PSA: Don"t Buy This Asrock Motherboard
In testing new Intel B660 motherboards for an upcoming VRM roundup, we felt compelled to stop and look at the Asrock B660M-HDV, only because Asrock is at it again, misleading consumers with a garbage product......»»
Upgrading to Intel 12th-gen Alder Lake: Motherboard, cooler, and more
Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake platform is here, but you'll need more than a processor if you want to upgrade. Our checklist includes everything you need......»»
Portugal Makes It Illegal For Your Boss To Text You After Work
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The Portuguese parliament has passed new labour laws to give workers a healthier work-life balance and to attract "digital nomads" to the country. Employers could face penalties for contacting emp.....»»
A Bitcoin Mine In Navajo Nation Flares Tensions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Just outside of Shiprock, New Mexico, on land belonging to the Navajo Nation, a Bitcoin mine owned and operated by a Canadian investment company consumes seven megawatts of power each month -- eno.....»»
The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A tweak to the iPhone's repairability that has been long prophesied and feared has finally come to pass, giving staggering new urgency for legislation that makes repair more accessible: The iPhone.....»»
Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner
Intel's power-gulping i9-12900K crushes AMD's Ryzen 9 5950x—even multithreaded. Enlarge / Our test rig marries the Alder Lake i9-12900K (pictured) or the i5-12600K with 64 GB DDR5 SDRAM, an MSI Carbon motherboard, SK Hynix Gold NVMe.....»»
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants the City To Have Its Own Cryptocurrency
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Former police officer, vegan, and mayor-elect of New York City Eric Adams has dreams of putting the Big Apple on the blockchain. In an interview with Bloomberg Radio on Wednesday, Adams bragged th.....»»
Modder pleads guilty to piracy charges, will pay Nintendo $4.5 million
Gary Bowser admits SX OS devices' "primary design [was] to play pirated ROMs." A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. [credit:.....»»
DDR5 memory kits reach $400, and most have sold out
With Alder Lake, which you can read all about here, buyers can choose between using DDR4 and DDR5, though not at the same time, and the type you use will likely depend on what your motherboard supports......»»
The "Dune" Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Oscar winning Dune screenwriter Eric Roth banged out the screenplay using the MS-DOS program Movie Master. Roth writes everything using the 30-year-old software. "I work on an old computer program.....»»
The FBI"s Internal Guide For Getting Data From AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A newly obtained document written by the FBI lays out in unusually granular detail how it and other law enforcement agencies can obtain location information of phones from telecommunication compan.....»»
Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are In "Pandemonium" After Ransomware Attack
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In the early hours of Sunday morning, hackers took down the corporate servers and systems of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a giant U.S. TV conglomerate that owns or operates more than 600 channels acr.....»»
Bitcoin"s Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Bitcoin is on a tear, reaching an all time high price of $67,000 for 1 BTC on Wednesday, buoyed by a series of approvals for Bitcoin futures funds on the stock market. But on one major U.S. exchan.....»»
Man Arrested For Uncensoring Japanese Porn With AI In First Deepfake Case
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploita.....»»
Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas" Crumbling Electric Grid
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Texas' energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people. Sen. Ted C.....»»
Gigabyte on track to see 2021 revenue top NT$120 billion
Motherboard and graphics card maker Gigabyte Technology is on track to see its revenues top NT$120 billion (US$4.3 billion) in 2021, thanks to robust demand for cryptomining and gaming applications, according to company chairman Dandy Yeh. China reg.....»»
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About To Become a Very Big Business
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: At Duke University's Marcus Center for Cellular Cures, parents can enroll their children into a number of clinical trials that aim to study the effects of cells derived from umbilical cord blood o.....»»
Navy Facebook Account Hacked To Stream "Age of Empires"
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The U.S. Navy has lost control of the official Facebook page for its destroyer-class warship, the USS Kidd. Someone has hacked the page and, for the past two days, done nothing but stream Age of E.....»»
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks To Deploy During Civil Unrest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: [O]rganizers and programmers with the Mycelium Mesh Project are [...] designing a decentralized, off-grid mesh network for text communications that could be deployed quickly during government-indu.....»»
Cryptomining continues to grow as demand for graphics cards soar and motherboards wane
Taiwan-based motherboard and graphics card manufacturers saw profits skyrocket in the first half of the year, thanks to increased demand for PCs driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the cryptomining wave at the beginning of the year......»»
Intel will equip certain Alder Lake-M and Alder Lake-S processors with a GT3 Xe graphics engine
Intel's first batch of Alder Lake processors for desktops will break cover in the coming weeks, and we've already seen extensive leaks for everything from specifications, benchmark results, motherboard chipsets, new stock coolers, as well as what to.....»»