What is a motherboard?
What is a motherboard, exactly? Although it's clear your motherboard is important, its purpose isn't as clear. Here's everything you need to know......»»
Buy the Framework laptop’s $399 motherboard to make your own mini PC
Parts could also help you repurpose an old Framework board after upgrading. Enlarge (credit: Framework) We were fans of Framework's modular, upgradeable laptop when it was released last year, thanks to its nice design and user.....»»
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.....»»
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.....»»
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.....»»
AMD"s Robert Hallock confirms Ryzen 7 5800X3D overclocking limitations
Earlier this month, we heard that AMD's much-awaited Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU would not support manual overclocking as the company asked motherboard manufacturers to disable the functionality in their BIOS/UEFI......»»
Superbug-Infected Chicken Is Being Sold All Over the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard in collaboration with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent not-for-profit news organization based in London: Campylobacter is America's biggest cause of foodborne illness, just ah.....»»
Intel B660 Motherboard VRM, Mid-Range Roundup
In this roundup we have 8 new Intel B660 motherboards that go for from $150 to $250. Spoiler alert: We're looking at a hefty 70% performance difference between the fastest and slowest B660 boards using fast CPU......»»