i'm here to chew tech news and kick gum
and i'm all out of chew that's what that's not right AMD
launched their third gen ryzen processors just a couple months ago generally slaying Intel in terms of
price to performance but some users noticed the new cpus weren't quite
reaching their advertised boost clocks pro overclocker der bauer even surveyed
thousands of verizon owners and found fewer than 10 percent of them had chips
that reached their intended speeds under load AMD said that they were working on a fix
which motherboard makers could incorporate into their BIOS update and
some of those updates have now reached testers
tech power up and tech jesus himself ah steve from gamersnexus say that the fix
pretty much delivers on AMD's promises bringing boost clocks up to the
advertised speeds and even better now we're talking about 25 to 50 megahertz
of performance here which is smell smell you say it
but it's great to see md still caring about the little things you know despite
their massive successes well meanwhile tom holland still won't return my calls
he's got a cell phone in his spider suit speaking of cell phones basically
but basically all of them are in danger researchers at adaptive mobile security
have announced the existence of sim jacker which is strangely not a cyber
punky thief simulator but rather a set of exploits targeting a vulnerability in
a wide range of mobile devices sim jacker takes advantage of the sat
browser software that runs on sim cards forcing it to send attackers the phone's
imei number which can then be used to execute all sorts of attacks from
grabbing user location to forcing the phone to send messages and make calls
good god the big four us carriers sprint at t
t-mobile and verizon have responded to the publication of the exploit saying
their sim cards do not use the snt browser so they're protected but the
researchers say that the vulnerability supposedly still affects a billion
devices in other countries and that sim jacker attacks have actually been
ongoing for two years already oh my god adaptive mobile are going to release
more details about sim jacker at a conference in october but they told us a
little about it now so so we could panic for a little bit thank you guys that's
nice thank you i hate it and u.s house representatives have requested that
google apple facebook and amazon turn over extensive internal records as part
of an ongoing anti-trust investigation
the request includes information about product sales facial recognition
software development algorithms that inform search rankings and basically
anything that could point to possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of
the company the investigation is only one of many that are focusing on tech
giants who have grown significantly in power as they build more products that
people rely on for day-to-day living that increased power means increased
scrutiny especially in europe google just agreed to pay a 1 billion fine to
france for avoiding taxes in the country i mean don't get me wrong monopolies can
be fun if you're playing the board game monopoly
i didn't write that i hate that game it's not even fun monopolies of all
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i mean if your bits aren't quick what the heck are you doing what are you
doing give your head a shake nintendo revealed what the heck that
weird teaser from earlier this week was about it's a fitness game called switch
fit adventure it involves inserting joycons into a
flexible resistance ring and leg strap like lara croft which
track your movement as you play through the adventure uh as a character working
to defeat an evil bodybuilding dragon
the worst kind of those are really annoying those guys they're the worst kind of bodybuilders
htc has revealed more details about its vive cosmos vr headset it's got dual lcd
screens with a resolution of 1440 by 1700 per eye a 90 hertz refresh rate and
a 110 degree of viewing viewing degree fields
like the oculus quest and rift s it does not require external tracking stations
although there's a mod that attaches to the front of the headset to allow it to
work with existing lighthouse stations and old vive controllers it launches
october 3rd for 6.99 baby i guess they don't have that that face surf money to
drive the price down huh monopolies when apple unveiled the new iphone 11 11 pro
and 11 pro max on tuesday they didn't mention bilateral wireless charging but
sources have told sonny dixon a fairly reliable leaker that the new phones do
include the hardware necessary for the feature but it was disabled in software
scandalous somebody's gotta hack this anybody
can we figure stuff out can we figure it out people i need to charge my stuff without the stuff
huawei knows the world doesn't really trust it anymore so the company's ceo
renje fang told the economist that they'd be willing to sell their 5g
patents and technical blueprints to other companies so that they could roll
out 5g networks without worrying about spying if that transaction actually
occurs it'll probably be like uh
okay it's good i swear
and microsoft has announced a surface event for october 2nd it's the kind of event
where you stand on a surface on the earth no it's not no it's good the
invite to press includes promises of hardware announcements and experiences
we might finally get to look at the dual screen foldable device that microsoft is
working on the recent patent indicated that that device might have liquid
powered hinges
yeah that sounds much more reliable than whatever was in the galaxy full just
just don't over bend it just
and that's it for this episode you crazy kids come back on monday but we'll have
more tech news with riley before he goes out on vacation oh yeah
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