweak to the code....

In May of last year, the Chinese government banned the sale of Micron chips for government applications, citing unspecified cybersecurity concerns. Fast-forward to 2024, and Micron has announced the grand opening ceremony for a new Chinese chip packaging and testing plant — even though the aforementioned ban has not been lifted. Amid the ongoing China-U.S.Chip War, China officiallybanned the sale of Micron chipsdue to cybersecurity threats supposedly posed by Micron chips....

When Nintendo announced theSwitch 2, it said users would require cards based on the microSD Express standard to expand device memory. Soon after this announcement, both online and physical retail sellers were cleared out, with some store staff tellingHermitage Akihabarain Japan [machine translated] that they sold more than 337 cards per hour. This surprised everyone, especially as microSD Express cards are far more expensive than regular microSD cards. You’ll pay more than double for microSD Express The vanilla Lexar 1TB Play microSD card has a regular price of$129....

Microsoftissued awarningabout a bug affecting Microsoft 365’s Office Word app where saving a document using a specific file name would end up deleting it instead of saving it. The combination might be odd as it involves the hashtag character in the file name and capitalization of the file’s extension- but it exists and needs to be addressed regardless. According to Microsoft, this bug gets triggered when the .docx extension is capitalized with the hashtag symbol in its file name....

Windows 11 24H2has received yet another hardware requirement for users with moddedWindows 11installs to watch out for.Bob Ponyon X (Twitter) discovered that the SSE 4.2 instruction set is now required to run Windows 11 24H2, starting with build 26080. If the instruction is lacking, the OS won’t boot. If this sounds familiar to you, this new requirement is very similar to thePOPCNT instruction requirementthat we reported on several months ago. The only difference is that this new instruction set requires the actual SSE 4....

Systems supporting PCIe 7.0 interconnections with a 128 GT/s transfer rate are years away. However, companies like Molex, which specializes in connectors, are already working on connectors and cabling solutions for PCIe 7.0. The company shared its PCIe Gen7 progress atComputex, demonstrating its Genesis cable and connector solution as well as the hardware used for internal interoperability tests. PCIe cables, such as Molex’s Genesis, address the challenges posed by high-speed signaling and the limitations of traditional PCB traces in terms of integrity and trace lengths....

MSI has launched the GeForce RTX 4060 8G Gaming Duke 3X, based on one of thebest graphics cards, for the Chinese retail market. The new GPU is MSI’s effort to revitalize its Duke series of cards. The last Duke-branded SKU dates back to Turing, the RTX 20-series generation. The Duke series has existed since the Pascal (10xx) series. However, MSI disrupted the series rhythm, skipping it entirely for Ampere (30xx). But the Duke series is back for the 40-series Ada Lovelace cards....

Quantum computers are apparently a “nationalsecurityrisk” for some countries, which have mysteriouslyissued identical restrictionson exports of quantum computing systems. France, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada have all restricted the sale of quantum computers containing more than 34 qubits and above a certain error threshold. The quantum computing export bans across all these countries have matching specific qualifications for what makes a quantum computer “dangerous enough” to deserve a ban....

Researchers from the U.S., Iceland, Sweden, and Switzerland are working with NATO to build a system that will automatically reroute subsea internet and data traffic to satellites if communication is severed by hostile action, natural calamity, or an accident. According toBloomberg’s report, most of NATO’s internet traffic uses undersea cables, and their disruption could result in a disaster, especially during the opening days of any attack. NATO has already been investing in protecting its communications cables, setting up a center that focuses on this mission ever since the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was destroyed by a mysterious explosion in September 2022....

Comcasthas recently introduced a new feature to its Xfinity routers that converts them into motion detectors using only Wi-Fi signals. It’s called “WiFi Motion" and it works by sensing disruptions in signal strength between your router and nearby devices to detect movement. The idea is that when someone moves through the signal field—say, between yourPlayStationand router—it registers that as motion and sends you an alert through the Xfinity app. Unlikecamerasor radar sensors, this setup doesn’t need extra hardware....

Legendary GPU overclocker Kingpin might be making a comeback to GPU manufacturing afterEVGA abandoned its GPU manufacturing partnership with Nvidia.Gamers Nexus reportsthat the Taiwanese overclocker is in talks with PNY to build extreme overclocking-capable graphics cards with the Nvidia AIB partner. Nothing is set in stone, but it looks like there is a very good chance Kingpin will be working with the PNY team in the not-too-distant future. Kingpin himself has said that Kingpin-branded cards have a very good chance of coming back....

The Num Lock key on your keyboard helps switch between the functions of the numerical keys on the Numpad. If the Num lock is not working properly, you need to use the number keys above the alphabet keys or the navigation keys on separate clusters (Arrow and Home clusters)—both may not be convenient. If this button fails to register a keystroke, it indicates a particular option called “Mouse Keys” on the Accessibility setting is on....

RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Introduction TheNvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBandRTX 4060 Ti 16GBrepresent the new and old guards of the 16GB realm for Team Green. Both of these are mainstream GPU offerings, ostensibly priced in the $430–$500 range. We weren’t particularly impressed with the 4060 Ti 16GB at launch, but our feelings have tempered over time — helped by an unofficial $50 price cut — with both having appeared on our list of thebest graphics cards....