China’s EUV technology ‘at a similar stage to ASML in 2004,’ analyst claims — Beijing’s semiconductor industry remains well behind Western rivals

For years, China’s pursuit of semiconductor self-sufficiency stemmed from its ability to produce mainstream chips on trailing nodes using fairly advanced, though not the latest, tools from leading producers such as ASML,…

Acer launches seven new gaming monitors across Nitro and Predator families — tri-mode panels, QD-OLEDs, Mini LEDs, 1,000 Hz, and more

We’ll start our coverage with the Nitro family, which has four new members, the cheapest of which is the Nitro XV270U Z3 at $299. The XV270U Z3 is a tri-mode monitor, offering three distinct resolution/refresh rate prese…

Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an ‘Airbnb for AI inference,’ but profitability remains unproven

All that aside, distributed AI compute has a credibility problem to overcome. A research preprint from June claimed that Pearl, a blockchain marketed as converting cryptocurrency mining into AI work, ran the equivalent o…

Benchmarking 31 different CPUs in Onimusha: Way of the Sword — X3D beats flagships by 10%, 270K Plus falls behind Raptor Lake Refresh

Although the hardware is consistent, there are BIOS tweaks we make depending on the platform. As a broad rule, anything we enable that improves performance is covered under warranty. If performance-enhancing features voi…

Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has

However, due to the way LLMs work, “data” and “instructions” are the same, with model developers doing their best to create the illusion of separation. And llms.txt shatters that glass wall with the ballpeen hammer of ag…