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Submission + - Intel Arc A770 And A750 Lifted For Independent Reviews And Benchmarks (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: After years of leaks and official disclosures, independent review publishers were finally able to put Intel's first discrete desktop GPUs for PC gamers, the Arc A750 and A770, to the test. With Arc A770 Limited Edition, Intel's ACM-G10 GPU is fully enabled, with all 8 render slices, featuring 32 Xe cores, 32 Ray Tracing Units, and 512 XMX Engines (for AI workloads). The GPU is linked to 16GB of GDDR6 memory running at 17.5Gbps, over a 256-bit interface, for 560GB/s of peak bandwidth. Arc A750 is fundamentally similar to the A770, but its GPU has one render slice disabled, bringing its Xe Cores down to 28, with 28 Ray Tracing Units, and 448 XMX Engines. It too has a 256-bit memory interface, but with only 8GB of 16Gbps GDDR6 attached, memory bandwidth equates to 512GB/s peak. The cards do look great, with premium build quality and RGB lighting on board. In the benchmarks, Intel's Arc cards struggled in DX11 tests relative to the competition, but with DX12 titles and with ray tracing enabled, the Intel Arc A750 and A770 compete favorably with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT. Arc A750 and A770 LE cards will be ready at retail in the coming week, starting at $289 and $329, respectively.

Submission + - Basic Rust support merged for upcoming Linux 6.1 (phoronix.com)

Submitted by sabian2008
sabian2008 writes: This Monday the first set of patches to enable Rust support and tooling was merged for the upcoming Linux 6.1 . Quoting Linus the man himself

The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half. It's been updated based on feedback from the Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags. Miguel is the primary maintainer, with me helping where needed/wanted. Our plan is for the tree to switch to the standard non-rebasing practice once this initial infrastructure series lands. The contents are the absolute minimum to get Rust code building in the kernel, with many more interfaces[2] (and drivers — NVMe[3], 9p[4], M1 GPU[5]) on the way. The initial support of Rust-for-Linux comes in roughly 4 areas: — Kernel internals (kallsyms expansion for Rust symbols, %pA format) — Kbuild infrastructure (Rust build rules and support scripts) — Rust crates and bindings for initial minimum viable build — Rust kernel documentation and samples

Submission + - UK's First Nuclear Fusion Plant To Be Built By 2040 (bbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A power station has been chosen to be the site of the UK's, and potentially the world's, first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy but is currently only carried out in experiments. The government had shortlisted five sites but has picked the West Burton A plant in Nottinghamshire. The plant should be operational by the early 2040s, a UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) spokesman has said. The government had pledged more than 220 million pounds for the STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) program, led by the UKAEA.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the project would replace the coal-fired power station site — owned by French energy giant EDF — which is set to be closed this year. Matt Sykes, managing director of EDF's Generation business, said: "We are absolutely delighted that the UKAEA has selected the West Burton site in Nottinghamshire to host the UK's first fusion reactor. "The area has been associated with energy generation for over 60 years. Developing such an exciting new project continues this tradition and has the potential to transform both the region and the UK's long-term energy supply."

Submission + - Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A stable version of Linux 6.0 is out, with 15,000 non-merge commits and a notable version number for the kernel. And while major Linux releases only happen when the prior number's dot numbers start looking too big—"there is literally no other reason"—there are a lot of notable things rolled into this release besides a marking in time. Most notable among them could be a patch that prevents a nearly two-decade slowdown for AMD chips, based on workaround code for power management in the early 2000s that hung around for far too long. [...]

Intel's new Arc GPUs are supported in their discrete laptop form in 6.0 (though still experimental). Linux blog Phoronix notes that Intel's ARC GPUs all seem to run on open source upstream drivers, so support should show up for future Intel cards and chipsets as they arrive on the market. Linux 6.0 includes several hardware drivers of note: fourth-generation Intel Xeon server chips, the not-quite-out 13th-generation Raptor Lake and Meteor Lake chips, AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs, Threadripper CPUs, EPYC systems, and audio drivers for a number of newer AMD systems. One small, quirky addition points to larger things happening inside Linux. Lenovo's ThinkPad X13s, based on an ARM-powered Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, get some early support in 6.0.

Among other changes you can find in Linux 6.0, as compiled by LWN.net (in part one and part two):
— ACPI and power management improvements for Sapphire Rapids CPUs
— Support for SMB3 file transfer inside Samba, while SMB1 is further deprecated
— More work on RISC-V, OpenRISC, and LoongArch technologies
— Intel Habana Labs Gaudi2 support, allowing hardware acceleration for machine-learning libraries
— A "guest vCPU stall detector" that can tell a host when a virtual client is frozen

Submission + - Microsoft releases optimized malloc() as open source

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Microsoft has published "mimalloc", a replacement for malloc, on GitHub. mimalloc claims to be a drop-in replacement, in fact it can be used without even recompiling applications on Unix systems. Allocations are grouped by 64kB pages rather than by size class, which Microsoft claims improves performance significantly. The code is covered by an MIT licence.

Submission + - Google's Plan to Prevent "Trump situation" in 2020 (projectveritas.com) 2

Submitted by Okian Warrior
Okian Warrior writes: Project Veritas has released alarming new undercover video, leaked documents, and testimony from a Google insider revealing the tech giant’s plans to meddle in US politics and “prevent a Trump situation in 2020.”

One aspect of the report features undercover footage of longtime Google employee and Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, arguing against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s suggestion that the company should be broken up because a smaller company would not be able to prevent “the next Trump situation.”

“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that,” Gennai says.

Comment Assumed our company key got disabled, wasted morn (Score 4, Interesting) 271

I wasted a few hours on this insanity this morning.

My final solution (tried many options) was to use some tools from Ratborus.

KMS Clean to remove my existing key, and then W10 Digital Activation with KMS38 option.

It now says:
Windows(R), Professional edition:
    Volume activation will expire 1/18/2038

Now where do I send an Invoice to Microsoft for wasting my morning on this BS?

If you need a copy of KMS Tools Portable, it's here
https://www.solidfiles.com/fol...

The password is part of the filename, so for the latest version:
KMS_Tools_Portable_01.11.2018_password_1234567890987654321.7z

The password is 1234567890987654321

Submission + - Gab.com has gone offline (mashable.com) 10

Submitted by mi
mi writes: The self-described free speech social media platform is turned away by its hosting provider and even domain-name registrar, after landing under the spotlight when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect was revealed to be a poster and user on the site.

Gab posted a message on its homepage, announcing that the site will be "inaccessible for a period of time" as it works "around the clock" to transition to a new hosting provider.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Which motherboard manufacturer provides the best support? 2

Submitted by Hrrrg
Hrrrg writes: A number of years ago, I built a computer with an Asus LGA 1150 Z87-Pro motherboard. Since the discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, I was hoping for a BIOS update to address them. However, it seems that there will be no BIOS update forthcoming for this 5 year old motherboard. I would prefer not to repeat my mistake with future builds. Can you recommend another manufacturer that is doing better?

Submission + - Alex Jones hit with bans from Facebook and Apple (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by CaptainDork
CaptainDork writes: After more than a week of controversy and pressure, Facebook removed four pages run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platform. According to a blog post published Monday morning, Facebook removed the Alex Jones Channel, Alex Jones, InfoWars, and Infowars Nightly News pages for "repeatedly posting content over the past several days" that violates the company's Community Standards.

Submission + - Apple,Youtube,Facebook,Spotify and Google Search purge Alex Jones (cnn.com) 4

Submitted by bongey
bongey writes: Alex Jones has been removed from Apple, Youtube and Spotify. Facebook deleted the majority of Jones pages.Search Google has effectively removed "alex jones" from its search. Searching for "alex jones" leads to no content produced by alex jones.

Submission + - Patrick Stewart to Return as Jean-Luc Picard 1

Submitted by Robotron23
Robotron23 writes: Veteran actor Patrick Stewart has announced he will return in a new television series exploring the later years of Jean-Luc Picard. Stewart's decision was influenced by feedback over the years from fans, as well as current events: "Jean-Luc inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, pursuing science, exploration and leadership. I feel I’m ready to return to what comforting and reforming light he might shine on these often very dark times."

Submission + - SPAM: Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Anyone who works in the $200 billion digital advertising industry should be scared of people like Mark Drobnak, because the ad blocker he uses is way more powerful than yours. The college freshman says it feels as though everyone at Rochester Institute of Technology, from his roommate to his professors, has installed some way to ward off online ads. Drobnak is one of the die-hards who goes further, working with a handful of comrades to build what they call “a black hole for advertisements.” His parents say the one he built them works great.

Pi-hole (as in “shut your”) is a free, open source software package designed to run on a Raspberry Pi, a basic computer that’s popular with DIYers, fits in the palm of your hand, and retails for about $35. Most ad blockers have to be installed on individual devices and work only in web browsers, but Pi-hole blocks ads across an entire network, including in most apps.
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