Kaz

Has intel fixed the drivers for a380? My only experience was horrible, it couldn't play youtube videos without freezing up.

That software engineer worked really hard. I almost feel bad that it came out in the way that it did. What he did was along the lines of a firmware update. Using hardware in ways that are more applicable to the software's needs. Did they engineer their hardware to do this from the beginning? Maybe...

Gamer's Nexus has mentioned this is a problem. In the drive for highest/best performance, mobo partners go ham on processor settings. That's why they stress that they run stuff to spec. It's funny that it takes 4 companies to point it out.

Tom's Hardware Nvidia cards + Unreal engine compiling shaders on intel 13th/th14 gen processors with uncapped power limits is causing trouble. That must have been really fun to troubleshoot. I've heard of companies pointing fingers before, but man those motherboard partners really screwed up! (J/k). If you're an nvidia gamer with a new intel processor you might want to enable intel's default power limit, or at least cap it.

After 2 failed attempts to learn programing, I have finally found a learning platform that I like and am taking the plunge. I wanted to take a minute and hype "Py4e.com". Charles R Severance is a professor who put this program together because he believes everyone should learn to program, not just career programmers. The ability to tell a computer to do exactly what you want it to is such a useful skill. It's a free, no cost course, that I am incredibly impressed with. His course includes lectures, reading material, exercises (writing actual programs), and quizzes. He also works through the assignments, which I have found interesting as he has suggestions that I didn't think of when solving them. He even has a sense of humor! I have paid money for college courses that are not as good as this. Py4E sure trumps my trade school attempt where they handed me a text book and told me to read, for 4 hours, every day. I didn't write one program or learn any specific language, just the concepts of programming. Yeah, I didn't finish that course... I also tried learning Python on Alison.com 3 years ago and was bored to tears by the end of the first chapter. I did 2 chapters and told myself I would do more the next day, I never returned. Professor Severance's course is the first one that actually feels fun, and the only course that has me writing programs. If only I'd found this 10 years ago.

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world ARSTECHNICA.COM Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream. It was implemented on some unstable builds, (Like Kali experimental) so if you have an unstable Linux build, make sure it has been updated. This is a few days old, but since it hasn't been mentioned I thought I'd bring it up.

In my security + class they talked about how a company setup a large (many servers) honey pot that was infected incredibly fast, I think within 12 seconds the entire system had been compromised. Within 24 hours the servers were compromised hundreds of time. It was used as a warning about connecting unpatched systems to the internet. A well designed web crawler doesn't need AI to infect things. I would love to know how they successfully defend a DDOS attack while still allowing standard users to connect. How do they identify attacker traffic from regular traffic? It's very likely Google is already using AI to help do that. What is going to be really scary is when AI blows a hole in all these hardware back doors. Tech debt is a real problem and bot nets are only getting larger. Hardware backdoors are an incredibly short sighted idea. This is an old video, but still an awesome watch about how they have found back doors that were intentionally baked into the CPU. The guy works for intel now, go figure.

Google kept this open while they developed market share. Now they will use that market share to stifle competition. They no longer need 3rd party cookies to collect their data. The manifest v3 change is a lot more than just 3rd party cookies

This is good news, the 40 series was overpriced because they were still trying to sell leftover 30 stock.

Article title makes it seem like they are selling their firmware updates. Some of their monitors just won't support updates. That may have been a sales decision. They have the same panel. Overclockers like us love getting stuff we can flash different firmware on and receive more features. This isn't pitchfork worthy news. Up until last year, none of the monitors I owned could update their firmware. I remember when video games were sold as complete games, rather than having day one updates. Those were the days.

This might be the first real feature of Windows 11 over 10! I generally don't use upscaling or frame generation if I don't need it, but it may be a way to keep older games relevent on new hardware. I'm curious how AI is actually learning this stuff. If it doesn't know right from wrong, good from bad, how does it know what improvements are desired and what isn't? It must be an interesting algorithim if they plan to impliment it on thousands of games at once. There's some talk about different processing units in the article, but it's something I didn't understand. Can anyone explain it better? The only thing I know is, Nvidia GPUs are good with AI, AMD and Intel, not so much. I've always wondered what is physically different with AI compute as opposed to rasterization. The fundamental concept still leads to a 1 or 0, so why is it hardware that's different and not software? Maybe we'll start to see software/firmware bridge the gap that hardware was doing.

This is interesting. Intel may not have licensing rights on Nvidia technology, but if they are building it for them they are in a prime position to leverage Nvidia for their own gains. Sort of like China stealing technology. "We'll make it, just give us your designs". Intel can't copy the product verbatim, but they can still benefit from the R&D, which is no small cost. It's also interesting because it has similarities to Nvidia and AMD board partners. Seems to me that EVGA dropped out because they didn't want to compete with Nvidia. The ability to set the price they sell their components for, set the MSRP, and the ability to compete in the same market was too much to bear. It may indeed be time to buy Intel stock. It will be interesting to see just how many keys to their kingdom Nvidia is handing to Intel. It's still a bit early for Intel graphics cards though. I suspect it will take Intel 3 generations to smooth out the bumps. That is if they stick with it. Rumor has it their 3.5 billion investment may be axed before it can pay off.

Yeah it sounds more like someone bought the 4090, then returned their borked card instead of the 4090. The old swaparoo. Seems more like a 1 off scenerio than something to get worked up over.

$700 for a 7900xt is not bad. I had a 7900xt, it had an intermittent display port so I sent it back and picked up the XTX instead. I can honestly say the 7900xt was enough card for me, and I overspent upgrading to the xtx. They are both really nice graphics cards.

I was just investigating if one of my add-ons was causing the news/latest problem, when I stumbled across this post. Thanks, that fixed it. That's a really obscure setting for such a main feature of the site.