Bitcoin Miners Finally Approve Taproot Proposal By Nathaniel Mott published 13 June 21 A proposed improvement to Bitcoin called Taproot has finally received approval from 90% of miners.
China's Ban On Cryptocurrency Mining Expands to Additional Provinces By Nathaniel Mott published 12 June 21 China's ban on cryptocurrency mining has expanded to the Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces.
Folding@Home's Exascale Compute Power Helped Unravel Covid's Secrets By Nathaniel Mott published 12 June 21 An article in Nature Chemistry revealed the impact Folding@Home has had on mapping SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
Apple Brings Windows Precision Touchpad Support to Boot Camp By Nathaniel Mott published 11 June 21 Apple updated its Boot Camp utility to support Windows Precision Touchpad gestures on certain Macs.
Sky Dirt: Backblaze Introduces Cloud-Based Chia Farming By Nathaniel Mott published 10 June 21 Backblaze announced that Chia farmers can now upload their plots to the cloud, with prices starting at $5 per TB per month.
Google Uses AI to Design Chips, Creating Machine Learning Ouroboros By Nathaniel Mott published 10 June 21 Google researchers successfully taught a neural network architecture to design the physical layout of upcoming TPUs.
El Salvador Government to Mine Bitcoin with Volcanic Energy By Nathaniel Mott published 10 June 21 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the country is planning to use volcanic energy to mine Bitcoin.
Adata Attacked by Ragnar Locker Ransomware Group, Data Reportedly Stolen By Nathaniel Mott published 9 June 21 Adata's operations were said to have been temporarily disrupted in May because of a ransomware attack.
Cooler Master MM720 Review: Respawn By Nathaniel Mott published 9 June 21 Editor\'s Choice The Cooler Master MM720 is a followup to the Spawn gaming mouse with a honeycomb shell, new sensor and other improvements.
Nvidia Reportedly Seeks Chinese Approval of Arm Acquisition By Nathaniel Mott published 8 June 21 Nvidia has reportedly asked Chinese regulators to approve its $40 billion acquisition of Arm eight months after it was proposed.
Biden Administration Upholds Trump-Era Bans on 59 Chinese Tech Companies By Nathaniel Mott published 4 June 21 The U.S. has upheld existing bans on specific Chinese tech companies introduced during the Trump administration.
China Says WuDao 2.0 AI Is an Even Better Conversationalist than OpenAI, Google By Nathaniel Mott published 3 June 21 Researchers at the AI institute in Beijing said their WuDao 2.0 natural language processing model bests OpenAI and Google's.
AMD Passes 30% CPU Market Share in Steam Hardware Survey, Loses in GPUs By Nathaniel Mott published 3 June 21 The latest Steam Hardware Survey revealed that more than 30% of systems using the platform rely on AMD processors.
Norton Added Ethereum Mining Capabilities to Its Antivirus Software By Nathaniel Mott published 3 June 21 Norton has invited members of its early adopter program to mine Ethereum with its upcoming Norton Crypto feature.
Nvidia and Valve Bringing DLSS to Linux via Steam Proton By Nathaniel Mott published 1 June 21 Nvidia announced that it's partnered with Valve to bring its DLSS graphics technology to Linux via Steam Proton.
Google Reveals 'Half-Double' Technique for Exploiting Rowhammer in DDR4 By Nathaniel Mott published 28 May 21 Google revealed a new hammering technique, Half-Double, that can exploit the Rowhammer bug in DRAM memory.
UK Police Surprised Electricity Thieves Were Mining Crypto, not Growing Weed By Nathaniel Mott published 28 May 21 British police reportedly found a cryptocurrency mining operation when they investigated suspected cannabis farmers.
Asahi Linux Dev Reveals ‘M1RACLES’ Flaw in Apple M1, Pokes Fun at Similar Flaws By Nathaniel Mott published 26 May 21 Asahi Linux developer Hector Martin revealed a covert channel vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip he dubbed M1RACLES.
Chia: Stop Farming with Consumer SSDs or Stop Complaining About Endurance By Nathaniel Mott published 25 May 21 Chia released a statement in response to complaints that farming its cryptocurrency might wreck some SSDs.
Arm Reportedly Freezes Hiring, Cancels Some Benefits Until Nvidia Takeover By Nathaniel Mott published 25 May 21 Arm has reportedly instituted a hiring freeze and canceled some employee benefits until the Nvidia deal is closed.
Chipmakers Are Finally Raising Prices Amid the Global Chip Shortage By Nathaniel Mott published 24 May 21 Chipmakers have reportedly started to raise their prices as much as 30% amid the global chip shortage.
Radxa Announces Updated Rock Pi 4 Plus Models By Nathaniel Mott published 24 May 21 Radxa announced the updated Rock Pi 4 Plus single-board computer with a new OP1 processor and Twister OS.
Linux 5.13 Release Candidate 3 Fixes 37 Patches From Banned University By Nathaniel Mott published 21 May 21 Linux 5.13 Release Candidate 3 is set to revert and fix 37 patches contributed to the kernel by the banned University of Minnesota.
China’s Setting up a Hotline for Snitching on Cryptocurrency Miners By Nathaniel Mott published 21 May 21 A province in China has set up a hotline its citizens can use to report suspected cryptocurrency miners.
Iran Reveals Simorgh Supercomputer, Says Another Is Imminent By Nathaniel Mott published 20 May 21 Iran announced that it's developed its first new supercomputer, Simorgh, and that work has already begun on its second.
