Apple’s M-Series Mac Roadmap Leaks

A report citing multiple sources says that Apple’s next-generation M-series Mac chips are due in 2021 and could outperform Intel’s fastest microprocessors. The report, in Bloomberg, notes that the new chips will improve on today’s M1 chipset, which targets low-end Macs like the Mac Mini, MacBook …

Google Play Billing is Coming to Progressive Web Apps

The Chrome team announced today that it is bringing Play Billing to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), allowing web developers to sell digital goods and subscriptions using the new standardized Digital Goods API in Chrome 88 and newer. That announcement was made today at the Chrome Dev …

DHS-CISA urges admins to patch OpenSSL DoS vulnerability

This week OpenSSL has released fixes for a high severity Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability impacting the open source project. U.S. DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned admins to upgrade their vulnerable OpenSSL instances immediately. Caused by null pointers in SSL certificate name …

Raja Koduri teases Intel Xe HP GPUs

Intel graphics boss Raja Koduri has taken to Twitter to tease some upcoming Xe GPU products. A few hours ago he shared an image which shows “Intel’s first data centre GPU that’s in production, between Xe HP GPUs that are sampling to customers.” In the picture …

Review: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Radeon has lagged behind Ryzen for nearly three years. Chief amongst the reasons for this state of affairs is the strength of competitor Nvidia, whose latest Ampere-based 30-series cards are impressive. But Radeon is getting its act together. Targeting the premium end of the market, the …