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Month: October 2021

New theory puts dark matter on the chopping block

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Agitator!!

What if dark matter didn’t exist? Sure, scientists have never observed it, but they believe it exists because of apparent gravitational effects. But what if our current understanding of gravity was just plain wrong? The question has been raised over the last several decades, but typically when a proposed modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) theory is…

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Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Agitator!!

Intel launched the first products in the 12th Gen Intel Core family, including Intel Core i9-12900K; preorders start today with availability starting Nov. 4. New performance hybrid architecture delivers leaps in multi-threaded performance, enabling up to 2 times faster content creation compared to prior generation2.  Six desktop processors launched today lead the industry with the…

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Matrox Celebrates 45 Years

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Agitator!!

Kind of lost in today’s world of NVIDIA and AMD, was one of the pioneers of 3D add-in video cards. While they aren’t a household name anymore, Matrox is still around and celebrating 45 years in business. Since its founding in 1976, Matrox has borne witness to, and helped propel, major technological shifts. Matrox explored…

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Level 5 atmospheric river to aid California

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Agitator!!

A Level 5 atmospheric river is set to unleash flooding across drought-stricken California. After nearly a year without rain, a series of potent Pacific storms are directed at Northern California this week, potentially bringing as much as a foot of rainfall and up to three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada. For more, check…

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Annoying Win 10 Remote Desktop authentication issue fixed

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Agitator!!

Working at home raised new issues in computing, but when patches add to the frustration… Microsoft has resolved an issue in Windows 10 that would cause authentication failures when connecting to devices in an untrusted domain using Remote Desktop using smart card authentication. For more, check out this Bleeping Computer/MSN story.

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Scientists capture image of bizarre ‘electron ice

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Agitator!!

Physicists have taken the first ever image of a Wigner crystal. Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner first theorized this crystal in 1934, but it’s taken more than eight decades for scientists to finally get a direct look at the “electron ice.” The fascinating first image shows electrons squished together into a tight, repeating pattern — like…

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Microsoft Azure repels whopping 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack

Posted on October 13, 2021 by Agitator!!

Azure successfully mitigated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 2.4 Tbps. Dahan shares that the attack traffic originated from approximately 70,000 sources and from multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and China, as well as from the United States. For more, check out this TechRadar/MSN…

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Why does the internet keep breaking?

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Agitator!!

Catchy title of this BBC story. “One of the things that we’ve seen in the last several years is an increased reliance on a small number of networks and companies to deliver large portions of Internet content,” says Luke Deryckx, Chief Technical Officer at Down Detector. “When one of those, or more than one, has…

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New graphics card power connector coming

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Agitator!!

This is crazy – I remember when a 300W power supply was a monster. Later, a 450W power supply was considered standard for a PC. Now comes word of an upcoming 450W graphics card power connector. 450W! Modern graphics cards are getting faster and faster, but they also need more and more energy. The GeForce…

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Airless tires are finally coming in 2024

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Agitator!!

C|Net takes a quick look at the upcoming airless tires. Nails become minor annoyances and sidewall cuts that usually render a tire unrepairable are no longer possible. There would be no need to check tire inflation (you’ve probably ignored my admonitions to do that anyway) and we’d say goodbye to spare tires, jacks and inflation…

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