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Rob Newport's Xerxes Home Lab Blade-ifies Raspberry Pi CM5, NVIDIA Jetson COMs for Neat Clusters

Engineer and computational neuroscientist Rob Newport has opened crowdfunding for a blade-style home lab setup compatible with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, and other computers-on-modules (COMs): the Xerxes Home Lab.

"The Xerxes Home Lab is a private, affordable, and compatible hardware platform for home lab engineers of all backgrounds," Newport claims of his creation. "We wanted cheap machines to run open office tools and light web hosting. We needed pro features like PCIe M.2 for NVMe [Non-Volatile Memory Express] and PoE [Power-over-Ethernet] for power management. So we developed Xerxes for affordable, private, compatible home lab hardware."

The heart of the Xerxes system is its blade-format nodes. Designed to accept either NVIDIA's Jetson family of computers-on-modules (COMs) or Raspberry Pi's Compute Module 4, Compute Module 5, or third-party compatible COM, depending on model chosen, each blade offers an M.2 PCIe slot for high-speed storage or accelerators, a...

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Mechanism’s first Switch 2 case is as awesome as I hoped it would be

Most companies have slowed down releasing new Switch 2 cases, but one of my favorite accessory makers recently debuted its first, after a few delays. The $49 Basecase from Mechanism is a snap-on shell for the console that taps into the company’s modular lineup of mounts. You could already

Nvidia may be killing off the RTX 5090 as AI chips take priority over gaming GPUs

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A Failing Industry: Nvidia has reportedly decided to kill its flagship offering in the latest generation of GeForce gaming GPUs. The GeForce RTX 5090 will soon disappear from the market, leakers claim, because the

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Ugreen NASync DXP8800 Ultra vs Plus: Both support up to 272TB storage, but buying the right model will save you $410

The Ugreen NASync DXP8800 Ultra and DXP8800 Plus are powerful eight-bay NAS devices designed for demanding storage needs. We compared the two and found one clear winner. • Best for: Small businesses, studios, IT professionals, and creative teams needing centralized storage for large files, backups, media libraries, and multi-user access. • The

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NordVPN brings Message Protection to iPhone alongside new free scam-blocking app

* NordVPN's Call and Message Protection toolkit is now officially available on iOS * The provider has also launched HangUp, a standalone iOS app that blocks spam calls and is entirely free to use without a VPN subscription. * In an exclusive to TechRadar, NordVPN explained the tools are designed to

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NordVPN brings Message Protection to iPhone alongside new free scam-blocking app