Author: Agitator!!

Version 0.5 of PCIe 6.0 is now available to members. They hope to release the final version next year. PCIe 6.0 Specification Features Overview Data rate of 64 GT/s speeds, doubling the 32GT/s data rate of the PCIe 5.0 specification PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) encoding Low-latency Forward Error Correction (FEC) with additional…

Oops…a simple piece of tape tricked a semi-autonomous Tesla into speeding. Technicians at McAfee Inc. placed the piece of tape horizontally across the middle of the “3” on a 35 mile-per-hour speed limit sign. The change caused the vehicle to read the limit as 85 miles per hour, and its cruise control system automatically accelerated,…

What does it mean for the continent’s health? For years, scientists have tracked as chunks of the glacier have broken off, an awe-inspiring event known as “calving” that happens naturally. But it’s happening more often at the Pine Island Glacier, also known as PIG, and it’s got glaciologists worried that climate change is to blame….

Got millions burning a hole in your pocket? For this trip, paying customers will skip the space station and instead orbit two to three times higher, or roughly 500 miles to 750 miles (800 kilometers to 1,200 kilometers) above Earth. For more, check out this IEN story.

I think this problem is getting worse, not better. There are people who rarely look up from their phones. At the rehab center I go to, there are people who sit on the machines absent-mindlessly going through their reps, all the while never glancing up from their phones. It’s an epidemic. Our brains are wired…

Scientists reported that an iceberg that’s twice the size of Washington, D.C., just broke off of the Pine Island glacier in Antarctica. The Pine Island glacier “is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica,” according to NASA. Along with the nearby Thwaites glacier, the two glaciers contain “enough vulnerable ice to raise global sea level…

As of December 31, 2019, Backblaze had 124,956 spinning hard drives. They take a look at the failure rates of those drives. The total AFR for 2019 rose significantly in 2019. About 75% of the different drive models experienced a rise in AFR from 2018 to 2019. There are two primary drivers behind this rise….

For the first time, scientists have detected a radio signal from outer space that repeats at regular intervals. The series of “fast radio bursts” – short-lived pulses of radio waves that come from across the universe – were detected about once an hour for four days and then stopped, only to start up again 12 days…

Facebook said it has demanded New York-based Clearview AI stop accessing or using information from its flagship site and Instagram. Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, which the startup does as part of its…

Experts warn that hackers can load malware into charging stations at place like airports and malls, allowing them to steal the data of unsuspecting users. The practice, known as “juice jacking,” occurs when people plug in to “juice” up their phones and hackers use malware in the charging station or USB cable to “jack” their…