Network and Beyond NaB

The state-run China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) was one of the first to be placed on a US export blacklist in 1997 because of its work in the field of nuclear weapons, preventing it from purchasing American technology. However, according to a Wall Street Journal report, the institute has... https://www.techspot.com/news/97439-chinese-nuclear-weapons-institute-uses-intel-nvidia-hardware.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

CPU-Z now fully recognizes Intel's 6 Ghz Core i9-13900KS CPU, the entire Ryzen 7000 (non-K) series and the upcoming 7000X3D line, expected to be released in February. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/27-cpu-z.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

While private organizations are monetizing machine learning (ML) models to chew countless images and sell the result to their customers, the US and the EU have something different in mind. Washington and Brussels have just announced a new agreement to work together on common artificial intelligence models, employing ML algorithms... https://www.techspot.com/news/97426-us-eu-work-together-artificial-intelligence-models.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Reddit user GaoHAQ (via VideoCardz) posted the GPU and motherboard defect rate for each brand that Swiss retailer Digitec sold over the last two years. That timeframe is an important factor as it covers the height of covid-19 and the cryptomining craze, which could somewhat skew the warranty case duration... https://www.techspot.com/news/97425-retailer-reveals-most-reliable-graphics-cards-motherboards-warranty.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Thirty years ago, PC gamers could choose GPUs from over 10 different makers. The fascinating story of Rendition is one of engineering brilliance and lost opportunities from the golden age of graphics. Plus, some easter egg content about TechSpot's history and how it all relates. https://www.techspot.com/article/2598-rendition-graphics-history/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Reports last month suggested that the Netherlands and Japan were close to implementing bans on the export of advanced chipmaking devices to China following talks with Washington. While the sensitive nature of the deal means it hasn't been publicly announced, several people familiar with the matter say an agreement was... https://www.techspot.com/news/97424-netherlands-japan-agree-restrict-chipmaking-tools-china.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The researchers identified the SwiftSlicer malware deployed during a cyberattack targeting Ukrainian technology outlets. The malware ware was written using a cross-platform language called Golang, better known as Go, and uses an Active Directory (AD) Group Policy attack vector. https://www.techspot.com/news/97421-researchers-identify-new-data-wiping-malware-cyberattack-against.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

First, some background. RISC V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), a "free" alternative to Arm. ISAs provide a set of common, important but unglamorous "blueprints" for processors. Every processor needs what an ISA provides to do some basic math. They take a lot of work to design and... https://www.techspot.com/news/97420-what-next-risc-v.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Chinese hardware enthusiast and content creator 苏baka recently posted a video (below) in which she tested a PC outdoors in -63-degree weather. The experiment resulted in some amusing obstacles and workarounds. https://www.techspot.com/news/97403-see-how-i9-13900k-rtx-4090-perform-when.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

You've just bought a new gaming PC or a laptop for the office. Maybe you just upgraded your PC. You might be into overclocking. But do you know exactly what you've got? How well is that PC actually working? We've compiled a list of 21 programs that are great for... https://www.techspot.com/article/2009-monitoring-analysis-benchmarking-software-apps/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Vehicle art director Gabe Garcia said the advancements in their physics models are greater than Forza 5, 6 and 7 combined. Everything is rendered in 4K at 60 frames per second with real-time ray tracing. https://www.techspot.com/news/97396-forza-motorsport-coming-later-year-pc-xbox-series.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

5MB of storage provided the ability to keep 2.5 million pages of typed text https://www.techspot.com/trivia/98-first-5mb-hard-drive-weighed-approximately/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Riot Games in a series of tweets said their development environment was compromised via a social engineering attack last week. The developer asked for patience as they work through the matter and continue their investigation, but the incident is already leaving its mark on the company's roadmap. https://www.techspot.com/news/97365-riot-games-hacker-stole-source-code-league-legends.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

WinRAR 6.20 is now available for Windows, macOS and Linux. This release improves RAR5 compression performance on modern CPUs, improves the "Repair" command efficiency and fixes a memory leak when reading contents of ".tar.bz2" archives. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/67-winrar.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The previous generation version of the Core i3-13100 was one of our favorite budget CPUs, so we're keen to see what this updated 13th-gen version has to offer. https://www.techspot.com/review/2610-intel-core-i3-13100-vs-amd-ryzen-5600/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Following approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), NuScale plans to build an SMR plant at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company says its six-reactor, 462 megawatt Carbon Free Power Project should be operational by 2030. https://www.techspot.com/news/97343-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-has-approved-use.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Editor's Note: https://www.techspot.com/news/97340-when-comes-semiconductors-leading-not-everything.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

DreamPlan Home Design lets you design floor plans in 2D and visualize them in 2D or realistic 3D models. You can also import your existing plans and DreamPlan will render them into a 3D model. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/6361-dreamplan-home-design-software.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

PayPal says the accounts were accessed by unauthorized parties who were able to guess user credentials, most likely by utilizing massive data leaks from other sites. It highlights the dangers that come from people re-using their login username/password combinations across multiple websites. Password recycling is still concerningly common and can... https://www.techspot.com/news/97325-thousands-paypal-accounts-breached-credential-stuffing-attack.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Speaking during a panel about the VR technology at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday (via Insider), Cox said Meta believes that "one day that computing platform will be as important as the smartphone has become in our lifetimes." https://www.techspot.com/news/97314-meta-exec-metaverse-eventually-important-smartphones.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Basecamp said it was leaving cloud services because "renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours." Cloud companies were making "obscene margins" on computing resources they were renting out, and the savings promised in reduced server complexity never materialized. https://www.techspot.com/news/97300-leaving-cloud-basecamp-spent-32-million-year-rent.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Getty Images said in a statement that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright "absent a license to benefit Stability AI's commercial interests and to the detriment of the content creators." https://www.techspot.com/news/97286-ai-art-generator-stable-diffusion-faces-another-copyright.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The first series of The Mandalorian was Disney Plus' flagship—many people subscribed to the fledgling service to watch the show before canceling their subs once it finished. The company has put out plenty of other series based in the Star Wars universe since then, some well-received, such as the excellent... https://www.techspot.com/news/97283-mandalorian-season-3-trailer-lands-more-jedi-powerful.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Credential stuffing is a type of attack where a malicious actor collects huge troves of stolen credentials, usually comprising usernames, emails and/or passwords from previous data breaches from other services. The hackers use these stolen credentials to try and gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other platforms -- assuming... https://www.techspot.com/news/97278-nortonlifelock-warns-password-manager-breach-after-failing-reject.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As tradition dictates, Friday 13th was a rather unlucky day for Windows users and system administrators worldwide. According to multiple reports, this past Friday Microsoft Defender for Endpoint turned into a shortcut and file "killer." That fateful day, the security suite began to delete application shortcuts from Windows Taskbar and... https://www.techspot.com/news/97275-microsoft-defender-update-kills-start-menu-shortcuts-program.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As reported Korean publication Naver (via SamMobile), Samsung could use a droplet-style hinge that would allow the Galaxy Z Fold 5's display to form a teardrop shape when closed. Not only would this enable the display to be folded completely flat, as opposed to having a slight gap like the... https://www.techspot.com/news/97274-galaxy-z-fold-5-could-have-no-visible.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Like other digital music players, the NW-A300 and NW-ZX700 can play streamed and downloaded music. They're powered by Android 12, enabling support for apps such as Spotify, and, according to Sony, offer "evolutionary sound." https://www.techspot.com/news/97273-new-android-12-powered-sony-walkmans-cool-looks.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

AI chips serve two functions. AI builders first take a large (or truly massive) set of data and run complex software to look for patterns in that data. Those patterns are expressed as a model, and so we have chips that "train" the system to generate a model. https://www.techspot.com/news/97272-has-nvidia-won-ai-training-market.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Sources have told MyDrivers that TSMC could lower the prices of 3nm chips to entice more manufacturing partners. The cut would apply to all of the company's 3nm processes, not just the inaugural N3. https://www.techspot.com/news/97269-tsmc-may-cut-3nm-wafer-prices-entice-amd.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The 26th annual DICE (Design Innovate Communicate Entertain) Awards takes place at Resorts World in Las Vegas on February 23. The nominees, chosen by the industry experts and developers who make up the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, are led by God of War Ragnarök, which is up for... https://www.techspot.com/news/97261-god-war-ragnark-leads-dice-awards-nominations-almost.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Virtual reality accessory startup Shiftfall unveiled a unique microphone that users can wear. Dubbed "Mutalk," the mic looks similar to a VR headset but for your mouth. Playing VR games already looks silly enough to those watching. Adding this crazy device takes it to another level of weirdness entirely. https://www.techspot.com/news/97242-someone-invented-voice-muting-vr-microphone-you-strap.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Speaking to tech evangelist Alejandro Hoyos, Intel's Gaming Technical Marketing Lead Jason Xie demonstrated the chip, which can reach its 6GHz speed without needing to be overclocked. He displayed its credentials using a standard, off-the-shelf Corsair all-in-one cooler and an Intel RVP (reference validation platform) motherboard. https://www.techspot.com/news/97233-intel-demos-raptor-lake-cpu-able-hit-6ghz.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The global economic crisis brought about by skyrocketing inflation, rising interest rates, and increasingly expensive living costs has seen many consumers rein in their non-essential spending, especially when it comes to expensive tech items. https://www.techspot.com/news/97218-waning-consumer-demand-sees-tsmc-miss-revenue-forecasts.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The 91-page complaint filed in US district court on Friday claims the social media companies are responsible for worsening the mental health of the children that they target. The tech giants are also blamed for rising rates of anxiety, depression, disordered eating, cyberbullying, self-harm, and suicide ideation. It's led to... https://www.techspot.com/news/97203-seattle-schools-sue-social-media-companies-causing-mental.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The GUI owes its existence to the contribution of many great minds in the history of technology... https://www.techspot.com/trivia/140-what-first-personal-computer-offered-graphical-user-interface/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Following the Covid-19 vaccine rollouts, BioNTech wants to use the same messenger-ribonucleic-acid technology (mRNA) tech in other therapies, including cancer vaccines. The treatments, tailor-made for an individual, provide immune systems with genetic code from a specific cancer so only the tumor can be targeted. An improvement over chemotherapy, which attacks... https://www.techspot.com/news/97200-biontech-start-uk-cancer-vaccine-trials-using-same.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

I've been using a Das Keyboard exclusively since 2014 without incident. Build quality aside, I credit its longevity to regular maintenance cleanings. https://www.techspot.com/guides/2582-clean-your-keyboard/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Premium Android smartphones based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform will gain access to a satellite-based two-way messaging system in certain regions starting in the second half of this year. The company made the announcement this week at CES 2023. https://www.techspot.com/news/97198-qualcomm-bring-apple-satellite-messaging-feature-android-devices.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Samsung's broad portfolio had seen it weather global industry crises in the past, including the chip shortage in 2021 when its earnings reached a new record. But according to preliminary estimates, operating profit for the October to December quarter fell 69% year-on-year from 13.87 trillion Korean won (around $10.9 billion)... https://www.techspot.com/news/97190-samsung-quarterly-profits-hit-8-year-low-chip.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Back in November, the New York Times reported that Amazon planned to lay off approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs. The cuts began straight away, with many of them concentrated on Amazon's devices organization, retail division, and human resources. https://www.techspot.com/news/97175-amazon-confirms-letting-go-record-18000-employees.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

According to a study by Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, data suggests that the level of "disruptiveness" in scientific research has gone way down in the 2000s compared to the last half-century. https://www.techspot.com/news/97174-science-isnt-disruptive-used-now-need-understand-why.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Fortnite's latest hotfix brings Midseason Drops and the Guardian Shield, which can be used to protect your squad from incoming attacks while on the move or in a set position. Also, Epic's CEO recently teased that Fortnite may be coming back to iOS. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7086-fortnite-free.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

All of LG's 2023 OLED TVs support HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos, just like their predecessors. However, support for the HDR10+ and DTS codecs is unfortunately still missing this year. The HDMI 2.1-equipped models are the first TVs on the market to add Quick Media Switching, which eliminates blackouts... https://www.techspot.com/news/97138-lg-unveils-2023-oled-tv-lineup-g3-series.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In 2021, Musk became only the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of $200 billion—Amazon's founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos beat him to that milestone. The Tesla boss continued to see his value climb that same year, reaching a peak of $340 billion in November 2021, one... https://www.techspot.com/news/97133-elon-musk-becomes-first-person-history-see-their.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bitcoin started 2022 at close to $48,000. That's down from its highest-ever price of almost $68,000 a few months earlier, but it was still welcome news for those who invested a few years prior when BTC was under $10,000. https://www.techspot.com/news/97132-bitcoin-price-predictions-2023-rally-250000-or-crash.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

As a recap, we heard a couple of weeks ago that some AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX MBA (Made By AMD) reference models are experiencing thermal issues involving GPU hotspot temperatures, or the maximum temperature read by the sensor, reaching as high as 110C. https://www.techspot.com/news/97131-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-overheating-issue-could.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

When it comes to graphics cards, we go in-depth. Year in and year out we test dozens of GPUs from Nvidia, AMD (and also Intel) to see which are worth your money, and which are dead on arrival. https://www.techspot.com/bestof/gpu-2023/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

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