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RTX 4090 users posted photos on social media reporting that the graphics card’s 16-pin power connector (ie 12VHPWR) burned out. One user’s graphics card caught fire and smoke, and another found the connector melted after the graphics card died. Before the RTX 4090 was released, Nvidia itself concluded after testing different implementations of the 12VHPWR […]

Linus Torvalds recently incorporated support for the Rust language in the latest development release of Linux. Rust is a high-performance, memory-safe language, and most of the vulnerabilities discovered by software projects are memory-safety-related vulnerabilities. Developing the kernel with Rust will help improve the memory safety of the kernel. Memory support for Rust comes from the

The largest PC digital game platform Steam has exceeded 30 million concurrent users, setting a new record. Valve’s Steam platform was born in 2003. As of 2015, its registered users reached 125 million, and the peak number of online players exceeded 10 million. In 2017, the online peak exceeded 17 million, and in March 2020,

Many people spend hours staring at their phone screens every day. How to reduce screen time? What if a smartphone doesn’t have a screen? A company called MyManu is touting the concept of a screenless smartphone . Its Titan devices are eSim-enabled voice-controlled earbuds that come pre-installed with the real-time translation app MyJuno, which supports

Zhuge Horror wrote ” Severely ill patients with COVID-19 spontaneously produce AngII (angiotensin II) antibodies that correlate with blood pressure dysregulation and disease severity. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that a considerable number of patients hospitalized with the new crown developed AngII antibodies. The target protein of the new coronavirus is ACE2 (angiotensin-converting

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) submitted its latest list of notorious markets (PDF) to the Office of the US Trade Representative, which includes torrent sites, online drives and pirated streaming services. Additionally, the RIAA sees AI as an emerging copyright threat . The RIAA says there are online services that use AI to

Facebook/Meta developed a Hokkien AI translation system , which demonstrated a real-time translation between Hokkien and English. “We use Mandarin as an intermediate language to build pseudo-labels, we first translate English (or Hokkien) speech into Mandarin text, then we translate to Hokkien (or English) and add it to the training data.” Meta’s research Team said.

At Adobe’s MAX Sneaks event, it demonstrated a range of AI image compositing tools: Project Clever Composites uses AI and automation to quickly merge images. For example, if you want to crop a portrait in a travel photo and merge it seamlessly into other backgrounds, Clever Composites can simplify the whole process into a few

India’s competition watchdog fines Google $161.9 million for anticompetitive conduct related to Android mobile devices. This is a major setback for Google in the Indian market. The Competition Commission of India’s investigation into Google follows complaints three and a half years ago, saying Google’s imposition of unfairness by mandating device makers to pre-install the full

The Texas attorney general sued Google on Thursday, alleging that the search giant violated state law by collecting biometric data such as facial and voice features without the full consent of users. According to a complaint filed in Texas State District Court in Midland County, Texas says Google’s data collection practices date back to 2015

The 53rd version of the OpenBSD distribution, v7.2 , is released. Major new changes include: support for new platforms such as Ampere Altra, Apple M2, Lenovo ThinkPad x13s and other devices using Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC; multiple kernel improvements, SMP improvements, updated drm(4) to Linux 5.15. 69, etc., and more can be

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann is suing five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen and others for defamation for $100 million. Niemann ended Carlsen’s 53-game unbeaten streak at the Sinquefield Cup in September. Carlsen then withdrew from the game, publicly accusing Niemann of cheating shortly before. Niemann, 19, admitted to cheating on Chess.com online games twice, once at

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is preparing to buy Twitter, told potential investors in the deal that he plans to lay off nearly 75% of the social media company’s workforce, The Washington Postreported . Even if the deal falls through, massive layoffs are expected, as Twitter’s current management plans to slash the company’s salaries by