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https://www.gamesradar.com/games/after-at-least-1400-layoffs-7-studios-closed-and-29-games-canceled-embracer-ceo-admits-i-deserve-a-lot-of-criticism/ Embracer CEO admits "I deserve a lot of criticism" How does one say “No shit Sherlock!” In corporate?

So I was in a meeting with my Dell rep going over server stuff and he sent me this link, and there are a lot of neat things in here so I figured I'd share. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/tech-community-live/windows-server-summit-2024/ec-p/4068971#M24 We got to talking about how I was...

https://videocardz.com/newz/unreal-engine-5-4-released-improved-tsr-higher-performance-and-faster-hardware-ray-tracing https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/unreal-engine-5.4-release-notes Exciting stuff, look forward to playing the games that use it.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-diesel-engine-thermal-efficiency This is just neat, I know they have been putting a lot of work into cleaning up and modernizing their massive fleets of trucks. China is a huge country and they make everything for everybody so that means...

https://www.neowin.net/news/new-version-of-tiny11-builder-lets-you-debloat-any-windows-11-build-or-version New version of Tiny11 Builder lets you debloat any Windows 11 build or version That about tells you all you need to know there...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/roku-second-user-accounts-hacked/ Checking my Monday morning newsletters and this one came through so I thought it could be relevant to some of you so here it is. Be safe out there people and do your best to not reuse passwords.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-completes-assembly-of-first-commercial-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tool-as-it-preps-for-14a-process One machine down and like 6 more to go, It's not a bad-looking machine, but it's interesting to see what $1B buys the big guys right now.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-researchers-install-low-cost-unrestricted-nvidia-jetson-tx2i-into-hypersonic-weapon Because Nvidia was still allowed to sell chips to China at all, they found a way to use the low-cost TX2i to fly their Supersonic...

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-new-discovery-could-double-the-speed-of-existing-computers? TLDR; Using AI to analyze and challenge long thought truths on hardware efficiency. Looks to change software algorithms in Microcode and Firmware to greatly improve things. In a lab they are getting...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-now-blocks-spoofed-emails-for-better-phishing-protection I’m not sure if this is an April Fools joke or not, but I’d love it to be true. Now if they can cut down on the number of spoofed messages that get sent from their servers.

https://wccftech.com/samsung-showcases-disruptive-next-gen-3d-dram-tech-launch-aimed-at-2025 Should allow for a 100GB chip size, DDR6 currently tops out at 32GB per chip.

https://kotaku.com/publishers-not-sure-xbox-ports-europe-sales-low-gdc-1851367132 Talk at GDC 2024 has developers wondering if continuing to support the Xbox is worth it, sales of the console have stalled, and there aren't enough of them out there to offset the costs of properly supporting the...

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-modder-finds-further-evidence-classic-collection-uses-their-mod-despite-aspyr-promising-it-wouldnt TLDR; They stole fan mods and used them to fix the game despite specifically saying they would not do that and denying having done that. But...

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/telecoms-manager-admits-to-taking-bribes-to-help-carry-out-sim-swapping-attacks/ TLDR; The URL title basically says all you need to know. Telecom manager was taking bribes to help facilitate SIM swapping attacks. This is why we can’t have nice...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-mfa-bypassing-phishing-kit-targets-microsoft-365-gmail-accounts It's only going after O365 and Gmail now, but I can see how it could easily be expanded. And people wonder why I have trust issues...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/evga-power-supply-allegedly-blows-up-22tb-of-customer-storage-revised-model-from-rma-had-a-different-pin-layout-and-killed-all-sata-powered-devices TLDR; Guy RMA'd his EVGA PSU The one they sent back (same model name) had a different pin...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/micron-sold-all-of-its-high-bandwidth-memory-supply-for-2024-and-most-of Micron Sold All of Its High Bandwidth Memory Supply for 2024 and Most of 2025 We are 3 months in and the next year's worth of stock is gone. Sure that is for the datacenter stuff but...

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/amd-showcases-huge-performance-gains-using-work-graphs-with-radeon-gpu https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/advancing-gpu-driven-rendering-with-work-graphs-in-direct3d-12/...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured-firebase-instances-leaked-19-million-plaintext-passwords Do you think that one day there might be consequences for what can only be gross negligence at this point?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acidpour-data-wiper-targets-linux-x86-network-devices/ https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/acidpour-new-embedded-wiper-variant-of-acidrain-appears-in-ukraine/ God damn it people, this is why we can't have nice things! TLDR; it finds network IoT...

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/18/apple-eu-core-technology-fee-viral-solution/ TLDR; The EU went after Apple and Google for how their stores operate and imposed a new set of rules. Turns out, those rules could potentially bankrupt young developers and their families if their apps suddenly go...

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/amd-updates-freesync-minimum-requirements-144hz-or-higher-refresh-rate-needed-for-1080p-and-1440p-displays Baby steps forward are still steps forward. It’s good to see AMD addressing the low end of the display spectrum that has been a victim of the...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-npu-acceleration-library-goes-open-source https://github.com/intel/intel-npu-acceleration-library Nothing to complain about except maybe there aren’t enough of their NPUs out in the wild.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/report-samsung-throttles-nand-production-by-50 TLDR; Samsung is cutting back NAND production by half to cut supply to bring prices up 2024 is expected to be a big year for the PC upgrade cycle as most of the pandemic purchases were done in 2019 and 2020...

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96424/tsmcs-new-fab-in-japan-built-2-years-24-hour-work-days-site-is-called-nightless-castle/index.html Man, I don't think I could do a 24h work day anymore...

https://wccftech.com/microsoft-directx-directsr-super-resolution-technology-debut-gdc-amd-nvidia-partners The other half of this is the supposed AutoSR feature that is coming in Windows 24H2 which rumors suggested was similar to AMD SuperResolution

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/23/apple-makes-its-own-app-store-less-convenient-in-eu TLDR; The Apple App Store is too easy and intuitive for Apple users, and since 3'rd party stores need to go through more hoops the EU is forcing Apple to implement those same hoops in their UI and...

https://wccftech.com/intel-lunar-lake-cpu-sample-8-cores-8-threads-leak-more-l2-cache-than-l3/ TLDR; Intels first 20A mobile processor seems on track.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-will-end-publisher-support-and-remove-it-from-microsoft-365-in-october-2026/ TLDR; Good bye Publisher, you were good in the 90’s but haven’t kept up with the times.

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/zluda-allows-unmodified-cuda-code-to-run-on-amd-radeon-gpus This is just a fun project that sadly has been passed around too many times and will sadly die on the vine, but the fact they managed to get it working at all gives us a glimpse of what could...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidias-grace-server-cpu-trades-blows-with-amd-and-intel-in-detailed-review-bergamo-genoa-and-emerald-rapids-outperformed-in-over-half-of-the-benchmarks Certainly a strong showing for Nvidia.

Just as an FYI for anybody here, as I just spent far too long dealing with Microsoft on this issue and can't get a response from AMD on it. If you are using an RDNA2-based GPU and you are using Office 365 you can expect some weird graphical artifacts when you type that come across as brief...

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/95979/intels-next-gen-arrow-lake-cpu-teased-with-24-threads-no-hyper-threading-support/index.html https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel-15th-gen-cpus-to-get-rentable-units-why-hyper-threading-is-going-away/ This is just cool, I have no idea how well it will or won't...

New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-glibc-flaw-lets-attackers-get-root-on-major-distros/ The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.37, in an attempt to fix a similar security hole discovered in 2.36.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/tsmcs-3nm-ramp-let-it-survive-the-industry-slump-with-higher-wafer-prices TLDR; TSMC charged 22% more in 2023 than it did in 2022, so even though orders were down across the board they maintained their numbers. TSMC raised prices more on newer nodes than...

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/17/apple-wants-epic-games-legal-expenses/ The last of the Apple/Epic lawsuits are done with Apple sweeping a complete victory and only being required to make some minor changes to policy. Apple now wants Epic to pay the legal bills. So I guess expect some new...

https://www.pcgamer.com/reports-of-rtx-4090s-being-sold-in-china-without-gpus-scares-the-heck-out-of-me So a while back it was news that Chinese AIBs were stripping the AD102s from 4090's to repackage them on server cards to sell them to the data centers, no big deal. So what happened to all...

While Intel has their high NA EUV equipment arriving on site now for install, it looks like TSMC won’t be getting theirs until 2030 with the plan of having it online for 2032, because reasons. https://techovedas.com/3-reasons-why-tsmc-wont-adopt-high-na-euv-lithography-until-2032/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-finally-invent-heat-controlling-circuitry-that-keeps-electronics-cool1/ I've got way too many cold meds running through me right now to process the article into an accurate TLDR so here this goes TLDR; Researchers channeled some Dark...

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/95335/msi-claw-gaming-handheld-16-core-intel-cpu-8-2-2ghz-xe-gpu-up-to-32gb-ram/index.html This looks interesting, not because I want one but it's cool to see Intel finally put out hardware that a 3'rd party looked at and said "You know what, this could actually...