Nvidia Ampere rumour suggests it will kill the cost of ray tracing

According to the latest Nvidia Ampere rumours, your RTX 2080 Super ain’t going to age well, but at least the prohibitive performance cost of ray tracing might be a thing of the past. 

Yes, off the back of the green team announcing its May 14 GTC keynote there’s been a groundswell of next-gen GPU rumours. First, the official—Jen-Hsun is going to take to the virtual stage, surely still in his trademark leather jacket, and is encouraging us to ‘Get Amped’ for Nvidia’s online keynote.

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The Story of Xbox 360 PartnerNet Game Leaks | MVG

Game Leaks are a hot topic right now. Perhaps no story is more crazy than the Xbox 360 and its PartnerNet service. In this episode we take a look at the story of how Microsoft were unable to control game leaks on the Xbox 360 because of critical security flaws within the PartnerNet service – the Developer version of Xbox Live , and how thousands of unauthorized users were able to access PartnerNet and download and leak pre-release beta games months before official release.

Massive Nintendo leak yields N64, GCN, Wii source code, much more

In the past year, Nintendo leaks have ramped up, especially where Pokémon is involved. For instance, Gold and Silver prototypes from Nintendo’s Space World 1999 event recently surfaced. Now, the leaks are reaching critical mass. As highlighted by a ResetEra thread and various other sources, massive Nintendo leaks are being published to 4chan. Included in the leaks are the source code to Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii, plus assorted unreleased game demos and myriad other items that are still being explored.

The source of these leaks — which were obtained illegally — is still being ascertained. A finger is being pointed at a server hack of BroadOn, a company that developed software and some hardware for Wii, among other Nintendo consoles. There is also some speculation that it may have come from Zammis Clark, otherwise known as Wack0, who hacked Nintendo in 2018 and narrowly avoided prison. Wack0 is the ultimate source of many of the recent Pokémon leaks.

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PREVIEW – Retropie CRT Edition – RaspberryPi 2B/3B/3B+ – TV 15Khz – FINAL EVO RELEASE 1.0 (STABLE)

CRT Edition – Raspberry pi 2B/3B/3B+ – TV 15Khz (vga666 / pi2scart / rgb-pi)
What do I need to install Retropie CRT Edition?
This distribution works with Raspberry Pi 2B / 3B / 3B +
SD memory card of at least 4Gb
A television or CRT monitor at 15Khz
Video output exclusively by GPIO with RGB-Pi cable or vga666 adapters (including pi2scart)
Only works with TVs / monitors at 15Khz

How to prepare the SD Download one of the three available images of the system:

FINAL EVO RELEASE 1.0 (STABLE)!!!: Download the image of Retropie CRT EVO 1.0 [STABLE/FINAL] [2020/04/17] 2B/3B/3A+/3B+ [2020/03/26] https://github.com/krahsdevil/Retropi…

A Jaw-Dropping Demo, in only 256 bytes

“Revision” is probably the Olympics of the demoscene. The world’s best tiny graphics coders assemble, show off their works, and learn new tricks to pack as much awesome into as few bytes as possible or make unheard-of effects on limited hardware. And of course, there’s a competition. Winning this year’s 256-byte (byte!) competition, and then taking the overall crowd favorite award, was [HellMood]’s Memories.

If you watch it in the live-stream from Revision, you’ll hear the crowd going (virtually) wild, and the announcer losing his grip and gasping for words. It’s that amazing. Not only are more effects put into 28 bytes than we thought possible, but there’s a full generative MIDI score to go with it. What?!?

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Plex Bringing Back Channels And Adding Whole New Dynamic

Plex could be becoming more like a Roku. The growing Plex Movies and TV Shows section now includes Crackle’s library. For years Plex had a listing of what it called channels, later renamed plugins. The entries were a way to access web-based content on-demand and ranged from Networks to apps and were not officially supported. As the platform got more mainstream, channels found their way off of Plex and were sort of replaced by the podcasts and web shows. But a major effort from Plex to develop ad-supported streaming on top of the other content has opened the door to channels once more.

In the past Plex had its own channel store of sorts. At the moment there is only one channel listed and it can be accessed via the movies and TV option in Plex. The default section includes all of the video selections available via Plex with Crackle listed in separate rows.

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Intel Core i9-10900K is official, boosting up to 5.3 GHz; Core i7 and Core i5 get competitive against Ryzen

In context: Intel’s new Core i9-10900K CPU comes equipped with 10 cores, 20 threads and new Turbo frequencies to go head to head against the Ryzen 9 3900X and possibly become the new gaming flagship processor. Meanwhile, the new Core i7 and Core i5 range look very competitive not just in terms of specs and expected performance, but most importantly, in pricing and value against otherwise very aggressive Ryzen rivals.

This has been a long time coming and today we can finally share with you the official information on Intel’s 10th gen desktop processors in their Comet Lake lineup. No more leaks, this is the official info, and we’ll be sharing a few of our thoughts on what Intel is offering along the way.

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