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It is unusual for a new product to release without support for newer technologies. DisplayPort 2.0 was available starting in 2019. Integration of the product support never came to light, and current and more recent NVIDIA GPUs only support DisplayPort 1.4a. Intel is the only company that is using the current 2.0 standard in the company’s Arc GPUs. Kyle Bennet, a Twitter user, posted the tweet below yesterday. The image is from the HardForum website....

AMD’s AM4 Longevity Plans: More Ryzen 3D V-Cache and Low-End Options In The Works? There have been various rumors of what AMD is planning on with its AM4 platform now that the company has introduced its AM5 platform. The AM5 platform is the path forward, offering Ryzen 7000 CPUs with Zen 4 cores and DDR5 / PCIe 5.0 support. But AMD knows that the vast majority of its userbase won’t be shifting to AM5 just yet....

AMD Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPUs With B2 Stepping Feature Lower Temps, Lower Power Input, Stable Boost Clocks & Better DDR4 Memory Support Our friend and overclocker, Michal Simonek aka FlanK3r from the renowned XtremeSystems forums, shared with us an interesting post that confirms the benefits of the AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs with B2 stepping. Based on the report from the Chinese news outlet, Min.news, ASUS’s in-house and legendary overclocker, Shamino, put the latest Ryzen 9 5900 CPU with B2 stepping to the test....

With the AMD Ryzen 5 5600U laptops, the problem was raised again, and began to see the same repeated drops in performance as seen in previous versions. AMD APU Tuning Utility demonstrates improved battery mode performance in AMD Ryzen 7 4800U powered laptops The Twitter informant and tech enthusiast HXL (@9550pro) recently dropped this post onto the platform: Default battery mode：3225AATU Battery Mode：4177https://t.co/9hGJ94cP1U pic.twitter.com/pIlFpNI85Z — HXL (@9550pro) April 11, 2022 NGA....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU On Par With Intel’s Core i9-13900K In Leaked Cinebench R23 Benchmark, Knocks Out 5950X & 12900K Update: A much better AIDA64 cache and memory benchmark running DDR5-6000 CL30 memory has been leaked. The CPU offers a latency of 64.5ns while producing a memory bandwidth of up to 98,156 MB/s (Read). The latest benchmark was posted over at Chiphell Forums and shows the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X running at its stock configuration on an X670E motherboard under liquid cooling....

AMD Instinct MI300 ‘GFX940’ GPU, Next-Gen Data Center MCM Accelerator, Makes Possible First Appearance In Linux Patch The latest Linux Patch has included a new target for an unreleased AMD ‘GFX940’ GP which has a similar ISA as the Aldebaran ‘GFX90a’ GPU. It is speculated that this chip could be powering AMD’s next-generation Instinct MI300 GPU accelerator and supports all the data-centric features such as MFMA (Matrix-Fused-Multiply-Add), full-rate FP64, and packed FP32 operations....

Ampere’s plans illustrate that Arm server CPUs will broaden the opening in performance with the x86 CPUs During Ampere’s annual update covering the company’s future and the remainder of this year’s business plan, the company revealed that it would release a core 5nm AmpereOne processor later this year. The company intends to advance the processor’s power consumption and performance for the new server CPU, especially after being identified as one of the seven largest data center customers globally — a list includes Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Tencent Cloud....

For those interested, the new update focuses mainly on two categories: security and developer productivity. Obviously, the former is what would interest the readers as the latter would be better for the developers. The Android 13 Developer Developer Preview 2 is available for all Pixel phones starting from Google Pixel 4 series and forward. If you already have the first developer preview installed, you do not have to do anything as you will get the update pretty soon....

Anker PowerCore 26800 is a Massive Power Bank that Provides Power for Days on End - Currently on Sale for Just $52.69 Anker has a power bank and wall charger for all occasions. And if you need something that is packed with power, for times when you won’t be near a wall outlet, then the PowerCore 26800 is a product that is specifically made with you in mind. Right off the bat, this power bank is huge and packs 26800mAh of pure energy when fully charged up....

Apple Files Unreleased Macs in Eurasian Economic Database Ahead of Rumored Spring Event As spotted by Consomac, Apple has filed unreleased Macs with the Eurasian Economic Database. The three Macs are listed to run Apple’s macOS Monterey operating systems and hold the model numbers A2615, A2686, and A2681. Other than this, no additional details are shared. We are still unfamiliar with the design of the new Macs and what Apple chips will be powering the device....

Apple to Bring Support For AVIF Format in Safari With iOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura Apple will launch its iOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura updates publicly later this year, potentially in September alongside the new iPhone 14 series. The news was shared by Jen Simmons on Twitter and if you are unfamiliar, AVIF is the file format that compresses files without compromising the quality of the image. Usually, when users convert images to the JPG format, the quality gets neglected....

Apple is Developing a New 14.1-Inch iPad Pro Model With an M2 Chip, mini-LED Display, and ProMotion, Launch Rumored For Early 2023 The news is shared by display analyst Ross Young on Twitter, citing that Apple is developing a new iPad Pro model with a bigger 14.1-inch display. Young’s supply chain sources also suggest that the new iPad Pro model will come with a mini-LED display and support for ProMotion technology....

Apple Watch Pro to Also Ship Without Any New Sensors, Will Rely on Previous-Generation SoC for Daily Tasks The update comes from none other than Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, stating in a tweet below that the Apple Watch Pro will not feature a flat display but will resemble the current-generation flagship smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 7. Whether or not the lack of external aesthetics will determine the success of the wearable is anyone’s guess, but Gurman does add one change arriving for the device....

Analyst Suggests Apple Watch Could Feature Satellite Connectivity in a Future Variant The news was shared by Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, suggesting that the Apple Watch could house a new satellite connectivity feature. According to Gurman, Apple could equip the wearable with the new functionality this year or in 2023. Apple is planning to release three new models of the Apple Watch this year and the new connectivity option could be housed in at least one of them....

Apple is Planning to Launch Mac Pro With M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme Chips, Mac mini to Feature M2 Pro Mark Gurman from Bloomberg shared in his latest Power On newsletter that Apple is working on M2 Pro, M2 Max, M2 Ultra, and M2 Extreme for various Macs. A new model of the Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro chips has been rumored for quite a while and the release time frame is unknown at this point....

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID), an American manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, just might end up as an ancillary beneficiary of the ongoing dramatic rise in global crude oil prices. The global crude oil benchmark, colloquially known as the Brent Crude Oil, closed yesterday at $123.70, corresponding to year-to-date gains of over 62 percent as global financial centers grapple with the fallout from Russia’s unprovoked incursion into Ukraine and the attendant volley of financial sanctions emanating from Western powers on Russian commodity and energy exports....

CosmicStrand “UEFI Firmware Rootkit” Malware Affects ASUS & Gigabyte’s Motherboards With Intel Chipsets, Can Completely Crash Victim Machine The report states that CosmicStrand is a type of UEFI Firmware Rootkit, a type of malware that implants itself in the deepest corners of the OS, making them very difficult to detect and since this is a rootkit we are talking about, it will ensure that the affected computer stays within the infected state even when the OS is reinstalled or the user replaces the HDD entirely....

So, why is this? Well, as spotted by @MarshSMT, ATLUS launched a lawsuit against the creators of the ReImagine project. The lawsuit states that this project has “caused and will continue to cause irreparable damage to ATLUS unless restrained by [the New York District Court].” According to the suit, the company is now seeking to shut down ReImagine and receive $25,000 damages per DMCA violation. So far, the company has succeeded at least on the former objective, as in a statement made by the owners of the project over on the ReImagine discord, it was revealed that the game would be shut down....

Launching on December 6th, 2022, as part of Back 4 Blood’s Annual Pass, Deluxe Edition, and Ultimate Edition, the River of Blood will see another Story mode expansion, containing five maps for players to traverse. The update also sees the release of a new character Tala; a former cultist outcast now turned Cleaner who is accompanied by a Ridden companion named Jeff, a friendly Tallboy that can be summoned to assist the team....

Reddit user TheBause managed to hack the RTX Remix from Portal RTX into Battlefield 1942 with interesting results. The user’s first attempt showed huge lighting improvements thanks to the ray traced renderer but also came with the usual issue of excessively reflective materials. However, fellow Reddit user Happysufigeee suggested adjusting the roughness bias from the default value to something between 0.6 and 0.9, and this simple tweak essentially fixed that issue....