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Highly anticipated: AMD has remained silent about the reason behind the last-minute delay of its next-generation Zen 5 CPUs. However, strong evidence suggests that a minor but important detail, unrelated to hardware performance or reliability, is the cause. Meanwhile, an early benchmark of the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is setting a new clock speed record. […]

In a nutshell: Activision has released a white paper taking a deep dive into how its SBMM system works. It explains the ins and outs of Call of Duty matchmaking and reveals the secret testing that “proves” players generally like its system. In April, Activision posted a 1,700-word essay on the intricacies of the game’s

What just happened? High-capacity SSD customers will soon have another option to choose from courtesy of SK Hynix. The South Korean memory specialist has announced plans to roll out 60 TB, enterprise-class solid-state drives, joining just a handful of other companies offering similar capacity solutions. SK Hynix briefly touched on the subject in its most

A hot potato: Elon Musk has come under fire for sharing an altered video of Kamala Harris that could be a violation of X’s own policies on deepfakes. The billionaire owner of the former Twitter platform reposted the clip, in which a voice that sounds like Harris says she is the “ultimate diversity hire” and

Through the looking glass: Touchscreens in cars are a double-edged sword. While they offer sleek aesthetics and the ability to update software features easily, they can also be a significant distraction for drivers, requiring you to take your eyes off the road to poke around trying to get things done – which is far from

Forward-looking: Approximately five percent of adults listed for a heart transplant in the US die each year while waiting for a suitable donor heart. One of these patients, however, beat the odds by participating in an FDA Early Feasibility Study for an artificial heart created by the medical device company BiVACOR. Implanted with this total

Futurology: The global demand for AI computing has data centers consuming electricity like frat houses chug beer. But researchers from the University of Minnesota might have a wildly innovative solution to curb AI’s growing thirst for power with a radical new device that promises vastly superior energy efficiency. The researchers have designed a new “computational

Cutting corners: The global computer crash earlier this month, caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update, was a disaster for many. However, a hero emerged at Grant Thornton Australia: senior systems engineer Rob Woltz, who quickly remedied the situation using a humble barcode scanner. In the midst of chaos, Woltz recalled that PCs treat barcode scanners

WTF?! If you thought your laptop, desktop, or server was protected by Secure Boot, think again. A new vulnerability dubbed “PKfail” has left Secure Boot wide open on hundreds of PC and devices across several major tech brands. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Binarly just dropped a bombshell report showing how a leaked cryptographic key has

The big picture: The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged Epsilon Indi Ab, an exoplanet about 12 light-years from Earth that orbits the star Epsilon Indi A. This gas giant is one of the coldest exoplanets ever directly observed, and the new imaging reveals a world significantly different from initial predictions. It’s more massive,