A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should.
Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.5%” of 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti chips short on ROPs. The company didn’t immediately respond to our request for comment on this new report.
Apple has introduced code referencing “Google” as a third-party model choice for Apple Intelligence to leverage, according to a backend change spotted by Aaron Perris, who often shares info gleaned from Apple firmware code, following the release of the first iOS 18.4 beta last week.
Apple executive Craig Federighi specifically named Gemini when he suggested last year that Apple Intelligence could leverage more third-party AI models than just ChatGPT, as 9to5Mac notes.
The company plans to use these combined chips by “2028 at the earliest,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. The move could cut costs and make its devices more energy-efficient, he notes. I imagine it would help save space in the cramped confines of something like the rumored iPhone Air, too.
Apple’s first in-house modem chip, dubbed the C1, debuts in the iPhone 16E in just a few days.
[bloomberg.com]
Apparently responding to a President Trump post saying he wanted Elon Musk to be “more aggressive,” the Musk-led organization emailed federal workers — even some placed on leave — demanding “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” by Monday at 11:59PM ET, reports Business Insider.
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk posted today, echoing his 2022 opt-in-to-stay-employed email to Twitter workers. Federal employee union AFGE said in a statement it will “challenge any unlawful terminations.”
The Securties and Exchange Commission’s investigation was related to an almost two-year-old lawsuit against the struggling NFT marketplace, but has now been dropped as the agency backs off of its campaign against digital assets, reports Axios.
The news follows yesterday’s SEC announcement it was ending a similar lawsuit against Coinbase.
YouTuber Alexis Garza showed off what he said is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s unreleased ultra-slim phone, in a video posted (and later removed) today.
Garza compared its thickness with an unfolded Galaxy Z Fold 6 and showed specs that included 12GB RAM, a 4,000mAh battery, and dual 12MP rear cameras, though the AIDA64 app he used may have had that last part wrong, according to Android Authority.
Update February 22nd: The video has been removed.
