Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed
20 November 2024 @ 9:02 pm
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.
D-Link has another security flaw with older equipment that won't be repaired — D-Link told users to replace outdated NAS last week
20 November 2024 @ 8:42 pm
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.
Stalker 2 PC performance testing and settings analysis — another demanding game that uses frame generation and upscaling as a crutch
20 November 2024 @ 7:58 pm
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.
Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050
20 November 2024 @ 7:12 pm
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.
Nvidia's Blackwell AI GPU overheating issues are seemingly overhyped — semiconductor analysts reveal cooling issues have been mostly addressed
20 November 2024 @ 6:44 pm
Analysis report that Nvidia's Blackwell overheating problems are over-exaggerated. Overheating issues have been purportedly largely addressed already.
Jaguar Shores is the successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI accelerators — Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs united in a single lineup
20 November 2024 @ 5:29 pm
Intel has revealed the codename for the successor of its Falcon Shores AI accelerators - termed Jaguar Shores - poised for a 2026 launch.
China's chipmaking champion soars amid country's push for self-reliance — SMIC's stock jumps 120% as semiconductor trade war intensifies
20 November 2024 @ 5:18 pm
SMIC's stock price have doubled over the past two month over the expectation of increasing local demand.
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
20 November 2024 @ 5:13 pm
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.
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
20 November 2024 @ 4:21 pm
Microsoft began rolling out the much-anticipated hotpatch update for security updates in Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Microsoft 365 Preview Builds.
Bjorn is a Raspberry Pi-powered Tamagotchi-like network pen-testing tool
20 November 2024 @ 4:18 pm
Infinition has created a Tamagotchi-like network pen testing tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi using eink display HATs.