Network and Beyond NaB

Meta writes that it took down the "small" network, which originated in China, for violating its policy on inauthentic behavior. Covering Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, it's the first known propaganda campaign originating in China to target US audiences ahead of November's midterms. https://www.techspot.com/news/96145-china-based-network-tried-influence-midterms-but-long.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple's $999 (starting price) handset arrived alongside the iPhone 14 Pro Max and standard iPhone 14 earlier this month. But not all buyers are happy with their purchase. Some Redditors have reported that the device is randomly restarting approximately every 10 minutes while charging. https://www.techspot.com/news/96129-iphone-14-pro-owners-finding-more-problems-apple.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

At the upcoming InnoTrans transportation tradeshow in Berlin, Germany, LG will demonstrate a transparent OLED display. The panels are intended to replace train car windows. Germany's premier railway company Deutsche Bahn will also have a new concept train on show installed with the OLED transparent windows. The display functions just... https://www.techspot.com/news/96120-lg-display-wants-change-commute-transparent-oled-windows.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Vanity Fair reports that 91-year-old Jones has given his blessing to artificial recreations of the Darth Vader voice, a role he has occupied for 45 years. The technique was utilized in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series in which workers at Ukrainian startup Respeecher recreated Jones' voice to make it sound like... https://www.techspot.com/news/96112-james-earl-jones-gives-blessing-ai-recreation-darth.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As Tom's Hardware explains, it all comes down to 3D NAND selection. To saturate a PCIe 5.0 x4 drive (15.754 GBps in both directions), you need 3D NAND with a 2400 MTps interface. Micron was the first to announce this type of memory back in July. SK Hynix and YMTC... https://www.techspot.com/news/95924-why-pcie-50-ssds-limited-10-gbps-while.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Screenshots of an unnamed card appeared on China's Chiphell forums, so take them with the usual pinch of salt. They were shared on Twitter by user HXL (via VideoCardz). The 3DMark Time Spy Extreme score is a massive 20,192, suggesting this is the RTX 4090, which scored 19,000 in another... https://www.techspot.com/news/95922-rtx-4090-78-faster-than-rtx-3090-ti.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

We already know about Intel's entry-level A380—read Steve Walton's review of the underwhelming desktop graphics card here—so most of the interest will be on the higher-end A770 and A750. https://www.techspot.com/news/95920-intel-reveals-full-spec-list-four-arc-alchemist.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Even though we're still weeks away from Intel's 13th-gen Core CPUs announcement, Igor's LAB has published some leaked slides confirming the full specs of the desktop Raptor Lake lineup. The company will initially release six unlocked SKUs, with the cheaper non-K processors likely arriving next year around CES. https://www.techspot.com/news/95914-leaked-slides-confirm-specs-upcoming-intel-13th-gen.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Jeep claims the Recon will have the ability to cross the Rubicon Trail and drive back to town on a single charge. https://www.techspot.com/news/95912-jeep-introduce-four-electric-suvs-across-us-europe.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Geekbench test results from an iPhone 14 Pro (model iPhone15,3) reveal a single-core score of 1879 and a multi-core score of 4664. As MacRumors highlights, an iPhone 13 Pro with last year's A15 Bionic chip is capable of 1707 in the single-core test and 4659 in the multi-core assessment. The... https://www.techspot.com/news/95910-iphone-14-pro-geekbench-results-highlight-modest-a16.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Xbox boss Phil Spencer last week said that Microsoft is committed to keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation for several more years beyond the current deal Sony has with Activision, which covers the series' next three releases, including October's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. https://www.techspot.com/news/95907-sony-calls-microsoft-offer-keep-call-duty-playstation.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

While there's no mention of the RTX 4000 series specifically, it's hard to imagine that a tweet for something called ProjectBeyond is for anything other than Lovelace. The post comes from the Nvidia GeForce account, so it's obviously gaming-related and not part of Nvidia's other businesses, such as AI, datacenters,... https://www.techspot.com/news/95906-nvidia-teases-projectbeyond-which-almost-certainly-rtx-4000.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A new high-end controller and increased retail price are not the only recent changes Sony is making to the PlayStation 5. A few days ago, a new hardware model of the 9th-gen gaming machine hit retailers in Australia, the second revision to arrive on the market after the console's initial... https://www.techspot.com/news/95899-new-playstation-5-hardware-revision-loses-weight-cuts.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

It is the largest and brightest star-form region in the Local Group, a collection of "nearby" galaxies that also includes the Milky Way. https://www.techspot.com/news/95897-nasa-james-webb-telescope-captures-cosmic-tarantula.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bitcoin is down more than 6% so far this week. Ethereum, the second-largest crypto by market cap, dropped from $1,678 on Tuesday to $1,493 a few hours ago. It seems the crypto winter that followed the collapse of TerraUSD in May is showing no signs of ending. https://www.techspot.com/news/95892-cryptocurrency-market-dips-below-1-trillion-bitcoin-nears.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As usual, the star of the show will be the new iPhone series. We're expecting a 6.1-inch standard iPhone 14, a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max (or Plus), a 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro, and a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max. You might notice that there's no iPhone Mini expected this year.... https://www.techspot.com/news/95890-far-out-watch-iphone-14-series-new-apple.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As we previously reported, Cyberpunk2077's first story expansion is still a ways away, slated for sometime next year. However, that is the total of what we knew about the upcoming content drop — until now. https://www.techspot.com/news/95886-cyberpunk-2077-expansion-pack-not-compatible-ps4-or.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A few months back, Buick global VP Duncan Aldred said the division would be all-electric by 2030. The rapid electrification effort will require a substantial investment from dealers who will need to update their facilities with charging stations and specialized equipment to service EVs in their shops. Some dealers have... https://www.techspot.com/news/95883-buick-buy-out-dealers-who-dont-want-invest.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Samsung's T7 Touch is a lightning-fast portable SSD that sports AES 256-bit encryption and a fingerprint reader. The 1TB version is down to $125 on Amazon today. https://www.techspot.com/products/storage/samsung-t7-touch.213638/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Not any modern GPU, of course. https://www.techspot.com/trivia/10-playstation-4-powered-gpu-roughly-equal-what-pc/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

With the underwhelming, entry-level Arc 3 A380 the only one of Intel's new dedicated graphics cards available, we've been waiting to see what the more powerful Arc A7 series can offer. There have been concerns that Intel was once again about to miss a deadline with these products: it said... https://www.techspot.com/news/95874-intel-arc-alchemist-a770-a750-cards-launch-soon.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Peter Eckersley is not one of the most well-known names in the computer industry, but his contribution to modern internet and technology are notable. A computer scientist born in Melbourne, Australia, Eckersley worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and elsewhere to improve and advocate privacy, net neutrality and online security. https://www.techspot.com/news/95870-peter-eckersley-tech-activist-founder-encrypt-dies-43.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Amazon quietly introduced the 3-day review delay around the time it launched its reboot of A League of Their Own, which was also review bombed. The Rings of Power has been experiencing something similar: on Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 84% rating from critics and a 37% from user-submitted reviews. https://www.techspot.com/news/95868-amazon-tries-stop-rings-power-trolls-3-day.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Internet of Things is still a thing. IoT is one of those perennially over the horizon technologies, it is has been five years away for almost 20 years. And as much as many companies have built sizable "IoT" businesses, the big vision still seems distant. https://www.techspot.com/news/95869-trillion-t-word-internet-things.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

If you own a compatible LG TV, live in the US, and would like to access the marketplace, the app can be downloaded from the television's home screen. There aren't any NFTs available just yet; the first drops, a set from sculptor Barry X Ball, land on September 22. LG... https://www.techspot.com/news/95865-lg-adding-nft-platform-smart-tvs.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The claim stems from Nuvia's special architecture licenses obtained from Arm in 2019, which allowed the startup to create Arm-compatible processor cores. According to Arm, rights were non-transferrable, making them unusable by Qualcomm following its acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Formal license termination in 2022 required Qualcomm to destroy and... https://www.techspot.com/news/95862-arm-sues-qualcomm-bid-destroy-acquired-nuvia-chip.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The video is staged as an interview with Ryan Shrout, Intel marketer, posing the questions to infamous engineer Tom Petersen, best known for his 15 years as an Nvidia frontman. Now he's peddling the benefits of Intel's ray tracing hardware acceleration — go figure. He explains it well in the... https://www.techspot.com/news/95861-intel-shows-arc-a770-beating-rtx-3060-ray.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google developer Jeff Johnson explained how the vulnerability can be triggered in several ways, all of which grant the page permissions to overwrite clipboard contents. Once granted, users can be affected by actively triggering a cut or copy action, clicking on links in the page, or even taking actions as... https://www.techspot.com/news/95859-newly-identified-browser-bug-allows-websites-overwrite-clipboard.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 is now available, but instead of doing a traditional phone review, we'll be looking at its pros and cons in terms of the device itself and using a foldable for the first time. https://www.techspot.com/review/2522-samsung-galaxy-fold-4/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Sony just unveiled the Xperia 5 IV, a more compact version of its flagship phone released earlier this year. It's not tiny at 156mm x 67mm x 8.2mm, but it is smaller than most modern phones, making it a great alternative to the Samsung Galaxy S22 or the Asus Zenfone 9. https://www.techspot.com/news/95855-sony-xperia-5-iv-compact-phone-5000mah-battery.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As part of his reelection campaign, President Emmanuel Macron pledged to make electric vehicles more affordable to low-income households. The French government already offers subsidies on the purchase of EVs (up to 6,000 euros for an EV priced under 47,000 euros) but some contend they are still out of reach... https://www.techspot.com/news/95852-france-formulating-100-month-subsidized-ev-lease-program.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family lets members share their subscription with up to four friends and family members, and each account receives the usual benefits of Game Pass Ultimate such as access to over 100 games, EA Play membership, and console multiplayer. Group members will also have their own... https://www.techspot.com/news/95850-microsoft-confirms-xbox-game-pass-friends-family-plan.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Starting with CPUs, August was another period in which Intel scored a rare win over AMD as team blue's processor share among participants rose by 1.65% to 67.91%. AMD had enjoyed many months of chipping away at Intel's lead in this area, but Lisa Su's company has experienced both rises... https://www.techspot.com/news/95849-august-steam-survey-intel-up-oculus-quest-2.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Analyst firm TrendForce writes that its latest investigation shows the NAND Flash market failed to experience its usual peak-season surge in demand. The lack of demand has led to an excess of factory inventory that's reached "breaking point," and manufacturers are bottoming out pricing in order to make a deal. https://www.techspot.com/news/95847-ssds-could-get-lot-cheaper-nand-prices-plummet.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The USB Promoter Group announced the USB4 Version 2.0 specification, a significant update that will enable data rates up to 80 Gbps over USB-C cables and connectors. For comparison, both Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 Version 1.0 only support a maximum bandwidth of 40 Gbps bidirectionally. https://www.techspot.com/news/95844-usb4-version-20-standard-delivers-data-rates-up.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Roomster is an app available through Apple's App Store and Google Play that supposedly helps people find roommates or rooms to rent. The FTC claims it's very popular with college students and other low-income individuals that can't reasonably afford a place on their own. Think of it like Zillow, except... https://www.techspot.com/news/95841-ftc-lawsuit-alleges-roomster-owners-scammed-roommate-seekers.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Underwhelming performance, problems with DirectX11, and the need to enable Resizable Bar have been some of the issues reviewers have encountered with the only Arc desktop card released so far, the Arc 3 A380. Buggy drivers have proved to be the worst element, with Intel engineers spotting 43 issues alone... https://www.techspot.com/news/95835-intel-isnt-abandoning-arc-graphics-cards-working-next.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

"The USG has imposed a new license requirement, effective immediately, for any future export to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia of the Company's A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits," said Nvidia in an SEC filing. https://www.techspot.com/news/95833-new-us-export-rules-prohibit-nvidia-amd-selling.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger