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Main News Topics AMD Vega Frontier Edition Benchmarked! Source 1: posted by Ekin https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800680-vega-fe-benchmarking-by-pcper/ Source 2: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Radeon-Vega-Frontier-Edition-16GB-Air-Cooled-Review The Radeon Vega FE card is not explicitly aimed at gamers: like Nvidia’s Titans, it will not deliver the best performance per dollar. This is AMD’s first attempt to target this segment (somewhere between gamers and professionals) Gaming results: somewhere between the GeForce GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080 25-45% faster than the aging R9 Fury X card. Professional workload results: Splits the line between the features, performance and support that NVIDIA offers between its GeForce and Quadro products. In most cases, the P5000 Quadro card will offer better performance but at double the price. Price: Air cooled - $999 - 300W Water cooled - $1499 - 375W It is the FIRST instance of HBM2 being utilized in a consumer graphics card AMD announces new Ryzen Pro Desktop CPUs Source 1: posted by Misanthrope https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800331-amd-announces-their-new-ryzen-pro-series-of-desktop-cpus/ Source 2: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_announces_their_new_ryzen_pro_series_of_desktop_cpus/1 AMD has today announced their new Ryzen Pro series of Desktop CPUs, adding another tier to AMD's Enterprise CPU offerings These new CPUs will offer Windows 10 Enterprise Security support, AES 128-bit memory encryption and a 36-month warranty. The Pro series will come with similar designs to their existing Ryzen desktop series comparable clock speeds and additional enterprise-grade features. Ryzen Pro offers yet another advantage over Intel's i3 series of CPUs, as they lack Intel VPro Security compatibility. This will allow AMD to offer both performance and security advantages in this market segment. AMD Accidentally reveals Ryzen 3 Details Source 1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11593/amd-inadvertently-reveals-ryzen-3-1300-1200-details Source 2: http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3-1200-benchmarks-leaked/ AMD has announced Ryzen PRO 3 specifications, but it’s likely they’ve inadvertently also revealed Ryzen 3 1300 and 1200 specs as well. It’s because the non-X PRO chips all have the same performance specifications as their standard consumer counterparts Ryzen 3 is a quad-core CPU without SMT 4 threads instead of 8 Ryzen 3 will use the same die as Ryzen 5 and 7: 4 cores distributed over 2 CCXs Ryzen 3 will have the same cache structure as the Ryzen 5 1400 That means just half of the chip’s total 16MB of L3 cache is enabled. Each core still retains its full 512KB of L2 cache. TDPs will stick with the same 65W TDP as all but the highest-performance Ryzen chips What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire X299 Boards Have Bad VRM Coolers? Source 1: posted by Lord Nicoll https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800060-der8auer-states-x299-have-bad-vrm-coolers/ Source 2: https://youtu.be/f7BqAjC4ZCc Der8auer has posted a video showing the VRMs on an X299 board reaching 100 degrees. the single 8 pin connectors on PSUs can hit 60°C when overclocking the 10 core models. Ethereum mining uses as much energy as a small country Source 1: posted by Ginger137 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800403-ethereum-mining-uses-as-much-energy-as-a-small-country/ Source 2: https://futurism.com/ethereum-could-be-using-more-than-a-countrys-worth-of-electricity/ Real-time index from cryptocurrency analysis site Digiconomist’s founder Alex de Vries shows that Ethereum mining is powered by an amount of electricity equivalent to that consumed by a small country Household computers turned Ether miners each have blockchain transactions consuming at least 45 kWh of electricity. The entire Ethereum network could be consuming as much as 4.2 Terawatt-hours (tWh) Only a bit more than what’s consumed by the island of Cyprus. One major reason for this is the power-hungry graphics cards involved. This may not be the case for long, though: Ethereum has plans to move away from its existing energy-intensive mining algorithms R.I.P. Lexar Memory Cards Source 1: posted by Shutter Boy https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799659-lexar-is-no-more-micron-is-discontinuing-lexar-removable-storage-retail-business/#comment-10059369 Source 2: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/27/r-p-lexar-memory-cards/ Micron, the parent company of Lexar, has announced that the entire Lexar removable storage retail business is being shut down. other products that are being killed off include USB flash drives, memory card readers, and storage drives. Micron’s blog says: “The decision was made as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to focus on its increasing opportunities in higher value markets and channels,” Industry Retail source: “Apparently Amazon and Google have been buying so much flash memory from them that there is no need for push for the retail side of things” Micron says it’s “exploring opportunities to sell all or part of the Lexar business” Apple beaten to punch on Under-glass Fingerprint sensor Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799918-underglass-fingerprint-sensor-demoed-at-mwc-shanghai/ Source 2:https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/28/vivo-qualcomm-under-display-fingerprint-reader/ At MWC Shanghai, Qualcomm announced its latest ultrasonic fingerprint solution, offering: integration beneath OLED displays (up to 1.2mm-thick) as well as aluminium, functionality even when the device is immersed in water. tolerates dirt and sweat on skin better than its capacitive counterpart, Vivo's Xplay6 demostrated the tech: The demo started off with a fingerprint registration process that requested the user to put their finger on a marked area on the screen, which was just above the old fingerprint button. The user could then unlock the phone by touching that same spot using the registered finger; Fingerprint recognition speed in this implementation was noticeably slower than the near-instantaneous unlock that now common on smartphones: ~1 second between first touch and entering home screen Vivo's demonstrators said the same technology could be applied across the entire screen, but that would significantly increase production cost; instead, Vivo might eventually cover just the bottom half of the screen The same tech was shown on the back of the phone's metallic body, allowing the phone to be unlocked even when placed in water. Canada: Top court orders Google to block website search results Source 1: posted by lisek991 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800220-canada-top-court-orders-google-to-block-website-search-results/ Source 2: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-canada-court-google-block-website.html Canada's top court has ordered Google to remove a website from its worldwide search results, in what some experts are calling a landmark international copyright protection case. The original injunction had been requested by Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer Equustek Solutions, which successfully sued another company for relabeling its products and passing them off as their own. But the company fled the country and continued to market the counterfeit products from an unknown location. Google balked when Equustek asked it to go further and de-index all mentions of the offending company worldwide. Google argued in court that it was not a party to the dispute, that such a measure was overreach, and "that there are freedom of expression concerns that should have tipped the balance against granting the order." But the Supreme Court concluded: "Without the injective relief, it was clear that Google would continue to facilitate that ongoing harm" to Equustek. "The only way to ensure that the interlocutory injunction attained its objective was to have it apply where Google operates—globally." Some media groups, publishers, copyright organizations and civil liberties groups worried about the precedent it sets. "there is great risk that governments and commercial entities will see this ruling as justifying censorship requests that could result in perfectly legal and legitimate content disappearing off the web because of a court order in the opposite corner of the globe," -David Christopher of Open Media. Techpowerup "Advertorial By AMD" Draws Controversy Source 1: posted by eyecantseeover24fps https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799189-techpowerup-advertorial-by-amd-draws-controversy/ Source 2: http://deliddedtech.com/2017/06/27/techpowerup-advertorial-by-amd-draws-controversy/ Source 3: http://deliddedtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/advertorialbyamd-e1498534333699-768x259.png https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Radeon_RX_560_vs_GTX_1050/ Last Wednesday, Techpowerup published what appeared to be a comparison between AMD’s Radeon RX 560 and Nvidia’s GTX 1050, but was actually an AMD ad. The article reads like a review from an independent journalist, with no disclaimers within the article itself that it comes from AMD or is sponsored by AMD. The only ad markers on the page were: “advertorial by AMD” off to the side on the top right. The author being named “Advertorial” The article was posted directly in the “Reviews” section Forum members disagree whether or not AMD crossed the line Windows Update: Machine Learning Antivirus Source 1: posted by JohnnyCorporalTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799809-microsoft-may-use-ai-to-fight-cyberattacks-in-its-next-major-windows-update/ Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-build-smart-antivirus-using-400-million-computers-artificial-intelligence/ In its Fall Creators Update, Microsoft will use machine learning from more than 400 million computers and a wide range of data coming from its cloud programs such as Azure, Endpoint, and Office to create an artificial intelligence antivirus that can pick up on malware behavior If new malware is detected on any computer running Windows 10 in the world, Microsoft said it will be able to develop a signature for it and protect all the other users worldwide. The first victim will be safe as well because the virus will be set off in a virtual sandbox on the cloud, not on the person's device. "If Word were to start allocating memory in big chunks, when it never does, we would be able to detect that. We built the machine learning models around common applications like Word." The update will also bring new protections for the browser but only for those using Microsoft Edge. The upgrade is coming to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, with new features like browser-focused Application Guard and cloud-related Device Guard and Exploit Guard. No Privacy: Russia to ban Telegram Source 1: posted by Denis Rakhmanov https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799217-russia-to-ban-telegram/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/26/russia-ban-telegram-hand-over-data/ Russia's communications regulator has demanded Telegram turn over information about the messaging app and the company behind it or risk being blocked. Founder Pavel Durov said that Telegram had also been asked to give the Russian government access to decrypt user messages, all in the name of catching terrorists. Telegram, a favorite of the Vatican, has also been used by ISIS to spread a kid-centric learning app. Though Telegram has made an effort to block ISIS channels, new ones are created frequently. According to Durov, US agencies tried to bribe the app's team last year and gain some influence with the app’s creator. Iran recently demanded that messaging apps like Telegram stop storing Iranian users' data outside of the country. Durov said, "If you want to defeat terrorism by blocking stuff, you'll have to block the Internet." Toshiba produces the world's first 4-bit QLC NAND Flash Memory Source 1: posted by Coaxialgamer https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/800633-toshiba-produces-the-worlds-first-4-bit-qlc-nand-flash-memory/ Source 2: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/storage/toshiba_produces_the_world_s_first_4-bit_qlc_nand_flash_memory/1 Toshiba has produced the world's first 4-bit QLC NAND flash memory, which offers increased levels of storage density and cost/storage ratios. Toshiba's QLC (quad-level cell) delivers 4 bits of information per memory cell rather than the typical 3, greatly increasing the amount of storage that can be fitted into a single memory die. Toshiba's new 64-layer QLC flash offers capacities of 768Gb (96GB) of storage per die. allowing Toshiba to create a 1.5 TB SSD package with a 16-die stacked architecture Toshiba is planning a demonstration at the 2017 Flash Memory Summit in August (7-10) Unsafe Hyper-Threading: Bug reported in Skylake and Kaby Lake (BORING) Source 1: posted by mariushm https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/798689-hardware-bug-in-skylake-and-kaby-lake-unsafe-hyper-threading/ Source 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html An advisory to members of the Debian mailing list describes a microcode defect that can cause Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors with hyper-threading enabled to cause spurious errors, such as: application and system misbehavior, data corruption, and data loss. The defect can potentially affect any operating system It can be avoided by disabling hyper-threading, or fixed by updating the processor microcode Petya ransomware slams Windows PCs shut in massive attack Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/799413-latest-eternalblue-attack-notpetya-is-a-wiper-disguised-as-ransomware/ Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/unprecedented-cyberattack-hits-businesses-across-europe/ The new ransomware is particularly dangerous because it doesn't only encrypt files, it also encrypts the hard drive: It locks up both your files and your computer's file system. There's also a hidden Trojan that steals victims' usernames and passwords. The malware forces an infected PC to reboot as soon as it finishes encrypting files, so you'll see the ransom demands as soon as possible. The malware is demanding $300 in bitcoin before victims can regain access. Microsoft released patches for all Windows operating systems after the global outbreak, but people who've updated their computers could still be affected because Petya can also spread through Office documents a la WannaCry. Zillow orders popular blog to take down photos - BRING IN JON FOR “THE LEGAL CORNER WITH JON” Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/mcmansion-hell-used-zillow-photos-to-mock-bad-design-zillow-may-sue/ Source 2: http://gizmodo.com/mcmansion-hell-is-back-online-will-not-comply-with-zil-1796528085 A well-known architecture blogger has temporarily disabled her website, McMansionHell.com, after receiving a demand letter from Zillow and posting it on Twitter. Zillow threatened to sue, saying that she was violating its terms of use, copyright law, and possibly the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because she took images from the company's website without permission. on each of her posts, she acknowledged that the images came from Zillow and were posted under the fair use doctrine, as she was providing (often humorous) commentary Zillow does not even own the images in question, they license them from the rights holders - JON WILL HAVE THOUGHTS ON WHETHER ZILLOW HAS STANDING TO SUE After being temporarily shut down, the blog is back online Her lawyers say: “Our client has no obligation to, and thus will not, comply with Zillow’s demands. Zillow’s legal threats are not supported and plainly seek to interfere with protected speech” Amazon releasing Translation services Source 1: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/26/amazon-web-services-launching-machine-translation-service.html Source 2: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/amazon-said-to-be-working-on-translation-services-for-aws-customers/ Amazon's cloud computing division has been working on a translation service that developers can use to easily make their websites and apps available in multiple languages Amazon is now releasing its machine-translation technology- that it uses across the company to do things like provide product information in multiple languages- through Amazon Web Services The other major cloud infrastructure providers, Alphabet and Microsoft, also sell translation services. Google first released a language translation service for developers in 2008. Facebook has developed machine translation technology for use in its own main app.

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Main News Topics Rumour: Apple's iMac Pro to use Server grade Intel Processor Source 1: posted by RedRound2 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/797260-apples-imac-pro-to-use-intel-server-grade-purley-with-an-arm-co-processor/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/22/imac-pro-will-server-grade-processor-arm/ The blog Pike’s Universum claims that the iMac Pro will be powered by Intel’s next-generation server-grade Skylake-EX and Skylake-EP processors, citing information available within firmware files from the macOS High Sierra beta What this means is that the iMac Pro would offer server-level Xeon processors, codenamed Purley rather than Skylake,or Kaby Lake processors that use the LGA2066 socket. the blog goes on to note that the iMac Pro will feature an ARM coprocessor in the form of a Secure Enclave, similar to that of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. The Secure Enclave adds an additional level of security to the Mac and suggests that Touch ID could be implemented into the iMac’s accompanying Space Gray keyboard. EPYC Benchmarks and Pricing! Source 1: posted by TechFanboy https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796135-amds-epyc-cpus-with-benchmarks-pricing/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/amds-future-in-servers-new-7000-series-cpus-launched-and-epyc-analysis Benchmarking results for AMD’s EPYC line, formerly known as Naples, are in!: 32-cores and 64-threads at 3.2GHz with 2TB of memory in 8 DRAM channels and 128 PCI-E lanes All CPUs will have 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes, have access to all 64MB of L3 cache, and support DDR4-2666 The only differentiation between processors will be cores, frequency, and power. OnePlus 5 gets caught cheating at benchmarking programs Source 1: posted by nerdslayer1 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796117-one-plus-5-got-caught-cheating-at-benchmarking-programs/ Source 2: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/251285-tests-prove-oneplus-five-cheats-benchmarks-returns-fake-results The OnePlus 5 has apparently been designed to use alternate CPU scaling modes when it is running certain benchmarking applications. Instead of dropping down to 0.31 GHz when there is 0% load, the OnePlus 3T’s cores would stay above 0.98 GHz for the little cores and 1.29 GHz for the big cores, They’re effectively setting looser thermal restrictions in order to bolster benchmark scores The One Plus 5 received about a 5% boost in performance, achieving the highest Geekbench 4 scores of a Snapdragon 835 to date. NSA opens a github account Source 1: posted by vorticalbox https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796531-nsa-opens-a-github-account/ Source 2: http://sdtimes.com/nsa-github-account/ Software from the NSA that can actually be used for good has appeared online through the agencies new official GitHub page. They released 32 open source projects including: DCP: A program that reduces the timespan needed for making a forensic copy of hard drives for forensic analysis. MAPLESYRUP: Assesses the security state of an ARM-based device by examining the system register interface of the processor. SECURITY-ENHANCED LINUX (SELINUX): A mandatory access control mechanism in the Linux kernel that checks for allowed operations after standard discretionary access controls are checked. It can enforce rules on files and processes in a Linux system, and on the actions they perform, based on defined policies. SELinux has been part of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.0. SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS FOR ANDROID (SEANDROID): Confines privileged processes based on security policies by enforcing mandatory access control over all Android processes. SE for Android has been part of Android since Android 4.3. There’s a long tradition of defense software eventually trickling down to the public, like internet and GPS What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Netflix interactive TV: Choose your own adventure Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796069-netflix-interactive-tv-choose-your-own-adventure-books-for-the-modern-age/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/20/netflix-interactive-shows/ Netflix is launching a new kind of programming called “branching narratives” where viewers can control certain aspects of the story, including the ending. The first series, Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale, was created in partnership with DreamWorks Animation and features 13 different storyline choices and two endings. It will debut today on the streaming service, followed by Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile, on July 14th. Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout, later this year. Netflix: "Being an internet-based company enables us to innovate new formats, deliver at scale to millions of members all over the world on multiple device types and, most importantly, learn from it," At launch, these shows will work on "most" TV experiences and the latest iOS devices, though not its own site. The Apple TV isn't compatible either, nor are Android smartphone or tablets, but support for these platforms could come down the road. China using Quantum Entanglement to build new unhackable internet Source 1: posted by mr moose https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/795368-chinese-developing-new-unhackable-internet/ Source 2: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/china-sets-new-record-for-quantum-entanglement-en-route-to-build-new-communication-network/news-story/e528da0cf68b2e63bbe093cab49ec507 Chinese scientists have set a new distance record for beaming a pair of entangled particles when a laser on a satellite orbiting 480 kilometres above the earth produced entangled photons it then transmitted to two different ground-based stations 1200 kilometres apart- all without breaking the link between the photons The distance achieved in the experiment is 10 times greater than the previous record for entanglement and is also the first time entangled photons have been generated in space. By launching a group of quantum-enabled satellites, China hopes to create a super secure network that uses an encryption technique based on “quantum communication”. “we have demonstrated some encryption techniques that rely on the law of physics rather than mathematical complexity and we call this quantum key distribution,” The reason it can’t be hacked is because the information carried in the quantum state of a particle cannot be measured or cloned without destroying the information itself. Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-will-stop-reading-your-emails-for-gmail-ads Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-advertising-targeting-privacy-cloud-business Google is stopping one of the most controversial advertising formats: ads inside Gmail that scan users’ email contents. The decision came from Google’s cloud unit, which is angling to sign up more corporate customers. Paying Gmail users have never actually received the email-scanning ads like the free version of the program, but some business customers were confused by the distinction and its privacy implications “What we’re going to do is make it unambiguous,” Ads will continue to appear inside the free version of Gmail, as promoted messages. But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now be targeted with other personal information Google already pulls from sources such as search and YouTube Rumour: Tesla creating its own Music-Streaming Service? Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/tesla-said-in-talks-with-labels-for-music-streaming-service Source 2:https://www.recode.net/2017/6/22/15855346/tesla-elon-musk-streaming-music-service Tesla Inc. is apparently in talks with record labels about licensing a proprietary music service that would come bundled with its cars, which already come equipped with a high-tech dashboard and internet connectivity Label sources aren’t clear about the full scope of Tesla’s ambitions, but believe it is interested in offering multiple tiers of service, starting with a Pandora-like web radio offering It’s unclear if the automaker will ultimately decide to go forward with the service or continue with its current music partners, Tesla offers Spotify Ltd.’s streaming service in Europe, Hong Kong and Australia, and works with Slacker in the U.S. and Canada. Context: digital-music companies like Spotify and Pandora have been pushing to get into more cars as wireless networks offer better wireless internet coverage, creating new threats against traditional radio and satellite radio. Meanwhile Record labels wary of aggregation- and particularly a Spotify monopoly- have encouraged more competitors to enter the industry, YouTube announces a new VR format Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/youtubes-vr180-format-makes-vr-video-more-accessible/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/22/15854308/google-youtube-vr180-video-camera-lenovo At VidCon this week, YouTube announced a new format called “VR180” which is exactly what it sounds like: stereoscopic video, but only in 180 degrees This cuts the data requirements in half—4K for each eye looks great as opposed to the 8K required for 360 VR to really look good. YouTube thinks the format should map a lot easier to the existing content most creators produce: they can just set up a camera, aim it at a (slightly wider than normal) staged area, and start filming The new format also supports live streaming. Viewers can strap into Google Cardboard, any Daydream-compatible viewer, or PSVR to watch the content. If you're on a desktop, you can still view the video as a stationary 16:9 video. Valve gives Oculus the finger with Five-Finger controller Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/valve-tries-to-one-up-oculus-touch-with-five-finger-knuckles-vr-controller/ Source 2: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2017/06/22/valve-shows-off-new-knuckles-vr-controller-with-individual-finger-tracking New details have been released about the Vive’s upcoming Knuckles controllers which allow for full, independent tracking of all five fingers. Embedded, capacitive sensors in the handle of the unit track the position of the middle, ring, and pinky fingers, while similar sensors in the trigger and face buttons track the index finger and thumb. A ring of sensors around the thumbpad and the back of the hand helps track the unit in space through the standard Lighthouse system A cinch-able soft strap that locks the controller around your palm (and through the crook between your thumb and index finger) lets you move and flex your fingers independently without the risk of dropping the controller The current Knuckles controller dev kit reportedly has a battery life of three hours and requires an hour of USB Micro charging to fill up Power Hungry Rx Vega Source 1: posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/797302-amd-rx-vega-to-use-lots-of-power/ Source 2: https://videocardz.com/70465/msi-damn-rx-vega-needs-a-lot-of-power#disqus_thread A forum posts by MSI marketing director on the Dutch Tweakers forums indicates that AMD’s upcoming Vega cards might draw more power than we’re used to. “I’ve seen the specs of Vega RX. It needs a damn lot of power. We’re working on it, which is a start so launch is coming closer :)” This is the first indication that AMD has begun sharing Vega details with partners The Frontier Edition cards consumer: 300W (air cooled) 375W (liquid cooled) Razer makes virtual currency push with $20M investment Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/razer-makes-virtual-currency-push/ Source 2: https://www.techinasia.com/razer-takes-minority-stake-malaysian-fintech-startup-push-virtual-gaming-currency Razer has invested close to $20 million into Malaysia-based online payment firm MOL Global as part of a push to establish its virtual currency for gamers in Asia. Razer introduced its ‘zVault’ digital wallet and ‘zGold’ rewards program for its gamers back in March Razer’s network, combined with that of, MOL will allow users to buy its points at over a million online and retail stores across Southeast Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Beyond Razer’s own network of games and discounts for its online retail store, the points will also be redeemable through MOL partners, which include Sony’s PlayStation Store in Southeast Asia, Facebook games and publishers like Nexon. The deal makes zGold “one of the biggest virtual credit systems in the world and biggest in Southeast Asia.” Apple's GPU designer Imagination up for Sale Source 1: posted by DocSwag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/797093-imagination-designer-of-apples-gpus-puts-itself-up-for-sale/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11569/imagination-technologies-formally-puts-itself-up-for-sale Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would stop using Imagination PowerVR GPUs in its SoCs in favour of making their own GPUs Before the announcement Imagination stock was priced at around $280 per share, but it immediately dropped to $100 Around a month after the initial announcement, Imagination announced that they would be selling off the other parts of its business, focusing solely on the GPU business. During this time, Imagination “received interest from a number of parties for a potential acquisition” “The Board of Imagination has therefore decided to initiate a formal sale process for the Group and is engaged in preliminary discussions with potential bidders”. This announement immediately boosted the stock by $30 Imagination’s PowerVR GPU IP alone is valuable to virtually all of the major SoC vendors, not to mention IP powerhouses and former customers such as Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung, and of course, Apple. Apple Internal presentation on preventing leaks gets leaked Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796232-apple-internal-presentation-on-preventing-leaks-gets-leaked/ Source 2: https://theoutline.com/post/1766/leaked-recording-inside-apple-s-global-war-on-leakers A recording of an Internal briefing that Apple gave to employees on preventing leaks of Apple products...has been leaked According to the hour-long presentation, Apple’s Global Security team employs an undisclosed number of investigators around the world to prevent information from reaching competitors, counterfeiters, and the press, as well as hunt down the source when leaks do occur. Some of these investigators have previously worked at U.S. intelligence agencies like the NSA, law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Secret Service, and in the U.S. military. Historically, Apple’s biggest leaks happened when parts were stolen from factories in China and are shared with the press, like when photos of the iPhone 5 leaked in 2012. However more breaches are now happening on Apple’s campuses in California “Last year was the first year that Apple [campuses] leaked more than the supply chain,” “More stuff came out of Apple [campuses] last year than all of our supply chain combined.” ASUS releases first 10GbE network card under $100 Source 1: posted by Teroduis https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/796787-asus-releases-first-sub-100-dollar-10gbe-card/ Source 2: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-xg-c100c-10gbase-t-nic,34844.html For less than $100 you can now get massive bandwidth with priority queuing for enhanced gaming support The NIC will set your system back four PCI Express 3.0 lanes as required by the Aquantia AQtion Client Controller. There are two specifications that make this product stand out from other 10GbE NICs shipping today. the low $99 price tag. it consumes very little power and produces very little heat. Rumour: ASUS, COLORFUL and MSI Releasing GPU for mining Source 1: posted by Rekted https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/797482-asus-colorful-and-msi-upcoming-special-gpu-for-mining/ Source 2: https://videocardz.com/70254/asus-colorful-and-msi-showcase-their-mining-graphics-cards Cryptocurrency forums are filled with information about upcoming mining cards from AMD and NVIDIA at least two SKUs for miners are being prepared by NVIDIA. These cards are said to be more efficient than normal GeForce cards in cryptocurrency mining (~30 to ~10% depending on SKU The OEM cards will look similar to conventional video cards with the exception of the I/O bracket, which lacks display connectors. See link for specs on: ASUS P106-100 MINING MSI P106-100 MINER and P104-100 MINER COLORFUL P106-100

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Main News Topics Embargo Broken: Intel Core i9 Benchmarked! Source 1: posted by PCGuy_5960 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/794155-7900x-reviewed/ Source 2: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/107017-intel-core-i9-7900x-14nm-skylake-x/ the first ever core i9 processor has been introduced: it's the 10 core, 20 thread Core i9-7900X priced at $999 The $2,000 18 core, 36 thread 7980XE won't ship until Q4 Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/amazon-to-acquire-whole-foods-in-13-7-billion-bet-on-groceries Source 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/business/dealbook/amazon-whole-foods.html?_r=0 Amazon.com Inc. will acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion, catapulting the e-commerce giant into hundreds of physical stores and fulfilling a long-held goal of selling more groceries. Amazon gets a network of stores where it can implement decades’ worth of experiments in how people pick, pay for and get groceries delivered. The deal sent shockwaves across both the online and brick-and-mortar industries. Grocery chains plunged on Friday -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fell 7.1% Kroger Co. fell 17% “I assume the physical presence gives them the ability to distribute other products more locally. So theoretically you could get 5-minute delivery.” - Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc. Will Whole Foods eventually be checkout-less, using Amazon Go technology? Will it get cheaper to shop at WF? CRTC (Canada) bans cell phones unlocking fees Source 1: posted by wkdpaul https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793733-crtc-canada-bans-cellhpones-unlocking-fees/ Source 2: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-wireless-code-cellphone-1.4161711 As of Dec. 1, cell phone customers can ask their provider to unlock their phones free of charge, and all newly purchased mobile devices must be provided to customers unlocked. Telecoms often order locked phones from manufacturers that are programmed to work only with their service. Then they charge a fee — typically $50 — to unlock the phone if a customer wants to switch providers. "Now there's going to be so much more flexibility in being able to jump from plan to plan, from carrier to carrier. That will likely spark more competition." Canadian telecoms made a total of $37.7 million last year by charging customers to unlock their cellphones — a 75% jump in that source of revenue compared with 2014. Telecoms warned that if they didn't charge an unlocking fee for the few customers who want it done, the cost would have to be passed on to everyone. Parents: The commission also announced that only the account holder can consent to data overage and additional roaming charges in a family-shared cellphone plan. Other plan members will only be able to give consent if the account holder grants them approval. What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Facebook creating its own TV shows Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/facebook-chases-tv-s-70-billion-stash-with-its-own-video-series Source 2: https://www.ft.com/content/2047563c-4bd6-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43 Facebook is closing deals for its first batch of shows which will be available via a new video tab on Facebook that hasn’t been released. By funding a slate of original programs, Facebook hopes to entice more production companies to upload premium video, which Facebook will then use to siphon advertising dollars away from television. Facebook is funding two kinds of programs -- Hero Shows: expensive series from established TV producers that will take a few months to produce Spotlight shows: cheaper videos from publishers like Vox and BuzzFeed All shows will be episodic and designed to spur conversation among Facebook users. Facebook executives have compared funding original videos to priming the pump at an oilfield, giving creators a financial incentive to upload more video, get a taste of the large audiences they can attract, and come back for more. Facebook has paid celebrities to use its live video feature, and encouraged TV networks and movie studios to stream live events and trailers on the social network for free promotion. iPad Pro outperforms MacBook Pro in some CPU & GPU Ttasks Source 1: posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793915-benchmark-tests-show-new-ipad-pro-models-outperform-macbook-pro-in-some-cpu-gpu-tasks/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/14/ipad-pro-versus-macbook-pro-speed-tests/ The blog BareFeats stacked the 2017 and 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models up against four different iPad Pro models and put the devices through a series of GeekBench and GFXBench tests, looking at both CPU and GPU performance. On the Geekbench metal GPU tests the 10.5-inch iPad Pro beat out all other devices, including the MacBook Pro. The newest 12.9-inch model came in second, followed by the 2016 MacBook Pro. The 2017 MacBook Pro placed fourth, behind its predecessor. On the GFXBench graphics test the tests iPad Pro 12.9-inch and 10.5-inch models edged out both MacBook Pro models. For multi-core CPU performance, the 2017 MacBook Pro came in at the top, but in second place was the 10.5-inch iPad Pro followed by the 2017 12.9-inch model- head of the 2016 MacBook Pro Couple Caveats: benchmark tests are not necessarily conducive to real-world usage. MacBook Pro models have larger and higher resolution displays than the iPad Pro’s, which play a role especially in GPU tests. iOS software is nearly perfectly optimized for the devices it runs on, whereas there is a bit more room for error when it comes to macOS. Leaked: AMD Epyc 7000 series Source 1: posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793623-amd-epyc-7000-series-revealed/. Source 2: https://videocardz.com/70266/amd-epyc-7000-series-specs-and-performance-leaked These chips- formerly known as Naples- are taking aim at Intel’s Xeon series. Will Intel pull out a fast-answer like they did with SkylakeX/Threadripper? Rumour: Nvidia Volta Won't Use HBM2, But GDDR5X Source 1: posted by NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/794152-nvidia-volta-wont-use-hbm2-but-gddr5x/ Source 2: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/upcoming-geforce-gtx-cards-use-gddr5x-not-hbm2.html It’s rumoured that the upcoming consumer GeForce cards based on Volta will not use HBM2 Because HBM2 memory may simply be too expensive for consumer products. The challenges associated with HBM2 fabrication and implementation could also be related to the delays we’re seeing from AMD’s consumer Radeon RX Vega cards. Scrapyard Wars 4 Champion saves a life Source 1: posted by rodrosenberg https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793258-scrapyard-wars-4-champion-saves-aunt-lost-for-5-days/ Source 2: http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/23841-great-grandmother-70-recounts-5-days-trapped-in-car-before-dramatic-rescue-this-isnt-real 70 year old Sharon Leaming has five broken ribs, a broken back and a giant bruise on her face since surviving five days trapped in her car after crashing 40 feet down an embankment in Washington. She was trapped with only two bananas and two bottles of water, unable to move or grab her cell phone. Her family grew worried after she failed to show up for a visit, but their only clue as to her whereabouts was a ping from a cell phone tower that covers several miles along Route 12, about two hours outside Seattle. But she “never gave up hope" and honked the horn of the car for two days until the battery died. After searching countless logging roads, Bob noticed something amiss “I was just looking over the edge and the more I looked, the more I could see the brush was disturbed a little bit,” Suddenly, he heard his aunt calling out for help. “She couldn’t believe that I found her," Bob said. "She was expecting a search and rescue team." Badass: Alienware Area 51 with AMD Threadripper Source 1: posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/792481-alienware-area-51-with-amd-threadripper/ Source 2: https://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/Dell-Announces-Alienware-Area-51-Threadripper-Edition Alienware has just announced their new Area 51 gaming desktop with AMD Threadripper. 12 core or 16 core processor, watercooling, UP to 64GB of quad channel DDR4. M.2 PCIe storage and HDD. From GTX1050Ti up to dual GTX1080Ti or triple AMD RX580s. Through 2017, Dell will be the exclusive OEM prebuilt, to offer AMD Threadripper. Available starting June 27th No price info yet. Hey Linus, Razer Launches new Blade Stealth Source 1: posted by linustouchtips https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793211-razer-launches-new-blade-stealth/ Source 2: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/razer-launches-new-blade-stealth-laptop-with-13-3-inch-display-and-new-gunmetal-color-option.html But given the RMA count in our office, would you buy another Blade? Apple Abandons JPEG In Favor of HEIF/HEVC Source 1: posted by LAwLz https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/791592-apple-abandons-jpeg-in-favor-of-heifhevc/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/08/ios-11s-new-heifhevc-camera-formats-will-save-you-50-on-storage/ At WWDC, Apple introduced two new camera formats that are included in iOS 11: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) Apple estimates users will be able to save up to 50% on storage needs, without any loss in image quality Apple will start using HEVC for video recording and will start saving pictures taken on your iPhone as HEIF files, encoded with HEVC. Neither of these new camera formats were originally built by Apple but by MPEG Facebook Using AI to target Terrorist Accounts Source 1: http://uk.pcmag.com/news/89874/facebook-using-ai-to-wipe-out-terrorist-accounts Source 2: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/facebook-claims-ai-tackle-terrorist-content-170616051247212.html Facebook is now using artificial intelligence to keep terrorist content from groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda off the platform. Facebook is using image-matching technology to stop people from posting photos or videos of known terrorists. It's also testing a "language understanding" algorithm that can identify text-based terrorist propaganda. "When we identify pages, groups, posts or profiles as supporting terrorism, we also use algorithms to 'fan out' to try to identify related material," The algorithms use signals like whether an account is friends with lot of others who have been disabled for terrorism, or whether it "shares the same attributes as a disabled account." Facebook is also working to bring these technologies to its other platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. Facebook is currently focusing on ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their affiliates, though it plans to expand these efforts to block other terrorist organization in the future. Who decides who the terrorists are? DARPA investing $80 million to develop HIVE processors Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/792254-darpa-investing-80-million-to-develop-hive-processors/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/11/american-military-backs-an-entirely-new-kind-of-processor/ DARPA is spending $80 million to fund the development of the world's first ‘graph analytic processor’. The HIVE (Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit) accesses random, 8-byte data points from the system's global memory, crunching each of those points individually That's a much faster approach for handling large data, which frequently involves many relationships between info sets. It's also extremely scalable, so you can use as many HIVE chips as you need to accomplish your goals. The agency is working with Intel, Qualcomm and Northrop Grumman, as well as researchers at Georgia Tech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Emirates Airlines considering AR Glasses Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-14/emirates-eyes-smart-goggles-to-shake-off-looming-budget-rivals Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/15/improve-service-emirates-ar/ Emirates is studying ways to equip staff with augmented reality glasses that display a passenger’s name and travel habits, allowing more personalized service, Travelers may also be given eye-wear to help them navigate airports or browse food menus. The carrier has recently been hit with to competition from cheaper rivals, weaker oil prices which have hurt demand from the Gulf’s wealthiest travelers, and by tourists’ growing security concerns. The tech is a ways out: “It still looks a little bit odd...But maybe that can be overcome.” Memes mock Twitter's major redesign Source 1: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40299919 Source 2: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4611402/Users-Twitter-mocking-redesign.html Twitter has made some tweaks to their interface: Profile pictures are now round rather than square, wrecking many brands’ images the reply icon is reflected by a chat bubble likes and retweets on the app are shown in real time iOS users can now open links in Safari's viewer People are mocking the new design using #NewTwitter Bethesda announces Creation Club Source 1: posted by jaggysnake57 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/793975-bethsesdas-paid-modssome-more-info/ Source 2: https://www.vg247.com/2017/06/16/skyrim-fallout-4-creation-club-will-only-feature-new-dlc-not-mods-you-can-get-for-free-now/ At E3, Bethesda announced a new collection of game content- essentially mods- for Skyrim and Fallout that will be for sale through what they’re calling Creation Club The mods are created by both Bethesda and outside modders, and every piece of content is QA’d by Bethesda. Creation Club will be a distinct entity separate from the existing mod environment Is it just a cash-grab, or is this a great way to pay talented modders to make great content? XBOX ONE X https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/xbox-one-x-scorpio-games-explainer-video/

Main News Topics APPLE News======================================= Apple Unveils “HomePod” Source 1: posted by THeEmpire.01 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789483-apple-announces-homepod-a-smart-music-speaker/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15722994/apple-wwdc-2017-news-highlights-recap This week at WWDC, Apple unveiled their voice-activated smart speaker: HomePod The first thing that Phil Schiller spoke about was audio quality: Apple seems to be targeting folks who buy stuff like the Sonos Play 3 speaker rather than folks who buy devices like the Amazon Echo. HomePod uses spacial awareness to tune and better fill the room with sound based on the space it’s in. It can be used to for all normal Siri stuff, and some new music commands like “who’s the drummer in this song” It has 7 beam-forming speakers and a 4 inch subwoofer Multiple HomePods can be connected to one another and will be aware of one another You can ask it to control smart home devices and check the day’s weather and news briefings. Apple priced the HomePod at $349, Echo and Google Home are $180 The HomePod will be available in two colors: space grey or white Apple Announces new iMacs Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789187-apple-updates-its-mac-lineup-external-gpu-support-kaby-lake-and-a-new-imac-pro/ Source 2: everything announced: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/ Sourced 3: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/new-imac-pro-2017-latest-rumours-uk-release-date-price-3511338/ Apple VPs revealed that because the Mac Pro in its current form hasn't been meeting the needs of many pro users, some pros have turned to the iMac instead, and as a result Apple intends to provide those users with an update to the iMac designed to suit them. The new iMac Pro, will have a Space Grey case. The result is a new fan system that offers an 80 percent increase in cooling capacity, according to the company. Apple says that the new system “allows for upgraded internals without making more noise.” Apple debuts two AMD Vega GPUs, unveiling the specs for July's gaming cards Source 1: posted by Tigermaniac https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790101-amd-rx-vega-apple-debuts-two-vega-gpus-unveiling-the-specs-for-julys-gaming-cards/ Source 2: http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-vega-specs-performance-release-date-technology-explained While unveiling their new iMac Pro, Apple showed a slide of its Radeon Pro Vega’s specs 11 teraflops single precision 22 teraflops half precision 8GB or 16GB HBM 400GB/s memory bandwidth Apple legalizes and taxes in-app tipping for content creators Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/09/in-app-tips/ Source 2: https://thetechportal.com/2017/06/10/apple-legalizing-app-tipping/ Apple’s newly published update to its App Store policies officially designates voluntary tipping via virtual currency as in-app purchases that Apple taxes 30 percent Chinese live-streaming video apps like Yinke and Yizhibo have long embraced tipping, allowing viewers to tip or give virtual gifts to the stars they watch last month, Apple cracked down on unofficial tipping, which sidestepped its 30 percent tax on in-app purchases by highlighting how the tips were donations rather than purchases. Apple is hoping more app developers might institute digital tip jars as a way to get creators paid without having to offer ad revenue sharing. American live-streaming apps like Facebook Live and Periscope don’t offer tipping; instead, Facebook has begun letting broadcasters show ads in their streams and keep 55 percent of the revenue. Apple bans Pepe from App Store Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/09/apple-deems-pepe-objectionable-and-bans-the-frog-from-its-app/?sr_source=Twitter Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-bans-pepe-the-frog-game-from-app-store/ A Letter sent to a developer from Apple rejecting the developer’s app submission argues that Pepe is "considered objectionable content" and is therefore banned from appearing in any app in the Apple ecosystem. The app is a game called Pepe Scream and is available on Google Play It’s a FlappyBird rip off with “more autistic screaming” ===================================================================== ========Mining News=============================== AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining Source 1: http://wccftech.com/amd-gpu-supply-exhausted-by-cryptocurrency/ Source 2: AMD Radeon RX 500 series GPUs are sold out all over the globe owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze. The most popular cards being the RX 580 and 570 GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence recently due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistant coins like Etherium, whose price has soared lately Ethereum price: https://ethereumprice.org/ some NVIDIA graphics have similar performance/watt as their AMD counterparts at Ethereum mining, but their significantly higher initial cost make them far less profitable overall AMD is rumoured to be making a Polaris based cad designed specifically for mining. Pascal-based Cryptocurrency Mining Station Source 1: posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790475-nvidia-cryptocurrecy-mining-system/ Source 2: https://videocardz.com/newz/first-look-at-pascal-based-gpu-cryptocurrency-mining-station The upcoming Pascal GPU mining solution from Hong Kong company Manli is equipped with eight GP106-100 mining cards- new Nvidia cards made specifically for mining- which lack display connectors and are passively cooled. It’s a full system with Celeron Mobile processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM and 64GB mSata SSD. The power supply is offered optionally (since different currencies have different power reqs)), otherwise, 7x 6-pin power connectors are required to run this thing. ===================================================================== =======PCIe News================================== PCIe 4.0 Specs Finalized Source 1: posted by Snipefox47 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790906-pcie-40-finally-finalized/ Source 2: http://techreport.com/news/32064/pcie-4-0-specification-finally-out-with-16-gt-s-on-tap The updated I/O technology will offer twice the bandwidth of PCIe 3.x while retaining full backwards compatibility, offering 16 GT/s data rates. PCI-SIG also decided to improve the interconnect's flexibility and scalability: developers will have access to more lane width configurations and speeds suitable for low-power applications Other enhancements include reductions to system latency, improved scalability for added lanes, and lane margining. With 5.0 being officially announced already, with a planned release in just two years, will AMD & Intel even bother to implement 4.0 on consumer parts? ANNOUNCED: PCIe 5.0 Source 1: posted by PiGHamM3R https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790464-pcie-50/ Source 2: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/misc_hardware/pci-sic_accelerates_the_creation_of_pcie_5_0/1 At the PCI-SIG Developers Conference, the organisation announced that they were accelerating the development of PCIe 5.0, which is designed to offer 128GB/s of total bandwidth 4x that of PCIe 3.0 when both are using x16 links. They expect to complete their PCIe 5.0 standard sometime in 2019, already releasing version 0.3 of the standard to their members. 5.0 allows 400Gb/s Ethernet solutions to be created for servers and to reduce the PCIe requirements of modern M.2, U.2 or PCIe storage devices. ===================================================================== What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Samsung’s Super UltraWide Monitor Source 1: posted by THE_maverick https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790951-widest-monitor-evah-by-samsung/ Source 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-qh90-super-ultra-wide-329-monitor-photos-2017-6?utm_content=buffere7da5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti/#here-are-some-of-the-chg90s-important-specs-and-features-9 If Ultrawides are enough to replace a dual monitor setup, Samsung now has a monitor wide enough to replace your 3 monitor setup. The CHG90 is a 49 inch 32:9 super ultrawide You can have a full 1080 game playing on one half and still have the second half for anything else Specs: Vertical Alignment Panel 1MS response time 144Hz Quantum dot HDR10 FreeSync 2 Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Delayed Source 1: posted by Mr_Troll https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789093-intel-coffee-lake-cpus-delayed-to-2018-8th-gen-gets-kaby-lake-refresh-this-year/ Source 2: http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-delayed-2018-8th-gen-kaby-lake-refresh/ Intel’s new Coffee Lake family of 6 and 4 core CPUs has been delayed to February of 2018 Intel will be introducing three product families over the next four quarters: The high-end Core X Skylake X and Kaby Lake X CPUs and the X299 Chipset. six core and quad-core Coffee Lake CPUs and Z370 chipset. BGA Gemini Lake chips which will feature 2 to 4 cores on a frugal TDP of 10W. Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/its-unconstitutional-when-trump-blocks-twitter-followers-group-says/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15748776/knight-institute-donald-trump-twitter-block-free-speech-letter Two Twitter users who were blocked by Trump after they criticized the president are claiming that their exclusion from being one of Trump's followers amounts to a First Amendment breach of their constitutional rights. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is asking Trump to unblock anyone he has blocked on Twitter. Because politicians are harnessing social media as a means of political discourse, the institute calls Trump's account a "designated public forum." "When new communications platforms are developed, core First Amendment principles cannot be left behind," The letter also makes the same request for the president's @POTUS account. The institute said it might sue if its clients' Twitter feeds remain blocked. Facebook seeks to serve better ads by Spying on your Face Source 1: posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790816-facebook-wants-to-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera/ Source 2: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebook-wants-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera-1625061 Facebook has patented a technology that uses 'passive imaging data' from your phone’s camera to surmise your emotional state and serve ads appropriately. If you were forlorn, for example, it would be able to serve an ad to perk you up, or know what products you had previously looked at in such a state and put them under your nose at just the right time. the patent describes how the technology could tell if a user's expression changed while looking at posts or pictures from a certain person and would show more or less of these in the future. Lian Li + Cinsys = new all in one liquid coolers? Source 1: posted by EnergyEclipse https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789685-lian-li-partnered-with-cinsys-to-begin-making-all-in-one-liquid-coolers/ Source 2: https://www.pcper.com/news/Cases-and-Cooling/Computex-2017-Lian-Li-Launching-AIO-Liquid-Coolers-Raw-Copper-Radiators The 240mm Radiator, All-in-One liquid cooler, will be called The "X-R240 Expandable water cooling heat radiating system" The radiator is purely copper, surrounded by a metal shroud, with a nickel-plated copper block. China Activates World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Source 1: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-floating-solar-power-plant/ Source 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations China has announced that the largest floating photovoltaic facility on earth has been completed and connected to the local power grid. This is the Chinese government’s latest achievement in its ongoing effort to lead the world in renewable energy adoption. The 40-megawatt facility was constructed over a flooded former coal-mining region These floating apparatus free up land in more populated areas and also reduce water evaporation. The cooler air at the surface also helps to minimize the risk of solar cell performance atrophy, which is often related to long-term exposure to warmer temperatures. Is 40 MW a lot? Not really. Most coal-fired plants are over 1,000. See source 2 for list of bigger solar projects. OnePlus to reveal OnePlus 5 Source 1: posted by Technicolors https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789786-oneplus-to-reveal-oneplus-5-on-june-20/#comment-9950160 Source 2: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/06/exclusive-this-is-the-oneplus-5/ The company will reveal the phone during a live-streaming event at 12:00 PM EDT on June 20 The new phone will feature: a dual-camera array OnePlus' trademark mute switch, Snapdragon 835 processor

Main News Topics ==================HEDT Battle Royale!=============== 1/3: AMD Announces new Threadripper details Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787057-amd-announces-new-threadripper-details-64-pcie-lanes-and-quad-channel-ddr4-on-all-chips/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11476/computex-2017-amd-press-event-live-blog-starts-10pm-et Confirmed to be half an EPYC processor 16 core 32 thread top end made up of 2 dies All products featuring 64 lanes PCIe, 60 from CPU 4 from chipset All products featuring DDR4 Quad channel memory All products featuring 16MB L3 Cache X399 Chipset Release Summer 2017 2/3: Skylake-X will increase the core count of Intel’s HEDT platform from 10 to 18 Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/786430-official-intel-announces-skylake-x-w-ipc-gain-over-skylake-s-i9-7980xe-bringing-18-cores-at-1999-specs-tbd-until-threadripper/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex-bringing-18core-hcc-silicon-to-consumers-for-1999 It’s speculated that Intel increased the core count in response to AMD’s 16C Threadripper, since Skylake-X was initially expected to feature a max of 12 cores. ...but The first model with 40 PCIe lanes is $1,000 3/3: Rumour: AMD Threadripper for under $1,000? Source 1: posted by losts of unexplainable lag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787774-bitsandchips-entry-level-threadripper-16c32t-to-come-at-the-nice-low-price-of-849/ Source 2: https://twitter.com/BitsAndChipsEng/status/870373386391891968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flinustechtips.com%2Fmain%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcore%26module%3Dsystem%26controller%3Dembed%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBitsAndChipsEng%2Fstatus%2F870373386391891968 A single tweet from Bits And Chips suggests that the “entry level 16C/32T Threadripper” chips will cost $849 But how much will the requisite motherboard cost? ================================================== More AMD News: AMD Trims Prices of the Ryzen 7 1700 and 1700X Source 1: posted by lots of unexplainable lag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787509-amd-trims-pricing-of-the-ryzen-7-1700-and-1700x-1700-for-319-1700x-for-349/ Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/233966/amd-trims-prices-of-the-ryzen-7-1700-and-1700x Compared to launch prices, the R7 Ryzen chips now cost: Model Launch Price Current Price Savings 1700 $329 $319 $10 1700X $399 $349 $50 1800X $499 $469 $30 AMD Vega Release Dates Source 1: posted by HKZeroFive https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/786849-amd-radeon-rx-vega-to-launch-at-siggraph-2017/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11481/amd-vega-updates-vega-frontier-edition-available-june-27th-vega-rx-to-be-launched-at-siggraph-at-end-of-july Vega Frontier Edition card will be available on June 27th The Frontier Edition is AMD’s first batch of Vega-based cards, marketed towards early adopters in the professional segment. A price has not been announced, but expect it to be high. Radeon RX Vega launch will be taking place at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual graphics conference, SIGGRAPH. SIGGRAPH runs from July 30th to August 3rd- almost exactly 2 months out. Elon Musk to Trump: You quit Paris, so I quit you Source 1: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/elon-musk-resigns-trump-adviser/ Source 2: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/02/elon-musk-and-disney-boss-quit-trumps-business-panel-over-paris-pullout Elon Musk has quit two of President Trump's business advisory councils after the president announced he will pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement Musk Tweeted: "Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world," Disney CEO Bob Iger also announced Thursday that he's resigning from the Strategic and Policy Forum US approves social media background checks for visa applicants Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/us-approves-social-media-background-checks-for-visa-applicants/ Source 2: The actual questionnair: https://tr.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2017/05/DS-5535-Supplemental-Questions-for-Visa-Applicants.pdf The U.S. government’s Office of Management and Budget announced new requirements for social media disclosures as part of revised visa applications. The new questionnaire will ask for social media handles dating back over the last five years and biographical information dating back 15 years. The additional information would only be requested when the department determines that “such information is required to confirm identity or conduct more rigorous national security vetting.” Critics say: “What this language effectively does is give the consular posts permission to step away from the focused factors they have spent years developing and revising, and instead broaden the search to large groups based on gross factors such as nationality and religion,” What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Nintendo Switch online paid service will launch in 2018 Source 1: posted by GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787665-nintendo-switch-online-paid-service-will-launch-in-2018-20-per-year-includes-unlimited-access-to-a-library-of-old-nes-games/ Source 2: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-details-switch-online-service-will-be-20-yea-1795743981 Nintendo has announced that the Switch’s online service will cost $20/year and will launch in 2018 “Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will have ongoing access to a library of classic games with added online play. Users can play as many of the games as they want, as often as they like, as long as they have an active subscription.” At launch the classic game library will include NES games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Balloon Fight and Dr. Mario. Super NES games continue to be under Nintendo’s consideration, but haven’t been announced yet. Voice chat and online lobby features won’t be available on the Switch itself. Instead, you’ll have to use them through a smartphone app that Nintendo says will be launch this summer “Our new dedicated smart device app will connect to Nintendo Switch and let you invite friends to play online, set play appointments, and chat with friends during online matches in compatible games─all from your smart device,” Playing Switch games online will be free until the service launches. North Korea launches the iPad Source 1: posted by GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787564-north-korea-company-myohyang-it-releases-a-new-tablet-called-ipad/ Source 2: https://www.neowin.net/news/north-korean-company-myohyang-it-releases-a-new-tablet-called-the-ipad A state-controlled North Korean company Myohyang IT just announced the Ryonghung iPad, a tablet that includes: a 1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB of internal storage 16GB of external storage, an 8-inch display. it promises six hours of battery life. it's currently unknown what kind of apps the device will be able to run in a region like North Korea, which has a total of 28 websites. Apple hasn't responded to this breach of its iPad trademark, though it's not likely that these devices will be in high demand outside of North Korea. Can Apple even do anything to stop this? Asrock Announces ITX/ac board for AMD Ryzen Source 1: posted by Doc Swag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787158-asrock-announces-asrock-x370-gaming-itxac-the-first-non-biostar-mini-itx-am4-board-and-it-comes-with-wifi/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11473/asrock-miniitx-x370-gaming-itxac ASRock has introduced the first non-Biostar miniature motherboard for AMD Ryzen microprocessors The ASRock X370 Gaming ITX/ac is based on the AMD X370 chipset and supports all currently available processors in the AM4 form-factor, including A-series APUs as well as all Ryzen CPUs available in the coming weeks for $150 – $160 Nvidia announces GPUs for thinner Gaming laptops! Source 1: posted by Radian https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787347-nvidia-annouces-max-q-designed-gpus-for-thinner-and-lighter-gaming-laptops/ Source 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2017/05/31/nvidia-slims-down-gaming-laptops-with-new-max-q-technology/#5f4bc3c3374b Traditionally, Nvidia has sought to deliver peak performance, but the last few performance points come at a disproportionately high power cost, meaning more space is required in order to dissipate the heat. Now, NVIDIA is looking to find the fastest and most power-optimized performance level to allow for laptops under 20mm thick AND sport a GTX 1080. This week at Computex, NVIDIA announced a new program and design specification called MAX-Q that will enable any of NVIDIA’s partners sacrifice 10% of the card’s performance for better cooling an quieter operation. Mazx Q uses: smart fan algorithms to dynamically adjust to the different power states of the GPU WhisperMode that uses FPS targeting which allows the user to target a certain frame rate within the game that they deem acceptable. Once that targeting is completed, the GPU will only take on as much load as is needed to display the game at that frame rate ASUS announces a mouthwatering 200Hz Ultrawide Source 1: posted by suits https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/787225-asus-announces-35-inch-rog-swift-pg35vq-display-with-quantum-dots-and-200hz-refresh-rate/ Source 2: http://www.techspot.com/news/69517-asus-announces-35-inch-rog-swift-pg35vq-display.html The Asus ROG Swift PG35VQ is a 35-inch ultra-wide curved quantum dot LCD monitor with: a 3,440 x 1,440 pixel resolution (21:9 aspect ratio) refresh rate of 200Hz. G-SYNC HDR capabilities fourth quarter 2017 release date The first Ryzen All-In-One Source 1: posted by lots of unexplainable lag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/786516-dell-launches-the-inspiron-27-7000-series-full-on-amd-aio-with-up-to-ryzen-7-1700-and-rx580-8gb/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11455/dell-launches-inspiron-27-7775-aio-ryzen-7-rx-580?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Dell has introduced its first all-in-one PC based on AMD Ryzen microprocessor: the Inspiron 27 7000-series Dell will offer multiple configurations, some of which will feature a 4K display Low end: The quad-core AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Radeon RX 560 with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory 180 W PSU. High-end: eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Radeon RX 580 with 8 GB of GDDR5 330 W PSU Entry level models start at $1,000 ‘Anti AI’ AI for the Post-Truth era! Source 1: posted by vorticalbox https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/786646-anti-ai-ai/ Source 2: https://rnd.dt.com.au/anti-ai-ai-a-wearable-ai-device-244900e4d71c DT R&D has prototyped a device to help you know when the voice speaking to you belongs not to a human, but to AI. Worn on the ear and connected to a neural net trained on real and synthetic voices, the device notifies the wearer when a synthetic voice is detected by cooling the skin on the back of your neck! “By using a 4x4mm thermoelectric Peltier plate we were able to create a noticeable chill on the skin near the back of the neck “ An Arduino chip streams audio to a Tensorflow IOS application running a neural net trained on synthetic voices. Big Leagues: $10 Million League Of Legends Tournament Source 1: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/10-million-is-the-price-for-teams-to-join-revamped/1100-6450508/ Source 2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-01/to-buy-into-this-video-gaming-league-it-s-at-least-10-million League Championship Series is changing its structure to become something that will more closely resemble the massive traditional sports leagues like the NBA or NFL Under the new LCS structure, there will be 10 teams that are always in the mix, instead of squads that rotate Team applications for the new LCS opened today: The buy-in price is $10 million! Players on the 10 selected teams get a guaranteed salary of at least $75,000. Riot Games said its end goal is to "create a strong and stable system that's profitable for pro players and provides entertainment for fans in the long term." There are three major pillars of the changes, including revenue-sharing, protecting and supporting pro players (with a players' association and more), and changes to the structure to encourage long-term investments. Once the 10 teams are determined, they are in the league for good. Riot says that it will offer incentives to teams that play well and penalise the squads that purposefully stay at the bottom of the ladder. ========================================Jon’s Picks: Sexy Headline: Right to speak freely about engineering is subject of 1st Amendment lawsuit Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/right-to-speak-freely-about-engineering-is-subject-of-1st-amendment-lawsuit/ Oregon requires a license to even discuss engineering publicly or even to say you're an engineer. Dude sued, saying the government's behavior was a breach of the First Amendment right of speech Microsoft rolls out not one but two bad builds to the Windows Insider program Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/microsoft-rolls-out-not-one-but-two-bad-builds-to-the-windows-insider-program/ Microsoft accidently released two different builds—one for desktop users, another for mobile—to their Windows Insider program. In both cases, systems configured to use the fast ring could find themselves downloading and installing Windows releases that weren't supposed to ship to the general public The mobile is especially bad: phones that install it will get stuck in a boot loop, and the only way to restore them is to use the Windows Device Recovery Tool. This will wipe the entire phone and flash it with a working firmware. Scientists discover how the brain recognises faces – by reading monkey's minds Source 1: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/01/scientists-discover-how-the-brain-recognises-faces-by-reading-monkeys-minds DScientists have created eerily perfect replicas of human faces that were shown to monkeys just from recording the animal’s brain waves The researchers developed an algorithm that could decode previously unseen faces from neural responses recorded from directly from the brains of two monkeys. Electrical recordings made from around 100 neurons in the face patch regions of each monkey were enough to recreate almost identical images to those seen by the animals. Need more? Use this! https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/786030-computex-2017-mega-thread/

Main News Topics Rumour Squashed: AMD Won’t Be Licensing Graphics Chips to Intel Source 1: http://fortune.com/2017/05/23/amd-intel-chips/ Source 2: https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/17/05/9512315/amd-ceo-puts-rumors-to-rest-were-not-looking-at-enabling IT website Fudzilla, claimed a deal had been reached between AMD and Intel on May 16 after a previous licensing deal between Intel and NVIDIA Corporation expired in March. the Fudzilla story read: "We can now confirm the rumors that Intel has given up on Nvidia because it has written a cheque to license AMD’s graphics,” Even though AMD made no mention of an Intel deal at the company’s analyst day on May 16, Fudzilla appeared to stand by its story in a follow-up report on May 18. Fudzilla said its sources for the original story were “well-placed industry insiders” and that “the Intel and AMD deal will include Intel CPUs using Radeon graphics." The Rumours were squashed on Monday when, AMD CEO Lisa Su said: "”We're not looking at enabling a competitor to compete against our products." “It's about how do we sell more products, or how do we have our IP in markets where we're not currently selling products.” Intel’s Plan to Thunderbolt 3 All of the Things Source 1: posted by AngryPandaPC https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784170-thunderbolt-3-all-the-things/ Source 2: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/intels-plan-thunderbolt-3-things/ Thunderbolt 3 still hasn’t gone mainstream, due to a combination of high cost and low availability Now, Intel is taking two steps to accelerate adoption: integrating Thunderbolt 3 into Intel CPUs, making the Thunderbolt protocol specification available to third-party chipmakers, royalty-free, next year. Intel: “We think the first thing is going to drive broader adoption and deployment of Thunderbolt 3 in PCs,” “The second will also drive broader adoption in the ecosystem, with a lot of different peripherals and other devices.” Price: “I think the integration into future CPUs will help reduce the overall solution cost on the computer. And we’re continually working with the industry to lower the cost of the cables and the devices.” He notes, too, that improving USB-C economies of scale should help Thunderbolt 3 drive down costs. Google has made the ultimate marketing tool Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784108-google-attribution-making-advertisers-happy-one-ad-at-a-time/ Source 2: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-will-track-your-offline-credit-card-payments-to-make-advertisers-happy/ At the annual Google Marketing Next conference announced Google Attribution, a service that will let advertisers tie offline credit card payments to online marketing campaigns. Here’s how it works: It aggregates details about the ads displayed on your phone, the sites (and time) you visited, and what you've searched in Google. Then it uses geolocation and WiFi network information from your phone to if you've gone to the mall or walked into a store that sells that product. Finally, with the integration of payment data from "third-party partnerships," Google will know if you've bought that product and will report this in the advertiser's AdWords dashboard. the system is driven by machine learning and combines data from Google's regular advertising campaigns with "third-party partnerships, which capture approximately 70% of credit and debit card transactions in the United States." Intel 7900x and Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 7 leaked in benchmark Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784293-intel-7900x-and-gigabyte-x299-aorus-gaming-7-leaked-in-benchmark/ Source 2: http://ranker.sisoftware.net/show_run.php?q=c2ffcee889e8d5e3daebdfe9dbfd8fb282a4c1a499a98ffcc1f9&l=en Intel’s upcoming 10 core/ 20 thread processor may: run at a base clock of 4GHz with Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz on tap Have a 175W TDP Google makes AI that makes AI Source 1: posted by ThomasRules https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784166-google%E2%80%99s-new-ai-is-better-at-creating-ai-than-the-company%E2%80%99s-engineers/ Source 2: https://futurism.com/googles-new-ai-is-better-at-creating-ai-than-the-companys-engineers/ At its I/O '17 conference this week, Google shared details of its AutoML project, an artificial intelligence that can assist in the creation of other AIs. The AutoML project focuses on deep learning, a technique that involves passing data through layers of neural networks. Creating these layers is complicated, so Google created AI that could do it for them. An AutoML a controller neural net can propose a ‘child’ model architecture, which can then be trained and evaluated for quality on a particular task,” So far, they have used the AutoML tech to design networks for image and speech recognition tasks. the system matched Google’s experts for image recognition it exceeded them in speech recognition, designing better architectures than the humans were able to create. “If we succeed, we think this can inspire new types of neural nets and make it possible for non-experts to create neural nets tailored to their particular needs, allowing machine learning to have a greater impact to everyone,” AMD discusses upcoming ram settings in Ryzen Source 1: posted by porina https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784716-amd-discusses-upcoming-ram-settings-in-ryzen/ Source 2: https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/05/25/community-update-4-lets-talk-dram AGESA 1.0.0.6 officially adds 26 new parameters that can improve the compatibility and reliability of DRAM support for PCI Express® Access Control Services (ACS). ACS primarily enables support for manual assignment of PCIe® graphics cards within logical containers called “IOMMU groups.” The hardware resources of an IOMMU group can then be dedicated to a virtual machine. Full BIOSes could be available for your motherboard starting in mid to late June However, there are motherboards that already have public betas: Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming5 ASUS Crosshair VI Europe Modernizes Media rules, keeps TV relevant Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784148-eu-proposing-new-av-rules-more-european-streaming-content-stricter-anti-hate-rules/ Source 2: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1873_en.htm The European Commission has presented an updated Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which describes the rules that governed audiovisual media in the EU Concluding that a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to all modern platforms was not appropriate, the Commission wants to achieve a better balance of the rules which today apply to traditional broadcasters, video-on-demand providers and video-sharing platforms The proposed new rules are: Platforms which organise and tag a large quantity of videos will have to protect minors from harmful content (such as pornography and violence) and protect all citizens from incitement to hatred The Directive will now ensure that regulatory authorities are truly independent from governments and industry, to ensure that audiovisual media act in the interest of viewers. The Commission wants TV broadcasters to continue to dedicate at least half of viewing time to European works and will oblige on-demand providers to ensure at least 20% share of European content in their catalogues. The revised Directive gives broadcasters more flexibility as to when ads can be shown – the overall limit of 20% of broadcasting time is maintained between 7 am and 11 pm, but instead of the current 12 minutes per hour, broadcasters can choose more freely when to show ads throughout the day. What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Samsung S8 Iris Scanner is Easily Hackable Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/783783-samsung-s8-iris-scanner-may-not-be-quite-as-secure/ Source 2: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-galaxy-s8-iris-scanner-fooled-by-a-photo/ A Chaos Computer Club researcher has discovered realized that by taking a photo of a phone owner's face, an attacker with physical access to the device can able to unlock the phone just by printing the photo on paper and flashing it in front of the phone's front camera. But modern iris scanners and facial recognition systems are programmed to use image depth in order to distinguish between (2D) photos and a human's real (3D) eye. Researchers bypassed this hurdle by gluing a contact lens on top of the image, creating a round surface on top of the iris photo to trick the phone. Ironically, the best results were achieved by printing the iris photos using a Samsung laser printer. Rumour: 'iPhone 8' Will Have Touch ID Integrated into Display Source 1: posted by NinerL https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784807-tsmc-sources-claim-iphone-8-will-have-touch-id-integrated-into-display/ Source 2: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/26/tsmc-iphone-8-touch-id-integrated-display/ During a technology convention held in Taipei on Thursday, Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company apparently confirmed Apple's use of an optical fingerprint sensor to enable authentication directly on the screen in the absence of a physical Home button. In addition to the fingerprint recognition, the sources claimed the new iPhones will also come with "invisible infrared image sensors to enhance the functionality of the high-pixel camera" and to enable augmented reality functions. Destiny 2 uses a hybrid-server networking model Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/destiny-2-moves-to-a-more-server-centric-networking-model/ Source 2: https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/25/15695064/destiny-2-servers-network-bungie Bungie revealed that Destiny 2 won’t use dedicated servers Unlike the original Destiny, where matches were hosted on one player's console, "every activity in Destiny 2 is hosted by one of [Bungie’s] servers," "That means you will never again suffer a host migration during your Raid attempt or Trials match." But those servers won't handle all the data for every player in the game. Each player is authoritative over their own movement and abilities "This allows us to give players the feeling of immediacy in all their moving and shooting—no matter where they live and no matter whom they choose to play with." While Bungie can’t promise that lag-induced glitches will be completely eliminated in Destiny 2, they say this server model should lead to a definite reduction Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles Source 1: http://news.mit.edu/2017/researchers-engineer-shape-shifting-noodles-0525 Source 2: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4544352/AmazonFresh-Pickup-lets-collect-orders-minutes.html Researchers from MIT’s Tangible Media Group have concocted flat sheets of gelatin and starch that, when submerged in water, instantly sprout into three-dimensional structures The researchers created flat d,iscs that wrap around beads of caviar similar to cannoli, as well as spaghetti that spontaneously divides into smaller noodles when dunked in hot broth. It could also a practical way to reduce food-shipping costs. For instance, the edible films could be stacked together and shipped to consumers, then morph into their final shape later, when immersed in water. Useful since, apparently, even if you pack macaroni perfectly, you still end up with 67 percent of the volume as air,” IMAX is Opening Virtual Reality Centers Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-26/virtual-reality-isn-t-a-hit-at-home-so-imax-tries-arcades Source 2: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vrc-raising-a-rukus-imax-vr-center-1202429818/ For $1 a minute, a group of friends can experience flight above a deserted Paris, or dive into a world of criminals as assassin John Wick. “You walk out of a movie all excited about having seen John Wick or The Avengers, and you can walk right next door and continue that by being immersed in the experience” Ticketing is similar to most theaters: You can book time slots in advance online or purchase them at the center. In the first four months of 2017, the pilot L.A. center registered more than 25,000 admissions and an average revenue of $15,000 per week. A total of 5 U.S. centers are planned, as well as locations in Tokyo; Shanghai; Toronto; Manchester, England; the Middle East; and France. With U.S. movie market growth stagnating, exhibitors are looking for new ways to widen their audience. “We see this as the beginning of something that will revolutionize the way stories are told.” Could this be a first step toward a totally new era of cinema? Amazon Opens Grocery Pickup Kiosks Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-25/amazon-opens-grocery-pick-up-kiosks-in-seattle-in-shopping-shift Source 2: Amazon.com Inc. opened two grocery pickup kiosks in Seattle, part of its latest effort to enter the $800 billion grocery market and compete with “click and collect” shopping options The “AmazonFresh Pickup” spots let shoppers buy groceries online and pick them up in as little as 15 minutes Each location has parking spaces beneath canopies similar to those seen at gas stations. Grocery sales have been slow to shift online, leaving Amazon at a disadvantage to competitors like Wal-Mart. Amazon is experimenting with brick-and-mortar concepts to get a toehold in grocery sales while its competitors add online options to their existing stores. Will these Kiosks eventually use Amazon Go tech? Sergey Brin makes Giant Blimp with his Giant Face on It. Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/26/sergey-brins-giant-airship-will-be-worlds-largest-serve-humanitarian-role/ Source 2: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/26/google-sergey-brin-building-largest-aircraft The Google co-founder has dedicated his own money to building the world’s largest aircraft: a 200m long Zeppelin (656 feet). It’s smaller than historic airships like the Hindenburg, which was 245m It will be used for personal intercontinental travel, as well as humanitarian missions around the world It will use a system of internal gas bladders to control its buoyancy, allowing it to off-load almost anywhere in the world- no airport required It will be full of Helium, not Hydrogen. Russian CPU still can’t compete with Intel & AMD Source 1: psoted by Ikarej https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/784833-russian-elbrus-8s-first-showcased/ Source 2: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/25/russia-showcases-first-computers-based-indigenous-elbrus-8s-processor/#.tnw_IYVH8kid Russian state-owned technology Ruselectronics has demonstrated the first computers running its own domestic Elbrus-8S silicon The Elbrus-8S the chip is 3-5 times faster than the previous Elbrus-4S processor, and has I/O channels that are eight times higher. ...but the Elbrus-4S, which came out in 2015, was famously described as “CPU from 1999”. The new chip has: eight cores 28 nanometer lithography In recent years, Russia has attempted to wean itself off US-made technology with its own domestic offerings. Microsoft rebrands Twitch competitor Source 1: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/25/microsoft-rebrands-twitch-competitor-and-adds-mobile-live-streaming.html Source 2: http://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-rebrands-twitch-competitor-as-mixer-throws-in-more-game-streaming-features-775416/ Microsoft will replace Beam, the live streaming app that it acquired last year, with the Mixer app, on the Xbox One, Windows 10, IOS, and Android. Microsoft is making it possible for up to four people to simultaneously live stream themselves. Viewers will see the screen divided up into four sections of all the people who are streaming. Initially this "co-streaming" feature will be available on Xbox One, for people participating in its Insiders program, and in Windows 10. Later it will come to mobile devices. Additionally, Microsoft is releasing new Mixer Create mobile apps that will let users stream live. Soon Microsoft will update that app so as to enable game streaming as well. YouTube Gaming has permitted mobile streaming since 2015.

Main News Topics ===================================================================== AMD News: 1- AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Source 1: posted by DocSwag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/780749-amd-officially-announces-amd-ryzen-threadripper-cpus-for-consumers-up-to-16-cores-and-32-threads/ Source 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/05/17/amd-announces-16-core-threadripper-desktop-cpus-to-do-battle-with-intel-x299-and-skylake-x/#31e96fcb8db9 AMD will be introducing CPUs with up to 16 cores and 32 threads this summer, and they'll be called Ryzen Threadrippers These will compete with Intel's rumored Skylake-X high-end desktop chips Threadripper CPUs won't be compatible with the current AM4 CPU socket, which sports 1331 pins, but instead will demand a whole new socket with 4094 pins Rumosr: there will be up to nine Threadripper CPU 1998X and 1998 with 16 cores, 1977X and 1977 with 14 cores, 1976X, 1956X, and 1956 with 12 cores, 1955X and 1955 with 10 cores 2- First Vega GPU: Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Source 1: posted by PCgamer324 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/780782-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-processor-revealed-with-pictures/ Source 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-edition/ The first graphics card based on AMD's upcoming 14nm FinFET Vega architecture is the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, sporting 26 teraflops of half-precision FP16, or roughly 13 teraflops of single-precision FP32. 16GB of HBM2 memory on a super-wide 2048-bit bus two 8-pin PCIe power connectors That would make Vega a better performer than Nvidia’s GTX Titan Xp, which sports 12 teraflops of single-precision FP32. Vega FE comes in two configurations. Vega FE Blue is an air-cooled card with a typical blower-style design. Vega FE Gold features a sealed liquid cooler, similar to the one used on the Fury X Vega FE is set for a late June release A price hasn't been set 3- AMD unveils the chip formerly known as Naples Source 1: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/43679-naples-amd-server-is-called-epyc Source 2: http://hothardware.com/news/amd-naples-zen-architecture-makes-epyc-debut-for-datacenter-market Now known as EPYC, It’s a single socket processor that scales to 32 cores/64 threads And supports up to 8-channel DDR4 memory (16 DIMMs per CPU, up to 4TB total memory support). Varieties also include a single socket 16 core, and dual socket 48 and 64 systems wrapped around the infinity fabric (which in essence is an extension of HyperTransport) EPYC is providing up to 128 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, which “allows you to connect more GPUs directly to the CPU than any other solution in the industry." Intel doesn’t have any server / data center product with 32 cores, not even on its extended roadmap, as theirs stop at 28 cores Epyc is expected to launch before the end of June 4- The Laptops are coming: Ryzen Mobile and Ryzen Pro Source 1: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3197117/components/amds-ryzen-mobile-chips-are-ready-for-liftoff-with-the-new-ryzen-pro-not-far-behind.html Source 2: http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-ryzen-mobile-laptops-vega-performance-price-release-date AMD has announced Ryzen Mobile, its new processors for laptops AMD is claiming 50% more CPU performance than its previous-generation '7th-gen APUs', 40% better graphics performance a 50% cut in power arrive in the second half of this year Because AMD’s Vega architecture will form part of the chip, AMD is promising “beautiful thin and light” laptops along with “AAA gaming performance”. AMD also announced the Ryzen Pro, a version of the chip designed for business PCs. ===================================================================== Optaine DIMMs to launch with Cascade Lake in 2018 Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/781500-optaine-dimms-to-launch-with-cascade-lake-in-2018/ Source 2: https://techreport.com/news/31932/optane-dimms-and-companion-cpus-will-arrive-in-2018 Intel has committed to delivering Optane DIMMs as a product called "Intel persistent memory" alongside a refresh of its Xeon Processor Scalable family called Cascade Lake Both the persistent memory product and Cascade Lake CPUs will arrive sometime in 2018. Intel says that Optane DIMMs will upend the traditional "small, volatile, and expensive" view of system memory by providing a much denser and persistent way of putting data close to the processor, all at lower prices than DRAM Vulkan and OpenCL to merge into a single "compute graphics" API?! Source 1: posted by zMeul https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/780729-vulkan-and-opencl-to-merge-into-a-single-compute-graphics-api/ Source 2: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/Breaking-OpenCL-Merging-Roadmap-Vulkan?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The Khronos Group are merging OpenCL into Vulkan, creating a single API “The OpenCL working group has taken the decision to converge its roadmap with Vulkan, and use Vulkan as the basis for the next generation of explicit compute APIs – this also provides the opportunity for the OpenCL roadmap to merge graphics and compute.” Destiny 2 for PC will be exclusively available via BattleNET Source 1: posted by Johners https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/781446-destiny-2-for-pc-will-be-exclusively-available-via-battlenet/ Source 2: http://kotaku.com/destiny-2-will-be-60fps-or-more-on-pc-run-only-on-ba-1795344987 Destiny 2 will run on Blizzard’s Battle.net rather than Steam Players will need to sign up to Battle.net and download the Blizzard App. Having a BNET account will give you easy access to other great games such as World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2. A combination of servers will be used: Bungie servers are used for the gameplay itself Blizzard servers will be used for content delivery, game login and social features “Destiny 2 will be integrated into many of Blizzard’s existing social features—you’ll be able to chat with friends playing Destiny 2 the same way you already can for Blizzard games. Players will also be able to add friends and form parties the same way Blizzard gamers can. And, you’ll see a Destiny 2 status icon by your friends who are playing Destiny 2 the same way you do for friends playing StarCraft II, Diablo III, WoW, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, and Overwatch.” The PC version will also come out later than the console versions, with a final date expected “in the coming weeks” FAIL: WannaCry collects basically no ransom Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/as-deadline-begins-to-pass-wannacry-falls-short-of-six-figures Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/more-people-infected-by-recent-wcry-worm-can-unlock-pcs-without-paying-ransom/ The ransomware WannaCry, began infecting users on May 12 and gave them 72 hours to pay $300 in bitcoin, or twice that amount within 7 days. Refusal to pay after seven days was promised to result in the permanent loss of data via irrevocable encryption. Today those countdowns begin reaching zero, but so fart he attackers have claimed only about $92,000 in payments, despite infecting over 200,000 machines. “If even 1 percent paid the ransom that would be $600k.” It gets worse: Because of the scrutiny the case has attracted, authorities think it’s unlikely the money the attackers have received will be transferred from Bitcoin to Fiat currencies, due to the risk of the transaction being detected. The ransom fail is due in part to a new publicly available tool is able to decrypt infected PCs running Windows XP and 7, and 2003, one of the researchers behind the decryptor said it likely works for other Windows versions, including Vista, Server 2008, and 2008 R2. Updates to Facebook news feed to catch spammy and deceptive headlines. Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/facebook-adjusts-algorithm-will-bury-articles-with-clickbait-headlines/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15654730/facebook-news-feed-update-kill-off-clickbait Facebook on Tuesday rolled out new changes to its algorithms to increase the scrutiny of posts linking outside Facebook, and reduce the visibility of "clickbait" by pushing it further down the news feed. The latest change increases the scrutiny given to news posts by altering the way they're assessed for "authenticity." Facebook's algorithms assess headlines in two separate steps: one set of algorithms is optimized for looking for language typically used to hide information, another set assesses posts for language associated with exaggeration of the details. The algorithms were trained on hundreds of headlines identified by Facebook researchers and engineers as deceptive A hit from either type of check will lower the post's priority and bury it lower in users' news feeds, but it won't remove the post entirely What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Google gets to keep its name Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/780704-google-survive-genericide/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/genericide-assault-to-nullify-the-google-trademark-fails/ When a brand name becomes completely ubiquitous- like thermos, teleprompter, and videotape- it can lose its legally protected status. This process is called “genericide” In 2012 Google filed a cybersquatting complaint and claimed trademark infringement when a man registered 763 domain names that combined "google" with other words and phrases, including googledonaldtrump.com. The man filed an appeal, citing genericide The court ruled that Google still retains its trademark even if the term "google" has become known for searching the Internet. FAA’s drone registry requirement shot down Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/19/a-federal-appeals-court-shoots-down-the-faas-drone-registry-requirement/ Source 2: A D.C.-based court sided with drone hobbyist John Taylor, who argued that the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have jurisdiction over what the law classifies as model aircraft. The drone registration database was proposed in 2015 to addressing growing drone ownership in the U.S., which has brought with it a number of privacy and safety concerns in the government. The FAA will likely appeal the decision – or take another approach toward setting up a similar system. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems released a comment, saying they were “disappointed with the decision today by the U.S. Court of Appeals to reject the FAA’s rule for registering recreational unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). A UAS registration system is important to promote accountability and responsibility by users of the national airspace, and helps create a culture of safety that deters careless and reckless behavior. We plan to work with Congress on a legislative solution that will ensure continued accountability across the entire aviation community, both manned and unmanned.” Facebook rolls out a new “Order Food” option in its main navigation Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/19/facebook-rolls-out-a-new-order-food-option-in-its-main-navigation/ Source 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-order-food/ In the main Facebook navigation on both web and mobile, a new option called “Order Food” is rolling out to select users. the option lets Facebook users place food pickup and delivery orders from restaurants using Delivery.com or Slice. Everything from ordering to checkout, takes place on Facebook You’ll find a list of restaurants, which include a featured photo, price range, star ratings, and type of cuisine. It will also display whether delivery, pickup or both are available. You’re able to browse the menu, add items to your cart, edit your order, add a suggested tip, then pay within Facebook After payment, a confirmation screen appears letting you now that you’ll also receive an email to confirm your order and a time frame when the order is expected to arrive or be ready for pickup. Facebook takes on Twitch with new live-streaming deal for esports Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/19/facebook-takes-on-twitch-with-new-livestreaming-deal-for-esports/ Source 2: Facebook has signed a deal with global esports company ESL to bring over 5,550 hours of esports events and other original content to Facebook, including 1,500 hours of original programming. Facebook’s deal will kick off next month, beginning with content from the Rank S competitions, a ladder for the Counter Strike:Global Offensive community. This will be supplemented by an exclusive, 30-minute CS:GO weekly show that will feature the top players, upcoming talent and other competition highlights. All the ESL One and Intel Extreme Masters will also stream via ESL’s Facebook network across six languages The move will aid Facebook in challenging Amazon-owned Twitch as well as Twitter, both of which have esports deals as part of their efforts in the live streaming space. Google's Seurat ports PC quality environments to mobile VR Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/781501-googles-seurat-ports-pc-quality-environments-to-mobile-vr/ Source 2:https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/18/google-seurat-vr/ Google has a new tool called Seurat that's designed to take high-end, film-quality 3D scenes and turn them into something that can run on mobile hardware. Lucasfilm's ILMxLAB revealed that it used Seurat in a scene from Rogue One, which took an hour to render on a high-end PC, and turned it into something a mobile GPU could render in 13 milliseconds. The tool was able to reduce the scene's texture size by a factor of 300, and its polygon count by a factor of 1,000 Seurat works by taking renders of an environment from a bunch of different angles and positions, and then mapping them onto a low-polygon VR scene you can move around in "[Seurat] potentially opens the door to cinematic realism in VR," WINNERS OF THE CASE MOD WORLD SERIES 2017 Announced Source 1: posted by rodrosenberg https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/781948-winners-of-the-case-mod-world-series-2017-annouced/ Source 2: http://makerhub.coolermaster.com/mod-winners-cmws2017/ Is there any kind of fan contest LMG could do that could generate such amazing work in our own community? An iPhone first: Designed in California, Assembled in India Source 1: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/india-has-corruption-weak-laws-few-good-roads-and-the-apple-iphone.html Source 2: http://www.livemint.com/Technology/XJxjNBLdpBPZjyZpiTOstM/Apple-starts-selling-Made-in-India-iPhones-on-trial-basis.html Apple has started selling iPhone SE that were assembled in India at select stores in the country as part of a trial run. India has edged ahead of China as the world's fastest-growing economy, with the GDP hovering around 7 percent The making of iPhones in India is meant to help Apple lower prices and gain a foothold in the Indian market, where two thirds of the population are under 35.

CURRENTLY PROCESSING -> WILL BE LIVE AT https://soundcloud.com/thewanshow/may12wan Main News Topics Rumour: Intel Core i9 Processors?? Source 1:posted by kameshss https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/778821-rumor-intel-core-i9-processors-incoming/ Source 2: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/intel-skylake-kaby-lake-thread-6c-12t-coffee-lake-launching-august-2017.2428363/page-417#post-38889905 Poster on AnandTech forum posted a screenshot of a slide deck containing Core i9 specs NSA-derived ransomware worm is shutting down computers worldwide Source 1: posted by Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/778839-wcry-ransomwsre-is-spreading-around-the-world-might-be-using-an-nsa-exploit/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/an-nsa-derived-ransomware-worm-is-shutting-down-computers-worldwide/ A Self-replicating ransomware is shutting down computers all over the world, in part by appropriating an NSA exploit that was publicly released last month by the mysterious group calling itself Shadow Brokers The malware, known as Wanna, Wannacry, or Wcry, has infected at least 75,000 computers in 99 countries (3 hours ago), according to Avast List of AV software updated to handle the malware (Red result means it was detected): https://virustotal.com/cs/file/b9c5d4339809e0ad9a00d4d3dd26fdf44a32819a54abf846bb9b560d81391c25/analysis/ Organizations in at least 74 countries have been affected, with Russia being disproportionately affected, followed by Ukraine, India, and Taiwan Infection is spreading at ~100 IPs per minute. The malware is notable for its multi-lingual ransom demands, which support more than two-dozen languages. Wcry is demanding a ransom of $300 to $600 in Bitcoin to be paid by May 15, or, in the event that deadline is missed, a higher fee by May 19. The messages left on the screen say files will remain encrypted. It's not yet clear if there are flaws in the encryption scheme that might allow the victims to restore the files without paying the ransom. According to an article posted by Madrid-based El Mundo, 85 percent of computers at Telefonica, Spain's dominant telecom, are affected by the worm, although that figure has not been confirmed Has caused a lot of chaos in the UK NHS with many hospitals requesting the public do not travel to A&E today due to the attacks. Some extra technical info Source: bleepingcomputer.com WanaCrypt0r first spotted a few weeks ago, but the ransomware for the most part was hardly distributed. Suddenly, WanaCrypt0r exploded and began spreading like wildfire through an exploit called ETERNALBLUE This exploit works by gaining access to a remote machine via the SMBv1 protocol. M$ patched this flaw in March as MS17-010, for Vista and above but many people did not install it. How it works Source: bleepingcomputer.com (lots of pictures here) Installer creates an encrypted zip with all of the malware files. Malware files are extracted with ransom notes in all popular languages WanaCrypt0r will then download a TOR client TOR is used to communicate with ransomware servers at .onion addresses It gives EVERYONE permissions to all files and folders All database and mail server processes are stopped as data used by these will be encrypted too All files are encrypted. When encrypted the “.WNCRY” extension is added It stores the following in every folder that is: @Please_Read_Me@.txt ransom note @WanaDecryptor@.exe decryptor Requests admin privileges from the user with a UAC prompt to do the following: Clear the Shadow Volume Copies Disable Windows startup recovery Clear Windows Server Backup history The computer background is changed Wana Decryptor 2.0 launches with the ransom note in your local language Nvidia announces first videocard based on next-gen Volta GPU Source 1: posted by DocSwag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/777947-nvidia-announces-gv100-volta-based-gpu-built-on-tsmc-12nm-finfet-with-a-die-size-of-815-mm2/ Source 2: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3196026/components-graphics/nvidias-monstrous-volta-gpu-appears-packed-with-21-billion-transistors-and-5120-cores.html Focused on Data Center applications, the Tesla V100 GPU features: 21 billion transistors 5,120 CUDA cores humming along at 1,455MHz boost clock speeds, A 12-nanometer manufacturing process 16GB of ultra-fast, 4096-bit high-bandwidth memory a second-gen version of Nvidia’s NVLink technology. At 300GB/s transfer speeds, they claim it’s now 10 times faster than standard PCIe connections. A big footprint: it’s 815mm square And a big R&D budget: over $3 billion. Nvidia says it’s redesigned Volta’s streaming microprocessor architecture to be 50 percent more efficient than Pascal’s Tesla V100 also includes new “tensor cores” built specifically for deep learning, providing 12 times the teraflops throughput of the Pascal-based Tesla P100, Huang said The Tesla V100 hits a peak of: 7.5 TFLOP/s of double precision floating-point (FP64) performance; 15 TFLOP/s of single precision (FP32) performance; 120 Tensor TFLOP/s of mixed-precision matrix-multiply-and-accumulate. RUMOUR: AMD pushing AGESA microcode update to improve Ryzen Source 1: posted by Morgan MLGman https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/776970-amd-readies-agesa-microcode-update-to-improve-ryzen-ddr4-memory-compatibility-finally/ Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57410/amd-ryzen-microcode-update-improved-ddr4-support/index.html Info leaked by a Gigabyte reps’ forum post indicates AMD will be pushing out a new microcode update for its Ryzen CPU architecture It will add over 20 new registers for the "Summit Ridge" integrated memory controllers, to improve compatibility with "Intel-friendly" DDR4 memory brands. The new AhGESA 1.0.0.6 micro-code will be deployed trough motherboard vendors as motherboard BIOS updates. UK Police to start using Minority Report-esque AI to help decide fate of inmates Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/777999-uk-police-to-start-using-minority-report-esque-ai-to-decide-whether-suspects-should-be-kept-in-custody/ Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39857645 UK police in the city of Durhamhttp://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39857645, England, are prepared to go live with a predictive artificial intelligence system that will determine whether a suspect should be kept in custody the system is designed to classify individuals based on a low, medium, or high risk of committing a future offense How was the system made? Data for the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (Hart) was taken from Durham police records between 2008 and 2012. The system was then tested during 2013, and the results were monitored over the following two years. Forecasts that a suspect was low risk turned out to be accurate 98% of the time, Forecasts that they were high risk were accurate 88% of the time. The tool has a built in predisposition - it is designed to be more likely to classify someone as medium or high risk, in order to err on the side of caution and avoid releasing suspects who may commit a crime. Designed to screw over inmates? What decisions does it help with? deciding whether to keep a suspect in custody for a few more hours whether to release them on bail before a charge; or, after a charge has been made, whether to remand them in custody. What are the risks? The Durham system includes data beyond a suspect's offending history - including their postcode and gender, for example. "To some extent, what learning models do is bring out into the foreground hidden and tacit assumptions that have been made all along by human beings," What care is being taken? the forecasting model's output is "advisory" and should not remove discretion from the police officer using it. An audit trail showing how the system arrived at any given decision will be accessible Head of law at the University of Winchester: "I think, potentially, machines can be far more accurate - given the right data - than humans." What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire NVIDIA Releases GeForce Experience 3.6 Source 1: posted by theDarkPotato https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/778175-nvidia-geforce-experience-adds-support-for-opengl-and-vulkan-games/ Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11365/nvidia-releases-geforce-experience-36-shadowplay-opengl-vulkan ShadowPlay now supports additional rendering APIs, including OpenGL and Vulkan Usability has been streamlined, allowing for easy uploads to Facebook, Twitch, and Google from an improved overlay Microsoft unveils Windows Mixed Reality Controllers Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-unveils-windows-mixed-reality-controllers/ Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-making-its-own-motion-controllers-with-windows-10-vr-mixed-reality-acer/ Microsoft has announced controllers to support the new MR/VR headsets coming from the likes of Acer and HP the controllers will rely on inside-out tracking technology, so you won't need to set up any special sensors to use them. They have a thumb stick like the Oculus Touch, a touchpad like the Vive and a wand-like design with a tracking ring on the end. Acer will offer them bundled together with its Windows VR headset for a $100 premium These controllers won't work with the HoloLens Keylogger found in pre-installed audio driver on HP laptops Source 1: posted by zMeul https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/778273-keylogger-found-in-preinstalled-audio-driver-on-hp-laptops/ Source 2: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-found-in-audio-driver-of-hp-laptops/ The audio driver installed on some HP laptops includes a feature that records all the user's keystrokes and saves the information to a local file, accessible to any third-party or malware that knows where to look. This file is registered to start via a Scheduled Task every time the user logs into the computer. The file "monitors all keystrokes made by the user to capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute keys/hotkeys." Researchers said they found the Conexant HD Audio Driver Package pre-installed on 28 HP laptop models Spammers impersonate real people to flood FCC comments Source 1: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15610744/anti-net-neutrality-fake-comments-identities Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/11/15626278/net-neutrality-spam-bot-fcc-leak-data In response to a proposed rollback of net neutrality, this week John Oliver encouraged viewers to post to a public comment thread on the FCC’s website with support for strong regulation But then thousands of identical comments defending deregulation were posted The posts were from seemingly different concerned individuals with addresses attached. When contacted, these individuals said they did not write the comments and have any idea where the posts came from. more than 58,000 such comments were posted, with 17,000 of those posted in the last 24 hours alone. The personal data of the supposed posters likely came from a previous leak that affected 1.4 billion people’s data (source 2). Minecraft arrives on the Nintendo Switch Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/12/minecraft-arrives-on-the-nintendo-switch/ Source 2: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-launches-nintendo-switch Available today, the new game will include the same features found in console versions, including the multiplayer mini games, Battle and Tumble. BUT Microsoft is also introducing a Super Mario Mash-Up Pack that includes: Mario-themed world with mushrooms, chomping plants, and the iconic pipes, as well as the Mario music and characters. 15 tracks from Super Mario 64 40 characters from Mario games, including Princess Peach, Toad, Yoshi, the Koopalings, Wario, and more! Allows eight players to get together online or play locally if everyone has a Switch; Up to four can play together in a split-screen view on the TV from a single console. Players can use either Joy-Cons or the Pro Controller, depending on their preferences. It will run smoothly at 60fps and 720p resolution, no matter if you’re playing on the big screen TV or in the handheld mode. Microsoft confirms Keyboard support for Xbox One games Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/developers-can-look-forward-to-keyboard-support-on-xbox-one-games/ Source 2: http://fortune.com/2017/05/12/microsoft-xbox-one-keyboards/ At the Build Conference this week, Microsoft confirmed that full support for keyboards on Xbox One will be available through UWP cross-platform development and the still-in-preview Xbox Live Creators Program. But Xbox Advanced Technologies Group's James Yarrow told developers that they can't rely on mouse input in their Xbox One apps and games, at least for the time being. "initially, most models of mice won’t be compatible. However, a handful of mice will be, and Microsoft hopes to add support for all mice over time." Even then, developers will have to code support for the new control system into their games. That could be easy for games that are already being developed for Windows with UWP porting in mind, but it might be a bigger lift for more console-centric developers. On the same game, will Keyboard/Mouse and Controllers ever be equal, or will one always be OP? Is it up to the developers? Nvidia's New Headquarters is Liquid Cooled With a Triple Fan Solution Source 1: http://www.game-debate.com/news/22893/nvidias-new-370m-hq-is-liquid-cooled-with-a-triple-fan-solution Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57462/nvidia-boss-office-new-hq/index.html Construction is now entering the final stages on Nvidia's $370m head quarters, which is expected to open in Q3 2017 46,500 square meters, split into two floors Capactity for 2500 employees it’s shaped like a giant triangle composed of dozens of smaller tessellating triangles, Underneath the floor there’s a gigantic underground garage, the building has a snaking system of pipes that feed into a hidden water tower sunk into the roof of the building. The recycled water is then filtered through an evaporation system utilising three giant fans to keep the building cool. Nintendo helps Nvidia make tonnes of money Source 1: posted by linustouchtips https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/777820-nvidia-double-profits-due-to-nintendo-switch/ Source 2: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-first-quarter-fiscal-2018-financials-higher-profits-due-to-nintendo-switch.html Nvidia just released their revenue for the first quarter ended April 30, 2017: $1.94 billion, up 48 percent from a year earlier The boost it attributed mainly to the Nintendo Switch (Nvidia fabs the SoC) and data-center activities. "Our Datacenter GPU computing business nearly tripled from last year, as more of the world's computer scientists engage deep learning.” (Old News) Intel Rebrands Xeon Line Source 1: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/248852-intel-rebrands-xeon-line-announces-new-chips-based-skylake Source 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-xeon-platinum-gold/ Instead of naming chips with an E/EP/EX system (think Haswell-E), Intel will use metallic classifications to identify specific Xeon parts. Traditionally, the main difference between Xeon processors has been the core count and cache size, but Intel is looking to market its processors based on the jobs they are good at, rather than their raw power. Bronze CPUs offer entry level performance and supposedly lower clocks, Silver processors are intended for low-power designs, while Gold and Platinum pack their own high-end options Open Benchtable 3D-printable vertical stand Source 1: posted by N.tony https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/777024-open-benchtable-3d-printable-vertical-stand-no-motherboard-shall-be-dropped/#comment-9802936 Source 2: http://openbenchtable.com/community/3d-printable-vertical-stand/ Now you can 3D print feet that make your Streacom BC1 Open Benchtable more stable when standing vertically iTunes coming to the Windows Store by the end of the year Source 1: posted by Johners https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/778369-itunes-coming-to-the-windows-store-by-the-end-of-the-year/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/11/15616594/apple-itunes-windows-store-app-windows-10?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Announced at Windows Build conference iTunes is one of the most searched for apps that’s currently missing in the Windows Store.

Main News Topics LTX 2017! TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW, Saturday July 29th @ 11am. LANGLEY EVENTS CENTRE, LANGLEY, BC, CANADA Meetup Tech CON-ival Interactive booths, swag, activities and more Live stage events (TOPICS TBD - LINUS, LUKE, WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANNA DO?!?!?!) TICKETS ON SALE NOW - only 1100 available It costs money because we rented out an arena and want to show off some cool stuff We hope to see you guys there Link is on our Twitter, Facebook, Forum, and Reddit @ r/LinusTechTips http://www.ticketrocket.co/event/details/97246/ltx-2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Court rules that Apple cannot supply ‘refurbished or remanufactured’ iPads as warranty replacements Source 1: posted by CaptainGazzz https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/771998-dutch-court-rules-that-apple-cannot-supply-%E2%80%98refurbished-or-remanufactured%E2%80%99-ipads-as-warranty-replacements/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/25/can-apple-provide-a-refurbished-remanufactured-ipad-under-warranty-netherlands-holland/ Following a previous Dutch court ruling that Apple cannot provide refurbished products as warranty replacements, a new ruling has outlawed ‘remanufactured’ units also. Apple must, the court found, supply brand new models exactly as it would to a paying customer Apple’s refurbished products are ones which have been sold and later returned to the company. They are returned to as-new standard, and given the same warranty as brand new devices. In addition to being used for warranty replacements, they are also made available for sale at a typical discount of around 14-15%. Remanufactured products are newly-manufactured but may include used parts harvested from broken models. These are not made available for sale, says the company, but used only as warranty replacements. Customer service perspective vs. Environmental perspective A Rant about LTT's Latest $1000 Build Guide Source 1: posted by DocSwag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775329-a-rant-about-ltts-latest-1000-build-guide/ Source 2: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775329-a-rant-about-ltts-latest-1000-build-guide/?page=4 get rekt. Repost: AMD making money from ad revenue from installing drivers!? Source 1: posted by zMeul https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772278-amd-making-money-from-ad-revenue-from-installing-drivers/ Source 2: AMD driver puts a Quake shortcut on your desktop AMD stock price falls >20% in single day Source 1: posted by AnonymousGuy https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/774560-amd-stock-price-falls-20-in-single-day-on-lackluster-q1-earnings/ Source 2: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-stock-ryzen-cpu-share,34314.html Shares of Advanced Micro Devices plunged on Tuesday following a first-quarter report that failed to justify the stock's 300% gain last year. AMD stock was down 19% at 11:40 a.m. AMD reported strong results that were in line with expectations, but the fickle stock market punished the company after it revealed lower-than-expected margins and relatively low Q2 margin guidance AMD reported a 33% margin for Q2, which is only slightly lower than the 34% it posted in Q1. AMD reported $984 million in revenue (up 18% year over year) and a $29 million net operating loss (down from $73 million year over year) as it claws its way back to profitability. The company also reported an 18% revenue increase due to Ryzen and GPU sales. But there’s still hope! AMD has shipped Ryzen processors for only one month of the quarter, and it also has Vega slated for release in Q2. Their Naples platform will also help, as will market share gains in the lucrative data center segment Ryzen 3 processors are also slated for the second half of the year, which could help boost sales volume. AMD Radeon RX Vega Specs Leaked In Linux Patch Source 1: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-vega-specs-leaked-linux-patch/ Source 2: http://www.game-debate.com/news/22847/amd-radeon-rx-vega-specifications-leak-in-linux-driver-update-alleged-benchmarks-surface The first update adding comprehensive Vega feature support to Linux was issued yesterday, revealing details about Vega’s spec Graphics Card Radeon RX 480 Radeon RX Vega GPU Polaris 10 XT Vega 10 XT Process Node 14nm 14nm Shader Engines 4 4 Stream Processors 2304 4096 Performance 5.8 TFLOPS 5.8 (FP16) TFLOPS 12.5 TFLOLPS 25 (FP16) TFLOPS Render Output Units 32 64 Texture Mapping Units 144 256 Hardware Threads 4 8 Memory Interface 256-bit 2048-bit Memory 8GB GDDR5 8GB HBM2 Coffee Lake 6 Core CPU spotted by WCCFtech Source 1: posted by DELTAprime https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/770914-coffee-lake-6-core-cpu-spotted-by-wccftech/ Source 2: http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-desktop-6-core-4-core-cpu-leaked/ Intel Coffee Lake chips were previously going to launch in January 2018 (CES). But AMD launches have pushed Intel to launch as early as August at GamesCom 2017 CPU Name Intel Core i5-7600K Intel Core i5-8*** Intel Core i7-7700K Intel Core i7-8*** CPU Family Kaby Lake-S Coffee Lake-S Kaby Lake-S Coffee Lake-S CPU Process 14nm 14nm 14nm 14nm CPU Cores 4 6 4 6 CPU Threads 4 6 8 12 Base Clock 3.80 GHz 3.50 GHz (ES) 4.20 GHz TBD Boost Clock 4.20 GHz 3.50 GHz (ES) 4.50 GHz TBD L2 Cache 1 MB (256 KB per Core) 1.5 MB (256 KB per Core) 1 MB (256 KB per Core) 1.5 MB (256 KB per Core) L3 Cache 6 MB 9 MB 8 MB 12 MB Unlocked Design Yes Yes Yes Yes Socket Support LGA 1151 LGA 1151? LGA 1151 LGA 1151? PCH 200-Series 300-Series 200-Series 300-Series TDP 91W TBD 91W TBD Microsoft Announces the Surface Laptop Source 1: posted by GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/774467-microsoft-announces-the-surface-laptop-aimed-at-students/ Source 2: It’s a 13.5inch laptop featuring a Microsoft 3:2 aspect ratio Pixel Sense display IO: 1x USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort and a headphone plug. The Surface line magnetic power connector. 2.76lb (1.25kg), and is 14.47mm max thickness Has a magnesium body, and fabric surface palm rest area. available is several colors: Cobalt Blue, Graphite Gold, Burgundy, and Platinum. The keyboard area is the same felt material from the Surface Pro 4 keyboard. The OS is the new Windows 10 S edition (S stands for School). This is version of Windows 10 can only run Windows Store apps (Win32 and UWP apps. Forces you to use Edge and Bing Windows 10 S can be converted to Windows 10 Pro. Specs: CPU: Core i5 / i7 U series CPU RAM: 4GB, 8GB and 16GB LPDDR3 available as option Storage: PCI-E SSD available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB 14.5h of battery life Screen Resolution: 2256x1504 Starting at $999 Available June 15 What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Valve Limits Steam’s Gifting System Without Warning Source 1: https://techraptor.net/content/valve-limits-steam-gifting Source 2: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57380/steams-gift-changes-hurt-key-resellers-gamers/index.html Valve has announced several changes to Steam’s gifting system. Before, users on Steam could purchase a game as a gift and store that copy in their inventory for later use. When sending games, users could either deliver the gift directly through Steam or attach it to an email through the client if you weren’t friends with the giftee on the service. With the changes, you cannot store gifts for future use. When purchasing a game you already own, you are forced to choose a recipient of the gift and a time when it will be delivered. Sending games through email is now impossible it is now possible to schedule a game to be delivered months in advance. Collectors have often used Steam’s gift inventory to store and trade copies of delisted Steam titles These changes will also affect users who trade and sell Steam gifts on third party websites gifts you already have stored will not be affected Qualcomm to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775378-continuing-applequalcomm-saga-qualcomm-plans-to-petition-itc-to-ban-iphone-imports/ Source 2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-03/qualcomm-said-to-seek-u-s-import-ban-for-iphones Incensed over Apple Inc.’s decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips, Qualcomm Inc. plans to retaliate by asking a U.S. trade agency to ban US imports of iPhones The ITC has the power to block the import of goods into the U.S. and processes cases more quickly than federal district courts The current iPhone uses a mixture of Intel Corp. and Qualcomm modems to connect to networks. Up until the iPhone 7, Qualcomm was the exclusive supplier of that crucial part. The company’s patents cover the fundamentals of how data and voice is encoded and transmitted between networks and phones. By stopping payment to contract manufacturers who make the iPhone -- who, in turn, pay Qualcomm -- Apple is interfering with contracts that predate the debut of the iPhone, Qualcomm argues. A successful appeal to the ITC could potentially lock it out of the U.S. market, which accounts for 40 percent of Apple’s total sales. SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019 Source 1: posted by NonHexa https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775181-spacex-to-launch-broadband-satellites-in-2019/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-will-launch-thousands-of-broadband-satellites/ SpaceX today said its planned constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites will launch from the Falcon 9 rocket beginning in 2019 and continue launching in phases until reaching full capacity in 2024. Later this year, SpaceX will begin the process of testing the satellites themselves, launching one prototype before the end of the year and another during the early months of 2018 The 4,425 satellites will "operate in 83 orbital planes (at altitudes ranging from 1,110km to 1,325km)," and "require associated ground control facilities, gateway Earth stations, and end-user Earth stations," SpaceX has also proposed an additional 7,500 satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that this will boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas. SpaceX's satellites will essentially operate as a mesh network and "allocate broadband resources in real time, placing capacity where it is most needed Customer terminals will be the size of a laptop. While speeds should hit a gigabit per second, SpaceX said it "intends to market different packages of data at different price points, accommodating a variety of consumer demands." Current satellite ISPs have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements, but SpaceX has said its own system will have latencies between 25 and 35ms. Intel tells Core i7-7700K owners to stop overclocking Source 1: posted by Mr.Meerkat https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775456-intel-tells-core-i7-7700k-owners-to-stop-overclocking/ Source 2: http://www.pcgamer.com/intels-tells-core-i7-7700k-owners-to-stop-overclocking-to-avoid-high-temps/? Some owners of Intel's Core i7-7700 and 7700K processors have been complaining for the past three months of unusual temperature increases of up 90C, close to the Core i7-7700's maximum 100C threshold Intel’s response: “We do not recommend running outside the processor specifications, such as by exceeding processor frequency or voltage specifications, or removing of the integrated heat spreader (sometimes called 'de-lidding'). These actions will void the processor warranty." UHD Blu-Ray Disc encryption finally cracked Source 1: posted by Terodius https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/774648-uhd-blu-ray-disc-encryption-finally-cracked/ Source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/68w9pl/aacs_20_cracked/ A Full-fledged copy of the 4K UHD Bluray release of The Smurfs 2 has been posted on private tracker ultrahdclub.org The member who posted it claims this release was achieved through cracking the encryption of the drive itself and not through the more common HDCP stripping and capture method. Amazon's new Echo Look will judge your fashion sense for only $199.99 Source 1: posted by SCGazelle https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772165-amazons-new-echo-look-will-judge-your-fashion-sense-for-only-19999/ Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/26/15435550/amazon-echo-look-200-smart-camera-mirror-stylist Amazon has announced the Echo Look, an Echo with a camera on it that works with a "style assistant" companion app that will catalog your outfit and rate it using AI trained by fashion specialists. A Style Check feature will help you compare two outfits by rating which is better. It can also take full length photos and show the user angles that you wouldn't be able to see from a regular mirror The device appears to be Amazon’s way of expanding its fashion retail shop, as it will store your lookbook and recommend outfits that suit your style Long lost Starcraft gold source code found, finder handsomely rewarded Source 1: posted by Raskolnikov https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/775507-long-lost-starcraft-gold-source-code-found-finder-handsomely-rewarded/ Source 2: http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/starcraft-source-disc/#h6NzQBM69iqs Back in 2000, a disc containing StarCraft source code was stolen from Blizzard, forcing them to start from scratch A month ago a random Reddit user, Khemist, bought a bunch of Blizzard stuff on Ebay, including a disc labeled StarCraft Gold Master Source Code Khemist handed it over to Blizzard and received A copy of Overwatch $250 in Blizzard store credit A tonne of Overwatch + Diablo swag Free trip to BlizzCON ...he could have gotten WAY more for that disc Seagate finally commits to HAMR launch Source 1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11315/seagate-ships-35th-millionth-smr-hdd-confirms-hamrbased-hard-drives-in-late-2018 Source 2: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9858/astc_technology_roadmap.png This week Seagate, for the first time, set a precise launch timeframe for HDDs that use Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording: end of 2018.

Main News Topics Announced: The most badass Acer gaming monitor ever Source 1: posted by SCGazelle https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772347-the-acer-predator-x27-has-almost-every-feature-you-might-ever-want-in-a-monitor/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/acer-predator-x27-price-specs-release-date/ The Predator X27 features a 27-inch 16:9 panel 4K UHD resolution HDR One hundred and 44Hz refresh rate. G-Sync 1,000 nits of brightness 4ms response time The X27 is based on an AU Optronics M270QAN02.2 AHVA panel with "quantum dot" technology HDR10 96 % of the DCI-P3 colour gamut A direct LED backlighting system that contains 384 zones, which allows sections of the display to be shut down entirely for better black levels. At a minimum, it requires a 10-series Nvidia graphics card with a DisplayPort 1.4 connector. There's no price or release date for the X27 at this time FCC announces plan to reverse Title II net neutrality Source 1: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/26/15437840/fcc-plans-end-title-ii-net-neutrality Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/net-neutrality-rules-took-away-your-internet-freedom-fcc-chair-claims/ The Federal Communications Commission Chairman Anjit Pai has tabled a proposal to undo the 2015 rules that implemented net neutrality with Title II classification. The net neutrality rules passed in 2015 reclassified internet providers as “common carriers” under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, which subject them to tough, utility-style regulation. the classification was meant to ensure that internet providers would be subject to careful oversight The new proposal will do three things: first, it’ll reclassify internet providers as Title I information services; second, it’ll prevent the FCC from adapting any net neutrality rules to practices that internet providers haven’t thought up yet; third, it’ll open questions about what to do with several key net neutrality rules — like no blocking or throttling of apps and websites — that were implemented in 2015. The proposal will be voted on by the FCC at a meeting on May 18th JON: shouldn’t the FTC be the ones governing net neutrality instead of the FCC? Amazon (don’t say it!) A-l-e-x-a learns to talk like a human Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/alexa-learns-to-talk-like-a-human-with-whispers-pauses-emotion/ Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazons-alexa-just-learned-to-whisper-and-bleep-your-expletives/ Amazon announced this week the addition of a new set of speaking skills for the virtual assistant, which will allow her to do things like whisper, take a breath to pause for emphasis, adjust the rate, pitch and volume of her speech, and more. She’ll even be able to “bleep” out swear words The new tools were provided to third party app developers, allowing them to control the pronunciation, intonation, timing and emotion of their Skills. 2 Awesome things happened in Vancouver TODAY at TED conference: 1- Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations Source 1: Source 2: Elon Musk was on stage at the 2017 TED Conference in Vancouver today where he showed a shadowy image that gives us our first look at what his forthcoming electric Semi Truck will look like smooth continuous design between the windshield and the upper facade. headlights that resemble the ones used on existing Tesla cars Musk also said that there will be likely four new Gigafactory sites announced this year!. the company said in its most recent earnings report that it plans to finalize locations for up to three new Gigafactory sites this year, in addition to the existing Nevada location, and the New York plant for solar technology it’s operating in partnership with Panasonic. 2- UK 'Iron Man' demonstrates flying suit Source 1: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39441825 Source 2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/28/british-military-interested-iron-man-flying-suit/ A British inventor, who built an Iron Man-style flight suit, has flown it at the Ted conference in Vancouver. The suit works using six miniature jet engines, or thrusters, which are attached to a rigid exoskeleton at the back and arms. It takes off vertically and can be controlled by moving the arms, while a display inside the helmet gives updates on fuel consumption. In the demonstration, the inventor flew in a circle for nearly one minute, hovering a short distance from the ground. Police to Scan Soccer Fans' Faces Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/champions-league-final-police-to-scan-soccer-fans-faces Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/26/british-police-to-scan-faces-at-champions-league-final/ Security at this year’s Champions League final will be aided by facial recognition technology. Cameras around both the stadium and Cardiff's main train station will compare the 170,000 soccer fans’ faces against a police database of 500,000 people of interest. If there's a match, police will get a heads-up that could help them stop a terrorist or frequent hooligan. According to South Wales police, this implementation should provide a basis for further use of the technology. South Wales Police will have to honor the country's usage guidelines, only harvesting as much information as they really need, and being transparent with the data they collect. However, there has already been evidence of police forces (both in the UK and abroad) preserving face recognition data for innocent people. Google becomes first foreign internet company to go live in Cuba Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/26/google-becomes-first-foreign-internet-company-to-go-live-in-cuba/ Source 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/27/525896190/google-spins-up-its-first-servers-in-cuba Cuba's national telecom ETECSA officially inked a deal with Google back in December, and today, they finally switched on the service The servers Google switched on today are part of a the Google Global Cache (GGC), a global network that locally stores popular content for quick access Material stored in-country will load much quicker than Cuba's existing setup: Piping internet in through a submarine cable connected to Venezuela but they don't provide Internet access where it wasn't before: As few as 5% of Cubans have access to the open Internet Home Internet connections are rare, and public access Wi-Fi hotspots costs $1.50 an hour — very expensive for most Cubans. Nintendo Launching New 2DS XL Model Source 1: posted by GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772556-nintendo-announces-the-new-new-nintendo-2ds-xl-game-console-not-a-joke/ Source 2: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-launching-new-2ds-xl-model-that-has-same-/1100-6449650/ Unlike the 2DS, the New 2DS XL features a clamshell design The system can play 3DS games, but without the 3D effect. It also plays DS games. It is lighter than the Nintendo 3DS XL but has the same screen size. According to Nintendo, it "still packs the same power" of the New Nintendo 3DS XL Nintendo: "This new addition to Nintendo's portable hardware line demonstrates our commitment to the hand-held market," Launches in Australia & New Zealand on June 15, US on July 28. It will cost $150.USD What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire A 3D printer with Tank Treads?! Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/27/mits-giant-mobile-3d-printer-can-build-a-building-in-14-hours-and-some-day-it-may-be-headed-to-mars/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/27/mit-s-mobile-3d-printer-built-the-largest-structure-to-date/ MIT’s giant mobile 3D printer can build a building in 14 hours, and some day it may be headed to Mars A nozzle is attached to the end of a pair of robotic arms atop a rover-like vehicle outfitted with tank treads. With the proper combination of sensors, the system can customize a build based on conditions like light and weather and can utilize its own surroundings as the basis of its structures. The team refers to the machine as a platform, rather than a 3D printer. The goal is to create a robotic system capable of several different functions working in tandem to create a structure, including digging and milling, in addition to 3D printing. AMD making money from ad revenue when you install its drivers!? Source 1: posted by zMeul https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772278-amd-making-money-from-ad-revenue-from-installing-drivers/ Installing the new Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.4.4 Drivers will stealth-install a desktop shortcut for the Quake Champions Beta on your machine. The final URL destination includes a referral ID OMG LOL: Anti-Virus software update nukes customer’s machines Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/av-provider-webroot-melts-down-as-update-nukes-hundreds-of-legit-files/ Source 2: Antivirus provider Webroot released a signature update that nuked hundreds of benign files needed to run Microsoft Windows, as well as apps that run on top of the operating system. customers reported that servers and computers alike stopped working At one company, the update’s false positives quarantined "several hundred" files used by Windows Insider Preview. Hundreds of "line of business" apps, such as those that track patient appointments or manage office equipment, suffered the same fate. Webroot was also flagging Facebook as a phishing site Webroot officials said the bad definitions were live for only 13 minutes before being taken down Officials have yet to confirm they would be able to revert all the bad determinations Russian spy ship sunk by sheep barge Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/russian-spy-ship-sunk-by-sheep-barge-sheep-and-sailors-unhurt/ A Russian intelligence collection ship sank on April 27 after a collision with a Togo-flagged livestock carrier carrying sheep from Romania to Jordan. The sheep-carrying ship suffered only slight damage to its bow, but the Russian warship suffered a rupture in its hull below the waterline, sinking. The sheep (and sailors) were unhurt Microsoft to complete Windows Phone wind-down by June Source 1: posted by Daring https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772804-press-f-to-pay-respects-microsoft-to-complete-windows-phone-wind-down-by-june/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-windows-phone-dead/ Microsoft has announced that it is effectively out of the consumer phone business. It is cutting 1,850 jobs, and setting aside almost a billion dollars to cover the costs of exiting the business. “We are focusing our phone efforts where we have differentiation — with enterprises that value security, manageability and our Continuum capability, and consumers who value the same,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. The company recently saw its market share fall below 1% Razer's new Lancehead mouse offers 'tournament-grade' wireless performance Source 1: posted by SCGazelle https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/772308-razers-lancehead-mouse-claims-to-outperform-every-other-wireless-mouse/ Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/27/15451048/razer-lancehead-wireless-gaming-mouse-pro-gaming Lancehead uses frequency hopping in the 2.4GHz band to dodge interference, and Razer claims the mouse "outperforms every other wireless gaming mouse" in lag-free performance. Lancehead has: a true 16,000 DPI sensor, which can track at 210 inches-per-second and handle an absurd 50G acceleration. Razer Mechanical Mouse Switches, dedicated buttons for sensitivity switching, and a few extra programmable buttons. ambidextrous design internal memory to save and sync mouse settings offline Razer's also offering a wired version of Lancehead, named Lancehead Tournament Edition?!?!, which bumps the inches-per-second tracking speed to 450. Both mice are available for preorder now. The wireless Lancehead will ship in May or June for $139.99, while the wired version ships in April or May for $79.99. Fallout is bringing post-apocalyptic warfare to your tabletop Source 1: http://www.polygon.com/2017/4/26/15438656/fallout-4-wasteland-warfare-miniatures-game-release-date Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/fallout-is-bringing-post-apocalyptic-warfare-to-your-tabletop/ Fallout: Wasteland Warfare is a traditional miniatures-based wargame, along the lines of Warhammer 40,000 or Flames of War. Groups of units will improve over time with perks, weapons, gear and other upgrades. The 32 mm-scale game will have a playable campaign arc, random missions, PvP and Tournament modes, solo-play AI decks, and even cooperative missions. The game will feature iconic characters in highly detailed, cast resin miniatures, as well as terrain, buildings and settlements. Comes out in November AMD puts 2 GPUs and 32GB of RAM on its latest Radeon Pro Duo graphics card Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/amd-puts-two-gpus-and-32gb-of-ram-on-its-latest-radeon-pro-duo-graphics-card/ Source 2: http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/workstation/radeon-pro/duo It has: two separate 14nm Polaris GPUs with 2,304 stream processors, 128 texture units, 32 ROPs, and 16GB of graphics RAM apiece (for a total of 32GB) on a single card The Duo is aimed primarily at professional users rather than gamers. The new card only needs two power plugs, uses an air blower typical of most GPUs, and has a rated TBP (typical board power) of 250W. Dual-GPU are a useful way to get two GPUs into a computer with a single slot (or four GPUs into a machine with two slots if you don't mind the diminishing returns). It’s set to launch at "the end of May" for $999

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Main News Topics LEAKED: RX500 Series Video Cards Specs! Source 1: Posted by lots of unexplainable lag https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/765978-the-rx5xx-lineup-has-leaked-in-its-entirely-launching-april-18th-polaris-refresh/ Source 2: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-580-570-560-550-specs-gaming-benchmarks-official-leak/ The official presentation for the upcoming AMD cards, showcasing specifications and gaming performance numbers of several Polaris based variants, has been leaked. The series will be utilizing a refreshed reference cooling system. All cards except the Radeon RX 550 will use dual fan cooling solutions as standard AMD has also updated the power configuration on their cards meaning that these card will offer even higher stable operation under load and will be able to overclock decently. All cards will officially launch on April 18th Ryzen 5 1600X breaks 6 core overclocking records Source 1: Posted By: GEHORC https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/765058-ryzen-5-1600x-breaks-6-core-records-in-extreme-overclocking/ Source 2: https://ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16401 German overclocker Roman Hartung has pushed a new Ryzen 5 1600X CPU to 5.9 GHz using: an ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard G.Skill DDR4 memory set to work at DDR4-3000 using CL12 timings a bus speed of 130 MHz and a multiplier of 45.5 and liquid nitrogen cooling .All cores and threads were enabled Healso ran Cinebench, GPU PI and Geekbench. In all these four benchmarks he achieved “global firsts” overtaking all Intel hexacore processors. Rumour: Intel to launch Skylake-X and X299 chipset early Source 1: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/43352-intel-skylake-x-and-x299-chipset-could-come-earlier Source 2: http://www.techspot.com/news/68889-intel-skylake-x-kaby-lake-x-processors-rumored.html Originally scheduled to launch sometime in Q3 2017- probably August Now rumored to be launching between June 19 and July 9 Intel Skylake-X lineup will include: six- and ten-core CPUs, support for quad-channel DDR4-2667 memory 44 PCIe 3.0 lanes The Kaby Lake-X lineup will include quad-core SKUs, have a TDP of 112W and lack the integrated GPU dual-channel DDR4-2667 memory support 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes More info on Intel's new X299 HEDT platform should come at Computex 2017 Rumour: New Intel KabyLake-G CPU Source 1: Posted By NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/761420-intel-kabylake-g/ Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/232067/rumored-intel-kaby-lake-g-series-modular-multi-die-hbm-2-amd-graphics-ip Intel is rumoured to be making a Kaby Lake-G series chip designed as a multi-chip module in a singular package. The company has already played with such a design before with its Clarkdale family of processors This heterogeneous, modular approach to CPU development, allows Intel to: integrate external graphics solutions that could be produced in other factories and then fitted onto the package; It would allow Intel to save die space on their 10 nm dies for actual cores, increasing yields from their 10 nm process; and would allow Intel to recycle old processes with new logic inside the CPU package, permitting the company to better distribute production load across different processes, better utilizing (and extracting value from) their not-so-state-of-the-art processes. Apple is announces “completely rethought” macpro Source 1: http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apple-announces-new-mac-pro-2018/ Source 2: http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives Phil Schiller said Apple wants “to architect it so that we can keep it fresh with regular improvements”, creating “a Mac Pro modular system” They’re also making a high end Display to go with it Phil said “you won’t see any of those products this year” In the meantime, Apple is releasing a slightly upgraded Mac Pro: the $3,000 quad-core Mac Pro with dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs has morphed into a six-core Mac Pro with dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs. The $4,000 model now has an eight-core processor and dual AMD FirePro D800 GPUs Both models have 16GB of RAM neither has USB Type-C or Thunderbolt 3 Variable Refresh Rate coming to TVs Source 1: Posted by AliminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/765547-xbox-scorpio-dev-kits-coming-with-a-spec-bump-over-retail-scorpio-with-44-radeon-customized-compute-units/ Source 2: http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-seems-to-think-an-awesome-pc-gaming-feature-i-1794256730 Microsoft is trying to close the gap between console gaming and PC gaming Project Scorpio supports FreeSync, and Microsoft is working with TV manufacturers to try and push them to support as well The new HDMI 2.1 specification supports variable refresh rate What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Straight-up Skynet Shiz: Autonomous Fighter Planes Source 1: Posted by WMGroom AK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/766021-fully-autonomous-fighter-planes/ Source 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/f-16-drone-have-raider-ii-loyal-wingman-f-35-lockheed-martin-2017-4 the United States Air Force has developed an F-16 drone that can not only fly autonomously, it can also engage in battle with intelligent strategies that it conceives on its own. The Air Force had already been using F-16 drones as practice targets for the F-35 to destroy in training. Now the Air Force has announced fully autonomous air-to-air and ground strike capabilities that it developed in conjunction with Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks. During a demonstration, an experimental unmanned F-16 aircraft showed how it can react to a dynamic threat environment during an air-to-ground strike mission: It planned and executed the mission on its own, deciding the best route and strategies based on mission priorities and available assets. The aircraft was also able to react to changing threats and adjust its course of action accordingly. Scrapyard Wars: Prison Edition Source 1: Posted by Omon_Ra https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/765562-scrapyard-wars-behind-bars-edition/ Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394 Inmates in the Ohio built computers from PCs they were supposed to be dismantling for recycling. the unsupervised inmates later hid the PCs in the ceiling of a training room. Investigators found software, pornography and articles about making drugs and explosives on the machines. They were caught when IT staff flagged unusual levels of internet activity on a contractor's account. Actually Awesome: Uber makes fake Lyft accounts to steal drivers Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/766011-rumor-ubers-puts-lyft-drivers-in-hell/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/13/uber-hell-program-lyft-drivers/ Uber placed fake Lyft rider accounts around cities in order to map the distribution of Lyft drivers, as each RIDER can see up to 8 nearby drivers. Monitoring the Lyft driver’s habits, Uber noticed some drivers were “double-apping”: driving for Lyft and Uber Uber then sent more rides and offered incentives to these drivers to keep them too busy to drive for Lyft. The program was discontinued after Uber paid tens of millions per week in bonuses Burger King Trolls Google Assistant Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/765903-so-apparently-burger-king-hijacked-google-assistant/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/google-burger-king-feud-over-control-of-the-google-assistant/ BK made a 15 second unskippable YouTube ad where- instead of describing the Whopper- the actor says “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?” The trolling was compounded when people vandalised the ingredients from the Wikipedia page that the Assistant would bring up the Google issued a server side update to make the Assistant unresponsive to the Burger King recording Too bad they didn’t do “Hey Siri” Nintendo hates money, discontinues the NES Classic Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/nintendo-hates-money-discontinues-the-nes-classic/ Source 2: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/nes-classic-being-discontinued-by-nintendo Nintendo has announced that it will cease production of the 30-game NES Classic Edition by the end of the month, even though it sold 1.5 million units from Nov 11 launch to new years. (Wii-U sold 14m units in its lifetime) A representative said that the NES Classic "wasn’t intended to be an ongoing, long-term product. However, due to high demand, we did add extra shipments to our original plans." The NES Classic controller will also be discontinued Was this done to bolster sales of the Switch? American colleges to offer scholarships to play video games Source 1: http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/247675948-story Source 2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-05/video-gaming-becomes-a-scholarship-sport-at-university-of-utah The growth of esports has colleges and universities developing teams to compete as prizes are growing and sponsors are taking notice coaches say esports requires “the same discipline and decision-making as other activities. All those same life skills go into gaming. This is a developmental tool." Some of these teams practice 20 hours a week on top of studying game film and team-building projects. About 20 to 30 matches or tournaments are played annually. University of Utah is the first school in the "Power Five" -- the five richest athletic conferences in college sports -- to offer scholarships for video gaming Their team will start-off playing League of Legends The University of California, Irvine, recently built an esports-specific arena on its campus, and the Big Ten Conference’s television network earlier this year began broadcasting competitions between club teams from its member schools. Rumour: Apple Watch for Diabetics Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/13/a-future-apple-watch-could-be-essential-for-diabetics/ Source 2: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/apple-working-on-glucose-sensors-diabetes-treatment.html Apple is developing a sensor that can monitor a person's blood sugar levels continuously and non-invasively. If successful, the technology will be integrated into a future version of the Apple Watch to help people with diabetes manage their condition Right now, the only effective way to continuously monitor someone's blood glucose level is by inserting a sensor below the skin. It's believed that the company is already running trials of the sensors at "clinical sites" in San Francisco's Bay Area. Apple has already hired consultants to help it navigate the torturous process of getting FDA approval. The initiative was initially envisioned by Steve Jobs before his death Meanwhile, Google's life sciences team is currently working on a contact lens that can measure blood sugar via the eye Phone accelerometers can give away your password Source 1: Posted by VVoltor https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/764951-phone-accelerometers-can-give-away-your-password/ Source 2: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/10/pin-gathering-mobile/ Researchers have been able to guess 4-digit pin codes with high accuracy by analysing the data from your phone’s rotation sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers. Using data collected by mobile device’s hardware tracking systems, the team was able to crack four digit PINs with 70-percent accuracy on the first try, with 100-percent accuracy by the fifth try. Unlike you camera and GPS, mobile apps and websites don't need to ask permission to access information from these sensors. A site accessed with malicious code via your mobile browser can activate sensor-based monitoring in the background when browser tabs are left open ACER’s $300 Mixed Reality Headset for Windows Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/12/acer-microsoft-vr-mixed-reality/ Source 2: http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/acer-mixed-reality-developer-edition-hands-on/#KnVuHtQ.Jmq1 Microsoft is enlisting 3rd parties like ACER, Dell, and HP to make mixed reality headsets that are cheaper and more affordable than the Hololens. Products costing roughly $300 will be arriving this year Microsoft is targeting a middle ground between mobile VR and high systems like the Rift and Vive. A Windows 10 update in the fall will let affordable PCs with integrated graphics power these new mixed reality headsets. Like HoloLens, this new crop of mixed reality headsets will let you access just about every app and tool you'd otherwise use in Windows 10. That includes universal apps as well as those made for HoloLens. So you could conceivably throw a video onto a wall in your virtual living room while you're browsing the web or working on an Office doc. Microsoft claims it can also handle VR more efficiently since its mixed reality platform is built directly into the OS DJI announces ‘Phantom 4 Advanced’ Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/13/djis-new-phantom-4-advanced-makes-their-lineup-even-more-confusing/ Source 2: The Phantom 4 Advanced will take the place of the regular old Phantom 4, which will be discontinued on April 30th when the new version launches. The new drone will cost $1,349 – $50 less than the original Phantom 4’s starting price The Phantom 4 Advanced will borrow a bunch of features from the Phantom 4 Pro, which remains on sale for $1,499. the new drone will have the same 1-inch, 20-megapixel sensor for 4K video at 60fps that the Pro has. It will also get the same intelligent flight modes (these let you pre-program your drone to fly certain routes or follow you around) The Phantom 4 Advanced will only have forward and downwards obstacle avoidance, unlike the Pro version’s backwards and side obstacle avoidance.