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    What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.

    ClosedAI are done for and even Microsoft have realised that (see recent stories about them developing their own competing models even after pouring $13B into ClosedAI). Sam Altman's lame attempts at preventing any competition by lobbying governments to restrict AI research failed, and now more...
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    Nvidia quietly cuts price of poorly reviewed 16GB 4060 Ti ahead of AMD launch

    I suspect the 7700 XT will get a price drop very soon after launch because at $450 there's absolutely zero point in buying one when you could have a 7800 XT for only $50 more.
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    Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

    No need to assume. Look at the kernel patch, which only applies the software fix (setting the msr chicken bit) if the new microcode isn't present. So these new microcodes do contain a fix...
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    Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

    Yes, now says "While there might be a possibility to execute this attack via the browser on the remote machine it hasn’t been yet demonstrated". I suggest the author of this article might correct the mistake too. POC code or GTFO.,
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    Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

    As of right now the link gives Page not found 404. They've taken it down :ROFLMAO:
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    GeForce RTX 4060 review: Not thrilling, but a super-efficient $299 workhorse

    Well I won't be asking you then because that's terrible advice when a 6700XT 12 GB currently goes for around $320 and will thrash any of the cards in this review.
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    Asus fixes error that caused mass router outage worldwide for 2 days

    ASUS is a company that has been going downhill and living off their past reputation for years now. I'm old enough to remember such classics as the A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 but I wouldn't touch their products these days. They're usually over-priced anyway. Btw, users on reddit and other forums had...
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    Nvidia’s $399 4060 Ti costs the same as a 3060 Ti, but with mild speed boosts

    I've found the first chart in this article to be useful and fairly accurate for comparing older gen cards; https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html If the numbers given here by Nvidia are correct then 4060 Ti at 15% faster than 3060 Ti is about the same as a 3070 Ti, and...
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    Microsoft and AMD are allegedly teaming up to combat Nvidia’s AI dominance

    The reason for that is (from the Tom's article); Shark is lacking on AMD too. Using Automatic1111 + ROCm gives much better performance (on 6xxx and 5xxx series), comparable to equivalent Nvidia cards, but; Still waiting on ROCm 5.0 for 7xxx series support Linux only, there are no Windows ROCm...
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    HDDs typically fail in under 3 years, Backblaze study of 17,155 drives finds

    What a terrible article. Please read "How to Lie with Statistics". If you have read it then stop taking the title of the book as an instruction. The original report by Backblaze linked in the first paragraph is over 9000% better. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2023/
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    Apple plans mental health-focused journaling app for iOS 17

    You do understand that US monopoly laws are about the US market, not the rest of the world? Not that it matters given the totally corrupt US political system. Apple are more scared by European law, and that's why Europe will get app side-loading in iOS 17 while the land of the free won't.
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    OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world

    This is a PR stunt. OpenAI's GPT models are about to become obsolete because LLAMA has proven that you can get the same results from much smaller optimized models. Models that can be run on consumer hardware instead of being controlled by big tech companies. A more interesting story might be...
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    PC maker pulls Samsung Pro SSDs after users report abnormal health drops

    Not a good look. Samsung charge premium prices even for their mid-range devices and the only the reason that works is their reputation for reliability and speed. And most people don't need the speed (be honest, unless you're doing something where your productivity relies on it, when's the last...
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    Intel cuts Arc A750 GPU’s price while boasting about driver optimizations

    I do hope Intel stay in the market to provide more competition, but I have zero interest in funding and beta-testing their development of these cards. This is a company that spent $40 billion on stock buybacks in the last 5 years alone, they can afford the development costs if they're serious...
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    300+ models of MSI motherboards have Secure Boot turned off. Is yours affected?

    Arch Linux (and Arch-based distros like Manjaro) don't. It is possible to set it up after installation if you really need to but the official install images won't work with Secure Boot (fully) enabled. I run Manjaro and have it turned off. I didn't know it was possible to configure Secure Boot...
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    64GB microSD cards are posing as 16TB portable SSDs on Amazon

    Storage devices with fake capacities have been on Amazon a lot longer than "a few years". In the case of USB thumb drives and SD cards it's been going on for at least 10 years. It isn't that difficult to reprogram these devices to report higher capacities if you know how and have the tools. As...
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    Steam for Linux Snap package gets “bleeding edge” Mesa libraries baked in

    No thanks. I have zero interest in Canonical's propietary Snap Store. What exactly is hard about installing Steam on Linux? If you can't work out how to type something like `pacman -S steam` or even just find the native Steam package in your distro's GUI package manager then you probably...
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    FDA’s rotten definition of “healthy” food is finally getting tossed

    Reading this as a non-American just blows my mind. How on earth does a government agency get away with so obviously being in the pocket of the food industry? Completely ridiculous. On the other hand, the American diet does make for some very funny piss-takes...
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    The rest of Intel Arc’s A700-series GPU prices: A750 lands Oct. 12 below $300

    I said and you quoted "You can get a 6650XT for around $300 ". Which is a fact. You claimed $350, based on a survey of a whole two different retailers. And even then you not only ignored the $300 offer you also ignored numerous 6650 XT models priced at $340 on those sites. So the only here...
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    The rest of Intel Arc’s A700-series GPU prices: A750 lands Oct. 12 below $300

    1. Newegg and Amazon aren't the only retailers. 2. You are wrong. This one is $300 after $20 rebate card right now. https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-r665 ... klink=true