Soldered AMD Bristol Ridge APU Arrives on Biostar's New Mini-ITX Board

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If you're looking for a simple and affordable board to stick in a media center PC, Biostar's latest A10N-9630E might be a good option. It comes in a Mini-ITX format and has the AMD A10-9630P Bristol Ridge APU soldered into it.

The A10-9630P APU is a bit of a unique chip. It isn't listed on AMD'


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Intel Axes i5 and i7 Whiskey Lake NUCs

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Intel has sent out a product change notification surrounding a number of its Whiskey Lake NUCs, which the company is phasing out over the coming weeks. The last units should ship out no later than July 2nd, according to Intel. This comes as a bit of a surprise given that the Whiskey Lake CPUs have only been on the market since summer 2018.

The Whiskey Lake NUCs are based on Intel's 8th generation hardware, and the SKUs mentioned in this notice


Maker Creates LCD Coronavirus Counter on the Raspberry Pi

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In the midst of the Coronavirus news, one maker (Julian Brügger) took matters into his own hands by tracking reported Coronavirus cases in real-time using a Raspberry Pi . The setup has an LCD display configured to report the latest Coronavirus numbers and related data.

The Raspberry Pi pulls data from the Coronavirus Tracker API hosted on Heroku app. The information is formatted to display on the LCD screen and updates once every minute. You don't need much hardware


Franken-CrossFire: Radeon RX 5600 XT Joins Radeon RX 5700

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AMD completely abandoned the idea of CrossFire support when it introduced its Navi lineup, but if you ever wondered how two Navi graphics cards would perform together, Uniko's Hardware has the answer for you. For the sake of science, the publication paired a Radeon RX 5600 XT together with the Radeon RX 5700 .

In the old days, it was pretty common to run a multi-GPU setup. On some occasions, a


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Xilinx Unveils 7nm Versal Premium: 123TB/s Bandwidth, PCIe 5.0, CXL, 112G Transceivers

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Xilinx unveiled its Versal Premium lineup of Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAPs) that wield a new take on FPGA design, building on its Versal AI Core and Prime series . Last year, Xilinx started sampling the Prime and AI Core series, two of the six Versal product lines that it has planned, and today it is unveiling more details about the higher-end Premium series, although it won’t start sampling until 2021.

Xilinx designed the Versal Premium series for high

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This Curved 34-inch 1440p Gaming Monitor Is Crazy Cheap at $349

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34 inches. 1440p resolution. Curved VA panel. 100 Hz refresh rate. Where do you sign up? Right now Amazon is having one of the best tech deals on a gaming monitor with the Viotek GN34CW available for just $349.99 .

Viotek is a lesser known brand, but the deal is fulfilled by Amazon. And on paper, the GN34CW is a very strong package. The 34

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Infostealers Already Cracking Chrome’s Latest Updates

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Despite enthusiast media sources celebrating Google’s attempts to route hacking groups in last month’s updates to the Chrome browser, new posts on infostealer forums seem to show that malware peddlers are now keeping up with the tech giant’s latest encryption updates with minimal issue.

Early last month, Google released Chrome 80 , which added the AES-256 encryption algorithm to the browser in an attempt to prevent hackers from stealing user credentials. Prior to this, the browser had simply

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New Load Value Injection Vulnerability Found In Intel Chips

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Intel's chips have faced an onslaught of new vulnerabilities discovered by crafty researchers, and today finds the company facing yet another new flaw, Load Value Injection (LVI) , that a press release from Bitdefender describes as "particularly devastating" for servers in the data center. LVI impacts all Core families spanning from the third-generation Ivy Bridge chips to the 10th-generation Comet Lake processors.

According to statements from the researchers to ZDNet , the attack builds upon the


Horizon Zero Dawn PC Confirmed: Release Date Still Uncertain

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It's actually happening: Sony today announced that it's releasing Horizon Zero Dawn, a PlayStation 4 (PS4) exclusive that debuted in 2017, on PC some time in the near future.

Rumors indicated earlier this year that Sony planned to release the PS4 exclusive on PC eventually. That seemed a bit strange, considering the company's push for hardware-selling games that people can't experience on any other platforms. But now it seems that


Nvidia Driver Update Readies GPUs for Call of Duty's New Warzone Battle Royale

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Nvidia today released a new Game Ready Driver to improve support for Warzone, the new battle royale game mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , on its launch day.

Warzone is a 150-person battle royale game mode in which players compete to be the last squad standing. If that sounds familiar, it's probably because the game type exploded in popularity over the last few years, thanks to games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite and Apex Legends among countless other