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Two underseainternet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe were cut last week, with authorities suspecting sabotage. According to theWall Street Journal, investigators suspect that the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier traveling to Egypt from Russia and loaded with fertilizer, deliberately dropped its anchor in Swedish waters to sever the BCS East-West Interlink cable connecting it to Lithuania and then did it again the following day to damage the C-Lion1 cable between Finland and Germany....

Ferroelectric Memory Co.(FMC) has joined forces withNeumondato reestablish production of the so-called DRAM+ in Germany. It’s been a while since Infineon and Qimonda developed and produced dynamic random access memory in Germany, as it became particularly unprofitable to build commodity memory in Europe. However, the new FMC and Neumonda venture will focus on non-volatile FeRAM aimed at specific applications. FMC specializes in memory that uses ferroelectric hafnium oxide (HfO₂) to create DRAM+ that retains data without power....

Following the grand reveal of theNintendo Switch 2, we learned a handful of technical details about the console. Most notably, the Switch 2 is set to require a different MicroSD standard than its predecessor, named MicroSD Express. And, if current pricing for announced products is anything to go by, it will be painful on your wallet. In fact, on a capacity basis, they’re pricier than many modern SSDs — MicroSD Express cards range from 20 to 25 cents per GB of storage, whereas bargain basement SSDs can retail for as little as 5 to 6 cents per GB....

While you’re able to always play your Switch as a handheld device, there’s nothing quite like the comfort of kicking back and working to repay Tom Nook on the big screen. That kind of functionality is even more important when you have a group of people who want to play together, and the small screen just isn’t an adequate size. If your Switch isn’t connecting to your TV, there are a few different issues to investigate before you decide to try to get your devices repaired....

New reports have surfaced that RTX 50-series laptop GPUs are facing the same missing ROPs problem as all of Nvidia’s desktop counterparts.Heise Online(via HardwareLuxx) reports that Nvidia has asked notebook manufacturers to catch bad batches of laptop devices sporting faulty RTX 50-series GPUs with missing ROPs. However, Nvidia has responded to these claims, stating the exact opposite. Nvidia toldThe Vergethat laptop GPUs areunaffectedby the issue of missing ROPs. The Verge asked Nvidia for additional clarification, to which Nvidia stated: “Correct, no further issues....

Nvidia has announced two products: the GB200 NVL4, a monster quad-B200 GPU module featuring two Grace CPUs, and the H200 NVL PCIe GPU, aimed at air-cooled data centers.The GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip is an even more potent variant of the standard (non-NVL4) dual-GPU variant, featuring a whopping fourB200Blackwell GPUs hooked up to each other with NVLink and twoGrace ARM-based CPUsall on one motherboard. The solution is aimed at HPC and AI-hybrid workloads featuring a whopping 1....

Nvidiahas rolled out a series of new features following the RTX 50 series launch, packed with the latest GeForce Game Ready drivers and Nvidia App version 11.0.2.312. These include settings to change your DLSS Frame Gen, Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction model or mode on the fly, alongside a new driver-based frame generation utility dubbed “Smooth Motion” to rival AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames technology. The latest Nvidia App also brings a few updates to the RTX VSR (Video Super Resolution) and HDR section, now employing a more efficient model, promising savings of up to 30%....

According toDigitimes,DellTaiwan General Manager Terence Liao reports that the delivery lead times of NvidiaH100AI GPUs have been reduced over the past few months from 3-4 months, as wepreviously reported, down to just 2-3 months (8-12 weeks). Server ODMs revealed that supply is finally easing up compared to 2023 when it was virtually impossible to attain Nvidia’s H100 GPUs. Despite decreasing lead times, Liao states that demand for AI-capable hardware is still extremely high....

Nvidia just confirmed that it’s withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers for theRTX 5060, which will rival thebest graphics cards. According to Dutch publicationTweakers.net[machine translated], the company said that it will only make the drivers for the mainstream graphics cardavailable on May 19, the card’s release date. Many reviewers already have the GPU in their labs and test benches, but they still haven’t received the pre-release drivers typically included in the review kit....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The NZXT C1500 Platinum PSU delivers exceptional power and performance for extreme gaming PCs and workstations, but its massive output and high price limits its appeal to a niche market. Very high efficiency Exceptional power output quality Superior cooling performance Great resilience to thermal stress Excellent build quality Sunon MagLev cooling fan Long 10 year warranty High price Niche market appeal Size Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

OpenAI isfollowing in the steps of Elon Muskand is reportedly planning to deploy gas turbines at its first Stargate data center site in Abilene, Texas. According to a SemiAnalysis post onX, 29 GE Vernova LM2500XPRESS gas turbines have reportedly been acquired for the data center, with each one capable of producing 34MW. If all the turbines are installed on the site, it would mean a total output of 986MW — nearly enough energy to power 500,000 GB200 NVL72 chips....

Asreported byArs Technica, cybersecurity researcher Denis Sinegubko has been monitoring ongoing website hacking activities for a long time. Now, he hasidentified a major pivotfrom crypto wallet drainers to brute-force password-cracking attacks on WordPress sites. Why is this happening, what does it mean, and what can you, as an end user, do? We’ll dive into all of the need-to-know information right away below. First, let’s talk “Why.” Earlier in February, Sinegubko, writing for Sucuri’s blog, discussedan increase in “web3 crypto malware,“particularly malware used to inject crypto drainers into existing sites or use phishing sites for the same purpose....

As language models grow in complexity and their context windows expand, GPU-attached high bandwidth memory (HBM) becomes a bottleneck, forcing systems to repeatedly recalculate data that no longer fits in onboard HBM. Pliops has addressed this challenge with its XDP LightningAI device and FusIOnX software, which store precomputed context on fast SSDs and retrieve it instantly when needed, reportsBlocks and Files. The company says that its solution enables ‘nearly’ HBM speeds and can accelerate certain inference workflows by up to eight times....