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Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Random Interesting Posts and Some News (1 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 3-April-2025  17:41:43 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN eva2000 has made a game. Who's on top of the High Score list? I asked Google Gemini 2.5 Pro to re-create one of my fav games, Atari XE Missile Command and put my own spin on the game with in-game store with additional upgradeable weapons. Current sent this news in. Artificial hearts are now real, and an Aussie invention. Biomedical engineer Dr Daniel Timms spoke about the Bunnings trips that helped the invention come to life. IntelInside sent these articles in. Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature & Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features. Rather than comply and compromise Advanced Data Protection, Apple is left with no choice but to remove the feature altogether. In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said that current users of ADP in the UK will eventually need to disable the security feature in order to keep using their iCloud account. Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says. I wonder when OCAU will move to this model? A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Wondering why your search is taking so long? It might be the AI crawlers to blame. Iaso's story highlights a broader crisis rapidly spreading across the open source community, as what appear to be aggressive AI crawlers increasingly overload community-maintained infrastructure, causing what amounts to persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on vital public resources. Some open source projects now see as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots. Thursday Review Round-Up (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 3-April-2025  16:42:10 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: Sonos Arc Ultra @ HotHardware Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Wireless Gaming Mouse @ OCinside Case and Cooling: SilverStone Lucid 04 @ TechPowerUp Thermaltake TOUGHFAN EX12 Pro High Static Pressure PC Cooling Fan Snow Edition @ FunkyKit Storage: Kioxia Exceria PLUS G4 2TB @ guru3D ADATA SC740 External Solid State Drive @ ThinkComputers Icy Dock MB204MP-B ExpressSlot Slide @ OCinside Crucial T700 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD @ Madshrimps Motherboard: ASRock Phantom Gaming B850 Riptide Wi-Fi @ TechPowerUp ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi AMD AM5 @ OCinside PSU: Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition 80 PLUS Titanium ATX 3.1 @ TweakTown Enermax REVOLUTION D.F. 12 850 W @ TechPowerUp Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G Gaming Trio OC @ ThePCEnthusiast INNO3D GeForce RTX 5070 Twin X2 @ TweakTown Colorful GeForce RTX 5070 NB EX 12GB-V @ FunkyKit Yeston Radeon RX 9070 Sakura Atlantis @ guru3D Benchmark: DDR5 CUDIMM Explained & Benched @ TechPowerUp Retro Gaming April 2025 (2 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 1-April-2025  21:19:34 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN This month's "Retro Let's Play" for April is Combat Flight Simulator 3 from 2002 A salvo of bombs and rockets is released, shattering across enemy positions. Suddenly, enemy fighters dive in to engage. Bullets fly. Adrenaline surges. Hearts pound. The battle for Europe has begun ... The game is an updated version of the first Combat Flight Simulator, offering a far wider range of options to the player. The game incorporates an active campaign mode, whereby the player may play for the USAAF, RAF or Luftwaffe in a campaign starting in March 1943. Based on the player's performance, the player can alter the length and even outcome of the war. It is even possible for the Germans to drive the allies back to London and force their surrender. click for the thread! Sunday Night Catch-Up (17 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 30-March-2025  22:13:16 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Why cant we have nice things ? The USA FBI has issued a warning ..... You probably have experienced situations where you needed to convert files from one format to another. In these cases, free online file converters are a common solution. However, the FBI Denver Field Office has just taken to Twitter to warn users that threat actors now use these seemingly harmless online tools to install malware on the devices of unsuspecting victims. Rumours abound of Valve's SteamOS being made available to desktop PC's. When asked point blank if that meant it would be user-installable (as in, a general installer), he said yes, though his understanding is that Valve's intent is to initially target users who would install it on a handheld PC. "From what I understand, anyone will be able to download the official image/installed/whatever and try to install it on their devices But Valve is mostly insinuating that handheld PCs will have the best experience in doing so" Want to install Windows 11 without the internet. I still think it's a terrible unfinished mess, but what do I know. Microsoft forces users to connect to the internet during Windows 11 setup. This rule applies to both Home and Pro editions in version 22H2. Users need to create a Microsoft account and download updates during installation. The forced internet connection blocks people without stable internet from using their computers. Local account setup gives users more control over their privacy and system usage. This link is from Agg. Old Nintendo Consoles age like fine wine. It’s a fact of life that the older something gets, the slower and less reliable it becomes, and that’s just as applicable to video game consoles as anything. Although it turns out that one retro console is ageing like fine wine. The SNES is not only still popular 35 years after its original release but, bizarrely, it seems it runs faster now than it did back in 1990. I thought this mini PC with a flip top screen was cool. At my age (don't ask), I probably wouldn't be all that keen on trying to manage with a such a small display for computing chores (though I see my smartphone giving me the stink eye). But it's still a nifty feature. The 5-inch flip-up display on Aoostar's little box boasts a 1920x1080 resolution and 60Hz refresh rate, and also touch support. It's really meant to be used a secondary display. Misc Pics (20 Comments) (link)  Friday, 28-March-2025  14:47:56 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to wild and mpot this week! Friday Afternoon Reviews (1 Comments) (link)  Friday, 28-March-2025  13:49:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg Motherboard & CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D Fire Range HX3D Exclusive: Gaming Laptop Supercharger on HotHardware. ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp. ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp. ASUS ProArt Z890-Creator WiFi Z890 Motherboard on APHNetworks. MSI MAG B860 Tomahawk Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp. Cases: be quiet! Pure Base 501 LX on TechPowerUp. GAMEMAX N90 Mid-Tower Chassis on FunkyKit. FSP M580 Plus Mid-Tower Chassis on Tweaktown. Montech XR Wood mid-tower on TechPowerUp. Cooling: TRYX PANORAMA SE 360 ARGB AIO CPU Cooler on FunkyKit. XPG LEVANTE II 360 AIO liquid cooler on TechPowerUp. CPS / PCCooler RZ620 CPU Cooler on Tweaktown. be quiet! Pure Rock Pro 3 Black CPU cooler on TechPowerUp. MSI MAG CORELIQUID I360 AIO Liquid CPU Cooler on NikKTech. Storage: Crucial T500 Heatsink 4TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD on FunkyKit. Netac NV7000-Q M.2 SSD on ThePCEnthusiast. Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB Review - The Best Gen 5 SSD on TechPowerUp. Crucial T500 Heatsink 4TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD on FunkyKit. SK hynix Beetle X31 Portable Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers. Crucial P310 2TB NVMe M.2 2280 SSD on FunkyKit. Team Group GE Pro 2 TB NVMe SSD Review - With Innogrit Gen 5 Controller on Guru3D. Input Etc: Epomaker P87 Mechanical Wireless Keyboard on MadShrimps. Pulsar Feinmann F01 mouse on TechPowerUp. CHERRY XTRFY M64 Wireless White Gaming Mouse on MadShrimps. Quick Look: Jelly Key Mystic Snake Artisan Keycaps on TechPowerUp. Zaopin Z2 Mini mouse on TechPowerUp. Memory: Patriot Viper Xtreme 5 7600 MHz CL36 2 x 24 GB DDR5 on Guru3D. KLEVV URBANE V RGB DDR5-7600 32GB Memory Kit on ThinkComputers. Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-7000 2x16GB DDR5 RAM on APHNetworks. Crucial DDR5 Pro Overclocking 32GB 6400MHz CL38 Dual-Channel Kit on NikKTech. Silicon Power XPOWER Pulse 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 Gaming Kit on MadShrimps. Video Cards: Palit GeForce RTX 5070 GamingPro OC on TechPowerUp. GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review: NVIDIA’s Best Mobile Gaming Chip Yet on HotHardware. Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Pulse on TechPowerUp. ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 OC Edition on Tweaktown. ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 TUF OC on TechPowerUp. ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Steel Legend OC on ThinkComputers. Audio Visual: ALOGIC 40-inch Edge Ultrawide Monitor on Tweaktown. EIZO FlexScan EV4340X 43" 4K Monitor on NikKTech. Duex Float 15.6" Portable Monitor on Tweaktown. ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM Gaming Monitor on Tweaktown. Alienware AW2725Q Gaming Monitor on Tweaktown. Misc: Assassin's Creed Shadows Performance Benchmark on TechPowerUp. DJI Power 1000 Powerstation Video Review on FunkyHome. SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Review: A True RISC-V Dev Kit Platform Emerges on HotHardware.

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