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Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the ‘confidential computing capabilities’ of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report

According to a Reuters report, Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, in an effort to prevent its AI GPUs from being smuggled into countries where their export has been banned. According to its sources, the feature is said to be a software option that taps…

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Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into ‘AI megafactories’

Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes…

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Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into ‘AI megafactories’

Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes…

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Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW’s player housing, ‘even though there weren’t UI controls for that’, decides it’s now a feature, not a bug

World of Warcraft‘s player housing early access is already a treat—with players immediately setting to work constructing all kinds of madcap, HOA-violating nonsense, as they very much should be. One trick players discovered (outside of being able to sit anywhere) was the ability to send their entire homes skyward. This was a UI bug—turns out…

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