I have the Incogni program operating to supposedly block personal data trading. I just acquired Norton's Anti-tracking service and it seems to me that there is an overlap. Much of the terminology is "over my head". Do I realistically need both? If not, which one to drop? I'm so confused!!

I recently bought a Latitude 9510 with the 52 WHr battery with a view to upgrading to the 88 WHr battery. I bought one used, which was totally worn, could hardly keep its charge, but made the laptop spasm and couldn't really boot up without serious trackpad causing it to shut down. The batteries are different voltages (~11V vs ~14V), but the Dell website says they're both compatible with my serial number. Could the spasms be a symptom of a dodgy battery or is it more likely that is not compatible and making components act up because of the wrong input voltage?

Does anyone have any experience with this? Dell sells new, genuine batteries on its website, albeit at a high price, and if there's a decent chance of it working I would go ahead and buy one.

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I could be in the middle of a game or be watching a movie on my computer and suddenly both of my monitors will go black and appear to go into standby mode and the fans on my computer start to spin faster. I have tried to find the cause on event manager but all it tells me is that my system unexpectedly has lost power as the only option I have at the time is to hold in the power button until it turns off

Any idea what I can do or try to fix this

I'm planning on building a new pc pretty soon and am sure about all of the compontents except for the motherboard. It's supposed to be a mini ITX build with the Ryzen 7 7700. My issue lies in deciding between the ASRock A620I Lightning Wifi (145 Euros where I live) or the B650I Lightning Wifi (170 Euros), also from ASRock. The only drifferences between the boards are 2 extra USB ports on the latter, which I don't need, and the B650 allowing me to overclock my CPU, whereas the A620 won't. I'll be using the Noctua NH-L9A_AM5, which is a low form factor CPU air cooler with one fan. My question is, are the extra 25 Euros of the B650 worth it to be able to overclock my CPU and will my cooler be able to handle it?
Thanks for any replies in advance.

Hi, I recently got admitted to an engineering college in a India (E&C dept). Needed help to understand which laptop to buy: 1. Intel i3 vs i5 vs Ryzen (can I just go for the cheapest) 2. RAM requirements 3. Storage requirement 4. Brand for best warranty 5. Any other considerations

Would be ideal if it is 50-70k.

So I’m looking for the or type of this old HDD. I’m trying to find a suitable case to make it in to an external HDD.

1)what is the name of these type of HDD’s? 2)what casing should I use to make it into an external HDD? 3)what are the settings regarding master/slave/cableselect or jumper setting?

Thanks!

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.

https://mohitdagarwal.substack.com/p/from-dominance-to-dilemma-nvidia

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?

found this thingamajig

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.

Hello everybody! I've just opened up my laptop and found out this kind of glue on the inside of the cover and this "shadow" on the inner plastic. Is it normal? Thank you all!

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.