Taiwanese manufacturer Asrock recently introduced the CB-12V2X6L600W cable, an L-type connector designed to reduce – and ideally prevent – temperature issues in modern, power-hungry GPUs. The cable fully complies with ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 standards, supports up to 600W of power delivery like other 12VHPWR cables…Read whole article here
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Media Buying Briefing: When EQ is just as important as IQ in helping clients grow
By Michael Bürgi • August 25, 2025 • Ivy Liu This Media Buying Briefing covers the latest in agency news and media buying for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Monday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → John Connors, CEO and founder of Boathouse, has spent the last 25 years...
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Next-gen Nvidia Rubin prototypes begin testing with leap to chiplet design and HBM4 memory
Nvidia has confirmed the completion of six Rubin chips, marking a major strategic shift in its technology roadmap. The announcement came during CEO Jensen Huang’s recent visit to Taiwan, where he revealed that multiple designs have already been submitted to manufacturing partner TSMC for qualification and initial production runs.Read Entire Article…Read whole article here
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Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’
In Brief Posted: 7:26 AM PDT · August 22, 2025 Image Credits:Rapeepong Puttakumwong / Getty Images A former software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his former employer’s network after leaving the company. Davis Lu, 55, was convicted of installing a “kill switch” on the network of his former employer...
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Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Large language models (LLMs) have dazzled with their ability to reason, generate and automate, but what separates a compelling demo from a lasting product isn’t just the model’s initial...
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Ratatan, a spiritual successor to Patapon, hits early access on September 19
We have some great news for fans of rhythm games. Ratatan hits Steam early access on September 19. This is a spiritual successor to one of the most renowned rhythm games of all time, Patapon. The designer behind the original game, Hiroyuki Kotani, is involved. The mechanics here are similar to Patapon and its sequels,...
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Here’s the final design of the Pebble Time 2 e-paper smartwatch
Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it’s claimed) up to 30 days...
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Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-Head AI Benchmark for Aesthetics
Hi HN, I’m Grace from Design Arena (https://www.designarena.ai/) – we’re building a crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated visuals (websites, images, video, and more). We put AI models and builder tools in head-to-head comparisons that get voted on by real users from around the world. Think “Hot or Not” for the AI era 🙂 (Btw, when we...
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Thermal Grizzly and der8auer unveil open-air test bench for hardware enthusiasts
First unveiled at Computex 2025 where it earned an international design award, the platform departs from the traditional passive frame approach by integrating an active printed circuit board. This built-in PCB consolidates connections for cooling, storage, and peripherals, streamlining hardware installation and replacement.Read Entire Article…Read whole article here
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How Yamaha’s Crossplane Tech Revolutionized High-Performance Motorcycles
Yamaha’s crossplane crankshaft, first seen on the 2009 YZF-R1, rewired how liter-class bikes felt under throttle. Traditional inline-four engines fire two pistons simultaneously at 180-degree intervals, causing torque pulses that can unsettle the chassis under aggressive inputs. Yamaha’s crossplane (not to be confused with flat-plane) configuration staggers the firing order at 90-degree intervals. That means the...