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U.S. Congressman and physicist Bill Foster plans to introduce a bill that will require advanced AI chipmakers like Nvidia to include a built-in location reporting system. According toReuters, this system will use existing and readily available technology to find the general country-level location of an AI chip. In fact, two sources say that Alphabet is using something similar to track the location of its in-house Tensor AI chips across all its data centers to protect against theft and othersecuritybreaches....

Speaking in an interview with Digital Foundry atCES 2025, Nvidia VP of Applied Deep Learning Research Bryan Catanzaro hinted that Nvidia may end up bringingDLSS 4to Nvidia GPUs as old as the RTX 30 Series, which otherwise do not support Nvidia’s own Frame Generation technologies. Instead, RTX 30 Series GPUs are currently forced to rely on games with an AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation solution — which isn’t always usable alongside DLSS, though fortunately it usually is....

Demand for Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 — some of thebest graphics cardsmoney can buy these days — is so high that it is nearly impossible to get them at their recommended prices in the U.S. However, Nvidia seems to have a solution for attendees at its GPU Technology Conference: buy them on site. Nvidia has limited quantities of its enthusiast-grade GeForce RTX 5080 and flagshipGeForce RTX 5090add-in-boards (AIBs) available for purchase at their $999 and $1,999 recommended prices from its Nvidia gear van at GTC park....

MGX, a newly established investment company from Abu Dhabi, is in talks to finance Sam Altman’sambitious planto build excessive semiconductor manufacturing capacity for AI processors, reports theFinancial Times. If the talks succeed, the move will be in line with the United Arab Emirates' strategy to become a key player in the global artificial intelligence industry. OpenAI’spush to develop its semiconductors is driven by the need to reduce dependency on Nvidia’s AI GPUs, such as theH100....

OpenAI is proceeding withthe development of its first custom AI chipwith Broadcom and expects to produce it for TSMC. However, reportsReuters, the company no longer intends tospearhead building a fab network. At the same time, the company continues to add more powerful chips from AMD and Nvidia to its fleet. AI inference chips incoming, no more fab plans In a bid to reduce reliance on Nvidia, OpenAI initially considered developing its chips both for training and inference and then facilitating the building of a dozen fabs (operated by prominent foundries like TSMC and Samsung Foundry), but high costs and long timelines made it impractical....

Flash drives always come in handy whether it’s for keeping a backup of your most important documents or family photos, to holding your favorite media to play on a compatible device. This compactUSB-C flash drive from Samsung is down to $19and offers 256GB of Samsung NAND flash memory that can transfer your data at up to speeds of 400MB/s. Samsung advertises that this flash drive can transfer 4GB files in around 11 seconds with its 400MB/s USB 3 read speeds, plus it’s compatible with older USB 3....

Perhaps the only real guarantee we can make about something that Must Not Fall Into the Wrong Hands is that eventually it will do exactly that. Case in point:BleepingComputerreportedon Monday thatcybercriminals have been using a leaked version of a legitimate red-teaming tool called Shellter to deploy malware. The Shellter Projectdescribesits software as “the most sophisticated loader ever created” that “provides unique static and runtime evasion features developed directly from our in-house R&D efforts....

Most power supply units include two fans, and both turn on at different times, depending on the PSU’s performance. Each fan is vital for the unit’s function and keeping the case cooler, which helps improve the life of your other components. If your PSU fan isn’t spinning, there’s probably nothing to worry about. However, you might want to troubleshoot it a bit if you think it should be on and isn’t – just to be sure....

Update 1/31 02:39 PT: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has responded to our queries and has confirmed that Raspberry Pi has retained Peel Hunt and Jefferies to help prepare for an IPO when the market is ready. Right now there is no target valuation or a firm date. Upton also states that “we believe that London is the natural listing location for a company like Raspberry Pi, and that it wouldn’t be an impediment to attracting US (or other international) investment, provided we’re prepared to do the work to educate foreign investors”...

Korean researchers have developed a method togrow sub-nanometer semiconductorlogic circuits. The team from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) claims that they grew 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1nm and developed them into 2D circuits. In effect, the 1D metals acted as a gate electrode of an ultra-miniaturized 2D transistor. The headlining technology could be very important, as it exceeds predictions outlined on the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) by the IEEE....

Cases, cooling, and power specialist SilverStone has announced that a desktop PC case that it previously showed off asan April Fools’ jokeis heading to retail. An unashamedly beige SilverStone FLP01 pre-built system was on display earlier in the week at the firm’s Japan Expo. Japanese tech media reports that FLP01 cases will be released sometime in Q1 2025 priced at JPY 19,800 (~$130). 明日の準備中…🫡いつもの場所でお待ちしております。#SILVERSTONEEXPO2024~LEGACY~ pic.twitter.com/S5E9ONrUmGNovember 15, 2024 Some of us tech old-timers started on systems that look a lot like SilverStone’s new FLP01....

Red Dead Redemption, a seminal 2010 release for the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation of console gaming, seems to finally be getting the official PC port it deserves — 14 years later. This comes long after Red Dead Redemption 2’s 2018 console and 2019 PC releases, and follows last year’s Red Dead Redemption re-releases for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. But now, information was found during scrutiny of the Rockstar Games Launcher files by@TezFunz2 on Twitter....

Nvidia’s R570 branch of GPU drivers came with several instability issues that troubled RTX 50 series owners, and reports suggest the impacts were felt by some using older GPU architectures, as well. A few hotfixes down the road, Nvidia has pushed fixes for these black screen issues specifically for the RTX 50 series. However, it appears that older GPUs continue to suffer. To voice growing concern, a user atr/hardwarehas compiled a comprehensive list featuring numerous testimonies from affected RTX 40 and RTX 30 series users....