What’s New in Linux 5.6? WireGuard VPN and USB4

Linux 5.6 “has a bit more changes than I’d like,” Linus Torvalds posted on the kernel mailing list, “but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with them. And I looked over the diff, and none of it looks scary…” TechRadar reports that the new changes include support for USB4 and GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics…

AMD Launches Navi-Based Radeon RX 5600XT To Battle GeForce RTX 2060 Under $300

MojoKid writes: Today AMD launched its latest midrange graphics card based on the company’s all new Navi architecture. The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT slots in under $300 ($279 MSRP) and is based on the same Navi 10 GPU as AMD’s current high-end Radeon RX 5700 series cards. AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT is outfitted with 36 compute units, with a…

NVIDIA’s Job Listings Reveal ‘Game Remastering’ Studio, New Interest In RISC-V

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: Nvidia has a lot riding on the success of its GeForce RTX cards. The Santa Clara, California company is beating the real-time ray tracing drum loudly, adamant on being known as a champion of the technology before AMD steals some of its thunder next year with the PlayStation 5 and its own inevitable release of ray-tracing…

In New Benchmark Tests, AMD Challenges Both Intel And Nvidia

“AMD is unleashing an arsenal of products today,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid. Hot Hardware writes:
The Zen 2-based AMD Ryzen 3000 series is easily one of the most anticipated product launches in the PC space in recent memory. AMD has essentially promised to address virtually all of the perceived shortcomings of the original Zen-based Ryzen processors, with the Ryzen 3000 series, while…