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Blender 2.78 Released
Subject: General Tech | October 1, 2016 - 02:58 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Blender
Blender 2.78 has been a fairly anticipated release. First off, people who have purchased a Pascal-based graphics card will now be able to GPU-accelerate their renders in Cycles. Previously, it would outright fail, complaining that it didn't have a compatible CUDA kernel. At the same time, the Blender Foundation fixed a few performance issues, especially with Maxwell-based GM200 parts, such as the GeForce 980 Ti. Pre-release builds included these fixes for over a month, but 2.78 is the first build for the general public that supports it.
In terms of actual features, Blender 2.78 starts to expand the suite's feature set into the space that is currently occupied by Adobe Animate CC (Flash Professional). The Blender Foundation noticed that users were doing 2D animations using the Grease Pencil, so they have been evolving the tool in that direction. You can now simulate different types of strokes, parent these to objects, paint geometry along surfaces, and so forth. It also has onion skinning, to see how the current frame matches its neighbors, but I'm pretty sure that is not new to 2.78, though.
As you would expect, there are still many differences between these two applications. Blender does not output to Flash, and interactivity would need to be done through the Blender Game Engine. On the other hand, Blender allows the camera, itself, to be animated. In Animate CC, you would need to move, rotate, and scale objects around the stage by the amount of pixels on an individual basis. In Blender, you would just fly the camera around.
This leads in to what the Blender Foundation is planning for Blender 2.8x. This upcoming release focuses on common workflow issues. Asset management is one area, but Viewport Renderer is a particularly interesting one. Blender 2.78 increases the functionality that materials can exhibit in the viewport, but Blender 2.8x is working toward a full physically-based renderer, such as the one seen in Unreal Engine 4. While it cannot handle the complex lighting effects that their full renderer, Cycles, can, some animations don't require this. Restricting yourself to the types of effects seen in current video games could decrease your render time from seconds or minutes per frame to around real-time.
As always, you can download Blender for free at their website.
Some Things I've Noticed about Windows 10 Patches
Subject: General Tech | October 1, 2016 - 02:07 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: microsoft, windows 10
I've been seeing a lot of people discussing how frequently Windows 10 seems to be getting updated. This discussion usually circles back to how many issues have been reported with the latest Anniversary Update, and how Microsoft has been slow in rolling it out. The thing is, while the slow roll-out is interesting, the way Windows 10 1607 is being patched is not too unusual.
The odd part is how Microsoft has been releasing the feature updates, themselves.
In the past, Microsoft has tried to release updates on the second Tuesday of every month. This provides a predictable schedule for administrators to test patches before deploying them to an entire enterprise, in case the update breaks something that is mission-critical. With Windows 10, Microsoft has declared that patches will be cumulative and can occur at any time. This led to discussion about whether or not "Patch Tuesday" is dead. Now, a little over a year has gone by, and we can actually quantify how the OS gets updated.
There seems to be a pattern that starts with each major version release, which has (thus far) been builds 10240, 10586, and 14393. Immediately before and after these builds start to roll out to the public, Microsoft releases a flurry of updates to fix issues.
For instance, Windows 10 version 1507 had seven sub-versions of 10240 prior to general release, and five hotfixes pushed down Windows Update within the first month of release. The following month, September 2015, had an update on Patch Tuesday, as well as an extra one on September 30th. The following month also had two updates, the first of which on October's Patch Tuesday. It was then patched once for every following Patch Tuesday.
The same trend occurred with Build 10586 (Windows 10 version 1511). Microsoft released the update to the public on November 12th, but pushed a patch through Windows Update on November 10th, and five more over Windows Update in the following month-and-a-bit. It mostly settled down to Patch Tuesday after that, although a few months had a second hotfix sometime in the middle.
We are now seeing the same trend happen with Windows 10 version 1607. Immediately after release, Microsoft pushed a bunch of hotfixes. If history repeats itself, we should start to see about two updates per month for the next couple of months, then we will slow down to Patch Tuesday until Redstone 2 arrives sometime in 2017.
So, while this seems to fit a recurring trend, I do wonder why this trend exists.
Part of it makes sense. When Microsoft is developing Windows 10, it is trying to merge additions from a variety of teams into a single branch, and do so once or twice each year. This likely means that Microsoft has a "last call" date for these teams to merge their additions into the public branch, and then QA needs to polish this up for the general public. While they can attempt to have these groups check in mid-way, pushing their work out to Windows Insiders in a pre-release build, you can't really know how the final build will behave until after the cut-off.
At the same time, the massive flood of patches within the first month would suggest that Microsoft is pushing the final build to the public about a month or two too early. If this trend continues, it would make the people who update within the first month basically another ring of the Insider program. The difference is that it is less out-in, because you get it when Windows Update tells you to.
It will be interesting to see how this continues going forward, too. Microsoft has already delayed Redstone 2 until 2017, as I mentioned earlier. This could be a sign that Microsoft is learning from past releases, and optimizing their release schedule based on these lessons. I wonder how soon before release will Microsoft settle on a "final build" next time. It seems like Microsoft could avoid many stability problems by simply setting an earlier merge date, and aggressively performing QA for a longer period until it is released to the public.
Or I could be completely off. What do you all think?
Logitech Releases C922 Pro Stream Webcam with 720p/60
Subject: General Tech | September 30, 2016 - 04:25 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: webcam, skype, Pro Stream Webcam, logitech, C922x, C922, C920, 720p/60
Logitech has announced the successor to the popular C920 with the C922 Pro Stream Webcam, and this new model includes a 720p/60 mode, along with the 1080p/30 capability of its predecessor.
"C922 Pro Stream Webcam offers full HD quality and features for all streaming needs. At either 1080p 30 FPS or 720p 60 FPS, C922 is the perfect solution for streaming to Twitch, YouTube and any other video streaming application imaginable. Advanced 20-step autofocus through a full HD glass lens with F-stop F 2.8 and 78-degree field of view means no matter what action is happening, C922 can capture those crucial moments in perfect HD clarity."
Logitech lists these specs for the C922:
- Video streaming or recording: 1080p30 FPS / 720p60 FPS / 720p30 FPS with supported apps
- Video calling: Full HD 1080p with the latest version of Skype for Windows or 720p with
- supported clients
- H.264 video compression (Skype only at this time)
- Full HD Glass lens (F=2.8) with 20-step autofocus
- 78° horizontal field of view
- Dual stereo microphone with automatic noise cancellation
- Automatic low light correction
- Tripod ready universal clip fits laptops and monitors (C922 SKU only)
- Dimensions:
- Width: 95mm
- Depth: 24mm - 71mm including clip
- Height: 29mm - 43.5mm including clip
- Weight: 162g
- USB cable: 6-ft
The C922 includes a tripod, while the C922x does not
There will be two SKUs of the C922, each of which retail for $99.99:
- C922 - exclusive to Best Buy and bestbuy.com, includes tripod and a 3 month XSplit license
- C922x - available on Amazon.com - does not include the tripod but includes a longer 6 month XSplit license
Both versions are available now.
Full press release after the break.
The Founders Edition is not the foundation of NVIDIA's retail career
Subject: General Tech | September 29, 2016 - 07:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nvidia, competition, jen-hsun huang, Founder's Edition
When Microsoft launched the Surface there were negative reactions from vendors who saw this as new competition from what was previously their partner. Today DigiTimes reports that certain unnamed GPU vendors have similar feelings about NVIDIA's Founder's Edition cards. Jen-Hsun responded to these comments today, stating that the Founders Editions were "purely to solve problems in graphics card design".
While he did not say that NVIDIA would not consider continuing practice in future cards he does correctly point out that they did share everything about the design and results with the vendors. Those vendors are still somewhat upset about the month in which only Founder's Editions were available for sale as they feel they lost some possible profits by not being able to sell their custom designed GPUs. Then again, considering the limited supply on the market, the amount of sales they could have made that extra month would certainly have been limited. It will be interesting to see if we hear more about this directly from the vendors in the coming weeks.
"Since Nvidia has restricted its graphics card brand partners from releasing in-house designed graphics cards within a month after the releases of its Founders Edition card, the graphics card vendors are displeased with the decision as it had given Nvidia time to earn early profits without competition."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- HP Inc: No DRM in our 3D printers, we swear (unlike our 2D ones) @ The Register
- HP offers optional patch to de-bork its printers after EFF rant @ The Inquirer
- macOS 10.12 Sierra vs. Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Benchmarks @ Phoronix
- Surprise! Leading 4-socket server vendor isn't Dell or HPE @ The Register
- D-Link DWR-932 B owner? Trash it, says security bug-hunter @ The Register
- Microsoft hails pointless Privacy Shield status for its cloud services @ The Register
- Polish car mechanic is still load-balancing with a Commodore 64 after 25 years @ The Inquirer
Podcast #419 - ASUS Rampage V Edition 10, VerticalMouse, AMD A12-9800 and more!
Subject: General Tech | September 29, 2016 - 04:48 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, toshiba, Silverstone, S340, rampage v edition 10, podcast, ocz, nzxt, gtx 1070, fsp, Evoluent, evga, asus, AOC, amd, A12-9800
PC Perspective Podcast #419 - 09/29/16
Join us this week as we discuss the Edition 10 of the Rampage V motherboard, a VerticalMouse, a shiny SilverStone case, the AMD A12-9800 and more!
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Hosts: Ryan Shrout, Allyn Malventano, Josh Walrath and Jeremy Hellstrom
Program length: 1:05:25
Week in Review:
News items of interest:
Hardware/Software Picks of the Week
Ryan: Apple Watch Series 2
Jeremy: Deal on the SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2
Josh: Cheap, good memory!
Allyn: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga OLED
Mozilla Discontinues Firefox OS for All Devices
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | September 29, 2016 - 06:15 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: mozilla, Firefox OS, firefox
Update: There has been a little confusion. The web browser, Firefox, is still going strong. In fact, they're focusing their engineering efforts more on it, by cutting back on these secondary projects.
Less than a year after their decision to stop developing and selling smartphones through carriers, Mozilla has decided to end all commercial development of Firefox OS. Releases after Firefox OS 2.6 will be handled by third parties, such as Panasonic, should they wish to continue using it for their smart TV platform. Further, source code for the underlying operating system, Boot-to-Gecko (B2G), will be removed from their repository, mozilla-central, so it doesn't hinder development of their other products.
Regardless, Mozilla needs to consider their long-term financial stability, and throwing resources at Firefox OS apparently doesn't return enough value for them, both directly and for its impact on society.
Google Translate Boosted by Deep Learning
Subject: General Tech | September 28, 2016 - 11:36 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: google
Machine translation is quite difficult, especially between certain pairs of languages that vary greatly in how they handle implied context and intonation. At Google, the current translation system picks out known words and phrases, converts them to the target language, and blindly outputs them. This, unfortunately, ignores how the phrases are structured together.
Google has been working toward a newer system, though. Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) considers whole sentences, rather than individual words and phrases. It lists all possible translations, and weighs them based on how humans rate their quality. These values are stored and used to better predict following choices, which should be a familiar concept to those who have been reading up on deep learning over the last couple of years.
This new system makes use of Google's "TensorFlow" library, released to the public last year under a permissive, Apache 2.0 license. It will also be compatible with Google's custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) ASICs that were announced last May at Google I/O. The advantage of TPUs is that they can reach extremely high parallelism because they operate on extremely low-precision values.
The GNMT announcement showed the new system attempting to translate English to and from Spanish, French, and Chinese. Each pairing, in both directions, showed a definite increase, with French to English almost matching a human translation according to their quality metric. GNMT is currently live to the public when attempting to translate between Chinese and English, and Google will expand this to other languages "over the coming months".
HP Claims They're "Dedicated to the Best Printing Experience"
Subject: General Tech | September 28, 2016 - 10:53 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: hp, DRM
Recently, HP released a firmware update for some inkjet printers that disabled certain third-party cartridges. The claim is that the customer "is exposed to quality and potential security risks" when using counterfeit cartridges. I'm curious why HP is claiming that users shouldn't trust HP's abilities to secure their devices against attacks from malicious cartridges, but that's probably not an implication that HP considered when publishing this press release.
Also, if the intent was to inform users about counterfeit and potentially malicious cartridges, you would think that they would have provided an override method from the start. Thankfully, they are now. HP is preparing an optional firmware update that does not check cartridges. They claim that it will be available in a couple of weeks, and provide a link to where it will be hosted.
So yeah, they are doing the right thing now. Still... come on.
Even more VR gaming; this time it is Sword Master VR
Subject: General Tech | September 28, 2016 - 05:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: VR, sword master vr, htc vive, gaming
With the amount of VR benchmarks coming out of [H]ard|OCP lately we wonder if they are in danger of becoming the worlds first VR addicts. They tested the usual suite of two AMD cards and five NVIDIA to determine the amount of dropped frames and average render times in this particular game. As it turns out the game is harder on the player than it is the GPU, all were able to provide decent experiences when swashbuckling. The developer recommends you clear a 2x1.5m area to play this game and from what [H]ard|OCP experienced while playing this is no joke; you will get exercise while you are duelling some of the harder opponents.
"Do you want to fight the Black Knight in a sword fight? There is not exactly a "Black Knight" in Sword Master VR, but you can certainly get that feeling. In fact, you can fight him and a couple of his friends at the same time if you are up to the challenge. Just pull the sword from the stone for $10."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Electric Heart: Deus Ex Story DLC System Rift Released @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Battlefield 1 single player uses a 'war story' anthology format @ HEXUS
- Erected: Civilization VI System Requirements Finalised @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Respawn provides detailed Titanfall 2 PC specs @ HEXUS
- For The Emp, Er, Uh: WH40k Eternal Crusade Released @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Wasteland 3 will have multiplayer, XCOM-style cinematic camera @ Polygon
- Back to school sale @ GOG
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War 3 Shows Off Eldar @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
Poor headphone jack, more companies may adopt Apple's innovation
Subject: General Tech | September 28, 2016 - 04:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: USB 3 Type-C, headphones
There will be an improvement in audio support on Type-C USB connections which will decrease power demands, as USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specifications have just been announced. When compared to the 3.5mm headphone jack, USB audio is a power hog which will shorten the amount of time your battery will last on a phone or other mobile device but it seems that the USB-IF have been working to overcome this issue. Product manufacturers are looking forward to this as USB can be isolated from other internals far more effectively than the 3.5mm jack which would allow them to waterproof their devices.
Hopefully the new compliance testing regime brought about after the consequences of using a bad cable to charge your laptop will ensure we do not have any related problems with audio devices. The Register does remind us that Bluetooth 5 is yet to be commonly found on mobile devices and could offer yet another 3.5mm nail in the coffin.
"Hear that, children? That's the sound of another set of nails in the coffin of headphone jacks in mobile devices."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- BlackBerry throws in the towel on building its own smartphones @ The Inquirer
- Official: Windows 10 has hit the 400 million device mark @ The Register
- Microsoft makes massive changes to MCSE and MCSD @ The Register
China's Newly Completed FAST Now World's Largest Radio Telescope
Subject: General Tech | September 27, 2016 - 09:33 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: seti, science, radio telescope
The Chinese officially began searching the stars around noon local time on Sunday using the newly completed FAST radio telescope which has surpassed Arecibo in being the world's largest single aperture telescope. Nestled in the natural Dawodang (limestone) depression in the remote and mountainous Pingtang county, Guizhou province, the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will search the heavens to catalog pulsars, investigate dark matter, gravitational waves, and fast radio bursts, and assist in the search for extraterrestrial life and natural hydrogen in distant galaxies.
The $180 million project has been in development for 14 years with construction beginning in 2011. The massive scientific endeavor required the relocation of several villages and 10,000 people living in the vicinity. Further, the remote area required the telescope to be constructed without the use of heavy machinery and the dish had to be constructed manually. FAST is modeled after the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico and uses 4,450 triangular reflector panels supported by a steel mesh suspended over the limestone valley using large steel towers anchored to the surrounding hills. FAST deviates from Arecibo when it comes to reflecting and receiving radio signals, however. While Arecibo uses a 900 ton movable receiver with a complex set of mirrors that make up a sub reflector, FAST uses 2,250 actuators (winches) that pull on up to 300m sections of the dish to create a parabola that can move in real time to track signals as the Earth rotates and reflect them back to the receiver which is reportedly much lighter and can contain more instruments than Arecibo.
While Arecibo, with its 305 meter dish, can track signals up to 20° from the zenith, FAST can track signals up to 26° from the zenith at 300 meter parabola sizes and up to 40° with smaller parabola sizes making it rather versatile. The massive dish combines the benefits of a large single fixed dish and a smaller dish (or dishes which could be combined to provide higher resolution using interferometry) that can tilt and rotate.
Specifically, Dennis Normile quoted experts in saying:
Single dishes excel at observing point sources like neutron stars and at scanning a multitude of frequencies in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, says astronomer Li Di, a FAST project scientist, who previously worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Another advantage is that, compared with the multiple dishes in an array, single dishes are "relatively cheap and relatively straightforward to upgrade," says George Hobbs, an astronomer at CSIRO. "You just keep building better receivers." (Dennis Normile at Science Magazine)
FAST is quite the accomplishment and I am interested to see what the scientists are able to discover using the world's largest radio telescope. Hopefully it will continue to receive adequate funding!
Also read:
- World's largest radio telescope will search for dark matter, listen for aliens (Science Mag)
- Chinese FAST Telescope to Surpass Arecibo (infographic)
- FAST: China's great space telescope begins operations (close-up photos of reflector panels)
- Arecibo Observatory (Wikipedia)
It's a good time to be slinging lithium
Subject: General Tech | September 27, 2016 - 04:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: lithium ion, battery
The price of lithium ion batteries is likely to spike in the near future as demand is far outstripping production. While we are using them in ultramobile laptops, there is another quickly growing industry which consumes these same cylindrical lithium polymer based batteries, the electric car industry. The demand has grown enough that suppliers are about to demand a noticeable raise in prices and as there does not seem to be any production increase they are likely to get it. This will result in a small increase in price in ultraportables and a larger one in electric cars. There is a concern that DigiTimes did not raise in their post; that this level of imbalance in supply and demand can lead to knock-offs and lower quality suppliers being considered as a source simply to ensure that a product is available.
That could be somewhat of a concern; these batteries often hold a larger charge and are usually found in greater numbers than the ones currently in the news.
"In addition to the 18650 cylinder battery, the lithium polymer battery, which is commonly used in ultra-thin notebook models, is also suffering from shortages as many vendors including Apple, Acer and Asustek Computer, have all scheduled to released new ultra-thin notebooks models in the near future."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft releases Server 2016, complete with commercial Docker engine @ The Register
- Microsoft inserts 'new kind of computer ... into our cloud' for speedier Azure services @ The Register
- Linux and Open Source Hardware for IoT @ Linux.com
- Cadence, TSMC advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and HPC platforms @ DigiTimes
- ZX Spectrum Vega+ defies naysayers with confirmed launch date @ The Inquirer
- Patch AGAIN: OpenSSL security fixes now need their own security fixes @ The Register
Microsoft Announces Windows Defender Application Guard
Subject: General Tech | September 27, 2016 - 06:41 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: windows 10, virtualization, microsoft
Microsoft is currently hosting their Ignite conference, which is somewhat the successor of TechEd. Monday kicked off with a couple of keynotes, including one from Satya Nadella himself, but this post will focus on a specific announcement: Windows Defender Application Guard.
With a typical web browser, a malicious website can infect the user's PC by knowing an unpatched vulnerability, and exploiting it before they update their browser. The next feature release of Windows 10 is expected to include virtualization technology, again called Windows Defender Application Guard, which runs websites in a lightweight virtual machine if they are opened in Edge and not part of a whitelist. This means that the attacker, who wants to infect the user's device, not only needs to know of a vulnerability in Edge; they also need to know of a vulnerability in the virtual machine, and they must be able to use the Edge vulnerability to exploit it. Especially for enterprise environments, where ransom malware that encrypts any data it finds can be devastating, this should add a huge wall protecting a large, complex application platform (the web browser) from untrusted third-parties (websites).
Of course, this concept isn't new. Not only are virtual PCs are common in the enterprise for security and control reasons, but applications like SandboxIE have more directly implemented similar ideas. Still, having it be a built-in feature of the operating system should mean that it gets even more support with regards to performance and stability, versus tacking on a third-party solution through public APIs.
Speaking of public APIs -- Microsoft won't be providing one at first. It will only be used for Edge for the time being. Also, it's only available for Windows 10 Enterprise, so I hope you didn't get your hopes up.
Wow, that turned dark real quick.
The toasters are revolting!
Subject: General Tech | September 26, 2016 - 05:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: iot, security, upnp
Over the weekend you might have noticed some issues on your favourite interwebs as there was a rather impressively sized DDOS attack going on. The attack was a mix of old and new techniques; they leveraged the uPNP protocol which has always been a favourite vector but the equipment hijacked were IoT appliances. The processing power available in toasters, DVRs and even webcams is now sufficient to be utilized and is generally a damned sight easier to control than even an old unpatched XP machine. This does not spell the end of the world which will likely be predicted on the cable news networks but does further illustrate the danger in companies producing inherently insecure IoT devices. If you are not sure what uPNP is, or are aware but do not currently need it, consider disabling it on your router or think about setting up something along the lines of ye olde three router solution.
Hack a Day has links to a bit more information on what happened here.
"Brace yourselves. The rest of the media is going to be calling this an "IoT DDOS" and the hype will spin out of control. Hype aside, the facts on the ground make it look like an extremely large distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) was just carried out using mostly household appliances (145,607 of them!) rather than grandma's old Win XP system running on Pentiums."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses @ The Register
- ITRI cooperates with Nvidia to develop self-driving technology @ DigiTimes
- Surface Pro 3 branded battery borkage continues @ The Register
- OpenSSL swats a dozen bugs, one notable nasty @ The Register
- iOS 10 makes it easier to crack iPhone back-ups, says security firm @ The Register
- Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs @ The Register
- Ig Nobel Prizes: GoatMan, Volkswagen, and the Personalities of Rocks @ Hack a Day
Can't WiFi and LTE-U just get along?
Subject: General Tech | September 23, 2016 - 05:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: wifi, lte-u, qualcomm
LTE-U, aka LTE in unlicensed spectrum, is a new standard originally proposed by Qualcomm which allows LTE signals to stray into the 5GHz band to allow faster data transfer over short throws without having to join your phone to a WiFi network. It seems that the assumption is that users are to lazy or ignorant to have added their commonly used WiFi networks to their phones and so need this feature for convenience.
There is the small problem of signal interference however, dual band WiFi uses the 5GHz spectrum and we are already seeing congestion on that band. T-Mobile and Verizon claim that this extra traffic will not have any effect on WiFi signals and are already complaining about the thresholds they must honour, while Qualcomm seems to be trying to remain reasonable. Tests are currently under way, under the monitoring of the WiFi Alliance, who have posted a technical paper describing what will be tested and how. You can pop by The Register if you want to delve into the nuts and bolts of the current proposal.
"Carriers, already under a spectrum squeeze, are hoping they can pitch their tents on Wi-Fi's campground, promising that LTE-U won't disrupt Wi-Fi. will play nice if there are Wi-Fi users around."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Titanfall 2 PC System Requirements and Graphics Settings Published @ Guru of 3D
- iPhone 7 jailbroken by 19-year-old hacker in less than a day @ The Inquirer
- BT and Sky customers could be affected by Yahoo mega-hack @ The Inquirer
- Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Verizon Are In Talks With Twitter For a Potential Acquisition @ Slashdot
- Seventeen hopefuls fight for the NVMe Fabric array crown @ The Register
- Intel XPoint over-selling criticism surges as Chipzilla hits back @ The Register
- SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi @ Slashdot
Lenovo's Signature Edition; hold the Superfish, heavy on the RAID
Subject: General Tech | September 22, 2016 - 04:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel, Lenovo, linux, signature edition, microsoft
Yesterday we saw the first stories appear about how the malware free Lenovo Signature Editions of mobile devices such as the Yoga 900S and Yoga 710S blocked the installation of Linux and effigies of Microsoft and Lenovo were set afire. As is common on the interwebs, the true villain was not implicated until the excitable crowd ran off with their pitchforks and torches and let the rest of us research the issue and track it back to Intel.
The issue is that the Intel soft RAID present on these machines is not really compatible with Linux, quite a common issue unfortunately. Lenovo is not innocent in this however as thee have greatly exacerbated the issue by making it difficult to change your SATA from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS in Windows and impossible in a live boot of Linux. In order to change your SATA settings Lenovo has decided to let you relive the days of Windows XP, when you had to bash on F6 during the initial installation of Windows to let it know you had a special disk with drivers on it to enable AHCI or RAID mode. Even better, apparently you have to get in touch with Lenovo to get these drivers and they only work in Windows, of course.
So thanks to the lousy Linux support offered by Intel's soft RAID implementation you cannot install Linux on Signature Editions of some Yoga machines and if you have a need to set your SATA to AHCI, say because of Endpoint Encryption, you need to go through a process that went out with that OS Microsoft wants people to stop using. If you want to track back the reddit thread and the research that was done to determine the culprit, The Register has compiled a good reference.
"A Reddit thread this morning accuses Microsoft and Lenovo of conspiring to prevent the installation of non-Windows operating systems on the Chinese goliath's PCs at the firmware level. Linux fans vented on the message board about the difficulties of installing open-source distributions on certain Lenovo machines."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Magneto-resistant upstart Everspin gets itself into an IPO whizz @ The Register
- BT's Wi-Fi Extender works great – at extending your password to hackers @ The Register
- Microsoft unveils Nokia 216 feature phone @ DigiTimes
- TV industry gets its own 'dieselgate' over 'leccy consumption tests @ The Register
Podcast #418 - Air cooler roundup, Samsung 960 EVO and Pro announced and more!
Subject: General Tech | September 22, 2016 - 03:25 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, Samsung, rivet, podcast, nvidia, msi, killer network, fatal1ty, evga, cooler, amd, 960 PRO, 960 EVO
PC Perspective Podcast #418 - 09/22/16
Join us this week as we discuss an air cooler roundup, Samsung 960 EVO and Pro announcement and more!
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Program length: 1:10:13
Fall in! Battlefield 1 specs released
Subject: General Tech | September 21, 2016 - 05:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, battlefield 1, frostbite
If you want to join in the fight in Battlefield 1 we now have the minimum specs needed to run the newest version of the Frostbite Engine. AMD users are looking at a minimum of a FX-6350 and HD 7850, Intel powered systems an i5-6600K and NVIDIA fans will want at least a GTX660. You will need 50GB of drive space free and the game would like at least 8GB of RAM available for it. To really get the best out of the game, you need to up that to an RX 480 or GTX 1060 and either a FX 8350 or i7-4790, with 16GB of RAM free. It will be interesting to see how much VRAM this game will take advantage of. Props to Guru 3D for getting this up first.
32bit systems need not apply.
"The Battlefield website now offers the official system requirements for Battlefield 1. These come along with a couple of videos highlighting the HUD-less interface in the upcoming World War I shooter. "
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David Hannum underestimated humanity greatly when he claimed a sucker was born every minute, we are now up to one every 15 seconds and accelerating. Online scammers continue doing what they are doing because it works, even those who should know better regularly share personal details online which make scammers lives much easier. It is not just those suspicious phone calls, texts or websites; many people's social media feeds are a cornucopia of personal information which allow scammers to profit off of your money. The problem is only getting worse, in the UK The Register reports that losses in 2015 were £755m, 26% more than 2014. A quick search reveals that the trend applies to the US as well.
You've heard it before and will hear it again, take a second to ask yourself if you really should be sharing what you are about to post before you send it.
"Between January and June 2016 there were 1,007,094 fraud cases in the UK compared to 660,308 in the first six months of 2015. Each case represents a card or account attacked, not an individual person."
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Subject: General Tech | September 20, 2016 - 08:51 PM | Scott Michaud
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While it was originally scheduled for last week, some last-minute issues preventing the software non-profit organization from releasing it until today. Also, for some reason, Firefox for Android doesn't want to update from within itself, but triggering an update from the Google Play store works. This might be temporary and/or happens with every Firefox for Android update; I'm new to this platform.
With Firefox 49, VentureBeat is reporting that Mozilla is allowing a "small initial set of compatible add-ons" to be enabled alongside multi-process. If you don't have any non-compatible add-ons installed, then you should see Multiprocess Windows enabled in about:support. Otherwise, it will be disabled and you won't see any difference.
Interestingly, Mozilla is promoting "Refresh Firefox" at their site if you have the latest version. This basically cleans all the add-ons out of your user profile, but maintains browsing history, bookmarks, and the like. It might have been around for a while, but, if it's new, it times nicely with the multi-process rollout. On top of cleaning out old, crufty add-ons, a user should see a bigger jump when Mozilla's enhancements are (I'm guessing) enabled.
Mozilla has also changed a few things here and there, too. While many of our readers will probably have hardware acceleration for video, they have just added in SSSE3 enhancements if GPU support isn't available. I'm not sure all of the use cases for this, but I'd expect it would help in virtualized environments and certain, older PCs (ex: Intel Atom and Via Nano). I'm just speculating, though.
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Here is a photo of my Eramosa Cloud Drifter that would be a good cross with it. It has a lot of Iris variegata reginea in background.
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Thanks Chuck, Mark, El, Mike and Adam!
I had thought that it was little unusual when I first saw it bloom, but I didn't realize how many people would appreciate the standard striping.
If it increases alright I plan on registering it and I've already been using it in some crosses. It seems to be a lot like Iris variegata in its breeding behavior - very selective about what pollens it will accept. It's from the cross KEIRITH x CLOWN PANTS, so is diploid and at least 1/4 variegata. I've got one seedling growing nicely from Iris rudskyi pollen. It should bloom next year. Iris rudskyi has faint striping on its standards too so I'm hopeful how this seedling might turn out. I've got four or five less vigorous seedlings from the next breeding season - these are from ASTRA GIRL. Last year I didn't do any crosses on it. And this season it's setting pods from T5, a species hybrid I got many years ago from Terry Varner's Ohio Gardens. T5 is Iris timofejewii X Iris variegata.
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Departure by Chris Smith (Download+Gimmick) A ring VANISHES then appears in your back pocket attached you your keyring. NOW SHIPPING. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Borrow a ring , and in the cleanest way you vanish it at your fingertips - both hands are clearly empty. Reach into your back pocket and produce your keys - and their ring is on your keyring!
Introducing the world's most impossible and invisible ring flight. Departure is a pull-style flight built into a key fob that fits on your keychain.
Departure was first released in 2008 and Chris has performed it thousands of times. He took his time redesigning this new and improved version.
He's added all new features AND made it as tough as a battleship. Plus he kept the price the same!
Here's a comprehensive list of the new features and improvements:
Smaller Housing
Takes up even less space on your keychain. Plus I added some handsome lock icons to give it an even more realistic look.
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Increased from 18" to 24". This allows you to display the ring even further away from you body before the vanish. Also good if you like to perform wearing a jacket.
Teflon Cable
Designed for years of service - WILL NOT SNAP OR BREAK.
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There's an extra bushing on the housing where the cable emerges to cut down even more on friction. Friction is the enemy of a good flight.
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Makes it easy to get any size ring on the clip without even looking. Plus it just looks cool - like you just finished scaling Everest!
Wherever you go, Departure goes. Built to withstand heavy use, Departure is a ring flight that can withstand the CLOSEST scrutiny. It's whisper silent and mega powerful.
Included in the online instructions, Derek Roberts teaches his Shirt Vanish - a way to cleverly vanish any ring right under spectators' noses.
You'll also learn a stunning ring and key transposition, which climaxes with their ring appearing your keychain.
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Great - Silent and Strong Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 11th, 2016
I got this at the Magic Live Expo from Chris. He's a quality guy and this reel is too. Very silent, no need to make noise when using this lol.2 of 2 magicians found this helpful.
Gimmick is good but instruction is lacking Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 7th, 2015
The gimmick received is excellent quality and seems as though it could last you for years of solid use if cared for appropriately and at only $30 for such a great trick this is a real bargain.2 of 2 magicians found this helpful.
Unfortunately I feel like I should take off a star because the instructions for using it are sub par, in particular instructions on making the hook up are somewhat lacking Darren refers to it as "the most crucial part of the routine" and then goes on to simply clip the ring on saying it needs to be done smoothly but as for precisely HOW to do it smoothly, it isn't covered , I'm not even sure which side the opening should be on. >:|
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Carry it with me always Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 20th, 2014
As I type this, my Departure is about 2 feet away from me. In my bag. On my key chain. I always, always have it with me, except for when I give my keys to the valet guy.2 of 2 magicians found this helpful.
And the NEW model--the one here--is SO good. Super quiet, super strong. I've done it hundreds of times and it's holding up strong.
Bizzaro is my favorite creator...but I've got to make some special category for Smith. He's like, my favorite guy who makes diabolical devices look like ordinary objects.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 7th, 2015
So anyway people have been calling this "silent". The first time I tried it I heard a distinct metallic rattling sound. "Was that my keys doing?", that I though. Seperating the keys from the gimmick, I tried it again. RATTLE.1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
Turns out the problem is the actual metal latch that connects to the ring/key/whatever. I have tried silencing the metal, which works all for everything except the moving parts and after it looking mutilated from its origional, it still rattled.
The pulling mechanism also fails sometimes. What I mean is it will only partially pull to a point or it drags slowly, not the SNAP you need for a clean vanish.
The idea turns out to be great, but the mechanics are flawed. Perform only in an an environment with noise cover, that is the conclusion I made from trial and error.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 7th, 2014
I love this type of Ring Flight. I had the original Rink-key, but this is even better. I take it with me all the time and use it when I get the chance.1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 1st, 2015
Very nice! Portable, high quality, everything as promised.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 29th, 2015
Disappointed. I have the original and was very excited about the newest version.
Pluses: Smaller housing as advertised (see note below); longer cable as advertised.
Minuses: 1. Not comfortable with the Teflon cable. Probably fine but I do like the steel cable on the original. 2. No extra bushing as advertised. In fact the bushing received on mine is half the size as the bushing on the original. 3. Carabiner clip is locked closed on the extra end. Might be a plus for others but I like it unmodified. 4. The buttons are painted on the new version but should be raised rather than be flat on the housing. 5. The housing on this new one is smaller but the difference is really negligible.
In my opinion if you bought the original don't buy the new version - unless the longer cable appeals to you. The advertising on the differences is true but misleading. I was really upset that the bushing was so much smaller rather than receiving an extra bushing as advertised as noise can be an issue. Trick is still very good but I felt I was misled regarding the old and new version.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on October 30th, 2014
This is a sweet little device, it has been on my key ring since I got it, it goes great with B. Smith and Peter Eggink's Closure, with the Ring disappearance/teleportation/linking thing and works well if the keys are in your back pocket(those who have Closure will get it)
It also goes great with Alan Rorrison's Linkey, Gregory Wilson's FreaKey, the Shift Key, and of course Chris Smith's Ignition which I keep on my key ring, I may look like a janitor but I'm always ready for a show
Great impromptu trick Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on October 28th, 2014
There are a few tricks that i carry on me at all times and this is one of them. not bulky at all, and actually looks like something i would carry around.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on October 23rd, 2014
This is a great gimmick and something I perform casually with all the time. It's always on me, and always ready. I couldn't ask more of it, especially for the price.
Pros: (just some of them)
1. Won't break or fail on you, everything is really tough
2. Easy to carry with you, goes straight on your key chain just as it says
3. Inconspicuous
4. Not hard to do
5. Great value
6. The video is really thorough, its obvious that Chris Smith has lots of experience with this and lets you in on all the minute tips and details
7. Rick Lax's addition is really great, with an awesome subtlety, really ties the trick together
Cons: (just nitpicking here)
1. The white lock and unlock symbols on the gimmick started to fade, but a normal car key would do this, so its not an issue
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The Gold Museum provides a home for nearly a thousand artifacts from eleven of the states of today's Southeast Asia.
Most of these objects are of gold and date from prehistoric times to the 20th century, illustrating the spectrum of fine arts in Southeast Asia over the past two thousand years. In addition to the treasures it displays, the Gold Museum presents the realms of culture and art in this colourful and multifaceted region. The museum halls lead the visitor across the eras of Southeast Asian art and present its exceptional wealth.
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Photos: Mudra László [origo]
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Photo: Mudra László [origo]


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So what can we do to help? We can definitely scrape a little off the top of our lives and make a difference. Spend time, spread the word, write a check, take a trip, but most importantly find organizations like GO Campaign where 100% of your donation goes to real projects helping our very real future: the children. And of course, you can join us next year when we travel there again!
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Every time I hear the name "Joran van der Sloot," I want to vomit. I can't help it. It pains me to write his name here, but he's weaseled his way back into the news for being even dumber than we thought.We all know his story. He's being held in custody for the murder of…