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Are tech tariffs a waste of time?

2025-01-20 05:05:00


At CES 2025, we met a company from Eastern China that sells copper and fiber optic cables for data centers. This is almost a commodity business. There are thousands of companies that can make copper cables, a few dozen that can make fiber optic cables, and probably ten or so...

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Microsoft finally patches serious UEFI Secure Boot flaw after seven-month delay

2025-01-19 23:52:00


The vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) allowed bad actors to sneak malicious code onto devices in a way that could bypass many of Windows 11's built-in security defenses. It exploited a flaw in how certain third-party firmware utilities handled secure UEFI boot processes, giving attackers elevated system privileges and allowing their malicious payloads...

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World's largest telescopes threatened by light pollution

2025-01-19 22:11:00


European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten the sky by up to 10 percent around the observatory. Such an increase would be enough to diminish the Very Large Telescope's status as the world's premier observatory, reducing it to merely an "average"...

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Switch modder arrested in Japan as Nintendo admits emulation is technically legal

2025-01-19 21:16:00


A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games. According to Japanese media, this marks the first arrest in the country for circumventing the portable device's copyright protection.

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PCIe 7.0 spec nearing completion, promising 16GB/s per lane bandwidth

2025-01-19 20:09:00


PCI-SIG has just released revision 0.7 of the draft specifications, and members are likely scrutinizing every detail. There have been minimal changes since the 0.5 version released last April, which is a positive sign that the core technology is stable. Assuming no major issues arise, 2025 could be the year...

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Lithium-sulfur battery advancements promise faster charging and longer life

2025-01-19 04:38:00


In the first study, a team led by Professor Jong-sung Yu at the DGIST Department of Energy Science and Engineering developed a nitrogen-doped porous carbon material to enhance the charging speed of lithium-sulfur batteries. This material, synthesized using a magnesium-assisted thermal reduction method, acts as a sulfur host in the...

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