U.S. and China agree on one-year tariff truce, including semiconductor and rare earth breakthroughs — the future of Nvidia AI chip sales to the nation remains murky
President Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed a one-year tariff truce.
OpenAI’s Microsoft contract negotiation is a necessary step toward a future IPO — Altman’s goal is to build 30 gigawatts of compute infrastructure, valued at $1.4 trillion
Microsoft and OpenAI have finalised the wording of their working relationship for the next five years and beyond. This brings to a close the negotiations which had held up major investments from Softbank, as well as OpenAI’s for-profit restructuring.
Australia’s police to use AI to decode criminals’ emoji slang to curb online crime — “crimefluencers” will be decoded and translated for investigators
Australia’s police are looking to build an AI tool that would detect and interpret emoji slang online in an effort to curb crime among bad actors in hateful communities, dubbed “crimefluencers.” The AI will understand the difference between harmless lingo and coded messages to help police combat violent crime.
WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives — same drives that got WD sued in 2021 now reporting failure rates due to ‘fundamental’ flaws
Western Digital Blue and Red HDDs from 2020 that use SMR technology are experiencing enough failures to prompt an investigation from WD itself. These same drives, which included SMR without telling customers, resulted in a class action lawsuit against WD in 2021.
3D-printed full-auto bullpup ‘ghost guns’ can now be made for a couple of hundred dollars — designs have evolved dramatically outside the U.S.
3D-printed gun designs evolve and can print a full-auto bullpup for $200
Battlefield 6’s Free Battle Royal Mode REDSEC Takes On Warzone With 100-Player Matches
Battlefield 6 has brought the storied franchise back to prominence, quickly becoming one of the best selling games on Steam, and finally providing some competition to this year’s Call of Duty. EA isn’t done yet, though, as it looks to lure players away from multiplayer juggernaut CoD: Warzone with a battle royale mode of its own.
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NVIDIA And Oracle Deploy 100,000 Blackwell GPUs in DOE’s New AI Supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy is teaming up with NVIDIA and Oracle to build what’s NVIDIA calls the DOE’s largest AI supercomputer, part of a new public–private partnership meant to supercharge federally funded research. Announced at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, the Solstice system will feature a staggering 100,000
OneXPlayer Launches Liquid-Cooled OneXFly Apex Gaming Handheld With AMD Strix Halo
Just a month since its initial tease, One-Netbook’s OneXFly Apex, an AMD Strix Halo-powered handheld gaming PC has debuted. One-Netbook has pre-launched the OneXFly Apex on Indiegogo, confirmed its pricing for the Chinese market, and even provided peeks at performance benchmarks using the unique liquid cooling solution that can run the handheld
AWS outage strikes again — colossal internet breakdown for the second time in days
There’s another AWS outage.
Windows 11 videos demonstrating account and hardware requirements bypass purged from YouTube creator’s channel — platform says content ‘encourages dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death’
A YouTuber’s videos telling people how to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and how to install it on unsupported hardware were allegedly violating community guidelines on dangerous and illegal activities.