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AMD investigating reports of Ryzen chips frying themselves

Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit

www.theregister.com

Asus motherboards have always been a bit fussy with RAM (especially newer RAM with fast timings), even types they stated as supported often weren't, with BIOSs updated. The same RAM would work fine on MSI, Gigabyte and Supermicro boards with the same CPUs. But once happily set up, Asus boards are very stable and do work for many years. Except those of course.

i get that with apple crap there can be only 1 and 100c in a laptop is fine, just throw it in the bin after 12 months and if it goes on fire after that you can just buy a new one

if apple tried to take down super micro or tyan there fooked on the server market as any **** like this would bankrupt them.

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PCIe Lanes Supported

128

AMD Threadripper PRO 5975WX Hardware Bundle

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256GB DDR4 PC4-23400 2933MT/s 288-pin DIMM ECC LRDIMM Memory RAM | MemoryCow UK

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Lifetime Warranty Manufacturer: OEM

 

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now look where that fan is, it does nothing bar make a sound

They're using the aluminium case as a heatsink and speed throttling upon overheat - my fanless Sony VAIO P (with puny Atom CPU) does the same, on the very rare occasions it gets hot enough.

Very impressive "Carrier SSD"! Time to sell a gold bar, because that thing'll load up your games at a very rapid rate! I almost bought a SSD RAID card the other month to make a very fast and small high capacity drive. They're suprisingly cheap, can be mSATA, M2... Mixed reviews put me off. Plus I don't trust SSD longevity yet, at equivalent HD prices.

 

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Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage'
Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why

LLM emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' by study

Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why

www.theregister.com

 

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Oh good. We'll need more embalming fluid.

Carbon Neutral Biochemicals: Transforming CO2 Into Valuable Materials Using Formic Acid

Carbon Neutral Biochemicals: Transforming CO2 Into Valuable Materials Using Formic Acid

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have created a synthetic metabolic pathway that converts carbon dioxide into formaldehyde via formic acid, offering a carbon-neutral method for producing valuable materials. New synthetic metabolic pathways for the fixation of carbon dioxide could not only h

scitechdaily.com

A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last “Great Observatory”
"I think it would be pretty ambitious... but really great if we could pull it off."

A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last “Great Observatory”

"I think it would be pretty ambitious... but really great if we could pull it off."

arstechnica.com

‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes
A newly discovered species of demon catshark is found in the deep waters off Australia.

‘A Bit Spooky’: The New Shark Species With Bright, White Eyes

A newly discovered species of demon catshark is found in the deep waters off Australia.

www.nytimes.com

Climate change is making crabs lose their sense of smell — and seafood may never be the same
Climate change is altering acidity levels in the ocean — and when crabs pay the price, so do humans

As go crabs, so goes humanity

Climate change is altering acidity levels in the ocean — and when crabs pay the price, so do humans

www.salon.com

 

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Revolutionary Stretchable OLED Display Bends and Expands – “An Entirely New Display Technology”

Revolutionary Stretchable OLED Display Bends and Expands – “An Entirely New Display Technology”

Researchers have developed a highly flexible and stretchable digital display material that emits a fluorescent pattern. The material, which can bend in half and stretch to more than twice its original length, has potential applications in wearable electronics, health sensors, and foldable computer s

scitechdaily.com

 

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I watched a YT video last night about a well known problem with IT support that I have never paid any attention to.
As usual, my login on customers' machines have full admin rights and I use it regularly without thinking of possible consequences. Apparently, the biggest bank heist is still going on, costing banks upward to a billion a year. Professional gangs target busy bank executives, typically writing complaint letters to them. If any of them falls victim to their tactic, they take over the victim's PC and simply make it go slow. The exec called in support, support turns up and entered their login with admin rights. The gang promptly naffs the admin login and password, then remove immediately their malware. Support leaves the PC without thinking any further about what caused the machine to go slow in the first place. They return later this time with proper breaking in tools.

 

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Neat! Bypassing the need for expensive employment of persons with very high degree of remote hacking ability. I managed IT for 10 years, glad I don't anymore.

 

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The hackers went straight for the PDC and bingo, payday!

 

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You can and must scare yourself silly at all times, but avoid setting off red flags searching for exploits, to protect yourself and your clients against.

 

[Woosh]

You can't predict when someone is going to hit on a link in an email. Hackers usually make up an innocent looking web page but actually contains malicious code, such as the example at beefproject.com and use a shortcut like bitly so the victim wouldn't be alarmed. How would you plan for that?

 

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Like I said, not my job anymore.

 

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Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score?

It's the 2020s and we're still running code automatically fetched over HTTP

Researchers pick holes in Gigabyte motherboard firmware

It's the 2020s and we're still running code automatically fetched over HTTP

www.theregister.com

 

[Woosh]

the same situation applies to zillions of other apps.
The most scary is the ability for windows to silently pull from the net and install stuff on your computer in broad daylight.
Msiexec /i <applicationname.msi> /qb! /l*v install.log
It will pull from the net if you use http:// in the applicationname.msi
That line must have been used zillions of times by hackers all over the world.

 

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Never 10!

GRC | Never10

Never10 - Disable Windows 10 Automatic Upgrade

www.grc.com

Tiny10 looked interesting to me, for a few seconds... until I realised updates are a problem.

Tiny10 x64 23H1 is here for those needing a debloated and lightweight Windows 10

Tiny10 23H1 is now available in the x64 variant for those needing a lightweight Windows 10 experience. The main highlight is support for the component store that lets you install cumulative updates.

www.neowin.net

There's also Tiny11...

 

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Scientists ‘stunned’ by mysterious structures found in the Milky Way

Scientists ‘stunned’ by mysterious structures found in the Milky Way | CNN

Hundreds of mysterious structures have been found in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study has found.

edition.cnn.com

 

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Stunned? Astronomers study those jets for at least the last two decades. JWST has made their job much easier. They are at the point where good theories about dark matter and dark energy can soon be tested.

 

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