oh man this day sucks how about some tech news hey oh yeah
sounds good Intel seems to have inadvertently revealed their upcoming
9th generation core processors in a micro code update document right after
the familiar 8th gen gang are the names of a bunch of 9000 series chips from the
i3 9000 to the i5 9600k however don't
start squealing in excitement yet because they're listed as still being
part of the 8th generation family of processors which means these new chips
are probably going to be refreshes of coffee lake and are probably using the
same 14 animated process we've seen since sky lake but but they've got a
nine in front of them so you don't see that every day for
those of you that are paranoid that your apps are listening in on you well
they might still be doing that but it's slightly less likely than we all thought
researchers at northeastern university in boston studied more than 17 000 apps
on ten different popular Android phones for over a year and they found no
evidence of an app activating a microphone or sending audio when it
wasn't supposed to what they did find evidence of however was rogue screen
recording some apps sent screenshots and video files to third parties without
user permission google has responded saying they're working with developers
to ensure users are adequately informed of apps abilities and permissions but
there's a silver lining in all this we have one new thing to be paranoid about
nice i'm collecting reasons for paranoia
it's a hobby oh perfect here's another one speaking of sending unwanted pics
samsung phones have apparently been sending random photos from users camera
rolls to their contacts the offending app is samsung's default texting app
messages which doesn't even show users that the files have been sent victims
have simply been informed by the contacts who received the photos samsung
is apparently looking into it but some are speculating this might have something to do with recent updates from
network carriers enabling rcs messaging which is supposed to make sms texts
behave more like online messaging apps like whatsapp it would be nice to get to
the bottom of this but it won't save your mom's eyes after they've been permanently damaged from finally getting
a text from you opening it and instead of a nice love you mom appreciate you
it's a badly lit image of your naughty bits you should call your mom
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details all right quick bits right after being crowned the most popular platform for
watching tv news is coming out that netflix is considering a new ultra
subscription tier that could cost over 20 bucks a month and take some features
away from the lower tiers stupid tv subscription packages are dead
long live stupid streaming tv packages much better ubisoft's vice president
says the company is basically looking to stop making one-off single-player
story-based experiences and they're going to try and make more games where
you beat the bad guy but then there's always more bad guys to beat and you
just keep beating bad guys forever and hopefully just live inside assassin's
creed you'll never leave ubisoft would love that thanks guys
rainway a game streaming service has investigated fortnite hacking tools and
at least one of them has malware that's currently infecting tens of thousands of
players it would be sweet justice if it meant
that they still didn't have the hack to get 100 headshots all the time if you
like free games twitch is giving away 19 of them this month to twitch prime
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google has been in damage control mode as reports have emerged that third party
plugins for gmail can read your emails but they're all certified and totally
fine or at least that's what google says
i mean it's kind of what you sign up for by using google though isn't it and more
evidence of NVIDIA's gtx 11 series has popped up in the specs for lenovo's
legion y530 gaming laptop which will apparently come with an optional gtx
1160 configuration will it be better than the 1060
hey i don't know folks stay tuned what do you think james you're an 11. i
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