tech news tech news never changes except when it
does three times a week it changes other than that though
never is this batman not not even once is this a batman thing maybe this
morning the same hacker group that hacked NVIDIA lapses with a dollar sign
on the end cause that's fun also claimed to have hacked samsung who confirmed
that some source code for the company's galaxy devices was stolen what is going
on did someone leave a literal back door open at the tech giants clubhouse or
something come on in what's all these samsung says no
personal information of consumers or employees was compromised but the
hackers did post 190 Gigabyte torrent online which is currently being
downloaded by who knows who that's nothing my nas have you seen it's huge i
haven't seen your ass and i don't want to so we'll find out soon enough whether
lapsas wants something from samsung or whether they're just the type of people
who want to watch the world bird wrong batman movie that's a different
one stay tuned to their just movies we're doing the real one this week i'm
vengeance we're finally doing the real batman movie
meanwhile the NVIDIA hack just keeps getting worse among the data that was
leaked by lapsis last week was a fair bit of sensitive information including
drivers and certificates NVIDIA has continued their refusal to negotiate
with the group and now these certificates are already being used to
sign malware disguised as real drivers although the certificates appear to have
expired anything that was signed before their expiration date will still install
on Windows with no issues meaning an update from microsoft will probably be
necessary to block anything with compromised certificates Windows loves
that they love updating i love any certificates i'll take them in the
meantime don't go downloading programs claiming to be NVIDIA tools from
questionable sources even if they are wearing leather jackets that seem super
real it's probably just vinyl or something russia has been hit with about
every economic sanction that western governments can muster including ones
that hurt the country's ability to obtain legal copies of everything from
software licenses to hollywood movies so it appears that the kremlin is
considering legalizing online piracy that's awesome that's so russian sounds
like Linus is down high ranking members of russia's parliament have reportedly
suggested unblocking torrent site rue tracker as a way for citizens to access
hollywood films as well as limiting or eliminating liability for trademark and
copyright infringement but with putin's penchant for punishing pundits that
don't agree with him i can only imagine this ending in government approved
tauren sites with restricted content which would make this type of piracy
less like i am the captain now and more like
disney adults of the caribbean which is like i was never scared of jack sparrow
i didn't think he was going to gut me you might just get me up from school on
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you jk it's free NVIDIA is reportedly going
to be releasing an rtx 3090 ti near the end of march but if you were hoping to
get your hands on a 30 70 ti 16 Gigabyte variant team green has reportedly
canceled it the 3090 ti will of course be an
absolute beast in terms of performance and what it will cost NVIDIA isn't
planning to make very many of them so expect to pay around 5 000 us dollars
shut up i mean probably yeah probably more you know if you actually if you
expect to buy one at all i think we need to have a talk dude get rid of the
expectation get a steam deck Intel is reportedly strongly encouraging
motherboard partners to only support ddr5 not ddr4 on its upcoming 700 series
platform codenamed raptor lake who do you work for in town
the memory companies but this isn't that concerning Intel
probably just wants its own chips to realize their full potential not because
they're scared of bad reviews because of a RAM bottleneck or anything because
these chips are their babies they didn't save up that college fund for nothing
just to have the chips end up running
minecraft hot heads on the couch a new report indicates that more ryzen
cpus will be hitting store shelves very soon these will all be ryzen 5000 series
processors so there'll be additions to the existing product stack rather than a
surprise early release of zen4 and i like 5000
that's a good number two of these models will have six cores and two will have
eight cores and yet another two will have hardcores don't look at them the
wrong way they are too badass according to
electronic frontiers australia the country's proposed anti-trolling bill
has some big issues while the there's trolls in it
it's not doing anything while the bill helps people access a given troll's
personal information for the purposes of filing a lawsuit it's still incredibly
expensive to bring an action for defamation between 20 and 80 000
australian dollars tech giants are also opposed to the bill as it would require
them to collect large amounts of personal information
oh such we have to do this work they're already
doing and also possibly expose the tech giants to liability for defamatory
content so it's unclear who this is helping although so far no one has asked
the wallabies and if you're the owner of a new OLED nintendo switch and are
worried about screen burn in from all those static ui elements while you're
gaming there's a very specific person person we're targeting you
probably shouldn't worry about that youtuber wolfden did a test where he
displayed one image on the screen for an insane amount of time and it turned out
there was only very slight OLED ghosting after a whole 3 600 hours how many days
is that just kidding i already did the math it's 150 days
24 hours also important to note is that the switch doesn't have any of the burn-in
prevention measures you'd typically see on OLED tvs so if you own any kind of
newer OLED device this probably shouldn't be a huge concern for you
great so psa and oh boy would it be great for
you to come back for more tech news on wednesday the one day when tech news
changes no i mean three times it's one of the three days i forgot what i wrote
in the intro these things go so fast whoa