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Intel Core i9-14900K at 8 GHz delivered 1310 FPS in Counter-Strike 2 and updated the DDR5 overclocking record

It is natural that the recently released Intel processors of the Raptor Lake Refresh family began to update extreme overclocking records with the active support of the manufacturer itself. At the SXSW Sydney 2023 event in Australia, a team of local enthusiasts Team.AU showed what the Core i9-14900K is capable of at 8 GHz in the game Counter-Strike 2, and also registered a record for memory overclocking to DDR5-11618 mode. Source […]

Apple is working hard to expand the use of artificial intelligence

Statements by Tim Cook about Apple's involvement in the development of generative artificial intelligence systems over the years, according to prominent Bloomberg columnist Mark Gurman, hide the ugly truth about the company's frantic attempts to integrate into a new market trend. Since the end of last year, Apple has literally been trying to catch up in this area. Image source: AppleSource: 3dnews.ru

Chrome plans to implement a mode for hiding the user's IP address

Google has begun implementing an IP Protection feature in the Chrome browser, designed to hide the user's IP address from site owners. The new feature can be used as a built-in anonymizer, aimed primarily at preventing movement tracking, but, among other things, suitable for bypassing blocking implemented both on the side of sites and at the level of telecom operators. Technically proposed […]

Apple is working on HomePod smart speaker with LCD display

There are rumors that Apple is developing a new version of the HomePod smart speaker, which will be equipped with an LCD display. To confirm this, an image of a HomePod appeared on the Internet, with a display at the top. Image source: @KosutamiSan / XSource: 3dnews.ru

Video of the day: construction of the 2-Eflops supercomputer El Capitan

Livermore National Laboratory. E. Lawrence (LLNL) of the US Department of Energy published a video (see below) demonstrating the process of assembling the El Capitan computing complex, which will become the most powerful supercomputer in the world. The current TOP500 ranking is led by the Frontier system installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), also owned by the US Department of Energy. Frontier performance reaches 1,194 Eflops. The El Capitan supercomputer will be able to […]

Microsoft changed auto-formatting in Excel, which caused human genes to deteriorate

In 2020, scientists from the Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) announced changes to the rules for naming human genes. Since then, human genes and the proteins they express have been named according to formatting in Microsoft Excel, since the names accepted at that time were automatically converted by Excel into dates. Now it has become known that Microsoft developers have changed the formatting function so […]

The nghttp3 1.0 library with the implementation of the HTTP/3 protocol has been published

The first stable release of the nghttp3 project is available, developing a library in the C language with an implementation of the HTTP/3 protocol. The version of the library for the HTTP/2 protocol developed by the same project is used as the basis for the mod_http2 module, which is part of the Apache http server. The project's developments are also used in the Curl utility. The library code is distributed under the MIT license. The HTTP/3 standard defines the use of the QUIC (Quick […]

Release of bootable firmware Libreboot 20231021

The release of the free bootable firmware Libreboot 20231021 has been presented. The update has been assigned the status of a test release (stable releases are published approximately once a year, the last stable release was in June). The project develops a ready-made assembly of the coreboot project, which provides a replacement for proprietary UEFI and BIOS firmware, responsible for initializing the CPU, memory, peripherals and other hardware components, while minimizing binary inserts. Libreboot aims […]

IBM has developed an AI chip with internal data storage, and it is an order of magnitude faster than Nvidia accelerators

IBM announced that it has completed testing of a new processor prototype for artificial intelligence tasks. The new development, codenamed NorthPole, proved to be 4000 times better than the company’s previous AI architecture, called TrueNorth, and “breathtakingly” outperformed all the most advanced central and graphic processors. IBM NorthPole processor on a PCIe card. Image source: IBMSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: Lords of the Fallen - attempt number two. Review

Sometimes they come back. It’s not very clear why CI Games stubbornly tried to continue Lords of the Fallen, restarting the project twice. The first part is sometimes remembered, but only as “the first of many soulslices” - it was received with restraint. And yet, either a sequel or a reboot made it to release. Was it worth the effort in the end? […]

Release of Apache 2.4.58 http server with elimination of DoS vulnerabilities in HTTP/2

The release of the Apache HTTP server 2.4.58 has been published, which introduces 33 changes and eliminates three vulnerabilities, two of which are related to the possibility of carrying out a DoS attack on systems using the HTTP/2 protocol. CVE-2023-45802 A memory exhaustion condition is created due to a delayed memory deallocation after an HTTP/2 stream is reset by a packet with the RST flag. Since memory is not freed immediately after processing [...]