Hardware
- The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & Historygamersnexus.net The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & History | GamersNexus
GPUs The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & History May 6, 2024 Last Updated: 2024-05-06 We revisit the GTX 1080 Ti with modern gaming benchmarks and examine sensible upgrade options The Highlights The GTX 1080 Ti offered exceptional performance and value for its ...
- LPCAMM2 Is Finally Here, and It’s a Big Deal | iFixit Newswww.ifixit.com LPCAMM2 Is Finally Here, and It’s a Big Deal | iFixit News
LPCAMM2 promises to be the thin, fast, efficient, and REPAIRABLE laptop memory standard of the future. Today, we take apart the first laptop to actually use it.
- 3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo)www.buskill.in 3D-Printable BusKill Prototype Demo - BusKill
Demo of our DIY USB Dead Man Switch (prototype) with a 3D-Printable Case triggering a lockscreen when the kill-cord's connection is severed.
Today we're ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen.
| [!3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo)](https://www.buskill.in/3d-print-2024-05/) | |:--:| | Watch the 3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) for more info youtube.com/v/vFTQatw94VU |
In our last update, I showed a video demo where I successfully triggered a lockscreen using a BusKill prototype without the 3D-printed body for the case and N35 disc magnets. I realized that the N35 disc magnets were not strong enough. In this update, I show a demo with the prototype built inside a 3D-printed case and with (stronger) N42 and N52 cube magnets.
What is BusKill?
BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.
| [!What is BusKill? (Explainer Video)](https://www.buskill.in/#demo) | |:--:| | Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4 |
If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.
Why?
While we do what we can to allow at-risk folks to purchase BusKill cables anonymously, there is always the risk of interdiction.
We don't consider hologram stickers or tamper-evident tape/crisps/glitter to be sufficient solutions to supply-chain security. Rather, the solution to these attacks is to build open-source, easily inspectable hardware whose integrity can be validated without damaging the device and without sophisticated technology.
Actually, the best way to confirm the integrity of your hardware is to build it yourself. Fortunately, BusKill doesn't have any circuit boards, microcontrollers, or silicon; it's trivial to print your own BusKill cable -- which is essentially a USB extension cable with a magnetic breakaway in the middle
Mitigating interdiction via 3D printing is one of many reasons that Melanie Allen has been diligently working on prototyping a 3D-printable BusKill cable this year. In this article, we hope to showcase her progress and provide you with some OpenSCAD and
.stl
files you can use to build your own version of the prototype, if you want to help us test and improve the design.Print BusKill
[!Photo of the 3D-Printed BusKill Prototype](https://www.buskill.in/3d-print-2024-05/)
If you'd like to reproduce our experiment and print your own BusKill cable prototype, you can download the stl files and read our instructions here:
Iterate with us!
If you have access to a 3D Printer, you have basic EE experience, or you'd like to help us test our 3D printable BusKill prototype, please let us know. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and we're eager to finish-off this 3D printable BusKill prototype to help make this security-critical tool accessible to more people world-wide!
- Searching for a server rack / safe / vault...
Hi,
I'm looking for a ~strong cabinet with some shelves where I could install some IT equipment mostly Single-board computer, DIY NAS
So it doesn't need to be tall , so I guess that ~40cm height would be enough.
Additionally it would have the following:
- air vents
- all sides panel in resistant metal (steel) ? (so no glass/plexi panel)
- holes to fix it to the ground or wall
- a hole to pass an electrical cord.
- a hole to pass an Ethernet wire.
I found only one reference (for now) that look a like what I'm searching https://www.hartmann-tresore.fr/gamme-serveur-protect.html But this website lack of prices and pictures :/ and anyway I don't need such a height.
Any idea where to look at ? or what that kind of item might be named ?
Thanks.
- Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixedwww.theverge.com Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed
Is it destroying SD cards, and will the company fix it?
- [Hardware Unboxed] Intel CPUs Are Crashing & It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark
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- EK is Imploding: Not Paying Employees, Partners, & Suppliers | Investigative Report
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- ASML results spook market as sales drop below expectationswww.euronews.com ASML results spook market as sales drop below expectations
Net sales for the Dutch semiconductor firm seen as disappointing, coming in at 21.6% lower than predicted.
- RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per monthwww.tomshardware.com RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per month
NorthridgeFix shows a box of over a hundred dead 16-pin power connectors
- Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM9to5mac.com Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
With the launch of the M3 MacBook Pro last year, many reviewers and customers criticized the company for still selling...
- Jim Keller suggests Nvidia should have used Ethernet to stitch together Blackwell GPUs — Nvidia could have saved billionswww.tomshardware.com Jim Keller suggests Nvidia should have used Ethernet to stitch together Blackwell GPUs — Nvidia could have saved billions
Suitable for programmability and for porting to other platforms.
- geohot: Hacked 4090 driver to enable P2Pgithub.com GitHub - tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU with P2P support
NVIDIA Linux open GPU with P2P support. Contribute to tinygrad/open-gpu-kernel-modules development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Apple will relax repair policy to allow used genuine parts with select iPhones9to5mac.com Apple will relax repair policy to allow used genuine parts with select iPhones - 9to5Mac
Here’s an early Earth Day victory for the planet we all inhabit. Apple is relaxing the rules for its repair...
- Google is offering up to $450 for your iPad towards a Pixel Tabletwww.tomsguide.com Google is offering up to $450 for your iPad towards a Pixel Tablet
That's a lot of credit for just about any recent iPad model
- Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU | Google Cloud Blogcloud.google.com Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU | Google Cloud Blog
The custom Axion Arm-based processor is designed for general-purpose workloads like web and app servers, databases, analytics, CPU-based AI, and more.
- Intel 13th/14th Core "Raptor Lake" gaming instability is now being investigated - VideoCardz.comvideocardz.com Intel 13th/14th Core "Raptor Lake" gaming instability is now being investigated - VideoCardz.com
Tekken 8 instability issues on Intel 13/14th Gen Core series sparks investigation South Korean media report that Intel is now investigating the problem of Raptor Lake CPU crashes. According to ZDNET Korea, Intel is now investigating the issue related to gaming instability as observed in games like ...
- Memory makers reportedly stop publishing contract DRAM prices following Taiwan earthquake — further price hikes are expectedwww.tomshardware.com Memory makers reportedly stop publishing contract DRAM prices following Taiwan earthquake — further price hikes are expected
But demand on the spot market remains weak.
- Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Applewww.theverge.com Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
Microsoft is gearing up for next-gen AI PCs.
- TSMC Gets $11.6 Billion in US Grants, Loans for Chip Plants.www.bloomberg.com TSMC Gets $11.6 Billion in US Grants, Loans for Chip Plants
The US plans to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. $6.6 billion in grants and as much as $5 billion in loans to help the world’s top chipmaker build factories in Arizona, expanding President Joe Biden’s effort to boost domestic production of critical technology.
- Ten years later, Facebook’s Oculus acquisition hasn’t changed the world as expectedtechcrunch.com Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of
- The US wants ASML to stop servicing its advanced chipmaking tools in China: Reportwww.tomshardware.com The US wants ASML to stop servicing its advanced chipmaking tools in China: Report
The U.S. government does not want SMIC to keep using advanced DUV tools.
- Arstechnica: Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TVarstechnica.com Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
System would detect paused content on external devices and show ads on top.
- Sony Develops New 16-bit 247-Megapixel Medium Format Sensorpetapixel.com Sony Develops New 247-Megapixel Medium Format Sensor
Will they be used in future medium-format cameras?
- 'Intel Air' employee flight shuttle resumes regular operations to Oregon, other fab sites – Another sign that Intel is on the upswing?www.tomshardware.com 'Intel Air' employee flight shuttle resumes regular operations to Oregon, other fab sites – Another sign that Intel is on the upswing?
Service was suspended a year ago, which was seen as a sign of a downturn.
- MSI admits faulty heatsink design for cracked Z790 chipsets, begins replacing faulty unitswww.tomshardware.com MSI admits faulty heatsink design for cracked Z790 chipsets, begins replacing faulty units
MSI points to a faulty heatsink screw, which caused cracks on the Z790 PCH.
- Intel PresentMon 2.0.0 Releasedgithub.com Release 2.0.0 · GameTechDev/PresentMon
New Features The majority of metrics are changed to use the time that the CPU started working on a frame as the reference point instead of the present() call, with values that are more aligned to...
- [Hardware Unboxed] How Slow Is The Ryzen 5 5600 For 2024 Gaming?
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- Putin orders development of homegrown Steam Deck-like gaming machines — 100% self-sufficiency goal apparently applies to gaming, toowww.tomshardware.com Putin orders development of homegrown Steam Deck-like gaming machines — 100% self-sufficiency goal apparently applies to gaming, too
The literal deadline for the official responsible for draft planning is June 15, 2024.
- New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows softwarewww.tomshardware.com New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software
FuryGPU is currently capable of running Quake at 720p and 60fps.
- Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptopswww.theverge.com Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops
They look good — but not necessarily “playable” yet?