there are only two things i'm afraid of one
goombas from super mario what are they are they sentient am i a murderer and
the other not having the tech news ooh owners of
AMD 500 series motherboards are reporting that usb devices are randomly
disconnecting on both x570 and b550
based motherboards these boards have been around since 2019 but it looks like
the issue started popping up when the ryzen 5000 series cpus came to market
although some boards with older processors seem to be experiencing the problem as well as if trying to plug in
a usb after flipping it one way and then the other 10 times isn't annoying enough
it's another thing to add to my afraid of list i guess AMD claims that the bug
is only affecting a small number of users and has reached out to people on
reddit to better understand and isolate the problem in the meantime some
affected users are reporting that setting your pci express mode to 3.0
instead of auto fix the problem so try that work around if you don't need the
maximum bandwidth for moving around tons of high-res pictures of Linus and LTT
store-branded boxer briefs you're on to me
if you do do that we understand who needs usb ports anyway you know in
other ryzen 5000 CPU news supply is relatively tight but one way you might
be able to get your hands on one for a bit cheaper than expected is to order a
pre-built pc yeah it looks like dell is offering pcs with a ryzen 7 5800 non-x
so you'll still get 8 cores and 16 threads but the chip has just a bit less
power than what the x version could go and give it to you at the time of this
writing the pc in question is the alienware aurora r10 and is only
available in canada wait we got something first yes other than winter
apparently this hasn't happened since we invented hockey john claims we invented
basketball that yeah wait a second anyway the non-x system
saves you a whole 150 canadian rubles off the x edition hopefully an oem is
largest dell starting to sell additional skus means that we'll have more supply
in the near future realistically though that's not what that means at all dell
is a scalper basically oh so you want this chip hey why don't
you buy a whole pc with the ins there's a weird bit of malware out there
that's running on around 30 000 mac computers in 153 countries but no one
really seems to know what it does apparently the malware called
silversparrow checks in with a command server every
hour to see what it's supposed to do but there have been no reports of the
malware actually harming systems yet it's just so mac people know they're
vulnerable i'm sending a message this thing could
be bad but i'm also getting like batman vibes the mysterious vigilante runs on
both the new m1 chips and Intel-based macs and apple has already deployed
measures to contain the virus including revoking certificates of certain dev
accounts that signed off on the packages that contain the malware however silver
sparrow could remain a threat as it uses well-built cdn's like akamai and aws we
also don't know its secret identity or if had as it has a sidekick dressed in
extremely bright colors and no pants this is exactly like skynet actually
they no pants skynet doesn't wear pants now
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today quick bits
i knew it was you comcast is backing down after heavy backlash from customers
and legislators over a planned 1.2 terabyte data cap in the northeastern
u.s the company has taken a cue from facebook's recent whatsapp debacle and
is simply delaying the data caps rollout forget about it i'll come back later i
don't know what that voice was however customers in
27 other states still have to deal with said data caps so remember to vote with
your wallet if you're affected if you're lucky enough to even have another isp to
switch to because the internet isn't a utility come on it's a luxury product
guys come on apple finally beat out one of its major
Android rivals samsung you might have heard of them by a wide margin in the
final quarter of last year selling nearly 80 million iphones against
samsung's 62 million samsung phones
it's the first time since 2016 that apple beat samsung head to head although
the report this data came from also shows that basically no one bought the
iphone 12 mini and now john wrote a joke about size not mattering uh
moving on if you're a spotify user be on the lookout later this year for its new
spotify hi-fi offering which offers lossless cd quality audio spotify
premium as it stands only offers 320 kbit streaming so you're probably gonna
want this fancy subscription so you can hear every tiny detail in the new
podcast hosted by barack obama and bruce springsteen
that's what they sound like a little detail remember that tabletop rpg
looking box that the core i9 9990k came
in stupid Intel come on well it looks like
team blue is giving us another fancy package for its new top end 11th gen i9
which is called what the i9 9
11 90k kill me the box has a zigzag look
with translucent Windows which i'm sure will make you feel much better about
buying this one instead of a ryzen CPU and guys if you're doing zoom meetings
please check your privacy settings first an entire school board in california has
resigned after a zoom meeting in which they were complaining in a less than
nice way about parents was accidentally set to public needless to say the
parents were none too happy especially because not a single participant was
pretending to be a cat his parents are just karen
and i'm afraid this episode is over come back on wednesday for more tech news
unless you scared
what haha