Month: March 2023
‘The Yankees Cap Goes Viral in Brazil: “Is It Basketball?”’
Jack Nicas, reporting for The New York Times from Brazil on the nation’s most popular headgear:
More than any other sports paraphernalia, the Yankees cap has
become its very own fashion trend, unmoored from the sport or the
team it represents. Lifted by starring roles in hip-hop videos,
celebrity endorsements and collaborations with Gucci and Supreme,
the hat has gone fully global, crossing borders to lands where
mentions of Babe Ruth and Aaron Judge will elicit blank stares — never mind trying to explain the “Evil Empire.”
This week, the Yankees start playing meaningful baseball once
again, and Yankees fans in New York will pull on the caps to show
their allegiance. But to many others in places like Brazil, China
and Nigeria, the interlocked NY insignia will remain simply a
classic piece of Americana, a status symbol, or a generic — perhaps chic — emblem of the West.
“The logo is super stylish and, I think, sophisticated,” said
Natalia Monsores, 40, while checking out a wall of Yankees hats in
a luxury-mall shop owned by New Era, the Buffalo, N.Y., company
that makes the official Yankees caps. “It’s the symbol of the
brand, right? New Era,” she replied when asked what the logo
meant. “You’re sending a sign: ‘I’m wearing something quality.’”
Super stylish and something quality, indeed.
“It’s American football? Or is it a brand?” said Carlos Henrique,
20, hawking Yankees caps off a metal rack he was carrying on Rio’s
Ipanema Beach. Either way, it was his best seller. “I just know it
calls attention,” he said. “And it looks good on everyone.”
Someday soon, one can hope, it will look good on Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout.
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Jack Nicas, reporting for The New York Times from Brazil on the nation’s most popular headgear:
More than any other sports paraphernalia, the Yankees cap has
become its very own fashion trend, unmoored from the sport or the
team it represents. Lifted by starring roles in hip-hop videos,
celebrity endorsements and collaborations with Gucci and Supreme,
the hat has gone fully global, crossing borders to lands where
mentions of Babe Ruth and Aaron Judge will elicit blank stares — never mind trying to explain the “Evil Empire.”
This week, the Yankees start playing meaningful baseball once
again, and Yankees fans in New York will pull on the caps to show
their allegiance. But to many others in places like Brazil, China
and Nigeria, the interlocked NY insignia will remain simply a
classic piece of Americana, a status symbol, or a generic — perhaps chic — emblem of the West.
“The logo is super stylish and, I think, sophisticated,” said
Natalia Monsores, 40, while checking out a wall of Yankees hats in
a luxury-mall shop owned by New Era, the Buffalo, N.Y., company
that makes the official Yankees caps. “It’s the symbol of the
brand, right? New Era,” she replied when asked what the logo
meant. “You’re sending a sign: ‘I’m wearing something quality.’”
Super stylish and something quality, indeed.
“It’s American football? Or is it a brand?” said Carlos Henrique,
20, hawking Yankees caps off a metal rack he was carrying on Rio’s
Ipanema Beach. Either way, it was his best seller. “I just know it
calls attention,” he said. “And it looks good on everyone.”
Someday soon, one can hope, it will look good on Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout.
See How Baseball’s New Rules Changed the Game
Opening day suggested how much difference a pitch clock can make.
Opening day suggested how much difference a pitch clock can make.
AMD Ryzen 7000 successor statement is ‘genuine mistake’, says server firm
Statement on AMD Ryzen 7000 successor was a simple error, server startup says.
TechRadar Pro has reached out to Giga Computing, the enterprise arm of Gigabyte, to clarify a statement found in a recent press release announcing new AMD Ryzen-based servers that alludes to the launch of the next generation of Ryzen CPU in 2023.
Towards the end of the document, one can read how, “Even though these new products are entry-level servers, CPU support does not end here and the AM5 platform is supported until at least 2025.”
“The next generation of AMD Ryzen desktop processors that will come out later this year will also be supported on this AM5 platform, so customers who purchase these servers today have the opportunity to upgrade to the Ryzen 7000 series successor.”
Simple mistake?
In an email, Gigabyte spokespeson Liam Quinn confirmed the wording was a mistake, and that the company “do not know when the Ryzen 7000 successor will be released”, adding it will “make a comment on the press release to clarify but keep our original wording”.
OEMs like Gigabyte will keep a keen eye on any improvements AMD make, especially if it goes beyond IPC tweaks.
Ryzen currently tops at 16 cores (and 32 threads) compared to Intel’s 24 cores (eight power, 16 efficient and 32 threads). It’s worth noting that all the 24-core processors (11 in all) support ECC, which is useful for business applications (VDI, web hosting etc). More processor cores would enable Ryzen to expand its influence in the entry-level, low-cost server market or high performance NAS.
Ryzen 8000 series primed for 2024 launch?
AMD followed a schedule for the launch of its mainstream desktop, non-APU, Ryzen processors that has only recently been disrupted. There’s no Ryzen 4000 or Ryzen 6000 series for desktop CPUs for example and the initial annual cadence extended to almost two years (between the 5000 and the 7000 series).
The Zen 5 architecture may come in as Ryzen 8000 (if it includes mobiles and desktop) or Ryzen 9000 if it skips even numbers. AM5, the current platform, will be supported till 2025 as per Giga computing’s statement and Granite Ridge, as AMD has called the Zen 5, will be a new “grounds-up microarchitecture”. This is, of course, assuming that it will not be a minor improvement on the current Zen 4 architecture.
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Virgin Orbit: Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company lays off 85% of staff
Virgin Orbit will cease operations for the foreseeable future, according to media reports.
Virgin Orbit will cease operations for the foreseeable future, according to media reports.
‘Vulkan Files’ Leak Reveals Putin’s Global and Domestic Cyberwarfare Tactics
“The Gaurdian reports on a document leak from Russian cyber ‘security’ company Vulkan,” writes Slashdot reader Falconhell. From the report: Inside the six-storey building, a new generation is helping Russian military operations. Its weapons are more advanced than those of Peter the Great’s era: not pikes and halberds, but hacking and disinformation tools. The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s cyberwarfare capabilities.
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence organization.
One document links a Vulkan cyber-attack tool with the notorious hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said twice caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history. Codenamed Scan-V, it scours the internet for vulnerabilities, which are then stored for use in future cyber-attacks. Another system, known as Amezit, amounts to a blueprint for surveilling and controlling the internet in regions under Russia’s command, and also enables disinformation via fake social media profiles. A third Vulkan-built system — Crystal-2V — is a training program for cyber-operatives in the methods required to bring down rail, air and sea infrastructure. A file explaining the software states: “The level of secrecy of processed and stored information in the product is ‘Top Secret’.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
“The Gaurdian reports on a document leak from Russian cyber ‘security’ company Vulkan,” writes Slashdot reader Falconhell. From the report: Inside the six-storey building, a new generation is helping Russian military operations. Its weapons are more advanced than those of Peter the Great’s era: not pikes and halberds, but hacking and disinformation tools. The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s cyberwarfare capabilities.
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence organization.
One document links a Vulkan cyber-attack tool with the notorious hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said twice caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history. Codenamed Scan-V, it scours the internet for vulnerabilities, which are then stored for use in future cyber-attacks. Another system, known as Amezit, amounts to a blueprint for surveilling and controlling the internet in regions under Russia’s command, and also enables disinformation via fake social media profiles. A third Vulkan-built system — Crystal-2V — is a training program for cyber-operatives in the methods required to bring down rail, air and sea infrastructure. A file explaining the software states: “The level of secrecy of processed and stored information in the product is ‘Top Secret’.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.