Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong reportedly told the Financial Times that the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to halt trading in the exchange with all currencies except bitcoin. According to Armstrong, the suggestion came just before the SEC sued Coinbase last month.
Source: Gizmodo – SEC Reportedly Asked Coinbase to Halt All Trading—Except for Bitcoin
Early on in the PS5’s life, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s dimension hopping shenanigans were claimed to only be possible with a solid state drive (SSD). Now that the game is on another platform, one capable of using an old-school physical harddrive, it seems that actually was true.
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Go Playin’ Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart On PC Without An SSD
It is well understood that concurrency makes programming problems harder;
the high level of concurrency inherent in kernel development is one of the
reasons why kernel work can be challenging. Things can get even worse,
though, if concurrent access happens in places where the code is not
expecting it. The long story accompanying this
short patch from Christian Brauner is illustrative of the kind of
problem that can arise when assumptions about concurrency prove to be
incorrect.
Source: LWN.net – [$] A virtual filesystem locking surprise
Apple is reportedly hoping that .7 mm will make a big difference for iPhone fanatics as the upcoming iPhone 15’s screen stretch near to the very edge of the device. There could be more onscreen real estate for your fingers as well, as the Cupertino company may nix the notch and replace it with the Dynamic Island on…
Source: Gizmodo – The iPhone 15 Pro Could Push the Screen to the Edge
This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk through how it can be useful (and how it can’t), and evaluate where this revolutionary tech is heading next. Read more here.
Source: LifeHacker – When It’s OK to Use AI at Work (and When It’s Not)
As suspected, the canister-like object that washed ashore in Green Head, Western Australia, in mid-July likely belongs to a discarded third stage from an Indian rocket, the Australian Space Agency announced over the weekend.
Source: Gizmodo – Australian Space Agency Unravels Mystery of Unidentified Seashore Object
One of the latest feature additions for next quarter’s Mesa 23.3 release of these open-source user-space graphics driver components is adding support for the EGL explicit device extension…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support
WordPress makes useless updates that just break the site in SeaMonkey for no reason.This has prevented me from logging in with SeaMonkey because instead of the log in page, you’ll just see the WordPress logo.
Source: LXer – WordPress in SeaMonkey, Firefox Troubles in Fedora, “GoogleWeb”, American Decline, and Matthew Garrett “Collaborator” and “Conference Pervert”
A bunch of small new features are rolling out in the latest PlayStation 5 software beta and one of them is an absolute godsend. After over a decade, it will finally be possible to mute the loud beep your PlayStation makes when you turn it on.
Source: Kotaku – PS5 Update Lets You Mute Console Gaming’s Most Annoying Beep
Dracula strikes in more new Last Voyage of the Demeter pictures. Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s TMNT: Mutant Mayhem soundtrack. Warwick Davis wants to reprise his Rogue One character. Plus, get a glimpse of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical episode. Spoilers now!
Source: Gizmodo – More Rumors About the Future of Marvel’s Fantastic Four Movie
Sony is doubling the expanded storage capacity support of its PlayStation 5 console to accommodate 8 terabyte (TB) M.2 form factor solid state drives (SSDs). It’s one of several features currently being tested in the latest beta software update. The beta update is an invite-only affair for the time being, though Sony says it plans on pushing
Source: Hot Hardware – Sony PS5 Update Adds Dolby Atmos, 8TB SSD Support And More Great Upgrades
CIQ, Rocky Linux’s founding support and services partner, has customized its own take, Ascender, on the Ansible AWX front-end to the popular DevOps program Ansible.
The post CIQ Spins Out Its Own Red Hat Ansible Interface: Ascender appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – CIQ Spins Out Its Own Red Hat Ansible Interface: Ascender
Japan’s government plans to expand opportunities for students and working adults to acquire digital skills, aiming to add about 110,000 people studying in the field through fiscal 2024 as it faces a shortage of talent in areas like artificial intelligence. From a report: There are an estimated 1 million digital workers in Japan. The government projects there will be a shortage of 2.3 million by fiscal 2026. Japan needs more business architects, who can help companies adopt digital technology, as well as data scientists.
The goals were set in June as part of the Kishida government’s “new capitalism” action plan, which aims to secure a total of 3.3 million digital workers by the end of fiscal 2026, out of a labor force of 68 million people. “We will work to achieve these goals,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a news conference on July 25. Japan will accredit courses that teach the necessary knowledge and skills. There are concerns about a lack of instructors, so the government will consider ways to allow companies to dispatch specialists with hands-on experience.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Japan To Boost Training for Digital Workers To Stave Off Shortage
While DDR5 memory has been out and in use for a couple of years now, so far we haven’t seen the memory reach its full potential – at least, not for rank-and-file standards-compliant DIMMs. The specification allows for speeds as high as DDR5-6400, but to date we’ve only seen on-spec kits (and processors) as fast as DDR5-5600. But at last, it looks like things are about to change and DDR5 is set to live up to its full potential, going by a new memory kit announcement from TeamGroup.
The memory kit vendor on Monday introduced its new ElitePlus-series DDR5-6400 memory modules, the first DDR5-6400 kit to be announced as JEDEC specification compliant. This means their new kit not only hits 6400 MT/s with standards-compliant timings, but arguably more importantly, it does so at DDR5’s standard voltage of 1.1V as well. And while there are no platforms on the market at this time that are validated for JEDEC DDR5-6400 speeds, TeamGroup’s product page already lists compatibility with Intel’s yet-to-be-announced “Z790 Refresh” platform – so suitable processors seem to be due soon.
TeamGroup’s Elite and ElitePlus DDR5-6400 memory modules come in 16 GB and 32 GB capacities (32 GB and 64 GB dual-channel kits) and feature JEDEC-standard CL52 52-52-103 timings as well as 1.1V voltage, as specified by the organization overseeing DRAM specs. For the moment, at least, TeamGroup’s DDR5-6400 modules are the industry’s fastest UDIMMs that are fully compliant with the JEDEC specifications.
And while DDR5-6400 speeds (and far higher) are available today with factory overclocked XMP/EXPO, the announcement of a JEDEC standards-compliant kit is still significant for a few different reasons. Being able to hit DDR5-6400B speeds and timings at 1.1V means DDR5 memory has improved to the point to make higher speeds at low voltages more viable, which has potential payoffs for memory at every speed grade by allowing for improved speeds and reduced power consumption/heat. And for OEM and other warrantied systems that only use JEDEC-complaint RAM, this allows for a straightforward improvement in memory speeds and bandwidth. About the only downside to faster on-spec kits is that they lack XMP or EXPO serial presence detect (SPD) profiles, which makes their configuration slightly more complicated on existing platforms from AMD and Intel, as they don’t officially support DDR5-6400.
Meanwhile, on their product pages TeamGroup notes that the new RAM is compatible with Intel’s “Z790 Refresh” platform, a platform that has yet to be officially announced, but is rumored to go hand-in-hand with Intel “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors. Despite the lack of formal announcements from Intel there, TeamGroup seems to have let the cat out of the bag. So, prospective owners of Z790 Refresh systems can look forward to having access to specs-compliant 1.1V DDR5-6400 memory when that platform launches later this year.
As for the modules at hand, traditionally, TeamGroup’s Elite and ElitePlus memory modules are minimalistic and are aimed both at system integrators and at enthusiasts who are not after fancy designs of heat spreaders, RGB lighting, and maximum performance. In fact, TeamGroup’s Elite modules do not have heat spreaders at all, whereas ElitePlus modules have a minimalistic heat spreader that will not interfere with large CPU coolers.
TeamGroup says its Elite and ElitePlus DDR5-6400 memory modules will be available separately and in dual-channel kits starting from August in North America and Taiwan. And from that, we’d assume, Raptor Lake Refresh will not be far behind.
Source: AnandTech – TeamGroup Unveils JEDEC-Spec DDR5-6400 Memory Kits: Faster 1.1V DDR5 On The Way For Future CPUs
This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk through how it can be useful (and how it can’t), and evaluate where this revolutionary tech is heading next. Read more here.
Source: LifeHacker – A Beginner’s Guide to Using ChatGPT Plugins
Qualcomm engineers have begun rolling out a new open-source V4L2/media driver for a new Qualcomm “Iris” video accelerator hardware for video encode and decode on Qualcomm SoCs…
Source: Phoronix – Qualcomm Rolling Out “Iris” Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux
This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk through how it can be useful (and how it can’t), and evaluate where this revolutionary tech is heading next. Read more here.
Source: LifeHacker – 11 AI-Powered Apps That Are Actually Useful
Our first proper look at the return of Loki is here, and Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief has some proper chaos on his hands—familiar faces, familiar foes, fluorescent green pie, and oh, just a little thing like all of time itself coming apart at the seams, himself included.
Source: Gizmodo – Loki Season 2’s First Trailer Rips the Timeline Apart
4MLinux 43.0 brings the Mesa 23.1 graphics stack, LibreOffice 7.5, and Firefox 115 and Chrome 115 web browsers.
The post 4MLinux 43.0 Released With Linux 6.1 LTS, Thunderbird 115 appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – 4MLinux 43.0 Released With Linux 6.1 LTS, Thunderbird 115
