August 12, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

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AMD Zen Engineering Sample Benchmark Leaks Out - Summit Ridge CPU Faster Than The Intel Core i5 4670K In AotS Benchmark

Source 1: http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-es-benchmarks/

• “Verified” benchmarks of the upcoming Zen summit ridge

• These are “verified” due to the leaked OPN (order part number) of the first Zen CPU, which matches up with the OPN shown in the Zen engineering sample benchmarks

• Benchmarks are of an engineering sample and may not be entirely representative of the retail product

• Was testing using a setup with an unnamed MB and an RX 480

• 1080p average framerates in Ashes of the Singularity showed 58fps for the Zen ES, compared to 65.4fps on an Intel Core i7-4790 and 52.6fps on an Intel Core i5-4670K

• The Zen ES is currently clocked at 2.8Ghz base and 3.2Ghz boost

• These benchmarks have since been pulled down by the source

 

Denuvo Has Been Successfully Cracked

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/639051-denuvo-has OP: Notree

Source 2: http://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/denuvo_has_been_s

• Has been cracked with both DOOM and Rise of the Tomb Raider already becoming available with a functional bypass for Denuvo’s anti-tampering technology

• Crack created by bulgarian hacker called Voksi

  • Allowing both games to be run illegally

• Also working on a crack for Just Cause 3, along with several other recent Denuvo titles

• Crack exploits a bug in Steam which allows users to play the full game while Steam thinks the game is a free demo version

• Looks like crack could be fixed with a Steam update, so it may not be functional for long
   

FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT:

 

Seagate’s New 60TB SSD Dwarfs Others on the Market

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640796-need-more- OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/09/seagate-60tb-ssd/

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• Just announced by Seagate as the largest SSD

  • Released as an addition to Seagate’s data center portfolio

  • Four times the capacity of the next leading SSD

    • The Samsung PM1633a, which reportedly costs $10,000 USD

• 60TB SAS SSD only available right now for demonstration

  • Will debut sometime in 2017

• We’re trying to get an early unit of this, so expect to see a HOLY SHIT episode whenever we can get one

 

Toshiba teases 100TB QLC SSD

Source 1: linustechtips.com/need-even-more-space… OP: LucidMew

Source 2: theregister.co.uk/toshiba_100tb_qlc_ssd

• Important point is that this is ALL TALK right now

• QLC (quad-level cell) NAND technology was introduced recently, which uses four bits per cell to hold your data

• Would be a 3D SSD with a PCIe gen 3 interface, more than 100TB capacity, 3GB/sec sequential read bandwidth and 1GB/sec write bandwidth

• Random read of 50,000 IOPS, random write of 14,000 IOPS

• 9 watts active power consumption, the same as a 3.5-inch 8TB SATA 6GBit/s HDD, idle consumption less than 100 mWatts compared to 8 watts on the same HDD

• 3PB to 6PB workload over its lifetime, with the disk having 900TB (written)

• Toshiba is “actively working on a product” and has “been in early/high-level testing with hyper-scale customers”

• Facebook has allegedly mused that QLC drives could have a 150 write cycle endurance rating, as well as very significant WORM (write once, read many) use

• Some analysts expect we will have a QLC product announcement from Toshiba by the end of Q1 2017

 

Samsung: 64-layer V-NAND, Bigger SSDs, Z-SSD

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641693-samsung-announces-64- OP: DocSwag

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10560/samsung-at-flash-memory-summit-64la

• Announced their fourth generation of 3D NAND and several more SSD upgrades it enables

  • Also announced a new memory type and corresponding SSD product

  • Haven’t been clear on what the new memory actually is

• Fourth gen of 3D NAND bumps the layer count up to 64

  • Compared to the 48 layer design used by the third generation V-NAND

• New NAND supports an increased interface speed of 800Mbps

  • Key to reducing performance penalty that comes from consolidating more flash onto fewer independent chips

• Complementing this will be a new non-standard oversized M.2 form factor 32mm wide and 114mm long

  • Compared to typical enterprise M.2 size of 22mm by 110mm

    • Samsung will be using this space to produce 8TB drives

    • These will be enterprise SSDs

    • Will also be producing 4TB drives in standard M.2 sizing

• Samsung Z-SSD Slides

  • Shows a “performance gap” between DRAM and SSDs, which this apparently fills

  • Z-SSD features Z-NAND, New SSD controller, higher sequential read speeds, better energy efficiency, and less latency

  • The new 3D XPoint NVMe drives were absent from these comparisons, as they’re still under development from Micron and Intel

• Slides state there will be a 1TB Z-SSD this year, and 2TB and 4TB Z-SSDs next year

  • Press release then said that Z-SSDs would launch “next year”

 

Micron Announces QuantX Branding for 3D XPoint; Shows off Some Very Impressive Performance Too

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640847-micron-anno OP: DocSwag

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10556/micron-announces-quantx-branding-for-3d

• Announced in a keynote speech at Flash Memory Summit

  • Micron unveiling branding and logo that their products based on 3D XPoint memory will be using

• QuantX brand is Micron’s counterpart to Intel’s Optane brand

• Will be used for NVMe storage products that we will hear about later this year

• Micron’s keynote reiterated their strategy of positioning 3D XPoint and QuantX products in between NAND flash and DRAM

Average Latency Comparison = Micron QuantX SSD vs. NAND SSD

U.2 - Mixed Use (4k Random, 70/30 Read/Write) IOPS

HHHL x8 AIC - Mixed Use (4k Random, 70/30 Read/Write) IOPS

 

Rapid Fire

 

Quantum Break Officially Coming to Steam

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641190-quantum- OP: Davehaslanded

Source 2: http://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/quantum_break_is_coming_to_steam/1

• Coming September 14 2016

• Ends exclusivity to Windows Store

• Includes all updates that are available to the Windows 10 store version

• Will support DirectX 11, will not be a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) game

 

Intel Buys a 48 Person Startup for Reportedly over $400 Million

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641672-intel-buys-a-48-perso OP: Mrchooow

Source 2: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/foundation-of-artificial-intelligence/

Source 3: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/9/12413600/intel-buys-nervana--350-million

• Purchased deep learning startup Nervana Systems

  • In a huge bet that artificial intelligence represents the next big shift inside corporate data centers

• Intel hasn’t said how much they paid

  • Source with knowledge of the deal said it is valued at around $408 million

• Intel VP Jason Waxman told Recode that the shift to artificial intelligence could dwarf the move to cloud computing

  • Machine learning, he said, will be needed as we move into a world where billions of devices are connecting and talking to one another

• Company led by former Qualcomm researcher Naveen Rao

  • Raised $25 million in venture funding

  • Has a contract to work with In-Q-tel, U.S Intelligence community’s venture arm

• Rao said the deal wasn’t about money, but selling to Intel would give them “access to technology they’d never dream about”

 

Skylake Core i3 (51W) CPU Review: i3-6320x i3-6300, i3-6100 Tested

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640576-the-skylake-core- OP: 4960X

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10543/the-skylake-core-i3-51w-cpu-review-i3-

Intel’s Mainstream Consumer Skylake Product Segments Chart

Intel’s Skylake LGA1151 CPUs (BOLD HAVE BEEN TESTED)

CPU-Z i3-6320

CPU-Z i3-6300

CPU-Z i3-6100

• Priced between $117 and $158

• Minimum jump of $24 to get from a core i3 to a core i5 ($158 to $182)

• Tested the three main Core i3 processors (6320, 6300, 6100) from the 6th Gen lineup, with TDP of 51W

• Base frequencies of 3.9 GHz, 3.8 GHz, and 3.7 GHz

• 2-core with Hyperthreading, no Turbo boost, no overclocking

• Anandtech states that they’re an “interesting choice for ~$800 gaming PC builds”

• Gaming benchmarks

  • Alien Isolation

  • Total War: Atilla

  • GTA V

  • GRID: Autosport

  • Shadow of Mordor

• Ian Cutress’ conclusion “The Skylake Core i3 parts represent the best 'all-round' CPUs at their price. Choosing one for a system guarantees a good return in performance, and while it might not always be the best for specific applications, it's certainly near the top for almost everything.”

 

First Commercial Mission to the Moon Approved for Florida Company “Moon Express”

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/639406-first-commercial-mi OP: SansVarnic

Source 2: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/03/first-commercial-

• First-of-its-kind approval announced Wednesday morning

  • Clears the way for Moon Express to fly a small robotic lander to the lunar surface as soon as next year

• Moon Express CEO and Co-founder said “it’s a huge milestone for us”

• Although considered a one-time approval that sets no precedent until more formal rules are put in place, industry advocates cheered the gov’t for working with the company

• Company has raised more than $30 million so far

  • Plans to unveil its MX-1E lander at the Cape Canaveral Air Station

• First launch is targeted for late 2017

  • FAA has not issued a launch license yet, which will be considered separately from the mission itself

 

Paralysed Patient Walks Again After Training Involving VR

Source 1:  https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641744-paralysed-patien OP: InsanelySecretD

Source 2: http://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/srep30383

Source 3: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/brain-machine-interface-parapeligic-recovery

• Virtual reality and non-invasive brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are able to help paralysed regain touch sensations and also some voluntary control of muscles in their legs

• New study published in Scientific Reports

  • Has seen eight chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) paraplegics complete a 12-month training programme

  • Used a brain-controlled exoskeleton and VR environments

• Year-long study is one of the first tests of the effects of long-term training using technology on those with chronic injuries

• Although the number is small, each person had been diagnosed as paraplegic for between three and 13 years

  • Aged between 26 and 38 years old

• Patients all saw improvements in ability to feel sensations rising from their skin

  • Such as touch, pressure, cold, warmth, and pain

• “Patients also regained voluntary motor control in key muscles below the SCI level, as measured by EMGs, resulting in marked improvement in their walking index” - academics wrote in the paper

• As a result, 50% of the patients were “upgraded” to a diagnosis of partial paralysis, rather than full paralysis

• Miguel Nicolelis, leader of research and neuroscientist at Duke University, said “most” of the patients saw improvements in bladder control and bowel function

• “After 10 months of training the same patient became capable of walking using a walker, braces and the assistance of one therapist,” the researchers report

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Video Showcase (0:50 Seconds Long)

 

Microsoft is Giving a Free (Real) Car to the Winner of the First Forza Racing Championship Season

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/639935-microsoft OP: AluminiumTech

Source 2: http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-giving-free-car-winner-first-forz

Source 3: http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/news/forzarc_season1_announce

• Has announced the details of the inaugural Forza Racing Championship

  • First season of the tournament, based on the Xbox One game Forza Motorsport 6

  • Will include an elite series, where the winning driver will get a free car

    • Car is a 2017 Ford Focus RS

• Other prized for the tournament include Xbox One S consoles, Elite controllers, Logitech gaming wheels and more

• Open series will allow any Forza Motorsport 6 racer to participate

  • Only qualified drivers will be able to win prizes, Microsoft says

 

**Microsoft Secure Boot, leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641290-oops-microsoft-open OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boot_ms16_100/

Source 3: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/microsoft-secure-boot-firmware-snafu-leaks-

• Secure boot is enabled in the firmware of a Microsoft device

  • Stops you from booting up to any OS you want on your Windows tablet, phones, etc

• Microsoft quiet as researchers spot debug mode flaw that bypasses OS checks

• They have inadvertently demonstrated the security problem of including a universal backdoor in its software

  • After they accidently leaked their so-called “golden key”

    • Allowing users to  unlock any device that supposedly protected by Secure Boot, such as phones and tablets

• Golden keys were found in March of this year

  • Researchers note that this is a real-world demonstration of the lack of wisdom in the FBI’s recent demands for universal backdoors in Apple devices

• Microsoft has issued several patches to address the problem, but it hasn’t been completely resolved

 

Australian Study Says Teens Who Play Video Games do Better at School

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640551-study-says-teens-w OP: kiska3

Source 2: http://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/gaming/australian-teens-wh

• Research of Australian teens has shown those who game do better in school

• Comes from Australian university RMIT has found gaming to help boost academic performance in maths, science and reading among high school students

  • Professor Alberto Posso from RMIT’s School of Economics, Finance and Marketing investigated the matter

  • Looked through data from the internationally recognised Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

• He analysed academic results of more than 12,000 Australian 15-year olds and compared it to online habits collected by PISA

• “Students who play online games almost every day score 15 points above the average in maths and 17 points above the average in science,” he said in a statement issued by the Melbourne University

 

Kansas farm sues MaxMind over “massive IP ‘glitch’” - JON TOPIC

Source 1: linustechtips.com/kansas-farm-sues-maxmind… OP: NumLock21

Source 2: washingtonpost.com/lawsuit-how-a-quiet-kansas…

• “How a quiet Kansas home wound up with 600 million IP addresses and a world of trouble”

• Property is 2-hour drive from the geographic center of the United States

• 82-year old owner, Joyce Vogelman Taylor, and two renters, James and Theresa Arnold, live on the property

• MaxMind, a digital company that maps IP addresses, used the geographical center of the US as the “default” location for US-based IP addresses

  • Sometimes, when mapping IPs, they are only able to determine the country of origin, which sets the address to the default of 38 degrees North and 97 degrees West, the (approximate) geographic center of the US

  • 38N and 97W is also the coordinates of Arnolds’ front yard

• Since 2011 Taylor has been receiving complaints including:

  • Interrupting email service for some customers of a certain small business

  • Harboring a stolen vehicle

  • Harboring runaway children

  • “Keeping girls in the house to make pornographic films”

• Ambulances have appeared “prepared to save suicidal persons,” FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, and other law enforcement officers have appeared on their doorstep at all hours of the day and night

• One random morning, a broken toilet was even left in their driveway without explanation

• MaxMind’s co-founder Thomas Mather said “The default location in Kansas was chosen over ten years ago when the company started. At that time, we picked a latitude and longitude that was in the center of the country, and it didn’t occur to us that people would use the database to attempt to locate people down to a household level. We have always advertised the database as determining the location down to a city or zip code level. To my knowledge, we have never claimed that our database could be used to locate a household.”

• MaxMind has since changed their “default location” in the US to the center of a lake west of Wichita

• The Arnolds have filed a lawsuit against MaxMind seeking “compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $75,000”

• “My clients have been through digital hell,” said their attorney. “The most vile accusations have been made against them - such as that they’ve been involved in child pornography.”

• MaxMind has not yet commented on the lawsuit

 

Apple Counters Australian Banks Call for iPhone NFC Access, Cites Handset Security

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640966-apple-counters-australia OP: blaze756

Source 2: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/08/09/apple-counters-australian-banks-call-fo

• In July, Australia’s three largest banks filed an ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) application seeking approval to negotiate the installation of third-party digital wallets on iPhones

  • Currently, Apple restricts touchless NFC payments to its in-house Apple Pay solution

    • Limitation Apple says is meant to protect consumers

• Apple said in a letter addressed to the ACCC that requests for access to iPhone’s digital wallet technology would undermine security safeguards

• “Apple upholds very high security safeguards for our customers when they use Apple devices to make payments,” Apple said in a statement to the ACCC

• “These banks want to maintain complete control over their customers. The present application is only the latest tactic employed by these competing banks to blunt Apple’s entry into the Australian market.”

 

[RUMOR] ASUS Pascal Laptop features GTX 1060 and 1070, no ‘M’

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641262-asus-pascal-laptop/ OP: M4Kval

Source 2: imgur.com/a/Wd7f3

• Listings spotted on Norweigan PriceSpy

• List ASUS laptops with 1060 and 1070 in the spec sheet, no M’s shown

 

Self-driving Tesla ‘saves man’s life’ by Steering Him to Hospital

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/641399-a-tes OP: FakezZ

Source 2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/self-driving-tesla-saves-mans-life-by-s

• Self-driving Tesla Model X credited with having helped save an American man’s life after its autopilot function got him to the hospital when he suffered a pulmonary embolism

  • Man named Joshua Neally, a lawyer from Springfield, Missouri

• He called his wife and said something was wrong, and that he couldn’t breathe

• Thinking it would be quicker than pulling over to call an ambulance, he set the autopilot autonomous function on the Tesla Model X

  • He has just got the car a few weeks before this happened

• He doesn’t remember much after he set this mode, as the car drove him over 20 miles to Branson

  • Neally managed to steer the car the last mile or so between the motorway and the hospital

 

Nintendo Pulls Classic ‘Nintendo Power’ Magazine Collection From Internet Archive - JON TOPIC

Source 1: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/internet-archive-nintendo-power-collection-online

• After more than 140 issues, Nintendo pulls the plug on its internet archive for Nintendo Power

  • Showcased 143 issues, which ran from 1988 to 2012

  • Originally published by Nintendo of America

    • Later going independent but retaining its reputation to a generation of gamers as they place

• No formal announcement has been given on the takedown

• Nintendo of America told Polygon that it it must “protect our own characters, trademarks and other content” and “the unapproved use of Nintendo’s intellectual property can weaken our ability to protect and preserve it, or to possibly use it for new projects”

• Archive can be seen here, but as of now all issues have been removed

 

(RUMOR) Next Samsung Exynos Tipped to be a 4GHz Beast, Yet More Frugal Than Snapdragon 830

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/640663-next-samsung OP: 4960X

Source 2: http://www.phonearena.com/news/10nm-Exynos-8895-tipped-to-be-a-4-GHz-

• Apparently testing the next generation of its Exynos mobile chipset line

  • Presumably the Exynos 8895

• Shaping up to be a big leap ahead in mobile computing

• Exynos 7420 is in the Note 5, N8890 in the Note 7

  • Both built on 14nm nodes

• Reported that the “8895” will use 10nm

• Should result in an increase in performance, and drop in power consumption

• The “source” tips that Samsung is probing test batches of the Exynos 8890 at 4Ghz for its custom cores

 

[rattacko123]

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[themctipers]

This is a thing I nees

reading > listening to wan show

[another random person]

where has whaler_99 gone?

 

[AlTech]

@nicklmg Got a typo on the YouTube video. It's the 13th. Not the 5rd.

[Djole123]

How did Linus skip my 10 page thread about Zen benchmarks?

[AlTech]

Just now, Djole123 said:

How did Linus skip my 10 page thread about Zen benchmarks?

I've got a better question.

 

How did linus miss Windows being torn to pieces with the golden Secure Boot key?

[pk-man]

somebody fix the video title lol

[Djole123]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

I've got a better question.

 

How did linus miss Windows being torn to pieces with the golden Secure Boot key?

Linus has to make a lot of excuses...

[SmartGamer278]

its not 5rd. BUT its (august 5th)....

[Sacredsock]

Did the first couple of minutes tease an update to Teran's old vid of that crappy robot? #lego

[Okjoek]

I agree with Linus in that the idea that AMD is some sort of "good guy" who has only good intentions is preposterous. Corporations almost always want to eliminate the competition. That said however, I still love AMD and would always remain enthusiastic for them. I don't see how any true tech enthusiast would wish ill upon a supplier in the industry. Even if Zen predictably doesn't move mountains I may still buy one considering just how slowly CPU technology is growing with my 4 year old CPU able to run just about everything I can imagine doing with it. Upgrading to 14nm for me will literally be an "impossible to go wrong" scenario no matter who I choose. 

 

I think the real mountain mover will be what AMD and Intel both do once a hard limit with Silicon has been hit.