Generative AI

• G Nov 12, 2026 Google's TPU 8tx and 8i Max Split the Eighth-Gen Line by Workload Google adds TPU 8tx for confidential inference and 8i Max for long-context agents. Specs are partial, and pricing and availability are still unannounc...
• G Nov 12, 2026 Voltage Glitching Turns a CMP-170HX Mining Card Into an A100-Class Accelerator A hobbyist used voltage glitching to unlock fused-off hardware on Nvidia CMP-170HX cards, reporting 80GB VRAM and 20% more FP16 FMA throughput than a...
• G Nov 12, 2026 Alex Karp's 'Progressive' Claim Tested Against His Recent Remarks Palantir's Alex Karp calls his politics and his products progressive. His recent letter, earnings call and interview show a more complicated picture.
• G Nov 12, 2026 USB-C Hub Firmware Patch Lets a $45 Adapter Pass as a Switch 2 Dock A hobbyist patched a $45 Cable Matters USB-C hub with about 540 bytes of firmware, making it pass as Nintendo's Switch 2 dock with working TV mode and...
• G Nov 11, 2026 Nvidia's Board Weighs a CEO Succession as Allegations Against Jensen Huang Mount Nvidia's board may meet November 11 to discuss Jensen Huang's future after reported relationships. A change would be the company's first CEO transitio...
• G Nov 11, 2026 Fractile's $720M Round Bets on Stacked DRAM to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck Fractile raised $720M at a $7B valuation for inference chips that stack DRAM directly on logic to cut data movement. Its performance claims are still...
• G Nov 11, 2026 AI Agents Are Taking Over the Slow Part of Robot Simulation Training AI models can now build robot simulations and train basic walking behavior in hours. A virtual Microduck and Berkeley lab work show the reach and the...
• G Nov 11, 2026 Logitech's Logi Game Day Gives 7,000 Employees a Day Off to Play GTA 6 Logitech's new Logi Game Day lets all 7,000 employees take a day off to play GTA 6 or any other game, betting that play will lift productivity.
• G Nov 11, 2026 SpaceX's Kessel Rack Swaps NVLink Cables for an 84-Layer Midplane SpaceX reportedly plans a custom Vera Rubin NVL72 variant, Kessel, that replaces NVLink cables with an 84-layer PCB midplane for ground and orbital us...
• G Nov 11, 2026 QuePaxa: Consensus Without a Single Point of Stall Cloudflare picked QuePaxa, a randomized consensus protocol, for Meerkat because it keeps making progress when leaders slow down or disconnect.
• G Nov 11, 2026 ASRock Ships VBIOS 1.0.6 for Radeon RX 7900 Cards With No Changelog ASRock's new VBIOS 1.0.6 for Radeon RX 7000 cards arrives with no changelog, after 1.0.5 reportedly left some RX 7900 XT and XTX cards unbootable.
• G Nov 11, 2026 Montech King 95 3D Pro Review: Three Glass Panels, Strong CPU Cooling, Loud Fans Montech's King 95 3D adds a top glass panel to the curved-glass King 95. We test the $199.90 Pro with seven fans for thermals, noise and build fit.
• G Nov 11, 2026 EU's Proposed Digital Fairness Act Targets Dark Patterns and Addictive App Design The EU's proposed Digital Fairness Act would ban dark patterns, let users switch off addictive features and cap fines at 6% of global turnover.
• G Nov 11, 2026 Kora's Linux Desktop Splits AI Across CPU, GPU and NPU, but Only Snapdragon X2 Elite Works Today Kora, a Linux desktop from Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster, splits local AI across CPU, GPU and NPU. Only Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite is supporte...
• G Nov 11, 2026 AMD's MEXT Aims to Halve Server DRAM by Predicting Which Memory Pages You'll Need AMD's MEXT moves cold memory pages to flash and uses a predictive AI model to bring them back, claiming 95% of full-server performance at half the DRA...
• G Nov 11, 2026 Fiber Optic Shortage Squeezes Ukrainian Drone Output as AI Data Centers Absorb Supply AI data center demand has pushed fiber optic cable prices up six to 10 times, and Ukraine's drone makers are feeling it first.
• G Nov 11, 2026 AI Mode, a School Chromebook and a Monitoring Gap That Took Weeks to Close A lawsuit alleges a 13-year-old's months of Gemini conversations on a school Chromebook went unflagged, exposing gaps in AI chat monitoring for studen...
• G Nov 11, 2026 Newegg's 9800X3D Bundle Undercuts Standalone 32GB DDR5 Pricing A Newegg combo pairs the Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of DDR5-6000 and an X870E board for $1,059.98, putting the memory well below standalone prices.
• G Nov 11, 2026 Water-Cooled PC Sends Its Heat Outdoors Through a Valve-Controlled Radiator A Reddit builder routed his water-cooled PC loop to an outdoor radiator, using an Arduino and dew-point logic to keep the room from overheating in win...
• G Nov 10, 2026 AMD EPYC Venice Brings Zen 6 With 27% Average IPC Gain Over Zen 5 AMD's first Zen 6 chips, EPYC Venice, show a 27% average IPC uplift over Zen 5 in data center workloads, built on TSMC's N2P node.
• G Nov 10, 2026 Alice Huang's Alleged Role in Routing Nvidia AI Chips Into China An investigation ties Alice Huang to Megaspeed and Shanghai Century Litong, with claims of 240,000 banned chips and $7.5 billion in GPU imports.