GET IT TOGETHER, INTEL!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,195 words · ~5 min read
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oh man tech news like
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so weird like ah like
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like what anyways so stupid
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Intel can just not catch a break these
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days as yet another side channel vulnerability has been found in the
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company's processors dang it Intel come on this one is called cash out because
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it could enable an attack that exploits the CPU's caching mechanisms to select
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what data to leak as opposed to waiting for a big dump of non-specific data
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which is how other speculative execution attacks work the disclosure of this new
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vulnerability comes just as Intel releases its third patch meant to fix
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the zombie load aka mds flaws but as
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well they can't they just can't get ahead of it but as reported by researchers the
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previous patches didn't fix the whole thing so
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there's no guarantee this one will either now one reason why we keep
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hearing about these new flaws is that Intel's chips are still based off
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architecture from more than seven years ago whereas AMD zen architecture is only
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around four years old and not as widespread so we might be hearing about
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a bunch of flaws and ryzen processors in a few years okay guys so let's not be so
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quick let's not be so quick to talk about you know how much Intel sucks
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right now although that is exactly what we're doing right now
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well we now know that samsung's second foldable handset is called the galaxy z
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flip we also know basically everything else about it german language site
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winfuture.de got its hands on official renders of the flip
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that's what you called in german in a dazzling purplish indigo kind of color
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what color is that james i'm not looking at it it's got a 6.7
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inch display with an extra one-inch always on display on the back for when
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it's folded it's got a snapdragon 855 plus eight gigs of RAM dual 12 megapixel
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rear cameras and a 10 megapixel selfie cam 3 300 milliamp hour battery with
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quick and wireless charging plus a side mounted fingerprint scanner how about a
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headphone jack nope the only thing that remains unclear
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is whether we need something like this at all like apparently when it's folded
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it's 17.3 millimeters thick so instead
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of having like a thin rectangle in my pocket i could have a
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thick square why do you just get two phones
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duh and huawei wow
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the bastards actually did it the company is going to be allowed to build out 5g
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network infrastructure in the uk after all but in a limited role that will
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prevent huawei equipment from being used in sensitive core parts of the country's
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networks now all that's because the uk's national cyber security center analyzed
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huawei's technology and supply chain and concluded that huawei was a high-risk
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vendor but is asking british companies to use huawei in a limited way so we can
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collectively manage the risk the eu is following the uk's lead
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recommending that member states choose their own 5g suppliers but basically be
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very careful about it so at this point this is like
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look we ordered pizza and oh who delivered it a mass murderer he's at the
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door right now do we take it he might kill us just don't let him in
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the house yeah yeah you can like open the door and kind of yeah what if the
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sideways and spread it through the crack that there we go that should be fine now
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it's time for quick bits brought to you by ifixit they've got parts and tools
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that make it affordable to fix or upgrade your consoles even the nintendo
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switch they've got all the parts you need to fix that drift on your joy-con
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switch ifixit also has helpful guides that show you how to do all that step by
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step so head to ifixit.com techlink to get everything you need to
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keep your nintendo switch and other game consoles running like you never even
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picked them up in the first place i want some bits
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get give them quickly the quickest bits
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it's tarzan i don't know what song Intel's desktop chips might be sucking
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more than ever but on the low end mobile side there might be something to get
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excited about el chapoza's informatico
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spotted an Intel lakefield processor on user benchmark and yeah it's 85 slower
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than a 10th gen core i3 but it'll run at
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a fraction of the power enabling higher power models that will give qualcomm a
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run for its money in mobile devices exciting huh
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yes ow that was the hardest
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high five the coronavirus continues to spread and while the world is still
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sorting out whether this is a genuine emergency google is being proactive by
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temporarily shutting down its offices in china hong kong and taiwan and will keep
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them closed after the lunar new year holiday ends samsung and foxconn are
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also shutting down their chinese factories along with many other manufacturing plants in the country so
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while technology cannot catch human viruses the industry may see an impact
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all the same eve the company responsible for the great crowdfunded ev Windows two
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in one that's a tongue twister is back with the spectrum monitor featuring
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pretty awesome specs like a 27 inch ips panel HDR 400 with 450 nits brightness
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and a qhd 144 hertz version for 364
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bucks the only question is will they ship it
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because many people are still waiting for their evs that they ordered a long
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time ago give them your money and wait to find out that's that's the that's the gist eve
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says they've solved their shipping problems but who knows if that's true
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you me adam he's pretty smart bible reference oh
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ltd is probably going to review this uh monitor so maybe just wait i i know it's
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hard and researchers have started tracking fishing fleets by attaching
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radar sensors to albatross okay
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so it's one thing to track animals in the wild it's another thing to use
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animals to track us before we know it facebook's going to be
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stealing our dogs and implanting cameras in them and then they'll know how we
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talk to our dogs i don't have one but you do disgusting
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see i don't like it look i know when an episode has gone too far so i'm ending
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this come back on friday for more tech news and we'll talk to you how we talk
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