Month: July 2022
DDR5 memory frequency world record broken, but not by who you might expect
Audio player loading… The memory frequency record has just been smashed using an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard, an Intel Core i9-12900K processor, and an unspecified brand and type of DDR5 RAM. The person behind the achievement is a little-known Hong Kong-based overclocker called “Lupin_No_Musume”, who managed to acheive speeds of…
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Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter
Elon Musk is officially trying to pull out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. In a filing Friday afternoon with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk’s team claims he is terminating the deal because Twitter was in “material breach” of their agreement and had made “false and misleading”…
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President Biden signs order on abortion care and patient privacy
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday directing federal agencies to protect abortion access and the online privacy of patients seeking reproductive healthcare following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The order’s primary directives prompt the Department of Health and Human Services to expand access…
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Right to repair: FTC forces Weber to tell grillmasters it’s OK to use third-party parts
My Weber grill came with a warning: “The use and/or installation of parts on your WEBER product that are not genuine WEBER parts will void this Warranty.” That’s not cool. In fact, it’s been illegal since 1975 — and soon, Weber won’t be doing it anymore. According to a new…
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Twitter is removing over a million spam accounts every day
Audio player loading… Twitter has revealed it currently removes one million bots every day in order to keep its platform safe.. Bots, in this context, are malicious, or spam accounts, fake identities (opens in new tab) that leave meaningless comments on people’s tweets, or are used to promote an account,…
Read MoreThis reimagining of the Game Boy looks like a prototype Nintendo could have made
Imagine if Nintendo made a Game Boy Advance without the Advance part. That’s what video game console and handheld modder Obirux did: they created a reimagined original Game Boy handheld that retains the aesthetic language of the 1989 model but reoriented it as a horizontally handled system akin to the…
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