The Federal Communications Commission announced today that it will be voted to begin the process of bringing back the net neutrality rules that were removed in 2017. Now there will be an official vote to (re)impose net neutrality rules on April 25th, 2024...
So, this all started with a guy in the steam forums that claims he has tracked down the cause of "Out of video memory trying to allocate a rendering resource" errors and crash to desktop while gaming to being defective cores that actually seem to have been fine out of the box but then seem be...
so i've just picked up an older odd ball album that that i thought was flac by the file size of the album, but it came in m4a. looking in the details it was created with apple lossless audio converter (alac) and the bitrate and file size match that conclusion. (but not sure why it wouldn't...
and you think since you can play this single player, they'd keep it playable. you'd think ubisoft wouldn't want the bad press right now? but this looks like our digital future gentleman.
so i made a post a while back about that new solid state cooling that was demoed at ces well it looks like they teamed up with Phison which used 2 airjet mini's to cool their new E26 and supposedly it's currently the fastest ssd on the planet at 14GB/s read / 12GB/s write. guess only time will...
well, in case anyone was thinking about grabbing a console to get "early access" to GTA, you may want to take this in to consideration.
People are complaining they're accounts are getting banned and they lost all their purchased games and sony is acting like they don't care and not giving...
so i just seen someone post about this on reddit. can't find any info or a model number on their website. but i did find a couple of similar products that range anywhere from $3,000 - $16,000 knowing asus they'll be towards the high end. i'll post the other models i found at the bottom and...
so i just found out about this case today and figured i'd make a post being that i couldn't find one via search. I guess it came out ~ a year ago though so not really news. looks pretty sweet but the price is just stupid so i don't see myself ever picking one up. well, enjoy the ride! (links...
so apparently this is old news but i just got a prompt to enable 24hr OTP deletion on my android phone
i had to look up what an OTP even was, One Time Password. how does google even know i have an OTP anyway? and i don't think i even do. (actually i don't i just checked)
well if you needed...
Well you heard it. could be the end of youtube for Louis but i doubt they're gonna kick someone with that many subscribers but they may make him go to strike school to keep his channel? So this app we're talking about is something that they've been working on where you can follow the creators...
so i just found out that youtube is attempting to block people from using youtube if you are using any kind of ad blocker. just started getting popups on certain videos telling me "ad blockers not allowed" but i could just close the box and keep rolling. now the popup window's on a cooldown so...
So i noticed the version of afterburner i had installed was no longer applying the voltage tweak to my card, so i installed the latest version which tripped my virus program (ESET nod32) so after a little digging found out there's a big security hole that's been used for ransomware attacks that...
Rougly a week ago Mullvad VPN was raided by National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police that showed up with 2 warrants and intended to seize computers with customer data. But ended up leaving with nothing after lawyers stepped in and pointed out that the company maintains a...
aka: the ban tiktok act, house bill s.686 could fundementally change the way we use the internet. now while i'm sure we all know tiktok is a disease thats warping the minds of our youth and a spy tool by the ccp, that i could care less if it disapears, that's not the point. This bill leaves it...
"BlackLotus has become the first publicly known malware capable of bypassing secure boot defenses." (and therefore also tpm) guess it was only a matter of time?
https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/blacklotus-becomes-first-uefi-bootkit.html
BlackLotus malware
ESET researchers discovered the first...
so i'm about to replace the tim on my 980ti which still has factory paste which is prob dried out because it's been running a little warm. i already have good paste (gelid gc-extreme) for the gpu but man i know by now the thermal tape is gonna pretty much squashed on the vrms and i know the...
The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X features 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock speed of 4.5 GHz and a boost clock speed of 5.4 GHz. The CPU is supposed to have a TDP of 105W and should cost around $480
read all about it here...
Riot Games will start recording and "temporarily" storing voice chats starting July 13. Supposedly for now it won't be used to assess behavior but to train language models. 🤔 But there are future plans on expansion of the tool for use in banning toxic players. For now completely disabling...
Windows 11 update KB5012643 and Windows 10 update KB5011831 both break DX9 on some gpu's. Microsoft isn't identifying which gpu's and has already issued a workaround for those affected in the form of a Known Issue Rollback (KIR)
I will link an article about it and the MS page where you can...
"TechPowerUp has verified a rumor posted over on VideoCardz that is quite puzzling, as AMD has asked motherboard makers to remove support for overclocking in the UEFI/BIOS for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. When we asked for a reason as to why this was the case, we were told that AMD was keeping that...
Official specs released. uses 7nm zen 3 architecture, so looks like they are saving 6nm for zen 4. expected to launch in April or May
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d
i was surprised by this, and also that the news was initially posted to Something Awful by longtime forum administrator Fragmaster. (not sure if there's any relation?) who was a personal friend of Kyanka, and Motherboard managed to confirm with the Lee's Summit Missouri police department that...
So people were already up in arms over a kernel level driver being required to play COD warzone and vanguard after an upcoming update.
according to activision: “RICOCHET Anti-Cheat’s backend anti-cheat security features will launch alongside Call of Duty: Vanguard, and later this year with the...
according to them "the tool could help diagnose deppression and cognitive decline."
so what happens when it's detected? authorities allerted? rights suspended? this is some 1984 stuff if you ask me...
I'm don't want to get to opinionated on this so just gonna say i don't think this is a good idea.
Driver's Licenses Will Soon Be Coming To The iPhone And Apple Watch In These 8 States
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033675691/drivers-license-apple-iphone-apple-watch-tsa
well like the title says... wow, just hope you don't get falsely flagged. seems awful intrusive to me, but that's why i don't use apple products.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/apple-software-scan-phones-child-sex-abuse-images
so i'm wondering what time they go on sale and where. i found a (supposed) list of retailers that will be carrying them (will link below), but there are still no listings and it is close to 7am est on 11/18. anyone got any info or links on like an actual "on sale" time or whats going on? I...
Haven't checked all the version numbers but for the TUF models it's version 2802:
2020/10/23 19.86 MBytes
TUF GAMING X570-PLUS BIOS 2802
"1. Updated AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.1.0.0 Patch B
2. Improve system performance and stability
3. Improved DRAM compatibility"
will also support all upcoming...
Western Digital is launching their first PCIE 4.0 ssd the SN850 NVME and comes with or without heatsink and are available for pre order on wd's site.
Read more over at the verge.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21507807/western-digital-wd-first-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssds-sn850
So i use to own a Corsair K70 Lux w/ reds. It had a couple beer baths and dishwasher showers but eventually bit the dust. So after a couple months w/ membrane i finally grabbed an HP Omen Encoder w/ cherry mx browns. My first impression is it feels like a heavier red. I was really expecting...
So i've been wondering why the chipset for B550 doesn't need chipset cooling. It includes PCIE 4.0 and I thoughts that was the reason X570 was running so hot?
So at this point why would someone want to go with X570 when you can get say msi's B550 tomahawk with the same vrm as the one they are...
According to the article Malwarebytes has already sent notification to assurance wireless (the distributor and service provider of government freephones) and has gotten no response. Maybe because it is purposely put on there...
So like i said i just upgraded one of my computers from win7 32bit to win10 64bit doing a clean install. System is AMD 1090t on 785 chipset with 6GB DDR2 800 4-4-4-12-16 2t running in dual channel. I use command prompt as administrator and type in "winsat mem" on win7 i was getting ~16000 MB/s...
found this awsome fix and figured i would share it here in case anyone else here is still running this card. (like i am on my mom's pc)
original page can be found here...
so after purchasing the tuf x570 and figuring out that they had removed a bunch of overclocking options in the bios such as BLCK adjustment (yeah), all the spread spectrum settings, also all the memory settings in the digi+ vrm section (which helped me oc my corsair dominator platinum on my...
Thought this may have been one of the main reasons to rent one of these... you know, so you're not driving your car?
not sure if this is tech news? more of a public service anouncement. but the only way to rent one is through their app, so kinda tech related....
NOVEMBER 2019 INTEL PLATFORM UPDATE
https://blogs.intel.com/technology/2019/11/ipas-november-2019-intel-platform-update-ipu/#gs.gi8isb
guess it's another round of perfomance hits for team blue?