Tom’s Hardware Verdict With a street price of around $900, the ZenWiFi BT10 is speedy and feature-packed, but Asus is stingy with the port selection and specs at this price. Strong performance across all wireless bands Supports MLO wireless backhaul or 10 Gbps wired backhaul Asus WRT 5.0 software offers plenty of potential for network customization and optimization Cons Still pricey for a Wi-Fi 7 mesh router Only two LAN ports per node, one of which is just 1G...

Handhelds and mini PCs specialist Ayaneo has started taking pre-orders for its first eGPU product. The availability of the retro-futuristic Ayaneo AG01 Starship Graphics Dock was announced on the firm’s Discord channel earlier today. Clicking ‘buy’ on theproduct pagedirects the browser to an order page where a Nebula Red unit can be secured for $599 on pre-sale. The device is expected to ship from the “end of November.” It seems to have taken Ayaneo a long time to prepare its first-ever eGPU....

Bambu Labreleased a statement early Sunday morningthat’s concerning for anyone who purchased anA1, the company’s super-fast bed slinger we reviewed in December. A flaw has been discovered in the cable that provides power to the heated bed, which could cause damage if put under stress. The cable is preinstalled at the factory and connects the heated bed to the base of the machine. Note the smaller A1 Mini is not part of this recall....

Banana Pi is now selling a fully built Wi-Fi 6 router with some solid features for just $30 excluding shipping viaAli Express. This router uses OpenWRT firmware and dual-core Arm A9 Processor-based Triductor TR6560 SoC with Triductor’s TR5220 WiFi 6 chipset. The company has been selling this WiFi 6 router board on its own, but now you can buy an out-of-box unit that contains an enclosure for the board with six external antennas, Ethernet cables, and a power adapter with either EU or US plugs....

Choosing the best thermal paste may sound simple, but a dizzying array of options can turn this seemingly easy choice into a time-consuming and confusing task. Thermal paste is designed to minimize microscopic air gaps and irregularities between the surface of the cooler and the CPU’s IHS (integrated heat spreader), the piece of metal built into the top of the processor, to transfer heat to the CPU cooler. Good thermal paste can have a profound impact on your performance because it will allow your processor to transfer more of its waste heat to your cooler, keeping your processor running cool....

After launching its new V9 TLC NAND flash in April,Samsungannounced the initial mass production of its bleeding-edge 9th-generation V9 QLC flash memory. The more storage-spacious V9 flavor is being mass-produced in one-terabit models. Samsung revealed that its V9 QLC flash takes advantage of Channel Hole Etching technology to achieve the highest layer counts in the industry, featuring a double-stack design. Using lessons learned from its 9th-gen TLC variant, V9 QLC is approximately 86% denser than the previous generation of QLC V-NAND flash....

A console hacker named WinCurious obtained some discarded SD cards from a Nintendo factory that the company used for the factory setup process of Wii and Wii U systems. According toDeadlyFoez, the cards contained a boot image that Nintendo used for the factory setup of the Wii U console. They were able to recover data on some of the damaged SD cards, after which another member of their team discovered an exploit that could be used to restore software-bricked Wii U consoles....

Chinese researchers with ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have built an AI model called ChatBIT, designed for military applications using Meta’s open-source Llama model. According toReuters, some researchers are associated with the Academy of Military Science (AMS), the PLA’s top research group. Three academic papers and several analysts have confirmed the information, with ChatBIT using Meta’s Llama 13B large language model (LLM). This LLM has been modified for intelligence gathering and processing, allowing military planners to use it for operational decision-making....

Independent developer Matt Greer has published ablog postand YouTube video highlighting his achievement of bundling an entire game of Solitaire onto a single custom Nintendo e-Reader card. The card features just two “dotstrips” containing 2,192 bytes each, totaling just over 4.3 kilobytes of data. The Nintendo e-Reader is a peripheral originally developed and released for the Game Boy Advance in December 2001 (Japan) and September 2002 (United States), allowing for full games or expansions to existing Game Boy Advance games to be read from scannable cards and saved to the e-Reader’s (comparatively) whopping 8MB of onboard storage....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Clevetura CLVX 1 is a truly innovative keyboard that doubles as a trackpad. The typing experience is average, but we’d love to see this in a laptop. Impressive touch controls Exceptionally thin Premium construction Well-thought-out design that’s both functional and practical Cons Can be difficult to type on if you’re used to a full-size keyboard Touch controls may be too sensitive out of the box Keys look oily very quickly...

Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered laptopswent on sale June 18, and many tech enthusiasts are interested in what this new Arm chip will bring to Windows users. But aside from the usual business and productivity applications, a large number of people also use their Windows PCs for gaming. This is whyMicrosoftis busy working on several initiatives toimprove Arm gaming. Microsoft knows that gamers drive a huge chunk of the desktop and laptop market, and those with money might spend thousands of dollars onthe best GPUsandthe best gaming CPUs, making it a very lucrative market for the companies involved....

ZLUDA was originally designed to run creative professional CUDA-based applications on Intel and then AMD GPUs, while the upcoming iteration of ZLUDA shifts focus to accommodate AI and machine learning workloads. Also, the emphasis is now not just on Intel or AMD. Instead, it offers multiple GPU vendor support, making ZLUDA applicable across different GPU architectures. Nonetheless, for the time being, most development efforts are concentrated on AMD GPUs, particularly RDNA1 and newer architectures....

There might be a new use if you’ve got an old Power PC-based Power Macintosh. A developer has successfully ported Windows NT 4.0 to the Power Macintosh and published the firmware and other software needed for it to work. Thanks to one skilled developer, that’s changed. On GitHub, contributor Wack0 recently released hismaciNtosh project, a repository that includes the ARC firmware and its loader. WhileMicrosoftdid portWindows NT 4.0to the PowerPC years ago, the Power Macintosh doesn’t use the same firmware needed for Windows NT....