July 7, 2017 - The WAN Show Document

[Slick]

 

 

Main News Topics

AMD RX Vega Specs Leaked!

Source 1: posted by Mr_Troll https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/803007-amd-rx-vega-leaked-benchmark-shows-it-ahead-of-gtx-1080-%E2%80%93-specs-confirmed-1630mhz-clock-speed-8gb-hbm2-484gbs-of-bandwidth/

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-vega-benchmark-leaked-specs-confirmed-1630mhz-8gb-hbm2-484gbs-of-bandwidth/

 

• 1630MHz GPU Clock Speed,

• 8GB HBM2 @945MHz &

• 484GB/s Of Memory Bandwidth

• 3DMark 11 Performance Benchmark graphics score:

  • RX Vega: 31,873 graphics points

  • ~4,000+ ahead of the GTX 1080

  • double the score of the GTX 1070

  • GTX 1080 Ti maintains a commanding lead with over 38 thousand points, nearly 7,000 points ahead of Vega.

• Rumoured to cost $600

 

HINT: VEGA die-size

Source 1: posted by Prysin https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/802286-vega-die-size-confirmed/

Source 2:  https://www.techpowerup.com/234848/amd-raja-koduri-confirms-rx-vega-die-size-at-484-mm

 

• AMD's leader of Radeon Technologies Group has hinted at the overall die size of the company’s Vega chips: 484 mm² die area

• The revelation came as a tweet, saying the 512mm size reported by PC Perspective was wrong, and that the actual area was “the closest perfect square number” to that guess.

 

1/2: Ryzen 5 1600 becomes 2nd best selling CPU

Source 1: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-amazon-cpu-1600,34926.html

Source 2:  https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Computer-CPU-Processors/zgbs/pc/229189

 

• AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 rocketed from the No. 5 spot on Amazon's bestselling CPU list to the second place position last weekend, unseating Intel's Core i5-7600K

  • Intel's Core i7-7700K still enjoys the leading spot.

  • R7 1700 is 4th.

• Amazon updates its list of bestselling CPUs hourly, so the results change frequently.

• The Amazon list is a poor indicator of overall market share as the majority of processors ship in OEM systems

• Ryzen chips don’t have integrated graphics, which affects their market share as many OEM systems leverage integrated graphics

  • the company's forthcoming APU lineup, which includes integrated graphics, will help broaden its appeal.

 

2/2: Rumour Squashed: AMD Takes 10% Market Share from Intel

Source 1: posted by revsilverspine https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/802247-misleading-amd-market-share-up-104-in-q2-2017-updated/

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/amd-takes-10-4-cpu-share-intel-q2-2017-largest-single-quarter-share-gain-history/

Source 3: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4085523-amd-gain-10-percent-market-share-quarter

 

• AMD has reportedly gained 10.4 percentage points of CPU market share in the second quarter of 2017

• The stat is misleading because the data is from a self-selected survey, and Ryzen customers are more likely to complete the survey than non-ryzen customers.(source 3)

 

½ Tesla to build world's biggest lithium ion battery in South Australia

Source 1: posted by Dissitesuxba11s https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/803941-elon-musks-tesla-to-build-worlds-biggest-lithium-ion-battery-to-secure-power-for-south-australia-sa/

Source 2:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/sa-to-get-worlds-biggest-lithium-ion-battery/8687268

 

• South Australia will be home to the world's largest lithium ion battery thanks to a historic agreement between Tesla and the State Government.

• ...And Elon Musk is promising to build it in 100 days, or it's free- we’re talkin’ $50 million dollars.

• Tesla will build the 100-megawatt battery which will store energy from a nearby Wind Farm

• Musk: "If South Australia is willing to take a big risk, then so are we," he said.

• Looks: The battery would be "nicely arranged white obelisks".

• WHY: South Australia has been battling power problems since a statewide blackout in September 2016:

"It will completely transform the way in which renewable energy is stored, and also stabilise the South Australian network as well as putting downward pressure on prices,"

 

2/2 ...But the Germans are building an even bigger Battery

Source 1: http://www.batteriesinternational.com/german-utility-announces-plans-for-worlds-biggest-battery-in-underground-caverns/

 

• A German utility has announced plans to build the biggest battery in the world, to be housed in underground salt caverns off the northern German coast.

• A giant redox flow battery will provide up to 700MWh by the end of 2023,

• The biggest flow battery in existence is believed to be Sumitomo Electric Industries’ flow battery in Japan, which can provide about 60 MWh of power.

 

Outrageous!: Photobucket now requiring users to pay $400/year to Hotlink

Source 1: posted by weegaz22 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/801224-photobucket-now-charging-400-for-3rd-party-hosting/

Source 2:  https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15919224/photobucket-broken-images-amazon-ebay-etsy-paid-update

 

• Thousands of listings from online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay are now filled with unsightly error images by Photobucket after the photo hosting site quietly introduced a $399 annual fee to users who want to embed images on third party websites.

• Users are now accusing Photobucket of extortion, as the service failed to make the update to its terms of service abundantly clear.

• The update to Photobucket’s ToS means users are forced to upgrade to the most premium tier if they wish to hotlink.

• It appears some users can’t even download their own photos out of their Photobucket accounts without upgrading.

• See tweets and Photobuket Ransom marketing images using Source 2

 

Never leave the house again: Porn becomes interactive

Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/pornhub-now-supports-interactive-toys-proving-porn-paves-the-way/

Source 2:  https://www.psfk.com/2017/07/pornhubs-new-interactive-videos-sync-with-home-devices.html

 

• Canadian porn mega-site Pornhub has launched a new series of videos that sync with a user’s interactive sex toy to make it a more intimate experience, both visually and physically

• Certain pre-coded videos played on Pornhub will send signals to supported wireless devices, recreating the action on screen with motors and actuators.

• Pornhub was one of the first to bring free VR content to the adult industry, and the popularity of this content is pushing the industry forward:

“Considering the popularity of our VR category, which we launched to immense success last year and currently receives one million plus views each day, it’s quite apparent that fans are constantly looking to immerse themselves in the content they are watching. They want to feel as though they are actually there, engaging with the actors as though it were real-life. Our interactive category goes a long way towards providing them with a complete virtual experience.”

 

Samsung predicts highest ever profit in its history

Source 1: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/7/15933148/samsung-record-profit-earnings-guidance-q2-2017

Source 2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/07/samsung-profits-set-overtake-apple-first-time-smartphone-era/

 

• Samsung believes that the second quarter of 2017 was the best in the company’s history.

• According to earnings guidance issued today, Samsung expects to have made ~$12 billion in profit off $52 billion in revenue.

• This would make Samsung Electronics the world's most profitable non-financial company, surpassing rival Apple for the first time since the two became the world's dominant smartphone manufacturers

• However, unlike Apple, Samsung does not make the majority of its profits from smartphones.

  • the company has said its display and components divisions are driving profit growth, and the most recent quarter likely also received a boost from the Galaxy S8

 

What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week.

Rapid Fire

Wearables are tanking: Jawbone liquidates assets

Source 1: http://www.businessinsider.com/jawbone-shutting-down-liquidating-assets-2017-7

Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/07/jawbone-s-demise-heralds-the-end-of-the-wearables-industry/

 

• Jawbone is the latest pioneer of wearable electronics to throw in the towel. Last year, Pebble sold its assets to Fitbit in a fire sale. As for Fitbit, its stock is trading at 52-week lows.

• Jawbone was last valued at $1.5 billion when it raised $165 million in January 2016

• Despite shuttering the business, Jawbone believes it is still worth a significant amount of money due to its pending litigation with rival Fitbit

• the company has begun the process of liquidating itself, at least in part.

• Co-founder and CEO Hosain Rahman is launching a new company -- Jawbone Health Hub -- to continue part of his mission.

  • Health Hub will produce health-related wearable hardware and software,

  • as well as servicing the existing Jawbone devices in the wild.

 

Hackers breaching US Nuclear Plants

Source 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html

Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40538061

 

• Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and manufacturing plants in the United States and abroad.

• Hackers wrote highly targeted emails containing fake résumés for engineering jobs and sent them to the senior industrial control engineers who maintain access to critical industrial control systems.

• Once the recipients clicked on the resumes, attackers could steal their credentials and proceed to other machines on a network.

• Hackers breached at least a dozen US power plants in attacks in May and June

• There is no indication that hackers were able to jump from their victims’ computers into the control systems of the facilities, nor is it clear how many facilities were breached.

• A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said,

“There is no indication of a threat to public safety, as any potential impact appears to be limited to administrative and business networks.”

• The origins of the hackers are not known. But the report indicated that an “advanced persistent threat” actor was responsible,

  • which is the language security specialists often use to describe hackers backed by governments.

  • The hackers’ techniques mimicked those of the organization known to cybersecurity specialists as “Energetic Bear,” the Russian hacking group that researchers have tied to attacks on the energy sector since at least 2012.

OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives

Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/803622-microsoft-onedrive-now-only-works-with-ntfs-drives/

Source 2:  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/onedrive-has-stopped-working-on-non-ntfs-drives/

 

• With its latest update, Microsoft's OneDrive no longer works with anything other than disks formatted with the NTFS file system

• File systems such as FAT32, exFAT, and ReFS will now provoke an error message when OneDrive starts up.

• To continue to use the software, files will have to be stored on an NTFS volume. While FAT disks can be converted, ReFS volumes must be reformatted and wiped.

• NTFS is the default file system in Windows, but

  • people using SD cards to extend the storage on small laptops and tablets will typically use exFAT.

  • People using Storage Spaces to manage large, redundant storage volumes will often use ReFS.

• The company's position is that OneDrive should always have warned about these usage scenarios and that it's only a bug or an oversight that allowed non-NTFS volumes to work.

 

RED announces...a phone?

Source 1: posted by jammiescone https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/803582-red-hydrogen-1500-android-smartphone/

Source 2:

 

• RED is calling their $1596 Hydrogen One smartphone the "world's first holographic media machine".

• The phone:

  • Has a 5.7 inch holographic display

  • runs Android

  • the handset's screen can "seamlessly" switch between traditional 2-D content and holographic 3-D content such as games.

  • It will support "Hydrogen 4-View content", a file type that Red has produced.

• Content will be stored via the Red Channel, which allows users to stream holographic games and movies.

• Red is charging $1,195 for the "Aluminum" model and $1,595 for the "Titanium" version.

  • They’ve said the prices displayed may not be the actual cost when the phone is released officially.

• Red said that it could struggle to fill orders of the phone "due to display production limitations" and the

• Red said that it is targeting to ship the device in the first quarter of 2018.

 

Windows 10 to combat ransomware by locking up your data

Source 1:  posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/801264-windows-10-build-16232-will-try-to-combat-ransomware-by-locking-up-your-data/

Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/windows-10-will-restrict-data-access-to-authorized-apps-to-combat-ransomware/

 

• The latest Windows 10 build includes a trial of a new anti-ransomware capability

• Ransomware has posed a new risk: it’s not that another user will change all your files but rather that a program operating under a given user's identity will modify all the data files accessible to that user identity.

• Microsoft's attempt to combat this is called "Controlled folder access," and it's part of Windows Defender.

• Certain directories can be designated as "protected," with certain locations, such as Documents, being compulsorily protected.

• Protected folders can only be accessed by apps on a whitelist

 

Qualcomm trying to ban the sales of Iphones in the US

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/803742-qualcomm-trying-to-ban-the-sales-of-iphones-in-the-us/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/6/15930928/qualcomm-requests-iphone-import-ban

Source 3: Infographic https://www.qualcomm.com/iphone-infographic

 

• In the latest escalation of its global legal fight with Apple, Qualcomm is asking the US government to ban new iPhones from coming into the country.

• It also wants sales halted on iPhones that have already made their way in.

• Qualcomm says that Apple is violating six patents that have to do with extending a phone’s battery life.

• “Apple continues to use Qualcomm’s technology while refusing to pay for it.”

• Apple claims that Qualcomm is charging “disproportionately high” fees for the use of its patents and abusing its position as the market leader in smartphone modems

 

Huge dome reads inhabitants’ body language

Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/07/cmu-researchers-create-a-huge-dome-that-can-read-body-language/

Source 2:

 

• The Panoptic Studio is a new body scanner created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon that will be used to understand body language in real situations

• The dome contains 480 VGA cameras and 31 HD cameras as well as 10 Kinect sensors.

• It can create wireframe models of participants inside the dome interacting, talking, and arguing.

• Why? To show computers what we are thinking.

“We communicate almost as much with the movement of our bodies as we do with our voice,” said associate professor Yaser Sheikh. “But computers are more or less blind to it.”

• The computer can look at the various hand and head positions and verbal communication, and begin to understand when two people are angry, happy, or argumentative.

  • “A single shot gives you 500 views of a person’s hand, plus it automatically annotates the hand position,”

[Daniel644]

come on Linus, need that youtube link

[BestPCBuilder2017]

3 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

come on Linus, need that youtube link

ikr

[Daniel644]

Just now, NCIX Lampy said:

ikr

sitting here listening to him type away in the aftershow, finally up now

[Tech_Dreamer]

Those awkward silence at the end segments , the body language changed a lot

[Delicieuxz]

Is there a video about the arcade machine, its games, specs, setup, etc, that's in the background behind Linus and Luke?

[agent_x007]

No NV Fermi DX12 support to offset all those AMD news

PS. My fav graphics on card : 6800 Ultra

[Nowak]

42 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

Is there a video about the arcade machine, its games, specs, setup, etc, that's in the background behind Linus and Luke?

There is, on the Floatplane Club. Should be on YouTube soon though.

[raxbg]

About the smartwatch issues that you talk about, like charging and battery life - I think that you don't consider the gear s2 and s3 from Samsung. Their docks are literally what you explain you expect a dock to be - like you just drop the watch and it automatically positions itself correctly and starts charging. There is no need to align anything. As for the battery life - my s2 is always connected to my phone and I use it all day long and it lasts me for 4 days without power saving. s3 is supposed to have even better battery life, so...yeah, please be a bit more objective.

[Hans Power]

Thx for talking about the issue of overtraining! Although I had a heartattack already (which I recovered from pretty nicely) there were still supposedly professional trainers who tried to push me beyond my limits if you can believe that! And then you're also supposed to not eat any sugar or carbs while you're at it. Me being the sucker that I am work out about 5 days a week these days and ride about 100km per week with my bike - that was until I got an Ulnar nerve entrapment from the biking and now it's no sports at all for a while. People always push and push and think you just pull a sicky as soon as you're not 100% on top of your game until your brain klicks and you just run nuts and start to race the sun. That's todays society for you.

[rowlYy]

South Australia represent! The issue we have been having is that South Australia gets a lot of its power from an inter-connector running from Victoria (the state next door), we had a huge windstorm that knocked over a large portion of the power line, which caused a surge that tripped something to shut the inter-connector and wind farms off. Power was out for days in most places. Government did nothing at first. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to-blame-for-sa-blackout-aemo-says/8389920 - that's the report for the investigation 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout - general info

ABC is the government news agency, they have to remain neutral, so it is quite reliable. 

[xnamkcor]

I got a Sony SWR30 for 40 USD on clearance. It tells time. After a 2 dollar addon app by a third party it has one of the best watchfaces I've ever seen. The phone finder only rings for about 10 seconds. The voice command addon app is severely limted. The command to trigger the voice command directly on the phone does work well enough("Hi, Galaxy" voice command unlocks the phone and waits for command, but the watch command needs you to unblock the phone). The SMS notification vibration is way too short. But if I happen to look at my watch, it has enough info for me to know if I need to pull out my phone.

I'd say the watch is worth about 20 USD. It'd go up if the Voice Command is fixed and the SMS notification vibration is adjustable to at least the same length as my ringtone.

 

The watch only updates about every 24 seconds. The "RNG" one is a watchface that only has milliseconds, and results in a "random" 3 digit number ever update. You know, in case you would ever want that. the XNK one is my personal watchface. Please ignore that the phone battery percent "1" in "100" overflows into the watch battery percent.

RNG.clocki

XNK_v3.clocki

[NumLock21]

For the Savage Jerky ad sponsor spot. I always wonder, how come Linus and Luke never tried the one they always talked about when introducing it. That one that started it all, with just 3 ingredients, garlic, lime, and cilantro.

 

https://www.savagejerky.com/collections/mojo/products/mojo-beef-jerky

https://www.savagejerky.com/pages/our-jerky

[KhandakeF]

(Some Afterparty stuff that idk if Im allowed to discuss, so @Slick, @LinusTech please review)

 

Spoiler

BTW Linus/Luke, about the upcoming How-a-LTT-video-comes-to-be that you mentioned, Taran has a 3+ hour long video on just editing a LTT video on his channel that I think you should link. 

 

PS: I watched almost all of it  

 

[Silent Node]

I'm looking forward to the "all AMD budget gaming rig from Dell" that Linus alluded to.