Update: Apple unlocks the developer account of Epic Games

We recently reported on the blocking of Epic Games’ developer account with Apple. However, it has since been unblocked again, Apple is on a direct confrontation course against Epic Games A brief summary: Apple has blocked Epic Games’ Swedish developer account on their platform, which was supposed to bring the Epic Game Store to IOS [...]


Apple is on a direct confrontation course against Epic Games

The fact that Epic Games and Apple are not good friends is nothing new and has been clear since the legal dispute with the in-game purchases of the game Fortnite on IOS devices. Nevertheless, Epic Games was working on its own app, directly for IOS devices. Now the developers’ account has been blocked. Epic Games has known for some time that [...]


Parts of AMD GPU firmware could become open source – talks with Tiny Corp

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, Tiny Corp is pretty sure that AMD could open source its Radeon firmware by next week. Tiny Corp and AMD have been talking about issues that have arisen in preparation for the RX 700XTX Tiny Box, which was intended for AI tasks. If AMD decides to use an open source platform, Tiny Corp and other developers could [...]


OLED power for gamers: LG launches three new UltraGear monitors with 240 Hz

LG has recently released the full specifications and pricing for three more models of its high-end 4K UltraGear monitor, which were announced back in December last year. These new models, namely the 34GS95QE, the 39GS95QE and the 45GS95QE, all offer an impressive resolution of 3440 x 1440 pixels. The model names already give an indication of their [...]


Epic Games hacked? Ramsoftware group Mogilevich claims major data theft

As David Hollingworth from Cyber Daily announced, the game developer Epic Games was probably hacked by the ram software group Mogilevich. Epic Games initially refused to comment, even in response to requests from other websites, and kept a rather low profile. But what had actually happened? The young ram software group Mogilevich (Russian: Mogila [...]


Modder breathes new life into the RTX 2080: 16GB VRAM for more performance

Modders have once again set about modifying the older generation GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card from NVIDIA. This graphics card was originally released with 8GB of VRAM, but the modders have successfully upgraded it to 16GB. I have also linked a video at the end. The GeForce RTX 2080 was originally introduced by NVIDIA in 2018 based on the Turing [...]


AMD brings RDNA 4 GPUs up to speed with new “goodies” under Linux

Apparently, AMD is not willing to wait for the successful implementation of the next generation RDNA 4 GPU in Linux. The company has recently released new patches that provide initial support for the architecture’s PSP (Platform Security Processor). PSP, which stands for “Platform Security Processor”, is a special security chip [...]


RDNA 3 GPUs: AMD reactivates Anti-Lag for reduced latency

AMD’s Anti-Lag technology is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s Reflex. Both technologies aim to reduce input lag and improve system latency. These features are especially important when playing games with frame generation technologies such as AMD FSR 3 and NVIDIA DLSS 3. AMD’s solution offers easy activation in supported games as [...]


With the Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet, Arctic TP3 pads and cap nuts from an IKEA paper box against a graphics card hotspot | User Review

Today’s article comes from our community member big-maec and it shows how the community is also keen to experiment with various pads. The article will also show that sometimes it takes a little more work to really fix a problem permanently. The user’s problem child this time was the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Ultra W OC 8G with [...]


AMD GPUs now use NVIDIA CUDA libraries with ROCm and ZLUDA

It is common practice to migrate codebases from one project or programming language to another, as this allows developers to access a wider range of features and simplifies maintenance. In this case, however, there is an interesting development as Team Red has apparently accelerated its efforts to port the CUDA platform to run on AMD’s ROCm [...]


Ground on the wrong track: Why only certain power connector pins melt and we should rethink PCs | Part 1 of 2

Some things are accidental discoveries and are actually so trivial that nobody even bothers to question the current flows in the PC and, above all, to measure them. We only ever measure the 12-volt rails and are happy. But with connectors such as the 12VHPWR or 12V2x6 over 6+2 pin, the 8-pin EPS and the 24-pin mainboard connection, does exactly [...]