NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that Voyager 1 remains in good health. One of the chips within the FDS is not functioning, NASA engineers have now discovered. This chip stores a portion of the FDS memory, including some of the system’s software code. However, NASA cannot physically replace it in outer space, billions of kilometers away. The US space agency has devised a plan to relocate the aforementioned code elsewhere within the FDS system....

Think of it as an optimal blend of DRAM and NAND flash. Improvements were nominal, and the increased cost and complexity involved in fabricating on smaller tech was not justifiable. Image credit:Shaine Tsou Featured on TechSpot

Hot dog! !Good news for anyone who worries there simply aren’t enough flame-throwing robot dogs in the world. An Ohio-based company is now selling its 37-pound fire-spewing metal canines for the not-inconsiderable price of $9,420. Throwflame, which is apparently the oldest flamethrower manufacturer in the US, unveiled its imaginatively-named Thermonator in 2023. Throwflame doesn’t advertise Thermonator as a weapon, of course. It also notes the robot’s potential use in the entertainment and SFX industries....

Castlevania 64 was the first in the franchise to feature 3D gameplay. The teasing became sadistic when players discovered they had to beat the game twice to unlock all the heroes. It appeared that Konami ditched a cheat code for its first foray into 3D gaming or did it? Ironically, the code is just the classic Konami Code with all the inputs doubled. you might watch him demonstrate it in his video (above)....

The company’s announcement suggests that it’s finally ready to ship the new tablets. Meanwhile, the updated iPad Pro will upgrade to the M3 and receive the lineup’s first-ever OLED panel. The OLED models might be lighter but also more expensive. Pencil us in for May 7! Other rumors regarding the upcoming iPads mentioned an updated Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. The new silicon features dramatically boosted AI performance with dedicated neural cores....

HighPoint says the card is compatible with Windows and Linux, and supports hardware secure boot. Featured on TechSpot

The export of advanced chipmaking tools is also restricted. Resellers and third parties were also prohibited from selling the chips to Chinese entities. The tenders are valued at between about $10,000 and $259,000. Nvidia said the tenders specified products that were exported and available before the restrictions. The three server makers told Reuters that they comply with US and international export restrictions. Supermicro said the products are older-generation models and that the suppliers are not known customers....

Arial CD Ripper is a versatile and easy to use tool for CD grabbing and audio conversion. Arial CD Ripper can also convert audio formats from one to another with as simple as a click. CDDB support,Id3 tag editor provided.

The series was popular enough that producers have green-lit a second season less than a week after its debut. Fallout’s instant success has also renewed interest in the Bethesda games, mainly Fallout 4. In recent weeks, I have caught several of my gaming friends playing the nine-year-old shooter. On April 19, the site began having issues serving content to users at 21:06 UTC. An investigation determined that a download spike of Fallout-related content caused the slowdown....

Is security through obscurity the only possible approach? A hot potato:GPT-4 stands as the newest multimodal large language model (LLM) crafted by OpenAI. According to thestudy, LLMs have become increasingly powerful, yet they lack ethical principles to guide their actions. Moreover, there were no available bug fixes or patches at the time of testing. Featured on TechSpot

double-check to read all the parts in this screen so you know whats about to happen. Notably, your PC will be restarted, so verify you have everything saved and ready to shut down. After the restart, your PC will have its web connection drivers and prefs reset. Allow Windows to reinstall drivers or install them manually if you like. you’ve got the option to Reset the web connection controls To Default by running the following commands....

Windows updates are essential for security and performance improvements. Its set to download and install automatically whenever your setup is connected to Microsoft server. This article explores effective ways to pause or delay Windows updates in Windows 10 and Windows 11. New updates may install drivers that are not fully compatible with your hardware. In such situation, you might follow the steps below to temporarily prevent a specific Windows update from installing....

It also helps keep users from being locked out of their account, writes Microsoft. A local account also offers more security. The good news is that these notifications can be easily disabled. Just go to configs > Privacy & security > General and then deselect everything. It’s not been the best month for Windows. First we heard that Microsoft could soon sneakmore adsinto the Start menu. Then there was the former Microsoft dev who called the Start menu’s performance “comically bad....