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Escalating global cyber threats require robust layered security measures

Routinely, research exposes the rapidly changing landscape of email-based threats, and the innovative tactics as malicious actors relentlessly shift tactics, probing for vulnerabilities of humans and software with cunning, innovative attacks. The latest analysis of over 1.8 billion emails in Q1 of this year reveals that the US is the…

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The endurance champion of SSDs — the Gigabyte AI TOP 100E drive can sustain 219 petabytes written or a whole year of continuous writing at its maximum speed but how does it do it with TLC NAND?

Gigabyte has launched its AI TOP 100E series of SSDs specifically designed for high-endurance tasks such as AI training.  The new SSDs are available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and come housed in a standard M.2 2280 form factor. What makes them stand out from the competition is their extraordinary…

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AMD pulverizes Nvidia’s RTX 4090 in popular Geekbench OpenCL benchmark — but you will need a small mortgage to buy AMD’s fastest GPU ever produced

First introduced in late 2023, AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI300X accelerator has made an impressive debut on Geekbench’s OpenCL benchmark. The GPU took the top spot, thrashing all rivals, including Nvidia’s RTX 4090, which it pushed down into second place. The Radeon Instinct MI300X is built on AMD’s third-generation CDNA architecture…

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A wireless router like no other — millions of devices are hidden from view because they are ugly, but South Korea’s biggest telecom company wants to change that with an award-winning design

While some business router manufacturers do try to make their products look attractive, for most it’s a case of function over form. That can’t be said of South Korea’s KT (Korea Telecom) as its Vibrant WiFi has won design awards from both Red Dot and iF Design. The core KT…

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Ahead of GPT-5 launch, another test shows that people cannot distinguish ChatGPT from a human in a conversation test — is it a watershed moment for AI?

Popular AI tools such as GPT-4 generate fluent, human-like text and perform so well on various language tasks it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell if the person you’re conversing with is human or a machine.  This scenario mirrors Alan Turing’s famous thought experiment, where he proposed a test to evaluate…

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How the laptop could become the battery — new revolutionary carbon-based material means your laptop chassis could become a power source, eliminating the need for a traditional battery

Building on the pioneering work done at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Swedish startup Sinonus is looking to commercialize a new multifunctional carbon fiber composite that can function as a battery, with the hope its technology could potentially eliminate traditional battery packs in devices like laptops, electric vehicles, and…

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