This motherboard has the CPU socket on the back
I’ve had this idea in my head for years that it would be neat if a motherboard manufacturer built a board with all of the connectors on the backside of the board. It sounds foolish at first, but imagine how much more you could do in terms of cable.....»»
Nomad 65W GaN charger review: More power in your socket
Nomad continues to roll out new GaN chargers, with the most recent addition a dual-USB-C output 65W power adapter.Nomad 65W Dual USB-C outputAn emphasis on GaN Read more........»»
Class-Action Lawsuit Targets Company That Harvests Location Data From 50 Million
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A new class-action lawsuit filed in California targets Otonomo, a data broker that harvests location data from tens of millions of vehicles around the world and then sells access to that informati.....»»
Review: Ryzen 7 5800X3D is an interesting tech demo that’s hard to recommend
Big cache benefits games, but lower clock speeds hurts everything else. Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) AMD's AM4 socket has had a long and successful run on the desktop, ushering in the Ryzen proc.....»»
The Ryzen 5800X3D is a final celebration of AM4’s upgradability
The 5800X3D is almost upon us and it will be a landmark in PC gaming. It's a fitting swan song for AMD's AM4 socket......»»
T-Mobile Secretly Bought Its Customer Data From Hackers To Stop Leak. It Failed
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Last year, T-Mobile confirmed it was breached after hackers offered to sell the personal data of 30 million of its customers for 6 bitcoin worth around $270,000 at the time. According to court doc.....»»
Check out this fist-sized socket for next-gen AMD Epyc CPUs
AMD announced the Epyc 7004 CPU series, codenamed Genoa, in November last year. It uses the Zen 4 architecture and is built on the TSMC N5 node, and features 12-channel DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. The CPUs will have as many as 96 cores / 192 threads and as fe.....»»
Avalue shipments scheduled till end of 2022
Embedded motherboard and industrial computer module maker Avalue Technology has obtained orders with shipments scheduled until the end of 2022, according to company president Philip Chang......»»
The new AMD socket may support up to 12TB of memory
A motherboard with the SP5 socket, intended for the next-gen AMD EPYC Genoa processors, was just leaked. It highlights the tremendous power offered by the CPU......»»
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object On Earth, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: An object from another star system crashed into Earth in 2014, the United States Space Command (USSC) confirmed in a newly-released memo. The meteor ignited in a fireball in the skies near Papua N.....»»
Police Records Show Women Are Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
samleecole shares a report from Motherboard: Police records reviewed by Motherboard show that, as security experts immediately predicted when the product launched, this technology has been used as a tool to stalk and harass women. Motherboard request.....»»
OpenSea "Sitting On Ticking Bomb" As Lawsuits Pile Up Over Stolen Apes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The NFT marketplace OpenSea is now facing at least three lawsuits over stolen cartoon apes after lawyers for a New York man filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court claiming that his Bored.....»»
Aaeon sees order visibility till 3Q22
Embedded motherboard and industrial computing device maker Aaeon Technology has obtained orders with shipments scheduled until third-quarter 2022, mainly thanks to fast growing AIoT applications, according to company president and CEO Howard Lin......»»
CIA Document Claims Soviet Union Was Developing Cybernetic Telepathy
Three newly released CIA reports from 1963 and 1964 investigate the Soviet Union's apparent use of extrasensory perception (ESP) and attempted development of "cybernetic telepathy." Motherboard: The documents detail conversations an agent had with So.....»»
Father-Son Team Helps People Brute-Force Their Lost Bitcoin Wallets
Hundreds of people have lost access to their cryptocurrency, and recovering those lost Bitcoins has become a lucrative business. "Motherboard talks to some of the people trying to get back their crypto, and the people who are making that happen in th.....»»
Ennoconn expects component shortage to persist until 1Q23
Industrial motherboard, POS device and kiosk maker Ennoconn has seen components and materials supplies fall 20-22% short of its demand, and expects the shortage to continue until first-quarter 2023, according to the company......»»
US excludes some Chinese imports from tariffs, potentially dropping motherboard and GPU prices
The USTR office has reinstated 352 expired product exclusions from US "Section 301" tariffs on Chinese imports, writes Reuters, which is fewer than the 549 eligible exemptions it had been considering. The products cover a range of the $370 billion wo.....»»
Meet the Secretive US Company Building an "Unbreakable" Internet Inside Russia
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: As Russia makes preparations to possibly disconnect from the global internet in a bid to control the narrative around the invasion of Ukraine, one secretive U.S. company is rushing to lay the fina.....»»
Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Last June, the Department of Defense released a long-awaited and much-hyped document called "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena," detailing the government's knowledge of UFOs an.....»»
MSI expects record revenue in 2022
Motherboard and graphics card maker Micro-Star International (MSI) expects to see its revenue hit bottom for 2022 in the second quarter, with revenue for the year set to hit another record high......»»
Inside a Bitcoin Mine At a Natural Gas Well In Texas
"Motherboard's new CRYPTOLAND documentary series went to West Texas to get into the weeds about cryptocurrency mining and its impact on the environment," writes an anonymous Slashdot reader. From the report: Motherboard visited Giga Energy Solutions.....»»