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    AMD GPU Generational Performance Part 1 @ [H]

    While complicated by the turbo behaviour of more recent cards, it would be really interesting to see a clock-for-clock comparison across the various GCN versions.
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    NVIDIA RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti Unclothed @ [H]

    Anyone remember the 8800 Ultra launch, with Unified Shaders (now used by every GPU)? Or the good old GeForce 256 (hello there hardware texture & lighting)? I'm more surprised so many engines have raytracing support in place already (though Unity appears to be noticeably absent). Then again...
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    Dell and HP Resist the NVIDIA GPP Leash - So Far

    I'd like to see the text around those exceptionally small snippets. With every contract I've read, I could make them say about 5 mutually opposing things depending on how I cropped bits out of them.
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    GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

    The accusation that Nvidia are offering brand promotion only to brands that are exclusively for Nvidia GPUs: well, duh? That's rather the entire point of the exercise. Note that even by Kyle's admission there is NO clause preventing the same company selling cards from both GPU manufacturers...
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    AMD CES 2018 Announcement Roundup

    Early 2019, and that's for Radeon Instinct. Consumer stuff will follow sometime after that. I kind of suspect Navi may come simultaneously with 'Vega refresh', unless the cost of both HBM2 and interposer production and integration drops dramatically in the next year. AMD may want to cut their...
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    Quick Facts about Meltdown and Spectre

    Immune, he says! TEMPEST may prevent RF leakage (unless you duct it through the building;s plumbing as a waveguide) but everyone needs power. I picked that link because it's a passive technique requiring no modification of the target, but if you can infiltrate code you can exfiltrate data via...
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    NVIDIA Big Format Gaming Displays - BFGD

    So we've got: UHD 120Hz G-sync HDR... but only 27" (and hit by panel delays) 32" UHD G-sync... but no HDR and only up to 60Hz 35" 240 Hz Ultrawide G-sync HDR... but delayed yet again due to lack of panels (and no UHD) UHD 120Hz G-Sync HDR ... but 65"! (and probably costing both arms and legs)...
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    Has hardware requirements changed much?

    If you're looking to buy a Rift and meet the recommended spec, you're good. Oculus mandates anything on Oculus Home (outside of the Early Access section) be able to run on that spec, so even if you buy the same game from Steam those optimisations will still be present. This will be true for the...
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    Quick Facts about Meltdown and Spectre

    Generally known as "Van-Eck Phreaking". It;s one of the easier emission attacks, as VGA is nicely analog squirted over a long antenna (the cable) and already helpfully encoded onto carrier signals. The came attack, with more sensitive detectors and more decoding workload, and be performed...
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    Quick Facts about Meltdown and Spectre

    MELTDOWN also affects some ARM cores (including Apple's custom variants), and Redhat's listing for CVE-2017-5754 also covers POWER variants so that may be vulnerable too (still looking into this, IBM's statement doe snot specify which vulnerabilities they are affected by, just that they are...
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    Optimus Water Cooling V1 Intel CPU Water Block Review @ [H]

    Looks like these are US only for now (no resellers, they only ship to the US when purchased directly), which is unfortunate.
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    Japanese Company Preparing for Country’s First Private Rocket Launch

    It's a sounding rocket, rather than an orbital rocket. There are a huge variety commercially available, so this is more surprising that Japan does not have a domestic sounding rocket supplier than anything else.
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    Elon Musk Calls Zuckerberg’s Understanding of AI “Limited”

    The Connection Machines devices had a novel system architecture, but were not magically AIs because of it, general or otherwise. There is a lot more to it than mere architecture.
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    Elon Musk Calls Zuckerberg’s Understanding of AI “Limited”

    I can see two ways of 'general AI' coming into existence: 1) A dramatic change in our level of understanding at a fundamental mechanical level of what consciousness is and how it works, and the ability to replicate it artificially and arbitrarily or 2) An evolutionary development from...
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    Wisconsin Company Offers Employees Microchip Implants

    I would hope these are not just standard RFID tags like those used in pet tagging (i.e. that do little more than yell thie ID number when powered by an external field), but proper encrypted tags using D-H key exchange to authenticate, similar to NFC cards used in public transport and access...
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