this is the 200th episode of tackling did you even did you even know that your
hair's going white is it besides oh gosh
it's been that long eh researchers working for the center for
it security privacy and accountability aka cispa
have discovered a dangerous vulnerability that could allow a hacker
to snoop on the traffic going between bluetooth devices the flaw is known as
the key negotiation of bluetooth attack or knob
that's brutal yeah it is knob can force bluetooth devices to use
a decryption key consisting of only one byte which makes brute force decryption
attacks super easy device manufacturers have started rolling out patches for
knob including Intel apple blackberry
microsoft lenovo and more so don't be a bloody knob update your device you wanka
are we allowed to say wanker i think so fortunately the bluetooth news isn't all
bad today scientists at the university of california have developed an app that
can detect the bluetooth signature of credit card skimmers and gas pumps and
it found 64 skimmers across six states in one year so that's nice
see the world isn't so dark and horrible james there's good stuff happening
it's fine back to some bad news though surface pro
6's and surface book 2s are being crippled by a firmware glitch causing
the device's cpus to throttle down to 400 megahertz even the lowest spec
surface pro 6 with an Intel core i5 8520u runs at 1.6 gigahertz stock
that's four times the issue is apparently being caused by a system
component that thinks the CPU is running too hot so speeds are being throttled
there are also reports of users suffering from an inability to connect
to some wi-fi networks it's unclear whether they ask the starbucks employee
for the password some service owners have reported
unplugging their device from power helps while others say to install third-party
antivirus programs but the bug seems to have started off after a surface
firmware update on august 1st microsoft says they're aware of the issue and are
working on a firmware update to fix the faulty CPU temperature management should
have got a macbook pro yeah i think they're all throttled but
at least it's higher than 400 megahertz yeah you'll get way higher than that
well i mean you'll in a bad way
and facebook seems to be learning from all of its privacy breaching mishaps
just not in the way they should perhaps the
company is planning a number of pop-up cafes across the uk that will encourage
people to enjoy some free drinks take in some bland ikea decor and take part in
simple privacy checkups the objective is
reportedly to educate users about protecting their privacy online by
taking them through the privacy section of their facebook settings
facebook is the one to teach us about that why would i go in there
yeah because that's the problem facebook people don't know how to protect their privacy cambridge analytica harvesting
and exploiting the personal information of millions of users with facebook's help that's not that's not that's not
important oh sure i should have never installed
this service oh i should have never used facebook right now it's time for quick
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look whether it's equipment or not i'm gonna say it
what alex folks we might have a GeForce rtx 2080 ti super on our hands if a new
listing in ida 64's change log is any indication down the hatches
it's a store there's a storm coming stock up on tv there's a reference to a
new graphics card designated GeForce rtx
t10-8 built on the tu-102 GPU the same
one used in the rtx titan rtx 2080 ti and the quadro rtx 8000 and 6000. now
why NVIDIA would do this remains unclear other than to just have another fancy
thing for rich people to buy oh that's it apple google and amazon all
suspended their human listening programs after it was discovered that user audio
is being recorded but microsoft is going to continue feeding audio from cortana
recordings to their contractors the company is only revising its privacy
policy to make it clear to users that their audio might be recorded and heard
by humans which choice yeah which is we
have so little data exactly it honestly makes more sense we know that the other
tech companies are going to resume the practice eventually if they haven't already
so it's it's kind of like cortana's the quiet girl in the back who everyone
ignores but who has something really interesting to say if you just let her let her speak up
for for god's sake man hi
actually security researchers at trend micro have identified 85 apps on the
google play store that were little more than fronts for adware the apps had 8
million installs between them and this is like the 18th story about removing
fraudulent apps with millions of installs oh they removed them i forgot
to say that google seems to really take an approved first ask questions later
type of approach with the play store another ar filter app it's probably fine
apple is suing a company called corillium for copyright infringement the
small startup provides emulation of iOS devices on desktop machines which
doesn't seem that bad but the problem as apple sees it is that corellium is
selling access to its emulated iOS devices for profit and encouraging users
to sell security flaws they find in iOS on the open market so as much as i hate
to say it apple might
be doing the right thing here
and our last quick bit is actually about the line detective's folding team
hey i do that yeah if you don't know folding refers to running the folding at
home client on your computer which helps scientists do research on how proteins
fold october is LTT folding month and by
participating you can win steam gift cards game keys and event badges on the
LTT forums i got those badges do you yeah i don't have it i don't think i
have anything i got no badges i need to get more badges
i can so if you want to use your computer for a good cause check the link
in the description trust me i said trust me it feels good but i
don't do it it's pretty easy but i will do it heat your house up james told me
to do it do it all right that's enough i'm over this 200 episode that's a
that's a fine amount right we can go on vacation we can cut it off there just
kidding we'll be back on monday and i see and i still love you what
i'm i'm happy to be here tech lakes back
all right