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My news thread from when they announced it has some additional information if anyone has any questions:
 

Tempted to get one myself, especially now that my X370 board is basically EOL  

An AMD Ryzen 9 3950X in a laptop? Sign me up, the XMG Apex 15 sounds wicked.
 
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Sources: XDA Developers, Ars Technica,  breaking_lte_on_layer_two.pdf
 
Looks like a typical man in the middle attack but instead of a wifi network, it's with a 4G LTE network. For whatever reasons, we can't just take a break from security vulnerabilities and this one can lead to spying, phishing, and even malware infections. Looking at you NSA! 
 
But considering the fact that the equipment requires $4000, it's not something run in the mill hacker can afford. But rich people especially governments can afford it like the NSA or any intelligence agency. What's more terrifying is that the hack can work within the one mile range so any person can be affected and there is no patch for the hack and the only way to fix it is by implementing 5G. Just like how WPA3 solves the security shortcomings of WPA2 but requires a new compatible wireless AP and devices (phone, laptop, tablet, etc), to get fixed.
The researchers also point out that the only way to protect yourself from an aLTEr attack is to watch out your URL bar if you're viewing a secure website or not. So far Google Chrome's shaming campaign works.

 
GSMA sent an email to Ars Technica saying:
Unfortunately, there's no commercially available 5G network at the moment nor does any OEM released any phone. laptop, IoT device that supports 5G and those are expected as early as the middle of 2019. 
 

Oh no it isn't a real guarantee. What I mean by saying guarantee is that the nature of the sku is that it is a binned 8700K and the best 8700K silicon hits 5GHz+ on all cores. And I don't know that I have read or seen anyone say you're lucky to get all 6 cores on an 8086K to hit 5GHz. Who said that? Because if it's true then get the 8700K because paying the premium for the 8086K isn't worth it.

The only worthy CPU's from x299 are the i9's, if you are not getting one of them, skip that chipset and go with 8700k. 

Hey all.
 
I thought this might be interesting here in the exotic cooling section.
 

for gaming? on a 3440x1440 with a GTX 1080? ABSOLUTE waste of money...0 FPS gains...and i mean ZERO...because you are ENTIRELY and PURELY GPU bound...in all games.