remember when there was Denny Tech news and instead people would just Hunt and
Gather if so how do you remember that
how old are you Samsung's latest Flagship SSD is dying faster than
whatever the opposite of Keith Richards is Twitter
Robbie Khan of news site neowin reported that his 990 Pro SSD's Health rating
which reflects the capacity and effectiveness of the drive dropped to 98
in a few days before even filling the two terabyte capacity for reference the
drive is rated for at least 1 200 terabytes written which basically means
that Khan should have been able to overwrite the entire capacity of the drive 11 times over before its Health
dropped by two percent if I've learned anything from the dairy Isle a lot of
people seem passionate about two percent so it matters that also seemed to be the
case when Khan posted his findings on Reddit before he published the article
many commenters stated that they were seeing a similar quicker than normal SSD
death one user on Twitter said he saw his health drop by 36 percent after
writing less than two terabytes Khan said he tried to RMA the faulty SSD but
Samsung sent it back to him saying there was no defect found they eventually
reversed course after the story gained traction because they truly care about
what their customers think about how they treat their other their customers
Google is being sued again but this time
it's the US Department of Justice again
actually the lawsuit was filed this Tuesday by the doj and eight states
making the ongoing games of Google lawsuit Bingo a bit more interesting
this new lawsuit focuses squarely on Google's hold on the digital advertising
market with the U.S attorney general leveling accusations that Google had
weakened if not destroyed competition in the ad tech industry okay that's not
fair meta helped destroy it too in her press release yesterday the doj took
issue with the tech Giants control of the largest ad exchange the tools to
sell ads and even the tools to buy ad inventory the government body accuses
Google of multiple accounts have anti-competitive Behavior including
acquiring competitors though I'm sure Google likes to think of it as making
new friends but buying them and then consuming them
and spitting out the ones that are no longer necessary that's BFFs 101. you
guys wanting your friends and there's been a major leak about
Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset courtesy of Dependable Source mock
gunman or as I like to call him germ tongue grima germ tongue apparently the
headset is likely to be named reality Pro which sounds like a subscription
upgrade for existence I'll take a side of death and will
feature hand-eye tracking capabilities to allow you to launch applications
without a controller whatever we've seen that before what is intriguing is the
Avatar functionality supposedly when you FaceTime another headset user one-on-one
the headset will realistically render your faces and bodies in VR to make you
feel like you're speaking in the same room if you add any more people to the
call it won't work since it would require too much processing I mean this
one's supposed to cost just three thousand dollars you want VR parties
you'll have to get the pro reality xvr fittingly the headset will also be able
to function as an external display for the Mac which makes it only the second
most expensive Mac monitor Apple has ever made allegedly Apple's in
discussion with the likes of Disney and other companies regarding development of
VR content for the device which may have to do with the headsets purported
immersive video functionality finally
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today Secret's out seriously how do you
remember the Stone Age do you own Anonymous anyway quick bits
the fruit company we haven't shut up about yet has reportedly cut the 2023
MacBook Pro's SSD performance another
SSD story baby multiple Outlets have
shown that the new 2 000 entry-level
14-inch MacBook Pros 512 Gigabyte SSD
has significantly slower read and write speeds than its 2021 counterpart
Honestly though it's the entry-level MacBook Pro if you want better
performance than a two-year-old laptop you'll have to cough off a bit more than
spare change maybe try the thrift store hackers attempted to Blackmail Riot
games after getting their hands on the source code for League of Legends team
play tactics and a legacy anti-cheat
platform the hackers wanted 10 million dollars so I'm guessing they must have
wanted to buy a fully spec MacBook Pro to avoid the SSD issue it's an apple
Michael how much could it cost twenty dollars in a lengthy Twitter thread Riot
stated they wouldn't be paying the fee and that they are working hard to
investigate the methods used and impact of the attack proving that rye is way
better at taking an L than Riot's player base
yeah don't at me NASA has announced they are going to test nuclear thermal
rockets in partnership with the pentagon's defense Advanced research
project agency or DARPA such Rockets produce thrust by harnessing the heat
created by a nuclear fission reactor the space agencies said the partnership with
DARPA will benefit both agencies and
probably the middle class NASA will get rockets that could reduce transit times
for future Mars missions but I'm not sure what the Pentagon will get out of
creating rocker propelled thermonuclear reactors a twitch streamer has started a
playthrough of Eldon ring using their brain as the controller pericardial
hooked herself up to an electro
encephalogram or EEG and map different brain signals to button inputs in a
video posted online you can see the streamer thinking attack and watch her
character perform an attack she has a master's degree in
Psychology so if my experience is anything to go by she probably did this
to get her parents to shut up about how her job has nothing to do with her
education are you happy now oh panic and then do that an appliance
manufacturers who worked so hard to add smart device capabilities to their
products just cannot fathom why you won't connect your dishwasher to the
Wi-Fi apparently only half of smart Appliance buyers connect them to the
internet I mean if you ignore privacy concerns the annoying subscription
offers the attempts to sell you replacement parts and the fact that it's
getting harder and harder to buy a normal dumb Appliance I can't think of a
single reason why someone wouldn't want their dishwasher on their private home
network but I do know why you should come back on Friday because you're
apparently an immortal being like a Highlander or something and there can be
only one and I want to challenge you to a duel and absorb your your power baby
it can be only fun