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(link) Thursday, 24-September-2020 00:51:30 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The big Australian tech news of the moment would have to be the Government's announcement that the NBN will be upgraded to Fibre-to-the-Home for millions of residences. The upgrade, which NBN Co will finance through borrowing from private debt markets, will give a further six million homes, or 75 per cent of premises along the fixed-line network, access to broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second by 2023. I mean, it sounds awesome. But it sounded awesome back in 2009 when we were meant to get that in the first place, too. Discussion towards the end of this giant thread.
On a related note, Netflix and YouTube were going to lift their bitrate restrictions right about now - did they? I ask because with my woeful NBN connection I have no way to tell, of course. This came in response to concerns by industry that bandwidth-hungry high definition streaming services could saturate under-pressure residential broadband connections. Days later, the government was able to get agreement from the streaming operators to temporarily drop their bitrates.
Also from down under, this amusing blog about hacking Tony Abbott's boarding pass, thanks BWMerlin. So you know when you’re flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia?
FunkyKit have a guide to overclocking the Core i9 10900K to 5.4GHz on all 10 cores. In this article, we’ll show you how to overclock the Intel Core i9-10900K (Comet Lake) from the default speed of 3.7GHz to a whopping 5.4GHz on all 10 cores, by simply changing a few BIOS settings on the ASRock Z490 Steel Legend motherboard. And what’s even better … this was all done using just a standard AIO CPU cooler (no LN2 or dry-ice).
Meanwhile here's NVIDIA's official response to the 3080 launch shenanigans. We expected the best ever demand for the RTX 30-series, but the enthusiasm was overwhelming. We were not prepared for this level, nor were our partners. We apologize for this.
Finally, it appears that Longcat has died. Or perhaps I should say, Longcat is no longer. While Longcat's real name is Shiroi (which means white), Japanese fans gave the cat the initial nickname of Nobiiru or Nobiko, which means "stretch." It wasn't long before the usually stretchy cat was Photoshopped into business charts, historical scenes, outer space and other unlikely places.
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