Another melted power cable, what a surprise. A Reddit user posted about their Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ graphics card frying its power connector after almost a year of use, sharing pictures of the burnt 12V-2x6 adapter cable. The system started crashing unexpectedly, leading to an inspection that found the damaged adapter, which converts to three 8-pin PCIe plugs.
Comments pointed out that this is a recurring headache, often linked to these extra adapters that add more points for a bad connection. While not a mass defect, the failure after months of normal use shows how problems can slowly build from imperfect contact or high resistance under load. The usual advice stands: avoid adapters if you can, use the direct cables from...
A tech giant might double down on old motherboard tech. Rumor suggests ASUS will boost production of DDR4 motherboards early next year, focusing on AMD's AM4 platform like B550 and A520 boards, plus some Intel models such as B760M and H610M-G. This plan, reportedly targeting online sales channels, responds to ongoing high prices and tight supply for newer DDR5 memory, partly due to demand from AI and server sectors.
The strategy highlights the lasting appeal of older platforms. AMD's AM4 socket, still supported with new budget CPUs like the Ryzen 5 5600F, offers a cost-effective path for system builders. Similarly, the Intel boards would work with current-generation processors without requiring a memory upgrade. While ASUS has not...
Another reverb plugin wants to fake a whole recording studio. Vexon Audio released Mirra, a hybrid convolution tool that mixes microphone and room impulse responses to simulate real sessions. It lets users blend mic character with spaces from small rooms to large halls, and even load their own custom IR files. The plugin combines captured convolution realism with algorithmic reverb tails for flexibility.
Its features include tone shaping filters, compression routing, and a unique interactive pad for moving a sound source in space. Mirra can also record and export your entire reverb chain as a new impulse response file for use elsewhere. The interface is resizable, and it comes with various presets for quick starts. Available now for...
A music software company just dropped four new brass instruments. Vienna Symphonic Library added Single Packs for a Wagner Tuba, a Contrabass Trombone, an Euphonium, and a Contrabass Tuba to their Synchron Special Brass series. These virtual instruments, recorded at their large Synchron Stage, work inside the Synchron Player and feature a performance-focused interface called Flow View GUI. This release brings the total available Special Brass packs to ten, with one more ensemble pack planned for the future.
The current lineup includes various trumpets, a cornet, a flugelhorn, and the new low brass additions. Each instrument comes in two versions, Standard and Full, with the Full version offering more microphone mix options. The...
A major rights activist just got locked up before the vote. Police in Uganda confirmed the detention of Sarah Bireete, a prominent lawyer and head of the Centre for Constitutional Governance, ahead of the general election. Authorities stated she is in custody and will face court without detailing charges. Bireete is known for frequent criticism of the government's actions, including alleged illegal detentions and torture targeting opposition supporters.
The election features longtime President Yoweri Museveni against pop star turned politician Bobi Wine, whose National Unity Platform claims hundreds of members have been arrested this year to intimidate supporters. A recent United Nations human rights official also condemned an...
A Kennedy family tragedy strikes again. Tatiana Schlossberg, a climate journalist and granddaughter of former president John F Kennedy, has died at thirty-five after battling an aggressive form of leukemia. Her family announced the death through a foundation social media post. She revealed her diagnosis and a prognosis of less than a year in a personal essay last month, detailing treatments like chemotherapy and expressing heartbreak over leaving her two young children and husband George Moran.
Schlossberg wrote for outlets like the New York Times and authored a book on environmental impacts, viewing climate change as the world's most critical story. In her final essay, she shared deep anguish over adding another loss to a family...
Singer Makhadzi got banged up in a highway crash. The award-winning artist was hospitalized after a car accident while driving from Limpopo to Johannesburg. Her management team at Makhadzi Entertainment confirmed she is under medical care with a stable condition. They asked for privacy for the singer and her family, noting that her recovery is the main focus right now.
Her team will handle her social media accounts while she heals. Any new information about her situation will come through official channels when necessary.
A giant new stone crushing plant just fired up near the capital. Berry Tech Construction installed a high-capacity aggregate processing facility along Bulawayo Road near Snake Park, capable of making a million tonnes of quarry stone and six hundred thousand tonnes of washed sand each year. Company representative Pan Wanwei called it the most advanced and environmentally friendly operation of its kind in Southern Africa. The plant is part of a larger two-hundred-million-dollar investment that also includes a power plant and other industrial projects.
Mashonaland West Provincial Minister Marian Chombo toured the site with local officials, linking the investment to broader national economic growth projected at above six percent. She...
An old sewer system is getting a major overhaul. Chitungwiza Municipality plans to keep fixing broken sewer lines in the new year, prioritizing over seven kilometers of pipes starting with the Upper Seke outfall, according to council spokesperson Tafadzwa Kachiko. The work follows progress on the Zengeza and PaGomba outfalls, where large piping has already been installed, with a budget of about five point seven million ZiG set aside. Officials also aim to improve the unreliable water supply by replacing up to ten main valves and installing six bulk meters to reduce losses, since the town lacks its own water source.
Other goals for the municipality include building a day care center for drug abuse issues at Utano and starting new clinic...
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