by saying these words I summon the power
of news
it's funny I don't really feel any different
but what is different is the number of
flagship graphics cards there are on the market today yep Andy launched the
Radeon seven yesterday at the same price as NVIDIA as r-tx 2080 $6.99 USD and
well it probably should have made it a little cheaper you can watch my full
review over on Linus tech tips but the basic gist of it is that AMD had some
extra room to work with thanks to the seven nanometer process that the Radeon
seven is built on and rather than using it for cost savings or power savings
they boosted the clock speeds and added a butt ton of video memory so the new
card trades blows with the RT X 2080 but
it's kind of a hard sell because of the
extra features on NVIDIA RT X platform
however you do or don't feel about real time ray tracing now I'll have to wait
and see if there are any more developments on the Radeon side but with
board partners telling kit guru that they have no plans for custom Radeon 7
cards and our report claiming that we
won't see next gen Navi cards from AMD until October we might be waiting for a
while I mean that's just fine because I'm gonna be gaming on my xbox anyway
thank you very much now we're all somewhat used to the idea
by now that we're being tracked in various ways by the apps on our phones
but a report from TechCrunch has blown
the whistle on a bunch of companies whose apps straight-up capture screen
recordings of users iPhones hotels.com
Singapore Airlines and Abercrombie &
Fitch no not not Abercrombie & Fitch are
among the companies that worked with a firm called glass box to enable session
replays which would screenshot use your
actions in app then sent that data back
to the app developers now some of these session replays
properly masked which means that personal information like passport
and credit card numbers and not
Abercrombie & Fitch were exposed now in
response to the report Apple has begun telling developers that if their app use
a screen recording tech they must disclose that detail to users or remove
the feature and by the way they have one
day to get their crap sorted out so I guess iPhone users will have to start
double-checking whether their apps are recording their activity on Android we
have it much better we can just assume that it's on holotype
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is trying
its darndest to defend itself against suspicions from Western nations about
the possibility that the company puts backdoors into its networking equipment
that could be exploited by the Chinese government Huawei has now said that it
will accept supervision of its equipment and activities by the European Union if
it would be allowed to build 5g infrastructure there the company even
wrote an open letter promising the UK that it would set aside
one-and-a-half billion pounds or two
billion u.s. dollars to address any security concerns in its network systems
the UK is set to rule in March or April on whether to include Huawei in its 5g
rollout and other Western nations are also busy considering the Huawei problem
a situation made more complex by a statement from the US envoy to the EU
claiming that any country that partners with Huawei in rolling out network
infrastructure would necessarily lose some portion of America's trust and the
crazy thing is that all of this is without there actually being any public
evidence that Huawei actually has backdoors and their equipment but you
know what they say better safe than sorry which is why AT&T is just calling
their existing 4G networks 5g I mean the
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minute e's apple has finally fixed a flaw and group FaceTime that allowed
users to listen in on call recipients before they even picked up the company
was criticized for leaving the flaw unaddressed for a week after a 14-year
old discovered it and had his mom tweet Apple about it now Apple has said that
the teenager will be compensated for his discovery under the iOS a bug bounty
program so the next time you want to angrily tweet about a broken feature to
a tech company don't hesitate you're helping it's a good thing
last month motherboard reported on ISPs
selling their users real-time location data to all manner of other companies
and those ISPs responded by claiming well that only happened in isolated
incidents as it turns out though the practice is way more widespread than
initially thought with a new report claiming that around 250 companies
including bounty hunters purchased ISP
tracking data tens of thousands of times
between 2012 and 2017 bounty hunters
really so it looks like VPNs and secure DNS
services are more necessary than air I mean there isn't even a joke about this
like that's terrible
speaking of terrible Google has announced a new method of encryption
called adiantum for low powered devices
like smart watches and Android go phones okay that's not a great segue this
doesn't seem terrible at all normal encryption methods would usually bring a
performance penalty to your phone processor so adiantum aheh would make
the process much more efficient for phones that are powered by lower tier
CPUs but the real question here is
strengthen your phone's skeleton making it nyan destructible
it sounds like it would do that got the
Apple metal API and then you got the Google adiantum
speaking of misleading AT&T is displaying a 5ge on their phones that
are connected to the company's 5g evolution network and
that's misleading so Sprint is suing
AT&T for misleading advertising claiming
that calling 4G 5g confuses the public
and damages the reputation of actual five g a a t t actually responded
basically saying no everyone knows that 5g evolution means
it's 4g that's evolving to get closer to
five g's are you freaking kidding me
are they trying to be evil and
we all thought Google Fiber was the future but Google apparently doesn't see
a future in Louisville Kentucky the project is pulling out of the city after
failing to effectively lay cable and shallow trenches called nano trenches
Google Fiber users in the city now have two months to find an alternative
solution before their service will be cut off Google says they could fix the
problems but and this is a quote ah that's just not the right business
decision for us which is what I think I'm gonna start saying when I don't want
to go to like awkward social gatherings
no but it might be why I don't go to my mother's this weekend
and we're done here thanks for watching guys
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