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    News Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emis...

    What a joke... Ai is killing the plant and the people have to pay for it .. absolute garbage...
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    News Gigabyte says its 'revolutionary' Ultra Turbo Mode can boost frame rates by 35% — BIOS level enhancement exclusive to Intel Z890 motherboards

    Nice 👍, Did that one have a 5-1/4" floppy drive? Also that Northern logo looks very similar to the Xbox logo.
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    News Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses — no more products or branding in your everyday life

    This is cool, but i feel like it's just going to highlight or make every single ad more noticeable even if you cant see the actual ad.
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    News Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy

    Even in the UK you can keep it, as its considered a gift... https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2334/regulation/24/made
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    News Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy

    No you're mistaken. Do you just make this stuff up? https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/39/3009 Unsolicited goods or services: relief from legal obligations 13 (1) Except as provided in this section, a recipient of unsolicited goods or services has no legal obligation in respect of their use...
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    News Lucky PC builder pays just $146 for 2TB 990 Evo Plus SSD, receives 9 — Amazon blunder so unbelievable some people think it's a marketing conspiracy

    In US and Canada if somone accidentally ships you something its considered a free gift, and you are not legally required to send it back, no matter what they ask for.
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    News PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time

    Not prospective. GPUs only got pcie5 this year compared to ssds 2 years ago... and pcie6 is coming next year? Yeah late .
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    News PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time

    Ahh ok, it's just the GPUs from Nvidia and AMD that were late to pcie5. Thanks for all the info!
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    News PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time

    Didn't we just get the first wave of pcie5 hardware this year with the Samsung 9100pro and nvidias 5k series gpus though?
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    News PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PCs won't arrive until 2030 — costs and complexity mean PCIe 5.0 SSDs are here to stay for some time

    But they're already talking about pcie7 releasing soon, so is 6 just going to get skipped? I think it will..
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    News Despite $2M salaries, Meta can't keep AI staff — talent flocks to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic

    With 2 mill I'm retiring. No rat race for me. But I think thats $2M total for all AI employees. So if it's 20 employees that's only 100k each...
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    News PCIe standards group releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 — full release expected in 2025

    Agreed. Only thing, pretty sure there isn't any GPUs currently using pcie5. First GPUs are going to be the 50-series coming out at the end of the month? So yeah for them to say that PCIe 7 is in the wild is completely useless...