Chipmaking Giant Samsung Reveals 3nm Semiconductor Prototype
In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe, regional sources reported Canaan and Bitmain will reveal new mining rigs this year equipped with TSMC-based 5nm chips. Now, competition is growing stronger as Samsung has disclosed that the chipmaker succeeded in creating the first 3nm (GAAFET) prototype. Samsung has shown it is ahead of the 5nm process...
Movie Companies Sue YTS Users, Including One Who Hid Behind a VPN
Last week we reported that the operator of YTS, one of the most visited torrent sites, resolved a piracy lawsuit that was filed against it by movie outfit Wicked Nevada. In a consent judgment, the YTS admin agreed to pay $150,000 in damages. In addition, he promised not to share torrents of the film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile.” What is most unusual about the agreement is that the torrent site itself...
MangaDex Returns Under a New Domain, Confirms Legal Issues
With tens of millions of visitors per month, MangaDex is a real force in the manga community. The site’s status as an unofficial provider of manga ‘scanlations’ (scanned copies with translations) is valued by fans, many of whom are keen to experience harder-to-find content in languages other than their native tongue. Last week, however, MangaDex fans had to go without their usual fix. The site went down with staff...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 01/06/20
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the articles of the recent weekly movie download charts. This week’s most downloaded movies are:...
5 ways to improve your Bash scripts
A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks. Have you ever looked at an installation script provided by a software vendor? They often add a lot of functions and logic in order to ensure that the installation works properly and doesn’t result in damage to the customer’s system. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my...
