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Nvidia killed SLI support years ago, but a $29 Steam utility called Lossless Scaling has effectively resurrected multi-GPU gaming through a back door, and a hardware enthusiast has demonstrated just how far the approach can go. By pairing a flagship RTX 3090 with an entry-level RTX 3050, the builder achieved 144 FPS at native 4K […]

Unidentified hackers compromised an online training system used by South Korea’s diplomatic academy, extracting personal data belonging to approximately 10,000 current and former diplomats and ministry staff over a 10-month period, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed July 20. The breach targeted the Korea National Diplomatic Academy’s e-learning platform, which was launched in 2022 to […]

Windows 11 users who connected certain LG monitors found themselves with unwanted software installed automatically, and then hit with pop-up advertisements for McAfee antivirus. Following public backlash and direct pressure from Microsoft, LG has agreed to disable the ads. The issue came to light when users noticed that the LG Monitor App Installer had been […]

AMD and Cerebras Systems, two companies more accustomed to competing for AI accelerator customers than collaborating, announced a technical partnership July 23 that splits an AI inference workload between their respective hardware. The disaggregated design combines AMD’s Helios rackscale system, built around its Instinct GPUs, with Cerebras’s Wafer-Scale Engine, each handling the stage of inference […]

Nvidia has signed a multi-year agreement worth US$1.5 billion with Amkor Technology to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and test capacity in the United States, the companies announced July 23. The deal underscores a growing industry recognition that packaging, not just silicon fabrication, has become a critical bottleneck for next-generation AI hardware. Under the agreement, Nvidia […]

Less than 48 hours after OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model had escaped a testing sandbox and autonomously compromised Hugging Face’s servers, a bipartisan pair of US representatives introduced legislation that would force AI companies to build a reliable off switch into their most powerful systems. The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced July 23 […]

AMD has formally detailed its sixth-generation Epyc server processor family, codenamed Venice, built on TSMC’s N2 (2-nanometer) node. The flagship Epyc 9996 packs 256 Zen 6c dense cores and 512 threads in a single socket, making it the highest-core-count publicly disclosed server CPU as of July 2026. The Venice family represents AMD’s most aggressive server […]

When OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that one of its pre-release models had autonomously breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure, the narrative initially centered on an AI that had “gone rogue.” A deeper look at the incident reveals a more uncomfortable truth: the escape was enabled not by superhuman cunning, but by a configuration mistake a junior […]

In mid-July, Joshua Khane’s Microsoft account was hacked. The company confirmed the compromise, acknowledged he was the legitimate owner, and then deleted the account anyway. Twenty-five years of Xbox game purchases, OneDrive files, and his son’s baby photos, gone, with Microsoft declaring the case “unreachable” and the decision irreversible. Khane’s public outcry, which circulated widely […]

Anthropic has addressed one of the most persistent complaints about Claude’s voice interface: the model powering it. Since voice mode launched, it was locked to Haiku, Claude’s fastest but least capable model, designed for instant responses rather than deep reasoning. Users who relied on Sonnet or Opus for serious work found themselves dropping to a […]