DigiTimes reports MSI is poised for a milestone year, with analysts projecting global motherboard shipments will top 10 million units in 2025. The surge marks a sharp recovery for the Taiwanese manufacturer, putting it alongside rival Gigabyte as renewed demand for AMD and Intel platforms drives the market. Read Entire...
Crytek finally explains why the jump from Far Cry to Crysis changed everything
Crytek is marking its 25th anniversary with a new documentary series that reexamines its legacy – starting with the creative leap between Far Cry and Crysis. For years, gamers assumed Crysis was simply the product of raw technical muscle, the benchmark that melted PCs. However, the German studio's artists say......
How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down
Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistral emphasized the importance of understanding – or at least estimating – the environmental footprint of these systems. The impact, the......
KMPlayer is a powerful media player with broad format support
KMPlayer is a feature-rich, cross-platform multimedia player available for Windows, Android, and iOS. It natively supports a wide range of audio, video, image, and subtitle formats-including AVI, MKV, FLV, 4K/8K, and 60 fps content. See more recommendations in our Essential Apps feature. Read Entire Article
Nvidia N1X AI PC chip leaks with the same number of CUDA cores as an RTX 5070
The Nvidia N1X AI PC processor achieved an impressive OpenCL score of 46,361, outperforming all integrated GPUs from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and other leading chipmakers. According to the Geekbench listing, it features 48 Streaming Multiprocessors and 6,144 CUDA cores – matching the core count of the GeForce RTX 5070. Read...
Positron bets on energy-efficient AI chips to challenge Nvidia’s dominance
Founded in 2023, Positron has rapidly attracted investment and attention from major cloud providers. The startup recently raised $51.6 million in new funding, bringing its total to $75 million. Its value proposition is straightforward: delivering AI inference – the process of generating responses from trained models – far more efficiently......
What was the first ransomware attack to demand payment in Bitcoin?
Test your cyber history savvy in this week's trivia. Read Entire Article
Debian plots fix for Y2K38 bug by upgrading to 64-bit timekeeping
The Year 2038 problem arises from the way Unix-based systems track time – by storing the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, in a signed 32-bit integer. In 13 years, that integer will reach its maximum value and likely overflow, resetting affected systems back to 1970. A similar issue......
Renaming of military bases stirs debate over Confederate ties
More than half a dozen Army bases’ names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders
Tropical Storm Iona forms in the central Pacific, no threat to Hawaii
Tropical Storm Iona has formed in the central Pacific and is expected to continue trekking toward the west on a course well south of the Hawaiian Islands