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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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i'm here to chew tech news and kick gum
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and i'm all out of chew that's what that's not right AMD
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launched their third gen ryzen processors just a couple months ago generally slaying Intel in terms of
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price to performance but some users noticed the new cpus weren't quite
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reaching their advertised boost clocks pro overclocker der bauer even surveyed
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thousands of verizon owners and found fewer than 10 percent of them had chips
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that reached their intended speeds under load AMD said that they were working on a fix
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which motherboard makers could incorporate into their BIOS update and
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some of those updates have now reached testers
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tech power up and tech jesus himself ah steve from gamersnexus say that the fix
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pretty much delivers on AMD's promises bringing boost clocks up to the
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advertised speeds and even better now we're talking about 25 to 50 megahertz
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of performance here which is smell smell you say it
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but it's great to see md still caring about the little things you know despite
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their massive successes well meanwhile tom holland still won't return my calls
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he's got a cell phone in his spider suit speaking of cell phones basically
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but basically all of them are in danger researchers at adaptive mobile security
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have announced the existence of sim jacker which is strangely not a cyber
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punky thief simulator but rather a set of exploits targeting a vulnerability in
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a wide range of mobile devices sim jacker takes advantage of the sat
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browser software that runs on sim cards forcing it to send attackers the phone's
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imei number which can then be used to execute all sorts of attacks from
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grabbing user location to forcing the phone to send messages and make calls
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good god the big four us carriers sprint at t
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t-mobile and verizon have responded to the publication of the exploit saying
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their sim cards do not use the snt browser so they're protected but the
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researchers say that the vulnerability supposedly still affects a billion
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devices in other countries and that sim jacker attacks have actually been
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ongoing for two years already oh my god adaptive mobile are going to release
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more details about sim jacker at a conference in october but they told us a
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little about it now so so we could panic for a little bit thank you guys that's
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nice thank you i hate it and u.s house representatives have requested that
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google apple facebook and amazon turn over extensive internal records as part
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of an ongoing anti-trust investigation
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the request includes information about product sales facial recognition
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software development algorithms that inform search rankings and basically
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anything that could point to possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of
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the company the investigation is only one of many that are focusing on tech
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giants who have grown significantly in power as they build more products that
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people rely on for day-to-day living that increased power means increased
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scrutiny especially in europe google just agreed to pay a 1 billion fine to
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france for avoiding taxes in the country i mean don't get me wrong monopolies can
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be fun if you're playing the board game monopoly
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i didn't write that i hate that game it's not even fun monopolies of all
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kinds suck now it's time for equipment brought to you by the private internet
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access company private internet access pia allows you to dial in the exact
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level of privacy protection that you need online with support for a variety
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of vpn protocols and types of encryption whether you're on Windows macOS Android
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iOS Linux google chrome firefox or opera
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pia can protect you like a kevlar
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umbrella when it's raining bullets get down
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pia also features dns and ipv6 leak protection
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like a diaper for your ip never mind an internet kill switch which will block
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off all traffic if the vpn becomes disconnected unexpectedly and you can
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connect up to five devices at once basically like a family plan you can
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share that with whoever you want check it out today at LMG dot gg slash pia
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TechLinked or at the link below
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i mean if your bits aren't quick what the heck are you doing what are you
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doing give your head a shake nintendo revealed what the heck that
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weird teaser from earlier this week was about it's a fitness game called switch
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fit adventure it involves inserting joycons into a
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flexible resistance ring and leg strap like lara croft which
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track your movement as you play through the adventure uh as a character working
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to defeat an evil bodybuilding dragon
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the worst kind of those are really annoying those guys they're the worst kind of bodybuilders
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htc has revealed more details about its vive cosmos vr headset it's got dual lcd
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screens with a resolution of 1440 by 1700 per eye a 90 hertz refresh rate and
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a 110 degree of viewing viewing degree fields
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like the oculus quest and rift s it does not require external tracking stations
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although there's a mod that attaches to the front of the headset to allow it to
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work with existing lighthouse stations and old vive controllers it launches
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october 3rd for 6.99 baby i guess they don't have that that face surf money to
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drive the price down huh monopolies when apple unveiled the new iphone 11 11 pro
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and 11 pro max on tuesday they didn't mention bilateral wireless charging but
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sources have told sonny dixon a fairly reliable leaker that the new phones do
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include the hardware necessary for the feature but it was disabled in software
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scandalous somebody's gotta hack this anybody
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can we figure stuff out can we figure it out people i need to charge my stuff without the stuff
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huawei knows the world doesn't really trust it anymore so the company's ceo
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renje fang told the economist that they'd be willing to sell their 5g
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patents and technical blueprints to other companies so that they could roll
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out 5g networks without worrying about spying if that transaction actually
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occurs it'll probably be like uh
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okay it's good i swear
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and microsoft has announced a surface event for october 2nd it's the kind of event
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where you stand on a surface on the earth no it's not no it's good the
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invite to press includes promises of hardware announcements and experiences
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we might finally get to look at the dual screen foldable device that microsoft is
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working on the recent patent indicated that that device might have liquid
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powered hinges
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yeah that sounds much more reliable than whatever was in the galaxy full just
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just don't over bend it just
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and that's it for this episode you crazy kids come back on monday but we'll have
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more tech news with riley before he goes out on vacation oh yeah
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