Nearly ALL Android Devices BUGGED??
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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there's news of a rampage this weekend but not the kind where you go to a club
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and like fist pump to some bad edm i'm talking
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about rampage the security vulnerability
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which was just discovered and affects most Android devices dating back to
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2012. the bug got its name from the fact that it relies on a flaw in Android's
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memory management subsystem that could allow an attacker to peek at sensitive
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data or even take control of the device
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the underlying idea is pretty simple RAM
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page oh that's where it came from
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rights to one row of memory over and over again in hopes of getting a bit in
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the next row to flip a vulnerability
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inherent to modern forms of very tightly
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packed memory however even though rampage is making headlines today the
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odds of that kind of an attack flipping a bit that could allow for unprivileged
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access is exceedingly low you'd actually have a better shot of winning the
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lottery google has developed a remarkably
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human-sounding ai that you can have a real phone conversation with at least if
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you're a restaurant employee the public got its first look at the new
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google duplex recently which google demonstrated as a kind of personal
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secretary that could make calls on your behalf to set up or cancel appointments
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and reservations after asking your google assistant to
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take care of making the call for you it should in theory ring up the restaurant
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or business in question and make your reservation by talking to whatever
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carbon-based life form picks up the phone on the other end not only can
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duplex ai handle questions from the person like uh if an alternative
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reservation time is okay it'll also interject with ums and yeahs to help the
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conversation flow more naturally i think mark zuckerberg would be jealous
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your data might be getting a little safer if you're a california resident as
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governor jerry brown just signed the california consumer privacy act into law
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this is the strictest legal protection of its kind in the u.s the upshot is
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that it makes it much more difficult for businesses to sell consumer information
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to third parties as consumers will have the right to ask companies what personal
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data they have and order them to not
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sell it businesses will also be barred from charging customers additional money
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to make up for lost revenue from selling the data or from withholding services
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as a huge surprise to everyone who had
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no ability to recognize patterns whatsoever
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tech giants like google uber microsoft verizon and amazon all spent money
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opposing the law's passage saying that it would hurt their bank excuse me their
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innovation now it's time for rapid
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small things brought to you by private internet access vpn if you're looking
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for an easy to use vpn solution that gives you real privacy then look no
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further than pia they've got servers in 28 countries to help you get around geo
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blocking they've got multiple options for strong encryption that keeps your
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data out of the hands of snoops they've got dns leak protection to make sure
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that your browsing history remains in your hands alone and even pia mace a
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built-in tracker and malware blocker so for a secure browsing experience that
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works across a multitude of platforms check out pia at the link below
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so are you interested in that 32 core AMD Threadripper that showed up at
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computex this month well we've finally gotten what might be some pricing
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information as german retailer cyberport
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has listed the chip at around 1500 euros or
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1750 us dollars now yes that is still cheaper than
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Intel's top end model which is only 18 cores so it looks like AMD's strategy is
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still to keep undercutting Intel like a salad shooter in a basement kitchen
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get it undercutting oh wow that's awful but
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it'll still be costing you a pretty benny speaking of costing a pretty penny
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razer is releasing a new series of keyboards featuring optical switches
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which have only recently been seen on keyboards from companies like bloody and
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mooting the huntsman keyboard line will have a
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one and a half millimeter actuation point and razer is touting a longer
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lifespan than regular mechanical switches and hoping that the 150 to 200
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dollar price tag won't stop gamers from thinking their keyboards are lit
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because optical
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microsoft is bringing back the iconic intellimouse that was last seen about 15
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years ago but this time with some major changes it's gonna have a white led
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instead of the classic red
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and 3200 dpi tracking instead of the old
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400. they're hoping that this new intellimouse will be as popular with
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gamers as the original and they're going to be on sale for 40 bucks if you want
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to go check out the link in the video description
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i really don't know if 15 years later
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the intellimouse is really going to hold let me know in the comments if you
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disagree speaking of things to disagree with you might be seeing esports at the olympics
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down the road as the ioc has announced that they will be putting on an esports
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forum to help determine if competitive gaming might be suitable for the event
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although collaboration between the ioc and esports
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could stop short of including actual video game tournaments in the olympics
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but i think the question we should all be asking ourselves is is league of legends really any less
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worthy than ribbon twirling
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speaking of ribbon twirling segway
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wait no hold on speaking of terrible segues segway the other segway remember
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those guys they've popped back onto the scene with a pair of self-balancing
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electric roller skates that are vaguely reminiscent of the original segway's
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design aesthetic for better or for worse
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because the drift w1 skates don't actually contain your feet though the
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device is essentially a two-piece hoverboard
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of course the attractive couple in the cheesy marketing video doesn't have any
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trouble with them but i do wonder how many takes they had to go through to get
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that well that's it for me so
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all of y'all have a pleasant canada day weekend even if you live south of the
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border and we will see you on wow what are we gonna skip monday
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i actually don't know