Computer Virus DELAYS new iPhone??
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,194 words · ~5 min read
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am i in focus you just don't even care do you your
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face doesn't matter like this wow it's a holiday monday which means that as long
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as you're not dennis or the guy who runs the company you get to
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be at home but i'm here talking about tech news but hey it could be worse at
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least i'm not the head of it at chip manufacturer tsmc which was hit hard
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this weekend by a computer virus that was so bad they had to shut down their
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factories tsmc is one of the world's largest chip manufacturers and handles
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fabrication for big names like NVIDIA
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and apple okay those are only like five and six digit names but but as big a
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name as you could possibly think of that means that having this much downtime
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could actually delay iphones and GeForce
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graphics cards from hitting store shelves near you to make matters worse
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it appears that the virus got loose after someone at the company was just
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being careless while installing software
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tsmc though has been rather cagey about the specifics which makes me wonder if
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someone was visiting uh unauthorized websites
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like linustechtips.com and also other ones
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where you get viruses you don't get those there the official announcement for AMD's second generation thread
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ripper chips has been announced who announces announcements who writes
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this stuff anyway the new chips will be available in two products tiers each
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containing two different tiers no models
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excuse me models the x series will be marketed towards gamers and so-called
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enthusiasts i think that's just an industry code word for people with more
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money than sense with 12 and 16 core skus while the wx series will be
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targeted at content creators and will be available with either 24 or 32 cores of
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course AMD is quick to point out that by virtue of having more cores than more
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expensive Intel competitors they beat out team blue and multi-threaded
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applications for less money yet it should be noted that they will still lag
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behind Intel a bit when it comes to gaming it'll be interesting to see what
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independent benchmarks say when two of the chips are released later this month
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with two more coming in october if you're a left-handed gamer you're
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probably familiar with how frustrating it can be for you to find a gaming mouse
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designed for lefties but razer is trying to give you another option by
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crowdfunding a southpaw naga trinity
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which is geared towards mmo and moba players with an interchangeable side
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panel allowing the user to attach a different number of macro buttons
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depending on which game they're playing razer says they're using kickstarter to
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get the project off the ground because they're entirely out of that sweet
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venture capital money no excuse me sorry they're saying because producing a left-handed mouse
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isn't as simple as flipping the original design really they're seeking nearly a
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million dollars by the end of august and so far less than 30 grand has been
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pledged so if you're a left-hander that had your heart set on this you clearly
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um don't exist because no one's no one's done it ambidextrous mice
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they're they're a middle middle-of-the-road solution i guess
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speaking of middle-of-the-road solutions pia will keep you private whether you're
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in your house or in the middle of the road with their vpn service that's right
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pia it's got servers in 28 countries to help you get around geo blocking they've
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got multiple options for strong encryption that keeps your data out of
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the hands of snoops they got dns leak protection to protect your browsing
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history and even pia mace a built-in
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tracker and malware blocker very effective against bears i heard so for a
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secure multi-platform browsing experience go check out pia at the link
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below dennis are you yawning back there the tech news is this boring today
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okay wait wait pay attention because i got something big if you've been in the
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market for an SSD or a laptop with an SSD built in well you might be in luck
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because the prices of flash memory should continue to fall as the year goes
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on thanks to oversupply caused by relatively low demand for smartphones
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one analyst pointed out that this might be due to how similar current phones are
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to each other lowering consumer excitement i mean wasn't emoji enough
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for you it's got meme right in it on
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that subject the pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl from google look like they are just
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around the corner with a leaked advertisement revealing that the new
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phones will either be revealed or released for sale on october the 4th the
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leak was first spotted by youtuber brandon lee no not that one in an ad
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directed towards canadian creative wait wait a minute
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here's some good news for the cash strapped among you valve is going to
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start putting flash sales back on the steam platform it'll be up to the
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specific developer to determine how long any such sale would last with choices
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from 6 to 12 hours so we'll see whether
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this ends up being good for both gamers and vendors or if it'll just give us all
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horrible feelings of buyer's remorse whenever we miss out finally so you know
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how facebook keeps making the news for data leaks well they now want to add
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your banking information to their messenger app
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the idea is that messenger will be able to give account holders quick
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information such as account balances and fraud alerts through the app
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which does sound useful but i would hate for
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some shady analyst to use my savings balance to try and figure out who i'm
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going to vote for so i'm not sure how actually i'm 100 sure how i feel about
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this i will not be signing up for that wow and guess what it turns out that the p
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in Android p stands for pi as was announced today alongside its
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release to pixel devices non-pixel phones will have to wait until later in
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the year to receive the update over the air and just in case you're wondering
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google is keeping with the dessert theme as an illustration from google shows the
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adorable Android mascot enjoying a slice of what's obviously cherry pie and not
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chicken pot pie unless those red lumps are actually
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chicken hearts or something which does seem possible
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anyway that's it for the news today so tune in wednesday for another serving of
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delicious chicken hearts i mean excuse me tack linked with both a golden brown
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crust and the savory filling that keeps you coming back for more dennis oh wait
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that's just me isn't it more dennis