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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.

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D-Link has another security flaw with older equipment that won't be repaired — D-Link told users to replace outdated NAS last week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.

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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 proves to be very demanding yet again.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Danish Navy reportedly 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.

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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.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch gets stranded on the runway (Updated)

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 all we've seen so far.

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Nvidia introduces a new merged CPU and GPU AI processor — GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip has four B200 GPUs, two Grace CPUs

Nvidia has introduced two new products to the enterprise market: the GB200 NVL4 super chip featuring four Blackwell GPUs and two Grace CPUs and a new air-cooled GPU, the H200 NVL, aimed at conventional data centers with air cooling.

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Toshiba stuffs an entire PC into a dot matrix printer — Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500 packs a mysterious CPU, 8GB RAM, and two 240GB SSDs

Toshiba Japan releases its latest business-targeted AIO printer PC, the Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500.

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Prusa Announces New CORE One Flagship 3D Printer

Prusa launched a surprise Core YX 3D printer at FormNext 2024 in Germany.

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Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage

Microsoft introduced the Windows 365 Link, a mini-PC that solely works as a client for its Windows 365 service.

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MSI introduces Latency Killer to improve DDR5 latency on AM5 motherboards — feature reportedly reduces latency by up to 8ns

MSI has introduced a "Latency Killer" performance enhancer that purportedly reduces DDR5 latency by up to 8ns. This feature was added to counter latency degradation that was introduced with AGESA 1.2.0.2a

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Raspberry Pi 5 RAM-doubling upgrade demoed — going from 4GB to 8GB with the wave of a soldering iron

An electronics upgrade and repair wizard has demonstrated how to boost the Raspberry Pi 5’s RAM quota

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Google may be forced to sell its Chrome browser due to monopoly complaints — potential $20 billion sale if approved by a judge

Google accuses the Department of Justice of having a ‘radical agenda’ in response to a report that claims a forced sell-off of Chrome is on the table.

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Two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Europe have been cut — EU leaders suspect sabotage

Two undersea cables miles apart connecting Sweden and Finland to Central Europe have been sabotaged.

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AMD adds LLVM support for the "GFX950" GPU, likely for MI325X or the upcoming MI355X accelerator

Recent commits to the LLVM GitHub from AMD indicate that Team Red is adding preliminary support for the "GFX950" GPU - likely the MI325X/355X.

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