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Blizzard Entertainment titles are making their way back into the Chinese market this summer thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft Gaming and NetEase. It took a little over a year for this deal to come together but, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Diablo, and several others will once again be...
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The US government recently tightened its restrictions on chip exports in an effort to make it more difficult for China to access artificial hardware and services, all in the interest of national security. However, the restrictions could prove "insignificant" in the short term, and even worse, could actually boost...
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The stratospheric rise of NVIDIA in the data center and AI market has had some significant collateral side effects on the gaming market. It's not only in gaming products utilizing AI such as DLSS 3, but also in the availability of some of its GPUs. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090D, released in China to circumvent some of...
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Gamers in the US will readily remember the chaos that the cryptocurrency boom caused on their wallets. With similar disappearing availability, the AI boom and ensuing bans in China are causing similar issues with NVIDIA's most powerful GPUs, and notably the GeForce RTX 40 series.
A person in Taiwan supposedly...
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A humble pigeon has been cleared off all suspicion of working as a spy for the Chinese Communist Party by Indian police. Even though it was revealed that the bird was a lost racing pigeon from Taiwan, it was only freed after spending eight months in captivity thanks from the help of concerned local citizens.
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After a fair amount of hoopla and plenty of speculation, NVIDIA has formerly introduced its GeForce RTX 4090D (Dragon) for the Chinese market. In doing so, we now have clarity on the actual specifications. Contrary to a late-breaking rumor that appeared shortly before NVIDIA launched its newest GeForce RTX 40 series...
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The day has supposedly come when NVIDIA is set to launch a modified version of its flagship consumer graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4090, in China. It's modified so as not to run afoul of the US government's export restrictions on AI hardware. However, if the reported specifications turn out to be accurate, the...
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Over the past few years, there has been quite a concern regarding Chinese-manufactured Internet of Things devices that could be spying on unwitting American consumers. This was the impetus behind a 2022 Federal Communications Commission ban on telecommunications and video surveillance equipment that was deemed a...
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With a purported userbase of over 500 million, WinRAR is one of the world’s most popular file compression tools thanks in part to its never-ending free trial. However, with such prevalence, WinRAR is also a juicy target for hackers to gain a foothold or escalation on a device. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has...
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Last year, NVIDIA encountered a United States ban on certain chip exports to China in an effort to control the latter’s growth in edge computing, military capabilities, and artificial intelligence. At that time, the graphics card company moved to sidestep those restrictions; however, it seems that avenue has been...
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The technological cold war between the US and China has seen massive trade restrictions placed on electronics, particularly high-end GPUs for datacenters but even components as basic as memory. This has naturally led the US and China to close off their respective computing markets, and one of the next targets appears...
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Chinese threat actors are upping their game in the cybersecurity realm, as indicated by new Linux backdoors and other advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). With this, an international multi-agency team led by the National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a People’s Republic of China-linked group...
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Trend Micro has been tracking a threat-actor group since early 2021, dubbed Earth Lusca, which is purportedly based out of China. Since that initial discovery, researchers have found the group has utilized increasingly sophisticated infrastructure, tools, techniques, and procedures to advance its goals in...
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Over the past year, as tensions have intensified with China over the South China Sea and Taiwan, the United States has begun to focus on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influenced businesses and organizations operating or providing services in the US. Perhaps the most prevalent example of this is TikTok, and the concern...
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The Pentagon has announced plans to fund a program for the US Air Force that will provide thousands of autonomous systems, including AI drones. The move comes in light of China increasing its military prowess with more conventional resources, but is still likely to face stiff opposition from those who oppose...
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AMD officially unveiled its third Radeon RX 7900 series graphics card at ChinaJoy today, known as the RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition — or GRE for short. The new GPU is the lowest-end RX 7900 series graphics card now on sale, featuring a further cut-down Navi 31 GPU and memory sub-system compared to the RX 7900 XT. The...
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Considering standard NVIDIA GeForce products, even the relatively-lowly GeForce RTX 3050 requires a power connector. The desktop GeForce RTX 3050, which was introduced in January of 2022, comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and has has a total board power of 130 watts. It requires a PCIe 8-pin connector to do its thing...
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The United States' relationship with China, especially regarding technology, has been strenuous at best since at least when the U.S. declared several Chinese companies a threat to national security in 2012. This rhetoric has continued through today but has usually come from the side of the U.S. government. However...
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Authorities in Hong Kong sniffed out something fishy as two men driving a white van attempted to pass through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a 34-mile bridge and tunnel system spanning the Lingding and Jiuzhous channels. What they discovered is an alleged smuggling operation with the van packed to the gills with...
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A string of recent events, surrounding strange objects and occurrences in the sky, has stirred the interest of many in terms of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), also referred to as UFOs. From cylindrical to balloon-like objects or a green laser light show, more people are buzzing about UFO activity than perhaps...
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XPeng Aeroht announced that it has obtained a special flight permit issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The XPeng X2 flying vehicle is the first manned electric vertical take-off and landing product to get the permit.
Flying vehicles have enamored people's imaginations for generations. Up...
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Surgeries don’t often happen in the airport, but one woman was lucky enough to have a "CPU C-section" of sorts, thanks to airport security. In a case of truth certainly being stranger than fiction, a woman in China was discovered pretending to be pregnant in an attempt to smuggle over 200 Intel Alder Lake CPUs and...
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