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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OneXPlayer X1 Air review

This is a gaming tablet that makes itself hard to love, and yet there are definitely things I like about OneXPlayer’s latest Intel-based gaming tablet. Lunar Lake in tablet form does very, very well, and its Arc 140V GPU is seriously impressive when it comes to gaming performance. And then there’s that gorgeous, bright 11-inch…

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Google is under investigation in the EU to find out whether it imposes unfair terms on content creators for AI

The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google and whether it is imposing unfair terms on content creators and web publishers to power its AI services. The Commission’s investigation focuses on two major concerns. First, the possible use of videos uploaded to YouTube being used to train generative AI models. This being done…

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but ‘there’s no credit for that, there’s no residuals for that’

The Fallout TV show returns for Season 2 next week, with the series opting for a weekly cadence that goes on till February. Season 2 takes us to the setting of Fallout: New Vegas, and PCG’s Ted Litchfield recently had the opportunity to speak to one very interested party: the lead writer of Fallout: New…

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