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All-in pricing refers to the cost of the service plus all required fees. The Federal Communications Commissionapprovedthe new rules on March 14 but didn’t release the final draft until Tuesday. The regulations primarily aim to disclose broadcast and regional sports fees. It also calls out arguably unnecessary charges like “HD Technology fees.” Many of the extra charges are “pass-on” fees. These legal hurdles must be completed within nine months. The rules willtake effectonce it clears the red tape, which could be as early as April 10....

Being from an older generation, the actual news is the retail pricing settling at around $180. Obviously, being a halo product, theRTX 4090does not offer great value. In terms of cost per frame value, once again, it depends on rasterization versus ray tracing. The 7900 GRE simply isn’t cheap enough at current prices. This also applies in general to the battle between AMD and Nvidia. Power efficiency is similar between the two models, though the 6800 lacks AV1 encoding....

The projects are estimated to create over 10,000 manufacturing jobs and nearly 20,000 construction jobs. The money will be used to further expand Intel’s production capabilities and help build new fabs. Intel says it will invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing over the next five years. It is subject to Intel reaching certain “milestones,” wrote the White House. Two fabs in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, will be converted into advanced packaging facilities....

Bank president Abe Sano told journalists that much of the money had been withdrawn by students. It led to long lines at campus ATMs that lasted until the police arrived to stop people. Sano stressed that the incident was not a cyberattack. Sano said those returning the money would not be charged with a criminal offense. It’s unclear how much the bank has managed to recoup. An official at Dilla University said bank employees were on campus collecting money that some students were returning voluntarily....

I’m excited to announce that today I’m joining@Microsoftas CEO of Microsoft AI. I’ll be leading all consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. Four years later, the company was acquired by Google for $500 million. He leaves his current role as CEO of Inflection, which he co-founded after leaving Google in 2022. Co-founder Karen Simonyan and others from the startup are following him to Microsoft. Suleyman has been a figure of controversy over the years....

The new chipset is expected to power a large number of premium smartphones this year. Honor was once part of the Huawei empire, but is now said to operate as a separate company. Featured on TechSpot

Zakharova added that the satellites could “become a legitimate target for retaliatory measures, including military ones.” This isn’t the first time Russia has threatened Starlink satellites. House Democrats areinvestigatingSpaceX regarding the reports. It’s not just Russia that has raised concerns with SpaceX. Featured on TechSpot

The process could choose how to handle this signal and then proceed with normal execution. Meanwhile, pre-compiled applications created with GraalVM Native Image should continue to work as expected. And it’s not just Java, as macOS Sonoma 14.4 also seems to have troublesome effects elsewhere. Apple has yet to provide an official comment on the issues plaguing its latest OS update. Featured on TechSpot

Was a RCE bug to blame? !We’ve seen cheating in eSports matches before, though these latest incidents were quite different. The window interface shows a selection of cheats that can be enabled. Genburten was aware of what was happening. “I’m getting hacked. I’m getting hacked,” he yelled, before quickly ending the match. MULTI BILLION DOLLAR ESPORT BTWWpic.twitter.com/e1B9lfDt3C Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen was next to be hacked. “I’m cheating, I’m cheating, I’m cheating,” he yelled....

A Kickstarter campaign that ends this week aims to offer the most advanced variant available. Shipping begins in June at a $69 MSRP, but Kickstarter backersreceivea discount. It also hosts an extra USB port for external drives and includes a USB-C-to-A converter. Another neat feature that sets the CAZE apart is a capacity indicator. The primary target audience is professional outdoor photographers. Early bird pricing for the CAZE ranges from $39 to $49....

However, Huawei has yet to divulge detailed workings of the technology. Huawei’s new MED storage appears almost too good to be true. Featured on TechSpot

The new Nvidia B200 GPU packs 208 billion transistors and offers up to 20 petaflops of FP4 performance. It also includes a fast second-gen transformer engine featuring FP8 precision. The new chips can potentially reduce operating costs and energy consumption by up to 25x. Also read:Not just the hardware: How deep is Nvidia’s software moat? Featured on TechSpot

Steam Beta Client users can now try a new feature called Steam Families. Comprising game-sharing and content control functionality, itreplacesand builds upon Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View. Up to six accounts can join a family, defined as either adult or child users. Possibly the biggest change from the old setup concerns who can play which games simultaneously. The update allows multiple family members to play different titles simultaneously....