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Hello everyone, on the fifth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1 number 5, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- Intel has confirmed the leak and the authenticity of the code for Intel’s Alder Lake CPU BIOS/UEFI, and clarified that the leak doesn’t give any huge impact toward the security vulnerability of the CPU, as it has already been cover within Project Circuit Breaker, Intel-sponsored bug bounty program.
- According to Greymon55, a notable hardware tipster, AMD Radeon 7900 XT, a top-performance enthusiast/prosumer hardware will be set to be reveal on November 3 this year, and will release it on 22 November 2022.
- DeepMind’s AlphaTensor using techniques of matrix multiplication solution, some good brute force and reinforced learning method to solve any solution that takes months or years of human research. Salvatore Raieli, a senior data scientist and avid writer of AI, sums up a good explanation regarding it if you want to fully understand it.
- Cybersecurity firm, Checkmarx, map out the complex activities of a threat actor group called LofyGang, suspected from Brazil based on their language spoken. This group were responsible in distributing hacking tools, stealing credit card & login credential, masking fake NPM package as the real package dependencies for the sake of infecting other computers, and infecting their own code examples and apps.
- Twitter dislikes anyone that tries to screenshot the tweet, which instead of the clean Twitter post screenshot, it would also popup a message to instead share the link of the post. This can create problem in term of digital archiving, if such post(s) were removed at some point in the future.
- iPhone 14 will trigger false crash detection on amuse park, such as roller coaster, due to high G-load on roller coaster ride. The park recommend people to turn the feature off or disable the connectivity with airplane mode, which I don’t recommend, as it might save your own life at any unexpected worst scenario.
- Oregon, U.S. become the first in the world to operate a renewable solar-wind-battery power hybrid plant generation, that could supply 330MW+ (300MW wind farms + 30MW battery plants), or equivalent to powering up 100k resident homes. This step is also coincide with Oregon’s closure of last coal-powered plant, happened last months.
- As a result of oversupplied graphics card due to less market demand and Ethereum’s The Merge on 15 September this year that abandoned proof-of-work (PoW) scheme to secure the cryptocurrency network, AMD and Nvidia card were in much lowered price of new GPU compared to original price (MSRP; Manufacturer Standard Retail Price).
- TechEpiphany discovered from the retail sold dataset from Germany retailer’s Mindfactory that AMD Ryzen 7000 series were not sold as good as it was in the second week after launch, plummeting by 70%, while Intel Alder Lake sales increased by 4.12%.
- Frontier supercomputer, an exaflop (1.102 ExaFlops/s benchmarked) supercomputer, always dealt with every day failure of it’s portion. It’s not surprising, considering such situation always happened in any supercomputing initiative. TechSpot (via original interview citation of Inside HPC) has the detail that you need to know about it.
- [Rumor] Nvidia has created prototypes of another top-performer, RTX Titan Ada, but were scrubbed due to developmental (cost, time and effort) hurdle, such as tripping power breakers, melting some PSUs and even the graphics card itself would melt itself. It is rated with 600–700W TDP and requires 2 x 16-pin power connectors.
- [Rumor] According to industry insider, Apple are now slowly moving on toward new electronics circuitry tech of GAAFET’s 2 nm process node for iPhone 17 Ultra’s A18 processor in 2025, which it will replaces current FinFET tech, that was first introduced by Intel’s tri-gate 22 nm process node for Ivy Bridge CPU lineup on 29 April 2012.
- Google will backport some functionality for Pixel 7 series to Pixel 6 series phone: Clear Calling (background noise minimizer), ‘silence’ (spoken command) incoming call, Guided Frame (blind or low-vision selfie taker), Real Tone, Spatial Audio (when connected with Picel Buds Pro), At-a-Glance widget, and Audio Message Transcription (available since Pixel 4A). Will release on December 2022’s Android 13 update.
- WhatsApp beta apps features 1024 members capacity in a group, doubled from 512 members in a group. Release date is currently unknown.
- Learn how to use underutilised features of Microsoft Excel from Techspot (here).
- Libva 2.16.0 recent update will be an upside for Intel’s Arc as it updated VA-API graphics library.
- [Rumor] Samsung S23 series design might not be that different with Samsung S22 design, according to OnLeak’s alleged CAD drawing of it.
- Market researcher IDC published data for PC shipments in Q3 2022, which compares with E3 2021. Despite recent slumps in sale, it turns out that the demand is still there. Apple is leading the sale figure, from 40.2% growth of 13.5% market share compared to 8.2%, while the rest either had moderate uptick to negative growth.
- Samsung Foundry outlines process node roadmap from present till 2027.
- [Leaked memo] Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, suggests that he isn’t happy with the metaverse vision of Mark Zuckerberg’s Horizon Worlds.
- [Leaked pricing] According to Geizhals, an European price comparison website, it picked up on two German retailers where they will sell an Intel Arc A770 between 431 to 461 EUR.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- Unturned, an OG (original) viral hit on Steam, once again were filled back with 50K active players as of now, which on the launch day, amassed over 60K active players. That record were broken again on October 4, when it reaches 93,161 players. The reason might be due to game’s constant update, free, fun and by nostalgia perchance.
- A Minecraft player, ChrisDaCow, shared his space and universe(s) representation of our own solar system, planets, to name a few, built on Minecraft world. It looks very nice and pleasant, not gonna lie.
- Valve now removed the glance mention appearance of Yuzu, a Nintendo Switch emulator, of their Steam Deck official trailer. This could be due to pressure from Nintendo itself or simply as a precautionary measure from getting any potential cease & desist (C&D) from Nintendo.
- Gameplay demo of Floodland, a post-apocalyptic climate change, societal rebuilder survival game were also show off on Steam Next Fest. Keep an eye of this game too.
- EA shelved a spin-off single-player Plants vs. Zombies (somewhere in 2014 or 2015), which led the team to instead focused on single-player Star Wars developed Visceral, which also shelved off. Character & world artist, Tom Bramall, shared the concept art of the game level, one of which is “Project Hot Tub”, a level that would based on present day, a pirate island, the wild west, and the far future. Despite this, they somehow soft-launched Plants vs. Zombies on mobile, but even that still yet having any global launch after two years.
- Twitch streamers, Adriana Chechik and LochVaness, were both having problem with their body due to injuries (minor and serious) on Twitchcon’s ball pit section, which were sponsored by Lenovo and Intel.
- [Rumor] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 edition) will receive map pack, Campaign and Premium DLC, dated back from original 2009 release.
- Half-Life Enriched, a mod for every original Half-Life game, set to rework on game upscaled texture, lightning effects, texture detail overlays, and updated weapon, NPC (non-playable characters) and monster models. Keep an eye on this one if you’re a Half-Life fan or plan to play it for the first time ever or replay it again in the future.
- [Rumor] As reported by Insider Gaming, the game’s file suggests that top football (soccer) players, such as Aksel, Connor, Klaus, Luna, Messi, Neymar, Pogba, Roze, Reyes and Gromsco will be playable operators on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 edition).
- You can now play Doom on Notepad, seriously. It was created by Sam Chiet and you can download it once he’s ready and release it. Keep an eye of it.
- Blizzard does fixed lesser known bug of Overwatch 2 ‘auto-purchase’ glitch, but will give refund of the accidental purchase at some point.
- Director and producer of Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV), Naoki Yoshida, announced that FFXIV reaches 27 million registered users globally, and Square Enix will host a global series of Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festivals in 2023 and 2024. First event is in the United States, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 28–29 July 2023, while second event is in the London, United Kingdom, on 21–22 October 2023. Third event will be around early 2024 in Japan.
- Look out for Wild Hunt, which sets to release on 12 February 2023, on console (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X) and PC. Here’s the game review and Q&A (question and answer) from the developer.
🚀Space news🌌:
- By launching plethora of smallsat equipped with solar reflector and dynamically controls the satellite with atmospheric drag, it could in theory be use for space-based advertising billboard. However, with problems such as advertising fatigue (being blast too many ads that we tend to feel tired looking at it), light & astronomy pollution (night sky littered with reflective artificial satellites), and Kessler syndrome dilemma (too many satellite launches to the point the space no longer become explorable to human due to a lot of satellite collision that produces high-speed space debris), this idea will be bound much more disastrous than ever. It means you might even forgo your dream on looking up the night sky and exploring the stars, planets and whatnot.
- EarthSky covered about SpinLaunch, a private space company that launches payload using a 50-meters (165 feet) A-33 Suborbital Mass Accelerator launch centrifuge. The machine launcher capable of producing 10,000G (obviously not human-rated spaceflight approved, need to keep at 3G over the course of flight to make it qualify for human space travel) with top speed up to 7,500 kph (4,700 mph; that’s almost Mach 6.1 of speed of sound!). While only capable for suborbital, apparently they’re readying the orbital centrifuge launcher for the future’s sake.
- Wet-bulb temperature (defined as 31°C (87°F) at 100% humidity) are very important factor to take account of human body temperature tolerance, as any increase of the temperature will cause one to use a lot of indoor cooling (such as aircond), which might also impact surrounding heating of ever-threatening global climate change. In case such thing happened in your place, you should wear a hat and lightweight, loose-fitting, light-colored clothes. Take frequent breaks in shady areas (as resultant sunburn from direct sunlight will make your body much more difficult to dissipate heat) and drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated.
- By using Hubble Space Telescope (HST)’s and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)’s quasars’s UV observations dataset, researcher able to figure out how Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, located in our galaxies, Milky Way, able to host active star-forming region: through a massive shield of corona, a hot supercharged gas that protects the gas from going outside the gas bubble zone.
- M1.1 flare sun CME (coronal mass ejection) confirmed in the dark spot region of AR3112.
- Titan’s Shangri-La dune field, landing site for Dragonfly’s rotorcraft mission, set to launch in 2027 and arrive in 2034, were a terrain of dunes and shattered, icy bedrock, according to NASA’s Cassini image mapping between 2004–2017.
- Lynk currently testing out direct 5G connection from orbiting satellite to mobile phone. They set to launch a second satellite experiment into the orbit to validate their performance. https://www.space.com/spacex-competitor-lynk-cell-phone-5g-space-test
- An extensive mapping of Milky Way for any ‘graveyard’ stars were created by astronomer, David Sweeney and his colleagues at the University of Sydney.
- Mengtian (Heavens’s Dreaming) experiment module for China’s Tiangong space station have arrived in the Hainan’s space cargo facilities, set to launch later this October. It measured 58.7-foot-long (17.9 m) and roughly 48,500 pounds (22 metric tons) structure designed to host arrays of science racks and experiments. When completed, Tiangong space station will be around 20% of the size of the International Space Station (ISS).
- 3.7 million years ago, Mars used to thrived with microbes that consumes hydrogen and releases methane to the atmosphere. However, while the greenhouse gas effect usually causes the planet to warm up gradually (just like our ancient earth), it does the opposite effect instead. With that, the microbes have to dive deeper into Martian soil just to survive alone.
That’s all I’ve got for you this time! It’s a mouthful of information, but you should be able to digest this news, as you have more or less 24 hours to process the information. I’ll be back with more news for you tomorrow. Take care and have a good day! Peace~
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