AMD unveils Radeon Pro SSG graphics card with up to 1TB of M.2 flash memory

Features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for adding memory and costs a mere $10,000.

While graphics cards with more than 8GB of memory might seem like overkill to gamers, those in the creative industries like VFX and 3D modelling can't get enough of the stuff. After all, VFX studios like MPC often create scenes that require upwards of 64GB per frame to render. The trouble is, even the most capacious graphics card—AMD's FirePro S9170 server GPU—tops out at 32GB GDDR5, and there are steep cost and design issues with adding more.

AMD has come up with another solution. Instead of adding more expensive graphics memory, why not let users add their own in the form of M.2 solid state storage? That's the pitch behind the all new Radeon Pro SSG (solid state graphics), which was revealed at the Siggraph computer graphics conference on Monday.

The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for adding up to 1TB of NAND flash, massively increasing the available frame buffer for high-end rendering work. The SSG will cost you, though: beta developer kits go on sale immediately for a cool $9999 (probably £8000+).

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Telltale Games: 2.000 Batman-Spieler treffen die Entscheidungen

Im nächsten Spiel mit Batman sollen bis zu 2.000 Personen die Entscheidungen treffen können. Entwickler Telltale Games will dieses Crowdplay auch in Werken wie The Walking Dead 3 verwenden. Ein eigentlich unverzichtbares Element gibt es aus technischen Gründen vorerst leider nicht. (Batman, Adventure)

Im nächsten Spiel mit Batman sollen bis zu 2.000 Personen die Entscheidungen treffen können. Entwickler Telltale Games will dieses Crowdplay auch in Werken wie The Walking Dead 3 verwenden. Ein eigentlich unverzichtbares Element gibt es aus technischen Gründen vorerst leider nicht. (Batman, Adventure)

Tor Hidden Services: Über 100 spionierende Tor-Nodes

Mit Hilfe sogenannter Honions haben US-Forscher mindestens 110 Tor-Nodes identifizieren können, die offenbar aktiv versuchten, Tor Hidden Services auszuspähen. Wer sind die Urheber? (Security, SQL)

Mit Hilfe sogenannter Honions haben US-Forscher mindestens 110 Tor-Nodes identifizieren können, die offenbar aktiv versuchten, Tor Hidden Services auszuspähen. Wer sind die Urheber? (Security, SQL)

Pop star tells fans to send their Twitter passwords, but it might be illegal

#HackedByJohnson entices young fans so he can post cute messages in their name.

Jack Johnson (right), is one of the singers in the pop-rap duo "Jack & Jack." (credit: genesiating)

As a new way to connect with his fans, Jack Johnson—one half of the pop-rap duo Jack & Jack, not to be confused with the laidback Hawaiian singer-songwriter of the same name—has spent the last month soliciting social media passwords.

Using the hashtag #HackedByJohnson, the performer has tweeted at his fans to send him their passwords. (Why he didn’t go for the shorter and catchier #JackHack, we’ll never know.) Then, Johnson posts under his fans’ Twitter accounts, leaving a short personalized message, as them.

Here's one example:

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Auftragsfertiger: AMD lässt Chips bei Samsung produzieren

Es kam, was kommen musste: Auch Samsung fertigt Chips für AMD, bei Bedarf soll auch die Serienproduktion verwendet werden können. Das sind positive Nachrichten für Polaris-GPUs und die neuen FX-Prozessoren alias Summit Ridge mit Zen-Kernen. (Samsung, Prozessor)

Es kam, was kommen musste: Auch Samsung fertigt Chips für AMD, bei Bedarf soll auch die Serienproduktion verwendet werden können. Das sind positive Nachrichten für Polaris-GPUs und die neuen FX-Prozessoren alias Summit Ridge mit Zen-Kernen. (Samsung, Prozessor)

In-Car-Delivery: DHL macht den Smart zur Paketstation

DHL und Smart wollen Pakete direkt in den Kofferraum des kleinen Fahrzeugs liefern. Teilnehmer erhalten eine kostenlose Umrüstung ihres Autos, damit der Paketbote den Kofferraum zeitweilig öffnen kann. Auch Carsharing soll mit der Technik möglich sein. (DHL, Technologie)

DHL und Smart wollen Pakete direkt in den Kofferraum des kleinen Fahrzeugs liefern. Teilnehmer erhalten eine kostenlose Umrüstung ihres Autos, damit der Paketbote den Kofferraum zeitweilig öffnen kann. Auch Carsharing soll mit der Technik möglich sein. (DHL, Technologie)

Court Orders News Site Blocked Following Article Piracy

Blocking torrent and streaming sites is a regular occurrence in many countries but the practice is now extending to other areas. Following a complaint by Russian news site Gazeta, the Moscow City Court has ordered a news portal to be blocked by ISPs after it ‘pirated’ a tourism article.

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news-smallWhile countries like China have a dubious reputation for online censorship, millions of Internet users are now reluctantly becoming accustomed to sites being blocked on copyright grounds.

The practice is present in scattered countries across Europe but is most prevalent in the UK where more than a thousand sites are now being rendered inaccessible by regular means.

Most of the complaints originate from traditional copyright holders such as movie, TV show and recording labels, but a new threat has just emerged in Russia for the very first time.

Launched in 1999, Gazeta.ru is one of Russia’s leading Internet news resources and the 68th most-visited site overall. The platform enjoys an impressive 11 million readers each month but like many others it claims to have a problem with people republishing its content without permission.

Back in March, Gazeta published an article about tourism in Azerbaijan. The piece was popular with Gazeta readers but other commercial outfits were also attracted to the content. One of them, Story-media.ru, later reproduced the Gazeta article in full, without obtaining permission from the copyright holder.

In the world of news this is hardly a rare event. Many outlets find their articles being reproduced elsewhere on the Internet without permission and within seconds of publication. However, Gazeta decided that enough was enough and decided to fight back.

Using the same copyright complaints system that has been used countless times by movie studios and record labels since its 2013 introduction, Gazeta filed a case at the Moscow City Court.

Categorizing the tourism article as a “literary work” (literary works were added to Russia’s anti-piracy law last May), Gazeta owner Rambler & Co demanded action against Story-media.ru for the unauthorized reproduction of its copyright work.

According to Vedomosti, lawyers for Rambler & Co argued that the company “consistently fights the illegal placement of [copyrighted] content” and since the operators of Story-media.ru hide their identities (WHOIS is anonymous), the site should be blocked.

The Moscow City Court found the argument persuasive and in response ordered Russian ISPs to immediately block Story-media.ru. The court order describes the injunction as “an interim measure” designed to protect the “intellectual rights to the literary work.”

While plenty of torrent, streaming and linking sites have been blocked under the same process, this is believed to be the first use of Russia’s anti-piracy law to block a news resource following a complaint from a publisher over a written article.

Gazeta has previously taken action against a site that published an infographic without permission, resulting in the block of media site go2life.net, Vedomosti reports.

Story-media.ru now needs to respond to the Gazeta complaint but it is unclear whether it will do so. The site is currently offline.

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Huawei Matebook im Test: Guter Laptop-Ersatz mit zu starker Konkurrenz

Das Matebook ist Huaweis erstes Tablet mit Windows 10 und das erste Detachable des chinesischen Herstellers. Dank der mitgelieferten Tastatur könnte das Gerät ein Konkurrent für Microsofts Surface-Pro-Tablets sein – letztlich aber nur bedingt, wie unser Test zeigt. (Huawei, Business-Notebooks)

Das Matebook ist Huaweis erstes Tablet mit Windows 10 und das erste Detachable des chinesischen Herstellers. Dank der mitgelieferten Tastatur könnte das Gerät ein Konkurrent für Microsofts Surface-Pro-Tablets sein - letztlich aber nur bedingt, wie unser Test zeigt. (Huawei, Business-Notebooks)

Neue Funktionen: Mit Google Maps die interessanten Ecken finden

Google hat ein Update für seinen Kartendienst Maps veröffentlicht, mit dem das Kartenmaterial übersichtlicher dargestellt wird. Außerdem sind interessante Bereiche in Städten jetzt farblich hervorgehoben – so sollen sich Restaurants und Läden schneller finden lassen. (Google Maps, Google)

Google hat ein Update für seinen Kartendienst Maps veröffentlicht, mit dem das Kartenmaterial übersichtlicher dargestellt wird. Außerdem sind interessante Bereiche in Städten jetzt farblich hervorgehoben - so sollen sich Restaurants und Läden schneller finden lassen. (Google Maps, Google)