January 28, 2025

Hardware

ASRock updates its website with Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 9900X3D CPU compatibility for its motherboards

TL;DR: ASRock has updated its website to support AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors, making it the first motherboard manufacturer to do so. These processors will be compatible with all AM5 chipsets, including budget options. The 9950X3D features 16 cores, while the 9900X3D has 12 cores. AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D processors are still in the ovens at TSMC, but ASRock has just updated its website adding support for

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Software

India’s Internet Users Surge Past 900M, Driven by Indic Language Adoption | HackerNoon

The internet user base in India is set to surpass 900 million by 2025, driven by the growing use of Indic languages for digital content. The ‘Internet in India Report 2024,’ jointly prepared by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and KANTAR, reveals that the number of Active Internet Users in India reached 886 million in 2024, marking a robust 8% year-on-year growth. Rural India, with 488 million users, leads this growth and now accounts for

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AR/VR

Sony’s blockchain lab launches Soneium Conquest to onboard creators and devs

Sony Block Solutions Labs is launching Soneium Conquest as a way to onboard creators, developers, and newcomers to its Soneium blockchain. Through a mix of learning, gamification, and exploration, Soneium Conquest invites creators, developers, blockchain enthusiasts, and complete newcomers to dive into the Soneium ecosystem and experience how Web3 can enhance digital connections. Sony Block Solutions Labs is a Sony Group company established in Singapore in 2023 to construct an innovative network infrastructure using blockchain

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Software

Spanish PM Calls for an End to Anonymous Social Media Accounts | HackerNoon

Digital ID has always been about ending online anonymity while giving governments & corporations the power to manipulate, coerce, or incentivize human behavior: perspective Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity across all social media platforms by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet. “I propose putting an end to anonymity on social media“ Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez, WEF Annual Meeting, 2025 Speaking at the World

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Software

Is Tesla’s Robotaxi a Bold Step or a Blunder? | HackerNoon

After months, actually years of waiting, Tesla finally unveiled its robotaxi last October. Much analysis went into the new self driving car. The company unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi with two gull-wing doors and no steering wheel or pedals. The “Cybercab” is a two-seater and low slung, a design far from the idea of a taxi right now, causing experts to criticize it, since a taxi usually has space for more than two passengers. “When you think of a cab, you think of

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Front End Debugging Part 3: Debugging Networking Communication Issues | HackerNoon

Debugging network communication issues is a critical skill for any front-end developer. While tools like Wireshark provide low-level insight into network traffic, modern browsers like Chrome and Firefox offer developer tools with powerful features tailored for web development. In this post, we will discuss using browser-based tools to debug network communication issues effectively. This is a far better approach than using Wireshark for the vast majority of simple cases. As a side note, if you

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Key Requirements for Supporting Web3 and dApps in Multi-Cloud Environments | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Motivation 2.1 Decentralized Computing Infrastructure and Cloud 2.2 Advantages of DeFaaS 2.3 System Requirements 3 Overview of DeFaaS 4 Detailed Design of DeFaaS and 4.1 Decentralized Scheduling and Load Balancing 4.2 Decentralized Event Distribution 4.3 API Registration and Access Control 4.4 OAuth2.0 Support 4.5 Logging and Billing and 4.6 Trust Management 4.7 Supporting Multi-Cloud Service Mesh 5 Implementation and Evaluation 5.1 Implementations 5.2 Experiments 5.3

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Hardware

Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger buys the dip with NVIDIA stock, is using DeepSeek R1 for his startup

TL;DR: Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praises China’s AI innovation, DeepSeek, and buys NVIDIA stock after its value drop. He highlights lessons from computing history, emphasizing market expansion, engineering constraints, and openness. Gelsinger now leads Gloo, using DeepSeek’s R1 model over OpenAI for its AI services, including Kallm. In some news I’m sure you didn’t expect, ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has come out praising China’s new AI wonder child — DeepSeek — and that the

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AR/VR

Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen2.5-Max model today, marking the second major artificial intelligence breakthrough from China in less than a week that has rattled U.S. technology markets and intensified concerns about America’s eroding AI leadership. The new model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 model, which sent Nvidia’s stock plunging 17% on Monday, in several key benchmarks including Arena-Hard,

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AR/VR

Jack Dorsey is back with Goose, a new, ultra simple open source AI agent building platform from his startup Block

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and

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