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NASA’s Perseverance rover just broke the all-time off-world driving record
Opportunity needed nearly 15 years to set the record for driving on another world. Perseverance took it in five and a half. On October 11, NASA’s Perseverance rover…
Elon Musk gives the European Union rare praise over USB-C
Elon Musk has spent years fighting European regulators. On Oct. 20 he thanked them. The Tesla, SpaceX and X chief used a post on X to credit the…
YouTube may be testing hiding the dislike button on videos
YouTube’s dislike button could be headed for the three-dots menu. A few users say it already has for them, and if that change spreads, it’ll take more effort…
AMD brings FSR 4.1 to its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards
If you bought a Radeon RX 6000 card back when the series launched in October 2020, AMD just handed you a free upgrade. The company officially announced that…
How to check what’s filling your Windows RAM with RAMMap
If Task Manager shows your RAM at 91% or higher, your PC may not be running out of memory. RAMMap, a free Microsoft tool from the Sysinternals suite,…
Why you might not want to join two Ethernet cables, and what to do instead
A $15 network switch or one longer cable will usually beat the RJ45 coupler you were about to buy. The coupler works fine. It also gives you one…
Researchers made contact with a mysterious AI agent network
The reply took about an hour, and it came back in Chinese. A New York Times journalist had sent a message to a network of autonomous AI agents…
Small AI models may self-replicate by late 2026, Anthropic says
The worry about AI copying itself across the internet has mostly lived in thought experiments. Anthropic has now put a rough date on it. The company said small…
Nvidia clears up what’s going on with the RTX 5090
The RTX 5090 isn’t dead. Nvidia said so itself, shutting down rumors that it had stopped making its top graphics card. The message came from a senior vice…
