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[TechSpot Weekly Newsletter] Latest in tech May 2 Tech Culture [What Ever Happened to ICQ?](=.YUt0S9RarbiGUOqwdZ_eDxT3jj0TdYs6uJRjYUkzCmI) ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell phone actually used it to talk on. =.oZDogqoWVpXHM7ZjRiS6om4YW6hlHjMA3uzkmGFHu7c =.yzhbTMqtr3J3O7sKGS1CSRZZxt6zagiM3QFRa_OpXC4 ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell phone actually used it to talk on. =.U09Sg0Uk6qiMAr8QdzOggo49x0yWVfVdLXFwihtYXB8 Radeon [AMD's cancelled RDNA 4 GPU could have doubled the 7900 XTX's performance](=.A2NCyS-z2CagvnX2s2_-8hTgI2LcTzPytBlReLCSKfo) Data-mined code that recently emerged on the Anandtech forums indicates that AMD was working on an RDNA 4 GPU at one point, doubling most of the RX... =.2iY14hCsclLAyb4XFXJ_TagOIH8U4cTwStF_fj7M0kY Data-mined code that recently emerged on the Anandtech forums indicates that AMD was working on an RDNA 4 GPU at one point, doubling most of the RX... Tech + Politics [US seeks assurance from China and Russia that AI will never control their nuclear weapons](=.CQfIBJYN98vTIwILlNk37H613VXJPiLkAR-UoDpwbv8) State Department arms control official Paul Dean told an online briefing that Washington has made a "clear and strong commitment" to keep humans in control of nuclear... =.WnbijRozYv0JLEMkPPLJskxbzPY41voWgxa3uWUGHbs State Department arms control official Paul Dean told an online briefing that Washington has made a "clear and strong commitment" to keep humans in control of nuclear... 5.34 PetaFlops [The US government is auctioning the Cheyenne supercomputer: 145,152 CPU cores and 313 TB of RAM](=.o4_vAAT-2wBJ5l0zH6SzOmZvtsmdTiitCm2vd-LAlys) Cheyenne is driven by 8,064 Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors. Each Broadwell-class chip is built on a 14nm process and features 18 cores / 36 threads with a... =.pl6yQei58cimxphFpy4sxPBGupjcbaLv40oxKxkGa4s Cheyenne is driven by 8,064 Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors. Each Broadwell-class chip is built on a 14nm process and features 18 cores / 36 threads with a... Windows [Windows 10 returns to 70% market share as Windows 11 continues to sink](=.5IwqJORkgpp_etrF8ruCm1lPNbfX8TYpnRYEf5Xlb4o) Windows 11 has entered its second month of market share decline on Statcounter's global chart. The OS sank to around 25 percent adoption among Windows users while... =.HnDDulTuH4a74-39Uqwy960K24kOVgwwdp5bZv4biek Windows 11 has entered its second month of market share decline on Statcounter's global chart. The OS sank to around 25 percent adoption among Windows users while... 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The company used the announcement to... =.UuxnnK-SF_WVfMAnMOr5-_S3BC4oKzBtui2IU7iEzVA Modders working with Nvidia's RTX Remix toolset can now utilize DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction when adding path tracing to older games. The company used the announcement to... GitHub [MS-DOS 4.00 source code's sloppy Git dump breaks build and erases metadata](=.neHrA1pnUCat6T1wO0MKyRXNiIkIgIqlELkBiuLqIHs) The fumble is dumping the source into a Git repository rather than providing a pristine archive, which, as software curator Michal Necasek of the OS/2 Museum points... =.HYDk0Yqdv3cb1fbmWsVyQEmwQyoHEdPmzg2izZjGRiw The fumble is dumping the source into a Git repository rather than providing a pristine archive, which, as software curator Michal Necasek of the OS/2 Museum points... Industry [Tesla lays off entire Supercharger and new vehicles teams, weeks after previous cuts](=.ktzgdXc6_oq98WHw_NbegdtzicvSHaPOdlgZlr1i4e4) Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla's senior director of EV charging, will be leaving the automaker. Being shown the door alongside Tinucci will be all 500 members of the team... =.Ybbd49p4viwpysp33GYeVIE9FzpDbqwxYCE-nDoWSkU Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla's senior director of EV charging, will be leaving the automaker. Being shown the door alongside Tinucci will be all 500 members of the team... Hardware [RTX 4090 owner says his 16-pin power connector melted at the GPU and PSU ends simultaneously](=.LdHmRgxpYbxEY_cUfmdRaV7sUvvkq4BJkT4TCHvhzvo) The melting 16-pin power connector (12VHPWR) issue has been haunting RTX 4090 owners since Nvidia's flagship launched back in October 2022. It's a big problem that hasn't... =.CXNtzgrvit1kfIyhX3yPLViLUixUvQjNSaAogMXyoyo The melting 16-pin power connector (12VHPWR) issue has been haunting RTX 4090 owners since Nvidia's flagship launched back in October 2022. It's a big problem that hasn't... Tech Culture [Priest arrested for using $40,000 of parish funds on mobile games, including Candy Crush and Mario Kart](=.6CQUGR_32e4qgxMf06bjIFOGo_H1bOvnipWI4esS4jo) Reverend Lawrence Kozak, 51, was charged with theft and other related crimes for allegedly using a church credit card to spend $41,879.83 on mobile games between September... =.lIUgNr0gcYZ8yCRkOj4B_tBar38U7iu8sWvSYY91Yzs Reverend Lawrence Kozak, 51, was charged with theft and other related crimes for allegedly using a church credit card to spend $41,879.83 on mobile games between September... Tech Culture [BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding](=.A5oSboBiDeL7-QzuKrqI-axlnAEAP4RWgM6zDvB0gV8) It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the early 1960s computing landscape. At that time, computers were highly specialized black boxes confined to corporate, government,... =.aCTG7qbNtrTKa03bx0nN5ksVblyIRK0kC6glyhJTkiA It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the early 1960s computing landscape. At that time, computers were highly specialized black boxes confined to corporate, government,... 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The... =.JGa9DKktjAN8JhEGcUM1ilywb0HdbmnreaBG53qOHZU A recently leaked internal presentation from Nvidia explains the company's apparent preference for discrete GPUs over NPUs (Neural Processing Units) for running local generative AI applications. The... Steam Survey [April Steam survey sees another AMD card enter chart, Windows 11 gain more users](=.Og28CHkjW083YGMQ-XNKNenJ2IIEqKZS2XG9WoSPQd4) The best-performing GPUs in April's Steam survey were two laptop products, the RTX 4060 (up 0.50%) and RTX 3060 (up 0.39%). There was also a boost for... =.G71muDDs-zaVrMN5ca0U2w0QrYHD6V26ZLJZIIj18pM The best-performing GPUs in April's Steam survey were two laptop products, the RTX 4060 (up 0.50%) and RTX 3060 (up 0.39%). There was also a boost for... Electronics [Boston Dynamics bots could revolutionize the live entertainment industry](=.aVb20og66bTlUfOtlO2s40VnX44mmDEZKzlzWh-q2Jg) Boston Dynamics introduced its four-legged, canine-like robot in 2016. Over the years, we have seen Spot work alongside - and in place of - humans in several... =.GjbYtOjvCarN7tixWgOQ_LKZFB9UYI-_LZsn2UsFmFU Boston Dynamics introduced its four-legged, canine-like robot in 2016. Over the years, we have seen Spot work alongside - and in place of - humans in several... Electronics [Researchers create a new circuit board material that can be easily recycled](=.yeHr1Df71Jc49iG6ODkdRRYChs3-LTq-Pk7O0zKkB-g) Researchers at the University of Washington have announced the development of a new type of PCB with significantly higher recycling potential than traditional printed circuits. Utilizing cutting-edge... =.841L5KcMq2QyLH9miPTHqhbB0ZJr_VI5OEpX6tJ7qkc Researchers at the University of Washington have announced the development of a new type of PCB with significantly higher recycling potential than traditional printed circuits. Utilizing cutting-edge... 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