Machine Learning

• M Nov 12, 2026 Noctua's NT-CP1 Brings Self-Conforming Carbon Nanotube Pads to AM4 and AM5 Noctua's NT-CP1 carbon nanotube pad for AM4 and AM5 CPUs is on sale for $24.95 or €24.95, aimed at replacing paste that degrades over time.
• M Nov 12, 2026 Alice Huang Resurfaces in Beijing as Nvidia Chip Smuggling Probe Widens Suspected spy Alice Huang has reportedly been seen in Beijing, as U.S. scrutiny of $7.5 billion in banned Nvidia chip imports through Megaspeed intens...
• M 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...
• M 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...
• M 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.
• M Nov 12, 2026 Idle Cannabis Grow Rooms Eye a Second Life as AI Data Center Sites Falling cannabis prices are pushing some growers to repurpose power-rich facilities as small AI data center nodes. The economics are promising but far...
• M 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...
• M 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...
• M Nov 11, 2026 Edelbyte Raises $70M for a Data Platform Built for AI Agent Queries Tel Aviv startup Edelbyte raised $70M at a reported $500M valuation for a platform that stores records and vectors and claims sub-100ms queries on mul...
• M Nov 11, 2026 AMD's Venice-X Returns 3D V-Cache to EPYC at a 5.3 GHz Boost Clock AMD's Venice-X pairs 96 cores and 1,152 MB of stacked L3 cache with a 5.3 GHz boost clock, bringing 3D V-Cache back to EPYC data center chips in H2 20...
• M 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...
• M 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...
• M Nov 11, 2026 Enterprise AI Buyers Want a Cloud, Not Just GPUs Enterprise AI buyers need networking, shared inference caching and open-source-friendly stacks, not just accelerators, according to Vultr's CMO.
• M Nov 11, 2026 Georgia Residents Sue Over OpenAI's Effingham County Data Center Under RICO Residents allege county leaders and OpenAI conspired to advance a 3.2 GW data center in secret. The case tests how far civil racketeering law can reac...
• M 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.
• M 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...
• M Nov 11, 2026 SoftBank Cancels $3.7 Billion in Gas Turbine Reservations as AI Power Bets Shift SoftBank is canceling turbine reservations that cost it $3.7 billion, shifting its AI power strategy while disputing claims it defaulted on its orders...
• M 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.
• M 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.
• M 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.
• M 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.