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SK hynixhas just seen one of its best financial quarters in history, marking a staggering 94% growth in revenue compared to last year. SK hynix credits the ever-rising demand for memory in the AI market as it leaps over its competitors with the development of itsHBM3Eofferings. The company’s net income, which was in the red throughout 2023 is steadily rising this year with a 40% spike quarter over quarter. Being one of the key memory suppliers to Nvidia and AMD has been crucial for all memory makers due to the potential growth in the AI industry....

Storage startup Cerabyte has shared a video in which it torture tests its memory media. The firm took a sliver of its archival glass storage and boiled it in a kettle filled with salt water (100C, 212F), then, for good measure, it grilled it in a pizza oven (250C, 480F). The durability demo confirms that the media was unscathed after this process, and the data on the Cerabyte media remained “100% intact....

The classic Tetris game has beenpackaged into a PDFand dubbed Pdftris. The classic falling blocks puzzler is claimed to be playable in most desktop browsers and, indeed, we successfully loaded and played the game in Firefox on PC simply by clicking the above link. Asecurityanalyst named Thomas Rinsma is the brains behind this new PDF-based browser game. Here’s a working game of Tetris inside a PDF. Even has keyboard controls (by typing WASD in an input box)....

Every now and again, a tech deal can really change your life in a very immediate and critical way. That happened to me just this weekend ,when I purchased the Lenovo M9 tablet atBest Buy for $79and gave it to my six year old daughter. For months, I had been pushing aside a growing problem. My daughter loves watching videos on YouTube Kids, but she can’t run the YouTube or YouTube Kids apps on herAmazonFire for Kids tablet....

Footage of the recently expanded speedrunning platformer remasterSonic X Shadow Generationshas appeared on Twitter/X. So far, so ordinary, but the highlighted clip shows the game being directly controlled by a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator, complete with a 2 FPS on-device video stream. This 2-minute footage, shared partially in the original Tweet by @DomDaTurtl, is actually 6 minutes as uploaded in full to @DomDaTurtl’s YouTube channel, @Barcadepod, and encompasses the first two acts of Space Colony Ark, the opening stage ofSonic X Shadow Generationswhich doubles as an HD remix of the Ark stages from 2001’sSonic Adventure2, Shadow’s first game....

The TinyBox AI accelerator is now available on sale on thetinygrad websitestarting at $15k. This small 16.25-inch deep, 12U freestanding unit sports six AMDRadeonRX 7900XTX or Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs designed for deep learning and AI acceleration applications. While the computer is relatively more expensive versus consumer gaming desktop PCs, it’s much more affordable than a single Nvidia H100 or AMD MI300X accelerator, which arepriced between $10 to $40k apiece....

U.S. lawmakers have asked leading semiconductor equipment production companies — Applied Materials, ASML KLA, LAM Research, and Tokyo Electron — for information about their sales to China, reportsReuters. The U.S. is about to impose new export regulations for high-tech devices to China, so the letter is timely. Republican John Moolenaar and Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, in apress release, said they sent letters to these firms to address concerns about maintaining U.S. competitiveness while limiting China’s access to advanced technology....

What are the must-haves for a portable drive? You need speed and responsiveness. No one wants to be handcuffed to a portable drive while uploading a folder of high res photos — we all have places to be. You also need something that’sactuallyportable and won’t come apart the first time it takes a tumble from an unfamiliar desktop. You need a reliable and efficient SSD that will keep up with you wherever you go....

Valkyrie has just released itsAL125 CPU air coolerto retailers in China, where it is now on pre-sale. The new tower-style cooler packs in many frills for its sub-$20 pricing, featuring both a built-in IPS display and an RGB fan. Elsewhere, this device looks like a standard CPU air cooler tower design, aided by a single fan and a few heatpipes. Judging by PC component and accessory maker product trends, LCDs are increasingly popular among DIYers....

A little less than a year agoWestern Digitalannounced plans to split its business into two: one would concentrate on hard disk drives, and another would get 3D NAND assets, including the production of memory and related products. Recently the company quietly split its websites: those who want to get an HDD should go to WD.com and those after flash storage should visit SanDisk.com, as noted in aRedditpost. As a result of the split, all the company’s hard drive products are now available at WD....

WPA2 password is the second generation protocol of Wi-Fi Protected Access. WPA2 password is used to protect your home Wi-Fi network from unauthorized access. Released in 2006, it has survived the test of time when it comes to network protection. When connecting to a WPA2-guarded WiFi, you need to enter the WPA2 password first. Once you connect successfully, your device can access the internet for however long. WPA2 passphrase and wifi passwords are the same....

If the Wi-Fi is not working on your Surface laptop, it could either mean that the Wi-Fi does not have internet access or the laptop is not connected to any Wi-Fi networks. Windows displays a no-internet or globe icon on the system tray when the Wi-Fi on the Surface laptop does not work. In order for your system to connect to a router and access the internet, several networking components must function—it includes the router, the network adapter, and all its respective drivers....

Windows development veteran Dave Plummer recently took to Twitter/X to reveal the story behind the Windows NT Start Menu branding banner. As with many of Plummer’s tales, there are exciting insights and surprises to absorb. One of the significant revelations about this iconic Start Menu is that Plummer worked to “render it live” rather than rely on bitmaps. That’s quite a modern way of doing things, and Plummer shared his reasoning, and we learned the pros and cons behind his choice....