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TechTuber Benchmarks Core i7-11700 Qualifying Sample

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 11th Gen Core CPUs might be weeks away from launch, but that hasn’t stopped a TechTuber from getting his hands on a qualifying sample of a Core i7-11700 to test. The Rocket Lake chip was put through a bunch of gaming, productivity, and synthetic benchmarks. Qualifying samples are the… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3060 Pricing Skyrockets Before Launch

Home News (Image credit: Coreteks) According to a report, what was supposed to be Nvidia’s most “value-oriented” RTX 30-series GPU to date has succumbed to severe price gouging before launch. Like all new Ampere and RDNA2 products, it appears the RTX 3060 will be nearly impossible to purchase near MSRP. News outlet Corteks has revealed… Read more

New GPU-Z Version Adds Support for Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6700 GPUs

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Another hint for AMD’s unannounced mid-ranged RDNA 2 cards has been spotted online: This time, preliminary support for AMD’s future Radeon RX 6700 and RX 6600 GPUs has appeared in a new version of GPU-Z, a popular GPU monitoring tool developed by TechPowerUp. We’ve heard rumors that an RX 6700… Read more

Silver Sparrow Malware Discovered on 30,000 Macs with No Detectable Payload

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Red Canary security researchers announced Friday that malware they dubbed Silver Sparrow was found on nearly 30,000 macOS devices. Silver Sparrow is notable for a few reasons: it already targets Apple silicon, it‘s set to remove all traces of itself when it detects a specific file, and it doesn’t seem… Read more

Sophisticated hackers snuck sleeper malware into nearly 30,000 Macs

There’s a popular stereotype that Apple’s computers are largely immune to malware. Not only is is that incorrect, it appears that sophisticated hacker(s) might have been toying with the idea of a heist or drop nasty enough they’d have needed to cover their tracks. As Ars Technica reports, security researchers at Malwarebytes and Red Canary… Read more

Blizzard Arcade Collection bundles three of the studio’s more obscure classics

As part of BlizzCon Online’s opening ceremony, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new video game anthology that includes some of the earlier titles created by the World of Warcraft developer. Blizzard Arcade Collection is a compilation featuring three titles developed by Blizzard around the early and mid-1990s. Blizzard Arcade Collection includes The Lost Vikings, a puzzle… Read more

Nvidia: RTX 3060 vBIOS Prevents Removal of Hash Rate Limiter

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Yesterday, excellent news from Nvidia landed — namely that it is putting the brakes on hashing performance of the RTX 3060. Whether this tech will also come to other GPUs in the lineup is currently unclear. To make it up to miners, Nvidia is coming out with a special line… Read more

Biden to Review Issues with the Semiconductor Supply Chain

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) The supply shortage of silicon chips has reached an all-time high, and fabs like TSMC simply don’t have enough production facilities to keep up with the incessant demand from the server, PC, and automotive markets. Per a report from CNBC, President Joe Biden plans to review several critically important industries… Read more

Architecture of Chinese Exascale Supercomputer Proposed: 80,000 Hybrid CPUs with 512-Bit Vector Units

Home News (Image credit: South China Morning Post) In a bid to support development of its scientific, economic, and allegedly military-bound projects, China has been building leading-edge supercomputers for about two decades. Initially, China used hardware developed in the U.S., but as tensions between the country and its main economic rival intensified, China had to… Read more

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New ‘Cryptocurrency Mining Processor’ Line of GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to “address the specific needs of Ethereum mining” and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico ‘Pi Silicon’ Heading Out To Partners

Home News (Image credit: Future) In a tweet from Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton, we see trays of RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ chips destined for board partners to build their own models of RP2040 boards. Each of these trays holds 1200 chips, but these latest chips are a little different to those that have come before…. Read more

Bravely Default is a classic RPG series designed for lapsed fans

When Masashi Takahashi, a producer at Square Enix, started working on Bravely Default, he had a very specific audience in mind. Takahashi had grown up playing classic turn-based roleplaying games — he distinctly remembers watching his older brother play Final Fantasy III while he was still in kindergarten — and felt that many modern RPGs… Read more

Robinhood’s in better shape than it looks

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Never mind the House hearing, the company’s full steam ahead So here we are: about to have a hearing about GameStonk. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is going to have to explain himself tomorrow. What happens next for Robinhood? Perhaps you recall last month, when GameStop stock shot up… Read more

Sapphire’s First Toxic GPU in 5 Years Is To Die For

Home News (Image credit: VideoCardz) The last time we saw a Sapphire ‘Toxic’ card land, it was 2016. There were no GPU shortages nor mining crazes, and we could go out to get beers with friends. But we’re living in a different world now, and a new report from VideoCardz comes in showcasing the oh-so-shiny… Read more

Crucial X6 Portable SSD Review: Affordable and Responsive

Our Verdict Crucial’s X6 is an affordable and very portable USB Type-C SSD that dishes out fast and responsive performance, but its relatively small cache results in reduced performance during larger sustained data transfers. For Sleek, compact, and light design Responsive performance within the cache and fast to recover Against Lacks an activity light Lacks… Read more