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    News Nvidia accused of poaching TSMC engineers in Taiwan – Salaries offered for talent reach up to $180,000

    Alternate headline: Workers being paid what they're worth framed as negative by capitalism.
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    News Latest OpenAI models ‘sabotaged a shutdown mechanism’ despite commands to the contrary

    It won't need Terminators. It'll just put out videos that start WWIII.
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    News Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, expanded return to office mandate

    Funny how these cuts and policies always target the rank-and-file and not the empty suits who got them into this mess. 🤔
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    News New advanced filesystem format option found in Windows 11 preview build — ReFS supports up to 35 petabytes

    Back at it after WinFS, eh? Can I finally use special characters in file names?
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    News Enthusiasts report Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme chipset temps exceeding 100°C

    Right, because it's not like the article explains why this is the wrong mindset. Oh, wait...
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    News Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop 'AI games' with photo-realistic graphics

    Would be a helluva conversation starter in the middle of my living room. More likely.
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    News Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop 'AI games' with photo-realistic graphics

    Of all the things I will never buy, I will never buy these games the most.
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    News Leakers revise RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 power draw to 575W and 360W respectively — Up to 27% higher than last-generation RTX 40 GPUs

    I kept waiting for the industry to hit a correction and focus on efficiency for a while, but sadly, consumers are voting with their wallets and don't seem to care.
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    News HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025 — the new standard brings higher resolutions, refresh rates, and bandwidth

    Like VHS lost to Betamax? Hint: better specs don't equal winning.
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    News Intel's next CEO could be Lip-Bu Tan, a former member of the board who reportedly clashed with Gelsinger about strategy

    A company the size of Intel has an economy almost like a country. The next CEO's first 2-3 years will be entirely the result of Gelsinger's tenure, so it seems crazy to cut the guy now.
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    News TSMC's 1.6nm node to be production ready in late 2026 — roadmap remains on track

    It actually is if you pay attention.
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    News Chinese DDR4 producers are undercutting South Korean rivals' pricing by 50%

    And undercutting quality by 75%.
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    News SK hynix announces the world's first 48GB 16-Hi HBM3E memory — Next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs and UFS 5.0 storage are also in the works

    Yes, Apple's design let's them get away with using a more power-hungry standard. That hardly means others should switch. Correlation does not imply causation.
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    News SK hynix announces the world's first 48GB 16-Hi HBM3E memory — Next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs and UFS 5.0 storage are also in the works

    Because NVMe consumes more power. If storage speed isn't the bottleneck, why kneecap battery life for shiny specs?
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    News Arm to cancel Qualcomm's architecture license as feud intensifies

    NAL, but seems like an easy injunction for Qualcomm to win by just pointing to the upcoming trial?
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