IT vendor lists massive $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay with 300 racks of decommissioned GPUs
Someone listed a massive 300-rack AI supercomputer on eBay for $59.7M. Packed with 9,600 A100 GPUs and 4,200 EPYC CPUs, it even ships for free.
Japan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots
A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in action on Japanese TV news trimming tree branches that had begun encroaching on railway lines.
Fields Medal-winning UC Berkeley professor ends graded homework due to AI cheating
Award-winning mathematician Richard Brocherds says that it’s a waste of time and money to grade AI answers, so he now only uses in-person exams to see how well his students are doing in his classes.
Unreal Engine 5.8 Adopts Microsoft Tech To Slay PC Shader Stutter
Shader compilation stutter is one of the most notorious problems plaguing modern PC releases, but Epic just took a major step toward fixing it forever for Unreal Engine 5.8 with the addition of support for Microsoft’s DirectX Advanced Shader
AMD FSR 4.1 On Radeon RX 6000 Tested: A Stunning Visual Upgrade
Last week, AMD dropped Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1, so-named because it was the first AMD graphics driver release in October. Graphics driver releases are usally a little humdrum, so we don’t normally cover them in detail, but
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Attacks Valve’s Steam AI Disclosures In Heated Rant
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t a fan of the AI content disclosure policy Valve has implemented on its dominant digital gaming storefront, Steam. It has apparently bothered Sweeney enough that he’s taken to social media to decry it, claiming
Military drone outfit Anduril partners with Qualcomm to build laptops on US soil with new BlueChip venture
The defense contractor aims to fully bring back laptop manufacturing on U.S. shores, with its first BlueChip laptop prototypes having 90% procurement cost coming from suppliers in the U.S. and other allied countries.
Israeli ad tech firm tied to suspected Starlink tracking effort, report claims
Citizen Lab and Confiant linked Israeli firm Discover-Tech to suspected surveillance through online advertising. Researchers said its ads appeared across nearly 200,000 websites and mobile apps. TrendAI separately identified related activity under the codename “SHADOW-EARTH-79.” The findings raise concerns about ad auctions being exploited to track users across sensitive networks, though ad impressions alone do not confirm spyware infections.
Webb Finds A Hellish Planet So Hot Its Clouds Are Made Of Rock
Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the scorching ultra-short-period (USP) exoplanet TOI-561 b unexpectedly features a highly reflective atmosphere complete with mineral-based clouds.
Located approximately
Apple Turbocharges 14-Inch MacBook Pro And iMac With Faster M6 Silicon
Apple is strengthening its desktop and portable computer lineup by launching new versions of the 24-inch iMac and the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro, with both powered by it’s next-generation M6 chip.
Announced just ahead of Apple’s scheduled