oh hey how's it going oh
i see how it is you just want me for my tech news james
you like me oh okay you'd think that by now companies
would have learned not to use words like unhackable to describe their products
because to no one's surprise NVIDIA's unhackable mining limiter for its new
rtx 3060 gpus hasn't been hacked per se
but a smart person has found a way around it this is the second time a
smart person did this no because of this
a beta driver leaked for the rtx 3060
and one user was able to remove NVIDIA's restrictions on ethereum mining without
messing with the BIOS or having to do anything especially difficult apparently
this method gets the hash rate to above 40 mega hashes per second well above
what the limiter allows NVIDIA has already taken down the driver but there
are surely plenty of copies floating around out there in the interweb now
it's been released so if you're a gamer who's also a miner good news for you if
you're just a person who minds stop it
stop that gamers only club
you know how google chrome is a notorious memory hog well google has
been well aware of that for some time and now the company thinks it has a
pretty solid way to address the issue chrome version 89 has apparently slashed
RAM usage on Windows by as much as 22 percent
and if you're using a mac the company says that the improvements pushed the
apple energy impact score down by as much as 65 yeah yeah
i don't even know that score was a thing i wonder what mine is so hopefully the
battery on your macbook won't crap out on you as quickly google didn't forget
about Android either as the new version features something called freeze-dried
tabs sounds not great not very delicious
that take up far less memory but allowed you to zoom and click on links that
sounds a heck of a lot better than that freeze-dried moon cheese i was talked in
to buy from walmart p.u i don't
what is that is that like a
dakotan thing
from dakota north carolina
sorry if you live in the u.s and you're tired of the limited choices available
when it comes to wired home internet service there might be another option on
the horizon verizon
is expanding its 5g home internet service to another 10 cities across the
country before the end of this month las vegas charlotte san diego cleveland
cincinnati kansas city salt lake city hartford omaha and louisville i might go
to one of those one day although theoretically the service
offers speeds up to one gigabit the provider says 300 megabits per second is
closer to what you can realistically expect it's fine
in case you're not familiar with 5g it's an entirely wireless connection so it
shouldn't be too hard to set up on your own but hopefully you won't need to
stick aluminum foil on the antenna but you might want to anyways for
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didn't even know it was the quick bits time now surprise
if you were on twitter yesterday discussing anything related to a certain
city in western tennessee you might have found yourself inexplicably banned a
situation exacerbated by the fact that the city's nba team had a game yesterday
and the fact sports fans were discussing the ncaa tigers tournament chances ahead
of the bracket reveal my way back on twitter this is my way my chance
what the cause was apparently a bug in twitter's code not related to any actual
goings on in memphis and has since been resolved so so feel free to talk about
elvis and dry rub ribs once again careful though that sounds like you
could get banned for that still amazon is reportedly significantly expanding fc
games its in-house system to gamify the workday for employees in their
warehouses although the games are reportedly not all that great
unsurprisingly it gives the workers something to do during long shifts
though the concern is that the games encourage workers to speed up tasks
which might increase errors or even make it more likely employees could get
injured thankfully there's a whole bunch of people out there who could replace
them no problem elon musk may be one of the world's richest people but that
title clearly isn't enough for him as he's reportedly restyled himself the
techno king of tesla instead of merely being ceo cool he's
also bestowed the title master of coin onto tesla's cfo for good measure are
these official what or is this just like a twitter joke i bet he doesn't even
listen to technology you're not the techno king
no word yet on whether these titles will be added to the end of every company
email they send out but we'll let you know the head of a canadian company that
sold phones with customized encryption is in extremely hot water with the us
federal government the company sky global is accused of selling devices to
drug traffickers to help them conceal their activities however authorities in
europe ended up decrypting about a billion text messages sent over the
network anyhow settle down us you literally sell guns
sky global ceo and an associate are facing charges under the ricoh act so
yeah remember that bit we said earlier about trusting things advertised as
unhackable don't do that the rico act is used to take down mafia
people a lot did you know that thanks netflix documentaries and here's
a story that's straight out of a 2016 drama a mom in pennsylvania is facing
charges after she allegedly used deep faked photos and videos of her
daughter's cheerleading squad teammates in order to get them kicked out the deep
fakes show the victims engaged in unbecoming conduct but it looks like the
joke is on the mother after cops traced her ip address who is this mom who
allowed her to have children
to top it all off the cheerleading team is called the victory vipers so maybe
we'll see them in a dodgeball sequel after all this is cleared up i don't
want that and who allowed us to continue this episode for so long ah it's done
now come back wednesday where the tech news will keep flowing all the way down
until the next time