It has been a while since Intel abandoned its long-adored and nostalgic Celeron and Pentium brandings - merging them into what we know today as the “Intel Processor.” For the uninitiated, this lineup of CPUs caters to thin and light laptops and the mini-PC market with fanless 6/7W designs. Permomomo_uson X, Intel is planning to refresh its N-series offerings, but don’t get your hopes up since they are likely based on Alder Lake silicon....

Isambard 2, one of the first Arm-based supercomputers, is finally set to retire after six years. First deployed in May 2018, this 10,000-core machine used 64-bit Armv8 ThunderX2 processors developed by Cavium and manufactured by TSMC, plus a few Nvidia P100 GPUs. The Great Western 4 (GW4) Alliance, a group of universities from Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, and Exeter, was the primary operator of the Isambard 2, with Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, Head of the Microelectronics Group at the University of Bristol, leading the project....

Laptop keyboards won’t necessarily last forever, but they don’t frequently break with regular use. When yours stops working, it’s probably something you’re able to fix pretty quickly. Most laptop keyboards are only connected to the laptop itself by a single cable, so as long as you’re comfortable removing a few screws and panels, you can make a lot of changes if necessary. Why Is My Laptop Keyboard Not Working? There are a few things that can stop your keyboard from working....

Linus Torvalds recently offered his opinions on the merits of artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it. The creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel didn’t disappoint with his characteristic cynicism regarding the substance of the AI industry in 2024. Famous for his highly informed yetunvarnished opinionson all things tech, Torvalds grimaced as he summarized the state of the AI biz as “90% marketing and 10% reality.” Torvalds spoke at the Open Source Summit in Vienna earlier this month, where TFiRinterviewed him....

It seemed inevitable that the Linux kernel sources would expand beyond 40 million lines early this year. Linux 6.13 was released early in January 2025, with 39,819,522 lines, and with the recent release of Linux 6.14 rc1 sources the figure has ballooned to 40,063,856 lines, notes Germany’sHeise Online(machine translated). This 40 million line milestone is double the line count of the Linux kernel sources in 2015. The Linux kernel sources grow pretty fast, at around four hundred thousand lines of code every two months, and consist of not just code but comments, documentation, and even blank lines for structure/readability....

Microsoftand OpenAI are probing whether a group linked to the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek accessed OpenAI’s data using the company’s application programming interface without authorization, reportsBloomberg, citing its sources familiar with the matter. AFinancial Timessource at OpenAI said that the company had evidence of data theft by the group. Meanwhile, U.S. officials suspect DeepSeek trained its model using OpenAI’s outputs, a method known as distillation. Microsoft’ssecurityteam observed a group believed to have ties to DeepSeek extracting a large volume of data from OpenAI’s API....

The rapid expansion of generative AI models require more powerful hardware and with the rise of datacenters with hundreds of thousands of AI GPUs, they are quickly pushing the limits of current datacenter infrastructure and soon they could hit the limit of power grid. While AWS,Microsoft, and Oracle plan to use nuclear power plants to power their datacenters, Microsoft Azure’s chief technology officer, Mark Russinovich, suggests that connecting multiple datacenters may soon be necessary to train advanced AI models, reportsSemafor....

MicrosoftFlight Simulator 2024 officially launched today at 8am PST. And that’s about the best we can say about the game so far. Like countless others, we haven’t been able to get the game to run correctly — and, for one of our staff members, it wouldn’t even install at all. Making matters worse, Xbox Game Studios declined to provide reviewers pre-launch access, offering up this statement: “Due to the availability of online services and scope of the planned Day One patch update, we will distribute codes on launch day rather than in advance....

YouTube creator Zack Freedman set out to build the most RGB PC ever, and while they used several off-the-shelf RGB parts, they also made some exciting mods to their computer. But the most fantastic part of the entire build is the mods they did to theFractal Design North XLcase — the last PC case you would think of if you’re going full-blown RGB inside and out. This RGB PC of RGB PCs is designed as the creator’s workstation, so it’s bound to have some choice parts as well....

Someone has stripped down and modded one of the popularSteam Deckhandhelds into a minimal form factor dubbed theSteam Brick. “No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense,” quips Crastinator-Pro on GitHub, “just a power button and a USB port.” Yet, it still delivers all the portable functionality the GitHubber needs as the device was (and is) invariably connected to either a TV or AR glasses for Steam-based fun. For some, like Crastinator-Pro, the Steam Deck is a bit hefty, even ungainly....

You cannot do anything on your computer if your cursor doesn’t show up on your screen unless you know your keyboard shortcuts. There are many reasons that your mouse cursor has disappeared from your screen. There may be someissue with the mouseitself; the mouse cable may be damaged. If you are on a laptop, your touchpad may not be functioning properly. Why Does My Mouse Keep Disappearing If you see the cursor but cannot move it, the problem is probably with the hardware....

A network adapter is a critical hardware component that connects your device to the internet or other computers. If the device malfunctions, you’re likely going to face slow connections, and in the worst case, the internet will stop working completely. This can happen due to a corrupted driver, conflicting device, misconfigured settings, or even hardware failure! But there can also be times when there’s an internet problem that might make you think the network adapter is malfunctioning....

When Nvidia unveiled its first GPUs based on the Blackwell architecture for AI and HPC earlier this week, it disclosed some of its specifications and performance numbers. But what it did not reveal iswhen,exactly, it plans to ship these GPUs to clients. On Tuesday the company confirmed that the first Blackwell processors will ship in 2024, but even Meta — one of Nvidia’s largest customers — does not expect to get Blackwell this year....