Novermber 3th, 2017 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

 

 

Nvidia Teases Another Titan X: Titan X Collector’s Edition

Source 1: posted by Max_Settings https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854716-nvidia-teases-another-titan-x-titan-x-collectors-edition/

Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TsXU5nGZRU

Source 3: http://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-teases-a-new-titan-x-collectors-edition-graphics-card

 

• Nvidia released a teaser this morning for a new Titan X Collector’s Edition.

• There’s no mention of specs but we can see a new reference design with:

  • more lighting with a green light clearly illuminating the graphics card’s vapor chamber and heatsink fin array

  • lighting could be customizable, as in one frame of the video there’s a second glowing red graphics card

  • It also seems like the fan on this new GPU could stick out from the frame with its own acrylic element

• It’s possible that Nvidia will announce the Titan X Collector’s Edition at CES 2018, especially considering it has a scheduled keynote at the show.

 

Rumor: Next gen AMD Epyc to get 64 cores?

Source 1:  posted by Tribalinius https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854481-rumor-next-gen-amd-epyc-to-get-64-cores/

Source 2: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/rumor-next-gen-amd-epyc-processors-will-get-64-cpu-cores.html

 

• French computer magazine Canard PC posted the following on Twitter:

  • “Do not repeat it to anyone, but AMD’s 2nd gen EPYC CPUs will have 64 cores, 256 MB (!) Of L3, 8x DDR-3200 and 128 lines of PCIe 4”

 

• The current Flagship Epyc 7601 processor has "32 cores and 64 MB of L3 cache.

• The final PCIe 4.0 spec was only released last week, so these won’t launch for a while

 

Razer Phone Officially Announced

Source 1: posted by ScrappyZeDog https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854041-razer-phone-officially-announced/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16519692/razer-phone-android-gaming-specs-release-date-price-photos

 

• Specs

  • 5.7 inch 1440p variable refresh rate screen (120Hz)

  • 8GB of RAM

  • 64GB of expandable storage

  • Stereo front-facing speakers with Dolby Atmos

  • 4,000mAh battery

  • Snapdragon 835 processor

  • Dual 12-megapixel cameras

  • No 3.5mm Jack

  • Android 7.1.1 Nougat

  • $700 USD and ships November 17

• Razer has worked with game developers to create Quad HD, 120Hz versions of their games to run exclusively on the Razer Phone including Arena of Valor, Tekken and Final Fantasy XV.

• Comes with Game Booster, which optimizes the phone for game play. You can choose to up performance, turn off notifications and fine tune game play on a game by game basis.

 

Rumour: Broadcom to Acquire Qualcomm!

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-11-03/broadcom-said-to-explore-deal-to-acquire-qualcomm-video

Source 2: https://www.wsj.com/articles/broadcom-plans-unsolicited-bid-for-qualcomm-1509733193

 

• Broadcom Ltd. is considering a bid of more than $100 billion for Qualcomm Inc., in what would be the biggest-ever takeover of a chipmaker.

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• What’s the point of merging?

  • Consolidation of suppliers makes sense as there are fewer and fewer customers

  • Qualcomm is the largest maker of modems, while broadcom makes wifi chips

•  

• Broadcom could launch its bid as soon as this weekend.

  • It is likely to be mainly made up of cash, with 10% or 20% in stock

• The announcement has Qualcomm’s stock up 13%

 

People line up for iPhone X

Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/-1-000-price-doesn-t-deter-apple-iphone-x-fans-in-long-lines

• People around the world lined up over night and early this morning to buy the iPhone X

 

• Apple is projecting record revenue of $84 billion to $87 billion during the holiday quarter

• The stock rose 3.1 percent, to $173.23 at 1:25 p.m. in New York.

• In New York, at least two Chinese-speaking Apple employees were deployed to help manage the huge line, which had many visitors from China and elsewhere

• The company’s strongest weekend launch was the iPhone 6s in 2015, which saw more than 13 million units sold over the initial days.

• the iPhone X got 25 percent more pre-orders than the last major iPhone revamp, the iPhone 6, from 2014,

• Apple said Thursday it has added more production capacity and that the six-week waiting times  issued to online pre-order customers would be reduced.

 

Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter’s hands-on video goes viral

Source 1: posted ny AliminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/852501-apple-fires-iphone-x-engineer-after-daughter%E2%80%99s-hands-on-video-goes-viral/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/28/16565110/apple-engineer-iphone-x-youtube-video

 

• Apple has fired an engineer after his daughter’s iPhone X hands-on video went viral on YouTube

• The young lady published a vlog that included a trip to the Apple campus to visit her father and see an unreleased iPhone X.

• The video was quickly picked up by sites like 9to5Mac, and it spread even further on YouTube.

• The father violated a company rule by allowing her to film the unreleased handset as filming on Apple’s campus is strictly prohibited

• The video included footage of an iPhone X with special employee-only QR codes.

• A notes app was also shown on the iPhone X in the video, which appeared to include codenames of unreleased Apple products.

 

$370,000 Worth of iPhone Xs Stolen From UPS Truck

Source 1: posted by Max_Settings https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854758-370000-worth-of-iphone-xs-stolen-from-ups-truck-in-san-francisco/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16601970/iphone-x-devices-stolen-apple-store-san-francisco

Souce 3: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/926457047041888257/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flinustechtips.com%2Fmain%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcore%26module%3Dsystem%26controller%3Dembed%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMKBHD%2Fstatus%2F926457047041888257

 

• Over 313 iPhone X devices have been stolen from a UBS truck parked outside an Apple Store in SF on Wednesday morning.

• The driver of the UPS truck had locked the vehicle after parking outside the Stonestown Galleria mall, and went to a nearby Macy's to make another delivery.

  • During that time the 3 male thieves, who have not been caught, managed to break in and take off in a white Dodge van

• UPS and Apple are working with police on the investigation.

  • Each phone that was stolen had its IMEI serial number catalogued along with a description.

 

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

Scary & Funny: NVIDIA AI Generates Disturbingly Photo-realistic Faces

Source 1: https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-neural-network-generates-photorealistic-faces-disturbing-results

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=64&v=XOxxPcy5Gr4

 

• NVIDIA has released a paper detailing a new training methodology for generating unique and realistic looking faces using a generative adversarial network

• The result is the ability to render photorealistic faces of "unprecedented quality."

• NVIDIA took a database of photographs of famous people and used that to train its system.

• pause the video at 1:04 there's actually a lot of really bad ones

 

Twitter Employee Shuts Down President Trump's Twitter Account On His Last Day Of Work

Source 1: posted by Max_Settings https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854754-twitter-employee-shuts-down-president-trumps-twitter-account-on-his-last-day-of-work/

 

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/2/16600732/donald-trump-twitter-account-gone-realdonaldtrump

 

• President Donald Trump’s Twitter account disappeared from the site for around 11 minutes on yesterday shortly before 4PM Pacific

• A rogue employee with the power to deactivate individual accounts used their last day on the job to boot the president off the service.

• anyone going to the @realDonaldTrump Twitter page would see the message “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

  • As opposed to the “account suspended”message that legitimately banned accounts display

• Tweets on the Verge are Hilarious

• The employee has not been named

 

Logitech bringing the keyboard into VR

Source 1: posted by WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854563-logitech-wants-to-bring-the-keyboard-into-the-vr-space/

Source 2: https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/11/02/introducing-the-logitech-bridge-sdk/

 

• Soon you’ll be able to see and use your keyboard in VR thanks to Logitech releasing the BRIDGE dev kit.

• You will be able to see your physical keyboard and hands, and type without having to take your headset off.

• The kit consists of:

  • a Logitech G gaming keyboard,

  • an accessory that positions a Vive Tracker correctly on the keyboard,

  • the associated software

• “Enabling the Web is critical to the expansion of VR and having a keyboard is essential to making that happen”

 

Some Pixel 2 XL units are shipping without an operating system

Source 1: posted by Warboy https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854605-some-pixel-2-xl-units-are-shipping-without-an-operating-system/

Source 2: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/02/pixel-2-xl-units-shipping-without-operating-system/

 

• Though the defect has already been fixed, some Pixel 2 XL units have been shipped without Android properly installed, preventing the phone from booting.

• Add this to the ever elongating list of Pixel 2 XL issues:

  • Display colour

  • issues with Android Auto,

  • Portrait Mode,

  • audio quality with recorded video.

 

Blizzard to Officially revive Classic Vanilla WOW

Source 1: posted by Johners https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854849-official-legacy-servers-for-world-of-warcarft-are-coming/

Source 2: http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-blizzard-plans-to-finally-bring-back-vanilla-wow-servers/

 

• During the opening ceremonies of Blizzcon 2017, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft will receive an official classic-style “vanilla” server.

• Why now?

  • "This is something that we’ve continued to hear from current players, from former players, from people who work on World of Warcraft, even people working at Blizzard who are like, hey, you should find a way."

  • “We want to reproduce the game experience that we all enjoyed from the original, classic WOW,”

• Fans have worked on making their own vanilla servers over the years, some of which Blizzard Entertainment has shut down over copyright and other issues.

• The official Classic version is currently in development

New 2FA System Relies on Taking Photos of Ordinary Objects

Source 1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-devise-2fa-system-that-relies-on-taking-photos-of-ordinary-objects/

 

• Scientists have created a custom two-factor authentication system named Pixie that relies on users taking a photo of a personal object.

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• Pixie works by requiring users to choose an object- like their watch or parts of their body- as their 2FA key.

  • When they set up the Pixie 2FA protection, they take an initial photo of the object that will be used for reference.

  • Every time users try to log into their account again, they re-take a photo of the same object, and an app installed on their phone compares the two photos.

    • it does not use remote servers -. All image recognition operations are handled locally

• Because only the user knows what that object is, an attacker cannot intercept SMS communications or exploit flaws in the SS7 protocol to hijack the 2FA process like they can with SMS verification codes

  • Even if the attacker knows the user's object, users can take the photo only at certain angles or only of a small section of the object.

• In automated tests, Pixie achieved a false accept rate below 0.09% in a brute force attack with 14.3 million authentication attempts — nine wrong identifications every 10,000 login attempts.

  • In a test with 42 participants that took place over eight days in three different sessions, researchers say that "Pixie outperforms text-based passwords on memorability, speed, and user preference."

• You can get the app from GitHub repository and test it out. (Source 2)

• Users should be careful not to choose perishable objects like food

 

Student used keyloggers to change his grades 90 times

Source 1: posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/854612-university-of-iowa-student-used-keyloggers-to-change-his-grades-90-times/

Source 2: https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/university-of-iowa-student-used-keyloggers-to-change-his-grades-90-times-19181.html

 

• A former University of Iowa student has been arrested by the FBI on federal computer-hacking charges in a high-tech cheating scheme in which he allegedly obtained advanced copies of tests and changed grades for himself and classmates.

• The 22 year old carried out the scheme by secretly installing keyloggers in computers in university classrooms and labs that allowed him to record what his professors typed, including their credentials to log into university grading and email systems

  • Enabling him to intercept exams and test questions in advance and to repeatedly change grades on tests, quizzes and homework assignments

• The FBI says Graves changed his grades more than 90 times over a 21-month period, and changed grades on numerous occasions for at least five other students.

• He was arrested on Tuesday and is charged with intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain information, and knowingly transmitting a computer program to cause damage. Both charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

• The university spent $68,000 investigating the breach and improving IT security.

• The university warned students that those involved could face expulsion or suspension.

 

Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes

Source 1: http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-engineer-installs-google-chrome-during-presentation-after-edge-freezes-518291.shtml

Source 2: https://youtu.be/eELI2J-CpZg?t=37m10s

 

• A Microsoft engineer downloaded, installed, and started using Google Chrome during a live presentation after Microsoft Edge stopped responding in the middle of a demo.

• “So while we’re talking here, I’m gonna go install Chrome,” he continued before he started laughing, with many people in the audience cheering.

• “And we’re going to not make Google better,” he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google

• Google Chrome is currently the world’s number one desktop browser with a share of 59.48%, while Microsoft Edge has a 5.65% share.

 

Scientists weigh life

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/26/scientists-weigh-life/

 

• Scientists have created a scale that can measure the mass of single cells “monitor how [the cell’s]  weight changes over time … with a resolution of milliseconds and trillionths of a gram.”

• This system let the researchers see that cells exhibit second-to-second weight fluctuations while alive but these fluctuations stop when they die

• How does it work?

  • The cells, which usually weigh about two to three nanograms, are weighed under controlled conditions in a cell culture chamber. The weighing arm, a tiny wafer-thin, transparent silicon cantilever coated with collagen or fibronectin, is lowered to the floor of the chamber, where it nudges and picks up a cell. “The cell hangs on the underside of a tiny cantilever for the measurements,”

 

[Beezohh]

I already know they are in the description but I also found the timestamps
04:33 - Kyle from Bitwit Joins Floatplane / Floatplane News
28:52 - Titan X Collector's Edition

38:00 - Razer Phone

54:17 - Sponsor: Synergy

56:03 - Sponsor: Squarespace

57:58 - Sponsor: Zotac Zbox

1:00:28 - Blizzard plans to bring back Vanilla WOW servers

1:07:14 - Apple fires engineer over his daughters iPhone X video

1:07:28 - Number of people lining up for iPhone releases

[LienusLateTips]

oooooooohhhhhhh

[Hiko]

Any chance of The Wan Show on floatplane for reals? I was really looking forward to escaping youtube potato vision for the show...

[JoostinOnline]

That was the worst WAN Show ever.  First we waited 45 minutes for them to start.  Then there was an echo, and they spent several minutes adding to it (while denying that they were adding to it) instead of restarting to fix it.  After that they spent like half an hour in a Floatplane circle-jerk.  There was almost no actual tech news.  They did take the time to mention how there were several good tech topics they wouldn't be discussing though.

 

It still didn't piss me off as much as the time they were an entire hour late.  Turned out they'd been screwing around with fans.

[Master Disaster]

November 3th?

[Tumppi]

Worst show ever.

[LogicalDrm]

I guess thank for @bitwit not mentioning my nick on stream for being the "helpful" member. First time I'm being mentioned in WAN show. Or sort of mentioned.

[apm]

the video is async after a while.

[AlTech]

10 hours ago, LinusTech said:

Source 1: posted ny AliminiumTech

RIP .

 

* by AluminiumTech

[Guest]

How come the new Xeon Phi has 256 threads, it has 64 cores with hyperthreading, wouldnt it have 128 threads?

[Narukin]

Razer uses it's metal body for cooling it's brains?

I'm waiting for you to stick a watercooling block on it Linus.

[3 Lions]

@LinusTech

 

Novermber  

[fourwordsalluppercase]

twitch chat on https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NaH-WngisutXqaqBwD6KlFzBDg02SJLs/view?usp=sharing 

[Ringthane]

Didn't mention the AMD news again, but had plenty of time to lick the nVidia taint again...

 

"Ooohh, look, there's a new nVidia card with two more lights and a chip that says "How ya doin', sunshine?" every time you start your computer up!!!!!!!!  We have to drool all over that!!!!!1"

 

How pathetic.  

[mech]

Yay! This was my first time to have a topic on the WAN Show

[Hans Power]

If you have guests on the show please put some more effort into the audio quality cause on Kyles end it was absolutely atrocious. I stopped watching about half way in because it's punishing to listen to that overdriven mic audio. Bad audio kills every video for me no matter how great it otherwise could be.

[JoostinOnline]

11 hours ago, Ringthane said:

Didn't mention the AMD news again, but had plenty of time to lick the nVidia taint again...

 

"Ooohh, look, there's a new nVidia card with two more lights and a chip that says "How ya doin', sunshine?" every time you start your computer up!!!!!!!!  We have to drool all over that!!!!!1"

 

How pathetic.  

There wasn't time after the FloatPlane circle-jerk.  Would you have thrown a fit if they talked about AMD but not NVIDIA?

[Shaggy18cm]

OMG Luke used to play Lineage 2!! Nice!! Get those Baium and Antharas jewels

I used to play that game to death back in the day.. so stoked it's coming to mobile(and I think to PC too? not sure).

[DoctorWho1975]

Two RGB fans, 1 cup?

 

So will there be no free videos on YouTube once everything moves to FloatPlane?