Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college students — eligible users get 50% off the monthly plan after the first year
Microsoft is offering U.S. college students free access to Microsoft 365 for a year.
Nvidia says ‘We never deprive American customers in order to serve the rest of the world’ — company says GAIN AI Act addresses a problem that doesn’t exist
Nvidia says that the U.S. legislators’ attempt to restrict exports unnecessarily is counterproductive, as the U.S. is already its top priority.
$9 Goodwill PC find earns congratulations from enthusiasts — the machine could be a great eSports or nostalgic gaming powerhouse with the right upgrades
A PC novice has shared details of their stunning $9 desktop DIY bargain and is looking for upgrade suggestions.
AMD launches Ryzen 5 9500F, claiming up to 24% faster than Ryzen 5 7500F in gaming — Zen 5 chip launches as a China-exclusive for now
AMD has just launched the Ryzen 5 9500F in China, after weeks of leaks spoiled its arrival. The new Zen 5-based CPU features six cores and 12 threads, along with 32MB of L3 cache, all powered by a 65W TDP. AMD says it’s at least 7% and up to 24% faster in games than the 7500F. However, it’s priced higher.
AMD prototype Radeon AI Pro R9700 found by ‘a friend,’ posted to Reddit — a real-life reference design model of AMD’s artistic render
Someone discovered an engineering sample of the Radeon AI Pro 9700 GPU with 32GB of VRAM and they’re asking what to do with it.
Tired Of AI Slop? Support HotHardware With Google’s New Preferred News Feature
It’s not hard to understand why so many websites have turned to AI generation. With just a few sentences as a prompt, you can easily generate pages and pages of sensible-seeming text on almost any topic. That’s exactly the problem, though: it’s sensible-seeming, but surely almost devoid of any real meaning, as the “intelligence” behind it
Top Wi-Fi 7 Router Deals: Save Up To 38% On TP-Link, Netgear & More
Is your wireless router struggling to maintain a connection these days? Whatever the case might be, if you’re in the market for a new router, investing into Wi-Fi 7 now makes a bit more sense from a cost standpoint, as we’ve moved beyond the ultra-early adopter phase where prices were out of control. Going to Wi-Fi 7 is still generally more
Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of $6,700 — fraudster claimed they needed funds for oxygen supplies
The scammer’s pleas that his spaceship was ‘under attack and in need of oxygen’ convinced an elderly woman to send him 1 million Yen (~$6,700).
Anthropic to pay $1.5B over pirated books in Claude AI training — payouts of roughly $3,000 per infringed work
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models.
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