The Owl

Best way to remember which is which is that the crocodile will always face towards the bigger meal (or in this case: wattage)

@chaozbanditthis is bad ... i dont have the money but fanatec sent me a preorder link for the CSL DD .... 

A recent leak and more footage was found that shows what a buggy mess cyberpunk was prior to its release and it’s multiple delays. 
jason Schreier who talked to over 20 employees before the release and had gotten plenty of criticism for his report that Cyberpunk was in no way finish and the employees are overworked and underpaid back in early 2020, made a comment on Twitter. 
Video in link below. First clip contains NSFW game footage. 
Summary
 The video is a fun composition of bug materials QA and developers collected. 
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 Honestly I hope this teaches the industry how viable QA is and it’s better to push a release than release a buggy mess. Sadly they won’t and we still see it every release. 
 
Sources
https://www.resetera.com/threads/437423
 
 https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1401505081695117316?s=21
 
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1401506854249938949?s=21
 
Edit: (thanks to murasaki)
 

Heres the direct links to the videos to save you time:
https://streamable.com/e/8wk2cx
https://streamable.com/thuk6o
https://streamable.com/rz1onb

Some of those were funny. Sucks it got released buggy, but oh wow do all games... Still for me it plays well and I haven't noticed too many bugs that made it unplayable, which I definitely did in other games so. As long as they continue working on the game, improving it all good. Game is nice and has a potential to be better.

hehehe
 
Summary
Norton, the antivirus giant, has added an ethereum miner to it's latest version of Norton lifelock. Norton Crypto, allows users to use their machines to mine the Ethereum cryptocurrency during the computer's idle time.It will most probably use pooled resources to mine faster and distribute the rewards fairly. This is in part to prevent a nicehash-like situation, in which a person has to disactivate their antivirus. An update will bring this 'feature' to it's Norton 360 service in the coming weeks. Norton might add other cryptocurrencies later.

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My thoughts
Kid's, don't be troglodyte, use common sense and you will never need an antivirus.
Also, now mcafee actually has reasons to call norton malware. Great going, symantec.
 
 
Jokes aside, pretty idiotic of Norton to do this. Now my mother will call me up after 3 years, saying that her laptop died, and then I discover she had accidentally switched on Norton crypto.
 
Sources
Antivirus firm Norton to offer cryptocurrency mining | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto - CNN
Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining - BBC News
Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton - The Verge

There fixed it for you!
 
 

There fixed it for you!
 
 

There fixed it for you!
 
 

There fixed it for you!
 
 

Summary
Cooler Master, the well known maker of PC peripherals and cooling solutions, has revealed their latest innovation: a vapor chamber so thin that it's thickness is comparable to that of a single strand of hair. Measuring at just 200um, the chamber is designed for laptops and mobile devices where conventional cooling solutions are considered impractical or inadequate.
 

 
Although the technology has been announced, there are currently no commercially available products that utilize it. Those are expected to take another 2-3 years to appear.
 
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My thoughts
I have a hard time imagining that at this scale, it would be any better than just a regular sheet of copper. This also doesn't solve the dissipation issue. But CM seems to think it's worth investing in, so they must know something I don't.
 
Sources
https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/cooler-master-worlds-thinnest-vapor-chamber

I'm more confused about data caps after reading their explanation. Which plan do I buy if I don't want pineapple on my internet?

With how much the company has grown, I hope it doesn't cost Nvidia an ARM and a leg
 
 
 
 
Im sorry

Guess indie games are going to be the only games worth buying from now on.

It seems Anita Sarkeesian has achieved George Soros levels of power in the gaming industry 

Sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2020/05/05/pewdiepie-signs-deal-with-youtube-despite-history-of-racist-anti-semitic-comments/#44b73a77490a
               https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52540437
               https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pewdiepie-signs-exclusive-streaming-deal-022531426.html
 
 
 
This news is pretty short.
Back in 2019, Felix singed an exclusive live streaming deal with dlive.tv where he was able to amass a following of 822k followers. However, his last live stream on that platform was over 4 moths ago.
Now, news has come out that he has signed an exclusive live streaming deal to return to Youtube for all of his live content. Felix said in a statement that
Felix also said that returning to YouTube just felt like a "natural fit" given he's been on the platform for 10 years.
 
Unsurprisingly, some articles (particularly those published by more "mainstream" press) bring attention to his past controversies that everyone is well aware of. Some articles, particularly the Forbes article, claim that Felix has not suffered any real consequences for his slip-ups and mistakes. The Forbes article writes how this new deal has
 
This is a very touchy topic that I am treading on. I feel like it is appropriate to mention that I am not affiliated with any of the groups of people that Felix's past comments were targeted towards and I have been a fan of Felix's content for many years now. However, I think it is inaccurate to say he didn't suffer any consequences, and I do not think this deal makes all of his past mistakes treated like no big deal.
 
That is my personal opinion. What are you guys' thoughts?
 
 

They're turning the robots gay!

At least you're honest about stealing the work of others: You do it because you want to and because you can. And let's be honest, because there's essentially no risk to piracy for most people.
Except they are making their games widely available. You just decided you weren't going to use the platforms that have these games.
Spyware claim aside (because by your own admission, even if it were on Steam, for example, with no Spyware, you'd still pirate it), you're doing more harm to the industry than good. People who pirate a game because of DRM are the people that companies implementing DRM are trying to fight against. They're only going to implement more aggressive DRM because of it.
 
In the end, you do you, but the best thing to do is to not buy the game, don't pirate it, and tweet the devs explaining in explicit terms why you're not buying or playing a game you want to (or other public social media, such as posting on the devs Facebook page, or the official forums of the game in question, etc).

I am expecting the 3000's to be killer CPU's that are going to be hard to not recommend for most users.   But my point still remains, until we have an actual benchmark, it is unwise to tell people to go out and start buying AM4 parts now because we "assume" Intel won't have anything on offer.

Sources:
BGR
Wired
Hasso Plattner Institute Tool (Check your emails for breach here)
 
Summary:
Following Collection 1, containing 773 Million records. Collections 2-5 have been found, containing a total of 25 BILLION records. 32 times more than Collection 1 alone, and three times more unique usernames and passwords, 2.2 billion of which are unique.
 
Quotes/Excerpts:
 
My Thoughts:
Yet another collection of leaked usernames and passwords. If you haven't already, be sure to enable multi-factor authentication on your accounts and there's sure to be an increase in credential stuffing attempts following this news story.

A few months ago we posted a thread asking iPhone owners to tell us why they chose to be iPhone owners:
 
The result of that was this video:
 
Now we're doing it for ANDROID!!!1
Please post your favorite Android things / Ways Android is just better than iOS/iPhone!
 
*** We don't really want to hear from the iPhone owners here. We want to hear from current Android users
 

It's not that I don't want you bringing up facts. I just wanted you to bring up facts which are relevant to this news thread (which is a ban on Huawei devices for supposed security reasons), rather than derail it.
 
The thing is though, the US and UK are doing the same crap. Just look up Struxnet, or WannaCry, or how the CIA have hijacked and modified transports of network equipment from Cisco.
 
 
 
I am not blindly defending Huawei. What I am asking is for some evidence from the people blindly accusing them for things which have not been proven.
I strongly believe in "innocent until proven guilty". It is what the entire legal system in our modern world is founded upon. So until I see evidence I will treat them as innocent. I will be suspicious of them, just like I am suspicious of things developed in the US or other hostile territories engaging in cyber-warfare, but I honestly think that banning them makes less sense than banning US companies like Cisco.
I only make judgements based on the facts I have. Right now, I don't have any facts that Huawei are a tool for the Chinese government to pose a threat to national security.

They did apparently.
 
https://twitter.com/ronniehiggins/status/1071051359145779200

this sub war is really entertaining

10/10 good meme

After his fans hacked printers earlier this week they've stuck again...
 
https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/05/pewdiepie-fans-hack-gta-v-latest-stunt-help-youtube-battle-t-series-8209784/amp/
 
I find this whole thing childish tbh, literally nobody with any modicum of common sense cares who has the most YT subs, heck even PewDiePie himself doesn't care. I'll be interested when people start getting arrested though.