AT&T MUST think you're STUPID...
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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by saying these words I summon the power
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of news
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it's funny I don't really feel any different
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but what is different is the number of
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flagship graphics cards there are on the market today yep Andy launched the
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Radeon seven yesterday at the same price as NVIDIA as r-tx 2080 $6.99 USD and
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well it probably should have made it a little cheaper you can watch my full
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review over on Linus tech tips but the basic gist of it is that AMD had some
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extra room to work with thanks to the seven nanometer process that the Radeon
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seven is built on and rather than using it for cost savings or power savings
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they boosted the clock speeds and added a butt ton of video memory so the new
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card trades blows with the RT X 2080 but
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it's kind of a hard sell because of the
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extra features on NVIDIA RT X platform
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however you do or don't feel about real time ray tracing now I'll have to wait
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and see if there are any more developments on the Radeon side but with
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board partners telling kit guru that they have no plans for custom Radeon 7
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cards and our report claiming that we
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won't see next gen Navi cards from AMD until October we might be waiting for a
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while I mean that's just fine because I'm gonna be gaming on my xbox anyway
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thank you very much now we're all somewhat used to the idea
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by now that we're being tracked in various ways by the apps on our phones
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but a report from TechCrunch has blown
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the whistle on a bunch of companies whose apps straight-up capture screen
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recordings of users iPhones hotels.com
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Singapore Airlines and Abercrombie &
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Fitch no not not Abercrombie & Fitch are
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among the companies that worked with a firm called glass box to enable session
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replays which would screenshot use your
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actions in app then sent that data back
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to the app developers now some of these session replays
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properly masked which means that personal information like passport
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and credit card numbers and not
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Abercrombie & Fitch were exposed now in
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response to the report Apple has begun telling developers that if their app use
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a screen recording tech they must disclose that detail to users or remove
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the feature and by the way they have one
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day to get their crap sorted out so I guess iPhone users will have to start
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double-checking whether their apps are recording their activity on Android we
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have it much better we can just assume that it's on holotype
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is trying
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its darndest to defend itself against suspicions from Western nations about
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the possibility that the company puts backdoors into its networking equipment
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that could be exploited by the Chinese government Huawei has now said that it
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will accept supervision of its equipment and activities by the European Union if
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it would be allowed to build 5g infrastructure there the company even
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wrote an open letter promising the UK that it would set aside
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one-and-a-half billion pounds or two
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billion u.s. dollars to address any security concerns in its network systems
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the UK is set to rule in March or April on whether to include Huawei in its 5g
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rollout and other Western nations are also busy considering the Huawei problem
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a situation made more complex by a statement from the US envoy to the EU
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claiming that any country that partners with Huawei in rolling out network
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infrastructure would necessarily lose some portion of America's trust and the
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crazy thing is that all of this is without there actually being any public
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evidence that Huawei actually has backdoors and their equipment but you
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know what they say better safe than sorry which is why AT&T is just calling
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their existing 4G networks 5g I mean the
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icon that's all it matters now it's time for nipa DVD is brought to
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Sara watches comm slash TechLinked it got it linked below onto the bibbidi
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minute e's apple has finally fixed a flaw and group FaceTime that allowed
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users to listen in on call recipients before they even picked up the company
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was criticized for leaving the flaw unaddressed for a week after a 14-year
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old discovered it and had his mom tweet Apple about it now Apple has said that
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the teenager will be compensated for his discovery under the iOS a bug bounty
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program so the next time you want to angrily tweet about a broken feature to
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a tech company don't hesitate you're helping it's a good thing
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last month motherboard reported on ISPs
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selling their users real-time location data to all manner of other companies
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and those ISPs responded by claiming well that only happened in isolated
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incidents as it turns out though the practice is way more widespread than
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initially thought with a new report claiming that around 250 companies
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including bounty hunters purchased ISP
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tracking data tens of thousands of times
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between 2012 and 2017 bounty hunters
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really so it looks like VPNs and secure DNS
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services are more necessary than air I mean there isn't even a joke about this
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like that's terrible
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speaking of terrible Google has announced a new method of encryption
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called adiantum for low powered devices
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like smart watches and Android go phones okay that's not a great segue this
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doesn't seem terrible at all normal encryption methods would usually bring a
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performance penalty to your phone processor so adiantum aheh would make
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the process much more efficient for phones that are powered by lower tier
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CPUs but the real question here is
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strengthen your phone's skeleton making it nyan destructible
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it sounds like it would do that got the
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Apple metal API and then you got the Google adiantum
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speaking of misleading AT&T is displaying a 5ge on their phones that
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are connected to the company's 5g evolution network and
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that's misleading so Sprint is suing
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AT&T for misleading advertising claiming
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that calling 4G 5g confuses the public
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and damages the reputation of actual five g a a t t actually responded
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basically saying no everyone knows that 5g evolution means
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it's 4g that's evolving to get closer to
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five g's are you freaking kidding me
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are they trying to be evil and
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we all thought Google Fiber was the future but Google apparently doesn't see
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a future in Louisville Kentucky the project is pulling out of the city after
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failing to effectively lay cable and shallow trenches called nano trenches
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Google Fiber users in the city now have two months to find an alternative
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solution before their service will be cut off Google says they could fix the
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problems but and this is a quote ah that's just not the right business
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decision for us which is what I think I'm gonna start saying when I don't want
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to go to like awkward social gatherings
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no but it might be why I don't go to my mother's this weekend
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and we're done here thanks for watching guys
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subscribe if you want to and don't if that's the way you want to live your
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life I'm not gonna tell you what to do yes I will subscribe I can tell them
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what to do they subscribe
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it is nice it's nice to me to subscribe
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yeah to me just kidding mom I'm I'll be
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there it's a birthday party