Technology

ASUS Launches An Old GPU: The NVIDIA GT 710 with Four 4K HDMI Ports

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I’ve noticed of late that certain companies are ‘relaunching’ older parts in new designs. We’ve seen it recently with some of the older AMD APUs finding their way into new motherboard designs, but here it’s a case of a base GPU returning to the market. ASUS has listed on its website a ‘new’ GT 710: this is a super low end graphics chip with 192 CUDA cores on the 87 mm2 GK208 Kepler die that originally launched in late 2015 / early 2016. The goal of this sort of graphics card us to supply basic video outputs to machines that do not come with any integrated graphics on the processor.

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People Running Folding @ Home Accidentally Created The World’s Biggest Supercomputer

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You may have heard of Folding @ home, the number-crunching app you can run on your computer to help researchers tackle certain medical problems, including the new coronavirus. In the past month, the network of volunteers who’ve installed it has become so vast, the platform is outperforming the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

According to the Folding @ home director, biochemist Greg Bowman, some 700,000 new Folding@home operators have joined up in recent weeks. That’s a huge increase over the 30,000 people who are typically running Folding @ home at any one time.

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Is the TurboGrafx-16 Mini worth it? – Retail Reviews

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This week Ryan shows Mike the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. They go over what’s good about the console and how the system’s library could be better. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini, known as the PC Engine Mini in Japan and PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini in Europe, is a dedicated home video game console by Konami modeled on NEC’s TurboGrafx-16, which was designed by Hudson Soft. The Mini emulates the original console’s 16-bit hardware. The Japanese model contains 58 games total while the international models contain 57. We got a review copy from Konami and wanted to share our findings!

Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

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Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays and suspect it is because they are actually shingled magnetic recording drives submarined into the channel.

Alan Brown, a network manager at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, the UK’s largest university-based space research group, told us about his problems adding a new WD Red NAS drive to a RAID array at his home. Although it was sold as a RAID drive, the device “keep[s] getting kicked out of RAID arrays due to errors during resilvering,” he said.

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Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web

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Over 500,000 Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free.

These credentials are gathered through credential stuffing attacks where threat actors attempt to login to Zoom using accounts leaked in older data breaches. The successful logins are then compiled into lists that are sold to other hackers.

Some of these Zoom accounts are offered for free on hacker forums so that hackers can use them in zoom-bombing pranks and malicious activities. Others are sold for less than a penny each.

Cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble told BleepingComputer that around April 1st, 2020, they began to see free Zoom accounts being posted on hacker forums to gain an increased reputation in the hacker community.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Durability Test – Fake Folding Glass?!

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Samsung has pitched this phone as a folding glass phone that ‘bends the laws of physics’ But… is folding glass actually possible? The only way to find out is with a scratch test. Overall I’m impressed with the Galaxy Z Flip. If they change the name of their screen material to something besides glass I would give it a 10/10 as far as folding phones go. The only physical characteristic this screen material shares with actual glass is the clarity. And I dont think thats fair to consumers. At all. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Coronavirus: RaspberryPi powered ventilator to be tested in Colombia

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A team in Colombia is to test a ventilator made with a Raspberry Pi computer and easy-to-source parts.
The design and computer code were posted online in March by a man in California, who had no prior experience at creating medical equipment.

Marco Mascorro, a robotics engineer, said he built the ventilator because knew the machines were in high demand to treat Covid-19.
His post prompted a flood of feedback from healthcare workers.

He has used the advice to make improvements.
“I am a true believer that technology can solve a lot of the problems we have right now specifically in this pandemic,” he told the BBC.

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