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Scientists from the U.S. and Korea have developed an innovative new ink for 3D printing that can build easy-to-recycle electric circuits and other structures without the need for heat, light, or toxic chemicals. Their research was recently published inNature Communications, supported by the National Science Foundation in the U.S. and the National Research Foundation of Korea. In most forms of 3D printing, the raw material requires a combination of heat, pressure, and light to become a rigid structure....

Unprotected Intel Raptor Lake and Alder Lake CPUs are vulnerable to a newly discovered side-channel attack called “Indirector,” which risks stealing sensitive data from the CPU. Indirector is closely related to theSpectre vulnerabilities, which set the tech world on fire in 2018, and the new paper presents for the first time a detailed diagram of two of the key components inside Intel processors that enable speculative execution. Intel toldTom’s Hardwarein a statement that these vulnerabilities are covered by its existing mitigation advice (more below)....

Nintendo recently shocked its fan communities by announcingNintendo Music, a dedicated Android/iOS streaming app. This follows the Nintendo Alarmo, a Nintendo-themed alarm clock also released this month instead of Nintendo providing any comments on theSwitch 2and the seeming leaks of its hardware specs and release date that have been circulating for the past few months. A glance at the application immediately recalls the UI of Spotify and other music-playing apps. Most of the functionality you would expect from those apps, including Nintendo-curated playlists, is intact here....

An idea that started as an April Fools' joke eight years back is now a reality, thanks to recent strides in the field of AI. MeetProject G-Assist, finally available with the latestNvidia App version 11.0.3.218. Nvidia also introduced custom DLSS Super Resolution scaling factors, allowing users to override the default options with granularity ranging from 33% to 100%. Several settings from the original Nvidia Control Panel also appear in the App, aiming to transform it into a complete replacement....

China is not significantly behind the U.S. when developing AI hardware and software,saidJensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, at the Hill and Valley Forum. While Chinese companies have made remarkable progress with AI services and software, Huang’s comments mainly refer to Chinese AI hardware. Coincidentally, Huawei has started to ship its latest AI system, which is largely deemed competitive with Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, reportsFinancial Times. However, there is a catch....

An incredibly early release of 86-DOS has been found, imaged, and shared on the Internet Archive. The disk appears to be an original release of version 0.1 C of 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (1980) and includes several utilities, along with a game. Moreover, according to the disk label, what we see is just the eleventh disk off the duplication line. This is an important finding, as 86-DOS is a direct ancestor of PC DOS and MS-DOS....

Palit Group, a specialized GPU manufacturer and one of Nvidia’s biggest AIB partners, just previewed a hybrid GPU cooler on social media. The company shared a 12-second clip of a Game Rock Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card that has triple cooling fans and a water block attached. The clip thus seemingly shows a video card that uses a hybrid water and air cooling solution to keep its temperatures down. #Palit at Computex 2024: A Cooling Revolution Awaits....

Right now atAmazon, you can find thePhilips 278E1A 27-inch 4K IPS monitorfor one of its lowest prices to date. It’s been going for around $269 for the last couple of years but today it’s marked down to just $229. We had the opportunity to review thePhilips 278E1Ain the past and found it to be a fairly good monitor overall, rating it 4 out of 5 stars. We recognized it for its superior brightness although there can be a drop in quality with the brightness cranked up....

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.Find out more about how we test. Conclusion I’m running out of positive adjectives to describe OLED gaming monitors. They are so close in performance that it’s impossible to buy a bad one. That’s a good thing considering their premium pricing, but this is one area where you will not regret buying the best....

When hosting a web server or a web application, you need to open port 443 (or port 80) on the server so that it can receive a web request. While port 80 relates to HTTP, port 443 corresponds to HTTPS. According to Google’s research in 2021, over 95% of websites have been using HTTPS. It offers more secure communication than HTTP and is the de facto standard for modern web security....

IPv4. Globalhas launched a new lending program that uses a borrower’s IPv4 addresses as collateral. The firm, which describes itself as “the world’s largest, most trusted and transparent IPv4 marketplace,” says the new loan facility is a first-of-its-kind offer to customers. We’ve previously covered news concerning thescarcity ofIPv4 addresses, and they certainly seem to be valuable nowadays.The Registerreports that network operator Cogent has previously raised $206 million worth of notes solely backed by its IPv4 assets....

A leading Raspberry Pi torchbearer has demonstrated relatively modern AAA games likeDoom Eternal,Crysis Remastered,Red Dead Redemption 2, andForza Horizon 4, running at 4K on the humble $50 SBC. Pi wizard Jeff Geerling shared a video of his latest attempts to boost the credit card-sized computer’s GPU muscle. Things have progressed since theDoom 34K demohe shared a few weeks ago. The most important developments since October are getting newer generation AMDRadeonGPUs to work with the Pi, potentially delivering massive performance uplifts....

As part ofIEEE Spectrum’s coverageofsecurityadvances made at their International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held last week, a team from the University of Vermont showed off a way to manufacture chips (like CPUs) that self-destruct when compromised. This doubles as both a security measure and an anti-counterfeiting measure, which is useful for vendors who wish to protect their designs. The mechanism works by using physically unclonable functions (PUFs), which can create unique fingerprints for every chip....