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This week President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

The nomination comes after Trump promised to let Kennedy "go wild on health" during the campaign.

Kennedy holds a number of controversial opinions on health, and promotes a number of scientifically debunked claims like vaccines cause autism, fluoride is poisoning the public water system and AIDS isn't caused by the HIV virus.

Kennedy has long wanted to remake health and healthcare policy in the United States. Soon, he may get his chance.

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Pete Hegseth has positioned himself as a staunch public defender of President-elect Donald Trump on Fox's airwaves -- and is yet one more example of the Fox-to-Trump pipeline.

Earlier this year, a surprising story emerged about RFK Jr. — the newly named nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — and a parasitic brain worm.

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• Changes in the BIOS manual of the ASUS TRX motherboard have sparked rumors
• 3D V-Cache capabilities could be coming to new AMD APUs
• The changes could mark a bold move from AMD

AMD appears to be working on a new Threadripper edition sporting 3D V-Cache capabilities.

Speculation over the move follows details posted to the Chiphell forum, after a well-known hardware leaker going by the moniker ‘zhangzhonghao’ noted changes in the BIOS manual of the ASUS TRX motherboard.

“Today I saw the news that the word VCache appeared in the BIOS manual of ASUS TRX motherboard, and then I asked the supply chain and it is really coming out,” the poster said.

Top-level usage

Zhangzhonghao further added that this would apply to all CCDs (Core Chiplet Dies), not just those featured in the consumer-focused Ryzen series, and that next-gen APUs will also feature V-Cache.

There will be certain limitations at first, however.

“The next generation will start to stack 3D on APU (to strengthen CPU and GPU),” the poster added. “The technology and cost are in place, but according to current news it is limited to notebooks, and it is for halo-level use.”

This speculation follows coverage from Videocardz, which reported new features added to the ASUS WRX90 motherboard based on reader testimony. The manual for this particular motherboard notes there is an option to control 3D V-Cache stacks.

However, at present there are currently no Threadripper CPUs which use this.

What does this mean for users?

All told, the speculation over the move from AMD is still rather shaky, but previous leaks from ‘zhangzhonghao’ have come to fruition, Videocardz notes.

Any prospective changes from AMD are likely still in the pipeline, and there are notable limitations. 3D V-Cache capabilities are unlikely to feature in the Ryzen AI 300 Max series, but its next iteration could see changes.

AMD hasn’t integrated more than one stack of 64MB of 3D V-Cache in Ryzen CPUs previously, Videocardz notes. However, there have been a range of Ryzen mobile CPUs to feature this capability through the Dragon Range series.

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We bring you views from both sides of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Israel says they're closer to accomplishing their mission of pushing Hezbollah militants away from the border so that tens of thousands of Israelis can safely return to the area. Our correspondent visits the tense borderland and finds a dramatically changed landscape.

And in Lebanon, intense Israeli airstrikes since September have taken their toll. And recently, strikes have occurred deeper in the country, far away from the fighting, endangering and killing displaced Lebanese civilians. We go to the site of a recent attack.

For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates

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The 22-year-old nursing student's death fueled an emotional and politically charged debate over immigration and crime after authorities said the suspect was a man who entered the U.S. illegally.

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The Biden administration is touting the third anniversary of the bipartisan infrastructure law that pumped billions into roads, bridges, airports and more. But there's been little political benefit.

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The world's most populous country has consistently favorable views of U.S. President-elect Trump. In a Pew Research Center poll, 42% of Indians, including 51% of men, said they had confidence in him.

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