AMD's on a roll... - August 18, 2021

[RILEYISMYNAME]

 

NEWS SOURCES:

 

ECIN

AMD EPYC Genoa CPUs with 96 CORES

https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/joao-silva/amd-epyc-genoa-cpus-to-feature-up-to-96x-cores/

https://www.computerbase.de/2021-08/genoa-mit-zen-4-umfangreiche-details-zu-amds-naechster-server-cpu/

https://twitter.com/KittyYYuko/status/1427543736175644683 

 

TO ‘SPLODE A GIGABYTE

GamersNexus responds to Gigabyte’s response

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1365905-gamersnexus-exposes-exploding-gigabyte-psus-and-gigabyte-manipulating-the-truth-tries-to-disparage-gamersnexus/

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/325922-gigabyte-will-replace-defective-power-supplies-blames-media-for-doa-hardware

GN video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xts3pvbcFosOG HardwareBusters video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0Mjw3BW94 

 

 

TALIBANNED

Social media companies struggle with Taliban policies

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-twitter-taliban-afghanistan-content-151603761.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/technology/taliban-social-media-bans.html

Whatsapp shuts down helpline

https://www.ft.com/content/d8e29de8-aebb-4f10-a91e-89d454d4a9f7

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvy5/whatsapp-says-its-not-banning-the-taliban-because-it-cant-read-their-texts

 

QUICK BITS

 

IMPOSTER, INDEED

Epic copied Among Us mode, didn’t give credit

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/fortnite-impostors-among-us/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RNbUaCKHAInnersloth calls them out https://www.ign.com/articles/among-us-developers-call-out-fortnites-sus-new-mode

 

But this happens all the time https://twitter.com/jfwong/status/1427852856648888321

 

COOL COUNTRIES GET COOL PHONES

Pixel 5A with 5G

https://hexus.net/ce/news/mobile-phones/148252-google-pixel-5a-5g-goes-pre-order/

https://youtu.be/7czvrfzDtp4https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_5a_5g?hl=en-US#p5a-compare-lite-popup

 

 

SPILLED THE T

49 million T-Mobile accounts breached

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akg8wg/tmobile-investigating-customer-data-breach-100-million

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-breach-exposed-ssn-dob-of-40m-people/

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/18/t-mobile-data-breach-included-personal-information/

 

BAD APPLE

Maker of iPhone keyboard for blind users forced to shut down by Apple

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/iphone-keyboard-for-blind-to-shut-down-as-maker-cites-apple-abuse-of-developers/

https://www.flicktype.com/

 

THEY PARKOUR NOW

More Boston Dynamics parkour videos

https://www.cnet.com/news/see-boston-dynamics-atlas-robots-do-parkour-like-its-nothing/

https://youtu.be/tF4DML7FIWk?t=31

 

[adarw]

whats that on your shoulder..........

[Arika]

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Social media companies struggle with Taliban policies

 

So twitter don't/"can't" ban terrorist organizations and members, but ban people for saying the wrong thing? what a shithole of a company

[MultiGamerClub]

Well well well.. Wait what!