I often need to transcribe audio to turn interviews, voice notes etc into plain text. And I am naturally quite loath to spend money on things I can, in theory, do myself. So for a while I had thought about how I could do it without paying a monthly subscription for the privilege. The obvious…
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Gaming is transforming into a very expensive hobby. You’ve probably heard about all the console price hikes, but few have felt the sting quite like the PC gaming market. RAM prices are increasing, GPU costs are skyrocketing, and even Intel CPUs are becoming more expensive. Sometimes, you have to ask if the price is worthwhile,…
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Megaflopp/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For creative workflows like music and video production, the MacBook Pro M5 Pro is the benchmark most buyers turn to. But what about raw graphics power, gaming, and other GPU-demanding tasks like local AI models, designing 3D models and more? ASUS answers this…
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Those buying an RTX 5090 at Micro Center now have to fill out a declaration formThis includes having a government-issued photo ID scanned by the retailerSome approve of the policy as it’s an anti-scalping measure, but others view it as an annoyance or a pointless moveIf you’re buying an Nvidia RTX 5090, or a PC…
The majority of UK and US software development teams polled by independent research firm Coleman Parkes say artificial intelligence (AI) agents struggle to find issues in complex code. The poll of 300 software developers and engineering leads, published in the Overcoming the limitations of coding agents in complex software systems report from Undo, found that…
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The boss of SK Hynix believes that the RAM crisis is going to get much worseThe CEO said 2027 will be the ‘worst year’ in the RAM industry’s history, and that the crisis will likely roll on to 2030 and beyondAnalysis from the Bank of America also claims that SK Hynix’s expansion of memory production…
Over half the world’s population are targeted by payment scams each week as authorised payment fraud becomes a “fully fledged” global security threat, rather than a consumer protection issue, warns the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). In its latest report, defence and security think tank RUSI said the scam often known as authorised push payments…
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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical infrastructure, government services and enterprise operations, the question of how to secure increasingly autonomous AI systems is becoming as important as how quickly they can be deployed. Nvidia is seeking to address that challenge through the newly launched Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry coalition that brings…
A Steam user has found a way to store games on SSDs with an auto-navigation and auto-start scriptThese are effectively physical ‘game cartridges’ complete with key artHowever, costly SSDs means this is a pricey endeavor (the Steam gamer was lucky enough to pick up used drives on the cheap)Physical copies of PlayStation games are coming…
China has outdone the US again, with benchmarks from Artificial Analysis showing that the latest DeepSeek model, V4 Flash 0731, is significantly cheaper than equivalent OpenAI models. Even after OpenAI’s most recent 80% price cut on GPT-5.6 Luna, Artificial Analysis reported that DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731’s cost per task using its first-party application programming interface (API)…
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