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    Microsoft Introduces Windows Sandbox

    AlphaAtlas The first link on the front page article is malformed. "http://https//techcommunity"
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    Tencent Allegedly Finds a SQLite Bug

    Maybe just too jaded, but just a PR move about something after they found out the competition started using it too. Trying to not go Huawei's route, as their apps are expected to steal everything on parents phone/network as payment for "free game". Just sleight of hand with Huawei from their...
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    Amazon is Reportedly Tired of Selling Low Cost Items

    Costco, BJ,s and Sam's Club would be that niche. Not really Walmart. Also, dont know when last time you shopped at Walmart, but they don't generally sell cheapest. And even then, they have spot pricing on everything, prices of milk/cereal, you name it, changes on weekly basis. And different...
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    Amazon is Reportedly Tired of Selling Low Cost Items

    As expected, they didnt say they wont stop selling crap and updating their search so you can find product you want(Newegg style filters). Instead they will just only sell more expensive crap.
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    Wiring for a home - Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 6a?

    Netflix recommends 25Mbits/sec per 4K video stream. 8K is four 4K pixels worth of data. So assume 8K will be a little more expensive(move to even higher bit rate/color, need 8k(13 bits) distinct colors to get little banding across screen) at 6 times 4K and that's 150Mbits/sec per stream...
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    Ohio to Become the First U.S. State to Allow Taxes to Be Paid in Bitcoin

    In a few years we'll read that this was done solely for the benefit of a single business entity or rich person or two to get rid of their crypto currency stash and pay off their obligations at same time. Wonder what makes Ohio so nice to retire to for a drug dealer or random cyber criminal.
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    Linux 4.20 Performance Decimated by Spectre and Meltdown Mitigations

    I want to clarify that. No one runs bleeding edge kernels except a handful of distros and they require highly technical hand holding on an ongoing basis. By the time 4.20 hits any LTS release that a professional would use, a simple Google search would provide answer on how to deal with any...
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    Crypto Hangover Could Take Blame for NVIDIA's Potential GeForce RTX 2060 Delay

    What??? The RX 590 8GB uses 238 Watts to slightly out do a GTX 1060 6GB using 122 Watts. (Witcher 3 at 1080p - Tom's) Out of this world. Wait for their next gen GPUs. The RX 590 is same as i9-9900k. A part pushed to extremes because there are basic fundamental architecture limits in play.
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    Best gaming PC for under $550

    SolarisGuru Today's hot deal post, Ryzen 1700X for $150! https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-ryzen-1700x-149.1971569/
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    Qualcomm Must License Modem Patents to Competitors

    Maybe im missing something, but im surprised i'm with Qualcomm on this one. Not licensing patents out, ok thats not allowed. But charging a portion of profits, thats super reasonable.
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    Best gaming PC for under $550

    You're spending too much of budget on CPU/motherboard and wasted RAM. Is this a $2000 gaming PC ($500 xx70 class GPU?, $300 CPU) or not. It is not. It's a $500-$800 PC. It is a 1080p 60fps "high" settings gaming machine. 1300X or 2200G. X is a little better, but $30 towards a real GPU is a...
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    Apps Can Track Your Every Move Even After Uninstalling Them in iOS and Android

    Google's version of Android has had ability to reset the phones advertising ID for many versions. In newer versions it moved to Settings->Google->Ads->"Reset advertising ID". I think before that it was under the separate Google settings app(which is now what the launcher app is called). Before...
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    Supermicro is Investigating Bloomberg's Allegations

    lul, wut? The article came out same day as Vice President Pence's Cold War w/China speech at the Hudson Institute.
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    China Embedded Spy Chips On Supermicro Motherboards

    We'll just have to see if this is a Cheney style lie to justify a new major war. Anything is possible, in either direction. Why would they do something so brazen, that literally leaves physical evidence(IE it cant be destroyed with a reboot,...) That's like 3 letter agency 101 level no-no. Of...
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    Windows 10 October Update is Losing User Data

    I can say that when i went to run the Windows storage cleaner tool, it said the "Windows.old" contained several hundred GBs of data, I let it do its work anyway, it was just counting symlinks wrong likely. Havnt detected any lost files. edit: after manually forcing the October update. of course...
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    China Embedded Spy Chips On Supermicro Motherboards

    It's a good thing that AMD licensed their EPYC processor design to a Chinese company. Nothing bad can come from that. Anyway, any one else see red flags in the article. No matter if its IME style, how well hidden locally on the server, once it gets on the network it is monitored by a separate...
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    The Memory Market Still Has Growth Potential

    Woah, buddy, 1TB MLC drives were $200 every day, not on sale, and ones that consistently had good reviews for many months, a year? Before they started colluding on prices. That was several years back. Before TLC existed... Substandard flash chips. Yes, QLC is a substandard flash chip. That's...
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    Hardware Unboxed: The i9-9900K Will Indeed Work on Z370 Motherboards

    Dont worry, this is only because Intel messed up and have capacity issues at their fabs. They've said to investors everything will be back to "normal" sometime in 2019.
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    Fallout 76 Beta Dates Announced

    Warning, any mmo veteran knows what the following means: Q: Is the B.E.T.A. the full game? Will my B.E.T.A. progress carry over to the official launch? A: The B.E.T.A. is the full game. Our current plan is for your progress to carry over once Fallout 76 officially launches on November 14. Stay...
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    AdoredTV Dissects the Marketing to Make Nvidia Turing RTX Performance Predictions

    From previous gens, it just seems for GPUs, the crippled versions are always an after though. They are not designed. The full chip gets all the resources with intent of franken monstering the lower part as things shape up. Personally, I've vowed to only ever get the full chip cards that the...
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    AdoredTV Dissects the Marketing to Make Nvidia Turing RTX Performance Predictions

    My question is, if the next gen consoles are also just the "old" rendering pipeline for the next 8+ years. Won't 99% of devs/studios not create a new engine just for the PC, and only RTX cards to boot.
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    OpenBSD Co-Founder Drops Hyper-Threading Support to Mitigate Foreshadow Attacks

    I disabled HT a while back. They keep saying this is enterprise only. But this is making Swiss cheese of the native protections on your PC. Malware gets the tip of a fingernail of a pinky on your system and it's game over. This is Windows XP all over again. They average users PC is going to...
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    'Xbox All Access' Possible New Subscription Service With Live, Game Pass, and an Xbox

    Live, $5/mo, $120 Pass, $6.67/mo, $160 $22 x 24 months is $528 minus $280 is $248 for Xbox One S $35 x 24 months is $840 minus $280 is $560 for Xbox One X
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    Internet Fire Challenge Leaves 12 Year Old Girl Horribly Burned and on a Ventilator

    No. Her 12 year old child... doused herself in alcohol and lit herself on fire. This is not stupidity/chance, like playing with a gun or playing with matches and setting house on fire. She intentionally doused herself in alcohol and lit herself on fire... This is definitely something the...
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    NVIDIA NDA & HardOCP - POLL

    Seriously, people need to go view Gamer's Nexus video on the last NDA. They had their real and actual lawyer analyze it. Everything said about it is just flat wrong. There is nothing wrong with the Nvidia NDA.
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    Video Games are Sucking You In and Not Letting Go

    I dunno they are actually a blessing, maybe. They are accelerating the inoculation of a vast number of gamers. Burn out on one of these hyper addictive but empty games and then get a good immunity boost to crap games for a good long time. If they survive, i guess, as with any addiction, there...
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    Many Cellphones Offered by the Four Major US Carriers Have Built in Vulnerabilities

    Holy crap, does the article read like a massive waste of tax payer money. They found a random vulnerability, there are tons published/patched on Android every month. Maybe its the article author that's using click bait wording.
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    Ninja Becomes the First Twitch Streamer to Reach 10 Million Followers

    I dunno, some of it seems like paid fake viewers. Ive jumped into quiet a few random semi big channels to get overview of different games, and the instant i jump in, the host looks directly at camera and adjusts themselves. I mean, if they have 100s of viewers, why would they notice me coming...
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    Superpower Glass Empowers Google Glass to Offer Hope to Kids with Autism

    Anyone watch Black Mirror's Arkangel episode? Not quite the same, but seeing what your kids see?
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    Google Takes On Yubico and Builds Its Own Hardware Security Keys

    Ok, its proven, you're internet keyboard warrior. Dude, back then, the serial number in the OTP codes was a hardcoded/nonoptional feature. After folks complained(which is how i found out), it was changed. But you physically needed a new key to do that. No hard feelings, i don't know why you are...
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    Google Takes On Yubico and Builds Its Own Hardware Security Keys

    It makes more sense that your are a paid shill, if not, it's 2018, get your head out of the sand. You just keep pushing out PR, "You throw one in the trash just because of how the OTP was configured out of the box, something that is easily changed." It wasn't. The unique serial number was a...
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    Bank of America Downgrades Intel, Says “Biggest Risk” Remains Unresolved

    Which part of: Intel's CEO, with access to the most vital secrets, sold all the stocks he could. He knew neither he, his team, or anyone else at Intel had any viable long term plan. We're probably waiting for another shoe to drop besides Spectre/Meltdown and 10nm. End of 2019, doesn't that...
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    “Why We Need the Power of Intel’s Next-Gen Eight-Core CPUs”

    This also could point out why they are raising GPU prices/keeping them high. The PS4/Xbox X are decent small gaming PC replacements. Not a parallel world anymore. There were viable reasons(before crypto) to make a GTX 1060 6GB class or lower gaming PC. Now though, why would you pay $300-ish for...
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    How W10 Will Prevent Updates from Randomly Rebooting Your PC: Machine Learning

    That's not same thing at all. People want patches, just not the ones that require a reboot (and even those, they just want to control when reboot happens). Personally, i'd rather have PCs force patched with latest security updates and break a few eggs. The alternative of rampant malware of the...
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    How W10 Will Prevent Updates from Randomly Rebooting Your PC: Machine Learning

    It's not like an annotated historical database of the folks most susceptible to malware wouldn't be really be helpful to get them screwed over even more. What can go wrong. Malware authors must be laughing their asses off.
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    Google Takes On Yubico and Builds Its Own Hardware Security Keys

    I actually never assumed anything you just said, nor did any of my comments actually infer that. Easy to make a witty remark when you just make shit up. Internet clap for you. Also, when i was looking at Yubikeys, way back when(and even bought one), it wasn't for the OTP feature. You don't even...
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    Walmart to Challenge Netflix, Amazon with New Streaming Service

    You should be using Firefox Focus as your main browser on mobile.
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    Graphics Card Sales to Face Difficulties in 2H18

    Weird how this stuff happened exactly when its best time to get a console. All the games are vetted and patched. There are a ton of AAA games available for really cheap now.
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    Graphics Card Sales to Face Difficulties in 2H18

    What? the pattern has been that the xx70 is about the same as last gens xx80 ti.
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