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    Next-gen Nvidia RTX 4000-series GPUs are reportedly coming in the next few months

    The RTX 3090 is 350W, the RTX 3090 Ti is 450W. I'm not going above 400w for my next card and it will need to be 2 slot (and preferably not a blower)
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    Breaking down Sony’s confusing PlayStation Plus subscription relaunch

    I'm in the same boat. its currently £50 a year for PS Now, if that doubles to £100 a year come renewal in mid July then it's time to cancel. Relevant section from the blog post: Not exactly clear when the fees will increase. The naming is getting ridiculous
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    Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

    It depends. For instance on my Azure cloud VMs the default for 20.04 LTS is 5.13: Linux 5.13.0-1014-azure #16~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 16 20:56:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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    CDC issues new guidance on mask use

    Those people may not have died from covid, it just means they tested positive sometime within the previous 28 days (For instance get tested and come back positive but are feeling fine, then get run over by a bus a week later and die, you still get added to that statistic even though your death...
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    CDC issues new guidance on mask use

    For comparison, over in the UK we no longer have any COVID restrictions, even if you test positive. Everything is tracking down still and the death rate is well below the 5 year average https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ Life does feel like its back to normal (although still working from home).
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    Intel NUC 12 Extreme review: Alder Lake makes for a pricey, portable powerhouse

    I crammed an air cooled AMD 5950x and a RTX 3090 (2 slot blower) into an 8 litre Ghost S1, so can get some pretty powerful hardware into these small machines.
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    US airlines warn of “chaos” as telecoms groups roll out 5G

    5G power levels are much lower in France (and in all of Europe in general) https://www.aviationtoday.com/2022/01/1 ... fer-zones/
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    Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won’t say why

    Ice Universe (mentioned in the ars article, who is a reliable leaker): https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/ ... 46240?s=20 He also said the Exynos 2200 was the worst flagship processor by a large margin, but then deleted the tweets https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-worst ... 509.0.html
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    OnHub router support to end in 2022; Google points users to Nest Wifi instead

    Depends on the company I guess, my old ASUS RT-AC68U, released late 2013 is still receiving updates every couple of months, wish my much more expensive Samsung smartphone was.
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    New York City bans new natural gas hookups in step toward all-electric future

    I looked at switching supplier recently and the rate ranged between 21p and 42p per kwh where I live. Back in January you could get it as low as 14p, a lot of suppliers have gone bust this year and its likely more will still do so.
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    Hubble’s science on hold as instruments switch into safe mode

    More like move Hubble a few metres above the cargo bay, rather than into it. There is a nice picture on the NASA website. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubb ... index.html
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    New PS5 model is lighter, has a better screw

    Read about this change back in July, good to see its finally shipping https://www.psu.com/news/new-ps5-digita ... s-lighter/
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    Gigabyte will replace exploding power supplies Newegg sold to desperate GPU buyers

    If you are looking for a new power supply this calculator I have found to be pretty good (a lot of people overestimate how big a power supply they actually need) https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator For my AMD 5950x (under volted) and RTX 3090 (non-oc) I have had no problems with a...
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    Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from social media for COVID disinfo

    For the masks statement it is possible :- Wearing masks could boost peoples confidence thus making them do more risky things such as having close contact with people. Its important people wear (good quality) masks and follow all the instructions (such as maintaining social distancing).
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    Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from social media for COVID disinfo

    If you are going to make a statement like that you really could do with a link to some of the studies! A quick google search found the DANMASK-19 study: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/24/co ... he-wearer/ The study used surgical masks with clear instructions on how to use them (e.g. binning...
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    Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France

    Its estimated that 1 in 2000 people carry the vCJD prions in the UK https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2013 ... d-proteins
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    Microsoft changes course, gives gamers a reason to stick with Windows 10

    Microsoft never has said that, it always been PCI-E 3.0 but better performance under PCI-E 4.0 https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comme ... e_30_nvme/
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    Emergent got $27M a month to prep vaccine plant—then ruined 15M J&J doses

    Latest research is showing 2 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be around 85% to 90% effective, that's pretty similar to the Pfizer vaccine. https://www.reuters.com/business/health ... 021-05-20/
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    Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much

    Do you agree now that the fix only caused stability problems for chips back as far as Haswell? Both links confirm anything older than Haswell didn't have the stability issues as intel hadn't gotten around to issuing a microcode update for them (so they were and are still vulnerable to spectre...
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    Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much

    Do you have a link to where you got that information? Everything I have read states that the windows meltdown crashes only effected AMD chips. The intel crashes were caused by the microcode updates for variant 2 spectre and the microcode updates were only released Haswell and newer chips (not...