February 2025

AI that can identify ChatGPT-generated text suggests DeepSeek might be a copy

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Before DeepSeek R1 became an AI sensation that crashed the US stock market this week, early versions from the Chinese AI startup identified themselves as variants of ChatGPT.After the Chinese researchers published their work explaining the breakthrough training methods that allowed them to develop a reasoning AI model as good as ChatGPT o1, OpenAI accused…

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MIT names 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025

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The year has just begun, but there have already been some incredible technological advancements. Of course, there are even more to come, and earlier this month, MIT Technology Review shared a list of 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025. These are the technologies MIT believes will affect our world in a big way not…

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Nvidia’s new DLSS 4 driver might be appealing, but you might want to avoid it for now

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Nvidia’s new 572.16 driver appears to be causing crashes across several games, along with other system issuesEnabling Frame Generation in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 causes BSoDsMultiple users across Nvidia’s forums, Steam, and Reddit have voiced the same frustrations It’s no secret that Nvidia’s new driver that brings DLSS 4 support for multiple games is an incredible…

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Another gloomy Nvidia RTX 5000 rumor suggests next-gen GPUs will be price hiked over the MSRP in many cases, and I’m getting worried now

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Rumor has it that Nvidia is leaving its graphics card making partners thin on margins with RTX 5000 boardsThis could mean that pricing comes in above the MSRP for those third-party boards more often than notA previous rumor also suggested this, and while this remains speculation, hearing the notion again isn’t particularly comfortingThe launch of…

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Why did I buy the iPhone 16 Pro Max if I just returned the iPhone 16 Plus?

5 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Intel, iPhone, Samsung, Tech / By

In late September, I upgraded to the iPhone 16 from my dependable iPhone 14 Pro. This was my first non-Pro phone and my first Plus-sized iPhone. I wanted a larger display than the usual 6.1-inch screen I’ve been using, and I didn’t feel the need to go Pro.However, I returned the iPhone 16 Plus after…

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AMD looks set to compete with Nvidia in the laptop GPU space

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AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU reportedly outperforms Nvidia’s RTX 4070 laptop GPUThis is thanks to the Radeon 8060S iGPU, with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU coresIt stems from AMD’s marketing, while we await tests from usersWhile Nvidia is set to dominate the desktop GPU space against AMD and Intel with its new RTX 5000…

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Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

3 minutes of reading / AWS, Azure, Google, Kubernetes, Tech / By

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can slash AWS customers’ EBS bills by adding greater granularity to their cloud block storage deployments. According…

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Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Dell, HP, Meta, Tech / By

Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…

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Worried AMD’s FSR 4 frame rate boosting won’t be as good as Nvidia DLSS 4? Good news! Initial game support is rumored to be healthy

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AMD FSR 4 will supposedly be a ‘drop in’ replacement for FSR 3.1In theory, that means all FSR 3.1 games should support the newer techThis is just a rumor, though it chimes with hints AMD has already droppedAMD could have a whole bunch of games lined up for FSR 4 support, its frame rate boosting…

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Apple customer learns the hard way that AppleCare+ doesn’t cover everything

2 minutes of reading / Apple, iPhone, MacBook, Tech / By

I have always considered the AppleCare+ warranty one of the best investments when buying a new Apple product. This coverage gives me peace of mind when using my iPhone without a case because I know Apple will replace it if I accidentally damage it.While I didn’t add AppleCare+ when I bought my M1 Pro MacBook…

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