Today, in 1990, T. Berners-Lee and R. Cailliau first publicly described the WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project. This foundational idea of the WWW as we know it was briefly summed up as “a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.” Nowadays, the original concept is rather polluted with paywalls, memberships, pop-ups, pop-unders, and even threats such as drive-by malware attacks. Here on Club386 there are none of those new-fangled pollutants, but you are welcome to subscribe to the good old-fashioned newsletter. Please enjoy the extra news picks today and have a great weekend.
PC Hardware
- Dell/Alienware has leaked a list of 12th Gen Core processor non-K CPUs with key specs tabulated (see sample above)
- SK hynix shows off 24GB HBM3 6.4Gbps memory at OCP Summit
- Antec announces the Dark Phantom DP31 Micro-ATX PC case
- Cooler Master MasterBox TD300 Mesh (Micro-ATX) released (product link), sample image below
Games
- Captain America and Indiana Jones hinted at coming to Call of Duty: Vanguard
- Three decades’ worth of Leisure Suit Larry adventures in a Humble Bundle
- Xbox app on Windows will soon let you install PC games into any folder
- Rainbow Six Extraction: Deep Dive, first episode reveals operators and their gadgets, key weapons. The game is available from January 20, 2022
Videos
- Intel has published a brief video about its “most complex SoC ever” – the Ponte Vecchio GPU
- AMD shares a video about Chernobylite 4K FSR, with performance comparisons
- Nvidia shares a video about Bright Memory: Infinite, with a 4K DLSS comparison
- Bethesda broadcasts the Skyrim 10th anniversary fan celebration and concert, and several more interesting videos.
- Alienware shares a video about X Series laptop design
- “The Intel E-cores were not meant to be used this way… but it’s Amazing,” says Der8auer – testing an ADL-S system running purely on its E-cores
Technology
- AMD ROCm 4.5 drops Polaris architecture support
- HTC’s Vive Focus 3 headset update unlocks a larger VR area, Wi-Fi 6e and more
- Kioxia has begun shipping Ethernet-connected SSDs
- Google reveals “watering hole” attack using MacOS Catalina exploits
- Discord pauses planned move into cryptocurrencies and NFTs after users cancel subscriptions in protest
