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the whole world is shutting down but the tech news persists onward yes yes go

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tech news i'll follow you no we've gotten used to the idea of

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security flaws affecting many generations of processors since spectre

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and meltdown were discovered but there's another one to watch out for if you're an amd user a couple of weaknesses

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called takeaway affect amd cpus going all the way back to 2011 so both modern

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ryzen based systems and old athlon 64 x2

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chips are affected the attacks use a cache predictor to steal data from

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memory and while it can't leak as much data as spectre did it could still allow

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an attacker to access something critical like an encryption key reports indicate

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that amd is known about the flaw for a few months and while the vulnerabilities

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can be fixed with a firmware update it's unclear whether amd's previous patches

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actually eliminated the problem so be careful out there maybe strap a big

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paper mask to your cpu cooler if you need to i don't think that's gonna do it

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this does it for everybody else that's how technology works if you've had a new

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google pixel smartphone on your wishlist but don't think you have the money for

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one you might be in luck as it looks like the lower cost pixel 4a might

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become a reality in the near future there's no dual rear camera or face

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unlock and it's probably going to have a more middle of the road soc however

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you'll still get a reasonably sized 5.7 inch screen a punch hole front selfie

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camera and get this probably a headphone

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jack what yes that's a rare luxury these days tell me

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about it we still don't know exactly how much it'll cost or when it'll come out but it

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might even be less than the 399 dollars we saw with the pixel 3a is the a

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supposed to stand for affordable action although it appeared that fiber would be

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the trendy new thing in home internet not too long ago it's actually

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old-fashioned cable providers that are expanding their piece of the market a

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new report indicates that at the end of last year cable-based isps control

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two-thirds of the home internet market as non-cable telecommunications

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providers actually lost internet subscribers partly due to the fact that

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they haven't built enough fiber to the home connections to lure in new

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customers hey

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hello there's somebody on the roof the apocalypse is here they're coming in

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it's unclear whether wireless 5g to the home will change the balance of power

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anytime soon but if you really want fiber in the meantime you can always

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just try eating more kale we already did that we did that

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joke already stay healthy quick bits no way brought to you by ltx expo happening

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august 8th and 9th riley did you know that it's going to be a lot of fun it's

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presented by intel dreamhack's gonna be there

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you can get tickets right now

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ltxxexpo.com link in the description

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be lots of fun stuff you know make it out if you can that'd be that'd be fantastic yeah vip and the office tours

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are sold out but you just come from the byoc come hang out come say hi to riley

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the tech news nvidia's troubles with geforce now

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continue as 2k games has pulled most of its titles from the streaming service

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including bioshock borderlands civilization nba and other franchises

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meanwhile ceo of epic team swahini says they're wholeheartedly supporting

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geforce now with fortnite and epic game store titles that choose to participate

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hey swaney but the question is will you choose to participate no

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you probably know about the amazon go retail stores where you can just leave

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with your purchases without going through a checkout lane but several

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other companies have come to terms with amazon to incorporate the technology

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into their own stores amazon didn't say which companies they actually were but

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i'm glad that there are more places i can avoid awkward exchanges with cashiers when i buy a litany of

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embarrassing products let's not talk about it i don't want you

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to ask me about it and that's why i want to go to the amazon go store a power

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plant upstate new york has also gotten into the business of mining bitcoin

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green ridge generation is using excess natural gas energy that would otherwise

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be wasted to make extra revenue from crypto to the tune of the equivalent of

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about 45 what 45 000 us dollars per day

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it's pretty cool but i wonder if anyone will actually get a break on their power bill no it doesn't sound like it nope

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just going to airplane will yikes give me some of them savings some of that

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crypto although leaks have been out for quite a while now the new call of duty

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battle royale game has officially been revealed it's called war zone it's free

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to play and won't require you to have any

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previous call of duty titles and it comes out tomorrow did i tell you that

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guess i'll have to jump in for one match before i go back to my current addiction

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drugs why is that written in here i don't have any addictions drugs is this an

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intervention yeah what's your addiction life no drugs i hate this and if you're

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a fortnight player you might be happy to know that epic games is taking out a

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feature that allowed players to spam the left trigger to track opponents even

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behind obstacles what the feature was an old aim assist system and has commonly

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been exploited leading some players using keyboards and mice to cry foul in

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matches against players with controllers no word yet though if epic is planning

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to license the opponent tracking technology to darpa then we'd all be

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dead that's our show come back uh come back on wednesday for

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more tech news i won't be here but other people will be

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riley going to be here we'll miss you see you later

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