Latest News - Page 550

Elon Musk is building a gigantic AI supercomputer at Tesla's Texas Gigafactory, with 350,000 liquid-cooled AI GPUs that Supermicro CEO Charles Liang recently praised. Check out his post on X below:

The Supermicro CEO was photographed next to Elon Musk with some AI server racks, where he said the duo will "lead the liquid cooling technology to large AI data centers". Liang estimates that Musk's moving into the world of liquid-cooled AI supercomputers "may lead to preserving 20 billion trees for our planet" if more AI data centers moved to liquid cooling.

Data centers consume monumental amounts of power, with Supermicro hoping to reduce that through the use of liquid cooling, with the company claiming that direct liquid cooling could reduce electricity costs of cooling infrastructure compared to air cooling by 89%. In a previous tweet, the Supermicro CEO said the company's goal is "to boost DLC (direct liquid cooling) adoption from <1% to 30%+ in a year".

Surprise: Capcom is working on a new mainline Resident Evil game, but no exact details about the project have been announced.

During the latest Capcom NEXT livestream show, the company confirmed that the next major Resident Evil game is currently in development. That's not exactly a big shocker considering Resident Evil is far and away Capcom's best-selling video game franchise of all time, with a cumulative 157 million copies sold worldwide in the past 28 years. Based off the sales performance of Capcom's most recent Resident Evil 4, which has sold 6.5 million since launch, there's clearly a hot demand for the franchise.

During the live stream, Resident Evil 7 game director Koshi Nakanishi said: "We're making a new Resident Evil. It was really difficult to figure out what to do after Resident Evil 7, but I found it, and to be honest, it feels substantial.

Intel's next-generation Arc Battlemage "Xe2" discrete GPUs will reportedly be made on TSMC's newer 4nm process node, according to new leaks.

In a new post from DigiTimes, the outlet reports that TSMC's 4nm process node will be used for Intel's upcoming Arc Battlemage "Xe2" discrete GPUs, graphics cards to compete against AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series "RDNA 4" graphics cards and NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" graphics cards.

The current-gen Arc Alchemist "Xe" GPUs are made on the 6nm process node at TSMC, so when Intel is promising up to 50% more performance, we should expect some good efficiency out Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs, but they won't be competing with the GeForce RTX 5090 or RTX 5080, or even AMD's new higher-end RDNA 4 GPU offerings.

ZOTAC management wouldn't be having a good weekend, with the company seeing leaks of the personal information of its customers through the "mismanagement" of its RMA files. GamersNexus goes into great detail on the story below:

Our friends at Wccftech picked up the story, saying it looks like ZOTAC has been "negligent in safeguarding consumer rights and has made the personal information of multiple customers public by not securely managing RMA files". This is a massive issue for the company, putting multiple people and their private information at risk.

How did this happen? ZOTAC uploaded these important files to Google web servers, which meant they were publicly accessible to anyone who simply searched "ZOTAC RMA" or something to that effect. The RMA files won't appear on Google searches now, but the images discovered by GamersNexus show that the Google search results had B2B (business-to-business) invoices, as well as custom RMA requests and their personal information.

ASUS has finally unveiled its new ROG NUG 970 and ROG NUC 760 systems, new NUC systems that have some seriously powerful hardware inside of the 2.5-liter chassis. Check them out:

The new ASUS ROG NUC 970 and ROG NUC 760 Mini-PCs feature an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" CPUs, both featuring up to 16 cores and 22 threads at different CPU clocks. There's the option for either NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 or RTX 4060 Laptop GPUs, along with the integrated Arc GPU on the Meteor Lake processor.

ASUS supports up to 64GB of DDR5-5600 memory on the new ROG NUC systems, with space for at least 3 x Gen4 M.2 2280 SSDs. This is mighty impressive, as some Mini-PC systems only have room for a single Gen4 SSD. That's not like ASUS, with 3 x Gen4 SSD slots joined by Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, multiple USB ports (USB-C, USB-A), HDMI 2.1, and even dual DisplayPort 1.4 connectors.

I can't believe it happened, but it's happened: someone has sold a PlayStation 5 Development Kit, thinly (crusted, sorry I had to) disguised as a PS5-themed oven that the seller has called the "PizzaStation 5 Development Kit" for $6500. Check it out:

A user on X called "consolevariations" reported on the PS5 Development Kit being sold as the "PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit," which is a big no-no in the industry. Microsoft and Sony make development kits for developers to get used to consoles in pre-release form, with added development-focused features.

Development kits are elusive and aren't usually sold, as their release has NDAs and is very strictly controlled. Reselling a development kit is a serious no-no, but this PS5 Dev Kit was disguised as the "PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit," which I'm sure got through the usual checks from Sony and sold for a very hefty $6500.

On July 4 of all days, Independence Day for Americans, the largest password leak in history occurred, dubbed "RockYou2024" by the original poster "ObamaCare" on a leading hacking forum.

There are an incredible 9,948,575,739 passwords compiled all in plain text, close to 10 billion passwords, posted by user "ObamaCare". The user registered on the hacking forum in late May 2024, previously sharing the employee database from law firm Simmons & Simmons, a lead from an online casino AskGamblers, and student applications from Rowan College at Burlington County.

The team cross-referenced the passwords in the huge "RockYou2024" leak with the data from Cybernews' Leaked Password Checker, which the site "revealed that these passwords come from a mix of old and new data breaches". Researchers said: "In its essence, the RockYou2024 leak is a compilation of real-world passwords used by individuals all over the world. Revealing that many passwords for threat actors substantially heightens the risk of credential stuffing attacks".

AMD is reportedly gearing up to unveil its next-generation Radeon RX 8000 series "RDNA 4" GPUs in 2025, with new leaks suggesting the higher-end Navi 48 GPU will be unveiled at CES 2025 in January, while the entry-level Navi 44 GPU will be unleashed in Q2 2025.

We have been hearing all about NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs for months and months now, but it seems that AMD won't have anything to fight Blackwell in 2024, and we'll be waiting until 2025, which lines up with previous leaks. In a new post on X, leaker "Kepler_L2" said that "CES is for N48. N44 is probably Q2".

AMD's next-gen Navi 48 GPU should offer performance close to what we already have with the Navi 31 GPU that powers the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards, but with upgrades like improved ray tracing (RT) performance and more.

The US Department of Defense has been asking for a waiver from legislation that stops it from doing business with companies that use Huawei's telecommunications equipment... but with the increased tensions between the US and China, that waiver might be impossible.

Pentagon officials insist that it would be impossible to get Huawei technology out of all US Department of Defense operations, with the prohibition signed into law in 2019 under the National Defense Authorization Act. Under Section 889 of that act, US government agencies are barred from entering or renewing contracts with any country or company that uses telecommunications equipment made by China-based Huawei.

Brennan Grignon, the founder of 5M Strategies and a former Defense Department official, said: "There are certain parts of the world where you literally cannot get away from Huawei. The original legislation had very good intentions behind it, but the execution and understanding of the implications of what it would mean, I personally think that wasn't really thought through".

Sigh... there's another graphics card scam going around, this time with the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 which was found with a relabeled RTX 3080 Ti GPU inside. Check it out:

Northwestrepair revealed the scam in a new video, with what should've been a brand new ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, with the protective foil on it and all, but it was all a sc am. Once the TUF Gaming RTX 4090 was pulled apart, the GPU was labeled "AD102" but it was not the AD102 GPU, it was the GA102 GPU which powers the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

The two GPUs are nearly the same size: 628mm2 versus 608mm2, so it wasn't obvious at first, but it seems someone has polished the die to remove the label, and then laser-etched brand new ones... quite elaborate. Northwestrepair also noticed that at least one of the memory modules was not 2GB, but 256MB... and they weren't GDDR6X memory at all.

AMD's next-generation Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D processors are only a few months away, with new rumors suggesting they'll all pack the same amount of 3D V-Cache amounts as the current Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000X3D offerings.

We have heard in recent leaks that we can expect full overclocking support from the new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D processors, but now we're hearing about the three SKUs -- Ryzen 9 9950X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D, and Ryzen 7 9800XD chips -- will have the same amount of 3D V-Cache as the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and the most popular gaming CPU: the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

This means we can expect the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor to pack 128MB of L3 cache, with a single 3D V-Cache boosted Zen 5 CCD with a 64MB stack and 64MB from the core itself. Under that, we've got the Ryzen 9 9900X3D will feature the same configuration, but its L2 is limited to 12MB and 768KB of L1, versus 16MB of L2 and 1MB of L1 cache on the 9950X3D.

Did you know that AMD thought about buying NVIDIA back in the 2000s? Years, decades before NVIDIA's outright domination of the GPU market, and putting an iron-clad grip around the AI chip industry.

In a series of posts on X that were super-interesting to read, former AMD staffer Hemant Mohapatra went into great lengths explaining it all. As a technology enthusiast from the 90s, reading through all of this was pure joy, after all, my name is 'anthony256' from NVIDIA's world-first GPU -- the GeForce 256 -- but can you imagine if NVIDIA was sold to AMD? Oh boy.

One of the major reasons why the deal didn't happen, is because NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wanted to stay on as CEO, and that couldn't happen. Mohapatra explained on X: "So now that NVIDIA has far outstripped the market cap of AMD and Intel, I thought this would be a fun story to tell. I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today. Back then it was unimaginable for AMD to beat Intel in market-cap (we did in 2020!) and for NVIDIA to beat both!

Intel will unleash its next-generation Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake" CPUs later this year, without a dedicated NPU for AI workloads... however, we're hearing the "Arrow Lake Refresh" will have an upgraded NPU that will require more die space.

In a new post on X by leaker "Jaykihn" we're hearing that if Intel goes ahead with the Arrow Lake Refresh, we'll see an "upgraded NPU" on the SoC tile at a 2.8mm longer die than Arrow Lake. The leaker confirms this will be the same with Arrow Lake Refresh-S and Arrow Lake Refresh-HX processors, with the same package size.

Motherboard compatibility will "depend on whether Fast Voltage Mode (FMV) is enabled on the VccSA rail, which depends on board vendors" added the leaker in the post on X. The leaker continued, saying that the Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs will "also have an NPU" adding that the leaker wasn't "where the rumor is sourced from, but it isn't correct. My previous tweet regarding the NPU stated "upgraded", as in upgraded from the previous Arrow Lake non-refrfesh NPU".

Back in 2023, Obsidian Entertainment announced it had cancelled co-op in its new RPG, Avowed. Now we know why.

Avowed was originally billed as a singleplayer-and-co-op adventure RPG that melds Obsidian's traditional choice-and-consequence gameplay with very Skyrim-esque mechanics. But the co-op mode was quickly slashed just 8 months into development. Features are usually cancelled because of costs, whether they be monetary, time-related, or manpower.

In Avowed's case, it came down to big technical and creative investments that would have taken Obsidian's focus away from the core of the game: reactive and emergent interactive storytelling.

Ex-Rockstar Game dev Joe Rubino confirms what we had suspected all along: GTA V's anticipated campaign DLC had been scrapped in favor of GTA Online content.

Grand Theft Auto Online has been so successful that it has led to the cancellation of traditional paid singleplayer content. Given how much money GTA Online has made, and still makes, this may not come at a total surprise. The live service mode has helped the GTA franchise generate a whopping $9.1 billion since Grand Theft Auto V's release in 2013, and is a substantial driver for GTA's $150 million to $200 million in quarterly revenues.

But putting together something as massive as GTA Online isn't easy. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of investment. Because of its incredible earnings potential, GTA Online has been prioritized over the traditional buy-to-play story content that used to be the singular expansion point for mainline GTA titles. In the past, this offline story DLC did not sell nearly as well as the main games.

Will PC gamers ever stop talking about porting Bloodborne over? No, they won't, is the short and simple answer to that question - not until it actually happens - but the wait for Bloodborne to be playable on PC might just be over sooner than you think.

Not thanks to a port - though we've recently had some hope stoked that this could still happen - but via an emulator, namely shadPS4.

As Wccftech noticed, a video has been uploaded to YouTube by George Moralis, a coder and one of the devs of the emulator, showing shadPS4 running Bloodborne - or at least booting it up.

After many years, the father of Final Fantasy has returned to work alongside Square Enix on a new project...but he's not returning to the best-selling franchise that he helped create.

In 2003, after nearly two decades of making Final Fantasy games, Hironobu Sakaguchi shocked the gaming world by leaving Square Enix to start up his own studio. Since then, Sakaguchi's studio, Mistwalker, has released some pretty big hits in the RPG space, including the much-celebrated Lost Odyssey, and the innovative Xbox-published Blue Dragon.

Now Sakaguchi is working with Square Enix once more...albeit not in a direct capacity. Square Enix is publishing Mistwalker's latest game, Fantasian, to new platforms. Fantasian was originally released on Apple Arcade in 2022 to a limited audience. Now, however, Sakaguchi, Mistwalker, and Square Enix aim to launch the game on PC and consoles.

The next-generation LG CLOi ServeBot is here, an autonomous robot designed for the service industry - where you've got enough room for it to provide delivery services in a hospitality or healthcare setting. It's like a waiter, albeit for "simple and repetitive delivery tasks to reduce the burden on busy staff."

The latest CLOi ServeBot model's doors open and close automatically during operation. Built-in sensors and cameras can tell when deliveries have been completed, and items have been removed. The new model also sports an advanced AI algorithm for movement, where it can now safely navigate around obstacles and determine the most optimal route to its destination.

Up to 20 CLOi ServeBots can work together and communicate to "maximize task efficiency and avoid potential collisions." Each CLOi ServeBot can carry 32 standard-sized, 12-ounce coffee cups, so seeing 20 of these robots working their magic during coffee rush hour would be impressive.

Soft velour-covered ear pads and cushions are usually a sign that you're dealing with high-end headphones, which is precisely what you're getting with the new beyerdynamic MMX 300 PRO gaming headset. It features the same studio-grade, 45mm high-performance STELLAR.45 driver found in the company's pro audio headphones, tuned here in a design custom-made for gaming.

According to the company, the closed-back design and high-end sound quality are perfect for those "long, focused gaming sessions." They focus on delivering powerful bass, clear mids, and crisp and detailed high frequencies. The headphone frequency response is impressive, listed as 5 - 40,000 Hz. More than double the range most headset drivers offer.

Hopefully, we'll go hands-on (or ears-on) with these as soon as they sound impressive. beyerdynamic's MMX 300 series is its premium gaming headset, and the PRO is its most impressive version to date.

NVIDIA has announced that 22 new titles will be added to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service in July 2024. Several games will launch this month on Steam and, in some cases, on Steam and Xbox via PC Game Pass.

This week's games include the free-to-play co-op shooter The First Descendant (Steam), which also supports ray-tracing and DLSS, the stylish The Falconeer (currently Free on the Epic Games Store), Star Traders: Frontiers (Steam), and Wuthering Waves (Native and Epic Games Store).

Highlights for the rest of the month include Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, a Souls-like spotlighted in Microsoft's recent Xbox summer showcase that launches on July 18. Devolver Digital's over-the-top first-person-foot game Anger Foot on July 11. And Cataclismo, a new real-time strategy castle defense game from the talented team behind indie-hit Moonlighter, on July 22. Here's the complete list of games coming.