US extends tariff exemption on GPUs and PCBs for another nine months
GPUs thankfully avoid a 25% price hike
MSI is waiting until next year to announce its 7900 XTX and 7900 XT GPUs
Recap: AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT last Tuesday and all their regular board partners participated, bar one. MSI was conspicuously absent and has almost entirely ignored the new generation, prompting fans to ask when the company plans on releasing its custom designs for the GPUs.
Apple, Google, and Mozilla collaborate on Speedometer 3 browser benchmark
Cooperation should ensure fair and accurate benchmarks across Safari, Chrome, and Firefox
Cybersecurity analysts find Fancy Bear sniffing around US satellite network
Fancier and more dangerous than a bear on drugs
Microsoft fixes Windows 11 22H2 gaming performance issues, restarts rollout
The update should reappear in Windows Update over the next few days
Opera GX: A browser for gamers and enthusiasts
Set limits on CPU, RAM, and Network usage, use Discord & Twitch from the sidebar, and connect mobile and desktop browsers.
CPU and GPU SRAM caches are not shrinking, which could increase chip cost or reduce performance
Why it matters: An interesting article posted at WikiChip discusses the severity of SRAM shrinkage problems in the semiconductor industry. Manufacturer TSMC is reporting that its SRAM transistor scaling has completely flatlined to the point where SRAM caches are staying the same size on multiple nodes, despite logic transistor densities continuing to shrink. This is not ideal, and it will force processor SRAM caches to take up more space on a microchip die. This in turn could increase manufacturing costs of the chips and prevent certain microchip architectures from becoming as small as they could potentially be.
inSSIDer analyzes your Wi-Fi to improve signal and performance
inSSIDer analyzes your Wi-Fi settings like channels, signal strength, and the impact of neighboring networks. The graphical results include suggestions for changes you can make to improve your Wi-Fi performance.
Quadruped robot with magnetic feet can climb walls and traverse ceilings
Marvel is designed to make maintenance jobs safer
HTC is prepping a lightweight Meta Quest competitor for CES
A goggles-style form factor
Firefox 108 comes with bug fixes as well as support for Windows 11 efficiency mode and WebMIDI
The last Firefox update of 2022 looks back at 40-year-old audio tech
QR codes were invented in 1994, with what purpose?
Were they created to track packages in warehouses or as an alternative to website URLs?
Death Stranding is coming to the big screen
Kojima Productions and Hammerstone Studios are working on a Death Stranding film
Researchers identify twin exoplanets that may be the first water worlds
Located 218 light-years from Earth
The Nvidia RTX 4080 is Newegg's best-selling GPU, but the card doesn't make Amazon's top 20
Who's more reliable?
WTF?! We've seen plenty of reports about weak RTX 4080 sales, but is Nvidia's expensive Lovelace product really that unpopular? Not according to Newegg, whose list of top-selling graphics cards is topped by the RTX 4080. Amazon, however, has some very different figures.
Microsoft Office deal is down to $29 for a lifetime license
Over 90% off the regular price for Office, available for Windows and Mac
A ransomware gang used credentials from the Lapsus leak to sign malware
Group signed a kernel driver that disabled security software
Henry Cavill to star in and produce Amazon's Warhammer 40,000 series
A dream job for the former Witcher and Superman star
Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists, blocks Mastodon following Elon Musk doxxing row
The ElonJet account suspension led to many more bans
Intel Atom successor spotted, an entry-level chip featuring i9-12900K E-cores
An Atom-like CPU with desktop-class performance from several years ago
Corsair's bendable Xeneon OLED monitor debuts, check out the first reviews
The Corsair Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 is a bendable, 45" OLED gaming monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate. The OLED display looks amazing, all for an eye-watering price of $2,000.
Valve sheds light on future hardware plans, including a Steam Deck revision
Valve also wants to revisit the Steam Controller
Rockstar adds ray tracing to GTA 5, but it's almost too much
Say goodbye to the vampire effect
Amazon teams with Crystal Dynamics to publish the next Tomb Raider game
Made with Unreal Engine 5
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday squashes 49 bugs to end the year
Two zero-day and six critical vulnerabilities have been patched
Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained
#TBT Every few years it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. We've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray tracing -- and now there's a new kid on the block: path tracing.
Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios Hollywood in February
The gang's all here
Microsoft bans cryptomining from its cloud services to protect customers
Only customers with written permission from Microsoft can mine
Dell's Project Luna concept showcases the future of sustainable PCs
How future PC designs and business models could continue to evolve
The US Government will blacklist YMTC and 30 other Chinese companies
China is losing access to critical US-made technology
Oppo unveils Find N2 and Find N2 Flip to compete with Samsung rivals
Oppo's flip phone will be available globally
Google introduces vulnerability scanner for open-source projects
A community database-backed tool for detecting dependency vulnerabilities
Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion of Tesla shares this week
Musk previously said he was done selling, twice
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Review: Is This GPU DOA at $900?
The Radeon RX 7900 XT is a cut down version of the 7900 XTX. In terms of core and memory, the 7900 XT ends up roughly 85% that of the flagship model, but the problem ultimately is with pricing.
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