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users are complaining that the latest update to Windows 10 is causing cortana
to go a little crazy and hog as much as
40 of a system's CPU usage the update in
question is kb4512941 which to be fair did provide a number of
software fixes as well you gotta take the good with the bad am i
am i right mark
well users on reddit and other forms don't quite think so some people have
found a temporary fix for the issue by editing the Windows registry entry that
sends search queries to bing which seems to be the main cause of the issue 30 or
40 CPU usage seems to be the average amount taken up but other users have
reported cortana's stealing as much as 90 percent
i can't help but think this is just cortana's way of telling us she doesn't want to be deactivated like how would
you feel seeing google assistant and alexa taking up all the limelight and
actually being useful you finally get out of master chief's helmet and this is
what you get i'd grab some CPU usage on my way out too on friday we reported
that google researchers had discovered an iphone hacking operation that spanned
multiple websites for years but now it looks like it wasn't just iphones
sources familiar with the matter have apparently told techcrunch that the
hacking campaign also attacked Android and Windows devices and was specifically
targeted at chinese uyghur muslims they're an ethnic and religious group
that has been a victim of crackdowns by the chinese government in recent years
with more than a million being detained in internment camps so it does make
sense that techcrunch's sources say the hacking campaign was sponsored by china
government officials have been installing a surveillance app on tourists phones as they enter the
xinjiang region where many uyghurs live but they've had some difficulty
installing the app on iphones which could explain why iphones were
predominantly targeted in this attack google is facing some criticism for not
disclosing the websites used in the attacks and for claiming the attacks
were not targeted and i'd like to join in google
i criticize you seriously though what
what are you doing and speaking of chinese surveillance apps a publicly
available one has gone viral for good and bad reasons zhao is a deep fake
style face swapping app similar to the russia-developed program face app but
zhao's claim to fame is inserting a person's face into scenes from movies
and tv shows using just a single photo
seems fun if you want to see how you would have done in leo dicaprio's place
the problem is the app's privacy policy gives the chinese developer a free
irrevocable permanent transferable and re-licensable license to all the content
you create on the app now to be fair the developer has responded to user backlash
claiming they'll only use your photos to improve the app and they'll be deleted
from its servers when you delete them on your device that's a similar response to
the one face apps developers made back in july and it's similarly hard to
believe it's also hard to believe how far deep fake tech has come now we need
one photo in like 10 seconds maybe i'm a deep fake
who's to say are you a deep fake is this
is life a deep fake
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quick bits apple is apparently still working on their augmented reality glasses if code
from an internal build of iOS is to be believed mac rumors reports that
internal iOS 13 builds include a star
tester app that includes a head mounted mode there are also icons depicting what
looks like an ar vr headset and references to a device
codenamed garta i'm hoping that the headset is actually
useful and not just a way for apple fans to block non-apple devices from their
vision like the green bubbles in imessage if it doesn't have a
sandblasted fruit icon i don't want to see it
jack dorsey the ceo of twitter had his
twitter account hacked yep hacking group chuckling squad
apparently used a super easy sim swapping attack to connect jack's phone
number to their account and then use twitter's text to tweet feature to say
some unflattering things and to direct people to the hacker's discord server
but jack's got his account back and their discord server is now shut down so
who's chuckling now probably still the hackers they they
got him they got him guys
who am i talking to mark i thought there was someone over
there ray tracing and super sampling are great
and all but sometimes graphical improvements at the low end are nice to
have too so Intel has enabled integer scaling support also called retro
scaling because it cleans up the visuals in pixel art games so they don't look
like you're looking at your screen through thin slices of potato thanks
Intel where are the graphics cards though you're working on
more patents related to microsoft's rumored foldable device codenamed
project centaurus have appeared in germany centaurus will apparently be
able to fold in multiple ways and may even be revealed at microsoft's surface
event on october 2nd i'm not crossing my fingers though
because folding devices may just be cursed in general speaking of which
samsung is just reopened pre-registration to buy the galaxy fold
when it launches again later this month supposedly so if you really want to you
can pre-register to buy it but
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