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What happened when a tech journalist experimented with AI on a PC?

Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…

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Got a Ryzen 9000 CPU in your gaming PC? You might need to watch out for this chip-killing bug

There have been more than 100 reports of AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips dying since launchThe majority of failures have occurred on ASRock motherboardsThe cause of the issue has yet to be diagnosedDespite being one of the best processors on the market for PC gamers, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been having a rough time…

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Can regulatory oversight alone unlock cloud competition?

Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is now…

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Intel’s rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled

Intel’s rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been canceled according to a reliable leakerIts ‘BMG-G31’ die was rumored to have a 256-bit memory bus with 32 Xe coresWe could still see high-end offerings with the upcoming Celestial Arc lineupWhile Intel’s Battlemage Arc B580 and B570 GPUs have provided great and affordable mid-range options for PC gamers,…

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ChatGPT celebrity deepfakes are going viral, and there’s only one way to stop them

The new ChatGPT 4o image generation model is the talk of the town, and not just for good reasons. Everyone is marveling at the AI’s amazing new abilities, which include generating legible text in images, creating fake photos out of real ones, creating deepfakes of celebrities, and replicating copyrighted content like Studio Ghibli characters. It…

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ByteDance’s InfiniteYou AI lets you create infinite fake photos of yourself

ChatGPT’s 4o image generation model is the talk of the town right now, but it’s not the only AI software that can offer mind-blowing image generation. TikTok parent company ByteDance has a new AI model called InfiniteYou, whose sole purpose is to let users generate photos of themselves starting from a single uploaded photo.It’s not…

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Pixel 9a will arrive on April 10 missing some of Google’s best AI features

Google’s newest budget phone is finally ready for release. After an inexplicable delay due to a “component quality issue,” the company has confirmed the Pixel 9a release date: April 10 in the US, Canada, and the UK.The rest of the world will follow shortly after, with launches in Europe on April 14 and select Asian-Pacific…

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Blackwell launch gets even worse as Nvidia confirms some RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs are underperforming in games – here’s how to check if you’re affected

Micro Center suddenly has loads of stock of an Asus RTX 5090 GPUThis card is stupidly expensive at 85% over MSRP, though, so rather than improved supply, this is likely more a reflection of that asking priceThat said, there’s some hope that RTX 5080 supply is actually improving a little, so we can keep our…

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Microsoft wants you to delete your password and no, it’s not a gimmick

Microsoft has officially declared war on the password. In a sweeping update affecting more than a billion users, the company is making it clear—it’s time to ditch your Microsoft account password for good. This is just the latest move in Microsoft’s passkey update, which aims to move all users away from the security wyas of…

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Hang on handheld fans, we could be seeing AMD’s FSR 4 upscaling on new handhelds after all

A reliable leaker revealed a diagram that indicates Medusa Point APUs may be powered by RDNA 4 architectureThis would mean that FSR 4 can be used on future handheld gaming PCs and lightweight laptops using the processorsThere’s also still a chance that FSR 4 could be backported to RDNA 3AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture, used in…

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