Scaling up will not solve AI problems
Published in AI


Boffins tell Big Tech to stop sniffing GPU fumes 

The people who build artificial intelligence have finally acknowledged have warned that endlessly increasing hardware for AI models is about as effective as solving climate change by buying more SUVs.

Italy orders Google to poison its public DNS
Published in News


Because someone streamed football

Italy’s war on internet piracy has taken a sharp turn into the absurd, with the Court of Milan now ordering the world’s largest search engine to poison its own public DNS servers.

Steam on a $100 ARM board
Published in Gaming


Only if you're allergic to convenience

A masochist has decided to get Steam running on a dirt-cheap ARM board powered by the RK3588 chip.

Western chips still powering Russian missiles
Published in News


Loopholes 

Three years into Russia's “definitely-not-an-invasion” invasion of Ukraine, it turns out the West’s sanctions regime is as watertight as a colander.

PNY unveils new CS2342 M.2 2230 NVMe PCIe x4 SSD aimed at portable gaming devices
Published in PC Hardware


M.2 2230 PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD reaching 7,300MB/s


PNY has unveiled its new CS2342 M.2 2230 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD, which promises some of the fastest read and write speeds in the 2230 form factor, reaching up to 7,300 MB/s for read speeds and 6,000 MB/s for write speeds. It will be available in 1 TB and 2 TB capacities, and available later this month.