Nvidia's Planning Something Big.... - TechLinked August 14, 2023

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I KNOW THERE IS GOOD IN YOU

Leaks and details about Nvidia’s upcoming Blackwell GPU family

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/details-on-nvidias-next-gen-blackwell-gpus-appear-to-have-leaked

Courtesy of old friends ChipHell and kopite7kimi

Panzerlied (via chiphell) gave numbers: 23567 https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2538269-1-1.html

Kimi elaborated with die names https://lmg.gg/vnBdS (Dexerto)

Name scheme seems like reference to past Ampere cards https://lmg.gg/aBfpI (VideoCardz)

Seems not working on AD104 successor, move away from X04 naming convention and onto X05 https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidias-upcoming-gpu-lineup-shift-from-x04-to-x05-nomenclatureinsights-from-leakers.html

Historically XXX04 performance-mainstream segement, X05 might mean fewer transistors https://lmg.gg/JiID6

 

AW SH**, HERE WE GO AGAIN

Internet Archive being sued (again) but this time by music publishers

https://www.engadget.com/sony-and-other-music-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-old-records-110108988.html

Due to Great 78 Project to preserve 78rpm records https://great78.archive.org/

Sony Music and 5 other music companies don’t like it https://fortune.com/2023/08/12/music-labels-sue-nonprofit-internet-archive-for-copyright-infringement-over-digitized-78s-of-frank-sinatra-and-other-artists/

Venus of Willendorf / Preffered pic venus of Willendorf

Four months after they were found liable for copyright infringement for lending extra scans of books during COVID-19 pandemic https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92971-publishers-internet-archive-submit-proposed-judgment-in-copyright-case.html

Plan to appeal the book publisher case https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/11/our-fight-is-far-from-over/

 

FEELING BLU

Disney not releasing physical media in Australia anymore

https://www.t3.com/news/much-as-i-love-streaming-services-the-end-of-4k-blu-ray-will-be-a-major-loss-for-us-all

https://screenrant.com/disney-movies-dvd-physical-media-releases-cancelled/

https://collider.com/disney-physical-media-release-discontinue-australia/

Seeing trend with physical games; no disc with Starfield’s most expensive edition https://lmg.gg/l497l (IGN)

Alan Wake 2 will launch digital only, though THQ Nodric sort of teased they might release one later? (EDITOR: please scroll up) https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/1661660949361590278

 

QUICK BITS

 

NO WARRANTY THO?

Dell fined 6.5 million after Australian Competitions & Consumer Commission (ACCC) complaint

https://www.reuters.com/technology/dells-aussie-arm-pay-65-mln-penalties-misleading-customers-2023-08-14/

August 2019-Dec 2021 offered shoppers monitors as “add-ons” to purchases at a “discount” https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/dell_fined_australia/

It was often more expensive than buying monitor individually https://lmg.gg/BH8HH (ITPro)

 

EVERYONE SETTLED

iPhone throttling settlement

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/08/12/judge-clears-way-for-500m-iphone-throttling-settlements

Older iPhones shutdown, then Apple throttled their performance to “fix issue” https://boingboing.net/2023/08/14/apple-to-pay-500m-to-owners-of-slowed-iphones.html

Everyone gets $65 (yay) https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/11/apple-to-pay-up-to-500-million-to-iphone-users-after-judge-nixes-final-appeal/

 

ELON ENTERED THE CHAT

Apple planning major “Watch X” upgrade for Apple Watch’s 10^th anniversary

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-13/apple-event-september-12-2023-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-2-watch-x-later-ll9geb3n

Little to no change from 8 to 9, seems like best to wait a year https://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-getting-big-update-in-2024-1850734417

 

MICROSOFT BULLIES SOFTWARE

Microsoft finds 16 vulnerabilities in industrial operations software

https://therecord.media/microsoft-reveals-vulnerabilities-codesys

Blackhat conference presentation and blog post https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/08/10/multiple-high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-codesys-v3-sdk-could-lead-to-rce-or-dos/

Software used in power generation, factory automation, and more https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-finds-vulnerabilities-it-says-could-be-used-to-shut-down-power-plants/

 

THE NETFLIX OF GAMES

Netflix’s first cloud gaming test

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23829262/netflix-cloud-gaming-testing-tv-web

Rolling out test to some members in Canada and the UK https://about.netflix.com/en/news/testing-games-on-more-devices

Includes many devices but not Apple TV because of App Store bans cloud gaming https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/14/netflix-game-streaming/