Stories of NVIDIA's woes with faulty 12VHPWR connectors are starting to become commonplace at this point, we barely bat an eye when another tale gets added to the tally. Recently the GPU brand came under fire for two cases, one involving an RTX 5080 FE and another with an RTX Pro 6000. We'll start with [] The post NVIDIA Replaces Broken RTX Pro 6000, Refuses To Cover Faulty 12VHPWR On RTX 5080 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

The Sony Alpha 7 V, which was unveiled earlier this month, is now available to pre-order in Malaysia. The new camera is priced at RM11,999 for body only, with the company also offering early birds with a 128GB SF-E Card memory card and a NP-FZ100 battery for free, while stocks last. To recap, the Alpha [] The post Sony Alpha 7 V Pre-Order Now Available In Malaysia; Priced At RM11,999 appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Jolla is "trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone," reports Phoronix: Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform. Jolla released their first smartphone in 2013 after crowdfunding but ultimately the Sailfish OS focus the past number of years now has been offering their software stack for use on other smartphone devices [including some Sony Xperia smartphones and OnePlus/Samsung/ Google/ ..

WhatsApp announced late last month that it will be barring third-party AI chatbots from operating in the messaging app. This would take effect on 15 January, though some of these chatbot providers have made their own announcement ahead of time. Because of this, parent company Meta is now in the crosshairs of the European Commission [] The post European Commission To Investigate WhatsApp For Barring Third Party AI Chatbots appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Hundreds of thousands of pre-school children are "being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults", a former education minister in Britain has warned. Read full story

Earlier this year, we ran a poll on the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate, the first commercially available tri-fold smartphone. The key takeaways from that were: 1) 26.4% said I want a tri-foldable, but cheaper, 2) 22.1% said I want a Mate XT Ultimate and 3) 16.7% said I want a tri-fold, but not from Huawei. This week Samsung may have delivered the answers to 1) and 3). May have. The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale next week and we only have the Korean price to go off on. Its roughly 40% higher ..

I have a friend who calls me occasionally to come help him with various little things having to do with the technology at his house. This week, one of his requests was to learn more about QR codes and how they work. Read full story

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself "a highly creative hypochondriac" who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters. He discusses the pros and cons of its "diffusion-weighted imaging" technology combined with the pattern recognition of AI, which theoretically "has the potential to save our lives by revealing budding cancers, silent aneurysms and other hidden would-be killers before they become deadly. " But the scans cost $2,500 a pop ..

WhatsApp is preparing to introduce usernames in 2026, with a reservation feature currently being tested in a beta version of the app, according to tech industry media reports. Read full story

Earlier this week, the global versions of the Redmi Note 15 lineup leaked online, including the 5G variant of the Redmi Note 15 Pro. Now, the 4G model has made its own premature appearance, complete with its specifications. This information comes from a listing on an Italian store. Based on the listing, the Redmi Note [] The post Redmi Note 15 Pro 4G Specifications Leaked appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

'Kirby Air Ride'on Nintendo's GameCube certainly has a devoted fan base. The racing game aimed to impress primarily with its simple controls. Now Nintendo is following up with 'Kirby Air Riders'. Read full story

"First the penny. Next, paper checks?" asks CNN: When the U.S. Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper checks as well. The government stopped sending out most paper checks to recipients as of the end of September, part of an effort to fully modernize federal benefits payments. And on Thursday the Federal Reserve put out a notice that suggested it is considering but only considering ..

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

Windows 11 adoption remains slow as enterprises delay migrations with security updates while consumers keep older Windows 10 systems active.

Bloomberg reports that Google "must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled." Judge Amit Mehta in Washington sided with the US Justice Department on the one year limitation in his final ruling on what changes the search giant must make in the wake of a landmark ruling that the company illegally monopolized online search. The yearly renegotiation will give rivals particularly ..

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Meta is delaying the release of its Phoenix mixed-reality glasses until 2027, aiming to get the details right, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing an internal memo. Read full story

The results from last weeks poll are clear the Poco F8 Ultra is not the best flagship, but it is certainly the best Poco F8 model. And to be fair, its not trying to be the best flagship. Its price is so aggressively low that it is making people question whether they actually need the higher end features. Pocos site still lists the Ultra at its early bird price of 700 for the 256GB version and 750 for the 512GB one. However, they are showing out of stock (also, Amazon briefly had a better price ..

Upgrade a PC with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows lifetime license for just $34.97 (reg. $219.99).

Rising memory costs driven by AI demand are forcing server and PC manufacturers to increase prices and adjust production priorities.

"Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway," reads the headline at Futurism: As Daily Dot reports, a New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. "She just broke my Meta glasses," said the TikTok user, who goes by eth8n, in a video that has since garnered millions of views. "You're going to be famous on the internet!" he shouted at her through the window after getting off the train. The accused woman, however, peered back at him ..

A federal judge has expanded on the remedies decided for the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, ruling in favor of putting a one-year limit on the contracts that make Google's search and AI services the default on devices, Bloomberg reports. Judge Amit Mehta's ruling on Friday means Google will have to renegotiate these contacts every year, which would create a fairer playing field for its competitors. The new details come after Mehta ruled in September that Google would not ..

Cambricon aims to triple AI chip output in 2026 despite yield issues, resource shortages, and rising competition from Huawei.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first 'Lord of the Rings' by watching the longer versions of the trilogy in theaters next month.

"Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date," reports Science Daily. "This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption. "The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices..." Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever ..

Amid rumors that Tim Cook may leave soon, many of his direct reports are retiring or otherwise moving on.

Apple's Johny Srouji may be the latest company executive to seek greener pastures, according to a report from Bloomberg . The report said that Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook that he is "seriously considering leaving in the near future." While the report didn't mention if Srouji has another job lined up, Bloomberg 's sources claimed that he wants to join another company if he leaves Apple. Srouji joined the company in 2008 to develop Apple's first ..

Old friends and new (and old) enemies await when 'Trigun Stargaze' premieres in January.

"A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational," reports Politico, "after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found." [T]he large steel structure "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" when its outer cladding was set ablaze after being struck by Russian drones, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Beyond ..

You can attach a 30TB LTO-10 tape drive to an Apple Mac Mini for SSD like speeds, offline security benefits and high capacity storage.

To prevent its robotaxi fleet from passing stopped school buses, Waymo is issuing another software recall in 2025. While it's not a traditional recall that pulls vehicles from the road, Waymo is voluntarily updating software for its autonomous fleet in response to an investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to Waymo, the recall will be filed with the federal agency early next week. Mauricio Pea, Waymo's chief safety officer, said in a statement that Waymo ..

Retrobrighting a Sega Dreamcast console yielded poor results after 10 years.

To build three-wheeled, solar electric vehicles, Aptera has now launched its "validation" vehicle assembly line, reports the San Diego Business Journal. "The validation line will set a technical foundation for the company's eventual low-volume assembly line, ensuring that manufacturing processes are optimized and refined, particularly for the company's composite body structure." To date, Aptera has produced three validation vehicles, two of which are in use driving around the San Diego region, ..

What happened when a school in Los Angeles gave a sixth grader an iPad for use throughout the school day? "He used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles," reports NBC News. His mother has now launched a coalition of parents called Schools Beyond Screens "organizing in WhatsApp groups, petition drives and actions at school board meetings and demanding meetings with district administrators, pressuring them to pull back on the school-mandated screen ..

We may now know more about what the Samsung Galaxy S26 phones look like, and how they'll be powered.

Looks like there's more of 'Fallout: New Vegas' in the show than just the titular town, including at least one other fan-favorite location.

The big reveal for Meta's next mixed reality glasses is being postponed until the first half of 2027, according to a report from Business Insider . Based on an internal memo from Maher Saba, the vice president of Meta's Reality Labs Foundation, the report said that the company's project, which is codenamed "Phoenix," will no longer be scheduled for a 2026 debut. In a separate memo, Meta execs explained that the delay would help deliver a more "polished and reliable experience." According to BI ..

Watch as a crazed modder grinds down the heatpipes of an excellent air cooler, then injects ice-cold water through them with retrofitted tubes, and finally puts the entire apparatus on two GPUs to see how far he can push performance, witnessing massive clock-speed uplifts across the board.

Schitt updates its modular Magni Unity with a new DAC card, perfect for Hi-Res Audio thrills from sensitive wired headphones

The 32-inch 165Hz 1440p Samsung Odyssey G55C curved gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $199.99, giving buyers 39% off and saving you $130 off its $329.99 MSRP.