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Our news archive search is now powered by Google. You can search the main site or the guest-viewable forums. To search the entire forums, log in and use the forum search engine. Search the main OCAU site with Google: Search OCAU Forums with Google: View News : Last 7 Days, Last 14 Days, Last 30 Days. View Monthly Archives. Sunday Evening News (0 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 26-April-2026  21:47:29 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN I thought the title of this video might be a joke at first, but after watching it, it’s pretty surprising. If you’re curious about how modern chips are made, it's a great explaination of the process covering things like depositing the initial oxide layer on a silicon wafer, photolithography, etching, thin-film deposition, and testing. And, yes, that includes clean up with hydrofluoric acid and piranha solution. And while we're on the topic of RAM, some Samsung workers are demanding a 15% cut of the company's memory profits and are now threatening to strike after negotiations stalled. Unions involved rejected a recent offer from executives. If talks break down, they will strike for 18 days, starting on May 21, which could throw the memory industry into an even deeper tailspin. This comes after rival memory maker, SK Hynix, is reportedly set to pay an average bonus of around $400,000 to each of its 35,000 employees amid soaring profits. VideoCardz.com are asking AMD to stop scraping their website when they noticed traffic appearing to originate from AMD, up to 26,000 requests an hour, was creating a lot invalid requests. What caught our attention is that these were not normal page visits. The requests were targeting content that does not exist on our site, which made it clear this was some kind of automated monitoring or scraping activity. The traffic also exposed a war-room-dashboard user agent, which is where the “war room” label comes from. There is no need to send bots after our site, especially when several of our previous emails have gone unanswered (including the one about FSR4 INT8, btw). Steam summer sales are still a couple of months away but you'll need more than 20,000 games to join the top 120 users on SteamDB. We guess many readers will be familiar with the experience of a digital games library growing into astronomical numbers. But personal three or four-figure game collections are relatively small when you see what the Steam whales are up to. It is still surprising to see that at least 120 people have collections with 20,000 or more games, according to SteamDB’s latest figures. Number one on the leaderboard is Sonix, with a Steam game collection of 43,085 Steam games worth nearly $750,000 at today’s prices. Open source software is under a bit of an attack right now. One part of the puzzle for Linux to stop the LLM-powered vulnerability attacks is to kill off older drivers. How dare they remove my ISDN CAPI support. Bot-powered bug-busting is in the news of late, with scary-sounding reports of automated tools detecting flaws and vulnerabilities far faster than any unaided humans. Some of these are long-standing howlers, such as a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a 23-year-old flaw in the Linux in-kernel NFS code. The good news is that there's one fairly dramatic but simple approach to handling this: if the bugs are in very old drivers for very old hardware, then don't even try to fix them – just remove them. ANZAC Day (1 Comments) (link)  Saturday, 25-April-2026  08:50:17 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN They shall grow not old As we who are left grow old Age shall not weary them Nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them Lest We Forget Retro Misc Pics (13 Comments) (link)  Friday, 24-April-2026  11:39:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg In transit from IAD to ATL so here's Retro Misc Pics from November 2013. Back to normal next week! 1st Nov 2013: 8th Nov 2013: a 15th Nov 2013: 22nd Nov 2013: 29th Nov 2013: Thursday Evening Reviews (2 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 23-April-2026  20:59:17 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: KOORUI 34E6UC Gaming Monitor @ TweakTown AOC U27G4 Gaming Monitor @ TweakTown ASUS ROG Kithara Gaming Headset @ TweakTown MSI MPG 272QRF X36 @ TweakTown Keyboard, Mouse: be quiet! DARK PERK Ergo Wireless Gaming Mouse @ FunkyKit AULA F87 PRO V2 Wireless Gaming Keyboard @ FunkyKit MSI VERSA 300 Wireless 8K Gaming Mouse @ FunkyKit Epomaker HE108 Wireless Hall Effect Keyboard @ APHnetworks AULA HERO 68 HE 65% Gaming Keyboard @ FunkyKit RAWM Leviathan V4 @ TechPowerUp Storage: TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro Enclosure @ TechPowerUp Beelink Me Pro & 22TB WD Red @ HotHardware Motherboard, Memory, CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition @ storagereview AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition @ HotHardware Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs. Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus @ ThinkComputers Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 32 GB CL40 @ TechPowerUp MSI MPG X870E Carbon Max Wi-Fi @ TechPowerUp Sapphire Pure X870A WiFi 7 Motherboard @ TweakTown PSU: MSI MPG Ai1600TS PCIE5 Power Supply @ FunkyKit SAMA P1200 ATX 3.1 Power Supply Unit @ NikKTech Portable, Prebuilt: ACEMAGIC Retro X5 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 @ guru3D ACEMAGIC Tank M1A Pro+ @ TechPowerUp Misc: Endorfy Meta @ TechPowerUp Nitro Concepts C-Racer Sim Racing Wheel Stand @ TweakTown MSI VERSA 300 Wireless 8K Gaming Mouse @ NikKTech PNY RTX 5080 Slim OC @ TechPowerUp

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