Bit by Bit

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Counterfeit GPUs are on the rise: Here's how they work and how to tell if you have one

Counterfeit GPUs are becoming more common, and here's how they work and how to tell if you have one.

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How DeepSeek panicked the U.S. stock market and upstaged OpenAI

DeepSeek's R1 model plunged the U.S. stock market into chaos and made OpenAI look bad, but what exactly happened?

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Here's exactly why AMD's X3D CPUs are better than Intel's for gaming

If you want a new gaming CPU, there are really only a few options you should consider.

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Here's how Honey managed to take affiliate revenue from creators when consumers bought products online

If you don't know what's going on with Honey, here's everything you need to know.

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VPN used to cheat in popular online VR game gave hackers access to users' internet connections

Yet another bad look for VPNs.

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Will quantum computing break encryption as we know it?

Google's new "Willow" quantum chip performed an advanced benchmark in under five minutes, where the fastest supercomputers would take 10^25 years.

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Is a TikTok ban in the United States truly justified?

With a ban on TikTok looming in the U.S. if parent company ByteDance doesn't sell, is the ban really justified?

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An Arm-based Steam Deck looks possible, and I've never been more excited

Valve might be working on an Arm-based Steam Deck, and that's a super exciting prospect.

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How Google Calendar was turned into a filesystem that nobody should ever use

You can use Google Calendar as storage, but nobody should ever do that.

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Spotify's Car Thing is more proof that old tech doesn't have to go to waste

Spotify killed off its Car Thing when it didn't have to, but the community came to save the day.

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Will the CHIPS Act survive the Trump presidency?

The CHIPS and Science Act might be in danger under the 47th President of the United States of America, and that might scare some businesses.

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Your iPhone and Mac might stop working in 2554

Apple's operating systems have a fixed shelf life.

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Computers can't generate random numbers, so how do they?

Games use RNG for everything, but how do they do that?

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LLMs like ChatGPT can't "think" and we need to stop pretending that they can

People talk about LLMs and reasoning, but the truth is that LLMs can't think, and they're just operating off of patterns.

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Bit by Bit weekly: Counter-Strike: Neural Offensive, Large Language Models are destroying the internet, and you might be able to run Linux apps on Android soon

In this week's edition of Bit by Bit, you can read about running Counter-Strike in a neural network, LLMs ruining the internet, and Linux on Android.