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“Few things are as thrilling in the world as the release of a new lineup of some of the best . The excitement builds for months on end, with , , , and finally, the launch of said . While I’m far from immune to that sort of , I can’t bring myself to be excited about NVIDIA’sRTX 5000-series. In fact, I’m kind of dreading it.”

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I'm scared of next-gen Nvidia GPUs, and you should be too | Digital Trends Nvidia pushes the limits of GPU performance with each new generation, but somehow, I can't find it in me to be excited for RTX 50-series.

NVIDIA is possibly introducing a mid-cycle refresh of the RTX 4000 series.

Nvidia's RTX Super might be a massive boost at no extra cost | Digital Trends The latest leak on Nvidia's rumored RTX 40-series Super lineup suggests that the GPUs may get a huge VRAM upgrade.

Ran a Call of Duty today; it appears that my is bottlenecking my Maybe someday I'll be able to unlock the full of this generation's best

“Modders have released two new tools that could change GPU overclocking significantly. OMGVflash and NVflashk have effectively cracked a security feature on recent Nvidia GPUs, allowing extreme overclockers to flash new vBIOS files to graphics cards.”

Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever | Digital Trends Two modders have released tools that allow users to flash a new vBIOS on their Nvidia GPUs, enabling a far greater range of overclocking potential.

“…the new strike enforcement program will impose more stringent penalties for successive infractions, a system says is modeled after "demerit strikes used in driver’s license systems in many countries." Successive strikes will lead to suspensions from Live for one day to a maximum of 365 days…”

Xbox’s new “8 strikes” mod rollout judges hate speech 3x worse than cheating Eight strikes = one-year suspension; "egregious" infractions can cause permanent bans.

“The affected CPUs all belong to Intel’s mainstream and server processor lineups, starting from all the way up to .”

Intel CPUs are leaking passwords and killing performance | Digital Trends A recently discovered vulnerability that affects lots of Intel CPUs could steal your data, but there's a fix. The downside? It'll cost you performance.

"A recently disclosed bug in many of AMD's newer consumer, workstation, and server processors can cause the chips to leak data at a rate of up to 30 kilobytes per core per second..."

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix "Zenbleed" bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs.

"The company is acquiring Drop (formerly Massdrop), best known for its customizable mechanical keyboards and key switches. The move will let "significantly grow" Drop's community-centric keyboard line while creating new products for its in-house brands, including

Corsair expands its mechanical keyboards by acquiring Drop | Engadget Corsair is buying Drop (aka Massdrop) to dive further into custom keyboards..

Nvidia silently launches the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB -- technically | Digital Trends Nvidia's controversial 16GB RTX 4060 Ti is available now, though there aren't many models up to purchase.

Some changes are coming to Call of Duty!

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II & Warzone™ Season 04 Reloaded Patch Notes The Boys are Ready to Run This Town — just in time for Battle Royale in Vondel, the epic conclusion to the RAID Special Ops experience, and more.

What does the future of distributed computing look like in a Post-Covid world?

Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Intel's forcing its chip designers to pay market rates not mate's rates at its own fabs Splitting the fab and products sides of Intel's business is both an effort in cost savings and enticing customers in to pay for its facilities.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jun/20/starfield-to-star-wars-20-of-the-best-forthcoming-video-games

Starfield to Star Wars: 20 of the best upcoming video games We scrutinised the latest games showcases to pick out the most interesting titles, from wacky races to medieval Baghdad

https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-update-163-phantom-liberty-bugs-1850556758

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Sizable Patch Right Before Phantom Liberty Expansion The patch fixes multiple issues with the game’s gameplay and quests on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X

Nvidia's most important GPU is less than 2 weeks away | Digital Trends It's official -- Nvidia has a new GPU coming out this month. Will it repeat the success of its predecessors?

The future of gaming?

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"Although Samsung Foundry started to produce chips using its SF3E (aka 3nm gate-all-around early) manufacturing technology last June, the company only uses this tech for select chips, and it's not expected to be used widely. Meanwhile, the company is working on its second-gen 3nm-class node called SF3 (3GAP) and will disclose more information about it at the upcoming 2023 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan"

Samsung to Detail Second-Gen 3nm Node, But Admits It Is Behind TSMC Samsung to unveil first details about SF3 process technology with MBCFETs.

Newest Steam Update Is Pretty Good, Actually The in-game overlay is getting a major overhaul in the latest Steam update

Microsoft adds second Windows 11 taskbar without fixing what we all hate about the first Ability to drop Edge sidebar right on the desktop is being tested

Samsung forecasts a shocking 96 percent drop in profits for Q1 2023 Memory inventories are piling up, so Samsung is cutting production.

Microsoft could cut one of Windows 11’s most useful features to save your PC Microsoft sacrifices Windows 11’s Alt Tab usefulness to save your PC

DirectX 12 Update Allows CPU and GPU to Access VRAM Simultaneously This feature could reduce video game RAM utilization and CPU utilization.