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Long overdue update! The build has come a long way. I have a ton of pics and video documenting it so here we go!
 
Second part of the build was getting the Enermax ETS-T40 White Cluster on and get all of the components into the case. The cooler wen't on pretty easily. I actually like they way they set it up more than other air coolers like the CM Hyper 212 Evo.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Building in this case is a pleasure as I mentioned in my review of the Fractal Design Define R5. The only problems I ran into were the size of the grommetted passthroughs up but the CPU. The only way to get large connectors like for the EPS is to remove the grommets pass the cable through it grommet then the pass through and finally refit the grommet. The other issue I had was that the Sabranco mobo has a right angle USB 3.0 connector to the right of the RAM. There's a recess that the motherboard tray sits in and because of this it's not easy to comfortably pass the stiff USB 3.0 cable through a pass-through. Instead I chose to just kind of pass it through the gap near the drive bays.
 

 

 

 

 

 
I love the way Fractal Mounts the SSDs on the back of the mobo tray it's almost a shame you can only see them nicely mounted there when the rear side-panel is off. Plenty of space for cable management back there as well!
 

 

 
Overall I'm really happy with the way the build has come together! It looks great and the white theme is really coming through via the chose of some awesome components and help from some great companies like Fractal Design and Avexir!

Next up we'll be doing some lighter mods before really cranking things up with a lot of painting and such. Let me know what you guys think would make this the Ultimate white build!

Long overdue update! The build has come a long way. I have a ton of pics and video documenting it so here we go!
 
Second part of the build was getting the Enermax ETS-T40 White Cluster on and get all of the components into the case. The cooler wen't on pretty easily. I actually like they way they set it up more than other air coolers like the CM Hyper 212 Evo.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Building in this case is a pleasure as I mentioned in my review of the Fractal Design Define R5. The only problems I ran into were the size of the grommetted passthroughs up but the CPU. The only way to get large connectors like for the EPS is to remove the grommets pass the cable through it grommet then the pass through and finally refit the grommet. The other issue I had was that the Sabranco mobo has a right angle USB 3.0 connector to the right of the RAM. There's a recess that the motherboard tray sits in and because of this it's not easy to comfortably pass the stiff USB 3.0 cable through a pass-through. Instead I chose to just kind of pass it through the gap near the drive bays.
 

 

 

 

 

 
I love the way Fractal Mounts the SSDs on the back of the mobo tray it's almost a shame you can only see them nicely mounted there when the rear side-panel is off. Plenty of space for cable management back there as well!
 

 

 
Overall I'm really happy with the way the build has come together! It looks great and the white theme is really coming through via the chose of some awesome components and help from some great companies like Fractal Design and Avexir!

Next up we'll be doing some lighter mods before really cranking things up with a lot of painting and such. Let me know what you guys think would make this the Ultimate white build!

Got Mods? We do! Starting off fairly simple with some custom sleeved cables from Ensourced Customs along with replacement drive bays and pcie slot covers. But then ramping things up by custom painting the fans and GPU back plate.

What do you guys think?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get a chance to win one of 30 curved UltraWide monitors from LG (34UC87C), and even a USD$10,000 Dream Setup to one grand prize winner!

Entry is simple:

1. Create a video about your current setup (30 seconds max) before September 25.

2. Tweet that video to @LinusTech on Twitter (or post it down below)

3. Submit a link to that post on www.ultrawidefestival.com

And that's it!

Keep in mind that entries close September 25. No late entries accepted!
 
Have fun and BE CREATIVE
 
 
UPDATE: There are no geographical or age restrictions. Anyone can win. Have fun!!!

Source: Cult of Mac
Original Source: Palo Alto Networks
 

 
Not too long after a major piece of malware theoretically infected up to 225K Jailbroken iOS users, exposing all of their data, another piece of iOS Malware has made been found. This time, however, the software has actually made it on to the official Apple App Store.

This weekend the "XcodeGhost" program was found embedded in legitimate apps. It has been thought to have happened because of Chinese developers that use non-legitimate versions of the Xcode SDK taken downloaded from chinese file sharing site Baidu (DON'T USE THIS SITE FOR EXECUTABLES!). In using the XcodeGhost version of Xcode the developers, most likely, unknowingly allowed the malicious code into their apps which have already been removed from the App Store by Apple.

If you have any of the listed apps installed it is recommended you delete them IMMEDIATELY! 
 
*Note: Apparently Rovio has said that only the Chinese version of Angry Birds 2 was affected.
 
WeChat Didi Chuxing Angry Birds 2 NetEase Micro Channel IFlyTek input Railway 12306 The Kitchen Card Safe CITIC Bank move card space China Unicom Mobile Office High German map Jane book Eyes Wide Lifesmart Mara Mara Medicine to force Himalayan Pocket billing Flush Quick asked the doctor Lazy weekend Microblogging camera Watercress reading CamScanner CamCard SegmentFault Stocks open class Hot stock market Three new board The driver drops OPlayer Mercury WinZip Musical.ly PDFReader Perfect365 PDFReader Free WhiteTile IHexin WinZip Standard MoreLikers2 CamScanner Lite MobileTicket iVMS-4500 OPlayer Lite QYER golfsense Ting Golfsensehd Wallpapers10000 CSMBP-AppStore MSL108 TinyDeal.com snapgrab copy iOBD2 PocketScanner CuteCUT AmHexinForPad SuperJewelsQuest2 air2 InstaFollower CamScanner Pro baba WeLoop DataMonitor MSL070 nice dev immtdchs OPlayer FlappyCircle BiaoQingBao SaveSnap Guitar Master jin WinZip Sector Quick Save

This is why you shouldn't use other, untrusted sources inside of cydia when you have a jailbroken iPhone. This includes piracy repositories

Source: TNW News
Original Source: Palo Alto Networks
 

So this is a funny and scary one for me. A malware called KeyRaider was apparently inserted into a build of Cydia, which is a popular iOS Jailbreaking app. The app is designed to help the non-tech savvy tweak their iOS devices.

Researchers estimate ~225,000 VALID Apple IDs were compromised with out the users having any idea. The credentials were then uploaded to a server which the researchers were able to gain access to via, get this...SQL Injection! Yes good ol' easily avoided by database input validation/sanitation, responsible for dozens of major corporate hacks, are you serious why is this still a common attack vector... SQL Injection.



Apparently only the jailbreakings apps distrubuted from the Weiphone Cydia repositories contained the malware. But this points out a huge issue with Jailbreaking or running any 3rd party software in what's supposed to be closed environment. Similar events have happened with Android ROMs/Rootkits, free/open source encryption software etc...

A while back a popular game hack service allegedly released a hacked version of their own software which would format the drives of users that installed the "stolen" version of their already nefarious software. You can find thousands of video and text/picture guides on how to root/jailbreak devices and crack software for free use. Question is what hidden little bytes of data are you unknowingly giving access to some of your most important information?

Will this stop any of you from rooting, jailbreaking or using cracked software/games. Do you guys ever use checksums to ensure the validity of the 3rd party or open-source software you install?

Weiphone = Chinese Pirated App Store /Care?

Finally, tech news in my state!

That Twitch tweet is the best thing ever

UI isnt great but the stream quality and auto transcoding are super nice.

the website has great potential, but they really need to relax with the UI. it's too in your face, cluttered, and confusing. I can't imagine the performance of it on a bad computer.

To be fair. Having a lot of cards in your wallet can be an issue. I have 1 Drivers license, 2 ID cards (work related) two CCs, 2 Debit cards, RFID keyless entry card, a few store cards (Costco, Sams, Vons), and usually some cash, a few business cards, and some receipts.
 
My wallet actually is kinda fat. Anything to trim it down would help. I've been using CamCard and Evernote to digitize all business cards I have. Not enough places let me use Google Wallet or Apple pay, so I still have to carry 4 different payment cards around. At least Starbucks has their app so I don't need to carry around a card.
 
Maybe in the future my work IDs could also be digitized, and the door locks would support NFC in addition to RFID so I can slim down on my wallet size. 
 
It is a real issue though since I leave my wallet in my back pocket. I usually have my phone in my front right pocket and my keys in my front left pocket.

flagged a bit after it ended

The homepage UI is the most weird thing ever, not sure if i like the sidebars for games and channels, though at least the livestream view is better that normal youtube. Chat needs improvements, like channel picked mods like twitch to begin with and a button to hide it.

Original Source: Tech Crunch
 

 
 
YouTube has been busy relaunching it's gaming focused streaming site YouTube Gaming. Tech Crunch has announced that tomorrow August 26th will be the day the site launches in the US and UK.
It's been pretty interesting watching as YouTube apparently made moves to acquire Twitch, only to have e-commerce and hosting giant Amazon do so instead. Earlier this summer YouTube announced, without great detail, that they will be going head to head with Twitch in the game streaming space.

Twitch seemed pretty welcome to the challenge. They are in the advantageous position of being the established standard with exclusive deals to steam eSports and game launches.
 

So what features will you want to see to make YouTube Gaming the site you go to for throwing up your dongers? A better chat system has been mention by most and pics on Tech Crunch indicate they have worked on this. 
 
Will you just follow your favorite streamers regardless of platform? If you're a streamer what kind of subscriptions split and other monetization will you want to see to make the switch? Are you on Hitbox? (Lolz). Check out more pics on the Tech Crunch site.

 

It's live!
https://gaming.youtube.com/

I remember when Twitch replied back. Twitter went insane lmao.
 
Google has to do a couple of things to in order to compete with Twitch.
 
1. Be more lenient in copyright claims.
2. Have a low latency chat.
3. Easy to watch codecs.
 
and lastly and probably the hardest one, create a streaming culture. Twitch (although aids at times) has a chat culture that will be really hard to replicate. The Kappa's, the xD's, the TSM wonnered, and other things are (in my eyes) really important.

Original Source: Tech Crunch
 

 
 
YouTube has been busy relaunching it's gaming focused streaming site YouTube Gaming. Tech Crunch has announced that tomorrow August 26th will be the day the site launches in the US and UK.
It's been pretty interesting watching as YouTube apparently made moves to acquire Twitch, only to have e-commerce and hosting giant Amazon do so instead. Earlier this summer YouTube announced, without great detail, that they will be going head to head with Twitch in the game streaming space.

Twitch seemed pretty welcome to the challenge. They are in the advantageous position of being the established standard with exclusive deals to steam eSports and game launches.
 

So what features will you want to see to make YouTube Gaming the site you go to for throwing up your dongers? A better chat system has been mention by most and pics on Tech Crunch indicate they have worked on this. 
 
Will you just follow your favorite streamers regardless of platform? If you're a streamer what kind of subscriptions split and other monetization will you want to see to make the switch? Are you on Hitbox? (Lolz). Check out more pics on the Tech Crunch site.

 

Might give it a go, see how I get on. I have more subs on youtube than I do on twitch, could be a good thing. Plus no more flash for anything.

Well there's your problem, just don't take bathroom breaks ever! haha

Source: The Verge
Original Source: Google Official Blog
 

 
So it looks like the fight is over! Bob and his Army have won! YouTube and Google+ have officially split! It's like that hot celebrity you have a crush on dumped their super lame significant other!

It will take time to roll out but you'll only need a Google account to create a new YouTube Channel and interact on YouTube.com and further more all across google.

This comes shortly after Google has cut features like Photos away from Google+ and made them stand alone offerings.

Their aim is supposed to be a "more focused Google+ experience."

So you won't have to have a publicly viewable and searchable Google+ profile anymore. This means everyone can go back to leaving completely unaccountable flaming, trolling and belligerent hate filled comments on YouTube. Well I guess that never really stopped.

Part of me liked the idea that people might have to check the ridiculous and horrible things they said on the internet. Like how* Alanah Pearce started contacting the moms of middle schoolers threatening her life. Another part of me believes you should be able to maintain a level of anonymity online.

Either way it seems that the majority have spoken and Google have listened.
 
*Edit: Typo

Source: The Verge
Original Source: Google Official Blog
 

 
So it looks like the fight is over! Bob and his Army have won! YouTube and Google+ have officially split! It's like that hot celebrity you have a crush on dumped their super lame significant other!

It will take time to roll out but you'll only need a Google account to create a new YouTube Channel and interact on YouTube.com and further more all across google.

This comes shortly after Google has cut features like Photos away from Google+ and made them stand alone offerings.

Their aim is supposed to be a "more focused Google+ experience."

So you won't have to have a publicly viewable and searchable Google+ profile anymore. This means everyone can go back to leaving completely unaccountable flaming, trolling and belligerent hate filled comments on YouTube. Well I guess that never really stopped.

Part of me liked the idea that people might have to check the ridiculous and horrible things they said on the internet. Like how* Alanah Pearce started contacting the moms of middle schoolers threatening her life. Another part of me believes you should be able to maintain a level of anonymity online.

Either way it seems that the majority have spoken and Google have listened.
 
*Edit: Typo

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) unveiled 3D XPoint technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application or service that benefits from fast access to large sets of data. Now in production, 3D XPoint technology is a major breakthrough in memory process technology and the first new memory category since the introduction of NAND flash in 1989.
 
Details about 3D XPoint technology include:
 
Cross Point Array Structure – Perpendicular conductors connect 128 billion densely packed memory cells. Each memory cell stores a single bit of data. This compact structure results in high performance and high-density bits. Stackable – In addition to the tight cross point array structure, memory cells are stacked in multiple layers. The initial technology stores 128Gb per die across two memory layers. Future generations of this technology can increase the number of memory layers, in addition to traditional lithographic pitch scaling, further improving system capacities. Selector – Memory cells are accessed and written or read by varying the amount of voltage sent to each selector. This eliminates the need for transistors, increasing capacity while reducing cost. Fast Switching Cell – With a small cell size, fast switching selector, low-latency cross point array and fast write algorithm, the cell is able to switch states faster than any existing non-volatile memory technology today.  
Source: http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Intel+(INTC)+,+Micron+(MU)+Announce+Revolutionary+3D+XPoint+Technology/10756443.html
 
 
This information is taken from the intel press email, embargoed about 15 minutes ago.
Sorry I cant write more and just copy paste, I just now written a full article on the subject in Hebrew..