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Tom’s Hardware Verdict MSI’s I240 and I360 AIOs provide strong thermal performance paired with moderate noise levels, and fix the problems I’ve had with past MSI liquid coolers. Strong thermal performance 240mm runs quieter than most competitors Pre-installed fans and UNI frame make installation easier No “Warranty void when removed” stickers Cons No tubing management clips included Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

Elon Musk’slawsuit against OpenAIhas opened a can of worms, as emails between OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, and Musk himself have revealed turbulent behind-the-scenes drama. According to theTransformer, an email from Musk in 2016 said, “Deepmind [sic] is causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their one mind to rule the world philosophy.” He further aired concerns that “Demis [Hassabis] could create an AGI dictatorship....

When you see the ‘Not Charging‘ message on your iPad, it means either your iPad is charging slowly or not charging at all. It can occur when your iPad is not getting the optimum power supply from the charging unit. If the charging port is clogged with debris or some foreign object, it can also cause a charging issue. An outdated iOS or bug can also be another probable reason....

An open source fully custom GPU has come out of stealth after four years in development.FuryGPUhas been a one-man effort from games software developer Dylan Barrie, who says he put together this extremely complex hardware and software project in his spare time. FuryGPU is based on a Xilinx FPGA design, and the prototype PCIe graphics card is currently capable of achieving around 44fps in the Quake Timedemo. The work on FuryGPU was undertaken after Barrie was inspired byBen Eater’sbuilding a programmable 8-bit computer from scratch project....

Samsung recently launched its new lineup of Smart Monitors featuring the M9, M8, and M7 models. While the rest of the series is stuck with a VA LCD, the M9 stands out as a premium offering because it houses a flagship QD-OLED panel from Samsung. Today, theM9 has gone on sale on Amazon,and you can get a $300 pre-order bonus gift card for one day only. While its name may not inspire the most confidence, don’t be fooled; it’s a 32-inch monitor with 4K resolution and a 165Hz refresh rate....

Nvidia executives and directors have sold almost 11 million shares this year, amounting to over $1.8 billion. According toBloomberg, this is the largest stock sale by company leadership in recent history after adjusting for stock splits. This amount represents less than 0.045% of the company’s total astounding shares, but this news might put some downward pressure on Nvidia’s stock price, especially with the delays on theBlackwell B200 GPUs. Reports say that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently sold 6 million shares under a pre-arranged trading plan, meaning this move will happen regardless of what’s happening with the company and in the market....

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series product stack has seen a decline in demand in the German market. According toComputerBase, most RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 AIB partner models are selling for at or below their respective MSRPs. The only exception is theRTX 5090, which is still in high demand and is struggling to stay on store shelves.A table of RTX 50-series pricing shows what the GPUs were selling for last week, versus what they were selling for in March: At the end of March, the cheapestRTX 5080models were priced at €1,169, versus last week’s price of €1,119 (which matches the MSRP)....

Now that preliminaryspecs for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 have leaked, including the GPU core counts and die models, other rumored specs for Nvidia’s next-generationBlackwell RTX 50-series GPUsare flooding the internet.Benchlifereports that Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 will come with PCIe 5.0 connectivity and a single power connector, as well as adding DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20 outputs.The news claims that the RTX 5090 will have a single 12V-2x6 power connector, noting the GPU “can only” use a single connector....

Speculation has surfaced that Nvidia allegedly sent pre-binnedRTX 5090samples to third-party reviewers, with higher performance than their retail counterparts. Nvidia has shot down this theory, claiming that all RTX 50-series GPUs, including ones marked “Press Build,” are not tuned up or pre-binned and feature identical performance to retail RTX GPUs.We asked Nvidia about the “Press Build” markings seen on some 5090 Founders Edition cards (e.g. atTechPowerUp) iterations of itsRTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUswere higher-performing iterations of its retail counterparts....

Nvidia has releasedupdates to its GPU display driver and VGPU software that, combined, address a total of seven security vulnerabilities. Two of these are high-severity vulnerabilities enabling information disclosure, data tampering, denial of service, and in the case of the High-Severity vGPU software issue, even code execution. On Windows, all GPU driver versions prior to 553.62 and 539.19 (on branches R550 and R535 respectively) are vulnerable. Over on the GPU Display DriverSecurityBulletin page, Nvidia said five specific vulnerabilities are being addressed....

Some of the world’s wealthiest companies, including Apple and Nvidia, are among countless parties who allegedly trained their AI using scraped YouTube videos as training data. The YouTube transcripts were reportedly accumulated through means that violate YouTube’s Terms of Service and have some creators seeing red. The news was first discovered in a joint investigation byProof NewsandWired. While major AI companies and producers often keep their AI training data secret, heavyweights like Apple, Nvidia, and Salesforce have revealed their use of “The Pile”, an 800GB training dataset created by EleutherAI, and the YouTube Subtitles dataset within it....

While many VR players are happy to use a setup with cables, sometimes it’s rewarding to have the freedom that wireless technology provides. For many users, that’s the appeal of the Oculus Quest VR system by Meta. Many games are self-contained on the headset, leaving you unencumbered by wires. However, you must get Oculus Air Link to function correctly if you want to connect to your computer without a wire....

High-end PC builderPuget Systemsreleased records showing that its current failure rate of 13th- and 14th-generation Intel processors is a little over 2%, while systems it has shipped with AMD Ryzen 5000 and 7000 chips have a little over 4% failure rate. However, numerous caveats apply, which we’ll cover below. This isn’t the data we expected, especially withIntel’s instability woescurrently making the headlines. The data stands in stark contrast to other reports from game developers that havecited from 50%to100% failure ratesfor Intel chips in their environments....