How Are Game Developers THIS Stupid?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,385 words · ~6 min read
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data breaches rogue ai's autonomous drones the world of tech can be kind of
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a scary place sometimes so this Halloween I'm dressing as spooky tech
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news guy I don't even have to chip yeah what the
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yeah you wrote this AMD's Radeon rx 590
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is real after weeks of rumors andreas
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Schilling from tech website hardware locks posted a photo of the cards box
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and the rest is history just kidding it can't be history because
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history is in the past and this is still in the future there's no official
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details from AMD about the card yet but all the leaks point to a few things that
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we can be almost certain about the 590 will probably use a 12 nanometer GPU
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built on the polaris architecture the same one used in the rest of the rx 405
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hundred series and the card should fetch a performance increase of about 10 to
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15% over 580 that should put it in range to potentially take on in videos gtx
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1060 that is until NVIDIA releases Bayer upgraded GTX 1060 which has also
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been rumored for weeks look at the final details when the RX 590 is expected to
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launch mid November Black Friday I have
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no idea it's American Thanksgiving I only know the can I don't even know when the Canadian one is in more graphics
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card news we reported last week on scattered reports about NVIDIA's r-tx 28
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ET is dying but it was unclear how widespread the issue was reports of
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graphical glitches and crashes have only continued to surface though and now
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multiple tech outlets are looking into the issue Tom's Hardware noticed that
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their life was no longer full of Archie X because their carpets no Tom's
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Hardware noticed that the GDR 6 memory modules were running extremely hot on
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the founders Edition 20 atti results that were backed up by Hardware luxe so
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gamers Nexus home of tech Jesus Stephen Burke blessed be is asking to borrow 20
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ATT eyes from card owners who have experienced issues so they can run tests
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to zero in on the problem now we don't know how widespread this is yet but
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hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it soon NVIDIA can release a statement
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that's a little more specific then yeah yeah I'm working on it just cool your
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jets okay take a chill pill don't lose your fuse man
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and move over specter and meltdown because there's a new chip vulnerability
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in town affecting potentially all processors that use simultaneous
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multi-threading or SMT it's called port smash just kidding it's called port
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smash and it was discovered by a team of five researchers from Finland and Cuba
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it's an unlikely collaboration to port smash is a side channel attack which
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means it can be used to leak encrypted data from a pcs memory and CPU in this
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case by smashing it know by running malicious processes next to legitimate
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ones which is possible in pcs that use simultaneous multi-threading also known
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as hyper threading if you're in the Intel camp now so far the vulnerability
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has only been confirmed and Intel skylake and KB Lake CPUs the ones with
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hyper threading but the researchers believe it could also affect
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multi-threaded AMD processors they recommended that the chip industry moves
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away from SMT because the tech is inherently insecure which is wait is
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this why Intel removed hyper threading from the ninth gen core i7 because it
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was in the users best interest no I'm kidding that's not of course not it's
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that's stupid we know it's not stupid this quick bytes brought to you by
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chrono da GG it's a game store that
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offers one game that's it but it's a great deal well it's a different one
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every day but it's one at a time every day at 9 a.m. Pacific today they've got
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the action RPG slash shopkeeping slash rogue Lite game what kind of game is
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this moonlighter on sale for 1459 US
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dollars that is a 27 percent discount chrono da GG works directly with game
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publishers to get you the gaming public deals just like this one every day so if
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you missed today's don't worry there are multiple days in the week trust me I
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have a calendar so check it out at the link below or at Crono GG /lt t facebook
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can't seem to stop getting hacked as hackers have reportedly published
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messages from a t-1000 accounts and then this this gets
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better before it gets worse no it gets better in terms of its badness so they
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apparently have access to around a hundred and twenty-one million accounts
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which Facebook says well they may have acquired through a malicious browser
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extension so you know yeah oh well that
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makes it fine then I guess no it doesn't this is not a good look for a company
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that has endured what seems like innumerable scandals over the course of
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this year and the year is not over yet I have a calendar it's not over yet
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there's still two months left this isn't a calendar but it's it's unimportant
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details what is important is that the beta for Bethesda's online multiplayer
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shooter shootout shooter shooter fallout
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76 has also endured some particularly
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heinous bugs including one that deleted
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the entire game and now users have discovered that they can speed up the
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in-game physics because it's tied to your games framerate why are they still
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doing this like what self-respecting
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game engine licensed unity or Unreal Engine what is
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wrong with you people it's so stupid it's just so unnecessary
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it's like if how could it what could I
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even compare this to the the level of
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dumbness is just it's a it's it's it's
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incomprehensible
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so I guess you might as well exploit the
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issue while you can because Bethesda says it won't be fixed until the game's
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launch Apple is expanding its vintage repair
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program to include older devices like the iPhone 4s rats have an iPhone 4 and
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on it for us and the 2011 iMac potentially in response to the new right
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to repair protections that were passed in the US and if people are gonna be
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repairing their iPhones instead of buying new ones well dang it I guess
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Apple wants to get in on the action don't they Microsoft has botched their October
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update a few times already and the final update is a new level of botch we're
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consulting the calendar again here okay it's no longer October
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on top of that a bug has been discovered that automatically allowed Universal
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Windows platform or uwp apps to have access to Windows a--'s entire file
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system a privilege which is usually protected by user account control so
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maybe this will get fixed in the November update that we'll get some time
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in January and Elon Musk says that Tesla is working on a semi truck that we knew
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that an old musk doesn't even care whether people buy it because he thinks
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it's cool and futuristic like Blade
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Runner no no no no you know what's cool
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and futuristic Hyundai and Kia putting solar panels on the roofs of their cars
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both the electric and gas-powered ones that's also just like kind of obvious
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why have we done this already why were we so focused on putting the solar
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panels on the road when we could have just put them on the cars I
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mean when the cars on the road the Sun doesn't even hit the road
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the bond de Bont and you know what else
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is debunked this episode because I've had enough it's debunked like when we
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started it I was like you know we're gonna bunk up and do this episode and
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now we're debunking