Summary of the week of November 13, 2023

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Design flaws in Western Digital SSDs

It has been discovered that the 4TB Extreme Pro memory sold by Western Digital through SanDisk has design and manufacturing flaws such that, on occasion, the components jump off the PCB when the memory is installed due to the bending that usually occurs.

OBS Studio 30

OBS Studio 30 is now available, which comes with hardware video encoding on Intel GPUs compatible with QSV on Linux and support for WHIP/WebRTC broadcasts among many other changes.

Cooling without moving parts

The University of California in Los Angeles has published an article about a semiconductor that can modulate its conductivity, allowing for the rapid cooling of other devices without the need for moving parts.

Solid-state speakers for headphones

A company has introduced headphones that work with solid-state speakers. This solid-state element emits ultrasound that is then demodulated to the original frequencies.

Blender 4 available

The fourth version of the popular free modeling and animation program Blender comes with a large number of improvements related to animations, modeling, textures, shading, etc.

Problem with the screen of some MacBook Pro

Some models of the MacBook Pro from 2016 to 2020 have a design flaw that causes the cable connecting the screen to the motherboard to be damaged and purple lines to appear

Ryzen 7 5800X3D

NakedCOOL has brought us a Zen 3 with 8 cores and 96 MB of level 3 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D achieves the 38th position in the overall ranking and its multi-thread performance slightly improves that of the Ryzen 7 5800X.