After somehow shirking Apple’s App Store payment fees for years, Patreon informed its stable of creators this week that they will soon be subject to the same 30 percent fee as everyone else—and is offering a way to offset those costs. In a post to its site on Monday, Patreon explains, “Apple is requiring us…
AirPods Pro 2 get new features with iOS 18 The third developer beta for the latest AirPods Pro 2 software is now available for those testing out new features. Apple provides developer betas for nearly all of its platforms, even AirPods. These AirPods firmware betas aren't as common as the beta updates for the other…
A NeXT ID Polaroid of Steve Jobs, and his famous bomber jacket An auction selling a selection of Steve Jobs memorabilia has opened, with potential bidders able to spend thousands on checks, polaroids, and even a bomber jacket connected to the Apple co-founder. Apple memorabilia continues to be a major draw for collectors, and items…
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…