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Linus Windows 11 decided to break your
ssds again after the most recent moment to update we're having a bit of a moment
a little bit two multiple users took to
the Windows 11 subreddit to complain that the read and write speeds of their
NVMe ssds were vastly diminished after updating and the speeds were restored
after rolling back the update Reddit user and person whose birth year we may
never know Mr big dog99 was one of those who shared their experience in the
comments of the update post but they also came with receipts as Mr Big dog99
included screenshots from Crystal disc info that purportedly show massive write
speed drops after installing the update that's fine T what if it's like a nice
oolong not on the receipts man of all the problems Windows 11 has had over its
short lifetime this is certainly one of them I mean
it's not even a unique problem Windows 11 users were reporting drastically
lower write speeds on their mvme ssds two months after the OS launched there
are very few moments in the last few years that I want to re-experience so I
don't need Microsoft trying to forcefully unrepress the end of 2021 by
repeating the same bug Microsoft photos has a memory for you and it's sadness a
vulnerability in the Google pixel markup tool allows for some screenshots to be
uncropped and unredacted the issue is
due to how the edited photo is saved while it is saved in the same file
location as the original photo the original isn't erased beforehand this
means that if the new file is smaller like if I don't know it was a crop of
the original a conceivably large portion of the original's data still exists
Simon Ahrens was the first to identify and report this vulnerability which he
dubbed Acropolis I approve and using a
proof of concept by David Buchanan showed how someone could conceivably
uncover sensitive data from one of these cropped images the good news is that
this issue has already been patched on many pixels in the March security update
the bad news is that pixel 6 series phones have yet to receive that update
LOL upgrade dude what you have last generation's phone just throw in the
garbage you're basic but there's still some hope of the Acropolis might be more
like a regular old natural disaster like a landslide or something since I'm
assuming they're large Fleetwood Mac fans because everyone is since many
social platforms like Twitter reprocess uploaded images that renders the old
data on recoverable unfortunately Discord only started doing this in
mid-January of this year so anything posted to Discord before then is
vulnerable good thing no one spent six years posting cropped pixel photos to
Discord right I'm in the fifth crop pixel photos Discord server right
and a YouTuber spent over twenty two thousand dollars buying every game on
the Wii U and 3DS eshops before Nintendo shuts them down next week Gerard Khalil
aka the completionist is appropriately known for completing all the
achievements and trophies NVIDIA games he faced his strongest challenge yet by
100 percenting an achievement he said himself buying 866 Wii U games and 1 357
3DS games requiring close to a terabyte and a half of storage
how is it going to complete them he already did by buying them and it wasn't
easy the eshops aren't like steam where you can put piles of shovelware and a
cart and bankrupt yourself in one convenient purchase each game had to be
bought individually and after 328 days Gerard and the completionist team
accomplished their goal and plan to donate these games to the video game
history Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the
history of video games mom comments and all your mom loved this game
a 100 of that game I 100 of your mom and
this is significant since the 3DS and Wii U are the last Nintendo platforms to
support the Virtual Console service which means come the 27th of March
Nintendo will only provide retro games through the switch online expansion pack
which costs 50 a year and I'm sure did
not influence the decision to shut down the 3DS and Wii U eshops at all and you
can't even plug it into an N64 controller all the expansion package
wait the expansion pack goes in the n64. Riley you're mistaken if I've learned
anything from the internet the expansion pack goes in your model now it's time
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and Google just made them worse the company has decided not to pay out the
remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid off employees some people found
out days after mat leave approval and at least one woman was holding her
literally newly born newborn when she was sacked even worse since Google had
on-site medical facilities and laid off employees can't access Google property
some people have lost access to their primary care doctor but why would they
need jobs or doctors when they have babies that's what the babies are for
they make you feel good in other news Amazon is laying off 9 000 more people
Silver Lining 9 000 potential nannies for those ex-coolers
now if only they could pay them AI startup Runway has announced their Gen 2
text-to-video generator will be available to users within weeks after
previously helping develop text to image generator stable diffusion Runway put
out their gen 1 model that could take existing footage and modify the visuals
Gen 2 appears to create videos entirely from text but all they've released are
short demo Clips if the portfolio I put together from my experience applying for
this job is any indication I'm sure that the examples they chose were not
cherry-picked at all and they saved their best work for later because
they're very humble and not because it doesn't exist and they deserve the
praise they're getting a fake Samsung 980 Pro SST has been spotted by a user
on a Chinese Forum with packaging labels and even firmware all suggesting that
the drive is legit but unfortunately it was proven false when it worked
correctly and to be fair to the drive it is indeed
a two terabyte SSD but after buying it for a big discount over MSRP on taobao
the user found out it performed just over half the read speed of an actual
980 Pro and opened it up to find different components than the real thing
macaroni hamburgers what's going on fake hard drives micro SD cards and now ssds
have become more common so be careful or you might find yourself opening what
looks like an SSD box to find oh my God it's a boa constrictor
how do they even fit it in there oh no
the internet archives open library was a New York federal court today to defend
itself against a lawsuit from three of the big five print Publishers at issue
is the open library's heinous act of letting users check out digital scans of
physical books more specifically the Publishers really don't like controlled
digital lending the system that allows the library to lend out as many digital
copies of the book as it has physical copies in storage it doesn't make any
sense but math doesn't work out you got three books so you lend out three books
but the Publishers were spurred to sue over the internet archives National
Emergency Library which let unlimited users check out ebooks for two weeks the
internet archive faces massive fines and CDL being potentially ruled illegal if
they lose and for what trying to help people read and learn and not go stir
crazy inside their homes locked away from everyone they love during a
pandemic that was unprecedented but predictable
I hope it was worth it and computer maker Acer has decided to make an e-bike
the Acer Abby Evie
will feature onboard AI for predictive transmission control and collision
detection and because why not the Abby's removable battery can be used to charge
your phone or laptop so what I'm hearing is Acer configure out how to increase
their laptop's battery life so they over engineered the world's most portable
charger good job Acer and I can't figure out why you wouldn't want to come back
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