Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB

Consider Nvidia's work on Neural Texture Compression (NTC). In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage droppi...

Italian court says Netflix must refund customers up to $576 over price hikes

An injunction action brought by consumer group Movimento Consumatori against Netflix Italia's price increases has been upheld by the Co...

This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected

The research, presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, shows the receiver ca...

Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data

The feature would represent a significant step toward bridging the gap between official system requirements and actual in-game performance....

New Rowhammer attack can grant kernel-level control on Nvidia workstation GPUs

A study from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill and Georgia Tech shows that GDDR6-based Rowhammer attacks can grant kernel-level access to Linu...

Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required

The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 form...

Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage

Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Jap...