How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
PCMag

Adobe Creative Cloud vs. Apple Creator Studio: The Results Will Surprise Even Pros

Can Apple's low-cost Creator Studio replace Adobe's Creative Cloud as the industry standard? From photo editing to motion ...
Cyber Defense Magazine

What’s the Ideal Switch for AI Workloads

In today's AI and high-performance computing (HPC) scenarios, we are increasingly aware of the limitations of traditional TCP ...

Moore’s law: the famous rule of computing has reached the end of the road, so what comes next?

This phenomenon became known as Moore’s Law, after the businessman and scientist Gordon Moore. Moore’s Law summarised the ...
EurekAlert!

Excellence and impact recognized by world’s preeminent computing society

ACM has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to ...
Wall Street Journal

Memory Stocks Surge as Shortage Is Expected to Worsen

It’s a great time to be in the business of selling memory, but much less so if you have to buy it. Such was evident in trading Tuesday. Sandisk, a maker of NAND flash memory, surged nearly 28% by the ...
NPR

Why do airline computer systems fail? What the industry can learn from meltdowns

Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...
Bleeping Computer

New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock

The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory access (DMA) attacks that can bypass early-boot memory protections. The ...
PC Gamer

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

And it's because of pesky DMA protections not being triggered to help out add-in PCIe cards. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Wired

A Brain-Computer Interface Company Is Getting Into Organ Preservation

Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. Science Corporation, the brain-computer ...
CNN

Phones might get pricier next year. Thank the AI boom

Fancy cameras, giant screens and massive storage usually make smartphones more expensive. But next year, it’s a routine component that might be boosting prices: memory. And it’s not just phones. Any ...
PC Gamer

The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep ...