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    News Intel's newest E-core-only "Twin Lake" CPUs are on the way, starting with Intel N250

    I'm going to buy it and test it out. I have an n100 stood up to run a few containers and I'm interested now.
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    News Fujitsu uses Fugaku supercomputer to train LLM: 13 billion parameters

    Let's make that more clear... ;) Megatron (an NVidia-developed framework that excels at multi-GPU AI Acceleration), coupled with DeepSpeed, a Microsoft-written library were used. The framework ensures many GPU's can be used at once to train the model. The library itself helps by accelerating...
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    Question Ear Buds, (IEM) for Gaming

    If you can find a better set of buds than these for the price (currently 39.99), let me know. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C36GCFW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    News 19 years later, X-Fi is still kicking — Creative announces Super X-Fi Gen4 audio profile, leverages AI for head and ear mapping

    Lately I hooked up an old Logitech z5500 system, in which I've replaced all the speakers (except the integrated and required 10" sub) with Pioneer Andrew Jones Edition Surround Sound speaker system (Gen1). I'm happy with my sound quality, but I DO miss the idea of Creative's XFi...
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    News Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen

    For those of us who would like to know more... https://www.mathworks.com/company/technical-articles/what-is-int8-quantization-and-why-is-it-popular-for-deep-neural-networks.html
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    T-Mobile Home Internet: Revisiting 5G connectivity for the home after two years

    I'd probably use one of these services (cellular) as a fail-over ISP, but I can't shake the brain freeze around cellular coverage issues. Again, it's probably just a trust issue, as your article essentially says the the tech might be ready.
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    News Get rid of Microsoft's Start Menu ads with this new software tool — the "Oh F*ck Go Back" program cleans up Windows 11

    "OFGB comes from Maddy (@xM4ddy), a programmer who drives Arch Linux daily rather than Windows" A legend in his own time... TY, Maddy
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    News Nintendo obliterates 8,535 Yuzu repos — Nintendo's most effective DMCA takedown campaign in years

    So, Nintendo should NOT protect it's IP? Is that the sentiment of Tom's readers?
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    News Microsoft's new RAM limiter for Edge browser makes its way into latest beta version

    I'm pretty sure Microsoft has baked in a claim on memory that is needed to retain session state regardless of how much you limit it to.
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    News User claims RTX 4090 16-pin power connector melted on both GPU and PSU side, despite running at 75% power

    the smell of burned plastic - I thought for a moment we were talking about the Canadian wildfires!
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    News Microsoft confirms recent Windows security update breaks VPNs, no fix yet

    Zero-Trust security means no device is automatically trusted. There are many enterprises which require VPN even when internal to an office.