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Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed
In a YouTube video, Microsoft revealed that only stress-tested the MSFS 2024 database with 200,000 virtual users. This drastic underestimate led to the database being overwhelmed and crashing on launch day.
2024-11-20 21:02
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D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week
D-Link says it will not fix security flaw found in routers due to end-of-life concerns and instead suggests users buy new routers. This comes on the heels of the company refusing to fix a security flaw in NAS devices just last week.
2024-11-20 20:42
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D-Link has another security flaw with older equipment that won't be repaired — D-Link told users to replace outdated NAS last week
D-Link says it will not fix a security flaw found in routers due to end-of-life concerns and instead suggests users buy new routers. This comes on the heels of the company refusing to fix a security flaw in NAS devices just last week.
2024-11-20 20:42
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Stalker 2 PC performance testing and settings analysis — another demanding game that uses frame generation and upscaling as a crutch
Stalker 2 arrives with steep PC system requirements and an assumption that everyone should be using some form of frame generation, or at least that seems to be the takeaway from the benchmarks we've conducted. The game looks good, but Unreal Engine 5 p...
2024-11-20 19:58
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Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike as supply — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050
Lenovo's Project Manager at Weibo says that RTX 4050 sales will continue alongside the RTX 5050 - suggesting a higher price tag for the latter.
2024-11-20 19:12
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Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050
Lenovo's Project Manager at Weibo says that RTX 4050 sales will continue alongside the RTX 5050 - suggesting a higher price tag for the latter.
2024-11-20 19:12
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Nvidia's Blackwell AI GPU overheating issues are seemingly overhyped — semiconductor analysts reveal cooling issues have been mostly addressed
Analysis report that Nvidia's Blackwell overheating problems are over-exaggerated. Overheating issues have been purportedly largely addressed already.
2024-11-20 18:44
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Jaguar Shores is the successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI accelerators — Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs united in a single lineup
Intel has revealed the codename for the successor of its Falcon Shores AI accelerators - termed Jaguar Shores - poised for a 2026 launch.
2024-11-20 17:29
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China's chipmaking champion soars amid China's push for self-reliance — SMIC's stock jumps 120% as semiconductor trade war intensifies
SMIC's stock price have doubled over the past two month over the expectation of increasing local demand.
2024-11-20 17:18
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China's chipmaking champion soars amid country's push for self-reliance — SMIC's stock jumps 120% as semiconductor trade war intensifies
SMIC's stock price have doubled over the past two month over the expectation of increasing local demand.
2024-11-20 17:18
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Cerebras video shows AI writing code 75x faster than world's fastest AI GPU cloud — world's largest chip beats AWS's fastest in head-to-head comparison
Llama 3.1 405B runs at nearly a thousand tokens a second on Cerebras Inference, and took a quarter of a second to get the first token.
2024-11-20 17:13
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Rebootless updates come to Windows 11 Enterprise and 365 for security updates — Microsoft releases hotpatching for Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Windows 365 Preview Editions
Microsoft began rolling out the much-anticipated hotpatch update for security updates in Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Microsoft 365 Preview Builds.
2024-11-20 16:21
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Bjorn is a Raspberry Pi-powered Tamagotchi-like network pen-testing tool
Infinition has created a Tamagotchi-like network pen testing tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi using eink display HATs.
2024-11-20 16:18
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Black Friday Monitor Deals Live 2024: Best Sales on Displays, Updated All Day
The best live deals on gaming and productivity monitors this Black Friday
2024-11-20 16:06
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips
Qualcomm's Arm-based PC chips will skip the second generation, next-gen Snapdragon X processors will feature Oryon 3.
2024-11-20 13:31
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Netgear Nighthawk RS600 router review: Lowering the price of entry point for tri-band Wi-Fi 7
The Nighthawk RS600 lowers the price of entry for Netgear’s tri-band Wi-Fi 7 routers, but performance could be better.
2024-11-20 13:00
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US sanctions freeze Huawei's Ascend AI chips on older 7nm process node that's eight years behind TSMC, stalling progress until at least 2026
US-led export restrictions are taking a toll on Huawei's AI Ascend and Kirin chips - now stuck at 7nm until 2026.
2024-11-20 12:25
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Danish Navy boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the disruption
The Danish Navy is pursuing a ship that is suspected to be involved with the recent cutting of undersea cables between Finland, Sweden, and Central Europe.
2024-11-20 11:27
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AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 memory for Microsoft Azure – CPU with 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 may be repurposed MI300C, four chips hit 7 TB/s
Microsoft’s new Azure HBv5 virtual machines use a custom AMD CPU that looks an awful lot like the rumored MI300C that never officially launched.
2024-11-19 21:26
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch gets stranded on the runway amid launch woes
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 officially launched today, but it's basically been a complete bust trying to play or even get into the game so far. Loading queues and interminable loading screens are basically all we've seen so far.
2024-11-19 20:53
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