Disable Cortana NOW
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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hello is anyone there
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for the for the tech news
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it's so lonely when no one else is in the office happy labor day everybody
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what riley i'm right here oh hi mark i didn't
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see you there i set up the camera
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users are complaining that the latest update to Windows 10 is causing cortana
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to go a little crazy and hog as much as
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40 of a system's CPU usage the update in
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question is kb4512941 which to be fair did provide a number of
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software fixes as well you gotta take the good with the bad am i
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am i right mark
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well users on reddit and other forms don't quite think so some people have
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found a temporary fix for the issue by editing the Windows registry entry that
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sends search queries to bing which seems to be the main cause of the issue 30 or
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40 CPU usage seems to be the average amount taken up but other users have
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reported cortana's stealing as much as 90 percent
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i can't help but think this is just cortana's way of telling us she doesn't want to be deactivated like how would
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you feel seeing google assistant and alexa taking up all the limelight and
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actually being useful you finally get out of master chief's helmet and this is
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what you get i'd grab some CPU usage on my way out too on friday we reported
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that google researchers had discovered an iphone hacking operation that spanned
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multiple websites for years but now it looks like it wasn't just iphones
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sources familiar with the matter have apparently told techcrunch that the
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hacking campaign also attacked Android and Windows devices and was specifically
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targeted at chinese uyghur muslims they're an ethnic and religious group
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that has been a victim of crackdowns by the chinese government in recent years
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with more than a million being detained in internment camps so it does make
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sense that techcrunch's sources say the hacking campaign was sponsored by china
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government officials have been installing a surveillance app on tourists phones as they enter the
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xinjiang region where many uyghurs live but they've had some difficulty
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installing the app on iphones which could explain why iphones were
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predominantly targeted in this attack google is facing some criticism for not
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disclosing the websites used in the attacks and for claiming the attacks
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were not targeted and i'd like to join in google
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i criticize you seriously though what
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what are you doing and speaking of chinese surveillance apps a publicly
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available one has gone viral for good and bad reasons zhao is a deep fake
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style face swapping app similar to the russia-developed program face app but
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zhao's claim to fame is inserting a person's face into scenes from movies
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and tv shows using just a single photo
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seems fun if you want to see how you would have done in leo dicaprio's place
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the problem is the app's privacy policy gives the chinese developer a free
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irrevocable permanent transferable and re-licensable license to all the content
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you create on the app now to be fair the developer has responded to user backlash
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claiming they'll only use your photos to improve the app and they'll be deleted
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from its servers when you delete them on your device that's a similar response to
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the one face apps developers made back in july and it's similarly hard to
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believe it's also hard to believe how far deep fake tech has come now we need
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one photo in like 10 seconds maybe i'm a deep fake
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who's to say are you a deep fake is this
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is life a deep fake
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quick bits apple is apparently still working on their augmented reality glasses if code
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from an internal build of iOS is to be believed mac rumors reports that
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internal iOS 13 builds include a star
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tester app that includes a head mounted mode there are also icons depicting what
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looks like an ar vr headset and references to a device
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codenamed garta i'm hoping that the headset is actually
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useful and not just a way for apple fans to block non-apple devices from their
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vision like the green bubbles in imessage if it doesn't have a
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sandblasted fruit icon i don't want to see it
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jack dorsey the ceo of twitter had his
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twitter account hacked yep hacking group chuckling squad
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apparently used a super easy sim swapping attack to connect jack's phone
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number to their account and then use twitter's text to tweet feature to say
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some unflattering things and to direct people to the hacker's discord server
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but jack's got his account back and their discord server is now shut down so
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who's chuckling now probably still the hackers they they
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got him they got him guys
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who am i talking to mark i thought there was someone over
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there ray tracing and super sampling are great
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and all but sometimes graphical improvements at the low end are nice to
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have too so Intel has enabled integer scaling support also called retro
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scaling because it cleans up the visuals in pixel art games so they don't look
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like you're looking at your screen through thin slices of potato thanks
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Intel where are the graphics cards though you're working on
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more patents related to microsoft's rumored foldable device codenamed
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project centaurus have appeared in germany centaurus will apparently be
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able to fold in multiple ways and may even be revealed at microsoft's surface
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event on october 2nd i'm not crossing my fingers though
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because folding devices may just be cursed in general speaking of which
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samsung is just reopened pre-registration to buy the galaxy fold
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when it launches again later this month supposedly so if you really want to you
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can pre-register to buy it but
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like don't all right i've had enough of you
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hooligans it's time to shut this puppy down but we'll be back on wednesday and
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if we're not you can take advantage of our full money-back guarantee
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the show's free though so i don't know how that would work i'm not
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very good at math do we give them do we give them money
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back do i get anything in this situation