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still AMD has walked back some of its ryzen 9000 performance claims after the
new processors fell short in review benchmarks in a blog post the company
explained some of the reasons why their numbers were better than basically every
reviewer ever a massive Factor was AMD
running all their testing in admin mode which turns out is a big security yike
according to Hardware on box what AMD is referring to is enabling the hidden
system administrator account in Windows 11 something that requires command
prompt to do this isn't the same as a standard account with administrator
permissions mind you this account runs with full administrative privileges by
default and won't ask you if you're sure before you do something very stupid I'm
going to click on that link download that movie yes please would you like to
have kids even worse if your system gets compromised malware or Bad actors and
we're not talking Ezra Miller can use those privileges too if that wasn't
enough wendle from Level One tech suggests that running processes within
that account means you're essentially running those processes with Windows
virtualization based security disabled
while that would give you better performance turns out your computer is
less secure when you don't use features that contain the word Security in the
name AMD claims that some of the missing ryzen 9000 performance will be added to
standard accounts in a future Windows 11 update but that means nothing to Windows
10 users AKA most Windows users I fix it
has declared the Samsung Galaxy ring unrepairable after a product tear down
and it wasn't unrepairable just because they did a really good job at tearing it
down no I fix it made the claim because you aren't able to replace the Ring's
lithium ion battery without destroying it that means that each Galaxy Ring
basically has to be thrown out and replaced every 2 years when the battery
dies so it's less one ring to rule them all and more one ring of many to end up
in a landfill unfortunately 100% disposable status is shared with every
other smart ring and Samsung's Galaxy buds 3 for the same reason to make
matters worse this comes just days after Google confirmed that the pixel watch 3
also can't be repaired just like the previous two pixel watch models and all
this Falls within a larger trend of companies restricting the ReUse of their
products previously free features that came with the purchase of a
$1,700 SN BAS ET we all have one have
now been locked behind a monthly subscription I imagine this will make it harder to resell your SN once your
newborn outgrows it in four to five months on top of that pelaton announced
they will start charging new subscribers in the US and Canada a $95 activation
fee if those users bought their Hardware secondhand what do they do if you buy it
third hand beat the out of you the US Department of Justice has
announced they are suing Real Page the company whose software is used by
landlords to set Rent prices in a press
release the justice department claims their software encourages competing
landlords to share sensitive rental information to help train real P's
algorithm to suggest better and higher
rent prices oh man now ai is taking jobs
away from hardworking price fixers the government agency first
opened an investigation into real Page's alleged anti-competitive practices back
in 2022 after an investigative report was published by nonprofit Newsroom prua
things don't necessarily look good for Real Page since at least two property
management companies who used real Page's software have agreed to settle
several lawsuits filed against them by renters frankly I think all this legal
trouble serves real page right AI isn't meant for making the cost of living
higher it's meant for bigger things like scamming your grandparents and taking
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may come and go but quick bits well they end even faster AMD's upcoming ryzen
9000 x3d chips May may be coming out early next year according to several
sources reliable leak or hxl suggested that they may be coming at CES 2025
which is happening in January this was then corroborated by both fellow leer
Wan usus and Hassan from wccftech this
may also explain reports that AMD's new budget B series motherboards are
supposedly launching around the same time if there's one thing Gamers love
it's 3D vcash but if there's two things the other one is a budget friendly
upgrade path for that 3D vcash Apple has decided to split its App Store team into
two King Solomon Style with one half to handle the EU specific version of the
App Store also known as the we're not run by billionaires store however at
least one notable person will not be present to deal with this particular
bisected Baby App Store vice president Matt fiser who has led the division
since 2010 will be leaving the company possibly due to concerns that he too
will be sliced in half if he remains of course it would be much simpler for
Apple to Simply make one app store for the entire world that complied with EU
regulations but that would mean less money for apple and they're not ready to
throw either half of the baby out with the bath water Microsoft May finally be
killing off the Windows control panel hey don't get mad at me this Tuesday a
support document was updated to announce that control panel is in the process of
being deprecated in favor of the settings app though on the other hand
Windows has been promising to retire control panel for years the company has
slowly been moving more tools to the settings out for over a decade yet in
that time control panel has been kept around it's like that one friend in the
squad who you don't really talk to but you keep him around because he makes
Incredible snicker doodles you rock Dave and so do your snicker doodles a
Kentucky hacker who faked his own death to avoid $116,000 in child support has
been sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison as well as $80,000 in Damages
Jesse Kip was guilty of more than being a bad dad of course in addition to
hacking and altering State death Registries in Arizona Hawaii and Vermont
he was found guilty of both fraud and identity theft why couldn't he just keep
it hurting his kids K likewise used the
dark web to sell stolen personal data and elicit access to private businesses
networks and you think with that many side hustles he could find some spare
cash to send his daughter and Lindy AI was forced to patch their automatic
responder after the bot pranked its clients according to CEO Flo Calo he
first noticed the issue when the AI responded to a client's help request by
sending them a link to a video tutorial that didn't exist the bot which was
presumably on publicly available internet data instead linked Rick asley
seminal 1987 hit never going to give you up it's possible these kinds of pranks
are so deeply embedded in the training data that Bots will be asking each other
if they smell up dog long after Humanity's Extinction you know what I
smell more Tech news being cooked up so come back for another episode on Monday
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