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AMD Processors From 2011 To 2019 Vulnerable To Two New Attacks

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: AMD processors manufactured between 2011 and 2019 (the time of testing) are vulnerable to two new attacks, research published this week has revealed (PDF). The two new attacks impact the security of the data processed inside the CPU and allow the theft of sensitive information or the downgrade of security features. The research…

The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently

The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. An anonymous reader shares a report: “En route to Paris,” Gwyneth Paltrow wrote on Instagram last week, beneath a shot of herself on an airplane heading to Paris Fashion Week and wearing a black face mask. “I’ve already been in this movie,” she…

How Blue Apron Became a Massive $2 Billion Disaster

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Observer: If you like to cook but not to shop or plan your own meals, and if you weren’t too hungry, and if you didn’t like cooking for too many friends, then Blue Apron — the startup delivering precisely measured, prepackaged amounts of just enough salmon, green beans, butter and lemon for one meal,…

YouTube Gaming’s Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated By Scams and Cheats

An anonymous reader shares a report from Wired: In January, all seven of the most-watched YouTube Gaming channels weren’t run by happy gamers livestreaming the game du jour. They were instead recorded, autoplaying videos advertising videogame cheats and hacks, sometimes attached to sketchy, credential-vacuuming websites, according to one analytics firm. The trend has continued into this month, with five of the…

Firefox, WordPress Move to Support Lazy Loading of Images and iFrames

“Lazy Loading” would augment HTML’s <img> tag (and <iframe> tag) with two new attributes — “eager” (to load immediately) and “lazy” (to load only when it becomes relevant in the viewport). Felix Arntz, a developer programs engineer at Google (and a WordPress core committer) notes the updates in the HTML specification for the lazy loading attributes, adding that it’s “already supported…

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core Chip Launched, Benchmarking a Beast CPU

MojoKid writes: In January at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su took to the stage during a press conference and revealed the company’s forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-core processor. Dr. Su disclosed the 3990X’s speeds and feeds and showed the beastly chip taking down a pair of 28-core Xeons worth about $20K, in a 3D rendering benchmark,…

Apple Watch Outsold the Entire Swiss Watch Industry in 2019

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Apple Watch outsold the entire Swiss watch industry by a huge margin in 2019. From a report: Apple Watch shipped 31 million units worldwide in 2019, compared with 21 million for all Swiss watch brands combined. Swiss companies, like Swatch, are losing the smartwatch wars. Steven Waltzer, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said,…

Facebook To Pay $550 Million To Settle Facial Recognition Suit

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois, “giving privacy groups a major victory that again raised questions about the social network’s data-mining practices,” reports The New York Times. From the report: The case stemmed from Facebook’s photo-labeling service, Tag Suggestions,…

36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: On January 24, 1984, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh at Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Cupertino, California, debuting the new computer equipped with a 9-inch black and white display, an 8MHz Motorola 68000 processor, 128KB of RAM, a 3.5-inch floppy drive, and a price tag of $2,495. The now…