• Objects may fail to render correctly when using EEVEE render in Blender on Radeon RX 400 and Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
• Quake III Arena™ may experience corruption during loading or gameplay.
• Performance may be lower than expected in Wolfenstein: Youngblood when a system is AMD Smart Access Memory enabled.

Things have changed.
Maybe the current spec is 10240FP32, 12G GD6X. ?

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) February 6, 2021

Amidst a growing backlash against Big Tech's dominance of the web and concerns about censorship, privacy and user data, Presearch is excited to announce the launch of the first ever Node-Powered (Decentralized) Search Engine!

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• The recording and streaming overlay indicator may sometimes reset itself to the default position.
• Performance Metrics Overlay size may intermittently reset or may not match values that are set in Radeon Software after performing a task switch.
• The Radeon Software installer screen can sometimes display the incorrect release date of the Radeon Software version you are installing.
• Performance Metrics Overlay may flicker during video playback on displays with HDR enabled.
• Reflections in Grand Theft Auto V™ may fail to appear when ‘Reflection MSAA’ is enabled in the game settings.
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ session timer may continue in Radeon Software even after the game has been exited.
• DOOM Eternal™ may experience an application crash while gaming and having Steam™ overlay enabled.
• Recorded content from Radeon Software may appear cropped or recorded at an incorrect resolution on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
• The Samsung™ Odyssey G9 C49G95T may experience display or corruption issues when set to 5120x1440@240hz.
• Anisotropic Filtering in Radeon™ Software graphics settings is not taking effect in DirectX®9 applications on RDNA graphics products.
• Some displays such as the Sceptre C series or Samsung™ Odyssey G9 series may experience an intermittent black screen on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.
• Oculus Link users may experience intermittent crashes on Polaris and Vega series graphics products.

• Crash seen when launching Cyberpunk 2077* (DX12).
• Minor graphic anomalies observed in Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy*, Nioh 2*, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, Shadow of the Tomb Raider* (DX12) (with Tessellation ON), Rise of the Tomb Raider* (DX12) (with Tessellation ON), Star Wars Battlefront 2* (DX12), One Piece Pirate Warriors 4* on 11th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® Iris® Xe graphics.
• Minor graphic anomalies observed in Shadow of the Tomb Raider* (DX12), Star Wars Battlefront 2* (DX12), on Intel® Iris® Xe Max Graphics.
• 4K DP monitor flicker after closing the lid and resuming from sleep or restart via Hook on 11th Generation

• Ryzen 5 5600H Destroys Ryzen 5 4600H, Core i7-10750H In Geekbench 5 - The Ryzen 5 5600H is equipped with six cores, 12 threads and up to 16MB of L3 cache. It's the same configuration that AMD utilizes with the current Ryzen 5 4600H sans the bigger L3 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600H appears to have 16MB of L3 cache, which is double of what's found inside the Ryzen 5 4600H.
• Core i7-11700KF Edges Out Core i9-10900K In New Benchmark - The Core i9-10900K not only has two more cores than the Core i7-11700KF, but also a 100 MHz base clock. Despite the handicap, the Core i7-11700KF still managed to pull ahead. While we know that the Core i9-10900K boosts up to 5.3 GHz, it remains a fact that the boost clock speed for the Core i7-11700KF is unknown.
• Microsoft Is Reportedly Developing Custom Arm Chips - According to reports from Bloomberg, Microsoft has been working on its own brand of SoC for servers that it provides as part of its cloud services, including Azure. Arm SoCs with a lot of cores and plenty of PCI Express connectivity can service many concurrent clients at once. Microsoft has begun recruiting chip designers over the last year, reportedly poaching talent from Intel and Qualcomm, among others. Building its own processors allows Microsoft to commit on-chip resources to what's important and cut features that it doesn't need while also gaining some independence from Intel's pricey Xeon server CPUs. While the reports focus on server SoCs, at least one source has said that a follow-up Surface SoC may also be in the works. That would surprise exactly nobody, since Microsoft has already had a hand in Arm PC design. The company partnered with Qualcomm to produce the SQ1 in the Surface Pro X late last year. Back in October, the SQ2 version of the Surface Pro X debuted. Unlike the second-generation Snapdragon 8cx that it's based on, the SQ2 stuck with 4G LTE modems for now, but we expect yet another follow-up with 5G modems will come eventually. So far, Microsoft and Arm have both declined to comment on the rumors directly. However, Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw didn't exactly rule out the company's rumored server CPU plans, either. In a statement to Bloomberg,
• Testing The World’s Best APUs: Desktop AMD Ryzen 4750G, 4650G and 4350G - Can an integrated option have enough thermal headroom and graphics power to worthwhile for gaming? This is the pitch of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 based APUs, which combine Zen 2 CPU cores with fast Vega 8 graphics. With a 65W headroom, it should surpass anything that mobile processors have to offer, but is it enough to replace the low-end discrete graphics market?
• AMD's Graphics Driver will Eat One CPU Core when No Radeon Installed - Looks like AMD is doing things differently and just pre-loads Radeon Settings in the background every time your system is booted and a user logs in, no matter if AMD graphics hardware is installed or not. It would be trivial to add a check "If no AMD hardware found, then exit immediately", but ok. Also, do we really need six entries in Task Scheduler? I got curious and wondered how it is possible in the first place that an utility software like the Radeon Settings control panel uses 100% CPU load constantly—something that might happen when a mining virus gets installed, to use your electricity to mine cryptocurrency, without you knowing. By the way, all this was verified to be happening on Radeon 20.11.2 WHQL driver, 20.11.3 Beta and the press driver for an upcoming Radeon review. If you are affected by this issue, just uninstall the AMD driver from Windows Settings - Apps and Features. If that doesn't work, use DDU. It's not a big deal anyway, what's most important is that you are aware, in case your system feels sluggish after a graphics hardware change.
• Intel graphics driver version 27.20.100.9079 fixes crashes in Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Intel has released a new update for its DCH graphics driver, specifically targeting the integrated GPUs in its processors (not the Irix Xe Max graphics card). The new update brings the driver version to 27.20.100.9079, and it's mostly focused on bug fixes, so it doesn't add support for any new games. The highlight of the release is that it fixes crashes and hangs that could happen in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla, as well as Tom Clancy's The Division 2 when running in DirectX 12 mode
• Prices of NAND Flash Controller ICs Poised to Rise by 15-20% due to Tightening Production Capacity for Foundry Services, Says TrendForce - In the upstream semiconductor industry, the major foundries such as TSMC and UMC are reporting fully loaded capacities, while in the downstream, the available production capacity for OSAT is also lacking, according to TrendForce's latest investigations. Given this situation, suppliers of NAND Flash controller ICs such as Phison and Silicon Motion are now unable to meet upside demand from their clients. Not only have many controller IC suppliers temporarily stopped offering quotes for new orders, but they are also even considering raising prices soon because the negotiations between NAND Flash suppliers and module houses over 1Q21 contracts are now at the critical juncture. The potential increases in prices of controller ICs from outsourced suppliers (IC design houses) are currently estimated to be the range of 15-20%.
• Lenovo Legion 5 - Best Under $1000 Ryzen Gaming Laptop! - The Lenovo Legion 5 is one of the best Ryzen gaming laptops in this category!
• Microsoft fixes Windows 10 chkdsk issue - Microsoft released the usual set of Patch Tuesday updates to supported Windows versions earlier this month. While the updates brought the usual bug fixes, improvements, and security patches, there were also known issues documented in the KB articles. However, one of the issues that wasn't documented, which users began reporting, was that of a problem with the chkdsk error-checking utility. The bug - supposedly introduced with KB4592438 - affects Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2, and causes the chkdsk /f command to affect file systems adversely, resulting in blue screens (BSOD) and corruption of the file system in the worst case. The issue seemingly affects SSDs and can be reproduced even when run on a virtual machine (VM). Microsoft has now acknowledged the issue, documented a workaround, and has begun rolling out a fix.
• Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones - Three dozen journalists had their iPhones hacked in July and August using what at the time was an iMessage zero-day exploit that didn't require the victims to take any action to be infected, researchers said. The exploit and the payload it installed were developed and sold by NSO Group, according to a report published Sunday by Citizen Lab, a group at the University of Toronto that researches and exposes hacks on dissidents and journalists. NSO is a maker of offensive hacking tools that has come under fire over the past few years for selling its products to groups and governments with poor human rights records. NSO has disputed some of the conclusions in the Citizen Lab report. The attacks infected the targets' phones with Pegasus, an NSO-made implant for both iOS and Android that has a full range of capabilities, including recording both ambient audio and phone conversations, taking pictures, and accessing passwords and stored credentials. The hacks exploited a critical vulnerability in the iMessage app that Apple researchers weren't aware of at the time. Apple has since fixed the bug with the rollout of iOS 14.
• US regulator charges Ripple over its XRP asset  - Blockchain company Ripple has been running a $1.3 billion unregistered offering, akin to an unlicensed stock sale, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The suit revolves around XRP, launched in 2013, which Ripple calls a cryptocurrency. The SEC says XRP is an "unregistered securities offering to investors in the US and worldwide." "Issuers seeking the benefits of a public offering, including access to retail investors, broad distribution and a secondary trading market, must comply with the federal securities laws that require registration of offerings unless an exemption from registration applies," said Stephanie Avakian, SEC Enforcement Division director, in a statement. Tuesday's suit amounts to one of the most significant federal actions taken to shift unlicensed cryptocurrencies under the umbrella of more traditional registered securities. As the crypto industry has exploded in the last decade, the SEC and other agencies have struggled to classify and regulate them. In a separate action, the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network last week proposed new disclosure rules to better keep tabs on crypto wallets.
  
• Ledger: Was My Data Leaked and What To Do Next? - As Ledger stated earlier, this leak doesn't contain passwords, recovery phrases, or payment information (customers' phrases are not stored in the first place) - which further underlines the warning not to share the 24-word recovery phrase with absolutely anybody, even if they say they are Ledger. "Since we discovered the data breach in June 2020, we worked with an external security organization to conduct a forensic review. The review confirmed that only 9,500 individuals were impacted, all of whom were personally contacted by Ledger Support. Since the phishing attacks started to occur, we anticipated more information could have leaked and continued to notify all users via Twitter and email," a Ledger spokesperson said.
• DESERT STRIKE Official Trailer (2021) - Mike Tyson takes on Haftor Julius Bjornsson in this action film and the acting leaves much to be desired.
• Could You Survive Home Alone? - Back in 2016, Vsauce3 host Jake Roper studied how badly hurt someone could get if they got "Home Aloned." The results weren't pretty.
• What if We Nuke the Moon? - 4.7 million people: interesting ;-)
• Wife Destroys Husband's PS4 To Give Him A Surprise Gift - Surely there's a less destructive way to deliver a surprise?
• The best pics on the Internet #275 - check it out!