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Intezer’s Joakim Kennedy and the Blackberry Research and Intelligence Team discovered that the threat presents as a shared object library (SO) rather than a typical executable file that users must run to infect a host. Once infected, the SO is loaded into currently running processes on the target machine. The infected computers provide threat actors with the ability to harvest credentials, leverage remote access capabilities, and execute commands with otherwise unauthorized elevated privileges....

The algorithm was developed by social scientists at the University of Chicago who used historical data on violent crimes (homicides, assaults, and batteries) and property crimes (burglaries, thefts, and motor vehicle thefts) within the city to test and validate the model. These crimes were chosen as they are less likely to experience the kind of enforcement bias often present in drug-related and similar offenses. By splitting cities into 1,000-square-foot spatial tiles, the algorithm is able to identify patterns and try to predict future crimes, which it does with a reported 90% accuracy, according to the study published in Nature Human Behavior....

Hello Games’ space exploration title and massive redemption story is now available on Nintendo Switch. The developer marked the occasion with the game’s 21st free expansion, focusing on rebalancing difficulty and reorganizing the UI. One of the most significant changes in the Waypoint update is that it adds a new difficulty mode and lets players build their own custom ones as well. The new “Relaxed” mode contains all of the normal mode’s gameplay elements – as opposed to the creative mode, which shuts off some features – but makes them easier....

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cray supercomputers, dubbed Dogwood and Cactus, were named after flora from their geographic locations. Each is outfitted with 2,560 AMD Epyc Rome 64-core 7742 server CPUs for a combined 327,680 cores that can operate at up to 12.1 petaflops, which is three times faster than NOAA’s previous setup. The systems currently rank as the 49th and 50th fastest computers in the world and are replacing Cray and IBM supercomputers located in Reston, Virginia, and Orlando, Florida....

The GDDR5X memory was also very willing to go faster reaching 5858MHz, a 17% increase over the stock frequency. The overclock allowed for a rather large 17% performance boost in F1 2015 at 4K, taking the average frame rate to 90fps. This means that the GTX 1080 becomes a whopping 45% faster than the Titan X and 64% faster than the Fury X. This time we find an additional 16% more performance at 4K, allowing the GTX 1080 to break the 60fps barrier in DOOM at 4K....

The company goes on to say “this is a very high-end product that’s catered towards the most discriminating gamer. Think of it as the Bugatti Veyron of the graphics world.” In six years, only 291 Veyrons have been delivered, so let’s hope the GTX 590 doesn’t share that particular feat. The reference design measures just 11" long making it much shorter than the 12.2" Radeon HD 6990, so Nvidia’s card should fit inside a broader range of computer cases....

The GTX 660 managed 39fps at 1920x1200 in Aliens vs. Predator and Gigabyte’s factory-overclocked setting didn’t deliver any extra performance. Nevertheless, Nvidia’s new card was 11% faster than the HD 7850, only 7% slower than the HD 7870 and 3% slower than the GTX 660 Ti. It also smoked the old GTX 560 Ti by a 22% margin. When testing Metro 2033 at 1920x1200, the GTX 660 rendered 53fps while the overclocked card was just 1fps faster, making the former 13% faster than HD 7850, 5% slower than the 7870, 12% slower than the GTX 660 Ti and 29% faster than the GTX 560 Ti....

The GTX 950 was good for 51fps at 1080p, or 2% faster than the GTX 760, 9% faster than the R7 370 and 46% faster than the GTX 750 Ti, though we were disappointed to see that the GTX 950 was 29% slower than the GTX 960. The GTX 950 was surprisingly fast in Dragon Age: Inquisition with a very playable 38fps, 41% faster than the GTX 750 Ti as well as 6% faster than the R7 370 and GTX 760 despite losing to the GTX 960 by a 19% margin....

The GeForce 900 series based on the Maxwell GPU architecture is completed by the original GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 that arrived eight months ago. However Nvidia appears to be ready for a repeat with a Ti edition GPU that bridges the distance between its former GTX 980 flagship and the latest Titan. The GTX Titan X is still a new endeavor, arriving to market in late March, it raised the bar for single GPU performance – or rather took the bar and placed it so high that it almost warranted the Titan X’s otherwise exorbitant asking price....

Claims of the RTX 4060 having a higher TDP than the RTX 3070 come from regular leaker Kopite7kimi. He didn’t mention the specific power consumption of the upcoming card, but the Ampere product’s Founders Edition hits 220W while some overclocked AIB variants can reach 250W. A TDP of 250W or more would be a big jump for a xx60 series product. The previous most power-hungry cards from the series were the RTX 3060 and GTX 760 (both 170W), followed by the RTX 2060 (160W), then the GTX 1060 and GTX 960 (both 120W)....

Never has this been made clearer than at Nvidia’s latest GPU Technology Conference (GTC). During the event’s keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a host of new advancements, including the latest GPU architecture (named Hopper after computing pioneer Grace Hopper), and numerous forms of high-speed chip-to-chip and device-to-device connectivity options. Collectively, the company used these key technology advancements to introduce everything from the enormous Eos Supercomputer down to the H100 CNX Converged Accelerator, a PCIe card designed for existing servers, with lots of other options in between....

The 512K performance is also very strong, as read results hit 561MB/s and write throughput reached 372MB/s. This made the RevoDrive X2 around 2.6 times faster than the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB when measuring read performance and 4 times faster in write performance. The random 4K-QD32 performance is impressive as the OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB was 3.4 times speedier than the Vertex 2 Pro 100GB when measuring read and write performance....

Although the SandForce based SSDs struggled in the sequential read tests, they are much stronger when measuring write performance. That said, the Vertex 2 is still a fraction slower than the original Vertex, though we are talking about a 1% performance disadvantage here. The most significant difference is seen with the Intel X25-M which goes from being the fastest SSD for the read test to the slowest for the write test....

As we saw when testing with CrystalDiskMark, the OCZ Vertex 450 256GB had no trouble matching the Vector 256GB drive when measuring sequential read performance. The OCZ Vertex 450 256GB also matched the Vector 256GB in our sequential write test. Similar to the results we saw in the CrystalDiskMark random 4K-QD32 test, the OCZ Vertex 450 256GB was slower than the Vector 256GB in the 4K-64 thread test. The OCZ Vertex 450 256GB makes a comeback when measuring 4K-64 thread write performance, as it was able to match the Vector 256GB....

The quality of the Oppo R5’s camera is similar to many other smartphones that implement a Sony sensor without optical image stabilization. Images taken in strong lighting look decent, with accurate and reasonably vibrant colors, a good level of detail and sharpness thanks to the need for minimal post processing, and essentially no grain. While the Oppo R5 doesn’t produce the best results I’ve seen in these conditions, the IMX214 is certainly a capable sensor at the best of times....

Plenty of our tips require you to enter text in the command line, some of which can be a real pain to enter manually. To paste text, you either have to right click in the window for a context menu option, or more annoyingly, hit Alt+Space > E > P. Instead of pasting text, the usual Ctrl+V keystroke gives you ^V. Fortunately, the How-To Geek has found a simple solution....

As you may know, VRR is a technology that allows displays to synchronize their refresh rate to the graphical output dynamically. When enabled, VRR can significantly reduce visual artifacts, resulting in a smoother gaming experience. The technology has been available for some time, but only now has Sony announced it would implement it in its latest console. Still, just because your PS5 will support VRR, it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to enable it on every game....

Read performance was also notable as QNAP’s NAS device outpaced our desktop test system by a 9% margin. It was also 20% faster than the Synology Disk Station 409+ and 32% faster than the Promise SmartStor. Although the TS-809 Pro was unable to beat our desktop test system in the SiSoftware random performance test, in CrystalDiskMark the random 512KB test favors QNAP’s device. Particularly when using a RAID0 configuration the TS-809 Pro managed an impressive write throughput of 109MB/s, making it 34% faster than the desktop system and 45% faster than the Synology Disk Station 409+....

For testing Overwatch I used the same five minute test used to measure CPU performance, which is a 12-player bot match. The epic quality preset was used and the render scale was manually set to 100%. Here we see at 1080p that the higher clocked RX 580 makes up a good bit of ground on the GTX 1060, while the higher 9Gbps memory version of the 1060 makes little difference....