Canonical Job Advert Suggests Expanding 'Ubuntu Gaming' Team By Mark Tyson published 19 May 22 A new Software Engineer job posting reveals that the firm is serious in its intentions to strengthen its ‘Ubuntu Gaming Experience’ team.
AMD Radeon Preview Driver Delivers Major Performance Boost in Early Testing By Francisco Pires published 13 May 22 AMD's latest preview driver promises improved performance for a plethora of DX 11 games, and independent testing not only confirms the claims, but raises hope for the DX 11 gaming ecosystem.
AMD, Google Partner in Unprecedented, EPYC Cybersecurity Effort By Francisco Pires published 11 May 22 Teams of Google and AMD engineers partnered in a veritable hunt for cybersecurity issues on the AMD Security Processor (ASP) implemented on AMD's EPYC Milan CPUs.
Intel Misses Self-Imposed Arc GPU Driver Update Deadline By Mark Tyson published 6 May 22 Lisa Pearce said we would get a driver update with benchmarking optimization toggle "by the end of April." Intel has seemed sluggish with regard to its hardware release schedule too.
Intel Graphics Teams Up With Siru Innovations By Mark Tyson published 3 May 22 Siru has a long pedigree in graphics IP and software
Apple Silicon Exclusively Hit With World-First "Augury" DMP Vulnerability By Francisco Pires published 3 May 22 Apple achieves a "poisoned" world first as a research team describes a new DMP vulnerability dubbed Augury, which enables data theft at rest from Apple's SoCs.
Keeper Password Manager Review: Checks All the Boxes By Dave LeClair published 1 May 22 Lots of functionality, as long as you use the paid version.
Intel Creates New Graphics Research Organization By Mark Tyson published 21 April 22 To begin its open and collaborative approach, Intel will distribute an updated 4K texture and high-resolution geometry-packed 3D scene of the Sponza Atrium in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Over 100 Lenovo Laptops Affected by Trio of UEFI Vulnerabilities By Mark Tyson published 20 April 22 Vulnerabilities were first spotted by ESET researchers. Two would allow an attacker to disable UEFI flash memory protection. Another is an elevated privileges with arbitrary code execution flaw.
7-Zip App Vulnerability Grants Admin Privilege to Attackers (Update) By Mark Tyson published 20 April 22 Vulnerability allows for privilege escalation and command execution on Windows systems. The easiest mitigation measure, while we wait for a fix, is to delete the 7-zip.chm file.
Intel Promotes Raja Koduri to Executive VP Following Arc GPU Development By Francisco Pires published 19 April 22 Good news for the remaining Arc Alchemist releases?
Intel Develops Controversial AI to Detect Emotional States of Students By Francisco Pires published 18 April 22 Intel has developed an AI-based "emotion labelling" algorithm in partnership with Classroom Technologies to be applied in virtual classroom environments - and it's already deployable on Zoom.
Delayed Ethereum 'Merge' Could Impact Graphics Card Market By Francisco Pires published 14 April 22 A few more months delay
U.S. Hacker Sentenced to Five Years Following Crypto Lessons in North Korea By Francisco Pires published 13 April 22 Sanctioned "Exports" may also include technical or expert knowledge.
DirectStorage Reduces 'Forspoken' Load Times to Less Than Two Seconds By Francisco Pires published 24 March 22 Forspoken developer Luminous Productions showcases the improvements DirectStorage brings to its open-world game - from NVMe SSDs through SATA SSDs and even spinning-disk drives.
Nvidia Streamline Aims to Simplify Developer Support for All Upscaling Algorithms By Mark Tyson published 24 March 22 "Making multiple technologies easier for developers to integrate, Streamline benefits gamers with more technologies in more games," reckons Nvidia.
Intel Details XeSS Quality Mode With GDC Demos By Mark Tyson published 24 March 22 The new AI upscaling tech from Intel gets fleshed out by Intel's devs and third party game devs. Some quality and performance indicators have been shared.
Imagination Releases Source Code for 1990s PowerVR PC GPUs By Mark Tyson published 24 March 22 The PCX1 and PCX2 GPUs this code is relevant to were 3D only. Thus these cards needed to be installed alongside another graphics card, which would take care of 2D duties.
CD Projekt RED Confirms Next "The Witcher" Game Will Use Unreal Engine 5 By Francisco Pires published 21 March 22 The company may shed its in-house RED Engine little by little.
Microsoft Investigating Alleged Lapsus$ Intrusion of AzureDevOps Repositories By Francisco Pires published 21 March 22 Another month, another suspected infiltration by the group that previously hit Nvidia, Samsung and others.
