Western Digital's BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD's upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards…
HomeKit Insider Podcast On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we break down the news from Google's special event, the launch of the Aqara FP1E presence sensor, and more smart home news. This week our guest host is Shane Whatley. He's a growing YouTuber who focuses on smart home content, particularly Apple Home. The…
Sadly backwards compatibility has struck again, this time with an attack leveraging AMD's TClose feature, which is designed to ensure compatibly with ancient devices that use the same memory addresses as SMRAM. … Source
The Valkyrie Vind SL125 sports a slightly oversized 120 x 120 x 25mm fan, though thankfully the cooler's height is 158mm in total making it compatible with a large variety of cases. … Source
ASUSTOR have a new NAS which is all flash memory, the Flashstor 12 Pro FS6712X. It can hold up to a dozen M.2 2280 drives though with a Celeron N5105 inside there… Source
At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…
Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch…
It’s no secret that the iPhone 16 is coming in just a few weeks, and as always, it’s going to be the biggest release of the fall. But according to a new report, it might just be an appetizer for the main course coming next year. According to Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, the…
If you have a document on your Mac that you need to turn into a PDF, then you’ll be pleased to know that it is a very simple process. The best part is you don’t even need to download software, as the capability is built straight into macOS. So, if you want to send a…