tech news is important it's how you stay informed your mother and i have decided
you're going to tech news no i want to be a doctor there's been a
steady flow of leaks related to Intel's long-awaited arc gaming graphics cards
for years but the latest one may contain some legitimate reasons to board the
hype train just make sure you take your bucket of salt with you
yes that means don't believe them it's a euphemism
reasonably trustworthy twitter leaker happy sack posted an ashes of the
singularity benchmark depicting what is likely an Intel arc alchemist GPU
achieving performance in the same ballpark as an rtx 3070 or 3070 ti now
there are a lot of caveats like the fact that the test system was running a very
CPU intensive game in 1080p with a core
i9 12 900k and 32 gigabytes of RAM but
2021 has been a terrible year for gamers in need of a hardware upgrade so can you
blame us for having some hope for a new GPU competitor that could drive prices
down without anything it's christmas i'll take it
duckduckgo a search engine no one uses has announced plans to release a desktop
version of their privacy-focused mobile browser in 2021 continuing to take on
google's data hungry dominance of the web and i think they can win yeah i
think google's going to go out of business i like it
accordingly the duckduckgo desktop browser will not be based on chromium
like basically every other alternative web browser except for mozilla but
instead it'll run on os provided rendering engines to avoid the cruft and
clutter found in chrome oh man i run on craft i love crush wait what no you
don't look bad oh it sounds like a crouton crust
in other browser news vivaldi based on chromium just launched the first full
web browser for Android automotive which seems kind of dangerous
but it can only be used while parked and Android automotive can only be found on
like five cars right now so i go back to worrying about tesla's for now and a new
google drive policy began rolling out last week that restricts users from
sharing uploaded content that violates his terms of service which would seem
totally normal if drive was a public platform and not an ostensibly private
cloud storage service a restricted files owner will still be
able to access it but it won't be publicly accessible to anyone else the
new policy raises the same questions as apple's icloud scanning system
no human is supposed to see file contents by default but what if a file
is restricted wrongfully you know what if i'm trying to email my
veterinarian pictures of whatever the hell is going on with my cat's junk and
they get blocked what if i'm trying to send those pictures to my friends
because it's kind of funny seriously i do not know what's up with my cat
someone help me please anyone oh let me see
i know all about cats it can open wound
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your pc today quick bits and that's the last thing i'll say on
this subject i've spoken amazon web services the
cloud hosting service underpinning ba swast of the internet had another outage
this morning affecting slack imgur hulu
the epic game store and amazon itself it's the third outage this month but the
reason for the continued issues is unclear is it a networking issue like
they said when they fir when the first one happened or are mole people chewing
on the Ethernet cables do they have copic we need to prepare
mole mole covered it'll end us all moment speaking of which hugo barra
who's not a mole person but a former hardware executive at meta and google
has launched a company called detect that sells rapid at-home molecular cova
tests which look like something you'd buy off the google store which means you
wouldn't buy it while honestly any at-home tests are
welcome at this point hopefully is not susceptible to a similar vulnerability
now fixed that allowed f-secure researcher ken gannon to change the
result of elum's bluetooth connected tests
but i'm sure it's safe this guy worked at meta and google
both of them simultaneously we've tried super ultra
wide monitors that are basically two 16 by nine panels fused horizontally but lg
is switching it up by stacking them vertically that's right lg's new dual
lipa i mean dual up 28 mq 780 is a 27.6
inch display with a 16 by 18 aspect
ratio and a 2560 by 2880 resolution
which is perfect because it's a shape only squares who care about productivity
would want to buy not quite a square it's just a little
it's a squat angle ah honor has announced that they're throwing their
hat into the foldable phone ring with a device called the magic v a teaser image
depicts something that looks kind of like a samsung galaxy z full device but
that could be just intentionally mysterious like
the name magic v the boys like a little mystery
and a marketplace for nft game items called fractal owned by twitch
co-founder justin cann is reimbursing members of its discord after they were
scammed out of 150 000 worth of solana cryptocurrency this is why people
distrust and hate nfts and crypto god damn it stop it
apparently the scammer posted a link in the fractal discord which was clicked by users who
also connected their crypto wallets that is you gotta look out for that guys that
is classic it's a classic move it's a bit like handing your real-life wallet
to a roundo who says they'll put money in it but hey no risk no gain that's the grind set get
back to work it's kind of like how we're all used to fishing attacks now and we
can spot them but five years ago maybe not and you don't even get any fish
all right that's it come back on friday for a special christmas special
it's gonna be jolly as hell in here ho ho