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It’s been roughly eight years since we last saw her (no, Smash Bros.. doesn’t count), but everyone’s favorite S-Tier goth is back in Bayonetta 3. Once again, you play as the arse-kicking Umbra Witch, Bayonetta, as she faces off against bioweapons known as Homunculi, which are threatening to destroy the multiverse.
Announced in 2017 as a Switch exclusive, a date that feels like it was much longer ago than it actually is, Nintendo and developer Platinum Games were pretty close-lipped about details for Bayonetta 3. We weren’t given a proper look at the game until a Nintendo Direct in September 2021, and then nothing until a recent trailer revealed the game’s release date, 28 October.
Along the way, you’ll also team up with various alternate versions of Bayonetta and play as Viola, a witch-in-training who wouldn’t look out of place in a Devil May Cry game.
There are also two new skills, the Demon Slave and Demon Masquerade, the first of which allows Bayonetta to summon and control an Infernal Demon, while the latter lets her combine with the chosen demon to unlock powerful new abilities.
Bayonetta 3 will also introduce a new display mode called “Naive Angel”, which turns off the game’s nudity and tones down the designs of certain enemies. No more awkward conversations when nana unexpectedly drops by.
If you’ve played the previous Bayonetta games, then you’re most likely already in the bag for this one. According to the game’s executive director, Hideki Kamiya, newcomers shouldn’t have any problems picking up Bayonetta 3 without having played the first two games. But you should absolutely play those previous installations anyway because they’re two of the best hack-and-slash games ever. There’s a good reason why Bayonetta is Platinum Games’ flagship title.
Where can you get Bayonetta 3 for cheap?
Image: Platinum Games/Nintendo
Currently, there aren’t a lot of places to grab a copy of Bayonetta 3 in Australia. At the time of writing, both JB HiFi and amazon australia are offering the upcoming game for $69 (down from $79.95), with the latter including free shipping.
Here’s where you can pick up a cheap copy of Bayonetta 3 in Australia:
EB Games is also offering the exclusive Bayonetta 3: Trinity Masquerade Edition. This set includes the game along with a 200-page artbook and three game sleeves that can be combined to create a panoramic artwork. the Trinity Masquerade Edition is currently priced at $144.95but knowing scalpers, you can expect that figure to rise once EB’s pre-orders run out.
Bayonetta 3 is exclusively available for the Nintendo Switch, with a release date of 28 October.
From floppy disks to the latest in smart home technology, Australian tech company Laser hasn’t show any signs of slowing down, revealing the next wave of products at its 35th-anniversary event in Sydney.
New Matter-compatible smart home gadgets, pet technology, e-mobility and portable power stations will form the bedrock of the company’s immediate future. Laser working with the Matter smart home protocol is a major move, one that international brands like IKEA will support when the cross-platform standard launches in spring. This means Laser and its upcoming Connect Smart Home products – including smart light bulbs – will operate easier and faster while seamlessly connecting with other brands’ products that also support the Matter standard.
Another area Laser is expanding into is outdoor power solutions. Portable power stations for campers, tradies, and home backup use are on the way in the near future. This comes off the back of the continued support for its existing brands including Tech4Pets, dashcam label Navig8r, and the gaming peripheral Gtek range.
Laser also renewed its commitment to various sustainability practices. Many of its products will be made from recycled and recyclable materials, with packaging to meet sustainable protocols established by APCO and Redcycle.
Exciting new gear is heading our way including portable power stations, electric scooters and Matter-compatible smart home security cameras, smart power plugs and smart lights
At the 35th anniversary event, Laser managing director Chris Lau reflected on the company’s long-term success and affordable philosophy.
“Our history mirrors the significant consumer technology revolution we have experienced over the last four decades, technology that has changed the world and the way we live our everyday lives,” Lau said. “We have played an important role in helping many Australians adopt and try new technology for the very first time, an often under-appreciated benefit of delivering affordable but high-quality products.”
“We are proud to be a home-grown Aussie consumer electronics success story, delivering great technology, affordable and accessible to all.”
35 years is an impressive run by any measure, especially in an industry as fast-paced as technology. Expect to see plenty more years as Laser continues supplying affordable electronic goods to major retailers like Big W, Harvey Norman, and Officeworks.
Motorola has just launched the moto g62 5G – an affordable smart phone with advanced camera features and offering an enhanced entertainment experience on the move.
Priced at $399, the moto g62 5G is available from Australia’s major telcos: Telstra, Optus and Vodafone.
The moto g62 5G has a 6.5-inch Full HD+ display has a 120Hz refresh rate to make watching your screen for longer periods even more comfortable.
On the audio side, customers can surround themselves with sound with the Dolby Atmos spatial audio experience that uses the stereo speakers to deliver a three-dimensional sound.
The smartphone is powered by the Snapdragon 480+ 5G mobile platform with 4GB RAM and connectivity to the faster 5G networks so you can download content in seconds.
On the camera side, the moto g62 5G has a 50-megapixel main camera with Quad Pixel technology so your images look good no matter the lighting conditions.
There’s also an 8-megapixel ultra-wide camera to fit four times more detail in the frame along with a 2-megapixel macro vision camera to capture ultra-close miniature detail.
And if you’re a selfie fan, the moto g62 5G also has a 16-megapixel front camera which can capture impressive images day or night, indoors or out.
also on board is dual capture mode which allows you to shoot from the front and rear cameras at the same time to put yourself in the picture or video.
And the Auto Smile Capture means you’re going to get everyone looking their best in your images.
The device is powered by a 5000mAh battery to easily power you through the day and into the next while TurboPower technology can provide hours of battery with just minutes of charging.
The moto g62 5G is running Android 12 with no clunky added user interface layer or duplicate apps.
The moto g62 5G is available now for $399 at JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, The Good Guys, Officeworks, Big W Online, Mobileciti and Lenovo Online.
It is also available across all three of Australia’s major telecommunications providers, Optus, Telstra and Vodafone.
Midnight Society, the studio from banned Twitch streamer Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV, AKA Dr Disrespect, has revealed the name and details of its new Escape From Tarkov-like shooter, Deadrop.
Dubbed a “vertical extraction shooter,” Deadrop is now available as a demo for those who paid for the Founders Access Pass as part of Midnight Society’s rollout of the game.
Playable builds will be released every six weeks, with some YouTubers sharing footage of how the game looks and plays so far (via VGC).
According to Geeky Pastimes, there’s not much in the game so far, with one gun usable at this point. There’s also a firing range with a dummy that parts can be shot off of, with a small slice of the world showing off the aesthetics and visuals as well.
At present no more Founders Access Passes can be claimed, as Midnight Society notes: “Founders Access Pass applications closed. All Series 0 Patches claimed.”
At this stage so much of Deadrop can change, from the weapons, movement and online integration (which doesn’t feature in the currently available build), with more coming to those with access every six weeks.
Whilst the core mechanics of Deadrop are still somewhat unknown, it’s been described by Midnight Society as a game with the “essence” of an arena shooter and the scale of a battle royale game, with core mechanics similar to extraction-based shooters.
A main point of difference in Dr Disrespect’s game appears to be the “vertical” aspect of Deadropwhich trades out large flat islands and arenas for a play space that’s skyscrapers instead.
Project Moon. Credit: Midnight Society
Set during the “climate wars,” Deadrop is in a world filled with refiner states, mega structures that extract toxins from the atmosphere. Each tower is its own city-state that exports space dust.
Midnight Society is made up of a number of ex-Halo and Call Of Duty developers, with co-founder Quinn DelHoyo, previously the lead sandbox designer for halo-infiniteand other co-founder Robert Bowling, a former community manager at Infinity Ward.
In other news, the director of Skull & Bones has explained how the game’s narrative and land mechanics will work when it releases this November.
Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple’s homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers.
In his announcement of the release, Torvalds called out work to support for the made-in-China Loongarch RISC architecture as an important step, along with “another batch of the networking sysctl READ_ONCE() annotations to make some of the data race checker code happy.”
Torvalds then revealed he’s got his hands on some Apple silicon.
“On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for a _loong_ time, and its finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team,” he wrote. “We’ve had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now.”
The emperor penguin hedged a little, admitting “Not that I’ve used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging.”
But it appears Torvalds wants an Apple-powered Mac to become his go-to machine when he’s on the road.
“I’m trying to make sure that the next time I travel, I can travel with this as a laptop and finally dogfooding the arm64 side too.”
“It’s the third time I’m using Apple hardware for Linux development – I did it many years ago for PowerPC development on a ppc970 machine,” he wrote. “And then a decade+ ago when the MacBook Air was the only real thin-and-lite around. And now as an arm64 platform.”
Among the headline features of version 5.19 of the kernel:
Support for Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions that isolate virtual machines from the virtual-machine manager/hypervisor and any other software on the platform, to add isolation beyond that achievable with conventional virtualization;
Support for AMD’s SEV-SNP, which protects VMs against attacks on the hypervisor;
Multiplatform support for Arm is pretty much done;
Improved monitoring of ASUS motherboards;
Removal of support for Renesas’s H8/300 CPU architecture, which has the odd distinction of already having been removed from the kernel, then reinstated.
The fine folk at Phoronix have an extensive list of what’s new in 5.19.
Torvalds’s post ends with a footnote in which he states he intends to call the next release of the kernel version 6.0 “since I’m starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.”
That’s slightly inconsistent with the 4.x series, which reached version 4.20, but follows the same scheme used on the 3.x series which stopped at 3.19.
None of which makes a real difference anyway, because there is no indication the next kernel will offer the kind of step-change in functionality that would justify a x.0 release in either open source or commercial software. ®
It looks like we literally have all the benchmarks leaked for Intel’s upcoming 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, even the gaming performance numbers which have now been published by ExtremePlayer. The leaker has now published the gaming numbers for Intel’s Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K CPUs.
Intel Core i7-13700K & Core i5-13600K Raptor Lake CPU Gaming Benchmarks Leaked, Big Cache Brings Double-Digit Improvement To Minimum Framerate
ExtremePlayer brought to us the synthetic workload performance of Intel’s top-three K-Series Raptor Lake SKUs, the Core i9-13900K, the Core i7-13700K, and the Core i5-13600K. The leaker published the gaming benchmarks of the top Core i9-13900K CPU too. Now, we have gaming benchmarks of the Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K (QS SKUs) to feast our eyes upon.
As noted in the previous leaks, the Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs will consume more power and run hotter than Alder Lake though how they behave in games and what sort of efficiency they have to offer remains to be seen until proper benchmarks come out later this year.
Intel Core i7-13700K 16 Core Raptor Lake CPU Specs
The Intel Core i7-13700K CPU will be the fastest 13th Gen Core i7 chip on offer within the Raptor Lake CPU lineup. The chip features a total of 16 cores and 24 threads. This configuration is made possible with 8 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove architecture and 8 E-Cores based on the Grace Mont core architecture. The CPU comes with 30 MB of L3 cache and 24 MB of L2 cache for a total combined 54 MB cache. The chip was running at a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz. The all-core boost is rated at 5.3 GHz for the P-Cores while the E-Cores feature a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost clock of 4.3 GHz.
Intel Core i5-13600K 14 Core Raptor Lake CPU Specs
The Intel Core i5-13600K features a total of 14 cores which include 6 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove and 8 E-Cores based on current Gracemont cores. That’s the same P-Core count as the Intel Core i5-12600K but the E-Core count has been doubled. So we are looking at a 40% core count bump and a 25% thread count bump vs the Alder Lake Core i5-12600K. The CPU comes with 24 MB of L3 and 20 MB of L2 cache for a combined total of 44 MB cache. Clock speeds are set at 3.5 GHz base, 5.2 GHz boost, and 5.1 GHz all-core boost while the E-Cores operate at 3.5 GHz base & 3.9 GHz boost clocks.
Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S & 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPU Comparison (Preliminary):
CPU Name
P-Core Count
E-Core Count
Total Core / Thread
P-Core Base / Boost (Max)
P-Core Boost (All-Core)
E-Core Base / Boost
E-Core Boost (All-Core)
Cache
TDP
MSRP
Intel Core i9-13900K
8
16
24 / 32
TBA / 5.5GHz+
5.4GHz (All Core)
TBA
TBA
68MB
125W (PL1) 250W (PL2)?
TBA
Intel Core i9-12900K
8
8
16 / 24
3.2/5.2GHz
4.9GHz (All Core)
2.4/3.9GHz
3.7GHz (All Core)
30MB
125W (PL1) 241W (PL2)
US$599
Intel Core i7-13700K
8
8
16 / 24
3.4/5.4GHz
5.3GHz (All Core)
3.4/4.3GHz
TBA
54MB
125W (PL1) 228W (PL2)?
TBA
Intel Core i7-12700K
8
4
12 / 20
3.6/5.0GHz
4.7GHz (All Core)
2.7/3.8GHz
3.6GHz (All Core)
25MB
125W (PL1) 190W (PL2)
US$419
Intel Core i5-13600K
6
8
14 / 20
3.5/5.2GHz
5.1GHz (All Core)
3.5/3.9GHz
TBA
44MB
125W (PL1) 180W (PL2)?
TBA
Intel Core i5-12600K
6
4
10 / 16
3.7/4.9GHz
4.5GHz (All Core)
2.8/3.6GHz
3.4GHz (All Core)
20MB
125W (PL1) 150W (PL2)
US$299
Intel Core i7-13700K 16 Core Raptor Lake CPU Gaming Benchmarks
So coming to the benchmarks, the performance was measured within 10 games. The game list includes CSGO, FFXIV, PUBG, Naraka Bladepoint, Apex Legends, Forza Horizon 5, Monster Hunter Rise, Far Cry 6, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon Zero Dawn. The leaker also benchmarked the chips within various 3DMark benchmarks such as Firestrike and Time Spy.
GAMING FPS comparison i5 12600K vs i5 13600K (D4/D5) i7 12700K vs i7 13700K (D4/D5)@VideoCardz added new chart with DDR5 😉 pic.twitter.com/woQK4kcVat
There are a lot of figures to go through but credits to Harukaze5719 who has done an amazing job compiling those figures in some neat charts which are easier to interpret. The Intel Core i7-13700K Raptor Lake CPU offers:
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1080p: 6.65% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1440p: 5.30% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 2160p: 4.06% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K All Res Avg – 5.33% faster
As for the minimum FPS, the breakdown at each resolution is as below:
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1080p: 11.38% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1440p: 11.04% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 2160p: 13.04% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K All Res Min Avg: 11.82% faster
And finally, we have the maximum FPS breakdown for each resolution as listed below:
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1080p: 6.52% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 1440p: 9.84% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K at 2160p: 7.84% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K All Res Max Avg: 8.06% faster
Core i7-13700K vs Core i7-12700K Gaming Benchmarks (Image Credits: Harukaze5719):
So it looks like the Core i7-13700K is around 5% faster on average than its predecessor while the bigger cache and higher clocks help it maintain an 11.82% higher minimum framerate. With DDR4, you can get slightly better performance at 1440P and 2160P resolutions.
Intel Core i5-13600K 14 Core Raptor Lake CPU Gaming Benchmarks
The Intel Core i5-13600K was also tested through the same gaming selection and yielded 6% better performance than its predecessor with 12.4% faster minimum FPS on average. Compared to the Core i7-13700K which saw some gains with DDR4 memory in higher resolutions, the i5 doesn’t see any gains at all on the older memory standard.
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1080p: 11.5% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1440p: 4.64% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 2160p: 2.36% Faster Performance on Average
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K All Res Avg – 6.16% faster
As for the minimum FPS, the breakdown at each resolution is as below:
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1080p: 14.13% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1440p: 10.86% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 2160p: 12.23% Faster Minimum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K All Res Min Avg: 12.40% Faster
And finally, we have the maximum FPS breakdown for each resolution as listed below:
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1080p: 12.11% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 1440p: 7.99% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K at 2160p: 3.26% Faster Maximum FPS
Intel Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K All Res Max Avg: 7.78% faster
Core i5-13600K vs Core i5-12600K Gaming Benchmarks (Image Credits: Harukaze5719):
Additional benchmarks of the Core i9-13900K can be seen here and here, you can also check out more Core i5-13600K benchmarks here. The Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs including the flagship Core i9-13900K & Core i5-13600K CPUs is expected to launch in October on the Z790 platform. The CPUs will be going up against AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup which also launches in Fall 2022.
Extremeplayer Full Benchmark Compilation:
Which CPU platform are you looking forward to the most in 2H 2022?
Twitch star Matthew “Mizkif” shared the harrowing news that his Discord server with more than 55,000 members was hacked recently, which led to thousands of fans’ accounts getting compromised.
The streamer uploaded a 12-minute video on YouTube titled i got hacked. In the video, I explained the matter in-depth and requested that his fans of him on the Discord server immediately reset their passwords and credentials to secure their accounts.
AFTER 2 WEEKS OF HELL MY YOUTUBE IS FINALLY BACK!
NEW VIDEO IS OUT NOW AND SHOILD BE GOOD FROM NOW ON
LIKE/RETWEET TO SPREAD AWARENESS
I Got Hacked.
youtu.be/V31emWOUyAs
AFTER 2 WEEKS OF HELL MY YOUTUBE IS FINALLY BACK! NEW VIDEO IS OUT NOW AND SHOILD BE GOOD FROM NOW ON 👍LIKE/RETWEET TO SPREAD AWARENESS 😊 I Got Hacked.youtu.be/V31emWOUyAs
Mizkif explains how his Discord server was hacked
The streaming sensation revealed that he received an urgent call from his manager Nick “syn4ack” stating that “something terrible” had happened. Nick told him that Twitch content creator Lacari’s Discord account had been hacked.
Matthew mentioned that Lacari owned the entire Discord server and had administrative privileges:
“So Lacari had Mizkif role, which means he could do absolutely everything, and he was ahead of all the admins, and I never thought Lacari of all people would possibly ruin my entire career.”
One True King’s co-founder spoke about what the hacker ended up doing to his Discord server and added:
“A few hours before I wake up, the person who hacked Lacari’s account starts to go on my Discord and starts changing a bunch of roles around, and my mods were kind of suspicious. They were thinking Lacari’s maybe drunk. They were thinking that someone was messing with it, some friend of his, and he (the hacker) adds a bot!”
Matthew said that the bot spammed hundreds of messages about another Discord server:
“The admin gives this bot full admin privilege and basically says, ‘You can do whatever the f**k you want. You control the entire server.’ That bot unleashed on my server and spammed hundreds and hundreds of times, letting everyone know about a new server that you can join called Night Bar, which got 1,000 additional people in it once they spammed it in my Discord.”
The hacker on the other server known as Night Bar claimed that they had partnered with Mizkif and would be gifting Discord Nitro Classic subscriptions to their members upon reaching more than 55,000 members.
The Austin, Texas native pleaded with his fans to change their password if they had clicked on the malicious link, since the link apparently stole a unique Discord token from any account that clicked on it.
To resolve the issue, Mizkif’s manager told him to ban Lacari from the Discord server and continued the conversation further and said:
“And I was like, I got to ban Lacari. Boom, banned the guy. Next, I banned the bot, and we were able to fix the server. I’ve been non-stop trying to call Lacari at this point because Syn4ack’s like, “Dude, please get him on the phone. He needs to change his password immediately.” Because if your token gets taken, you essentially need to change your password to reset the token.”
In the end, Mizkif was able to get in touch with Lacari and told him to change his password immediately. Lacari then changed his password from him, and everything went back to normal as the Discord server was reset by the moderators.
Fans react to streamer’s Discord server getting hacked
More than 850 fans were present in the YouTube comment section, with several viewers praising the streamer for addressing and resolving the matter. Here is a snippet of some fan reactions:
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Fans in the YouTube comments section reacting to the streamer’s statement (Image via Mizkif/YouTube)
Mizkif is one of the most prominent figures in the streaming world. He began streaming on Twitch back in 2017. He currently has more than two million followers and garners a viewership of 38k concurrent fans per stream.
Igor’sLAB reports on the new launch windows for Sapphire Rapids.
Intel Sapphire Rapids, Source: CNET
The website has gained access to internal NDA-Sights documents listing the silicon’s problems. Those documents have already amassed 500 entries. This bug list is one of the largest that Intel has ever had for a CPU, which is why the silicon has been delayed for almost one and half years. According to Igor, the next-gen data-center already had as many as 12 different steppings:
The problems and errors are collected under NDA in internal documents (“so called NDA sights”) and currently amount to almost 500 (!) entries, with the trend continuing to rise. […] This started with A0 and A1, then proceeded via B0, C0, C1, C2, D0, E0, E2, E3 and E4 until currently stepping E5! The market launch was planned about 1.5 years ago and the plan was recently updated again.
—Igor Wallossek, Igor’sLAB
It is reported that the launch windows for Sapphire Rapids has moved to the 6-9th week of 2023, which is between February 6 and March 3 (2023). Some 2S (two socket scalable) SKUs are to ship in the 42nd week of this year while 4/8S (4-8 socket scalable) models might become available in the 45th week. However, according to the report, the availability of these samples is only for select partners.
[…] internal information is now becoming a bit more concrete. Intel has now announced the “launch window” for Sapphire Rapids (SPR) for calendar week 6 to 9 (Feb. 6, 2023 to March 3, 2023).
—Igor Wallossek, Igor’sLAB
Such a large number Steppings suggest that Intel has encountered numerous bugs that required changes and silicon respin, which have further delayed the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable series. At this point, however, it is not entirely sure if E5 is the last stepping.
During the recent Q2 earnings call, Intel explained that a bug was found that prevented the use of some features that are not fundamental to all Sapphire Rapids customers, yet they are the reason the silicon is delayed. The company now plans to ship some SKUs in the fourth quarter of this year, but the main launch is expected in 2023. So this official information appears to match what Igor is saying.
What is important to note that Igor only mentions the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable series here. There is no word on Sapphire Rapids-X/HEDT workstation CPUs availability. It is possible that those will indeed be among those available this year already.
Mr Curran and Mr Teh met at a blind music camp and started building the screen reading technology NVDA around ten years ago.
Once they’d developed the software, the pair made it “open source” meaning developers and users from anywhere could amend or contribute to the codebase, while suggesting new features for the core team.
“Now we have around 200 people who are constantly contributing code or translations or documentation to the software as well as making it what they want it to be,” Mr Curran said.
Keeping pace with the web
The challenge with a software tool such as NVDA is it needs to keep pace as the web evolves.
Mr Curran said the open-source community ensures that all browsers – whether it’s Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox – can support the screen reader, as well as productivity suites such as Microsoft or Adobe.
Linking the screen reader with efficient keyboard commands is also key to the technology’s success.
Mr Curran advises companies such as Google, Adobe and Microsoft on ways to design products, so they’re accessible for the visually impaired.
“It’s so much easier to build inclusively from the ground up, rather than design a new thing that works and then have a visually impaired person come along and can’t use it,” he said.
“The industry itself is getting much better, mostly because it’s much more economical to get advice on accessibility first, but they still need help along the way.”
Virtualization software VMware Fusion, which can be seen as the equivalent of VMware from macOS for Windows, from the US company VMware of the same name has now been released as a Technology Preview at the latest version 22H2. This means that virtual systems are based on Windows and Linux on Intel Core and Apple Silicon under macOS.
As the developers announced on the VMware Fusion blog, a tech preview of the upcoming VMware Fusion 22H2 is available for everyone to download and try on the official website.
Linux 5.19 with 3D Graphics Acceleration
The following innovations and optimizations are offered, which, among other things, should also improve the operation of Windows 11 and support for Linux on the M1 processor. Version 4.3 for virtual machines with Linux operating systems for the first time features accelerated 3D graphics and OpenGL.
It requires the latest operating system kernel Linux 5.19 and the powerful free 3D graphics stack Mesa 3D in version 22.1.3.
Windows 11 on Intel and Apple Silicon with 2D GFX and Networking
VMtools Installation for Windows 11 GOS on M1
Improved Linux support on M1
3D Graphics HW Acceleration and OpenGL 4.3 in Linux VMs
Is necessary Linux 5.19+ And Mesa 22.1.3+
Virtual TPM Device
fast encryption
Universal Binary
VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview
Windows 11 on x86 and arm64
The Universal Installation Routine is originally designed for x86 and Arm64 or Apple Silicon and also supports security measures introduced by Microsoft for Windows 11, such as TPM 2.0 and VTPM as well as Secure Boot.
VMware Fusion virtualizes Windows 11 on macOS on x86 and Arm64 (Image: VMWare)
Suraksha Enclave for more exposure
So-called “fast encryption”, in which only a dedicated security enclave is encrypted, rather than the entire system, is intended to significantly accelerate virtual machines in VMware Fusion 22H2.
With the new ‘Fast Encryption’ mode, only the most significant portions of the virtual machine’s local storage space are encrypted, dramatically improving overall VM performance but providing a secure enclave for sensitive data such as TPM devices.
vmware
Fusion and Workstation ready
In addition to VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview, VMware Workstation 22H2 for Windows and Linux has also been released and supports virtual machines with Windows 11 for the first time. Here, there is support for TPM and VTPM as well as OpenGL 4.3 feature set.
VMware Workstation 22H2 (Build: VMware)
build 1 Vaughn 2
VMware Fusion 22H2 (Build: VMware)
For more details visit the official website of VMware.
