Hello everyone, on the fourteenth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- If you’re a U.S. citizen that are currently learning on any higher institution, please be aware (in a statement by F.B.I. (Federal Bureau Investigation)) of student debt forgiveness scam, which scammer take advantage to any student that are actually eligible for that. These fake websites will likely attempt to trick people into giving away personal information or bilk them with fake service fees. Fraudsters may also directly contact people by email, phone, text, and other forms of electronic communication in order to lure them to these fraudulent websites or otherwise conduct scams related to student debt forgiveness.
- HotHardware gives some PSA (public service announcement), warned that just like every other item on the net, never ever buy any item with inflated, scalper price, at any cost. Many of the sold out Intel Arc A750 & A770 ends up in the hand of scalper, that they willing to sell it at an insane price tag compared to MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) or RRP (Recommended Retail Price). A750 LE (Limited Edition; actually not, just sound cooler) priced at $289 were inflated by scalper to around $430 on average, and A770 LE priced at $349 were inflated by scalper to around $760-$780, based on pricing on Ebay.
- A new smart, high-tech buoy owned by The Blue BOAT (Buoy Oceanographic Alert Technology) Initiative, a project sponsored by the Chilean Ministry of the Environment, use software called Listening to the Deep Ocean (LIDO) to monitor sounds for marine passersby. When an animal is detected, LIDO uses artificial intelligence to identify the animal’s type and exact location before sending a signal to an early warning station on land. The station then alerts nearby vessels to the animal’s presence. This helps vessel operators avoid vessel strikes, an all-too-common phenomenon that often occurs because animals aren’t visible from the surface (or because they become visible a bit too late).
- [Rumor/Leak(?)] Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 design were teased in a 3D render (allegedly based on 99% accurate photographed, not-yet-published GPU card) in a new video by Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), which might based slightly cut-down of AD104 GPU chip. RTX 4070 Ti might also debut at some point in the future, possibly to replace it with the cancelled RTX 4080 12GB, as Nvidia might not find any legit reasoning to sell it for $900, which will also compete it with xx70 series.
- Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3491 Beta driver is here. Not so much were said in an update, but might worth for you to download and install it if you’re an Intel Arc user.
- Intel showcased their prototype Thunderbolt 4 USB 2.0 technology, which were able to deliver 80 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bi-directional bandwidth and enable up to 120 Gbps for the video output display. In addition, for monitors with extremely high resolutions and refresh rates, the standard can be used in an asymmetric mode, with a downstream of 120Gbit/s and an upstream of 40Gbit/s bidirectional instead of 80Gbit/s. Also, the four PCIe lanes have been upgraded from PCIe 3.0 to PCIe 4.0, while maintaining compatibility with existing passive Thunderbolt cables up to 1 meter in length.
- 3DMark now features DLSS 3 support for game benchmarking test, while Basemark’s GPUScore Sacred Path launched today, which were divided by two categories: GPUScore: The Expedition for smartphones, and GPUScore: Relic of Life for high-end gaming PCs.
- Meta, a tech company known for Oculus VR headset, WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, today announced its next-generation AI platform, Grand Teton, including NVIDIA’s collaboration on design, at the 2022 OCP Global Summit, an Open Compute Project conference. It was named after the 13,000-foot mountain that crowns one of Wyoming’s two national parks, and based on Nvidia’s Hopper H100 architecture, which can delivers two times the network bandwidth and four times the bandwidth between host processors and GPU accelerators compared to Meta’s prior Zion system. It will be use to train the AI models, which are used extensively across Facebook for services such as news feed, content recommendations and hate-speech identification, among many other applications.
- According to TrendForce’s latest research, the annual growth rate of server shipments in 2023 is estimated to be only 3.7%, which is lower than 5.1% in 2022, while the server DRAM prices were expected to go even lower by 2023, which Q4 2022 will drop by 15%-20%. Average server DRAM content will increase to 12% in 2023, while the annual growth rate of average enterprise SSD content is estimated to increase to 26.4% in 2023.
- Global smartphone market dipped 9% in Q3 2022, third quarters consecutively, as consumers tighten budgets due to smartphone price hike and global economic inflation and now heading toward recession by 2023, according to Canalys analyst, Amber Liu.
- TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)’s Chairman, Mark Liu, speaking at the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association’s annual convention, is once again warning that both them and the semiconductor industry as a whole are facing problem as tensions between the US and China rise and the prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan grows more likely, which might thwart global chip demands and consumption as the foundry are likely to be the key for Chinese seizures in the wartime. To muddy the water, China also are currently heavily promoting their domestic semiconductor industry at this moment.
- Qatar ‘requires’ World Cup visitors to install state-sponsored app on their phones, which are “Ehteraz” and “Hayya”. Ehteraz is a Covid-19 tracking app available for iOS and Android, while Hayya match tracker and Qatar’s free metro system access is also available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. However, it is troublesome because it asks for permissions far beyond the bare minimum it needed to use, such as “read, delete, or change all content” on the user’s phone. It can override any other installed software and prevent the phone from entering sleep mode. It also can share information from the phone with virtually no restrictions. It also tracks the user’s location, can prevent the device from entering sleep mode, and can view the user’s network connections. Additional permissions include the ability to make outgoing calls and the disabling of the device’s lock screen. This analysis is according to Øyvind Vasaasen, head of security at NRK.
- Security researchers are worried about BlackLotus, a new powerful UEFI rootkit is reportedly up for sale on underground forums, offering advanced attack features that were previously available only to intelligence agencies and state-backed threat groups. It is a firmware rootkit that can bypass Windows protections to run malicious code at the lowest level of the x86 architecture protection rings, by launching it on the boot process. It can allegedly bypass many Windows security protections including Secure Boot, UAC, BitLocker, HVCI and Windows Defender, while offering the ability to load unsigned drivers. Other advanced features include a fully featured file transfer mode, and a “vulnerable signed bootloader” that cannot be invalidated without affecting hundreds of bootloader still in use today. With that, we hope that you will keep your PC safe, always check for any malware threat using your antivirus, and use your head whenever browsing the net and stumbled into any shady software.
- Russian-made Baikal BE-S1000 48-core ARM CPU appears in benchmark results and in photos. Fritzchens Fritz was able to source a BE-S1000 and shared photos of the processor on Twitter. The processor has twelve CPU clusters, each with four ARM Cortex-A75 cores, 2 MB of L2 cache, has 32 MB of L4 cache, situated in the four large areas at the processor’s centre. It also has six 72-bit memory controllers that support up to 768 GB of DDR4–3200 RAM, and has five PCIe 4.0 x16 interfaces too, as well as two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and an integrated USB 2.0 controller. It consumes around 120 W and is built on 16 nm TSMC nodes, with 607 mm² die size, almost the same size as the Nvidia’s AD102 chip in RTX 4090. Baikal Electronics initially will release the BE-S1000 in 2023. However, sanctions as a result from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have suspended mass production indefinitely.
- [Leaked] Lenovo Yoga Paper E Ink tablet leaks online on Weibo, showcasing the design and packaging of it. It show a Yoga Paper tablet with a digital pen attached that features a protective cover, capable to double as a stand. It seems to have a display with a size of around 11 inches and might be targeting the mainstream E Ink tablet/reader market rather than the high-end sector. The launch of this product could take place in the coming days.
- [Rumor] Greymon55, a well-known hardware leaker, said that AIBs (add-in board) partner have already begun testing RDNA 3-powered graphics cards in their labs. The flagship Navi 31 GPU is reportedly about 2X faster than unspecified Navi 21 GPU in rasterization. Raytracing performance improvements are more than two times that of its previous-generation counterpart. Greymon adds that the Radeon RX 7000 series will be power-efficient due to reference board’s TBP consumption. Recent rumours suggested that AMD will continue to use the traditional three-PCIe power pin design on its high-end graphics cards and restrict the maximum wattage to 450 W.
- Google announces Android 13 Go, a stripped down, easier to upgrade Android version slated for 2023 release, since it’s first inception five years ago. With it, Google is bringing Google Play System Updates to the devices which are going to help ensure that the devices can receive important software updates outside major Android releases without any issue, without using phone storage, and without the need to wait from the phone manufacturer. It also features the Discover feature, which lets you swipe right from your home screen and see a curated list of articles as well as other content that you might be interested in, Material You design to customize the entirety of their phone’s color scheme so it can coordinate with their wallpaper, and will bring key Android 13 features such as Notification Permissions, App Language Preferences, and more.
- Google’s social media team were spotted using an iPhone to promote their new Pixel phone lineup. Since then, the original tweet has been deleted and were now replace with fresher one, this time using Twitter Web App.
- Yesterday, Oracle enters agreement with NVIDIA to utilize A100 and H100 GPUs for advancements in AI (artificial intelligence) and medical science to assist with training models, high data processing, AI simulations, and more for Oracle’s clients.
- Coodiee1337 from Overclock.net (OCN) tested the unreleased Intel Core i9–13900KF CPU’s performance using Cinebench R23 and 3DMark applications. In the Cinebench R23 test, single-core results, it achieved 2,352 points, reaching 6.2 GHz boost clock frequencies at 1.474V and 75ºC temperature were recorded during the overclocking. They utilized the ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 APEX integrated CPU tuner, which uses artificial intelligence to assist with the level. The choice of the motherboard was due to a lack of time and detail in testing the processor at the time. That places the Cinebench R23 mark in 13th place on the HWBOT website.
- An unknown Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 series were pictured in a Chiphell post, a Chinese tech forums. It was a monstrous graphics card design, which has TDP of 900W, which is a power hungry card to be sure. There’s more picture of it, however the poster didn’t publish the other yet.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- Square Enix Ltd., today announced that NEO: The World Ends with You is now available on PC via Steam. PC players who purchase NEO: The World Ends with You will also receive a 25% discount up until 17:00 BST (British Summer Time) on the 25 October 2022. It is a follow up to the beloved action RPG, The World Ends with You, which transports players to the lively streets of Tokyo — assume the role of protagonist Rindo as you attempt to survive the life-or-death trials known as the “Reapers’ Game.” Rindo, along with a cast of unique and stylish characters, must band together to explore the bustling city of Tokyo and solve the mysteries behind this ominous game from which they can seemingly not escape.
- EA is shutting down online servers for several games in the coming months, with October saw the online servers demise of Dragon Age Origins (multiplayer screenshots server), Army of Two: The 40th Day and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, while November saw the online servers demise of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (PS3 and Xbox 360), Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Xbox 360, including the Kane’s Wrath expansion), Mercenaries 2 (PS3 and Xbox 360) and Onrush. December will see Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings (for Luna+) and Super Mega Baseball 3 (for Luna+). On January 2023, the online servers will also shutdown for Gatling Gears, Mirror’s Edge, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition and Shank 2. Some games like NBA Jam: On Fire Edition have achievements tied to online play. Once those servers shut down, it will be impossible to get those awards anymore.
- Activision Blizzard published PC requirements for minimum & recommended specs, the same as September 2022’s beta specs, with a GTX 960 or RX 470 under “minimum” and a 1060 or RX 580 under “recommended”. They also said that whoever pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II can already start pre-loading the campaign, which goes live on Thursday, October 20, at 10 AM PDT (1 PM EDT). Pre-loading for the multiplayer and spec-ops modes starts next Wednesday, October 26, at 10 AM PDT, while the full game goes live the next day at 9 PM PDT (midnight EDT on the 28th). The campaign’s early access pre-load is only 30GB on Steam, while the full game needs 72GB of space.
- Tom Scott, a very well-known educator YouTuber, showcasing a 1970s tank simulator, created by Swiss Army back in the day in a video that he released today. Every part of it is original, except for the computer parts (due to old and hard to find parts), which in that case were rebuild on a Raspberry Pi computer. The military computer simulation were now housed in the Swiss Military Museum in Full, Switzerland.
- Deadpool might joining Marvel’s Midnight Suns in a Twitter post, which are additions to Captain America, Blade, Magik, Iron Man, Wolverine (voiced by Steve Blum), Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Nico Minoru, Ghost Rider (the Robbie Reyes incarnation — he has a car), Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch.
- Konami, in a Silent Hill ‘live’ Transmission premier video (accidentally early published), announced Silent Hill 2 Remake. It’ll be handled by Bloober Team, the Polish studio responsible for The Medium, Blair Witch, and the Layers of Fear series, with original series monster designer Masahiro Ito and audio designer/composer Akira Yamaoka returning. It will be console-exclusive to PlayStation for its first year, but the trailer mentioned it will be available on PC, presumably at launch. No release date was announced. On the other news, Konami also revealed that an all-new game called Silent Hill Townfall is being developed by Annapurna Interactive and No Code, known for Stories Untold and Observation. It will respects the source material, while having some unique gameplay and changes on the game itself. More detail will be unveil by 2023.
- CD Projekt announced that since the release of Netflix’s anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Cyberpunk 2077 now reaches more than a million active players every day. A great redemption for a game with histories of problematic launches and bugs, indeed.
🚀Space news🌌:
- A SpaceX technician, Francisco Cabada, suffered skull fractures and coma for two months following fuel controller broke free while testing for pneumatic pressure check on a Raptor 2 engine on January 8 this year. While the technician fortunately survives the accident and in stable condition, he still can’t speak and unable to survive without medical assistance. Due to this accident, SpaceX were fined for $18,475 by U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), cited by recent OHSA report. This is so far the biggest penalty placed by OHSA due to workplace violation by SpaceX.
- Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl carrier plane (a modified Boeing 747 plane) has arrived in Cornwall in preparation for the first-ever LauncherOne orbital launch from the United Kingdom, set for November 2022 launch. The mission, Start Me Up, is a joint project between the U.S. and U.K. governments, launched by Virgin Orbit, the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), UK Space Command and Spaceport Cornwall.
- A satellite photograph by France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES), captured on October 15 this year, shows the Airbus Beluga ST (an Airbus A300–600ST (Super Transporter)) unloading the Hotbird 13G Eutelsat satellite in NASA’s KSC (Kennedy Space Center), in preparation for SpaceX’s Falcon launch at some point.
- Ukrainian scientists from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) and Harvard astrophysicist, Avi Loeb, said that the recent publication of UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena)/UFO (unidentified flying object) in Kyiv were flawed in term of research methodology. This is due to the fact that the researcher were too depended on one or two observatory (lacking triangulation method to properly calculate the velocity of the “strange” object), didn’t take account into artillery, bullets, bugs or something else entirely, which Ukraine currently on war against Russian aggressor, and possible miscalculation by a factor of 10 to 20 times. NASU wants the involved researcher to retract their name from the publication.
- An iconic space gas cloud dust of Pillars of Creation, located in the constellation Serpens, some 7,000 light-years away, stunned the astronomers with it’s new images by James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This new images will assist researchers to “revamp their models of star formation by identifying far more precise counts of newly formed stars, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region”, cited NASA. It was first imaged by Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.
- HotHardware published an article for you to lookout for Orionid meteor shower, a product of the inbound leg of Halley’s Comet, which peak on 21 October 2022. You can still look for it until late November of 2022.
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