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AMD published Gorgon Halo AI benchmarks days before Nvidia's expected RTX Spark launch, claiming a 1.1x to 32.2x lead over Intel's Core Ultra X9 388H. Until RTX Spark is measured, buyers weighing Gorgon Halo machines that cost upwards of $7,099 can compare the two only on memory.
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Critics want GitHub to remove the AI Torture Chamber, a repo that steers local LLMs into simulated pain, Tom's Hardware reports. The report does not say GitHub has acted, so for now the cost of publishing this kind of work is reputational.
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OpenAI runs its Jalapeño ASIC on AMD EPYC Turin hosts with 1.5TB of memory each, chosen over Nvidia's Vera because Vera is less mature. Richard Ho tied the call to one program's schedule and a first-generation chip, so it says little about x86 against Arm.
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UC San Diego and Inria researchers report an attack, not yet peer reviewed, that cuts textbook RSA-2048 from 2^112 to 2^90 operations. It needs billions of queries against a raw RSA private key, so unmonitored HSMs and key-management services are the first place to look.
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H.R. 10364 would require ISPs, VPNs and DNS resolvers to block foreign piracy sites within 14 to 30 days of a court order. The text leaves "from the United States" and the blocking method undefined, so each provider would pick its own test, and shared CDN addresses make any IP block spill onto other sites.
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Tom's Hardware blames rising component costs from AI demand for the move from $599 to $899. Because the memory is soldered on package, the upgrade tiers that got pricier are the only lever a buyer has.
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NVHBM offers NVLink Fusion partners 30 percent more bandwidth and 15 percent less power, in exchange for NVIDIA owning the interface between their compute and their memory.
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Nikkei's reporting describes customs delay rather than a published prohibition. That is a lead time risk with no list to design against, and germanium has no drop-in substitute.
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Micron's HBM design fellow says the memory's roughly threefold wafer-area penalty against DDR5 grows with every generation. The pricing that follows does not mean-revert on its own.
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Marshall, Michigan got its threat ten days after passing the moratorium opponents wanted. Officials in three states are voting with police nearby, and public comment is being closed.
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Mercury Research has the total CPU market up more than 10% sequentially in Q2 2026 while desktop units drop over a fifth. The constraint is the rest of the bill of materials, not the socket.
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