data breaches rogue ai's autonomous drones the world of tech can be kind of
a scary place sometimes so this Halloween I'm dressing as spooky tech
news guy I don't even have to chip yeah what the
yeah you wrote this AMD's Radeon rx 590
is real after weeks of rumors andreas
Schilling from tech website hardware locks posted a photo of the cards box
and the rest is history just kidding it can't be history because
history is in the past and this is still in the future there's no official
details from AMD about the card yet but all the leaks point to a few things that
we can be almost certain about the 590 will probably use a 12 nanometer GPU
built on the polaris architecture the same one used in the rest of the rx 405
hundred series and the card should fetch a performance increase of about 10 to
15% over 580 that should put it in range to potentially take on in videos gtx
1060 that is until NVIDIA releases Bayer upgraded GTX 1060 which has also
been rumored for weeks look at the final details when the RX 590 is expected to
launch mid November Black Friday I have
no idea it's American Thanksgiving I only know the can I don't even know when the Canadian one is in more graphics
card news we reported last week on scattered reports about NVIDIA's r-tx 28
ET is dying but it was unclear how widespread the issue was reports of
graphical glitches and crashes have only continued to surface though and now
multiple tech outlets are looking into the issue Tom's Hardware noticed that
their life was no longer full of Archie X because their carpets no Tom's
Hardware noticed that the GDR 6 memory modules were running extremely hot on
the founders Edition 20 atti results that were backed up by Hardware luxe so
gamers Nexus home of tech Jesus Stephen Burke blessed be is asking to borrow 20
ATT eyes from card owners who have experienced issues so they can run tests
to zero in on the problem now we don't know how widespread this is yet but
hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it soon NVIDIA can release a statement
that's a little more specific then yeah yeah I'm working on it just cool your
jets okay take a chill pill don't lose your fuse man
and move over specter and meltdown because there's a new chip vulnerability
in town affecting potentially all processors that use simultaneous
multi-threading or SMT it's called port smash just kidding it's called port
smash and it was discovered by a team of five researchers from Finland and Cuba
it's an unlikely collaboration to port smash is a side channel attack which
means it can be used to leak encrypted data from a pcs memory and CPU in this
case by smashing it know by running malicious processes next to legitimate
ones which is possible in pcs that use simultaneous multi-threading also known
as hyper threading if you're in the Intel camp now so far the vulnerability
has only been confirmed and Intel skylake and KB Lake CPUs the ones with
hyper threading but the researchers believe it could also affect
multi-threaded AMD processors they recommended that the chip industry moves
away from SMT because the tech is inherently insecure which is wait is
this why Intel removed hyper threading from the ninth gen core i7 because it
was in the users best interest no I'm kidding that's not of course not it's
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can't seem to stop getting hacked as hackers have reportedly published
messages from a t-1000 accounts and then this this gets
better before it gets worse no it gets better in terms of its badness so they
apparently have access to around a hundred and twenty-one million accounts
which Facebook says well they may have acquired through a malicious browser
extension so you know yeah oh well that
makes it fine then I guess no it doesn't this is not a good look for a company
that has endured what seems like innumerable scandals over the course of
this year and the year is not over yet I have a calendar it's not over yet
there's still two months left this isn't a calendar but it's it's unimportant
details what is important is that the beta for Bethesda's online multiplayer
shooter shootout shooter shooter fallout
76 has also endured some particularly
heinous bugs including one that deleted
the entire game and now users have discovered that they can speed up the
in-game physics because it's tied to your games framerate why are they still
doing this like what self-respecting
game engine licensed unity or Unreal Engine what is
wrong with you people it's so stupid it's just so unnecessary
it's like if how could it what could I
even compare this to the the level of
dumbness is just it's a it's it's it's
incomprehensible
so I guess you might as well exploit the
issue while you can because Bethesda says it won't be fixed until the game's
launch Apple is expanding its vintage repair
program to include older devices like the iPhone 4s rats have an iPhone 4 and
on it for us and the 2011 iMac potentially in response to the new right
to repair protections that were passed in the US and if people are gonna be
repairing their iPhones instead of buying new ones well dang it I guess
Apple wants to get in on the action don't they Microsoft has botched their October
update a few times already and the final update is a new level of botch we're
consulting the calendar again here okay it's no longer October
on top of that a bug has been discovered that automatically allowed Universal
Windows platform or uwp apps to have access to Windows a--'s entire file
system a privilege which is usually protected by user account control so
maybe this will get fixed in the November update that we'll get some time
in January and Elon Musk says that Tesla is working on a semi truck that we knew
that an old musk doesn't even care whether people buy it because he thinks
it's cool and futuristic like Blade
Runner no no no no you know what's cool
and futuristic Hyundai and Kia putting solar panels on the roofs of their cars
both the electric and gas-powered ones that's also just like kind of obvious
why have we done this already why were we so focused on putting the solar
panels on the road when we could have just put them on the cars I
mean when the cars on the road the Sun doesn't even hit the road
the bond de Bont and you know what else
is debunked this episode because I've had enough it's debunked like when we
started it I was like you know we're gonna bunk up and do this episode and
now we're debunking