ugh mondays am i right don't talk to me until i've had my tech news friday
twitter had a terrible horrible no-good very bad day on wednesday as the site
was hit with one of the worst hacks ever seen on social media 130 verified
twitter accounts were targeted with the hackers gaining control over a subset of
that number tweeters saw the accounts of elon musk barack obama jeff bezos and
more tweeting out offers to double the amount of bitcoin sent to their crypto
wallets that honestly doesn't sound that out of character for elon so
understandably the hackers were able to make off with over a hundred thousand
dollars but the bitcoin scam isn't the only news to come out of the attack
screenshots of twitter's admin tools were leaked showing buttons that can
blacklist accounts and trends giving some credence to those who claim they've
been shadow banned on the platform the fbi is now investigating the attack and
reuters reports that hours before the attack began posts on the gray market
site og users offered to provide the email address associated with a twitter
account for 250 bucks that info combined with the fact that
the hackers could have done way more damage with complete access to twitter's
admin tools than steal a bit of crypto paint a picture of an unsophisticated
hacking group that just fortuitously managed to trick some unlucky twitter
employees and thanks to bitcoin's logging system investigators are
actually tracking movement of the hacked funds right now although i'm not sure
someone who actually thought jeff bezos was gonna give you free bitcoin deserves
to get their money back wait he's not give me the money give me the cash
you know what movie that's from no usual suspects
carpool critics podcast rumors have been flying this week that
NVIDIA's future graphics cards will feature a new 12-pin power connector the
original info came from chinese language site fc powerup where spec drawings for
the connector were posted
they were igor's lab added fuel to the fire with users speculating that the
connector might appear on the upcoming rtx 3000 series gpus the problem is
that would be dumb because the 12 pin power connector doesn't exist on power
supplies yet meaning that anyone upgrading to an rtx 3080 would need to
also buy a new psu with the right connector which doesn't exist well
there's more speculation that NVIDIA might include an adapter in the box
which would solve the problem the other possibility is that this new connector
is for a workstation card and not a GeForce or rtx one which would make a
bit more sense we'll find out soon enough whether NVIDIA is just
yanking our cables with this one when ampere cards launch in a couple months
until then yank i say yank
and xbox might not have the playstation super cool exclusives or pop caller
aesthetic but what they do have is love for their fans in the blog post xbox
headphil spencer he's just ahead
phil announced that microsoft's project xcloud game streaming service will be
provided to xbox game pass subscribers free of charge when it launches in
september he also said all first party xbox game studios games released in the
next couple of years will run on both xbox one and xbox series x meaning you
won't have to get the fancy new console to play the fancy new game what if i
want to then buy it that said microsoft did just discontinue
the xbox one x and one s fueling rumors
that the series x will be joined by the lower powered disk drive lacking version
code named lockhart the version codenamed lockhart and we don't really
have anything snarky to say about this we just think it's great okay and so are
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world you were never meant to know things you can't unsee we may just point
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wanna blow up my candle twitch has told the us army to stop baiting their live
stream viewers with fake giveaways darn it the military was apparently telling
viewers to click a link in order to enter to win an xbox controller but the
link just redirected you to an army sign up page
join the navy super liminal you gotta wonder how many
people got there and just filled out the form just fell in line i guess the name
sir yes sir well an almost legion gaming phone is on the cusp of release with a
launch date of july 22nd in addition to things like gaming triggers the phone
will feature a pop-up camera in its side so you can use it effectively while
gaming okay and maybe you can use the selfie
cam to finally see your headshot face
and disney researchers are developing a massive ai-powered database called the
content genome which will not only recognize characters faces but also
catalog things like explosions and objects which will be searchable so if
you search for say Jake skywalker it'll bring up it'll bring you to the last
jedi still who's Jake's i don't even get this one
nice one james you hate that movie so much what is a
Jake skywalker all right that's enough of us come back on monday for more tech
news but less james will even come back
cause you're so cool riley you know what you meant
i smell bad i'm smelly today