hi guys i got a problem with my download speed. i can hit 10 mbps on downloads but today i tried downloading something from epic games.its less than a mbps.i checked in task manager and all my network goes to epig games(9.5 mbps) but the game is still downloading in less then 1mbps.i closed all apps that could download anything from task manager(steam,battle.net etc)do you have any suggestions?there are no other downloads or tasks going on at the same time with the download.

Back in the old days, there were PC power supplies that had an extra 3 pin OUTput connector to power a monitor as well.

Do they still exist? I can't find any.

Do you know why they are not common anymore?

Back in the day when Intel and AMD had legit competitors, what if any of them got money and survived, would any architectures have delievered better chips? Would the current desktop chip landscape be different?

I encountered a view that the x86 architecture was the worst yet became the standard (for a time). Wondering how true that is.

Feel free to discuss anything related to this topic. I also wonder if we can draw parallels from those days and ours.

These last days, i got a lot of shutdown from my 1080 Gygabite GTX, 650W Gold U Corsair, B450MSI with 32go Corsair Ram.

I don't know if the power station is implied, or more the graphic card ; i think it must be one of these two, cause when i underclock my graphic card, shutdowns comes less often.

Maybe it has something to do with cpu, with temperature ? Or I don't know. Maximum heat my computer recorded before every shutdown was 55°, which is not a lot.

Does someone have an idea what's happening in my computer ?

I was given a decommissioned laptop from my workplace. It needs me to purchase/install a new hard drive. I’m not really sure what I should be buying, SSD, HHD? How do I ensure I get a compatible component? Any help very much appreciated.

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I recently came across a concept for a decentralized AI network, similar to how Bitcoin is decentralized but designed specifically for AI newcoin.o rg,. Instead of massive, centralized servers, it uses individual agents specializing in different tasks, like math, writing, or transcription, that communicate and learn from one another. Has anyone looked into or worked with this kind of model? I’m curious to know if you think decentralized AI could compete with the big cloud providers in terms of efficiency or scalability. Any thoughts on its potential?

What would I have to do to make an effective quaterit (quaternary digit). I already have an understanding of the base 4 numerical system and even thought of how it could be used but from all the research I have done, something like that would be quite unreliable. So does anyone know any ways or hypothetical things to do to make a working quaterit. Because my end goal with this is idea is to make a Base 10 storage unit since everyone understands Base 10

This document offers recommendations to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the Department of Commerce, in response to a Request for Comment from BIS on the Establishment of Reporting Requirements for Advanced AI Models and Computing Clusters per the AI Executive Order. Our recommendations include an expansion of quarterly reporting requirements to provide a more valid representation of red-teaming results and safety practices. We also recommend the establishment of a confidential reporting mechanism for workers at covered AI companies to share information vital to the national defense, and set up a chip registry to track large aggregations of computing hardware.

About the Organization

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is an independent nonprofit organization with the goal of reducing large-scale risks and steering transformative technologies to benefit humanity, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Since its founding, FLI has taken a leading role in advancing key disciplines such as AI governance, AI safety, and trustworthy and responsible AI, and is widely considered to be among the first civil society actors focused on these issues. FLI was responsible for convening the first major conference on AI safety in Puerto Rico in 2015, and for publishing the Asilomar AI principles, one of the earliest and most influential frameworks for the governance of artificial intelligence, in 2017. FLI is the UN Secretary General’s designated civil society organization for recommendations on the governance of AI and has played a central role in deliberations regarding the EU AI Act’s treatment of risks from AI. FLI has also worked actively within the United States on legislation and executive directives concerning AI. Members of our team have contributed extensive feedback to the development of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, testified at Senate AI Insight Forums, briefed the House AI Task-force, participated in the UK AI Summit, and connected leading experts in the policy and technical domains to policymakers across the US government.

Can someone help me find someone's phone number? I have their first and last name along with their email, I just need the number. Super urgent!! tysm

Mouse cursor is not showing when I open a game in full screen while streaming on discord, people on the call see it but I don't.

My SO is W11 Home, my processor is an I3-8130U 2.20GHz, with 8GB of RAM, the brand of the computer is HP

When I was a kid I found this PDF file with a printable game about CPU, some simplified abstract CPU where you have registers, instruction set and flags. You are supposed to "play" this game with a pencil and an eraser basically imitating each step of a CPU by hand using nothing but elbow grease. I think that this game is quite old and it might have been from some journal on computer science. But I am not sure. Because I was too young to understand it and compute anything.

Question is. Does anyone remember it's name or maybe you have a link to it? Because I have been thinking about it for quite a while but I couldn't find it. I want to try that game with my pupils now.

Hello, I’m having an issue with my laptop. Frequently, when I launch a game, the GPU memory usage hits 100% without any apparent reason. To fix this, I have to unplug and plug back the charger two or three times. My laptop is an HP Victus 16 with an NVIDIA RTX 4060, but I experienced the same issue on my previous laptop, which also had an NVIDIA graphics card.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Is there any freeware bootable CPU test software like a MemTest86 which is capable to diagnose CPU?

Hi, just wondering if anyone has some advice about going to magistrate courts victoria for a withdrawal of infringement notice? Just wanted to get advice and experience specifically what needs to be prepared and what costs might be if i lose?

Let's say I am playing a game e.g. PUBG: Battlegrounds, but I live in NZ and the server is in SE Asia, so my latency is very bad (e.g. 150ms).

Theoretically, could using a VPN improve the connection? For example, what if I connect to a SE Asia VPN that has a fast connection both to NZ and the SE Asia server, would that work to reduce the latency, or is that not going to work due to <some technical reason>?

So imagine Taiwan is turned to glass and I guess the Netherlands has a case of second sun as well. The unburied dead are rising and seeking human victims in Albany or wherever IBM is at these days.

Given that knowledge is preserved, what kind of baseline computing would we be looking at? Some kind of updated C64? What is the most powerful computer built from scratch by enthusiasts? I'm just curious about what a low-tech computer solution would actually look like.

Hello I made a research but haven't found any account that doesn't get deleted after you don't log in for some time, can you suggest one that doesn't get deleted after inactive time?

I have a 5-year-old system that I am trying to repurpose into a dedicated server for games but I can't get any Linux systems to install and I don't have any Windows keys available. I know there used to be (now decades ago) a program called pc doctor that would be able to test all the functions a computer could do. It would run through every instruction set the CPU had, test the chips on the motherboard, ect. It has since gone SaaS and I don't want to spend that kind of money for a once-in-a-blue-moon software. What I wondering is, is there any software around that would still do those functions so I can see what might be causing my systems to crash out.

Hello, I recently bought this laptop and tried installing Windows 11 thru a USB flash drive. On boot, it instantly opens EFI Shell, and after opening BIOS, it is able to see the USB as a drive, not UEFI USB. Tried with 3 different USBs. It's an Acer Aspire 3, "acer aspire 3 a315 44p r4n4 15 6 fhd ryzen". In the BIOS I also can't disable secure boot for some reason. Every time I try to boot from the USB it just shows the Acer logo and no spinning cog, which stays there indefinitely. I tried booting thru EFI Shell as well, but the problem would persist. What can I do?

One thing I have always disliked about NPCs in games is that they are pretty cardboard, and its even quite a bit immersion-breaking. After all, the entire open world is populated with characters that only have the same basic lines over and over.

I am considering getting an AI laptop with the new NPUs. I am wondering - could an AI PC help characters in games be more realistic by giving them AI voicelines so that its not always the same dialogue? Will the dialogue be customized even to the NPC's personality?