May 4, 2018 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

 

Main News Topics

FOLDING AND BOINC COMMUNITY SHOUTOUT

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/37-foldinghome-boinc-and-coin-mining/

 

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• Talking pointolding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics.

• The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems.

• This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases.

 

TitlenVidia ends GeForce Partner Program

Source 1: WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/923562-nvidia-ends-geforce-partner-program/

 

Source 2: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/05/04/gpp/

 

• Talking pointOn wednesday, Nvidia announced in a blogpost their intention to cancel the GeForce Partner Program

• How it would work: If ASUS was an NVIDIA GPP partner, and it wanted to continue to use NVIDIA GPUs in its ROG branded video cards, computers, and laptops, it could not sell any other company's GPUs in ROG products.

  • And guess who’s going to be awarded the existing branding?

• The post framed the cancellation as relenting to “rumours, conjecture, and mitruths” rather than continuing to “battling misinformation”.

  • “today we are pulling the plug on GPP to avoid any distraction from the super exciting work we’re doing to bring amazing advances to PC gaming.”

• “GPP was about making sure gamers who want NVIDIA tech get NVIDIA tech.”

• Will the dedicated brands like Arez survive?

  • Will Gigabyte’s Rx 580 Gaming Box get the premium branding back?

    • Some people think the brands that have already invested in the fork will stick with it

    • I’m not so sure...

• Is the agreement still in force in the background?

 

T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

Source 1: THeEmpire.01 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/921954-sprint-and-t-mobile-have-announced-that-they-will-merge/?tab=comments#comment-11296682

Source 2: http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/29/news/companies/t-mobile-sprint-merger/index.html

Source 3: https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/5gforall.htm

 

• T-Mobile and Sprint finally agreed to a massive telecom merger after years of negotiations.

• The move combines the third and fourth largest wireless service providers in the US

  • The combined company will have nearly 100 million customers.

• Sprint and T-Mobile first discussed a merger in 2014 but scrapped it because of concerns about regulatory challenges from the Obama administration.

• The deal was blocked because regulators determined that the wireless market could support four major players, and having them compete benefited consumers.

  • 5"It will be difficult to convince the Justice Department that circumstances have changed so much that it's necessary to go down to three providers," he said. "That's the major hurdle that has to be confronted."

    • But maybe now, framed as a fight for 5G dominance against Asia, they could succeed

• The outcome of that $85 billion merger depends on a case in federal court, which is pending the decision of the judge.

• The new company will be called T-Mobile

• Could 3 more equally-sized players be MORE competitive?

 

DRAM Price Fixing

Source 1: https://www.techpowerup.com/243767/samsung-micron-and-hynix-accused-of-dram-price-fixing

Source 2: https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/04/30/dramlawsuit.pdf

 

• Law firm Hagens Berman has filed a class action lawsuit against Samsung, Micron, and Hynix

• According to the firm's investigation, the three DRAM manufacturers conspired to limit the supply of DRAM chips between 2016 and 2017 with the purpose of inflating their prices

  • DRAM saw a 47% increase in price during 2017, the largest jump ever in the last 30 years

  • Samsung, Micron and Hynix collectively own 96 percent of the worldwide DRAM market

• The complaint, has been put forward on behalf of anyone in the US who purchased something containing DRAM from one of the three companies from July 1, 2016 through the February 1, 2018

• The suit claims that, after a global decline in the price of RAM chips, the three companies began in June of 2016 to deliberately limit their output of DRAM storage chips.

• the suit claims, you can actually track the bumps in DRAM prices to the aftermath of industry events where the three companies would have had a chance to sit down and plan together how they could get top dollar.

• from 1998-2002, Hynix, Samsung, and Micron were among a group of vendors who would ultimately end up paying a settlement to end complaints they conspired to rig the price of DRAM chips

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

Rapid Fire

Titlewarranty void stickers update

Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/922690-sony-microsoft-nintendo-htc-asus-hyundai-were-given-30-days-to-ditch-warranty-void-stickers-and-change-policies-by-the-ftc-expires-may-9th/

Source 2: https://wccftech.com/sony-microsoft-nintendo-warranty/

 

• Per US law, no warranty on a product sold for over $5 dollars can put any restrictions on repairs

• But a lot of companies put stickers on their products indicating that the product’s warranty will be void if repairs are made by 3rd parties

• On April 9th, the FTC sent letters to 6 undisclosed offending companies, indicating their intent to enforce the law

• We now know the companies are:

  • Sony

  • Microsoft

  • Nintendo

  • Hyundai

  • ASUS

  • HTC

• The companies were given 30 days to revise their warranty materials

 

New info/facts on the Eric Lundgren vs. US Govt.-Microsoft case

Source 1: GeminiJ13 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/921922-new-infofacts-on-the-eric-lundgren-vs-us-govt-microsoft-case/

Source 2: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-facts-about-a-recent-counterfeiting-case-brought-by-the-u-s-government/

 

• Microsoft was an expert witness in a counterfeit/fraud case brought against the defendant by US Customs

 

TotalBiscuits future

Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/922425-renowned-game-critic-totalbiscuit-retires-from-youtube-after-his-cancer-treatments-stop-working-and-his-health-rapidly-deteriorates/

Source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/cynicalbritofficial/comments/8g4eoj/official_totalbiscuits_future/?st=jgsjdftt&sh=c8ff4c0d

 

• Youtuber TotalBiscuit has annouced he is retiring as a games critic

• He will continue to product content on Twitch and Youtube, mostly as co-op game streams with his wife.

• The Co-optional podcast will continue every week, with a streamlined 2-hour format.

• They have no plans to launch any kind of donation campaign but you can support TotalBiscuit by consuming that content!

 

Facebook to Add ‘Clear History’ Tool

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-01/facebook-to-add-clear-history-tool-to-let-users-scrub-web-data

Source 2: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/clear-history-2/

 

• At their F8 conference,, facebook announced plans to build a Clear History tool.

• This feature will enable you to see the websites and apps that send facebook information when you use them, delete this information from your account, and turn off facebook’s ability to store it associated with your account going forward

• They’ll still provide apps and websites with aggregated analytics

• It won’t be launching for a couple of months

 

Rumour: Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/facebook-is-said-to-research-ad-free-subscription-based-version

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• Facebook Inc. has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join

• The plans aren’t solid and may not go forward

• Internal company research in past years concluded consumers wouldn’t be receptive to a subscription option, seeing it as Facebook being greedy and asking for money for something it said would always be free, the people said.

• Facebook thinks consumer sentiment may be changing

 

HP printer firmware breaches Australian consumer laws.

Source 1: killcomic https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/923414-hp-firmware-update-breached-australian-consumer-laws/

 

Source 2: https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/640751/hp-compensate-aussie-customers-after-third-party-ink-cartridge-block/

 

• Talking pointHP Australia's printer customers could be eligible for compensation after the vendor sold 220,000 printers without informing buyers that non-HP ink cartridges may not work in them.

• What prevented the cartridges from working was HP's “dynamic security failure” technology designed to prevent non-HP ink cartridges from being used in HP printers.

  • The printers either came with the software or had it installed in a firmware update later. (fall 2016)

• “Consumers were not made aware of the restriction on using non-HP ink cartridges when buying the printer or downloading the firmware update, and were denied the choice to accept or reject it.”

• HP is offering consumers who were prevented from using a non-HP cartridge compensation of $50.

  • More than 2,000 customers who used non-HP cartridges are likely to have been affected by the conduct, making total compensation for consumers over $100,000.

 

New BITMAIN ASIC Mines Equihash smashes GPUs

Source 1: Enkephalin https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/923462-new-bitmain-asic-mines-equihash-15x1080ti-gpus-at-300-watts/

Source 2: https://www.ccn.com/bitmain-to-release-first-zcash-asic-miner/

 

• Crypto Mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has revealed that it’s developed the first Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) miner capable of mining on Equihash-secured networks.

  • For $2,000, it can perform as well as 15 1080Ti GPUs at a mere 300 Watts

• Equihash is the algorithm used by

  • Zcash, Zencash, Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ, Bitcoin Private, Komodo, Zclassic,

• Equihash was meant to prevent centralization of the mining process in the hands of a few first-class miners with specialized mining hardware, and thus contribute to the “democratization” of digital currencies"

• Will there be a flood of GPUs on the resale market?

[LienusLateTips]

nvidia no

 

amd yes

[mr cheese]

3 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

T-Mobile and Sprint finally agreed to a massive telecom merger after years of negotiations.

Maybe I'll finally get some fucking consistent coverage

[givingtnt]

YEAH
FOLDING
WOOOOOO

[TheSLSAMG]

I for one welcome our new John Legere overlord (hopefully.)

[Egg-Roll]

Top news today:

 

 

Also I would have partaken in the Folding if I knew about it... I don't visit the subforum, a shout out on the WAN show would be good... 

[mr cheese]

54 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

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me too

[JoostinOnline]

1 hour ago, JDE said:

nvidia no

 

amd yes

Wow, haven't heard that one a hundred billion times in Twitch chat.

 

I'm disappointed that they didn't explain the Twitch ban during the show, and the fact that they forgot to send the live email notification. It was 20 minutes in before I realized it had started.

[Bsmith]

I was looking at the time stamps and noticed the category was set to "cars and vehicles"(auto's en voertuigen in dutch) might want to change that 

[Majestic]

This

https://twitter.com/HardOCP/status/992584230499684352

 

You didn't do shit LTT, it was as you say Linus "really boring" to you, wasn't it.

[Enkephalin]

6 hours ago, LinusTech said:

• Crypto Mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has revealed that it’s developed the first Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) miner capable of mining on Equihash-secured networks.

  • For $2,000, it can perform as well as 15 1080Ti GPUs at a mere 300 Watts

• Equihash is the algorithm used by

  • Zcash, Zencash, Bitcoin Gold, BitcoinZ, Bitcoin Private, Komodo, Zclassic,

• Equihash was meant to prevent centralization of the mining process in the hands of a few first-class miners with specialized mining hardware, and thus contribute to the “democratization” of digital currencies"

The whitepaper publication on Equihash has been posted by somebody (sorry I don't remember the name, but I thanked them) on the thread. I definitely don't understand it but it is cool to see cryptography publications. I will attach the PDF if anyone is interested in. I will also throw in Satoshi Nakamoto's publication on the creation of Bitcoin for anyone that cares to read it. It is easier to read (and shorter) and I actually would recommend that anyone who cares about cryptocurrency at all to take a look.

Equihash Publication.pdf

Nakamoto, Satoshi - Bitcoin - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.pdf

[Nicnac]

Loving the NAW show!

 

And yay boinc/folding finally got a shoutout!

[LogicalDrm]

I'm for WAN branding change. I think HIT would be better. Headlines in Tech. Or Weekly HIT. They would need to do much more professional start where there's actual intro part with Ed or someone else doing voiceover.

[Canada EH]

Talking point well Obama Admin was real real bad so I understand.

[ernonewman]

Kind of disappointed that Luke and James just skipped over the MS topic after Linus's epic rant about it last week.

[MattMatt]

33:38 "yeh and it has a thumbs down button.... so you can be like you're dumb, signed other humans, get used to it this is the real world, virtually"

 

Can we have a disagree button on the forums then...?

[Egg-Roll]

5 hours ago, Majestic said:

This

https://twitter.com/HardOCP/status/992584230499684352

 

You didn't do shit LTT, it was as you say Linus "really boring" to you, wasn't it.

While I'm sure the "we" part was meant to be reflecting on everyone vs Nvidia, I can see where that tweet is coming from...

 

5 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I'm for WAN branding change. I think HIT would be better. Headlines in Tech. Or Weekly HIT. They would need to do much more professional start where there's actual intro part with Ed or someone else doing voiceover.

The first thing I think of with the term Weekly HIT is actually music in the glory days before everyone had to be autotuned and all sounded the same... I like the NAW show better  Only when James and Luke are on tho, they seem to flow better with each other vs Luke always waiting for Linus to stop talking...

[AshleyAshes]

DRAM has been around since WWII code breaking computers, FYI.  

[Goodmane]

There is a Black line/bar above camera footage.

[Canada EH]

14 hours ago, ernonewman said:

Kind of disappointed that Luke and James just skipped over the MS topic after Linus's epic rant about it last week.

because there is no planning really involved

[7850OC]

 

i don't think this thing have "end" so easy 

i think half of the companies will still stay (in secret) with the same GPP tactic on the inside 

i think the damage (to AMD) is done, and will not wash away so easy