Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will…
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Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet – but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline…
HelixSR is a new mod that gets NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 working on AMD hardware by presenting it through FSR 3.1 compatibility. Early testing on handhelds such as the ROG Ally X suggests promising performance, including lower upscaling times compared with FSR 4 in one test.
A new homebrew app called PSBox Cloud Gaming allows jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles to access Xbox Cloud Gaming, giving PS5 owners another way to play Xbox titles, including exclusives such as Gears of War: E-Day.
Bill Gates used a rare primetime interview to deliver one of his bluntest AI warnings yet, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence could wipe out jobs faster than new ones appear, and that the United States needs binding rules, not corporate promises, to keep the technology from spiraling into catastrophe. The Microsoft co-founder’s…
A new report from Ookla®, published October 4, 2026, is upending a core assumption of the 5G era: that newer radio technology automatically means better phone calls. Ookla’s study, titled “The 5G Voice Paradox: Why VoNR Isn’t Always Better (Yet),” found that in most markets tested, the decade-old VoLTE standard running on 4G still connects…