Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. Both AMD and Nvidia were supposed to have shifted to 20nm graphics chips by now. In theory, that gets you lower temperatures, higher clock speeds, and less noise. Instead, the Taiwanese company that actually manufactures most of AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs has been struggling to get its 20nm technology rolling. The result? The whole PC graphics industry remains stuck at 28nm.
Read on, source: Mighty Maxwell Video Card Roundup – Maximum PC
The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.The assault left Moodle – an open-source learning platform – out of action for several hours on Thursday morning before normal service was restored.Technicians initially estimated problems were down to firewall configuration issues, before realising actual humans were behind the problem, as status messages on the ULCC website explain.All our services are now up and running again! The networking issue was caused by a cyber-attack.We have taken action to block the source. An incident report will be produced and shared in due course.
