hardware

Elon Musk spent estimated $1 billion on an energy company to power xAI, filings reveal — APR Energy owns a fleet of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines capa

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Flyfisherman AI data centers consume staggering amounts of power—projected to account for up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028 and rivaling the energy usage of entire nations like Ireland or Japan. Put the consumpti…

TSMC confirms significant yield and performance improvements in A14 update — strong interest from AI/HPC and smartphone customers

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Speaking of customer design readiness, Wei indicated that clients strive to tape-out their A14 designs ahead of schedule, which is a good sign. It is also interesting to note that despite the fact that A14 lacks Super Po…

Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library,

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In terms of more traditional demo releases, my mind was recently boggled by “16 bytes of x86 real-mode DOS assembly” released at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026. Then there was the port of Snake that was only 56 bytes …

Crazed enthusiast runs PC on 192 AA batteries, successfully boots into Hannah Montana Linux — System is stable during stress testing and even plays FreeDoom

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IT WORKED! Unlike the 9V attempt, this one ran the desktop for 30 minutes without running dead off of 200 AAs. Given the capacity at the end of the test it will likely run a couple more hours before the power drop become…