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Maker of the popular, cheap, security cameras (and later other IoT devices) Wyze Labs has suffered a breach of 2.4 million users' information in early December according to a ZDNET Article. This data was copied from internal servers to a new one that would allow information to be more easily searched utilizing something called elasticsearch. This, and another database were left unsecured for nearly a month as a result of an employee mistake (Dec 4) at Wyze and "previous security protocols were removed." Wyze remained unaware of it until a reporter at IPVM contacted them via a support ticket on Dec 26th, 14 minutes before the article was "published to Twitter" alongside the security forms blog post. Twelve Security is the Cyber Security firm who initially discovered and documented the breach. Naturally, there are disagreements between the firm's findings and Wyze as far as what exactly was leaked which purportedly includes: User name and email of those who purchased cameras and then connected them to their home 24% of the 2.4 million users are in the EST timezone (the rest are scattered across the remaining zones of the US, Great Britain, UAE, Egypt, and parts of Malaysia) Email of any user they ever shared camera access with such as a family member List of all cameras in the home, the nicknames for each camera, device model and firmware WiFi SSID, internal subnet layout, last on time for cameras, last login time from app, last logout time from the app API Tokens for access to the user account from any iOS or Android device Alexa Tokens for 24,000 users who have connected Alexa devices to their Wyze camera Height, Weight, Gender, Bone Density, Bone Mass, Daily Protein Intake, and other health information for a subset of users Additionally, past concerns have been raised about previous routing of traffic to China which this Reddit Thread Brought Up and saw a response from a Wyze Employee stating that they utilize a streaming service called Throughtek which "has servers all over the world for load balancing" with a followup stating they "...managed to limit v2 camera traffic within US with our latest firmware" These concerns were raised yet again by the security firm with this current event on their blog stating " there are clear indications that the data is being sent back to the Alibaba Cloud in China, coupled with the fact a "similar breach of Wyze occurred only six months ago" These events aren't what I would call unique, seeing as how even Amazon/Google's IOT divisions have issues with vulnerabilities and further highlights the potential vulnerabilities every device adds to a network. To Wyze's credit, they did appear to act quickly by forcing all users to log back in at 1:29pm (apparently the same day according to the wyze forum post) as well as lock down the initially affected database and presumably the second database found on the 29th in the update. References: https://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-vendor-wyze-confirms-server-leak/ Security Firm's Blog: https://blog.12security.com/wyze/ IPVM: https://ipvm.com/reports/wyze-leak Wyze Forum Post: https://forums.wyzecam.com/t/updated-12-29-19-data-leak-12-26-2019/79046

Somehow Microsoft pulled it off, somehow they made product that performs well. Alternatively, what does this say about the rest of the industry? If the company that cant update it's own hallmark operating system without breaking it or deleting all its users files in certain folders can make a better antivirus, should we be worried? PC Magazine reports on a softpedia article about the recent battery of tests to determine the best current rendition of AV available for windows machines and has determined that Windows Defender has learned its top award, with Webroot coming in last and several big names like Avadt, Bitdefender and F Secure coming in close second in terms of performance. Link listed below: https://www.pcmag.com/news/369979/windows-defender-achieves-best-antivirus-status

They definitely dropped the ball when it came to tv designs for a few years there and lost ground to Samsung. With that being said, they have an immensely competitive product out there now with their oleds, high end Z9 series and a very aggressively price good midrange tv, the x900 series. Their camera sensors are used widely in the industries and for a lot of cannon cameras, though cannon does use their own for some. It's fair to say they aren't the behemoth multicore they once were as its probably just too difficult with so many competitors. Look at Sharp's fall from grace. Sony, interesting enough, finally sells shit tvs to compete with other companies which is strange and goes against the grain of the sony mantra. My point is, they're not as down and out as youd think, though they're certainly not the high electronics gods they once were.

I thought that, but the supposed ability to heat throws me for a ringer. It's much harder to pull heat in than to release it into the air.

So, This is my first time hearing of Sony having a crowdfunded website for projects. With that aside, Sony is apparently working on some sort of personal "air conditioner" that you wear. The device is mounted in a pocket on the supplied tshirts in the package and a silicon pad makes contact with what appears to the the base of your neck and extracts heat from your body. The heat extracted is then exhausted through a port on the back of the supplied tshirt. Interestingly enough, the teaser video shows a businessman with a button up shirt over the tee suggesting that it is possible to do so without hindering cooling performance. With that to be said, it seems like an illogical extension of the niche concept of active cooling for phones with, what appears to be the same concept, cooling your person. Interestingly enough my original thought that this is nothing more than a heatsink/fan in a pretty package may be partially incorrect as it is intended to also serve as a heater. According to International Business Times (in the article listed below): Sony said the Reon Pocket is capable of lowering a person’s temperature by about 13 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) during hot days, or raise a person’s body temperature by about 8 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) on cold days. The company arrived at these numbers after testing the device over “hundreds of simulations.” If this device truly works I would definitely be interested in one myself, though once again, a bluetooth controlled heatsink/fan for $170 sounds pretty steep. Links: Official Product Page: https://first-flight.sony.com/pj/reonpocket Cited Sources: https://www.ibtimes.com/sony-working-wearable-air-conditioner-those-hot-or-cold-days-2808962

dude, what happened to your sig lol

Thats a pretty legit picture, gotta try this on my oled devices for a wallpaper.

But raytracing didnt exist back then.

But can they raytrace on the dark side of the moon? I've been really pleased seeing a lot of the content that various entities have been releasing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Nvidia is no exception. Nvidia has taken the task of iterating on the footage of the moon landing with raytracting to spice things up (though the tomshardware article mentions using actual footage, this may be just for reference and not raytracting actual footage). Additionally, commentary has been provided by some of the illustrious heroes of the space program i.e. Buzz Aldrin. Apparently, this project has been worked on for 5 years with the latest version using raytracing. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-anniversary-nvidia-ray-tracing,39980.html Original article from Nvidia sans tomshardware thoughts: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/07/19/real-time-ray-tracing-apollo-11-turing/

Don't forget the X1 Yogas/X380 Yogas as well if she wants a better typing experience and a garaged pen. I have little experience with the two you mentioned besides passing inspections and the 730 is a solid consumer machine all said and done. I have upwards on 10 thinkpads at the moment and can comfortably admit my fandom of them. Warranty service should you need it is very flexible and excellent. I have two X1 yogas (1st and 3rd gen) and find them to be incredible machines, especially when it comes to visuals, packing a 1440p display into a 14" gives exceptional clarity that she may appreciate for graphics design. Especially the 3rd gen which now supports tilt sensors for shading similar to that found in the apple pencil. The Consumer 15" yogas seem to have a little bit of heft to them so it may be best to determine her preference for weight or a number pad. As for pricing, X380 or L380 Yogas can be had for similar prices to what you listed. Refurbs can offer some seriously competitive prices via the Lenovo outlet, as well as retaining their warranties and the ability to extend them up to 5 years. The L380 comes configured via lenovo on amazon with i7 8th gen, 16gb and 512gb SSD for $1050. A quick search yielded an X380 Refurb for about 1230 with similar specs, and new just a little north of $1400. Whatever she decides, you/she may want to check out bestbuys student deals program as you can get generally $100-150 off a machine as part of the program. (given the amount varies from machine, with larger cuts off higher prices) The dell XPS 13/15 are also worthy devices to consider.

You could always learn how to adjust voltage curves in MSI Afterburner to find just the right voltage for your desired clock speed. Its tedious and annoying, but can allow you to reach much higher speeds while reducing voltages. Memory will degrade over time with large OCs, and processors as well. Will you notice it? Maybe. Will it matter, unlikely, unless you keep the card until its quite obsolete. I'll add onto what others have said, mind your temps, and use a reasonable overclock and you'll be fine. as for a 1080p 60hz monitor, I wouldn't bother as long as you reach your target FPS, though 144hz will definitely apprecaite it if you plan on playing AAA titles.

Every TV that I've ever looked at specs wise for comparison (HT Salesman) runs into the same issue. Basically it comes down to bandwidth with most newer TVs only (or at the maximum if you're lucky) having support for HDMI 2.0a (Cheaper tvs may only have one port supporting this with other HDMI ports being HDMI 1.4 so 4k30 no HDR) which serves as the bottleneck in terms of performance. As a standard, you can only do 4k60 over HDMI 2.0, with the later "a" revision adding support for HDR. So no matter how much you try, you'll be exceeding the bandwidth supplied by the interface and thus be unable to reach a true input of 4k120. It sucks, and I don't understand why they don't just include a DP connector on the back of highend TVs, especially Samsung with their nerfed version of Freesync in their TVs and main talking point of lower input lag than the competition this year. Interestingly enough, not all 120hz tvs even support 1080@120, even though there aren't any bandwidth limitations there at all and in fact some TVs that originally have supported it have either removed it via updates (Vizio M60 2015) or don't support it very well (Sony 2015-2017 series). Its a toss-up on why that happens or if they ever will. Likely it will take NVIDIA releasing their BFGD TV to force manufacturers to get smart and include the feature, or a jump to 8k so they can release a half-assed attempt like they've generally done with current 4k tvs.

I can only hope that EA gives us RA2 and Dune 2000 remastered. Those two games were fantastic. Maybe, just maybe, retro fever is hitting pc games too. I'm still pissed at EA in general for being a garbage company, but this makes for a nice distraction.

So EA probably found some remorse in their hearts and decided to give the community something amazing. They will be remastering the original Command and Conquer and Red Alert in 4K with the help Petroglyph studios which was founded by with the help of original members from Westwood Studios. Does Joe Bostic, Steve Tall and Mike Legg ring a bell? (Joe Bostic is known as the co-creator of C&C, having also served as the Lead Programmer on Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. Steve Tall joined Joe as a Lead Programmer on Red Alert, and Mike Legg contributed to all forms of audio systems at Westwood, having been an employee since 1986!) Whats better: Frank Keplacki is coming back on board for the amazing soundtrack as "Composer and Audio Director for the remaster collection!" Even Better? No Microtransactions according to EA. According to EA: " We have decided to remaster Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn. And while this is incredibly exciting on its own, we’re also aware of how passionate the community is about the Red Alert universe. So, we will also remaster the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert™. But what about the classic expansion packs you may ask - Covert Ops, Counterstrike, and Aftermath? Well, C&C and Red Alert wouldn’t be the same without them, so all three expansion packs will be bundled with the base games into one remastered collection - without microtransactions." https://www.ea.com/news/details-command-and-conquer-remastered It will be glorious to once again experience the pucker factor of hearing Tanyas "laugh" as shes recruited.

I've seen those on Ebay, and apparently are a product of the madmen at some sort of thinkpad evangelist forum in china. Likely the same ones who introduced 6th-or 7th gen PCB replacements for T60s and the like. That may be the route I end up going instead of all this screwing around just for another TN panel in less than full hd res.