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LLVMpipe driver for Mesa3D Project adds AVX-512 optimizations for the upcoming AMD Zen 4 architecture Yonggang felt the implementation was necessary because AMD’s newest Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors could benefit from the latest performance. LLVMpipe is a unique Mesa OpenGL software execution that is utilized when the graphics card or GPU driver is not found by the computer system or is not on the system. Readers will remember that the LLVM is a collection of “compiler and toolchain technologies used to create a front end for any programming language and a back end for any instruction set architecture....

Zuckerberg talked about WhatsApp being the more secure messaging service in an Instagram post, where he highlighted the advantages below: The image on Instagram took a dig at iMessage, too, displaying the ‘Green Bubble’ and Blue Bubble’ texts, all the while attempting to increase the importance of WhatsApp by displaying the term ‘Private Bubble.’ While Meta may have criticized iMessage as an approach to encourage users to start using WhatsApp more, Apple has faced a multitude of complaints from Google for failing to adopt the RCS standard for its messaging service....

Interestingly, the MetalFX developer documentation reveals that the upscaling technology supports both temporal antialiased upscaling (such as in DLSS, FSR 2.0, and XeSS) and spatial upscaling (such as in FSR 1.0). During the WWDC 2022 presentation, Senior Director of GPU Software Jeremy Sandmel revealed that No Man’s Sky (coming to iPad and Mac later this year) will be one of the first games to take advantage of MetalFX. MetalFX gives you two different ways to upscale your input renderings:...

Micron: The chip sector will not see improvement until next year, and the need for partnering with private sectors are stressed to President Biden Mehrotra’s statements to Fox Business are parallel to comments from Jensen Huang and Dr. Lisa Su of NVIDIA and AMD, respectively. He agrees that the chip shortage is improving but that full restocking of semiconductor chips will not be completed in 2023. The Micron president also raises the question about the U....

The letter was signed by senators Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Bernie Sanders (Vermont), Cory Booker (New Jersey), and Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island). The letter showed concern for the industry consolidation, the impact on workers, and the lack of accountability for Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Now, with the investigation moving forward, we learned more about the intentions of the FTC. According to a recent report by The Information (via Seeking Alpha), the review isn’t limited to which rival consoles will have access to top games....

Title Update Ver. 11.0.1.0 introduces four new monsters, new afflicted monsters, a new quest system, new weapons, armor and layered equipment, the Quirious Crafting system and more. Full patch notes can be found below. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Title Update Ver. 11.0.1.0 Main Additions / Changes ★ New monsters have been added and will appear in Gathering Hub quests.★ New afflicted monsters have been added to the game.★ New quests have been added....

The biggest change included in the 11.0.2 update is a fix for hair and fur issues on PC. Due to this bug, fur and hair wouldn’t be displayed with FXAA or NVIDIA DLSS enabled. Other bugs have also been fixed: Fixed an issue causing players to obtain Anomaly Investigations as “unauthorized quests” if they join another player’s Anomaly Investigation for a monster they haven’t unlocked yet. Fixed an error that occasionally occurred when harvesting during an Anomaly Investigation....

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) chief Mr. Elon Musk has revealed that his company is preparing for defense against cyberattacks and signal jamming. SpaceX operates its Starlink satellite internet constellation throughout the globe, and Musk came into the spotlight last week when he announced that his company would ship Starlink user terminals to the conflict region of Ukraine in response to a request from the country’s vice prime minister. Since then, the terminals have made their way into Ukraine, and Starlink is providing internet connectivity to emergency services and others who might need it....

While the game is only available as an Early Access title on the Epic Games Store, this early version of MythForce is enough to see where it is going. And it is impossible not to notice how it still needs quite a bit of work to be something else other than the average roguelite with great-looking visuals it is in its current state. The Early Access version of MythForce only features the very first episode, Bastion of the Beastlord, which sees players take control of one of four characters - Victoria the Paladin, Maggie the Mage, Hawkins the Hunter, and Rico the Rogue - and explore a fairly straightforward castle location filled with multiple enemies, including all sorts of skeletons, goblins, and strange mushrooms monsters....

Codenamed Project LLL, this game serves as an open-world MMO third-person shooter and is currently under development. Project LLL’s gameplay has a sci-fi theme to it and is set to release on consoles and PCs in 2024. NCSOFT has a brand-new trailer for Project LLL available, which you can see below. Today, developer talks were also found online, including comments from project lead Seeder Jaehyun Bae, broaching various topics within the game’s intent and content....

The new patch (version 1.006 on PS5) includes fixes for several reported issues, including a fix for the death-loop bug. In addition, this update offers various stability improvements, addresses most of the audio-related issues on PS4, and adds a Backup Save system that allows players to roll back game progress. This update also aims to fix fast travel after the main game has been finished. Down below you’ll find the release notes for this patch, as supplied by Techland....

Modder Claims the iPhone 14 Pro Max’s Logic Board Will Not Be Damaged by This Process, but It Does Not Mean You Should Attempt It Starting off with disassembling the iPhone 14 Pro Max and removing its logic board, ‘fix Apple’ on Twitter has some exceptional soldering skills that allow him to meticulously make some solder joints and allow the aftermarket parts to be fixed into place. After removing the protective housing of the eSIM, the modder proceeds to fix a transparent and flexible SIM PCB that will be able to detect physical SIM cards....

As with most of the PS5 game updates, patch notes aren’t shared on Sony’s next-gen console, but as spotted by Naughty Dog Central on Twitter, the new patch seemingly adds support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) on PlayStation 5. We checked whether the “Unlocked Framerate” option was already available in the Display settings before updating to the latest version and this wasn’t the case. After downloading and installing the 1....

Digital sales also grew by 4.5% on a year-over-year basis, accounting for 42.6% of the total software sales. Overall, though, net sales decreased this year by 3.6% and operating profit also went down by 7.5% compared to the fiscal year 2020. Royalty income saw an increase in FY 2021, but the mobile business experienced a 6.5% decrease in sales. For the next fiscal year, Nintendo provided a forecast of 21 million hardware units in Nintendo Switch sales....

NVIDIA AI Platform Delivers Big Gains for Large Language Models, 30% Speed Up Press Release: As the size and complexity of large language models (LLMs) continue to grow, NVIDIA is today announcing updates to the NeMo Megatron framework that provide training speed-ups of up to 30%. These updates–which include two trailblazing techniques and a hyperparameter tool to optimize and scale training of LLMs on any number of GPUs–offer new capabilities to train and deploy models using the NVIDIA AI platform....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 LHR Graphics Cards Now Offer 100% Crypto Mining Rate Through NiceHash’s QuickMiner Unlock There have been many attempts to bypass LHR ever since its inception. The technology was used to push away miners from buying gaming graphics cards but as we saw, that didn’t help much as getting 70-80% of the mining speed through NBMiner and QuickMiner updates still allowed crypto miners to get decent profits out of GeForce RTX 30 series cards....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Is Up To 60% Faster Than RTX 3090 Ti, and RTX 4080 12 GB Is Up To 30% Faster As Per Official Gaming Benchmarks The benchmarks cover three games but show us comparisons of the GeForce RTX 40 series cards against the RTX 30 series offerings. We have already seen how well the GeForce RTX 4090 performs in games, delivering almost 2x the gains without DLSS and up to 4x gains with DLSS 3 enabled but eyes are now set upon the performance of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB & 12 GB variants....

The new game, which will release sometime this year on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, is being developed by ILCA and it will see the Straw Hats explore a mysterious island following a shipwreck. Series creator Eiichiro Oda himself designed the characters and monsters that will appear in the game, while the soundtrack has been composed by renowned composer Motoi Sakuraba. You can check out the game’s announcement trailer and the first screenshots below....

To begin with, the developers will focus on making sure support characters are more appealing to players. Blizzard also promised quite a few changes coming to the brand new Overwatch 2 scoreboard. Overwatch 2 is expected to launch at some point next year, featuring a new replayable PvE mode.

CFD Gaming’s PCIe Gen5 SSDs Listed By Japanese Retailer, 1 TB Starting At A Pricey $400 US Although NAND Flash prices have gone down significantly over the recent years, it looks like early adopters of the new PCIe Gen 5 SSD standard are going to pay quite the price to get hands on the latest M.2 solutions. CFD Gaming, a prominent Japanese SSD manufacturer, recently announced its brand-new Gen5 NVMe SSD gaming lineup....